I don’t get how people seem not to understand that this isn’t REAL. “Artificial” is right in the name.

It’s so good!

You might as well say you’re adapting Moby-Dick and then spend the whole first season just hanging out with Ishmael and Queequeg in New Bedford. I’d probably watch that, but I’d also be wondering when the hell the whales were going to show up.

In both cases: the dick is the whole point.

When you say Heated Rivalry could have ended season one with a chaste kiss instead and then say “That is not the approach taken by Tierney” that’s because if Tierney did that it would be so far divorced from Rachel Reid’s book that it would be unrecognizable as the same story.

This is hands down the best comment I have read on this.

I hate to say this but $64 is a bargain - my tween has been to a half-dozen k-pop shows, and the light sticks generally run $75-100.

Related: when you ask ‘X or y?’ and get “yes” WHICH ONE DAMMIT

John Scalzi’s “Being Poor” is 20 years old but still one of the better things I’ve ever read on this: whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/03/b...

Fanfiction is the sign of a healthy show, like a cold nose on a dog. It took me a while to come around to it early in my career, but I got there.

They were often just so bad about that. “Inclusion” that leaned hard on the most basic stereotypes