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Category: Hot Takes

Ye Olde Slashe Shippes: Þrymskviða

July 21, 2014 Demetria

If you’re a fan of the new Thor movies, you might have heard that the original legends are… weird. Like,…

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Posted in: Blog, Hot Takes Filed under: ye olde slashe

Favorite fan theories: It was all a big misunderstanding

July 3, 2014 Demetria 3 Comments

I was raised on Phillip K Dick stories, which means that if a science fiction plot is totally straightforward with…

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Posted in: Blog, Hot Takes Filed under: game of thrones, Pacific Rim, starship troopers

M’Lady can see through your behavioral script

June 12, 2014 Demetria

I’ve been seeing a lot of debate lately about chivalry. Did feminism kill it? Are us ladies dancing on its…

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Posted in: Blog, Hot Takes Filed under: being a m'lady

Hey baby, what’s your Myers-Briggs Type Indicator?

May 16, 2014 Demetria 1 Comment

I have seen many personality-type fads come and go in my time. Astrology was already on its way out when…

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Posted in: Blog, Hot Takes Filed under: navel gazing

Bad grammar is literally the worst thing in the world

April 21, 2014 Demetria 3 Comments

Dear grammar nerds, are your eyeballs burning? Are you composing an angry comment at this very moment about how I…

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Posted in: Blog, Hot Takes Filed under: language nerd, learning to write more good

I will pay you to let me dress like a superhero

April 10, 2014 Demetria

Come on, studio executives claiming that you’re not making movies about women because women don’t buy merchandise. I don’t know…

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Posted in: Blog, Hot Takes Filed under: being a lady, DC, marvel, superheroes

Stop talking about female role models in game of thrones

March 10, 2014 Demetria 3 Comments

Nobody in Game of Thrones should be your role model. That is the point of Game of Thrones. Game of…

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Posted in: Blog, Hot Takes Filed under: being a lady, game of thrones

Sexual Economics

March 4, 2014 Demetria

Lindy West did an excellent job (as always) of picking apart the latest argument in favor of seeing sex as…

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Posted in: Blog, Hot Takes Filed under: being a lady, feminism

Current obsession: gentleman thieves

January 14, 2014 Demetria

Lest this blog become an endless series of complaints about media I like enough to keep consuming, but not enough…

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Posted in: Blog, Hot Takes Filed under: arsene lupin, E.W. Hornung, gentleman bastards, Locke Lamora, nightrunner, raffles, Sherlock Holmes

Re: The Hobbit movie

December 15, 2013 Demetria

“Farewell, good thief,” he said. “I go now to the halls of waiting to sit beside my fathers, until the…

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Posted in: Blog, Hot Takes Filed under: lord of the rings, The Hobbit

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