I don’t often engage in fannish argument of this sort, but… …Spock’s father Sarek is honestly just an awful, awful person. We know that he has been involved with three women over the course of his long, long life. Two of them are human. The wife he has when he meets his end, in the […]
First Published on Facebook 29 September 2014. A key misunderstanding people have about their relationship with fiction is the belief that their favorite characters are people they would like to hang around with. In a sense, this is what they’re doing when they read a story or watch a TV show; they are hanging out […]
Every child knows that certain adults are enemies of wonder. These adults are not just scornful of fantasy. They are determined predators of it. They may not actually rip a comic book or a DVD out of that child’s hands, but they will let that child know that such pursuits are garbage, and that taking […]