Twisdom from Mike_Eagle, August 28, 2014 at 12:02PM

Inside every attempt to troll is this unspoken message: "what you believe is important to me"

— Open Mike Eagle (@Mike_Eagle) August 28, 2014

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August 28, 2014 at 12:02PM

Why no one cares about the death of the Star Wars Expanded Universe

In what can only be considered an podcast epic betrayal, I, Jeff Patterson and the Goddess of WhimsyDark Delilah S. Dawson all gang up on Hugo-winning host Patrick Hester and explain no one is surprised (or really all that bothered) by the de-canonization of the Star Wars Expanded Universe... except him.

His exasperated pain is the fuel for the latest SF Signal podcast. It's like a train wreck: you cannot bare to watch, but dare not turn away. Give a listen.

If you're a true sadist, you can hear me crush the hopes and dreams of other wide-eyed sci-fi fans in my podcast archives.

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Twisdom from KieranHD, August 22, 2014 at 04:47AM

Schrodinger's douchebag: A guy who says really offensive things & decides whether he was joking based upon the reactions of those around him

— Kieran Hugh Dickson (@KieranHD) August 22, 2014

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August 22, 2014 at 04:47AM

My controversial opinion on why rebooting comic book characters isn't controversial

Beta Ray Bill (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Sci-fi fandom's biggest mensch, Paul "Prince Jvstin" Weimer, allowed me to ruin an otherwise perfectly wonderful SF Signal Mind Meld discussing the fallout from Marvel's recent recasting of Thor as a woman and Captain America as a black man, and to follow up with a proposed reboot of a comic book icon.

Basically, I jump right on the landmine of why comics fans who hate change are idiots, and explain why the "still pure" Batman isn't just boring, but nigh-offensive.

Thankfully, authors and experts like Seanan "Mira Grant" McGuire, Sigrid Ellis, Sara Kuhn, Erika Ensign, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Cheryl Morgan, Shira Lipkin, Michael Lee, Cassandra Rose Clarke, Andrew Wheeler, Fabio Fernandes, Erica McGillivray, Abhinav Jain, Lynn M. & Michael Damian Thomas, and my occasional podcast sparring partner Jeff Patterson are there to add a few thousand cogent words to overwhelm my fanboyish pedantry and trolling of narrow-minded Batman traditionalists.

The unabridged (and voluminous) article is available here. Don't judge my peers by their company.

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Twisdom from ChuckWendig, August 07, 2014 at 12:33PM

Sometimes writing is just aggressively barfing action, dialogue and information onto a page and saying, "I will arrange this vomit later."

— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) August 7, 2014

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August 07, 2014 at 12:33PM