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Sometimes real people creep into my writing, inserting themselves into slots that previously held made-up characters who haven’t been completely fleshed out yet. I start to write a scene only to find that one of the characters in it suddenly looks like a the stranger I saw on the bus the other day. Or he has the voice of a coworker. Or repeats the same annoying phrase that a friend says all the time.

But… no, actually. It can’t just be me. Is this movie not slashing itself? It’s like, slashbait. This has to be intentional. The people involved in this movie have got to be looking online right now giggling over all the bored writers who went home from the theater and promptly opened up their blogs and went to depths that could not be explored on-camera. That’s the only explanation.

From time to time, I’ve read book reviews where the reviewer complains about the writer making a character gay “just for the sake of having a gay character,” when it has little bearing on the plot. If it has nothing to do with the plot, why not just make the character straight?
While I’ll admit blatant [...]

All this fuss over the word “scrotum” in a children’s book, when there are thousands of children’s books containing not only mention of genitalia, but illustrations and even photographs! We must remove all books on botany, gardening, floral arranging, and other such adult subjects from school libraries immediately! Flowers are, after all, reproductive organs.