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7 years ago @ The Toast - An Open Thread, and Se... · 0 replies · +3 points

Thank you :)

7 years ago @ The Toast - An Open Thread, and Se... · 2 replies · +17 points

Love all you guys. I'm going to regret not being around so much more and more as time moves on.

7 years ago @ The Toast - Thank You, Toast. · 0 replies · +2 points

You were a great steward, Nikki. Thank you.

7 years ago @ The Toast - Thank You, Toast. · 2 replies · +14 points

I've been more absent than I've meant to be in the last year and change (reading it reminded me of how difficult writing has been for me of late), but The Toast, like all sites in its lineage, like its readership, will always have a place in my heart.

And it will leave quite a gap - there are so few sites that exist between community blogs, where content comes at such a clip that pieces get lost within hours, and literary sites that implicitly require you to be known by the right people before they'll consider your work. Beyond the steady work of the editors The Toast was defined in my mind as a place where people who didn't think of themselves as Writers could come with a good idea and be published, and maybe be proud of that, make friends and connections, maybe gain a foothold into new ways of thinking about themselves or earn money. There are very very very few such places out there. I'm going to miss it tremendously.

7 years ago @ The Toast - Saga Norén, the Autis... · 0 replies · +13 points

Everyone's different, of course, but I've always found that people-focused jobs are fairly quick to navigate if you've got a designated role that you don't have to explain or justify - If you've got a badge or a uniform that identifies you, people generally know what to expect from you and it's much, much easier to script. Even without the visual signifier, a canned introduction goes a long way. Once you're working toward a purpose, it gets easier. It's the small talk that vexes.

I do hope we get more women on the spectrum out in the public eye - at this point the vast majority of adult autists I know are women and roughly 0% of them are out about it. Which is a shame, as they're all capable, complex people, and most are quite successful in what they try to achieve.

7 years ago @ The Toast - If Cate Blanchett Were... · 0 replies · +6 points

I didn't understand the contemporary slang term "daddy" until I saw Carol. Blanchett is the very soul of Daddy in that film

7 years ago @ The Toast - Movie Yelling With Mal... · 1 reply · +7 points

The thing I most loved about this film was when Rhodes arrives to arrest Bucky / Cap / Black Panther and he says "Congratulations Cap, you're a criminal!". You can practically envision the precise moment when the word "terrorist" was changed in the second draft of the script. If only Cap had been brown!

7 years ago @ The Toast - Movie Yelling With Mal... · 1 reply · +10 points

It's funny to me because on the other hand, we've got Steve Rogers as an out-and-out unilateralist neoconservative. "We've got hella bombs and bomb detonations are real bad but... what if we had to use them and couldn't?" Which is the entire argument against defense spending (or domestic gun ownership, lol) in the first place, that the existence of toys demands play (an argument voiced by Paul Bettany's bad Data impression).

Cap's line is "we need to use our bombs, and then later on if it turns out we fucked up, we'll feel sad but know we did it for the right reasons." He's a Clintonite Democrat, basically. The dirty secret of superhero film is that the fantasy of ever-present existential threats that require overwhelming violence to defeat is a fantasy that everyone in the real world lives in and has to deal with. There's a good argument to be made that the superhero movie glut was enabled directly by 9/11, and the Captain America movies are probably the least subtle in terms of direct descendants. None of the political allegory works, it ends up being perverse.

8 years ago @ The Toast - New Year's Entire Week... · 0 replies · +3 points

heyyyyyyy

8 years ago @ The Toast - New Year's Entire Week... · 2 replies · +1 points

Apparently a fair few Disneyland rides / exhibits are (temporarily?) shut down or reduced to make way for the massive Star Wars synergy initiative they've got going on. Hopefully it all dies down by then.

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