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Host of The Protagonist Podcast. Editor of The Ages of Superheroes essay collections. Co-author of Survivor: A Cultural History. PhD in American Studies.

Joined March 2009
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If you're holiday shopping for that #Survivor fan in your life, I have a self-serving suggestion: tinyurl.com/259y8fxt
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Survivor: A Cultural History is released tomorrow! For any fans of the show, it is a history and analysis and celebration of the show we love tinyurl.com/4yn7jn8f
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Live with Joseph J. Darowski and Kate Darowski, discussing their new book Survivor: A Cultural History! Tune in for a fun #Survivor conversation! youtube.com/watch?v=XqV-A1im…
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Throwing it away is literally the last thing we see Luke do with a lightsaber in the original trilogy
Replying to @IsaacBotkin
As soon as Luke Skywalker threw away his father's lightsaber, I knew that the filmmakers had no love for the existing characters or lore.
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Boooo! We need to relearn how to enjoy random side character’s sole appearances or a low-stakes bottle episode. If everything is massively important then nothing is massively important
The ‘Lost’ episodes you can safely ignore during your Netflix rewatch, as they lack character growth, mythology, plot development, or supernatural activity. trib.al/uBMghj9
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What exactly is the difference between sci-fi and fantasy anyways?
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This #Survivor quote during a loved ones visit lives word-for-word in my head forever
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I definitely did not expect to be in this list. It’s infuriating
the atlantic has been covering the fight between authors and companies using their work without consent to train a.i. just checked using their new search feature and sure enough three of my books were used w/o my consent wack as fuck here's the article theatlantic.com/technology/a…
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My kid is really starting to grasp how to make the stakes crystal clear right at the start of a story
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Every fandom: I love this so much. It’s The Best Thing! BUT, the people making The Best Thing are The Worst and want to destroy the Best Thing. They must be stopped. I must stop them.
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Each week on The Protagonist Podcast we discuss a great character in a great story. This week, author Allison Epstein (@rapscallison) joined us to discuss Christopher Marlowe from her novel A Tip for the Hangman duelinggenre.com/pp428/
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When the baking instructions say to flip the frozen jalapeño poppers halfway through
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Youngest child wakes up after midnight with a croupy cough Me, a savvy veteran parent, picks him up to take him to a steamy shower to relieve his cough Youngest child, a wily and unpredictable rookie, immediately throws up down my back
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Fantasy is when you put a smelly poultice on a wound to make do until you reach a real healer, sci-fi is when you put someone in stasis until you can reach the space station with a real medical bay
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My 13yo daughter watched a Modern Family episode from 2010 that involved a flash mob doing a dance number at a mall. She was very confused. I tried to explain that those were really a thing for a brief period of time and she did not believe me.
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Today I happily received a copy of a new essay collection which has an essay I wrote
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The only good news from this Batgirl/HBO Max debacle is seeing everyone remember they are Brendan Fraser fans
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Dr. Ravynn Stringfield was a fantastic guest talking about a great character in Ironheart
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If Northern Exposure had ever been available on any streaming service the cult following it would have would be pretty intense
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