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Scififan wrote: ↑Mon May 19, 2025 2:45 am The funny thing about that is that Dracula in the original novel was not sexy. He was an inhuman monster that had rancid breath.

While true, the sexual element was always there too and sexy vampires had been a thing since Carmilla.

Trump is pissed they're raising prices so the title is misleading.

No, because a huge chunk was parables to begin with.

It was originally the Farmer's Almanac of Jewish history, laws, and mythology.

Then it had a bunch of letters by the early Church that were influenced by a bunch of people who went in their own directions.

Raise a glass to Partagaz. He may have been a jackbooted space Nazi but he was an officer and a gentleman right to the end. I like the interpretation he killed himself not because he couldn't talk his way out of the problem but the realization that his entire job was protecting a bunch of monsters ...

I liked BOOK OF SHADOWS.

Then again, it had Goth Girls and witch girls.

Raise a glass to Partagaz. He may have been a jackbooted space Nazi but he was an officer and a gentleman right to the end. I like the interpretation he killed himself not because he couldn't talk his way out of the problem but the realization that his entire job was protecting a bunch of monsters ...

I'm not even sure about that. If nothing else you're on the track of removing legal equality there, and the concept of the same rights for everyone isn't something I'd want to tamper with - the road to hell is paved with good intentions and all that (which explains a lot about the modern world). An...

Surveillance becomes more justifiable due to, you know, them constantly lying. There should be the absolute minimum possible recorded about people - and they should be free of any interference unless there's a good reason to believe they're up to no good. I feel the right to privacy is forfeited whe...

So Picard can date a subordinate but when he gets uncomfortable, have her transferred. Ah, that utopian gender equal future.

It's also annoying they didn't bother just trying Beverly and Picard.

Yeesh.

Yes, very pretty people is part of the appeal.