Lauren Davis's discussions

McCaffrey was a big one for me, too. The telepathic sex scenes in the Rowan books were eye-opening. Read more

I wonder if there's any connection between the "weird sex" of those SF books and the paranormal romances of today. It seems like Anne Rice's Carmilla/The Vampyre fascination was the genesis of a lot of it. Read more

In my own reading, I think I first noticed in the Dragonlance books in the scenes between Tanis and Kitiara. It's pretty tame and largely implied, but I think it was one of the reasons I found Kitiara so intriguing as a kid. I was much more interested in her than in Laurana (even though I'm just a couple of vowels… Read more

Well, Akira is bad enough to affect the tides. It's a bit arbitrary, but I had to draw the line somewhere. My list was getting out of hand. Read more

That was not deliberate. I was just looking for something new to blow up. Read more

Good point, going to fix. Read more

I mention that at the beginning of the post. There were too many defacements to do destructions and defacements. We're going to have to leave that for another week. Read more

That's a good way to put it. It struck me as a joke, but maybe the kid has a lot of misdirected anger. Read more

A character the artist invented as a love interest for Sirius Black. Read more

Well, she's 18, so she's not exactly a little girl. I've never met this girl. I like the emotion in her artwork and the way she expands a little on the universe. You're welcome not to like it, but I happen to. Read more

I photoshopped that image. Lincoln was pretty embarrassed about the whole duel business, and I doubt he would have consented to be photographed with the sword. Read more

What about self-driving flying cars? Read more

It's the show (singular), rather than the family members (plural). Although I suppose the family matters, too. Read more

I've actually seen it as broadswords in a couple of places. Maybe he just meant the broadest swords he could find? I've seen several images for swords of that era called "broadswords." Read more

Are you sure she isn't a methane pegasus?

That struck me, too, although apparently broadswords were still in fashion in the 19th century. Another commenter noted that the curve of the blade also determines the type, and the sword above is likely a cavalry saber, not a cavalry broadsword. Read more

Axes are for vampires, not broadswords. Read more

Do you know where I could find an image of one from that era? Read more

Admittedly, I didn't do much research on it. It's just what popped up when I googled "Civil War Broadsword." Read more

Is this kid real or trolling? I could not stop cracking up when he started screaming that we're in a civil war with North Korea. Read more