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October 30, 2015 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, Harassment, SXSW

SXSW Screws Up Harassment Summit Announcement, Does Everything Wrong

SXSW has pretty much been determined to do whatever they can to make a bad situation worse these days. Earlier

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October 30, 2015 Trae Dorn alien, Alien 5, Neill Blomkamp, prometheus

Neill Blomkamp’s Alien 5 on Hold Because of the Prometheus Sequel

When the forthcoming sequel to Ridley Scott’s Alien prequel Prometheus got renamed from Prometheus 2 to Alien: Paradise Lost, we

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October 29, 2015 Trae Dorn Guillermo del Toro, Legendary, Pacific Rim, Pacific Rim 2

Pacific Rim 2 Has a Script, Waiting For Greenlight

Here’s the thing – we love Pacific Rim here at Nerd & Tie. It is quite possibly our favorite thing,

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October 29, 2015 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, IfCon Victoria

IfCon Victoria Cancelled After Organizer Reportedly Collapses

IfCon Victoria was originally scheduled to run this weekend at the Pearkes Recreation Centre in Victoria, BC. Sadly, this is

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October 29, 2015 Trae Dorn Guardians of the Galaxy, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Marvel, Matthew McConaughey, Pom Klementieff

Pom Klementieff Joins Cast of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

There hasn’t been a lot of casting buzz around Marvel’s forthcoming Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, mostly because the

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October 28, 2015 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, GamerGate, Harassment, SXSW

SXSW Reinstates “Level Up” Panel, Considering All Day Forum on Harassment

Earlier this week we reported on SXSW canceling both an anti-Harassment panel called “Level Up: Overcoming Harassment in Games” and

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October 28, 2015 Trae Dorn Ghostbusters, Lego

Lego Unveils New ‘Ghostbusters’ Firehouse Playset

The (original) Ghostbusters got its first Lego set last year when the Lego Cuusoo program released the Ecto-1 Playset. The

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October 28, 2015 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, Harassment, World Fantasy Convention

World Fantasy Convention Corrects Course, Adopts ACTUAL Harassment Policy

Yesterday we reported on the controversy surrounding the 2015 World Fantasy Convention‘s highly flawed (read: awful) harassment policy. The policy

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October 28, 2015 Trae Dorn Doug Liman, Jason Fuchs, Luna Park, Paramount, Tom Cruise

Jason Fuchs Hired to Write ‘Luna Park’

Doug Liman has been trying to get the film Luna Park made for a while, most recently teaming up with

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There’s an annoying thing in the witchcraft community where every new idea or trend gets cast as an “ancient” practice even if it’s just a few years old. Time and time again, we see people constructing false narratives about the supposed historicity of ideas, spells, and rituals in witchcraft spaces, and all of it is bad for us. Why do people feel the need to lie? Why does something being a new idea make it less credible in people’s eyes? Why have we been doing this as a community from the start?

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