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October 27, 2015 Bryan 'Arcemise' Novak DC, FOX, Gotham, recap

Gotham Recap: “Rise of the Villains: By Fire” (S2E06)

Welcome to the Gotham Globe Times! Your weekly, unconventional recap of (and commentary on) the wonderful and magical world of

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October 27, 2015 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, GamerGate, Harassment, SXSW

SXSW Cancels Anti-Harassment Panel Over Threats

SXSW announced yesterday that they were cancelling the anti-Harassment panel “Level Up: Overcoming Harassment in Games.” Level Up would have

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October 27, 2015 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, Harassment, World Fantasy Convention

World Fantasy Convention Writes the Worst Harassment Policy EVER

Update: Amazingly, the World Fantasy Convention 2015 committee is fixing this and adopting a better policy. The original story appears

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October 27, 2015 Trae Dorn Doctor Who, K-9, K9, K9: Timequake

Doctor Who’s K9 is Getting a New Movie

According to its official Facebook page, K9, everyone’s favorite robot dog from Doctor Who, is getting a new movie. The

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October 26, 2015 Trae Dorn Big Finish, Catherine Tate, David Tennant, Doctor Who

You Want More Donna Noble? You GET More Donna Noble!

Look, I’m just going to say it: Catherine Tate’s Donna Noble is the best companion of the New-Who era of

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October 26, 2015 Trae Dorn JRR Tolkien, Middle Earth

A Map of Middle Earth Annotated By Tolkien Discovered

When illustrator Pauline Baynes was hired by publisher Allen & Unwin in 1970 to produce illustrations for a new edition

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October 23, 2015 Trae Dorn CW, Danielle Panabaker, DC, Flash, Killer Frost, The Flash

Take a Look at The Flash’s Danielle Panabaker as Killer Frost

Comic book fans know that Danielle Panabaker’s character on The Flash Caitlin Snow is based on a character who eventually

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October 23, 2015 Trae Dorn Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Harry Potter Stage Play Will Pick Up 19 Years After ‘Deathly Hallows’

When Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (a stage play set in the official Harry Potter canon) was announced the

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October 23, 2015 Trae Dorn AKA Jessica Jones, Jessica Jones, Marvel, Netflix, trailer

The Full ‘Jessica Jones’ Trailer is Here, And It’s Amazing

Netflix has put out a varied number of teasers out for their upcoming Jessica Jones series, but we’ve yet to

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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?

So I thought about calling this “Older Doesn’t Mean Better Part 2” or “Older Doesn’t Mean Better Redux” since this is some of the same territory we covered back in episode 17, but I think I’ve gotten more surly on the topic over the last six years, and wanted to talk about it again. Also, I kind of forgot I’d recorded an episode on this when I was prepping the episode, but I like this version better.

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