Trey has shoes?!

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Also, ew on the sarcasm tag. Do not want.

Yeah, you can pretty much start anywhere. It's not that Cthulhu is the only one with a name, but it's just about the only one that has its own story dealing with it directly (the closest other one being Yog-Sothoth in "The Dunwich Horror"), and the only one with a solid description of its appearance.

Part of the point of Lovecraft's oeuvre is that the universe is vast and frightening and there's shit out there totally beyond the capacity of humans to understand and remain sane, so the stories are basically just fucked-up one-off experiences of horror without a progression of understanding, because there can be no understanding. As you read, you'll start to catch common names of objects and places and beings popping up again and again, giving a sense of a unified mythology, but there's no particular order to the stories where one clearly follows on another and it's not necessary to know the minutiae of the mythology to understand a given story. He wrote and published stories in magazines primarily, and wasn't especially famous in his own time, so he couldn't count on people reading one story knowing any of his other ones. References to what's now called the "Cthulhu Mythos" were basically just Easter eggs for his writer friends and for his own amusement.

The closest to a true progression would probably be to read them in the order in which Lovecraft wrote them, since that would follow the development of his own understanding of the greater mythology, but you can safely just buy any collection of Lovecraft stories and read them in the order presented (or read them online at Wikisource), since they're effectively unrelated.

Probably half of King's short stories are "homages" to earlier authors' works. What's particularly ballsy about the way he does it is that the narrator will often remark on how their experience reminds them of an old story they once read, and directly name or reference the story he's cribbing from.

*looks up John Powell*

I'd post the Fry "not sure if serious" macro, but I'm sure you can't be serious.

As Trey can tell you, their directors aren't generally in charge of what kind of shit they make.

I've heard fob here in the U.S. It's definitely a slur, as it refers exclusively to people of Asian descent with heavy accents. Never heard it refer to any other group of immigrant-by-boat.

"No worries" was originally a down under thing?

That's hinted at pretty strongly in the Ang Lee film. There's the scene in the prologue where the crying baby shows some streaks of green, indicating the Hulk already exists in there and is just unable to manifest.

As I recall Nick Nolte's Daddy Banner character also says something to indicate he was deliberately trying to cultivate Bruce to some end, although both Nolte and the film are somewhat incoherent overall.

Lee's HULK could still be considered part of the film canon, since INCREDIBLE HULK was a follow-up and not a reboot.

At first I was like "Damn," because I want to do a short film about Aurors.

But then I was like "Phew," because the main thing I want to do it for is to make a cool(er than the films) wand duel, and AUROR'S TALE seems to do wand duels the same way the films do. It does a very good job of emulating the feel of those, though.

Sure. And I don't think anyone involved with the Avengers posing image or arguing from my side of the fence is advocating the idea that if only Black Widow weren't posing like that, sexism would be over. It's just if something is happening all the time everywhere you look, it's possible to become so inured to it you don't even notice. It's at the point where this kind of thing needs to be pointed out every time -- the poster in question being but one of many -- to actually shake things up and help people notice there's an issue. And there comes a point also where you have to say "Okay, from now on, no more passes on this." The poster just happens to have come out shortly after that line got drawn.