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The online push for greater diversity in books and comics
Two different corners of geekdom are getting a major face lift this week, thanks to the members of fandom who are fed up with the ongoing sexism and lack of representation in their fandom communities....
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With Google's new Chrome update, you can kill the URL
Brace yourselves—it looks like URL has to die. A recent version of Google Chrome, Google's popular web browser, has relegated the hypertext transfer protocol, better known as "http://" to a permanent...
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In a disturbing corner of deviantART, fantasies of chloroformed women
At first it seems like your average passive beauty shot: The woman, dressed in a Wonder Woman costume, lies prostrate on a bed, posed as if she is sleeping. The photo's title, however, reveals the...
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'Lizzie Bennet' creators join PBS for modern genderbent 'Frankenstein'
The white-male dominated world of science fiction writing often tends to ignore the fact that science fiction was invented by a woman, Mary Shelley, whose Frankenstein first gave the world a taste of...
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Disney embraces high fantasy in these incredible promos for 'Maleficent'
If Disney's new posters for Maleficent are any indication, the studio has caught the Marvel bug and it's not going to the doctor any time soon. Disney's new favorite son Marvel has won praise from all...
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If you thought the Met Gala was gorgeous, check out this Tumblr fan art
Monday night's annual Met Gala was the toast of the Internet, but it also demonstrated how the Web makes red carpet events into increasingly public affairs. Every step celebrities take seems to be...
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PBS imagines a future for fandom that's already a reality
It's no secret that lately PBS Digital has had its eye on fandom and its many possibilities. Earlier this week, the YouTube arm of the beloved public television network announced a webseries...
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Harry Potter fans win a contest to name 'soul-sucking' wasp after Dementors
When researchers at the Museum of Natural History in Berlin discovered a new species of cockroach wasp, it reminded them of something. The digger wasp is part of the genius Ampulex, and it has a...
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New 'Gamer Girls' magazine meets all your lowest expectations
"What superhero or villain do you identify with?""Flash because I love to flash people hahahaha" Just when we thought we'd seen everything in terms of geek and tech culture alternately sexualizing...
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Is Roberto Orci too out of touch with the 'Star Trek' fandom to direct?
It looks as if the Star Trek franchise has a new commander, and it's not the one fans were hoping for. Instead, if Star Trek reboot screenwriter Roberto Orci is indeed the rumored choice to take over...
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Cory Monteith's birthday sees 'Glee' shippers celebrating a surprise romance
Today, Cory Monteith would have been 32 years old. The Glee actor's tragic death last July left the fandom in mourning, but since then, a busy fifth season for the show has been hard at work injecting...
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Watch history being made in Michael Sam's draft-day reaction video
It's not often that the world is changed with a single phone call—and it's even rarer that we get to watch it happen. But when Michael Sam was drafted into the NFL Saturday, the cameras were...
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'SNL's Mother's Day game show skit is dead on
Over the years, SNL has taken on politics and celebrities, skewering all in its wake. Fortunately for the rest of us today, it's turned its skewer on moms everywhere in honor of Mother's Day. In this...
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James Franco's selfie-inception is all of our faults
James Franco's career has been steadily devolving into hipster meta-parody for a while now, but we've no one to blame but ourselves for letting him bottom out this way. The 36 year old Franco has...
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Former NFL player takes to Twitter to call Michael Sam's kiss 'disgusting'
Former NFL running back Derrick Ward wants gay men in loving relationships to know exactly what he thinks of them—or at least the one gay man now sharing a place in league history with him. Ward took...
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'Game of Thrones' and 'Star Wars' have way more in common than you think
In the pantheon of beloved geek cultural properties, you might think that Star Wars and Game of Thrones exist at opposite ends of the wide spectrum. After all, one is a futuristic sci-fi series in...
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These 'Captain America' posters give us a glimpse of Marvel's alternate universe
Fandom has been thorough in exploring the edges of the Marvel Cinematic Universe that we've come to know since 2008's Iron Man. It's the modern world reimagined to include the fictional Marvel comics...
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Rifftrax Kickstarts infamous 'Godzilla' romp for its next live performance
After movie-mocking comedy troupe Rifftrax achieved a milestone last year with its successful Kickstarter campaign to license a high-budget movie—originally billed as Twilight but ultimately the cult...
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Monster lovers everywhere mourn the passing of 'Alien' creator H.R. Giger
The Chateau St. Germain in Gruyères, Switzerland, might seem like an unusual pit stop along the path of geek culture history, until you step inside and get a glimpse of the horrors that lie...
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'The Fault in Our Stars' is now the most-liked trailer on YouTube
Despite predictions that the recent boom in film adaptations of Young Adult novels is on the wane, there's one major contributor to the recent YA film pantheon that's yet to come. And according to...
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