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This iconic 'Potter' villain will get a J.K. Rowling short story on Halloween
"An accomplished witch, ____ joined the Ministry of Magic directly after she left Hogwarts, taking a position as a lowly intern in the Improper Use of Magic Office." This curious tidbit, released last...
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Chrissy Teigen is the latest woman to be harassed off Twitter
Model Chrissy Teigen spent two days being inundated with death and rape threats after making a controversial series of tweets supporting gun control. Now, in the wake of her departure from Twitter,...
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Newsweek analyzes Gamergate hashtag to prove it really is about harassment
The last three months have seen women being doxed, harassed, and driven from their homes due to death threats, rape threats, and even mass shooting threats related to Gamergate—the geek culture war...
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'Supernatural' fan booted from convention after being labeled a 'threat' to...
A noted Supernatural fan who organized a fandomwide gift-giving campaign for the cast and crew of the show has been banned from all future Creation Entertainment conventions—and it may be because she...
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Hipster Ariel stages the ultimate 'Little Mermaid' wedding, and it's gorgeous
YouTube celebrity Traci Hines is better known to all as the hipster mermaid. With her trademark red hair and warbling voice, she's popped up around the web as "the hipster mermaid." Now, she's teemed...
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See the 'Star Wars' and 'Doctor Who' goodness on the Her Universe runway
Sad you missed the Her Universe geek fashion show during Comic-Con week this summer? No problem: Nerdist has a line on the most epic runway show of the year—if you're a geek, that is."We wanted to...
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Explore what makes Pixar stories great in new YouTube series
Bloop Animation, the studio that brought Jon Negroni's "Pixar Theory" to life on YouTube, is tackling Pixar once more. This time, it's starting a new series analyzing Pixar's rules of storytelling,...
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Marvel fans launch an online campaign for a #BlackWidowMovie
If you've somehow managed to avoid the Internet's demand for a Black Widow movie, then that's all going to change on November 2—at least if a planned hashtag campaign spearheaded by frustrated Tumblr...
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Fans are still buzzing about Marvel's upcoming movie lineup
It's testament to just how big the Marvel fandom has gotten that shortly after its much-hyped midday press conference, a joke from the conference was trending worldwide on Twitter. No, "Serpent...
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Amid backlash, Adobe apologizes for Gamergate support
Gamergate grew closer to dying out Tuesday as Adobe officially distanced itself from the campaign and apologized for having accidentally aligned itself to begin with. The company drew widespread...
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Antares rocket disaster takes out crowdfunded telescope project
Tuesday's Antares rocket explosion was a huge setback for the NASA space program—but it may prove disastrous for a crowdfunded space telescope. Planetary Resources, an asteroid mining company,...
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The data behind Gamergate reveals its ugly truth
If you were skeptical of Newsweek's claim that the vast majority of Gamergate tweets were "neutral," then you're not alone—it turns out as much as 75 percent of the hashtag's tweets are negative ones,...
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Homophobic Southern Baptist conference sparks massive online backlash
"The Gospel, Homosexuality, and the Future of Marriage" may sound like a terrible name for an event, but to the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest protestant denomination in the U.S., it's just...
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Anita Sarkeesian's 'Colbert' segment brought out Gamergate's worst
Anita Sarkeesian's appearance on the Colbert Report on Wednesday night was an unabashed triumph, unless you are a member of Gamergate, the two-month-long angry Internet stampede that purports to be...
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Tumblr's latest update is causing some major headaches
Taylor Swift picked the worst possible day to take over the Tumblr Radar. Just about the only thing that could have overshadowed the singer's guest curation of the Radar feature is a disastrous Tumblr...
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Dad wins Halloween with amazing Lego costume for his son
There are costumes, and then there are costumes. Faced with the epic LEGO Movie costume this lucky kid's dad built for him, our prevailing question is: How on earth will he top this next Halloween?...
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You've never seen the 'Psycho' shower scene until you've seen it with pumpkins
We all go a little mad sometimes. Just maybe not carving-Janet Leigh’s-terrified-face-into-a-pumpkin mad. Just when you thought you couldn't see the shower scene from Psycho homaged, ripped off,...
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Dioramas don't get much cooler than these Zelda and Super Mario worlds
No one knows Nintendo better than Japanese fans, and now an anonymous Japanese craftsman has just given us more reason to love everyone's favorite classics Zelda, Pokémon, and Super Mario Bros. The...
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The 7 best celebrity Halloween costumes of 2014
Halloween is the time of year when even the most serious of adults are allowed to unleash their zaniest, wackiest, and scariest sides. Our favorite celebrities are no exception to this rule, except...
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Pirate Bay cofounder gets more prison time after hacking trial
Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, hacker and cofounder of the Pirate Bay, has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison by a Danish court for hacking into the files of a cybersecurity company over a...
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