My partner and my names can be combined to make a funny portmanteau (e.g. Blacksoul) and I really want to change our names to that but he “doesn’t want his name to be a pun” which... why are we even together???

Fair. My sister and I spend the early 2000s communicating mostly through Buffy quotes so I probably have a larger bank of dialogue stored in my head than the average viewer.

My school had a substitute teacher who told us that poor people should stop having children, that Maori people were poor because they smoked, and that Islam is a violent religion. We were 16 so our response was obviously to pass mean notes about her. We got caught, got sent to the principal, told her what had happened…

Considering a giant space donut had just visited the city, and a bunch of monster-filled obelisks hit Wakanda, it seems likely he’d have gotten this out of his desk drawer just in case.

This was the first thing I said to my boyfriend when the movie finished and he did not recognize it and I was very disappointed so thank you Internet Stranger.

Two pieces of advice for this:

I’m going when she’s in Toronto!!!! So excited! I’ve been sending screamy excitement gifs to everyone I know.

She did a massive edit to it more than a decade after it was initially written, so the version we read is quite different to the version she wrote on the weekend, although obviously it already had many of those themes. By the time she revised it, her two children and husband had died, so it definitely got darker.

Ooh! Ooh! Pick me!

The phrase “moving target” has been bothering me for a while and I think your post has helped me clarify why.

Right? It’s very “I knew her when...”!

God help us if we win.

A much needed resource. I could have used it on the infamous Campsite Neighbours From California evening two years ago...

I don’t know if it’s part of a permanent exhibit, but when I went they had a fascinating exhibit of Inuit shoes from all different regions. It was so cool to see the similarities and differences between Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Russia.

We can start a club! I, too, have a B.A. in philosophy (and psychology - bam - twice the career for none of the effort!)

I have a B.A. in psychology. I have never worked in the field. Am I a psychologist?

I have a bunch of friends in Canadian publishing and they’ve basically all told me that her books are good but she is... less good. Some of that stuff has become public recently with the Steven Galloway letter and her nimby-ness about condos in her neighbourhood.

I still have an hour left at work today and I genuinely don’t know if I’ll get any more work done now that this video (and its amazing gifs) have entered my life.

Oh my god. I already want to watch this on repeat for the rest of my life. Fascinated is the right word for it!