Yeah, it’s been ... interesting. I think the most bizarre thing is Forest Service’s (he went missing in a national forest, not park, sorry) response to the FOIA request was “we have stuff, but we’re not giving it to you” when it would have been better for them to just say, “look, we don’t have anything.” This sort of…

No, it hasn’t been publicized except to some Appalachian Trail groups on Facebook last year. It’s been over a year so no need to post anything - we’re in the process of moving on, going to put up a little memorial in a few weeks actually.

I’m so sorry. I work for national parks and while I am always interested in these types of stories - I have the books, I look things up - I also try constantly to remember that there are very real people being affected. While dealing with a medical emergency or search and rescue can be bizarrely exciting in the…

I used to really love [that podcast] but.. I’ve definitely reconsidered my feelings. I went to a live show and it seemed a bit grotesque when I actually listened in person and people were laughing.. 

My brother is one of the thousands of people who have gone missing in a national park ... it’s hard to say whether I would go on record for a documentary. I don’t know the details of your documentary but there’s such a conflict between hoping that speaking out will help bring closure to wanting to keep things out of…

My boyfriend works in criminal justice and really doesn’t like all these new documentaries/docu-series that just relay murders and crime as they happened. He says he finds it unethical to use real crimes and murder cases as pure entertainment. He differentiates between the genre of true crime - for example, novels…

Podcasts: Only Night Vale Presents do them right. All else is reeking lizard-turd, including the audio clickbait that was CEREAL(sic).

The irony is that the person who told her is committed to a lifetime of celibacy.

Another really good one is “Damaged Goods” by Dianna E Anderson. I was semi-raised in purity culture (went to those kind of churches, semi-bought in, but was always an outsider, it’s complicated) but I know the damage as well. Anderson’s book just nails it. No pun intended. 

I know, it appears they put a lot of pressure on the new husband to try and convince his wife to discuss her murdered daughter and I’m like, whaaaaat? That’s horrible because you are doing it, person! 

“It has to be so painful for them that this is coming up again.”

Christian purity culture is absolute bullshit. I was raised in it and it does a ton of damage. Especially to girls. 

When I was a freshman in high school my mom’s partner was murdered by his son, a senior in the same high school as me. I live in a small town, and this was front page news. Going to school after was hell, the rumors as to what really happened, and what the relationship was between the father and son that had lead to…

I’ve talked about it before:

and why i’m not a fan of true crime. in many cases i don’t think these crimes are newsworthy and definatly not national newsworthy so i’ve alwasy been offended at ‘casts like Serial and writers like Ann Rule. these works are not a record but a dramatization usually based on a single person’s memory (always bad) or a…

Though Beck told the Baltimore Sun that she does “feel kind of nervous about working with the right wing because they have opposed women’s bodily autonomy, and lesbians’ sovereignty,” it has not stopped her from forming an alliance with Republicans.

Beef you say??

It’s been gross seeing comments just repeating the narrative that MJ was just childlike, so that’s why he was sleeping with little boys. I really wonder how anyone could believe that knowing what we now know about abuse. 

Lol. That’s hilarious. That sums it up well but it’s actually highkey Christian.

That shit is full-on Christian, though.