There are some ways in which it's actually an interesting reversal—at the beginning of the series, Joan is very much working within the system to flex her power and Peggy is awkwardly but doggedly striking out on her own; now Peggy is the one who can envision a way she can work in the existing system to get what she…

It was as if Peggy was literally lighting up from inside as she talked through it.

To me it seems that the idea that Peggy is incapable of feeling love would be a fairly trite stance built on the idea that ambition and career-mindedness make women, in particular, cold, unfeminine, unnatural. . .

Your argument is definitely also unoriginal, to the point that one wonders what value there is in stating it.

I am the least shippy person ever, and my heart leapt at that.

I think the sheer enthusiasm that would be generated from having Leslie Knope and Sue Heck in the same room could probably solve the energy crisis. (I also think that Leslie Knope would have personally rounded up a team to find Kimmy Schmidt's bunker and dig it up herself if she had to.)

I went to a Quaker affiliated college. And our mascot was just an anomalous blob of color (I think. . .I never actually saw it.) But some people still cheered Kill, Quakers, Kill! which is. . .weird.

The Middle for real made me cry. The yearbook signing totally put me in mind of Buffy being named Class Protector—I had no idea that children en masse could be gracious. Sniff.

Someone in a writer's group I was in had exactly the same premise. I guess I should look out for a raging all caps group e-mail because all of us said. . ."uh. . .that works how, exactly?"

I'm assuming the only reason it's not a blatant rip off of the Gone* books because there the kill age was young enough to put a damper on sex scenes.

Also, a lot of his actions vis a vis the hotel have made me feel like he's. . .not so bright. Or at least not very observant/curious. Which I don't find terribly interesting.

I think rules-lawyering about "technical" virginity would be very against the ethos of the show and Jane's character, tbh.

100% agreed.

Last time I thought even Jim Parsons looked embarrassed at winning.

Team Villenueva family, for sure.

non-kidnapping freak out stuff first, in no particular order:

I would totally succumb to "I like you the way Pierre Curie liked Marie Curie."

Mine was fully-funded, and the remaining cost of living was very low (also I was really ill and not in great shape for job interviews, so probably came out ahead) but yeah, it's really not something you should be investing money in, IMO.

If I thought you had a trendy preference for grimdark, I wouldn't think that unlikable characters would be "refreshing." In fact, I interpreted your comment to mean that it was so surprising for you to find interesting (as your mileage clearly varies) but unlikable characters you required both all caps and bold to…

Well, in reality, as someone with an MFA in writing I would tell Jane
not to do it UNLESS she is fully funded by the school (which could
include teaching undergraduate composition classes). I personally
wouldn't have wanted to do it with a newborn, but one of my most
successful classmates did her two year stint with…