For sure! I actually agree with that a lot. Obviously there are plenty of exceptions to this rule of thumb but I think of something like The Fault in Our Stars, where I think the romance was by far the worst part because John Green appeared to get his knowledge of teen girl perspectives on romance entirely from other…

Are you also wary of men writing from teenage girls' perspectives? I don't mean that as an attack, but I see this comment often about how women can't write YA about boys and very rarely vice versa.

Huh, I had no idea that that was even an archaic spelling. That makes way more sense than whatever I thought had happened there.

I was honestly surprised that "Byelorus" got full credit. Doesn't that spelling change the pronunciation of the word? And that age of consent thing was just…yikes.

Yeah, Sansa is my favorite character and I've found that that's very common among other female fans of ASOIAF. In fact, I tend to forget that a lot of people hate Sansa, since the majority of people I talk to about ASOIAF are other women in their twenties.

The world of girls volleyball is so unbelievably fucked up. I started playing club volleyball when I was eight years old and the scheduling was just brutal: four two hour practices a week and a tournament every weekend. My high school had one of the top girls volleyball teams in the country, though, so I had to do it…

Willow and Tara are definitely more than enough for me! It's amazing how my love for them actually gets MORE intense as I get older.

Supernatural fandom is homogenized in its badness in a way that as a whole, it reaches dizzying heights of creepiness that I don't think Glee fandom ever got to, but I think there's less intra-fan sniping. Or maybe there is and I am just fortunate with who I have chosen to interact with online.

The AV Club's comment section is far and above the best discussion I've seen on Glee (unsurprising, considering the AV Club is generally a cut above other comments sections). But holy shit could Glee fandom get toxic in a way that I never saw anywhere else. Glee started just about when Livejournal was still a big…

Kurt and Blaine get a lot of attention (and though I was never a fan of the couple I can understand why they mean a lot to people) but it's amazing how many Glee fans I knew who were young lesbians who were really deeply affected by Brittany and Santana's relationship. I feel like Brittana will be iconic for a…

I deleted all of the Glee songs from iTunes out of shame at one point and I'm glad that I did because I never want to know how many times I listened to that cover of "Total Eclipse of the Heart."

Glee was such a weird show for me—I only ended up hating it as much as I did because I had gotten so emotionally invested in it that I felt every misstep very acutely. Not a lot of shows can say that. The finale was about what I expected it to be and I knew that there was no way that we'd ever return to the caustic…

I listened to quite a bit of Nightvale and while I found that there were occasionally moments of brilliance, overall it was definitely too much LOL SO RANDOM XD. It doesn't help that there's so little distance between the creators and the crazy fandom—the fandom has WAY too much influence over what happens in the…

Yeah, that's more or less how I felt. I think I could have dealt with it if the storyline about everyone siding with Jon Hamm wasn't so drawn out but it went on too long for me. I think Kimmy has been appropriately angry over the course of the show and it makes me even angrier for her.

The season-long reviews that the AV Club puts out for shows when they premier (or sometimes after they finish) for a season are grading the show relative to the medium as a whole. There's no point in assigning episodic grades to each individual episode and grading them against every TV show in existence, because most…

I use Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights music video as a litmus test when getting to know people. Anyone who doesn't understand my passion for it is out of my life.

Jesse and Rachel were my original pick for endgame couple back when I still could bring myself to emotionally care about Glee but I knew it would never happen in a million years, and yet look at us now. Lea and Jon's chemistry is just too undeniable (and 2009 me is very happy).

As I was watching the show I kept wondering what its Emmy chances are going to look like. I feel like the new rules might help it since that gets shows like OITNB out of contention but I'm also not sure how big the show is outside of the tiny pop culture-obsessive bubble.

Amy Sedaris showing up was such an awesome surprise but I NEEDED MORE. Jerri Blank and Kimmy would have a nice rapport.

The album that this song is on (Satanic Panic in the Attic) was the first Of Montreal album I ever heard and I think it's a pretty good intro. Most of the songs are pretty self-contained/standard rock songs. After that I moved chronologically to Sunlandic Twins and Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? I think those…