Yeah, it’s proper gothic horror rather than jump-scare horror that has a gothic theme. The ghost stories of MR James and Henry James rarely had explicit ghosts in them, though many of the events could only be explained by something paramormal.

Katharine is for her mother, who died of cancer. But the Spencer could still be a play on Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. 

This is more like if they kept making same Batman movie over and over again. If I trusted Hollywood to do her justice, I'd rather have a Hatshepsut movie. 

Oh, she was ferociously intelligent (notwithstanding her family background of MANY Generations of brother-sister incest). I think she was the first ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty to speak Egyptian.

You are technically correct.

No, the US is overly litigious but it’s largely because of your individualist social structure and shit like the medical insurance industry.

Wow, fuck you dude. You need her forgiveness first.

I always questioned Harry ending up with anyone after the amount of PTSD he would have come out of the books with. He actually died ffs. That has got to mess you up.

I would say, though, that Heathcliff and, ahem, Mr. Rochester both fit the brooding, male asshole romantic hero example. But unlike Snapewives, Cathy and Jane Eyre were heroines who both realized the asshole-ishness of these guys and rejected it (Cathy marries Linton, who dotes on her; Jane takes off once she realizes…

This post basically explains why I’ll never consider him much of a hero:

Those definitely don't count. Ask Paris from Gilmore Girls.

I was watching a tracker that counted (among other things) number of interruptions. Pence 16, Harris 11. Except 9 of Harris’s 11 interruptions were her saying "I'm speaking" when Pence tried to talk over her, and I really don't think those should count as interruptions. 

My aunt made some comment about disliking how smug Kamala Harris looks while talking.

“I’m speaking.”

“Wallen, unfortunately, is kind of hot, and I’m not happy about it, but his hotness doesn’t excuse this sort of behavior!"

yeah she really came across as YOUNG and just not ready to handle the intense pressure that comes with the focus of millions of people rooting for a singular outcome for your life. Good thing her dad was there to say whoa Nelly in her defense

I want to see C.J. and Josh and Toby getting covid on a trip to, I dunno, Bedminster, New Jersey, and learning in the hotel, over a montaged two weeks, who gave it to them.

“features a remarkably well-preserved Jane Fonda”

For fuck’s sake, Jez, I am not going to subscribe to your goddamn newsletter!!!

Watch for this to be spun into some pathetic, manipulative story in his political aspirations down the road.