apologies Gwen! you're right.

thank you for saying what i've failed to say properly and do it so succinctly and intelligently.

*empathy fist bump over the internet *. my own ptsd only really shows up in relationships so i've avoided them for six years and really only fuck when drunk or high. not healthy to do that, i know. I think I react strongly to situations like this on Scandal because of it and maybe come across harsher than I mean to.…

I think that's a pretty fair and measured point of view on this album. I look for viscerality in my music as I listen to music as primarily an emotional release. I don't do well with pleasant but inoffensive. Most of her songs weren't that great before this but 21 had at least 5 standouts and 19 had like 3. But this…

mind.blown. i'm glad i gave my wrongheaded opinion on them. i feel like my whole cookie landscape is gonna change.

thanks for those examples! the only one I was aware of was the Friday Night Lights one ( a show which I regret missing since I hate sports); but I'll look into the other two as well.

true. he did recsue her from a more literal and unequivocal form of captivity. but it was also only last season that she was held hostage in a way that gave her PTSD. i do think that the PTSD angle her is not being fully recognized. that's not something that disappears between seasons and quite possibly could've…

i don't know. things change when people realize the full power of the presidency directed at them.

what? maybe my snickerdoodle experience has been totally ruined by school cafeteria cookies.

yeah, in 15mins after the show was done, Newsbusters had an article talking about sick it was that she had an abortion with Christmas aka Christian music. And all over the TV line forums people are pissed about it haha.

"Not sharing that kind of information with your partner who the show has made some sort of end all be all of all relationships to ever exist? That was a little hurtful."

great points made.holy balls that was a good read. but i didn't say it was one person's fault in the long term of the relationship. but i do think the seriousness/gravity of being an emotional captive trumps all history at that point when you have to consider your own safety and that of an unborn child. and it did…

which apparently has gotten right wingers in a total tizzy. it was like the ultimate fuck you.

Precisely. And it's that kind of courage on issues like abortion that lets me forgive Shonda's sins in writing , like the actually unsayable T876 plot. That courage is absolutely brilliant and worthy of swimming through some slog sometimes.

did they ever have a conversation on this show about children? or the possibility of such? if they did, count me wrong; but I'm pretty sure they didn't. and i assign blame here because the dynamic shifts heavily once the power dynamic shifted so dramatically in the relationship. it went from a relationship of…

did they ever have a conversation on this show about children? or the possibility of such? if they did, count me wrong; but I'm pretty sure they didn't. and i assign blame here because the dynamic shifts heavily once the power dynamic shifted so dramatically in the relationship. it went from a relationship of…

that is true lol. i give her a pass though because its all for the greater political good.

they are actually like really terrible dried out husks of a cookie. truly terrible, hard things. it was a bit of a metaphor for how Olivia was feeling, i thought.

but listening to crying babies is more pleasurable than this. at least with that annoyance you have some kind of primal urge to do something about the noise. but with 25 i feel nothing.

precisely.