I feel this way about both Harry Potter and Star Wars. It’s like, I don’t care if it’s garbage give me more content, I will happily give you money and ignore the plot holes, because it is Harry Potter/Star Wars.

That would also be fun. Let’s be honest, I’d watch a movie about pretty much everything to do with Harry Potter. They can milk that cash cow like he’s James Bond for all I care. I will give them my money each and every time.

I want her to release Hogwarts, A History.

I enjoyed the music in the trailer so I said to myself, “self, I wonder who wrote the music for this film.” I went to IMDB and typed in “fantastic beasts”.

Having been at UVA during the 2 week search for Hannah Graham, I whole-heartedly understand your inability to see the campus as detached from this incident. I know it’s only been a year since she went missing, but I don’t think I’ll ever feel safe walking around the area where she was last seen. Her murderer was…

“In history, some historians are beginning to use the term as a description of the way people experience times, that is, as a layering of present experiences over faded pasts.”

Very scary, and I agree totally about the path. This exact path was the one I took most often as a studio major there a few years ago. This story creeps me out so badly and it’s so incredibly sad.

Modern medicine is amazing. 50 years ago I wouldn’t have made it to 15.

The worst part of being a twin, solved. No shared birthdays.

I work for a foster youth shelter in Austin that occasionally partners with LifeWorks, and they’ve had a rough year. A few months ago, one of their residents shot and killed another when a verbal altercation escalated. It’s a shame too, because they’re a damn good organization that does a lot of work with homeless…

Yeah, my bus drops off across the street from where she was found and I walked right by her body on Tuesday morning without seeing it. I’m so glad I didn’t see it, to be honest. I don’t know how I would’ve been able to cope. That area never seemed unsafe to me before because there was always so much pedestrian traffic.

I actually thought that was a lovely turn of phrase.

Pretty much. Waller Creek runs all the way up from the river through downtown and the middle of campus, up to Highland Mall. The trail would have been her most direct route back to the dorms. She could have taken the sidewalk on the other side of the Alumni Center where it’s less wooded and better lit, rather than…

It’s not the middle of campus, but it’s definitely, solidly “campus”. And this girl did live in the dorms. Winship, where she was coming from, is on the creek. As are several of the dorms (basically). Along the creek was probably by far the shortest walk home for her.

Oh fuck off. Criticizing word choice when someone is conveying something that is terrifying and deeply sad? You have added absolutely nothing to the conversation.

Dude, it’s called figurative use. The OP meant the crime scene may be cleaned up, and new experiences can be had there, but the traces left over by the murder linger in the mind.

The spot is right in the middle of campus right? I admit I don’t know UT’s campus that well.

I went running that evening, before the sun went down, in Hyde park. It was a nice day. I almost always I go on campus around 9, and almost always along Waller Creek. Never again. I’m kind of reeling about the fact that I might have been there if I’d gone at my normal time. And there are usually people around then! It…

Where was it exactly? Waller Creek on that path between 21st and the Alumni Center? I remember thinking when I was in school that that spot was pretty ripe for something bad to happen in the dark and only went through there during the day. But it is so pretty in there. :(

Nah, if he had been hanging around for an hour, he was waiting from someone that he knew he could attack. He probably wanted money, valuables, etc. He’s homeless. He was likely trying to survive and mix that in with being crazy/severely screwed up from his past - he wasn’t just going to rob someone, he was going to…