Sadly, it is possible to be a careful and grammatical writer and yet be duped by a cheating sociopath. No need to ask me how I know.

NEVER has this been more appropriate.

Lol if you think US fans waited until the 19th :P

Trying to watch Sherlock. Yeah TV people, I'm gonna wait 2 weeks to watch it here in The States. Sure....the site I'm using is not being nice and it's driving me nuts.

Oh, no. I totally get that. Read my later replies.

"Britta: I can excuse racism but I draw the line at animal cruelty.

I just stumbled on the word Eomkin too, which supposedly means kin of. I think I might take this up.
I never thought of spirit animal as appropriation, heck I used it a few hours ago, which is kind of a no duh for me now.

I think it's related to cultural appropriation/First Nations stereotypes.

Because it's appropriative of Native American culture, I thought.

Native American appropriation.

It has more to do with the cultural appropriation of a pretty specific Native American religious ritual/belief.

It's just a much better way of saying the same thing, right? Hope you don't mind I shared this on Groupthink, thought you could use a little backup.

Thanks, and I wholeheartedly endorse "patronus"!

Sigh. Can we just quit "spirit animal"?

I didn't see your comment or I just would've boosted it! I prefer "patronus", myself.

Can we not use a racially loaded term like spirit animal? Please?

so just about to say this

I was just about to say the same thing.

Can we NOT with "spirit animal"? It's so far from okay. :(

Why would someone wait for SIX HOURS? Just hang up already and try again later. Also, not that I'm super down with "The Man" or whatever, but can we give companies a break once and awhile? I'm sure Target was doing all it could to staff up its customer service lines during that time and that all sorts of Target…