Right! And I lived on a compound in a Middle Eastern country as a kid, so there was a little commissary I could walk to anytime. So I hid so many sweets in my room as a child/preteen/teen...

It's clearly a fabulous watch.

Lucky Charms were my go-to cereal in college (partly because of a childhood of healthy cereals - I rebelled when I gained my freedom). But I could always gauge how broke I was by whether or not I ate the puffed rice part of the cereal or threw it away. At any rate, it was the last to get eaten.

Adele Dazeem for Belle, obviously.

Never heard of her but she looks pretty Bellish.

..I'll be in my bunk.

I generally prefer "crotch droppings." It has better cadence.

I have tried several times now to not post how much I want to punch the chiclets out of that chucklenut's trap.

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Twenty years later, to me, your words are still the wisest and wittiest of them all. May I share your comment to Groupthink? It's so eloquent. Really speaks to the truth of Faux News.

Nailed it.

Well, that escalated quickly.

Very tidily oblique reference. :)

I don't steal it! But I would if it was my only option.

I'll buy it. You're right of course about the Victorian invalid being bigger than just her individual story arc. If it turns out that way, I'll testify that you called it.

You could pay the iron price - er, the urchin pickpocket's price.

I'm hoping it takes a sharp turn towards Carmilla-Lauraville.

Interesting. I can see EC as the red herring for obvious reasons, but hadn't considered BC for the resident lycanthrope, what with her consumptive state.

You could pay the iron price, if you're willing/set up for it.

It's not gratuitous. It's actually quite artistic for the most part. And it's much more egalitarian than GoT (in terms of gender). As a lady viewer of GoT I am perpetually irritated by the double standard. As a lady viewer of PD, I am, in fact, entertained.