@Hana Maru, with or without animals: Yeah, pretty much. I think the Jezebel selected doesn't really jive with the tone of the piece.

@HopeAngel: Oh, I meant more like, how she and Emma fought for attention from the father, how she saw the girl as a "rival" could be construed as immature, but some seem to take it to mean she is blaming the girl. I thought her deciding not to be a mother was a pretty well thought out decision.

I didn't really think she was vilifying Emma in this piece — it seemed more like she was explaining her own immature actions and thought process when she was younger, at that specific time.

They're fuzzy, but I can't find a good photo of just the shoes. I bought those Etnies in Greenwich Village when visiting NYU as a junior in high school. I loved them, they were bright blue, with yellow detailing that popped. I made sure to not use them in marching band — I knew I'd never find a pair of kicks like…

Some nice real people knives, a crockpot, or a gift card for a grocery store.

@ladypony: Deffo don't have any in my apartment.

@ammre: That would have been beyond cool.

@DaniFae is so into you but way too smart for you: I had no idea that this happened, but my 8th grade RENT fangirl is colliding with my current NPH fangirl and it's weird.

@InvisibleGirl: I think that's a TV?

@Crinkelbert_Fishtybuns: Well, it's much easier to act like singing just comes ~*~from the heart~*~ and being motivated makes you better than acting like it is also a technical skill. I would like an episode where someone sucks at sight singing or something though. They all learn solfege!

@Her Grace: Nerdfighter!: Yeah, I was trying to think of different ways it could have been done. Maybe an artsy first person perspective? Puppets? Anything?

@knightgee: Oh, no, you were totally cool! I am probably the abrasive one, since it touches a nerve. Thanks for being cool about it, and I totally get your initial perspective.

@dizzy.mslizzy: I lol'd at this at work.

@knightgee: Basically — he inhabits the only narrative that disabled characters appear to be allowed to inhabit: disability is real sad you guys. And since you edited: it's offensive that they are using that actor's able-bodiedness to hammer that point home. Look, audience, at Artie doing something he could never ever…

@knightgee: That's not the main complaint, it just compounds it. When the disability blogosphere erupted because of casting a temporarily able bodied actor, most people were hoping that it wasn't so they could use him as some sort of tragic figure who gets to walk in dream sequences (or jesus god, get a big magical…

@Lazy Line Painter Jane: He could actually still become a dancer. Who uses a wheelchair.

@DuckyBelkins: Well they have certainly proven sensitivity about disability issues in the past...oh wai-.

@ditriana: Just FYI, "wheelchair-bound" is considered to be outdated terminology, since it implies that the wheelchair is inhibitive. "Wheelchair user" is more up to speed and more accurate.

Wow this show just gets more and more and more offensive as far as Artie's character is concerned, isn't it? This is kind of just getting gross now, and I feel like the ~*~dream sequence~*~ will now forever be the justification for casting an able bodied dancer in the role of Artie rather than a wheelchair using…

@Samantha Gergans: What is helping me is giving myself permission to feel shitty. For as long as I want. Because I'm allowed to feel like that. My therapist (also helpful) agreed that it was important to adhere to my own time table rather then getting over him in some kind of approved amount of time.