I was so upset when Carl got shot last night, which is just the polar opposite of how I felt when he got shot in season 2. Then I realized how I was feeling and thought, “When did I start loving Carl?!?” I freely admit that I’m glad that my hopes did not come to fruition and Carl lived to become a really interesting…

Things are slowly changing - Lupita N’Yongo, for example, has graced many ads and magazine covers - but this panic is a good reminder that we’re not yet a post-racial society.

I hear you. I’m bigger than you and have had the same experience. When I moved to San Diego, I discovered that both my weight and my complexion were way more of a hindrance than they had been back home. When I travel home or to some place like New Orleans, I get way more action.

I have been a first black girlfriend for a few white men. I wish I could give your post so many stars.

But soon he told me that he was being harangued by his friends for agreeing to go out with me, and he called off the date.

• Asking a person to trade seats with you so that you can sit with a partner is only okay if you’re offering up a better seat. Never expect anyone to trade their window or aisle seat for a middle.

If it helps at all, I’m perfectly happy taking Blueberry’s cast offs. Eddie Redmayne and Benedict Cumberbatch are sexy af. Tatum is really only hot when he’s dancing, but at least he seems like a good guy. Hard pass on Teller though.

The movie version is “the chicks’ll cream”. I think that’s from the original stage version. It’s been sanitized over the years. A lot of the lyrics got changed including the tits line and pussy wagon.

He was good in Roswell too.

It makes you wonder if conversations like these are happening in publisher offices:

Thanks for all the suggestions! I’m going to look these up.

Sadie’s blond-ish with blue eyes. This is how she’s described.

You can’t edit a comment after a certain time period. I think it’s something like 10 or 15 minutes.

Some guy argued that very same thing to me about having a black Guinevere in the BBC show Merlin. He said it was unrealistic. Nevermind that PoC have existed in Europe for well over a thousand years. He apparently had a harder time believing that a black person could exist in the fictional court of King Arthur than he…

Ugh, now I’m dying to know! I must read faster. :)

I haven’t read the Olympus series, but I read the first book in the Kane Chronicles. It features two siblings who are biracial. When I realized the boy ends looks black, but the girl is a blonde, I rolled my eyes. Figures. Black (looking) females have an even harder time being included in media than black males.

Or they’re about racism or they’re meant to teach about another culture.

I recently started reading the Expanse after falling in love with the show. I really like them so far and am excited to hear that Nagata gets a POV in the latest book, since I’ve been wanting to know more about her.

What’s especially hard is to find YA books with black female protagonists that 1) aren’t about racial issues 2) don’t take place in Africa and 3) don’t have to do with African myths/folklore.

Yeah, I’ve had the decidedly uncomfortable experience of suddenly seeing an eyeball filling in the gap between the door and the wall. If we’re going to have gender neutral bathrooms, we definitely need more private stalls.