*unsolicited advice pops up* If you want to enjoy television/movies again, try watching a K-drama. Secret Garden is my fave to start out with. Eventually you learn the tropes and such again, but for awhile, everything is so new and unexpected.

That dress is gorgeous!! I tried it on (and almost bought it!), but it didn’t quite fit my massive boobs right. It looks so pretty on you, and the beadwork is so gorgeous in person. I’m glad you were able to wear it!

I have one of these, too. “Book of Love” by Peter Frampton, set to a Harry/Ginny Weasely montage, complete with awkward footage of a brunette man and a red-headed woman to represent the adult couple. I never actually got into Ginny and Harry, but it’s somehow incredibly comforting. No shame in some awkward YouTube…

I pictured a millennial pink clutch bag in the shape of a vagina, personally.

Same. My tiny Maltese is kid friendly and loves adults, but she’s not a dog kind of dog. So we don’t go to dog parks, we carefully socialize her and introduce her to the dogs that have to be in her life, and she’ll stay an only child because that’s the way she likes it. Nothing wrong with having a grouchy dog as long…

Yup. Recovering Baptist here. We were taught that Catholicism is a cult that worships Mary. (I also feel the need to apologize for ever believing that, along with a bevy of other hateful/hurtful things. Sorry. I’m better now, I promise.)

Claire! You just changed my life!! I’m learning (slowly) how to cook because I discovered a bunch of food allergies, one of which is corn. I hadn’t found a good cornstarch substitute, and I think raw roux might be just the thing! Thanks for writing about cooking in such an accessible way. You’re the best!!

Elf is the cheapest and best quality makeup for your money. You can buy mascaras for a couple bucks, and eyeshadow palettes for like, $4. You can also look into Stowaway Cosmetics (smaller versions of makeup products), but honestly, they’re a little pricey for what I would pay for normal amounts of product. I replace…

No, that guy was lying. I’ve lived here my whole life, and not even pastors do that. That is some weird shit, and he can stand alone in it.

I thought that was awkward, too. Hopefully just a translation error?

Militant *anything* is usually annoying, tbh.

Yooo, not to be a weirdo, but if you want excellent, cheap skincare, try buying deluxe sample sizes of Etude House products from RoseRose Shop. I read up on it and started using their Age Defence line, and now my mom and bestie are using it. You really don’t have to settle for body wash! (also—African black soap comes…

Definitely go to class. Don’t hurt your education by missing important classes—it’s exactly the opposite of a feminist act. Wear red and just bring it up to fellow students. Maybe set up a petition-signing station at your lunch hall (if you’re at a small school, I have no idea what going to a big school is like!).

Just a word of caution (idk if you’ll even see this since I’m in the greys?): Acrylic blankets are highly flammable and melt to the skin if there is a fire. That’s why you don’t see them anymore! Good luck blanket-hunting, though!

Just a word of caution (idk if you’ll even see this since I’m in the greys?): Acrylic blankets are highly flammable…

I share this burden. I usually ask for fries as a side dish and then pretend the ketchup is just for them.

As a shameful, Certified Heathen who also uses ketchup on steak, I’d say it’s because I put ketchup on everything and I’m not used to food not being drowned in some sort of condiment. I’m not proud of it, but it really is delicious.

Have we not done that yet? Someone should do that...

At least in the used car business (my life is glamorous), leads are bought as a whole package, but then you can get refunds on the fake ones, which are usually pretty obvious.

To quote Shirley, some of us have work in the morning.

I definitely feel that. I work for a great small business and the owner hires pretty evenly across genders for “corner office” positions. I don’t want to punish him or my co-workers because our president is a turd.