My immediate reaction was, “HOW HAS NOT BEEN EATEN ALIVE BY THE RATS YET?!?!?!?!???!!?!?!??!!?”

I’m not on the left coast and that’s what I thought, too! But it sounds like they’re describing an attic? A crawl space is scary, probably has no windows, and is where serial killers keep the bodies. An attic is not ideal but may be do-able.

That’s art.

Or get him juuuuuust drunk enough that The Truth starts a’coming out. That would be gold.

Maybe this is a regional dialect thing, but out here on the Left Coast a crawlspace is the area under the house, above the dirt but below the floor. What he’s in would be either an attic, a chase, or an old mechanical room, although it’s hard to determine which of those things it is from the photos.

My grandmother can leave me wondering sometimes if I was burned, or if my sister was straight up insulted. “Why don’t you wear the other dress? It helped your sister look thin.” It’s like she’s got to get in a twofer.

It’s not.

How is it even legal to rent spaces like this for habitation?

Threw Hard Shade.

“Powell needs to change his name to LeVar Burton because he is reading the rainbow.” I loled. That was funny.

Honey, Powell needs to change his name to LeVar Burton because he is reading the rainbow.

$$$$$

So true. The actress looks miserable, and who wouldn’t be? Something that size has one purpose: fetishization. It ain’t good for nothin’ else.

So, I ask this in genuine curiosity and not in an attempt to be dismissive; what appeals people to clothing and dresses like this? To me fashion shows like this read not as having anything to do with clothing or the human form, but mainly as just art shows (with strong performance art elements). I guess I struggle…

How would they do this practically though? If the character starts out ugly but becomes beautiful later on...how do they cast for that? They only options I see are: cast an ugly child and then recast with a beautiful teen later on, which seems terrible, or cast a cute child that you can make appear less attractive…

Meg was actually described as ugly; it wasn’t just glasses/braces. She did grow to be beautiful, but that was literally.... three books from this. And the dynamic between her and her beautiful mother (who usually just sort of laughed away Meg’s worries and assured her she’d grow into it) is kind of an important one.

I definitely would suggest reading it before seeing the movies, yes. It’s very richly imagined and also just very very out there and I think you’d be missing something by not having the chance to imagine it yourself before you see the movie and take in how other people imagine it.

High points for diversity - low points for Hollywood once again casting a super adorable cutesy girl as a character that whose awkwardness and unattractiveness is a defining trait. I don’t see Meg when I look at her, not because she’s not white, but because she looks like a spunky Disney channel middle schooler, not…

Oh please be safe from internet assholes, tiny child....