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My sibling is visiting my parents and me in two weeks and they're all mad at each other but all three of them are terrible at communicating with each other, so it's going to be tense as hell because my sibling doesn't know my parents are mad at them and my parents are in denial about how serious my sibling is with

I've been trying not to be salty about Jane/Raf and I'll still watch if that happens because I adore Gina Rodriguez and Yael Grobglas, but yeah. My biggest frustration is that it's just kind of lazy to put them together, and I feel the same about Raf/Petra as well. Mostly because they've done such a poor job of

It was bothering me all last week that I couldn't remember which other TV character Fabian's voice sounded like until I saw someone say Jianyu/Jason from The Good Place. Anyway, while I'm still so so on him as a character for now (only because one of my very few problems with the show is that they struggle to balance

Okay, I lied, I've been thinking about this. I'm not saying Varner is a bad person. I don't have ill-will towards him, I do sincerely believe he's contrite and that he's changed in the months since, and I don't doubt that he regret what he said as soon as he said it. I don't believe people are static. But one of the

Honestly, this is going to be a nonproductive conversation because we're not going to agree on this, so I'm bowing out.

It'd be one thing (still terrible, but less directly cruel) if he accidentally referred to Zeke using the wrong pronouns. But he made such a quick, and dangerous connection between "trans" and "deception" that is just beyond not okay and was directly cruel. It's one thing to burn someone's socks or lie about your

Dude, seriously? No need to call me a jackass, I'm just stating my opinion like you are. I'm just saying that you really, really, REALLY need to rethink calling yourself an "ally" if you think that outing someone, regardless of the circumstances is seriously something that is good choice to make.

Right but the thing is you (Varner) don't really get to be upset. I completely get the natural reaction to get frustrated at yourself when the severity of doing something terrible hits you and would understand if he was sobbing in the talking head at the end because the severity hit him, but the "you don't have a

I would have had more "respect" (not really, you outed someone for a gameshow, but at least wouldn't be as mad) for Varner if he hadn't started acting like a martyr. You don't get to start sobbing like a baby and make the fact the you outed someone about you and how good of an ally you are. He made the entire

Jane the Virgin does a great job of making me want to watch every single one of the ridiculous shows Rogelio has been on throughout the series.

Ugh, yeah. I grew up in AZ and when I went to high school in Phoenix, it was appalling to hear how many of my Latina classmates (who were born in the US, not that it should matter) were told to go "back to their country" on a regular basis by complete strangers. And Phoenix is supposed to be "progressive" because they

I alternate between whether I think Winter or Summer is my least favorite, because both of them start off on terrible, really sour notes, but have redeeming elements in the second half. I wanted to like the musical, because the first few songs were pretty funny, but it slowly dawned on me that it WAS NOT ENDING and I

I think the writers really don't know what to do with Rafael, which is interesting because you'd think they'd have that problem with Petra instead, but they're able to give her something to do on a regular basis. Initially, all the nonsense at the Mirabella was directly related to him (Rose his stepmother/stepsister,