Seriously, though. Their audience objected to a novel, but didn’t object to wringing entertainment out of real murders? Like, for them it was fine to go ahead and hashtag discuss a real person’s real sister/aunt/mother being hacked to pieces as she screamed for mercy, but demand an apology when there’s a triggering…

Nuances will explain how you don’t have to think about triggering (IE: a work’s effect on others) when you smilingly attend a public podcast taping about how a real-life human being’s sister died in pain and terror but you do need to think about it when you read a novel.

The covers were both design and marketing genius. You could easily pick out all the VC Andrews books on a shelf even if you were standing all the way across the room.  And they really appealed to my child’s need to see the picture behind the cover.

I believe there is a place for warning people about difficult and painful subjects, but I gotta laugh my ass off at the gall of people who, for enter-goddamn-tainment, lap up the stories of the horrible murders of real human beings with real surviving families, and then turn around and get outraged about someone…

I don’t think he’s given enough credit for Cuckoo. It’s tough to play sincerity and naivety, and he has good timing. He’d be good in a Jackie Chan type action comedy series.

I’m sorry you’re in such a bad situation. I hope you can at least talk to a help line for what you’re feeling now. For what it’s worth, I am for making as much of a (nonviolent) fuss in as public a place, preferably with political importance, as you can. It’s possible you will get help, but if not, there’s still someth…

Yeah, there are a lot of psychological factors are coming into play right now. And on top of that, we are seeing the wide-ranging consequences of structuring the economy so that large sections of the population have no health care, no savings, large amounts of debt, and “gigs” instead of jobs or businesses.

I’m wondering when the Covid-19 suicides will start. Probably they already have. Suicide rates have been going up for twenty years and they always spike during depressions and recessions. Forty-eight thousand people killed themselves intentionally in 2018. Unless there are some drastic changes it’s gonna be way more…