She's in her 20s?! I thought she was about 16.

How to tell when you've wandered onto Kotaku by mistake: this comment.

I kind of read the joke as "Wow, this room is creepy—it's the sort of place where you'd expect someone to get raped," not "And this is the place where we rape people, heheh." Inappropriate, but not as horrifying as the alternate reading. When my mother moved into a dark and isolated house in the woods, for example, my…

Water, ibuprofen, and fried food on the way home. : )

"It's like one of those dreams where you didn't actually finish high school and you've got to go back to pick up a few extra credits to get your diploma and you don't even have any textbooks or a schedule and it's a whole big mess. "

YOU HAVE THAT DREAM, TOO? That is a recurring one for me. It's always a fucking math…

Hahaha ew. : (

Because being incarcerated for life isn't actually preferable to street harassment?

Excuse me, that was a Veronica you're thinking of.

Haha, you shouldn't have said that—I'd already assumed "dirt name" was a term I didn't know for a nickname used during nefarious deeds or something. : )

Haha, I was thinking back to the one I got a couple of years ago and was like... "should I have been more ashamed? I thought it was a slightly uncomfortable viral ailment easily treatable by over-the-counter patches..."

Hadn't heard of it. That's encouraging! Thanks for the rec. : )

Right??

Now I'm thinking about animal characters in kids' movies and am remembering that I thought Tony the Mouse in An American Tail was pretty special. And also Bridget.

Me, too! "So brave and impetuous" (as Maid Marian would say, not exactly to Robin but almost).

Oh, GOLIATH. You are not alone!

I don't. I can make the illusion by wearing a good bra, but that's about it.

Bless your little cotton socks.

I am 30 and hope to start a (small) con at some point and know I am not close to capable of doing it without years of research and planning and loads of help. Granted there are probably lots of 30-year-olds more qualified than me, but I think the average 26-year-old is going to run up against a lot of hurdles.

Why did they try to start so big? There's a great new con in my hometown that started with two conference rooms, a dealers' room, a game room, a little con suite, and one guest of honor. It was two days, a few hundred people attended, and everyone was happy. The next year it was longer, considerably bigger (though…

I will never forget that word after learning about the Defenestration of Prague in a high school European history class. I don't even know why they were defenestrated.