The 70s, man. Shit.

Hey wait - why do you think werewolf romances are so popular?

(Disclosure: I’ve written werewolf romances.)

Yes, but only if said motherfucker is threatening your girlfriend.

Yeah. I admit I love some alphholes, but the ones who keep their living wives locked in an attic and don’t bother mentioning them to the naive, penniless servant they be wooin’ hold no attraction for me.

I dunno. Pongo’s pretty great if you like the romantic but responsible type.

Holy motherfucking shit goddamn - I had no idea such a thing had been suggested.

And hey - maybe your own family - the weak or stupid or craven dad, the mean sisters - sucks, and you’ll be happier with your strange new husband’s strange new family.

The Secret of Roan Inish - Irish movie starring Gabriel Byrne, about a baby boy drifting out to sea in his little baby coracle, and legends about one side of the family’s history - it’s a modern fairytale featuring a young (10/12sh) girl with brains and pluck who’s determined to find her baby brother.

Everyone should…

And you don’t have dumbass/sexist/just plain fucking weird “stories” (Vince McMahon gives me the heebie jeebies.) Just engines and tires and drivers and collisions. I care squat about motor sports but I can enjoy the hell out of a Monster Truck night once in a while. Something about it speaks to my atavistic redneck…

I know it’s wrong to judge on appearance but one glance at that chin lichen and I immediately pegged him as a douchebag.

It’s Nordic but not Scandinavian. Or reasons that escape me but I think it’s geography - Finland doesn’t sit on the Scandinavian penninsula.

I think it is, actually.

Yep. This.

I figure biology has more than enough control over us already - if we’re born into fucked up families, we’ve no obligation to stay.

It’s the non-rhotic thing - Southern accents, and most (I think?) British ones tend to drop or slur the R: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoticity_in_Eng

I’m gonna get pedantic for a minute here because...I’m sometimes a pedant.

The full quote is “the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb” and means the complete opposite of what people use it for. It means that people joined in holy covenant (it’s a verse from the Old Testament) are closer than…

But that, too, is just a function of Uber. They send updates to the number that hired the car. Don’t want your wife to see your movements, don’t use her phone. He’s a dumbass.

Access? Yes, that would be ideal (and so, yeah it’s probably too much to ask.)

MANDATED access? Mandated check ups? Unless you’re in a position that has literal power of life and death over other people - i.e., aviation, military - then no. Forcing people to get mental health checkups would quickly be used by…

Access? Yes, that would be ideal (and so, yeah it’s probably too much to ask.)

MANDATED access? Mandated check ups? Unless you’re in a position that has literal power of life and death over other people - i.e., aviation, military - then no. Forcing people to get mental health checkups would quickly be used by…

Oh totally. She lived in the attic, wore headscarves and funky jewelry, and had a bead curtain.

The one I got isn’t a traditional bead curtain - the “beads” are long and uniformly sized and when it’s hanging, looks like a bookcase: