But most of what you’re describing happened in the space of a couple episodes, and there was limited time exploring how these experiences affected her. You’ve done more in a few paragraphs to flesh out her arc and motivation than the writers did. The set-up is there, but they skipped the steps of showing her…

I agree that Dany’s plot was built up over many seasons, and it’s in character with consideration of the long arc... but the writers failed to effectively show her transition from rationalizing her acts of violence with rhetoric of being a champion of the oppressed, to just burning a city for funsies that had just…

Yes! I completely agree with where they took Dany’s arc, but they needed to build up to it better so it didn’t just seem like her being really f-ing stupid when she’s essentially already won the war. It seems like the writers focused on getting to their endpoints without bothering about continuing character…

The problem is that his faculty dean position involves working with students in residential housing. In this context, his position defending an accused rapist is at odds with holding a position that involves supporting students, because at some point, his position absolutely involves dealing with situations where a…

I suspect the “who does he look like” was a coded way of asking about the baby’s skin color. But yes, all those questions were ridiculous. He looks like a newborn baby, he’s probably looks adorably sweet when he sleeps but also cries when he’s hungry/needs to be changed because he is a newborn baby, and that’s what…

I think wearing a white dress is ridiculously brave, and the heels look uncomfortable...but I like that both she and Kate have worn outfits that do show the “post-partum tummy.” It’s so a refreshing departure from the celebrity magazine culture that sells this myth that it takes 2-3 weeks for women to get their “beach…

It’s probably no intended to refer to her actual travel—back east makes sense in the shows context. It’s about a very privileged upper-crust women from Hamilton, ON moving to a frontier town out west where she needs to learn to rough it a bit and leave in more modest surroundings. Back east=cities and “civilization”…

Nope, that makes you a better feminist.

FWIW, crucial to that acceptance was marriage to Elizabeth of York.

I have pretty decent cooking skills and could definitely bake a cake from scratch... but nope to the pot roast, because I started cooking as teenager right around the same time I stopped eating meat.

Yep! I watched it on Netflix. The original TV movie was good, the pilot of the show had a lot of continuity errors with the movie, but once I got past that, I enjoyed it. But then it just headed downhill.

The first season the characters, costumes, and sets looked more period-appropriate. Then in the second season... suddenly the town was clean and shiny, women were wearing their highlighted hair down all the time, more makeup, and fancy, not-quite-period appropriate clothes. Since then, it’s only gotten worse.

Ewww. Likening it to Dr. Pimple Popper is...not selling it.

I noticed an uptick in those last years, and this year seems in line with that (and possibly worse? I’m not sure because any time it clicks with me that that’s the direction the story is going, I stop reading and scroll on... whereas last year I read more of them). I think it might be the effect of all the #metoo…

I don’t know? I hope this isn’t like The Ring.

This is one of the very best ghost stories I’ve read in several years of these posts, and was also such a palate-cleanser after going through way too much of the not-supernatural scary stuff.

YES! I knew this one seemed familiar! I hate when people sully all the “real” (at least, real as they perceive it) stories with recycled copypasta and fiction writing attempts.

I’m pretty certain I read this story, or some version of it, last year...

It’s less a protest than a recycled FB chain letter—it’s very similar to the things that keep cycling around to put a heart or a stupid statement on your FB status to raise awareness for breast cancer. The way these things work is they are spread through DMs, and intentionally require posting something cryptic,…

This. He’s angling for his next job, which requires critiquing the Trumpian circus while maintaining the conservative values of rich white male supremacy.