Widowers tend to remarry very quickly; widows really don't (and often don't remarry at all)

I'm not sure how the island thing is romantic. All i mean is that it would end a lot of the romanticism and mystery, especially as it's based on info that's been known for a very, very long time. Whereas things that just go missing and can't be found always invite fantasy.

There's that theory that she was a castaway on a tiny tiny island. They found some bones…not too long after she went missing, actually. There was a thing on PBS about it a while ago. I thought it was fairly convincing in a "no way to know for sure, but credible" sort of way, especially since it was so…prosaic. There's…

Yeah, I think that's a good comparison. You wouldn't call a 100 year old suicidal - it's not an act of despair or rage. But there's a sense of finality, of completeness, of being ready and relieved to have the chance to take a bow and shuffle off the stage. (And it also fits pretty well thematically with finishing off…

After reading everything here, I can really see Twelve just being…done. Not in a melodramatic way, but on top of what you brought up, River's death has kind of hung over the season in subtle ways as well, hasn't it? This is the Doctor who has finally managed to accept endings and maybe now he'd just like to find one.

have they officially announced anything yet?

It felt like a really long pilot episode to what would be probably a really great TV series

You might have had a point, but then you lost me at "deep state" which is deeply cynical bullshit peddled by wannabe authoritarians who want to undermine an independent bureaucracy.

Oh, I so agree. The great thing about the dynamic with Marie was that their dynamic broke up the "stony killer is stony and maybe has some angst, but he doesn't show it, because he's just that stone cold" thing that might have otherwise happened. It allowed there to be some emoting. (And, as you say, emotional stakes).

The shaky cam ruined these movies for me. (well that and fridging Marie). I can't even finish the scene they mentioned and included in the article - just the first minute of it made me motion sick.

With the GOP defending "southern heritage" these days, I assume you could power the whole eastern seaboard with the energy generated by the entire union army turning over in their graves.

I also really don't feel a lack of sex. Even though I've enjoyed it, It really is like carrot cake in like "nice, a slice of carrot cake" but if carrot cake was off the menu forever, "eh, whatever."

Good point!

Pervy can so often mean "made me uncomfortable". That's how I took it, anyway.

But the person who was talking about people being creepy in this comment thread defined what they meant by creepy. All the letter says is creepy: people are pulling from their own experiences to demonstrate that yes, creepy behavior exists at these events and someone might very reasonably complain about it.

It looks like they did define creepy- "people who think that boundaries don't matter"

While not impossible, that seems kind of unlikely to me. I know that the creeper thing is enough of a problem, especially for women, that it's probably what the LW was referring to.

So it's been a while since I've been here! Don't mind me, I'm just going to do one of those life update things.
Job: actually kind of sucking right now tbh. Lots of stress and things going off the deep end, and feeling kind of sidelined on doing anything about it.Maybe I should at least consider looking at my options…

seriously. I'm super vanilla, and even I know that (okay, I have a lot of kinky friends involved in that scene in Reno, so maybe I know more than the average person, but still)

From what I've heard, Dan needs to fuck right off with his "you're a judgy bitch" attitude with regards to the person complaining about creeper at kink parties. I know it's something my sister, kinky feminist that she is, talks about as something her community puts a lot of thought into combating.