Yes. His family is Native American, Irish, and Welsh. Descended from Zilla and Maddoc. At Tara in this fateful hour, I call on heaven with all its power. Etc. Calvin’s mother is the link between the past and the future.

Gugu is so beautiful that I can see why Meg Murry would have a complex about her mother. She does seem a little young to have a 13 year old daughter but like the change up in race (I read the book decades ago but I’m pretty certain she was initially written as a red headed caucasian) I think this casting will work…

Don’t forget she was Martha’s sister in Doctor Who!

Austen is well loved because her books are brilliant and focus on witty women, in my views.

If I’m remembering right, the Celtic ancestry has to do with Calvin’s side of the family, not the Murrys.

there were a lot of awkward, academically underperforming girls who found that book comforting.

This makes total sense, Dr Murray is supposed to be drop dead gorgeous and i have trouble looking at Gugu cos she’s so. fucking. PRETTY.

Hollywood sexism and racism.

how did belle and beyond the lights not push gugu to the lead in everything? she was some kind of goat hybrid in jupiter ascending for 10 seconds, played will smith’s wife, and played matthew mcconaghey’s wife. her easy episode was okay. i’m excited for her black mirror episode. can she kick ass already? we’ve been…

You know what, it’s quite plausible that she’s devastated at the thought of not having her dad in her life

This poor, poor little girl. You know what, it’s quite plausible that she’s devastated at the thought of not having her dad in her life - abuse within families is as complicated as it is horrific, and it could not be clearer that the adults in her life are encouraging her feelings of loss and guilt, rather than those…

Yes, because Barb is all of us. And we are glad that she is alive and having a good, albeit spooked, life. Barb is the chubby, sensible highschooler in all of us, who did our homework, followed the rules, treated others with respect. The overachiever who didn’t get invited to the cool kids parties. The nerdy girl who…

I used to think that the reason I had horrible clothes in the 1980s was because my mom dressed* me.

As a Doc McStuffins fan, my daughter would probably think Dr. Cross was the only person qualified for the job.

“oh no sweetie put ur hand down, we are looking for actual physicians or nurses or some type of medical personnel, we don’t have time to talk to you” I tried to inform her that I was a physician but I was continually cut off by condescending remarks.

I get the thing about needing to ask for credentials...I do...but Delta didn’t address the whollllllllllllle awful dialogue that preceded the attendant asking for credentials:

Dear men:

Active members of Delta Upsilon fraternity allegedly provided each new member with three pills and instructed them to drug women for the purpose of incapacitating them prior to engaging in sexual activity

I’m old enough to remember that, but I would have thought the most difficult word in those lyrics today would be “transexual” rather than “transvestite”. The reason both words are in the lyrics was because they meant two different things: “transvestite” referring to someone who wore clothes that were traditionally…