I'm really glad to hear you're doing the study and back on meds. The whole process of getting on them and finding the right one and the right dosage and all that is so freaking daunting, oh my god. I hear you on Celexa, that was one of the worst for me (but nothing made me feel as utterly physically shitty as…

Uuuuugh. I'm still not wild about this, especially Carrie Underwood. As someone else noted, the way she dips when singing "the hills are alive" makes me cringe. That said, I will absolutely watch the shit out of this. Are you kidding me? A Christian Borle and Laura Benanti duet as Max and the Baroness? Y E S. And…

That's the part that always gets to me when I see people claiming bisexuals can't be trusted because they'll always cheat or leave you for (insert gender other than your own here). Like... what if they left you for someone of the same gender? Would these people be as outraged? Or what if they wanted to cheat? Would it…

THIS. I saw a psychiatrist once* who changed the topic to my sexuality for no reason, and kept pushing about how I would find someone who would be okay with an open relationship, and how I could be sure if I hadn't trrrriiiieeed? And I needed to go out and experiment with men and women, and until then I just didn't…

While the others totally have good points, this also just made me feel a lot better. Thanks.

Man, I have to say how incredibly grateful I am for Mako, too. (Also wow, apparently my agreement with you has set me off; I apologize that you're on the receiving end of this.) Would I have liked it if Sasha Kaidonovsky had more screentime? Absolutely. I also can see how many of the male roles could easily have been…

So does Twilight! Meanwhile, Pacific Rim, which has a strong, complex female character like Mako Mori, fails it. Yeah. I applaud the intent, but the Bechdel Test is fairly useless on a film-by-film basis.

It only hit me just this morning that my baby cousins in Auckland aren't such babies anymore, and that they're both teenage girls now, and it scares the shit out of me. I'm so out of contact with that part of the family — and my family is so uncommunicative, especially about serious and personal issues — that I…

This one feels especially relevant.

The main Marvel continuity? I knew it.

Man, I feel you. My depression didn't start until my senior year in college, and that was bad enough. The anxiety made those first years difficult enough as it is. Dealing with both sounds tough and painful, and it really sucks you have to go through that.

Seconding the recommendation of Devil in the White City! I love true crime, especially historical stuff, so I'm just gonna recommend a few of those.

The absolute most important thing is to find a therapist you feel safe talking to. I want to say "comfortable," but it's not quite that, since talking about these things is probably going to make you anxious (it freaked me the hell out when I started). Find someone you feel okay being honest with. If you see a…

This. For me, the internet was salvation, a chance to make actual friends as I moved around, and isolation would have been far worse. Facebook wasn't a thing until I was a college sophomore, so while I remember it definitely having the potential to ruin my day (I don't have it anymore), it's definitely not the cause…

And who definitely never came home wasted from a night with Hemingway and slurring things suspicious enough for Zelda to call him a "fairy" which he absolutely never later told her was the closest he ever came to divorcing her!

The most exciting part of this for me is that it's set 70 years before Harry's story, in New York. And since the HP series starts in about 1991, you know what this means?

I can't stop imagining these scenes with Cynthia as starring a human-sized version of Angelica's doll from Rugrats.

There are a couple of follow ups on the blog, including a statement from... it says the quiz master, but I'm getting the vibe it's from the company he represents. Either or, it's here.

Ugh, agreed. I kind of want to take her aside—and I hope her parents will or already have—and tell her it's wonderful to be as smart as she is, but that some things in life will still require hard work and it's okay if she doesn't get things right or she has to try for something, and that that doesn't make her any…

I don't know about Adelaide, but I'd love to see Anna Kendrick step up for Sarah. She's definitely got the musical chops and I just have a good feeling about her chemistry off Channing Tatum.