My boss told me about them splitting up while his stepdaughter was in the store, and the 13 year old was like “Oh, isn’t Bill Gates the charity guy?”

And then I shriveled up and died because I am ancient and apparently his rebranding effort worked

No politics at work isn’t necessarily a bad thing

“No politics at work” as a way of shielding yourself from accusations of racist and exclusionary practices and “jokes”... that’s some bullshit

Opening night of Breaking Dawn Part 2. I was wellll past my Twihard years, but I went for the shits and giggles and to just watch it as it was meant to be watched- with snuck in wine.

That scene with the battle that wasn’t in the book? Laughing my whole ass off the entire time while middle aged ladies around me were…

This fully tracks to me. I work in a bookstore, and we have a gaggle of teens that come in that are OBSESSED with anything Bardugo even touches. But, being teens, they’re very persnickety about things like covers of series changing halfway through, casting choices, etc.

I asked them what they thought about the show…

God, hell yes. Good for her. 

I came down here to say the same thing. 

like, I’m sorry the side effects hit you so hard but you can’t work at all if you’re dead from Covid, or at a funeral for a family member you accidentally infected soooooo-

It’s also pretty common to use gender as ...slang? I guess? in queer circles

Example- wow, those glasses are so gender.

I don’t know why it happens, but it does. I also don’t have a way to DEFINE it, it’s just... a way we talk, haha

Non-binary doesn’t necessarily mean you don’t HAVE a gender identity, it just means you…

Yep. I did the same thing and now I've had an absolutely stupid number of spam calls. 

Yeah, don’t trust this site. I, like a dumbass, checked my number through here because I trusted Giz to report faithfully, and they said they tried it. I hadn't gotten to the "well also try HIBP" part yet. And now I’ve had 15 spam calls in the last hour and a half. Could be a coincidence, but I doubt it. Lesson…

I tried this with my exhusand*, and the same thing happened- he just... didn’t notice. And I eventually gave up, because no amount of conversations we would have would get through to him. Men aren’t conditioned to give a fuck about these things the way women/people raised to be wives and mothers are. And that’s the…

This is cool, but for half a second I thought it was going to be “The Terrible Secret of Animal Crossing”, which is probably my favorite Let’s Play relic.

I work in a bookstore, and got SO MANY CALLS from people asking if we had the six books in the article. Customers from all over. Obviously, we didn’t, because most of them weren’t widely known anyway. I’ve been talking with some other booksellers about it and it’s just like... who hears “this book is racist and we…

Oh my god, the City of Angels soundtrack was FORMATIVE for me, and what led me to finding Sarah and Alanis, and, I can only conclude, my eventual lesbianism.

As a current bookseller, I feel the need to tell you that “The Boy, the Mole, The Fox, and The Horse” (which is a very sweet book) has been the bestseller two holiday seasons in a row.

We talked about turning all the fucked up versions people would ask us for into a drinking game, but realized we didn’t want to die…

Every single article about Parler gives two or three sentences of backstory about what the app is. There are absolutely zero articles about the Joss Whedon controversy that don’t include Charisma Carpenter’s statement

So why would you write this and not tell us what Clubhouse is, especially since it’s so new and…

Hearing other peoples’ stories of what they went through was a huge help to me, as well. There’s two books I highly recommend- “Dear John, I Love Jane” and “Letters from Janeland”. They’re both letters and essays from women who came out later in life. Some stories are of the “it gets better” variety, but some are also…

Hey, congratulations. Two years ago today I told my (obv now ex-) husband I was gay, because I couldn’t face another V-Day feeling like a lie.

It was the hardest but best decision I ever made, and I wish you all the strength and joy you need.

She’s going to be amazing. And the fact that they just announced Pedro Freaking Pascal as Joel????

The "case of the Mondays" direct address gave me such Clarissa Explains it All vibes, haha. I wonder if 90s Wanda will break the fourth wall like that?