Jesus Christ, that makes way too much sense. If I had a nickel for every time someone told me Independence was the meth capital of the world growing up...

Kansas City girl chiming in here - was a youngin’ when they were at the height of their fame, but even us kids at the time knew Wes wasn’t shit.

Saw it Christmas Eve, enjoyed myself, but if I had been the one to spend money on the movie tickets, I might feel differently. I used to have a different mindset, where production design or cinematography that deviates from the norm is a guarantee for me to love a film, but the enjoyable costuming and set design was…

Much truth here. My parents were definitely the last people that I would share sensitive information with, unless I had absolutely no choice, through a deadly combination of what you’ve described plus their constant judgement of the things I enjoyed re: books/movies/other media and my own emotions. In fact it made the…

I had a virulent case of the flu and did not want to infect anyone (or pass out, if I’m being honest, lol), but Kansas City seemed like it went amazingly too! The line up had lots of POC, trans and LGBT activists from the city, I only did a quick skim of the hashtag on twitter but it looked amazing. Even I forget…

People who work/volunteer with animals are honestly my heroes. There’s so much emotional pain that goes unmentioned, from seeing pets in unhealthy homes with owners who are idiotic and negligent all the way to straight up abusive. Nothing upsets me more than people who have pets they considered badly behaved, but…

I bought the body mist version of Nude by her at my local superstore on a whim and I swear by it. Maybe I’ll grab a sample of this from Sephora to try out.

Hah, I’ll keep that in mind. I was a child and teen that was terrified of breaking the law and the police (at five I accidentally pocketed a gross cherry lipbalm container during a long walmart trek with my mom, and was convinced the police would find me and take me to jail) so I’ve never been remotely tempted to try…

Good. I was truly worried this wouldn’t happen at this point.

True, I would find it difficult to believe that Kim is committed enough to shoplifting to cram a dress bag into her purse beforehand.

Hm, I might have to look some up before I try to wear it again, it’s been a few years since I’ve put it on and I don’t know that the fabric would lay quite the same way and continue to conceal the tag, since my ass has definitely expanded since I was nineteen or twenty.

Yep, this exactly. I wish I could just enjoy this for what it is, since both Reynolds and Garfield have expressed previously how they would be interested in the superhero characters they play(ed) being non-heterosexual, but I feel like hanging hopes on believing that Reynolds Ships Deadpool/Spiderman U Guys is just…

This is how it played to the people on my TL because of our common interests in media, but I know that even if it’s being discussed more and has more awareness in popular culture, it’s still the minority, not the majority. If I didn’t live in the Midwest this probably wouldn’t occur to me, but I know that if I still…

Eh, even before you explained the B-tag, I would have believed she didn’t steal it. I once bought a dress from Kohls, then put it on the night I planned to wear it and found that it still had the security tag in the folds. Not sure how I got out of the store without alarms going on, but it’s one of the kind that leaks…

I get your ire re: That Kiss, Bobby. When this stops having an uncomfortable ‘look how outrageous I’m being’ tone, I’ll stop being irritated. I saw a lot of people on my twitter TL loving this, and I think it’s important to not just consider someone’s motivations in just how they present to us, in our bubbles, but how…

No one is trying to paint you as anything. Other commenters are talking like this because using a coat hanger for this purpose was incredibly common before Roe v. Wade. It’s almost a stereotype.

See, I thought it was a little reductionist at the time I read it (about a year-ish ago), but with the way things have been developing...

Interestingly, I could see some of what you mean when I read the book, but it only deepened my appreciation for that aspect of the narrative. Perhaps it’s because of my own anecdotal evidence that many people (in the US anyway) identify as Christians and espouse beliefs like ‘marriage is one man and one woman’, etc.,…

Hah, I used to be a huge ALW fan back in my teens as well, had a terrible Phantom phase...but I washed my hands of the whole thing after he announced he was adapting Phantom of Manhattan into a sequel musical.

That’s pretty cool, I used to be pretty on top of what my faves were doing, but I’ve fallen out of the habit lately. I know Van Hansis used to be pretty active on broadway (or off-broadway) but I think he does more TV and movies now.