I've been using periods in my texts and IMs for just over a decade. I typically get positive comments on that aspect of my communication. I can't help but note that emoticons give you the option to illustrate your tone (literally) without sacrificing clarity or grammatical correctness.

That was great. :)

I agree that if Fitz made the decision to move Olivia in despite believing that she would not want to do so, that is coercive. And I agree that he might be tone deaf - but we've seen both characters be very tone deaf before. For instance when Olivia calls Jake about Fitz. Or when Fitz scolds Mellie about any number of…

1) You used the statement "I moved you in" as support of a state of mind, indicating that it would only have been made if the character perceived things in a certain way. I indicated that the character could make the statement as statement of fact without being in the state of mind you provided. My point was that "I…

I agree with Akimbo - there was no reason to debase Olivia or try to prescribe gender roles in order to disapprove of Olivia's actions.

It is a statement of fact - by your own description, Olivia played no part in the move and Fitz made the decision and coordinated making it happen. I'm not arguing that it was unilateral - I completely agree with that.

Except "when I moved you in" is statement of fact. She did not physically participate in moving in. However, the same was true when I got sick before a past move and my romantic partner had to handle moving my things from one house to another without my involvement. She could have said "when I moved you in", without…

I completely agree with you about PTSD. Honestly, I thought the way PTSD was portrayed in Empire this year (at least in the immediate aftermath) resonated a lot more with my own PTSD experience than what Scandal did. Anyway, you have my empathy in regards to your own experience in that area - my episode was back in…

Thanks Nina - I'm really glad you felt it had such value.

And to be clear, if they had, had a conversation and Fitz had said or done anything to make it explicitly clear that he was being coercive, I would be one-hundred percent agreeing with you.

I respect the immediacy of the situation: survival instinct is a very real thing and I don't want anyone to suffer the effects of battered spouse syndrome. It's just that since Olivia and Fitz never talked about her perception of being a captive and his actions in moving her things could be interpreted many different…

Except that ignores the history of the relationship. Was it severely dysfunctional at that point in time? Of course. Could either partner make an argument that they suffered extreme trauma at the hands of the other? Without a doubt (at least from my perspective).

While I agree that it seems very unlikely that Moonbeam City would exist without Archer, I'm really surprised by the critique of the animation here! I think that Titmouse's work deserves to be recognized here, so let's compare to some the rest of the landscape for a second. I have no connection to Titmouse, but as…