There's a ton of interesting stuff being said about memory, trauma, dreaming, and to a lesser extent, collective memory and history. So much to unpack.

And that's just the first wave!

That last paragraph is totally why I haven't watched (or read) The Fault In Our Stars.

Eh, it's definitely a thing that some people cry at things that others find maudlin. I cry at just about everything, but the actual emotional weight is different and there's a difference between something cheesy or something remarkable.

I used to have problems with it, but as my own fraught relationship with makeup evolved, I think it was really more that she was more comfortable feeling vulnerable with these people and part of that was having her face exposed/looked at more than before.

Pretty in Pink is the best Brat Pack movie for sure.

One thing Cape Breton is not short on is racist white women, let me tell you.

My sister was saying that because she has no internet all she does is re-watch the Harry Potter movies but it's okay 'cause she loves 'em. I offered to buy her the books and she was like "nah". ???

I was 16 when it came out and just read the books last year. When I was a teenager I was very concerned with only reading 'serious literature'. Then I got a degree in serious literature and needed to start reading stuff occasionally for the sheer joy of it, y'know?

Goblet was my least favorite book of the series, if that helps.

Yeah, I thought the whole time that Harry and Luna made sense together. Ginny's character arc felt really shoehorned in, to me.

There are plenty of male/female friendships that feature a great deal of deep affection, admiration, and mutual understanding and still aren't romantic. Why do people keep insisting otherwise?

Including just overall joke quality. Even the relatively inoffensive ones are eyeroll worthy.

Exact same. My friends and I were allowed to wear very lightly tinted lip balm, though. Mom also threw out my Ouija board.

Thank you for my second actual laugh of the past 72 hours.

I think there are punk characters in the book, so it's probably a deliberate reference!

I'll buy a couch just for the occasion!

I just bought Your Heart Is A Muscle The Size of Your Fist by Sunil Yapa on my lunch break. I'm only about 20 pages in and there are already sentences I've underlined for how amazing they are.

I'm in Canada, but I've been teary about this all day. Weirdly, middle-aged men have been especially nice to me. Maybe they can tell what's up.

My hubs is a dual citizen but we live in Canada. I was giving consideration to doing grad school in the US, depending on the election results.