Your speaking voice. I was sitting here with my friend. I heard someone talking behind me, and I said, I need to turn around a compliment this person on their speaking voice.

My singing voice or my speaking voice?

I just want to say, you have an incredible voice.

That means you haven't seen Tig Notaro do her Taylor Dayne story.

My mother was diagnosed with both right after my childhood had ended. She wasn't the best mother, that's for fucking sure, but she would never in a million years... jesus christ. There's something one of my mom's therapists told me: don't let her blame her mental illness for bad behavior. Yes, her mental illness makes…

"It appears that her partner, who is reported to be both destructive and abusive, took advantage of the woman's alleged mental illness in order to control her. The Mail reports that the woman suffers from an unspecified personality disorder which makes her susceptible to abusive relationships."

Kim Kardashian looks really fucking pretty with no makeup on there.

I've always scratched my head at the people who think he's James Hewitt's kid. When I look at him, I see Prince Charles' (and Prince Philip's) eyes with Earl Spencer's hair.

You're not the boss of me.

He's just been promoted to Major in the army, he's been deployed to Afghanistan twice, he just finished a tour of South America promoting children's charities, over the winter he undertook a grueling 2-week walk to the South Pole for wounded warriors, and he does engagements several times a week for while also keeping…

Good. Maybe people will finally stop saying he's not Charles' son.

when Misha died, my beloved, my comrade, my boon companion, the love of my life i thought i would die, (really die, i have never been closer to suicide than in those dark months after Misha's passing. In my grief i even wrote to he Queen of England - i will put that story in the Ruth Bader-Ginsburg thread).

My dog just died. To say she was my best friend doesn't do justice to the bond we shared. I know dogs don't live forever. I know she was sick. I know she had a great life. I thought I had prepared for her death, I had no idea it would feel like this.

Chris O'Dowd hugged me once. Because he was in Cardiff and his cell battery was down, and I was on the bus, next to him. And let him use my phone. He used it for like...10 minutes, and I found myself 2 miles past my destination...but it was Roy from IT Crowd so I was totally okay with it. Anyway he hugged me.

I wasn't attracted to Kit Harrington until this picture of him in glasses and now he's the Lord Commander south of my wall.

I'm Aya (pronounced like long A, then just "ya", as in Outkast's Hey yaaaa) instead of Amy, thanks to my little brother's inability to say Amy. We are currently 29 and 26, and my family still calls me this. Lilibet is WAY more adorable. Bubba, though? What is your actual name? I'm dying to know now!

Brandi Glanville's tweet reminds me of a story. I hope I can tell it articulately. My mom has this friend we'll call Tiffany who's an awesome person with some pretty serious mental illnesses, to the point where she can't work. Tiffany's mom was paying her rent for her. When Tiffany's mom went to a nursing home,…

No one wants to be a victim. No one. Ever. I didn't want to become a victim and I imagine neither did you. If I had the tools and skills to avoid it, I would've. I'm pretty sure that's her core message - not that victims are weak.

I don't see her blaming victims. I see her giving her daughter the tools to avoid becoming a victim - something that really shouldn't exist at all, but something that has to in the face of ugly threats that won't back down.

Gag me with a onesie, Tracy. People don't complain indiscriminately about new parents. We complain about the ones who become self-important jags and lose the ability to think outside of their own lives. We complain about the hubris of new parents who judge the human value of those of us who remain childless. We…