The first hurricane of the season is my reminder to make my annual Amazon Prime Pantry purchase. Most of it is stuff that only requires boiled water to cook, and if I don’t need it for the hurricane season I just use it for camping the next spring and summer.

The models predicted Irma taking a hike vertically through Florida while it was still in the mid-Atlantic a week ago. As far as I’m concerned those spaghetti plots are borderline magic, and the European models created by straight-up warlocks. As soon as Floridians saw that curve they should’ve been out buying ramen,…

Some people are good in emergencies and others aren’t. Of particular note are the ones who basically freeze and hope the whole thing blows over - this happens in car wrecks, in fires, in wars. They’re the ones who drive me completely fucking insane because they don’t just want to cling to the idea that nothing will…

Pay federal taxes, get federal services.

On the flip side - you can afford hundreds a night but balk at $5? *side eye*

After a Vanity Fair piece caused uproar over Angelina Jolie’s cruel audition test–offering orphans and impoverished children money and then snatching it away

Summer can shove it, and so can summer people! My god, we have to hear from them all year - “it’s finally 80 degrees out”, “oh no, fall is coming and it’s so dark now”, “it’s September so let’s turn the office heaters to ‘broil’ because I’ve never heard of sweaters or tea”, “winter isn’t worth it after the holidays,…

At 16 I was told I’d be infertile by a woman who I now believe to have been an actual witch who snuck into a gynecologist’s office. The realization that this was likely to be total fucking bullshit hit me just in time for that fertility plunge.

It’s safe to assume he knew Littlefinger was a bad guy enough to tell his sisters.

he has to know to look; he isn’t all-knowing, just all-seeing

That was a line Littlefinger said to Varys, long after Ned’s death. He also says it to Tywin when Arya is acting as a serving girl. If I had to guess I’d say Bran heard it while tracing Arya and seeing her during an inflection point, much as he knows what happened to Sansa on her wedding night.

I like Isaac’s explanation of Bran having access to CCTV. It’s almost impossible to find something in CCTV footage unless you have some specific markers to look for, like time+date or date+vehicle. It’s overwhelming and I don’t think Raven powers actually means that Bran’s ingested the meaning of those CCTV files - he…

What needed explaining was they waited to talk to him and why he waited to tell them.

Right - and her body was fine. It was the fact that her tops exposed underboob that was the problem. To be honest I don’t think she knew, because when you look at yourself in the mirror you generally stand straight, and when she stood straight it was fine. But the rest of the time, when she was sitting or slouching or…

What it boiled down to was that the garment was low enough that the underside of her breast was visible. For the record, that would also be inappropriate for a young woman at the office. Underboob is not appropriate officewear.

I completely agree, phrased terribly. But the core point stands.

Still sexist. Still ageist. You can explain all you like but subtext is: I wouldn’t complain if they were not saggy, not as old

Clothes hang differently on different shapes. Because of the structure of her body, she was exposing way more of it than appropriate at the office.

I once had to talk to an intern about flip-flops. The foam kind that go smack-smack-smack as she walked from the copier to the printer to the phone to the watercooler...

Here’s another scenario: