“ ... laying on your back with your legs in the air splayed” is not only “grammatically unwieldy,” as you put it, Anna, but an embarrassingly faulty use of the present participle. Laying should never be used to describe the act of lying on a surface. Lay is transitive (it has an object) and lie is intransitive (it…

She signed on!

Yeah, Finn does seem to only be a decade or so old in terms of name popularity. Authors using temporally and/or culturally unrealistic names is a big pet peeve of mine. Naming characters is one of the most fun parts of being an author. Make me feel like you thought about it for more than five minutes, you know?

Yes. Emma Stone has been dead to me ever since I heard the casting announcement. Which sucks, because she was in my top five favorites.

Jessica Chastain?

I hope in another five years they give that book the adaptation it deserves.

I just don’t think she’s a particularly “present” actress. It looks like a decent actress **ACTING** to me. Therefore, I don’t like the majority of her films. (For example, don’t try to tell me she doesn’t look exactly like Anne Hathaway trying her goddamnedest to be SO SULTRY AND TEMPESTUOUS AND ALLURING YOU GUYS…

My mother never changed her last name. I had both my parents’ names on my birth certificate. Not hyphenated. Mother’s name listed first.

+1,000 stars for the Jurassic Park reference.

It’s a little-known bit of etiquette, but a guest can technically give a “wedding gift” to the newlyweds at any point in the first year of marriage. The whole concept behind gifting items to new couples is that you’re helping to get them settled and, understandably, sometimes people think it’s more thoughtful not to…

As a survivor of digital rape, P-in-V virginity-stealing rape, and anal rape (so ... fourth-base stealing rape?), I have multiple issues with SVU, not least of which being its appropriation of true survivor narratives without in any way aiding the real people fueling its stories. I’m not saying they should outright…

Oh, I’m glad you had kind people handling your procedure. I thought I was in good hands. (This was not at PP, but a place PP referred me to.) My body went into shock pretty much immediately after — I started violently puking and stuff and was shuffled to a single-toilet bathroom across the hall from the exam room. The…

I thought I read somewhere that two separate judges barred the Center for Medical Progress from releasing any more misleading videos while Planned Parenthood’s practices were under investigation. Did those judges get overturned, or are these freaks just going ahead with their smear campaign regardless?

Um. Pretty sure this woman is dead because this police officer, his fellow officers, and the local courts didn’t believe her or, at the very least, take her seriously. So ... say she shoots the guy, kills him, and I’m supposed to expect the people who were already doubting her are going to magically all of a sudden be…

People who seem hazy on this being a form of sexual assault — which boils down to a crime of sex-based domination over someone whom the assailant perceives as not deserving of having seeming power over him/her — just needs to ask themselves, “Would this have happened, would it have seemed funny and normal, if that…

Can we be friends? I like you.

I’ve never been, Chris. But I would not mind you showing me around. Would not mind at all.

So everyone was using the term “free bleeding” in the comments here and I was like, “This is a thing?” And I Googled it. And I am so glad other people do the weird thing I do! I work from home and my period is usually light and lasts only three days (which I guess is short and light? Don’t worry, I get fucking hideous…

Quality MacBook with all the upgrades and a pricey program like Photoshop already loaded into it AND a snazzy cover sticker for it designed by some Etsy dealer. It’s what I got and I babied the hell out of it and still use it.

Terminator is maybe one of my Top 5 all-time favorite movies. Sarah Connor is a badass bitch even when she’s still just a waitress with a bad perm who is overwhelmed by the fact that Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to kill her because her uterus will one day produce a military leader.