I recently started re-watching. Well, truth told, I only ever started watching Gilmore Girls only in like Season 4, and never went back to watch the very first seasons until last year, so a lot of the early stuff is pretty fresh for me. So my distaste for Jess is VERY vivid. He is awful. There is literally nothing I…

My husband is like a hippie health nut and he’s really funny if I send him out to buy tampons for me. He’ll always come back with the brand and absorbency that I asked for, but he will ALSO get some kind of organic, all natural, made from kitten fur tampons he found in the health food aisle just in case I don’t want…

I once dated a guy where my period came mid-coitus during the first time we had sex. I was so embarrassed (I was young) I ran to the bathroom. When I came back he was gone...I was freaking out for 5 minutes when he came in the room and had brought me back tampons. No big deal. We’re married now. Moral of the story:…

I rip off a piece of the box and say, “Get me more of these.” He can’t get my takeout order right a lot of the time, but he always comes back with the correct feminine hygiene products.

Edited to add: Oh, one time Target was out of my brand so he called from the aisle to ask if “super absorbency” and “ultra absorbency”…

Oh my god I watched this episode last night! It’s so terrible! Dean punching him right in his smug face was so satisfying! Jess is an absolutely terrible boyfriend the entire time they’re dating. It’s even creepier when you find out how horrible Milo Ventimiglia was to Alexis Bledel when they dated in real life.

They honestly would have been great together.

I just recently watched season 1 and Dean didn’t start off being dumb. He and Rory recommended books to each other and discussed them and he got all of her and Lorelei’s references. They just dumbed him down so fucking much in the later seasons that I had forgotten what he was initially introduced as.

I hated Jess so much, I was legitimately and irrationally happy to hear that Milo Ventimiglia and Alexis Bledel broke up IRL. I did think it was weird that she ended up marrying someone who both looks exactly like her AND like someone who might have starred as a weird boyfriend of hers on Gilmore Girls, but eh…

He also tried to date rape her at that party and then yelled at her when she said no, but lol, he appreciated her brain! #justjessthings

I’m rewatching the series now with my roommate on Netflix and she had never seen it, and man is it totally different when you watch it as an adult.

My head canon has been that the fewer Force practitioners their are, the more powerful they are, sorta Highlander style. (Though more like Rising Stars, for anyone who has read Rising Stars.)

I...this...this is us. This is me. I’m the one on the right...io9 has been my home and my favorite blog since I was a temp 10 years ago, reaching out to friends for a blog to keep my sanity. You’ve been there in my mornings every day when I wake up. To be covered here for something we’re so proud of. That is going to…

Can we agree that Deep Blue Something’s song “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” is good?

Truth! In fact, in this last year of truly Herculean effort trying to keep it all together, I’ve actually earned a promotion. My boss told me he was impressed with how well I’ve done, especially considering the personal struggles he knew I was going through. So, even though I wasn’t able to stoically progress through…

I’m sure you think you’re just “telling uncomfortable truths” but I don’t think you fully grasp how offensive what you’re saying actually is. Seriously.

It takes very little restraint to avoid discussing one’s family in a professional environment. It is reasonable that an employee refrain from discussing personal matters on company time.

Yeah, both my husband and I talk about our kids at work. And I know both my parents talked about me at their jobs because eventually when I got married, they each had work colleagues as guests at my wedding. I don’t see how even *mentioning* the fact you have children is somehow unprofessional.

That’s us! We’ve just opened our third location downtown.

I’m finding this thread fascinating. I never try to hide anything about my husband/kid when I’m teaching (although I only mention them if it makes sense). I think it’s extremely important to model for my students what possibilities exist for women in academia. I remember how important it was for me to see profs who…

I manage a shop in Baltimore (Collectors Corner, come visit!) and this ios one of my favorite things to recommend. I compare it to the novel Revolutionary Road. Suburban ennui, you know?