About a month ago, my boyfriend (of five years) and I went out to lunch after a somewhat tense morning. We weren’t fighting, but neither of us was best pleased with the other. This clearly came across to the waitress, because when she came to pick up the plates, she immediately offered separate checks. I told her one…

I mean... it’s just inevitably going to happen, especially when you’re a teenager and your cycle is irregular. I’ve slept in beds stained with immodest amounts of wet blood on a few unfortunate occasions.

Once, when I was in high school, I was walking the dog alone at twilight when I noticed that a passing truck had slowed down considerably as it passed me. Kinda creepy, but whatever. They made it to a stop sign, stopped for longer than was needed, then reversed back down the street towards me. Two guys in their…

Lots of people love absurdly outdated technology that still works. My parents have a tv from the 70s in their bedroom that I have literally claimed after they die. There is no remote, you change the channels by pushing buttons (I think there are 18 total) and change volume by twirling a knob. The screen isn’t much…

We sure he wasn’t talking about Piers Anthony? Cuz, “bad Florida fantasy”...

Re: Faulkner

you are not missing much.

Ever seen the OG True Grit with John Wayne? The Coen Bros remake is better on every level (I agree with you about Ocean’s Eleven, is why I’m mentioning this - its the only other remake I can think of that’s objectively better than the original)

I dunno, the gag in sequel where Fronk rolls down the window with Steve Martin’s face glued to it has never not gotten a laugh from me. Just really good physical comedy.

I saw this headline and was legit disappointed that it was not being covered by HamNo. It’s his legacy.

I turned my ring on for the first time a few months ago when my mom was in the hospital. I forgot to deactivate after she got the all-clear, it rang at work, and I nearly died of shame. In short: THERE IS NO NEED TO HAVE YOUR RINGER ON UNLESS SOMEONE CLOSE TO YOU IS DANGEROUSLY ILL, OKAY?

Does he openly dislike hiking? That’s the only explanation for such behavior. As for you not putting effort/money into picking a gift- in fairness, you haven’t put a ton in yet, it seems, but you’ve committed to do so in the future regarding planning the whole trip and paying for the hotel, so he needs to respect…

It’s pretentious and a bit cringworthy - why go out of your way to use a Japanese word, when “savory” exists and means the exact same thing?

I’m interested in the whole office-kid policy thing because I was an Office Kid for awhile. There were a few years where my dad would pick me up from school and bring me to his workplace until he was ready to leave. It was actually kind of good for me, because literally all I was allowed to do was sit quietly at a…

Do you quietly loom?

My immediate reaction to this question was: Alanna and Jon fucking in Tamora Pierce’s Lioness books. Then I felt embarrassed by how PG all of those scenes are (I was 12, ok?), and then I remembered that there was a frequent poster who went by AlannaofTrebond, and thought I wouldn’t mention any of this. But I feel…

Aaah... i can’t post the gif I wanted. Never mind, ignore this.

So, I’ve always heard that traditional caeser salad dressing is way better than the americanized-for-safety version with mayo. But I’ve had both and they tasted pretty much the same. Someone point me towards the magic raw egg dressing recipe that makes the small possibility of salmonella worth it, please?

Funnily enough, it was also Witch Week, followed by all the other Chrestomanci books that had been published by 2003. Charles Morgan, with his nasty glare that covered how furiously unhappy and terrified he was inside, writing “I got up! I got up!! I GOT UP!!!” in the journal he’s forced to write, because he knows he…

Oh, that makes more sense. The most disturbing thing about that one is that its actually heavily based on Jones’s own childhood (not the evil ghost-doll, the constant parental neglect).