@surreality Lady, you know I feel for you, and you know that I completely understand where you're coming from. Toxic people are toxic, and this schmuck is absolutely not your friend. Clearly, they tear you down to make themselves feel better and you should not have to be subjected to it, or be hurt by it - and it is 100% their fault that you have.
PM me if you need an ear.
My problem with Wrinkle was mainly about a particular plot point being written differently. Not because it was set someplace that wasn't in the book, and not even about the lack of Aunt Beast (I guess there's no real way to present her without coming across hokey and she became the Tom Bombadil of the film)...but the fundamental nature of a really important scene was changed, shifting the motivations of the characters, namely Meg and her father, in a way that makes the message very different.
Aesthetically the film is magnificent, the performances in and of themselves were lovely, with shout outs to my girl Rowan Blanchard (I miss Girl Meets World), and Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Hollywood Chris #2 have fantastic chemistry. And the collective stars/Misses were pretty great.
Oh, the irony. I kind of loved S2's music better. I grew up in an area where reggae was frequently heard, so maybe that's why.
I have some story issues one major story issue with it but it is by far the best version of the book translated into another media thus far, re: A Wrinkle In Time. Not that the bar is very high, but I do think it still has a lot of value.
@cupcake
Tentacles? Like an Octopussoir?
YES. But you know, a bit better trimmed.
@admiral Yup. Knee to the groin usually shuts down all questions.
Would that the misogynistic remarks could be responded to with a knee to the groin in my workplace.
@Jaded I suggested to her that she tell him "Yes...it grows tentacles!"
And now we're walking around the office making wiggly hands at each other.
Apparently he also asked another pregnant lady, "Do pregnant women use hormones as an excuse to be dramatic?" some time ago.
None of these were to me, so I can't report him without making problems for the women involved.
@kay He's got a Trump bobblehead on his desk. He also believes that women in America have no right to complain about equal rights.
You're getting the picture, right?
My gross co-worker asking my pregnant co-worker if it's true that everything changes "down there" after you have a baby.
Not my circus, not my monkeys, but I wanted to club him over the head.
I hate my supervisor for using "we" in her emails, like "Did we remember to send the client xyz?" Like somehow this is some Greek Chorus doing my job, or I'm a four year old kid. I also hate that she cuts me off when I'm talking.
I have no idea how to communicate how much I dislike these things, and it's starting to effect my performance because I simply can't deal with her.
@kanye-qwest I guess I'm so accustomed to thinking of San Francisco as a "progressive" city, which is why it didn't really align for me.
I feel super lame because my automatic response to the notion of Johnny Depp as mayor was "who would vote for him, considering his history of domestic violence?"
Sometimes I need to just snap my reality suspenders and move on.
I'm bummed for you too. I really would have enjoyed having Sam meet her.
(tbh, if I could handle an alt, which alas I cannot...but if I could...)
Sometimes when I write up a roster character I have a PB in my head so hard that I feel compelled to have it added to the character's page.
However, once a character is officially on roster, I make a point of becoming Elsa, and let it go. If someone wants to change the PB, well, it's their character now, and they can do what they like!
They made the very wise decision to allow people to soft RP while they're waiting, which let me tell you, allievates a great deal of the anticipation/anxiety that comes along with waiting longer than expected for an approval. I don't know if they planned it, or if it just sort of evolved that way, but it's pretty awesome.
I don't hoard clues, but man, but I have so many of them it is very hard to keep track of them all. It doesn't help that I can't group them in some kind of order of subject so I can create a linear narrative to read through.
Blood is 92% water. Can it be manipulated?
How do the different types of seedless interact with each other socially? Is there intermarriage between seed lines? If Seedless are the Guard, does that mean that the Seeded are not involved in any kind of military or combat matters? How are personal conflicts resolved? Is there any kind of dueling code?
