Activity from showbiz_liz

I love this show so far! It's got such a weirdly charming, funny tone for what could easily have been a pretty standard spy thriller - I'm having trouble thinking of anything comparable right now. I also need to state for the record that I… [more]
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FanFare comment - 23 minutes ago

Re: why couldn’t Hilly just refuse to read the words? Well, imagine spending every single moment of the rest of your life in that room, with brief intervals of walking to and from the elevator. Forever. Never eating, sleeping, drinking, speaking to… [more]
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FanFare comment - 2 days ago

Ok so, I think this is one of those situations where from her perspective, she has been EXTREMELY clear in expressing that she has nothing but contempt for you and is deliberately parking in your space whenever possible because she thinks you don’t… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 8 days ago

Some birds will take herb leaves as a kind of insecticide for their nests. I’ve seen it with my own eyes in my garden, they just snip them right off. Maybe row covers would help? [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 10 days ago

If you ask him not to discuss details and he tries to do it anyway, he’s the one doing nonmonogamy wrong. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 14 days ago

What you are doing, when you bury a tomato seedling this way, is creating an artificially deep, strong root system for your genetically-manipulated-for-8000-years freak of a plant that would otherwise rip itself out of the ground from the sheer… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

It sounds like you need to stop splitting household chores evenly. I’m completely serious. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

This sounds like a LOT of dates for four months, and it reminds me of myself in my early 20s, when I figured “this is a numbers game, I NEED to be going on 2-3 dates with different people every week until it hits.” But that was a miserable process… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

Policymakers in other cities can learn from Minneapolis
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MeFi post - 3 weeks ago

The idea that babies should sleep separately from their mothers, and the overall concept that infants can be "spoiled," is a modern Western idea that doesn't square with how humans evolved. Not everyone is able to get the sleep they need… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

How many rockets have to land in Israel before they're saintly enough to fight back? Let's not pretend both sides don't have legitimate grievances, here. This isn't a case of some people bombing some other people out of the blue for no… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

My coworkers in Hebron (in the West Bank) haven't been permitted to leave their city for a few weeks now. No one can go in or out. I get weird reactions when I tell people that we (a criminal defense ngo) work in Palestine. The first reaction from… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

Anyone, please recommend interesting writing about M/M romance! I would love to read some feminist critique that helped me better understand the books I'm enjoying and what they are saying. Pornography by Women For Women, With Love is a… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

I should maybe clarify that I (a queer woman who reads and writes this stuff) didn’t have a negative reaction to this at all, apart from finding it somewhat surprising. I think it’s great that he’s discovered this genre. Also as a general note:… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

Is it a terrible idea to ask him if, when I did something wrong/off, that he would tell me that? You yourself describe this person as DELUSIONAL. What value does the opinion of a delusional person have to you? [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Last month

“Neither Miller nor McQuiston write with the expectation that their stories are consumed entirely for women, but both TSoA and RWRB are extremely popular with women, sometimes more so than with actual gay men.” …I’m pretty sure the “sometimes”… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

Gonna Be An Engineer by Peggy Seeger [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Last month

Oh man I missed that you’re only on OKCupid… Ok here’s the thing, I’m in my late 30s in NYC and the ONLY people I know who still use OKCupid are exclusively using it to look for poly sex partners. And even my poly friends prefer Feeld now. The… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Last month

What is it that the kid and therapist aren’t agreeing on? Or do you just mean “doesn’t agree with her” as in “she doesn’t like her in general”? [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Last month

Uh, I can’t tell what the question actually DOES mean, but I guarantee it doesn’t mean “my kid wants a homophobic therapist” [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Last month

I think a huge part of this issue is that your parents gave you $5,000 for what sounds like an afternoon picnic for 40 in a state park. They're trying to get a sense of how this money is being spent and for what, etc., because that's a LOT of… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Last month

I didn't know how dire this part was: But the real victims of this credential inflation are the two-thirds of millennials who didn’t go to college. Since 2010, the economy has added 11.6 million jobs—and 11.5 million of them have gone to workers… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

Actually- I’m trying to think through what the INTENDED effect of this request might be, because it’s not clear to me how it would make you safer. Are you thinking that the Weird People just won’t come if that’s a requirement (why not? They clearly… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Last month

I once started a friendship by accidentally shooting someone in the eye with a vodka filled water gun. Sure, it worked once, but your later attempts to recreate the magic have had mixed results at best. [more]
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MetaTalk comment - Last month

This information only makes it more baffling to me that they attributed the obvious photo editing to Kate herself once it was pointed out. Why do that? It’s just such a strange choice, out of all the possible responses. [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

I recently attended an event wearing a fanny pack the “correct” way and was teased for NOT wearing it across my chest. This is now simply How Those Bags Are Worn.NYC, in my 30s. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Last month

Your Cells Can Think
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MeFi post - Last month

Lol Don Pepino I legitimately can’t tell which parts of that are sarcasm. No shade either way. In all seriousness, I have been asking myself why I DO care about this, as a person with no history of interest in the royal family or in celebrity… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

If El's massive maleficient talent was caused to Balance her parent's goodness I've been wondering if that isn't a case of unreliable narrator. El is really just guessing about why she is the way she is... and heck, maybe mom has some… [more]
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FanFare comment - Last month

I personally am obsessed with what the implications of that very last line might be. And relatedly, I have a suspicion that perhaps Orion’s incredible and apparently unique abilities did not just come about randomly (and maybe El’s didn’t either)… [more]
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FanFare comment - Last month

I'm super curious about what's happening next. We've got to tear this horribly unequal system down, right? After I finished, I went back and looked at the prophecies about El again because I had an inkling, and what do you… [more]
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FanFare comment - Last month

Broadly, I think it’s missing the point to say stuff like “Kate deserves time to rest and recover without being photographed” because that’s not actually what this whole scandal/mystery/whatever is about. It really has nothing to do with Kate as an… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

I don’t think it’s necessary to speculate about the expressions in the photo when the photo is clearly manipulated anyway, tbh (and it 100% is, if anyone’s still skeptical about that - I have merely kinda-skilled-amateur photoshop skills and a… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

This is a very small and specific answer: I used to feel very insecure about my tastes in media things, and would let other people’s opinions totally sway my own. I got over this by accident, because I started reading a lot of vintage sci-fi that… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 2 months ago

It's not that it just hasn't occurred to people who have been following this story closely that she probably just doesn't look great after having surgery, they know that. It's everything else about it that seems out of character and strange… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

Everyone is talking about Kate because the British press is misogynist. Charles is dying of cancer that his royal homeopath is not going to cure and yet it's Kate that the media is obsessing and demanding proof of life over. The King, the actual… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

Absolutely zero percent of my sudden interest in this whole affair has to do with thinking Kate doesn’t deserve privacy. It’s not about her at all, it’s about the stunningly incoherent palace PR response. It’s about the fact that they didn’t just say… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

I wouldn't read too much into bricks. There's plenty of other oddness going on. Yes, there’s plenty of very obvious evidence that This Is Weird without that and without stuff like “is that a tassel or a heel on the girl’s shoe” or… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

It’s such a BAD photoshop, is what gets me. Nefarious reasons or not, can’t they afford a damn professional? [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

Absolutely not, because the LONG-term value of stocks is not a thing rich people appear to care about anymore. [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

I should have mentioned - it's very common for no-contact-with-parents siblings to cut off contact with low-contact-with-parents siblings, not because of any problem with their sibling per se, but because it feels necessary for keeping themselves… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 2 months ago

I just want her to start burying her poops in the litter box so that we don't have to constantly smell them! That's not what it sounds like to me, since 80% of your question has nothing to do with poop. To me, it sounds like you want rid… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 2 months ago

It's very unsettling to realize that within the reality of the show, it's like 2300 by now. We're all long dead. Unless time runs differently in the afterlife which, actually, I guess why wouldn't it? Is it, um, wrong that I hope Kamilah wound… [more]
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FanFare comment - 2 months ago

Grandiose theory: the demons bringing a Regular Janet into the Bad Place for this experiment will eventually lead to revolution and the collapse of demon control of the entire Bad Place. They only usually use Bad Janets for a reason; now they have a… [more]
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FanFare comment - 2 months ago

In the train episode, Janet also says that she's engaged a ride or die protocol making her loyal to Jason FOREVER. Like, beyond all the resets? [more]
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FanFare comment - 2 months ago

OK ALSO: One thing that is emphasized over and over in this book is that no magic is ever free. There’s always an internal or external cost for it. Those enclaves magically keep hundreds of thousands of magicians hidden in (relative) safety… [more]
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FanFare comment - 2 months ago

Guess who isn’t experiencing any consequences at all for the incredible proliferation of illegal weed shops? LANDLORDS. I am a huge supporter of legal weed. But now on my three block walk home from the subway, I see ten weed stores, all… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

Why would Buffy work at Doublemeat Palace? It never makes sense; she could shake down the Watchers for cash, loot the homes of recently staked vampires, ask Angel for a loan, have her fantastically powerful magician BFF cast a spell for immense… [more]
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FanFare comment - 2 months ago

I very specifically resent this episode, because it is the first and only episode one of my best friends in high school ever watched. She had heard me raving about the show and finally decided to give it a shot, and caught this episode as a rerun. I… [more]
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FanFare comment - 2 months ago

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