Mine too! Actually both my parents do it out of English professor nerdery, but I am positive that my dad started it and my mom just goes along with it to be a good sport.
My dad's default Christmas gift is an umbrella. The last one he got me had wind-resistant flaps and came with a lifetime warranty. "Everyone always needs an umbrella," he always says.
I am not a Hughes fan in general, but I really dislike the end of The Breakfast Club. "Yeah, let's have the cool kids go off to hook up and make the nerd do our homework for us. We're subverting stereotypes!"
I don't care how romantic everyone says Casablanca is, I will always find it creepy that Humphry Bogart decides who Ingrid Bergman is going to end up with FOR HER. Like, she actually has no say in the matter! She has to stay with the guy she likes less because Bogey tells her to. Creepy as fuck.
This article fills me with deep and sickening regret that I did not know about MACC in high school, because lord, I would have CRUSHED it. I was that kid who had Twelfth Night memorized by the second week of class discussion in ninth grade. But it's probably a good thing, because undoubtedly I would have become a monster. Nothing brings out that delightful combination of terror and raging egoism in a nerd like a public display of their skill set.
Both Anastasia and Betsy-Tacy are delightful and totally hold up for me. If you don't feel like dealing with the wholesomeness of Betsy's early 20th-century midwestern childhood (even with my nostalgia goggles on I will freely admit that it can veer into the twee), you can start with Betsy and the Great World, which picks up when she's in her early twenties and traveling the world like a BAMF, and then move around the series from there.
Towards the end of the article the reporter sort of delicately implies that that's super fucked up, and Su goes "YES IT WAS." And then she obliquely mentions "the violence" and says that going to Smith made her realize "things" about her marriage. She doesn't specify what those things are, but I can only hope that she is putting together an exit strategy.
The best pep-talk-y writing book I know of is Anne Lammot's Bird by Bird. She is excellent at telling you that you can get through whatever mental barrier you have and that it's okay if you don't love what you're writing now, because hey! editing is a thing. Also, Natalie Goldberg can be great, depending on your tolerance for Zen koans as applied to writing. She tends more towards mindfulness writing exercises than Lammot does, and if that's you're bag, they're great.
YES. Relatedly, imagine how awesome Enver Gjokaj would be as a male clone on Orphan Black.
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