Michelle: Childless cat-and-dog lady & bookworm

She/her. Liberal. Feminist. Bookworm. Gen-X. Let's talk about books and the theme to One Day at a Time. Or something.

[Michelle: Childless cat-and-dog lady & bookworm @MsMichelleR]

@ErinReadsStuff @pattonoswalt Hi, random stranger here. If you haven't, check out books by @SGJ72, such as The Only Good Indians or My Heart is a Chainsaw. If you like gothic horror, consider Mexican Gothic by @silviamg or The Hacienda by @isabelcanas_ 1/?

[AskAubry 🦋 🐆🦝 @ask_aubry]

It should have been Joss Whedon.

I said what I said.

Rip Michelle Trachtenberg

[Michelle: Childless cat-and-dog lady & bookworm @MsMichelleR]

@BexBookaholic I read 143, but there are some picture books in there, and middle grade. This has been a disappointing reading year, but I suspect I'm the problem. 🫤

[Michelle: Childless cat-and-dog lady & bookworm @MsMichelleR]

@babyfactss Sutton is right, but it wasn't the topic at hand.

[Michelle: Childless cat-and-dog lady & bookworm @MsMichelleR]

@friedman_cheryl @BatchaTheGreat @Mellecon @TheCinesthetic I think it's tempting to want the lore of saying they filmed the ending almost immediately and that blinded them to how it was no longer the right ending, or at a minimum, a poor execution of the plan.

[Michelle: Childless cat-and-dog lady & bookworm @MsMichelleR]

@EugeneEugene87 @Mellecon @TheCinesthetic Yes, I get that, and it doesn't change that eventually it became less desirable and the show didn't pivot. Binging also changes the sense of poor pacing that also created an issue.

[Michelle: Childless cat-and-dog lady & bookworm @MsMichelleR]

@giftatappedfish @BatchaTheGreat @Mellecon @TheCinesthetic Yep, they had to give us continual reasons why they weren't compatible to delay the ending, and at some point a lot of the audience was persuaded.

[Michelle: Childless cat-and-dog lady & bookworm @MsMichelleR]

@BatchaTheGreat @Mellecon @TheCinesthetic I don't think too many people didn't consider it was still going to be Robin, but the casting of Cristin Milioti was too good. It's one thing to kill off "the mother" when it was theoretical, faceless, and another thing in execution.

[Michelle: Childless cat-and-dog lady & bookworm @MsMichelleR]

@BatchaTheGreat @Mellecon @TheCinesthetic Yeah, and it made sense at the moment, but the show continued and we kept not just being told "not Robin" but were given solid reasons for their incompatibility. Robin and Barney made more sense. And the pacing of the final season could give you whiplash.

[Michelle: Childless cat-and-dog lady & bookworm @MsMichelleR]

@mmitch6464 @AnneM24 @MichelangeloVO @oocsitcoms As much as Buffy is a supernatural story, the episode gives a very mundane alternative that says none of it is supernatural. And that's fine because I and every other continuing viewer made the decision to believe in that world again. As would anyone watching St. Elsewhere again.

[Michelle: Childless cat-and-dog lady & bookworm @MsMichelleR]

@mmitch6464 @AnneM24 @MichelangeloVO @oocsitcoms For me, these are all examples of breaks in the 4th wall that remind us that we choose to invest in fictional worlds and how real they become. We can only be mad at Tommy Westphal if we don't want to be reminded of the fiction.

[Michelle: Childless cat-and-dog lady & bookworm @MsMichelleR]

@realitytvmama1 @JaysRealityBlog @BravoTV But Rebecca doesn't know why Brynn doesn't have kids and so she shouldn't go there.

[Michelle: Childless cat-and-dog lady & bookworm @MsMichelleR]

@NPinRI @Mangogi68893116 @JaysRealityBlog @BravoTV Who made her have 4 kids? Xenu? Why are her kids anyone else's problem? It's a bad idea to even hint at someone else's reproductive status, because you just don't know. She could have mentioned her kids without the whole "but you'll know when you have them" thing.

[Michelle: Childless cat-and-dog lady & bookworm @MsMichelleR]

@usergirlly @MoneeAries That's genetics, not the dress and the rest. Some people look older, some girls develop faster or are curvier. These girls shouldn't have to be shamed for their bodies or made to dress "modestly." They're not the problem.

[Michelle: Childless cat-and-dog lady & bookworm @MsMichelleR]

@MoneeAries I hate women doing this, who should know really well how the same clothes look different on different bodies and any meaning beyond that is projection and says nothing about the wearer.

[Michelle: Childless cat-and-dog lady & bookworm @MsMichelleR]

@filippoq01 Sorry, you HAVE to speed it up since you visually read faster and narrators go exceptionally slow in order for every word to be understood and enunciated. As long as you don't go too fast, it still sounds natural.

[Michelle: Childless cat-and-dog lady & bookworm @MsMichelleR]

@duchessofalba @BrianJMoylan This is what I said!

[Michelle: Childless cat-and-dog lady & bookworm @MsMichelleR]

@BrianJMoylan Everything I've ever seen about Crystal's actual life is interesting and there are moments on the show where you see her potential. I think they hosed her on the edit, and that we could have had a "Buffy" cameo because Crystal really does run with a fabulous circle of friends. 😉

[Michelle: Childless cat-and-dog lady & bookworm @MsMichelleR]

@HououinDKyouma @MTrig_BIR @allisoneomahony @oocsitcoms I appreciate that. I think with a couple tweaks or if the show had ended earlier, a lot of people would have been happy with it being Robin. So much comes down to that last season pacing.

[Michelle: Childless cat-and-dog lady & bookworm @MsMichelleR]

@TheOGLauraWalsh @notcapnamerica A brand of body wash and deodorant, with the deodorant able to be used anywhere you want.

[Michelle: Childless cat-and-dog lady & bookworm @MsMichelleR]

@CompetitonReady @notcapnamerica If you're dirty, you're dirty. Before Lume, dirty people just used cologne or Ax. That said, you can be really clean and still use Lume.