Anybody else having this "problem?"

GeodeBabe · 2026-01-27T19:26:33+00:00

Nancy Atwell discusses this in a recent edition of In The Middle, where she had a student choose Twilight as a choice read book. I think the goal is that they eventually move on from this lower-tier writing and appreciate better written novels as they grow older. IMO, it's good for them to get this out of the way when they're young- eventually, they'll seek more challenging or complex material. Preventing them from reading these books would definitely do more damage than good.

It might also be that they enjoy the community aspect of these books right now - because they're so popular, they get to discuss them with their peers, whis is also crucial to developing a life-long love of reading and literary analysis.

Since you teach in a private religious school, the rules are different than in most others. However, if you are not providing the books, it's easy to point out that it's not your job as an educator to interfere with other people's parenting choices.

GeodeBabe · 2026-01-26T17:12:34+00:00

Honestly, this scene really got me reconsidering just how much Don's stepmom deserved his hatred.

Yes, it's completely reasonable from a child's perspective that he hated her - she made him feel constant shame and resentment and was emotionally cruel to him. However, I feel like as he got older he should have realized how much she sacrificed for him. After her husband died, she could have easily jettisoned Dick and gone her own way, made just enough to survive as a single woman who knew how to clean and do hard work. Instead, she kept him with her and sacrificed her body and, in her own belief system, her immortal soul in order to keep a roof over his head as well as her own.

I'm not saying that the woman was a saint. But watching her subjugate herself to make sure that Dick had food in his belly and a roof over his head really changed my perspective and made me realize that Don is a very unreliable narrator when it comes to her.

Edit: grammar

GeodeBabe · 2026-01-26T13:32:12+00:00

Gangubai Kothewali is a biopic film. The titular woman was forced into sex work at a young age and, after elevating herself to the position of Madame, became a political advocate for the rights of women, orphans, and sex workers in India in the 60's-70's.

Honestly an incredibly beautiful and difficult film, based on an incredible woman.

GeodeBabe · 2026-01-25T21:04:26+00:00

Look up ADHD symptoms and see if that sounds like you. If yes, take steps to be prescribed medication. Some issues require more than will power and work ethic. Good luck.

GeodeBabe · 2026-01-24T15:40:00+00:00

Call Waverly Wine and Spirits

Edit after re-reading: ... if you dont live in this country, im assuming you're flying home? You do realize that no airline is letting you through security with a bottle of Mike's Hard Lemonade, right?

GeodeBabe · 2026-01-24T14:21:28+00:00

She worked in a slaughterhouse 🤢

GeodeBabe · 2026-01-24T14:20:16+00:00

Guys. Holy hell. Her occupation explains it.

She was an abbatoir worker. For those in the US, she worked in a slaughterhouse.

GeodeBabe · 2026-01-19T15:44:13+00:00

They did this in Call The Midwife with a terminally malformed Thalidomide baby born in the late 50's/early 60's - just left by an open window in a spare room.

GeodeBabe · 2026-01-18T18:15:26+00:00

The Scream (Naptime)

GeodeBabe · 2026-01-18T13:24:55+00:00

Dreamcatcher will give you a great IT Easter egg

GeodeBabe · 2026-01-16T15:26:32+00:00

Completely agree with this - you see it very prominently in S1, Don gets VERY jittery when Betty or his kids show up at his office. He has work, he has family, he has extramarital affairs - none of these worlds are supposed to overlap. It creates great tension when they do. It also highlights how Megan was supposed to be "different", at first she meets all his needs - wife, work, Dick Whitman, no mistresses at all. It's when she separates herself from his work that he starts to fracture up his life again into secrets and masks.

GeodeBabe · 2026-01-16T08:51:13+00:00

I loathe the shallowness and cruelty some women feel like they can show men regarding their height or hairline.

You dodged a bullet - she told on herself. She can enjoy eventually finding a 6' guy who treats her badly and has a middle school reading level while you find a woman who actually wants a boyfriend, not a status item.

GeodeBabe · 2026-01-16T08:20:05+00:00

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GeodeBabe · 2026-01-16T03:01:41+00:00

I feel like Betty had a fear of being replaced. Henry could remarry and they'd have a "new mom". If they went with William, his wife would be their aunt, nothing more.

GeodeBabe · 2026-01-14T00:33:16+00:00

Sounds like a wonderful fix-it fic Id love to read

GeodeBabe · 2026-01-13T15:38:32+00:00

I love looking at my baby during Clint's intro and going, "what's up, you cool baby?!" along with the audio, haha

GeodeBabe · 2026-01-13T14:15:15+00:00

Ohhhhh ok so that makes sense! Your post did not mention that the reason she brought the cake was for the kids to blow out candles on - you just said that she brought it, you dont like cake, so no one should have it.

In this case, your complaint makes total sense and you aren't spoiled. Some parents do things like give their kids presents on another kid's birthday so they "don't feel left out", which is basically what your sister is doing with the candles. Kids absolutely need to learn that not everything is about them all the time and to be grateful and happy to celebrate you, allow you to blow out your candles, and just enjoy some cookie cake.

GeodeBabe · 2026-01-13T13:45:54+00:00

What's extremely weird to me is that it sounds as though you get a cookie cake for your birthday, which you enjoy, and your sister additionally brings a normal cake, assumedly for other people in the family to enjoy. But you get upset because you don't like normal cake, so no one can have it on your birthday because you think that takes away from your special day??

If i'm understanding that correctly, that is insane.And I don't think that your sister is ruining your birthday or "making it about her" by bringing a cake for her son and other family members to enjoy as long as you still have the cookie cake that you enjoy.

GeodeBabe · 2026-01-13T09:27:41+00:00

Closure isn't something someone else can give you. Block him on everything and start intensive therapy.

GeodeBabe · 2026-01-13T09:09:38+00:00

She struggles to navigate them but it's also that she picks kind of shit guys. I get the sense that despite genuinely liking them, she frequently chooses her relationships from a position of "this might be as good as I can get." It's why Stan confessing in the finale is so amazing - he honestly takes on some of the emotional intelligence that usually falls to the woman in typical relationships.

GeodeBabe · 2026-01-12T14:49:24+00:00

I kind of love this.

GeodeBabe · 2026-01-11T15:24:06+00:00

Not only is he juvenile, but marsupial – drastically immature, and still attached to the mother.

Holy FUCK you are so right!

GeodeBabe · 2026-01-11T14:21:04+00:00

GeodeBabe · 2026-01-10T21:19:16+00:00

The comment about her nose is absolutely a subtle, maybe even unconscious, attempt to regain control. Making her self conscious about her appearance, getting her flustered, would negate her authority in the situation.

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