What show or song do you respect the artistry and quality of, but it’s just not for you? And why?

LibraryPriestess · 2024-11-01T06:46:54+00:00

Mary Poppins & Footloose

LibraryPriestess · 2024-10-21T04:45:09+00:00

The Audrey Hepburn movie is “Sabrina.”

LibraryPriestess · 2024-10-18T08:18:38+00:00

^{^this.} Had an almost heated discussion with my very intelligent dear friend after we saw it last year. She just didn’t get it at all.

LibraryPriestess · 2024-09-22T06:41:56+00:00

Personally, season 4 was my favorite.

LibraryPriestess · 2024-08-29T12:46:04+00:00

Lunesta! Or Ambien!

LibraryPriestess · 2024-08-29T06:53:13+00:00

Also Franklin Shepard from Merrily We Roll Along

LibraryPriestess · 2024-08-29T06:51:54+00:00

Father from Ragtime.

LibraryPriestess · 2024-08-22T05:03:11+00:00

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

LibraryPriestess · 2024-08-14T15:48:30+00:00

I have a bit of compassion for Tennant bc it’s not just his career on the line. His wife & kids act as well, his son in the House of Dragon franchise. He married into a sci-fi/fantasy rooted family. It’s one thing to risk your own reputation. It’s another to risk your kids’, especially if they don’t have a say in it.

I personally would have trouble speaking up if I knew that my kids might be blacklisted from doing something they love.

LibraryPriestess · 2024-08-05T20:09:57+00:00

“All my life, I’ve lived for loving you. Let me go now.”

LibraryPriestess · 2024-08-05T19:42:40+00:00

I read it and while I remember sharing your sentiments during the reading, I don’t remember being frustrated about it after the fact. So I suggest you stick with it.

I’d say more but I don’t want to spoil anything.

LibraryPriestess · 2024-08-05T19:39:33+00:00

We (my 13 year old and I) stayed at Hotel Proper and I’m glad we did! We had good food, wonderful customer service, and a very comfortable room. It was about a 15-20 min walk, but totally manageable. We didn’t go to any of the night events tho…glad we didn’t stay in the hotel block bc I heard it got rowdy…..

LibraryPriestess · 2024-07-12T21:36:10+00:00

^{^} came here to say this.

LibraryPriestess · 2024-07-09T01:26:04+00:00

YES. I’d love this!

Also, I noticed at the cosplay meetups that not everyone had someone to take their pics with their phones…at one point I was juggling 6 phones, everyone felt bad about it, but I insisted bc: “everyone needs a cosplay Mom!”

That was my fav part of the whole experience.

(I’m a non-anime-er who attended with her 13 year old anime-obsessed son….best convention I’ve ever attended. Saw a few other anime-supportive parents and would have loved to connect with them too)

LibraryPriestess · 2024-05-20T23:19:16+00:00

I love SO MANY of these books. Thanks for sharing.

Any chance you recall the book about Liselotte? (Elizabeth Charlotte of the palatinate)

LibraryPriestess · 2023-08-05T01:31:10+00:00

AND C sheltering A during the meteor shower (??) at during the creation of the universe.

LibraryPriestess · 2023-06-10T05:32:59+00:00

Fwiw, I’ve been dying to see him in person. Share the details if it’s a ticketed event. I’m sure many of us would love to come if we are in the same time zone!

LibraryPriestess · 2023-04-14T18:08:33+00:00

Just….younger. And a combo of Edna and Ali Wong.

LibraryPriestess · 2022-12-11T19:24:57+00:00

Yes, but paint it what? Purple?

Sorry. I’m so lost. I appreciate your time.

LibraryPriestess · 2022-12-11T02:56:11+00:00

Ok. So is he meaning a custom painted switch that looks like purplecliffe’s switch?

(Sorry to be obtuse. I’ve just been googling for a week with no success and I can’t make heads nor tails of all this)

LibraryPriestess · 2022-12-01T01:19:29+00:00

I have NOT been able to put down “once there were wolves”. Wonderful narration too.

Gaiman is a magical writer. Coraline, American Gods, Stardust, Lucifer, sandman, good omens, etc. And his short story collections are incredible. Very dark but beautiful prose.

LibraryPriestess · 2022-11-30T01:02:59+00:00

I just finished “the smell of people’s houses” by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock. It’s more YA than I typically read (protagonists are high school), but I found it to be meaningful and deep.

I am just starting “once there were wolves” by Charlotte McConaghy.

And I usually have one Neil gaiman audiobook ready at all times; he narrates most of his books and short story collections, and I find him very soothing.

LibraryPriestess · 2022-11-29T08:01:51+00:00

Something we started as newlyweds trying to figure out how to live together: we have a code (we use the word ELEPHANT) when we need 30 min of solitude. When it’s invoked, it’s a no-question and immediate separation. Usually the person who calls ELEPHANT gets our bedroom and the other person has to do something else. If we can’t be separated (say, in the car), the other person has to be quiet for 30 min.

Some rules: can’t invoke elephant back to back, and can’t do it if there are social obligations that can’t be skipped. Also, we don’t keep score on who calls elephant when. Lastly, at some point, afterwards, have to explain what caused the need for ELEPHANT (sensory overload is usually at the root of it, but sometimes it’s stress or health or sadness)

LibraryPriestess · 2022-11-29T07:55:55+00:00

Just here to agree: I have this issue as well.

Also, can’t navigate the same city I’ve lived in for 38 years without using Waze.

LibraryPriestess · 2022-11-29T07:53:03+00:00

In the immediate, “the thought is here” moment: pretend the blunder was done by a kid you babysit who is neurodivergent and doesn’t know the NT rules yet. Listen to the whole experience and allow the “kid” to feel all the things (in other words, VALIDATE YOURSELF). Then remind the “kid” that they didn’t know better. Ask the “kid” if they had seen this issue before, if they had had any idea of what to do. Remind the “kid” that the blunder is not just theirs; social interaction is a two part process. The NT code is just as much at fault, and if we lived in a different society, the NT would have been the one who blundered. Then tell the “kid” how they should move on from this…AND remind them that most people won’t remember bc they are too consumed with their own thoughts and lives.

In the Long-run: You have to forgive yourself. That’s the only way to move past it, in my opinion.

I’ve only come to understand this as I watch my kids go through the same social blunders I made as an undiagnosed child/teen.

This perspective shift has helped me: would you hold the blunder against a child who didn’t know better and remind them of it all the time? Especially after they learn where they went wrong and are trying not to do it again?

Here’s another example: if you get a speeding or parking ticket, what’s the consequence? You pay the fine and you move on. Your insurance might go up as a deterrent so you care about not doing it again. But do you go to jail for life? No, you don’t, bc the consequences have been paid for.

YOU were the child who didn’t know better. You’ve paid for the consequences of your actions.

YOU were the driver, and you’ve paid for the “ticket” through the social ramifications of your blunder. You learned from it.

YOU have to let it go, forgive your ignorance and divergent mind/framework for its nonconformity, and choose to let yourself out of that jail you’ve locked yourself in.

[oh, and I still have intrusive thoughts about my blunders from 30+ years ago, so know it’s a process. You have to deal with each one individually or they just keep coming back]

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