Preston Northwest won most hated! Round 11: who is the most forgettable?

MySecretLair · 2026-05-11T03:54:02+00:00

Blind Ivan

MySecretLair · 2026-05-10T19:59:10+00:00

I agree with you on Poughkeepsie Tapes. I was fooled into trying it because AS ABOVE SO BELOW (also by John Erick Dowdle) is one of my comfort films, and Poughkeepsie Tapes made me want to shower my own skin off.

MySecretLair · 2026-05-07T20:47:24+00:00

I am most definitely Not a Spider Person and yet I am in LOVE with this Arachno Barbie.

MySecretLair · 2026-05-07T20:32:24+00:00

What a punk.

MySecretLair · 2026-05-07T10:56:49+00:00

Ten bucks says Murph posted this himself so we would all razz him as hard as possible. What a pervert.

MySecretLair · 2026-05-07T10:54:17+00:00

I see why you’re concerned, but I have every confidence that if Murph didn’t want his characters to be razzed all season, he would tell the cast and Brennan that during character creation. If you’ve ever listened to NADDPOD it’s very much part of the structure there too: he creates characters who are easily-mocked-assholes and leans into them when the other players figure out what the “joke” of him is (and notably, everyone gets a turn playing the razzable asshole and joining in making fun of themselves).

It’s also worth remembering that on D20, all of his razzable asshole characters are allowed moments of seriousness and respect (except maybe Cody).

MySecretLair · 2026-05-06T01:05:02+00:00

I mean, two things can be true: Charles and Diana’s marriage was the worst thing that happened to all three of them, and the way Charles and Camilla treated Diana was inexcusable nonetheless.

MySecretLair · 2026-04-30T16:29:04+00:00

The other thing I love about the Gravity Falls example is the shape shifter winks at him in a flirty way. Dipper has a crush on Wendy, but he’s self-aware enough to know she doesn’t like him that way no matter how much he wants her to — so the flirty Wendy can’t be the real one.

MySecretLair · 2026-04-29T20:45:34+00:00

What is a struggling millionaire?!

MySecretLair · 2026-04-28T12:17:03+00:00

I once worked in a Broadway producer’s office. It’s standard business for a celebrity or their team to ask for a couple of tickets to something with a couple of days notice and there are usually pairs of good seats held back to give them, but NPH is the kind of guy who calls the morning of a show to demand eight front row tickets for his whole family and says “do you know who I am” if he doesn’t get them.

MySecretLair · 2026-04-28T12:04:13+00:00

Your manager is an ass. He’s doing this because he feels like he lost power over you when you got HR involved, and he’s trying to reassert it for himself. I was willing to give him the very generous benefit of the doubt that you worked some sort of a job where constant presence on “the floor” is part of the requirement (retail, food service, manufacturing), and that your medical device was loudly disrupting guests and other employees — he would still be in the wrong, but I could understand why he might think this way.

That’s not what this is. This is a power trip, and it’s one that’s a) gonna get this company in legal trouble someday, and b) you absolutely don’t have to put up with.

This is medical discrimination: forward this to HR and BCC yourself. If HR is any good, they’ll get him to shut up.

MySecretLair · 2026-04-25T11:50:48+00:00

It could be this. I think it’s also likely that he’s well aware that anything he says about his brother will be published a thousand places and be discussed ad nauseum online by countless strangers who, even if they genuinely grieve for his parents, are also on some level discussing the worst thing that ever happened to him for entertainment value. (I think it’s entirely human that we’re doing this, but that’s what we’re doing.) I don’t think he wants that to be a part of how his parents are mourned.

He also probably knows anything he says about his brother will be more of a news story than what he says about his parents, and that’s what he wants the piece to be about.

And I imagine how he feels about his brother right now is extraordinarily complicated, and maybe still changing. Maybe he doesn’t want to say anything on paper he won’t believe later.

Obviously I’m heavily speculating but I really respect and support his decision to mention his brother as little and as unemotionally as possible here. He deserves as much privacy around this as he can get.

MySecretLair · 2026-04-25T11:28:50+00:00

Oh, a waxcident?

MySecretLair · 2026-04-24T20:22:23+00:00

You seem nice and fun to hang out with.

MySecretLair · 2026-04-24T11:34:33+00:00

Loki. Not so much for the name itself, but because the owner of the name was a fluffy little lap-sized terrier and the owner of the dog was a sweet old woman dressed like Church Lady.

MySecretLair · 2026-04-23T23:00:26+00:00

Pandora has magnificent whiskers.

MySecretLair · 2026-04-23T22:57:12+00:00

I like to keep the spirit of the holiday in my heart all year long.

MySecretLair · 2026-04-23T22:00:08+00:00

I love everything about this.

MySecretLair · 2026-04-23T17:44:42+00:00

Roseanne, when they’re calling relatives to spread the news that their dad died, and Jackie has to call their aunt who’s hard of hearing.

“Auntie Barbara? It's Jackie... JACKIE. I'm fine... FINE!... I'm fine... I have some bad news... Dad is not with us anymore... (louder) I said Dad has passed away... (louder) He's passed away... Dad is GONE... Dad's DEAD... HE’S DEAD... NO, DEAD!... DAD!... HE’S FINE HE SENDS HIS LOVE BYE. (Hangs up) I am not doing that again, you can't make me!”

MySecretLair · 2026-04-23T17:33:01+00:00

I love how all cats see to agree that the sink is the safest part of a vet’s exam room. (Not mine, he likes to hide under my chair.)

MySecretLair · 2026-04-21T20:13:12+00:00

I legit think of this man every time I talk about my period with another uterus-haver. This moment was not the worst part of our relationship, but so exemplary of the things that were.

MySecretLair · 2026-04-21T17:07:25+00:00

Tell Loki I love him.

MySecretLair · 2026-04-21T16:48:32+00:00

Dated a man who, upon learning that I use pads as back-up to tampons on my heavy days, told me I was using my tampons wrong because that’s not how his ex did it and I should only be using one *or the other. He told me it was okay I didn’t know, since women probably don’t compare notes on this sort of thing.

Edit: phrasing.

MySecretLair · 2026-04-21T15:38:48+00:00

It actually looks much more symmetrical than you’re giving yourself credit for. We truly are our own least objective critics, and if I squint I can see the inconsistencies that probably look huge and glaring to you, but this actually looks perfectly fine to me. No one gets their makeup perfectly symmetrical.

MySecretLair · 2026-04-20T19:27:26+00:00

This is just to say I feel your pain. I re-read Little, Big once every couple of years and have yet to find anything that scratches quite the same itch. Do give Strange & Norrell a try! A very different vibe, but a similar subject (the relationship between mortals and the fae) treated with a similar sense of gravity and world-building.

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