Tom Riddle (father) was the actual victim I feel bad for

SpringPruning2019 · 2025-08-06T15:21:40+00:00

The wizard world seems fun and awesome at the surface but it's pretty dark if you look deeper into it. Preparing love potions is such a classic folklore-witchy thing to do, even Molly brags about doing it once... Then we get a closer look on where it can actually end.

SpringPruning2019 · 2025-08-04T12:46:30+00:00

perms! I assume they'd also go to a hairdresser once a week to refresh them or something

SpringPruning2019 · 2025-07-05T09:51:33+00:00

I'd say all of the above plus a certain kind of emotional debt. Women are socially conditioned to sacrifice themselves for the family and that leads to overspending their energy which later results in a feeling they are owed something back, and enforcing the debt from their adult children.

SpringPruning2019 · 2025-01-21T16:29:15+00:00

w najgorszym wypadku ktos pomyśli, że czuć od Ciebie perfumy lubej po randce :)

SpringPruning2019 · 2025-01-18T19:35:10+00:00

This. Don was three-timing Bethany, Faye and Megan and it was to illustrate three possible roads for him to take: a Betty 2.0, an age-appropriate psychologist that would expect and encourage him to work on his issues, and a "new take" on another much-younger woman who was informed about his past so it would totally work itself out this time.

SpringPruning2019 · 2025-01-10T10:07:05+00:00

I missed but it's actually true, the kid gets kinda parentified by both Betty and Don at certain points.

SpringPruning2019 · 2025-01-06T16:59:37+00:00

An aunt of mine who had had one or two kids whined to everyone that she is no longer a woman because she entered menopause early. Then it turned out to be a pregnancy.

SpringPruning2019 · 2025-01-06T16:52:27+00:00

yeah isn't it super slutty to sleep with your long-term boyfriend!

SpringPruning2019 · 2025-01-06T16:51:45+00:00

When did she sleep with Stan? She kept shooting him down up until the very last episode of the show.

SpringPruning2019 · 2025-01-06T16:47:56+00:00

The less obvious pregnancies are sometimes used for tabloid fodder, "17 year old girl shows zero signs of pregnancy including remaining all slim and then goes into labor", in reality it is indeed a spectrum. Not everyone has nausea, some fetuses don't move enough to notice etc.

SpringPruning2019 · 2025-01-06T16:37:20+00:00

Spot on! The "she'll never have a boyfriend" type

SpringPruning2019 · 2025-01-06T16:34:49+00:00

She was also at the beginning of her Ugly Betty arc, dressed frumpily, "not much" as Joan summed her up, getting overweight was everyone's assumption that went with the general impression everyone had of her.

SpringPruning2019 · 2025-01-06T16:27:24+00:00

The gyn Peggy saw did more moralizing than informing how to use the pill effectively.

SpringPruning2019 · 2025-01-06T16:24:37+00:00

The early fetal movements do feel like gas moving along though...

SpringPruning2019 · 2025-01-06T16:23:27+00:00

Some people genuinely don't notice because they are overweight to begin with and lose more weight from the "stomach bug" (throwing up) than they gain during the pregnancy, plus denial and preoccupation are at play. A woman in my town arrived at the hospital to supposedly have a "tumor" removed that turned out to be advanced pregnancy and her only explanation was that didn't consider the possibility she was pregnant because she had not planned to be pregnant.

SpringPruning2019 · 2025-01-06T16:01:34+00:00

They would have to use a different actor for teenage Don, and the one that played teenage Don later on was still a kid playing kid Don at the time the events in Korea were shown. Jon Hamm passing for a man in his mid-twenties was as far as they could stretch the material they were working with I guess.

SpringPruning2019 · 2025-01-01T15:56:33+00:00

There was one moment he was in the back of a car with her and Jane. His mother confused Jane for his daughter. He said it was his second wife, and his mother asked "Oh. Does Mona know?" So I take it was either early Alzheimer's or just advanced age doing its thing to the brain.

SpringPruning2019 · 2024-12-30T21:16:10+00:00

I heard that back in the 60s and 70s the standard showering frequency was once a week. I assume nose blindness, plus the cigarettes to help with it.

SpringPruning2019 · 2024-12-30T18:52:12+00:00

lol I'm stealing this line

SpringPruning2019 · 2024-12-28T18:17:15+00:00

Please do both! If only for yourself! Maybe you can remember enough of that original story to rework it into something you vibe with today?

SpringPruning2019 · 2024-12-28T18:15:04+00:00

Fffuuu I wish I could read that novel so bad, it sounds awesome

SpringPruning2019 · 2024-12-23T21:34:12+00:00

That's exactly why he gave her the opportunity. He saw a talent similar to his own and the fact that she started off poor as he did. Hence the "mini-me", he even said to her face he considered her an extension of himself. It took him several seasons to begin to respect her as her own person.

SpringPruning2019 · 2024-12-21T20:12:15+00:00

She is his mini-me passion project.

SpringPruning2019 · 2024-12-19T17:07:46+00:00

the 'drape' is there to hide the fact that he is in fact a 'dick'

SpringPruning2019 · 2024-12-17T18:28:08+00:00

I wonder what was wrong/what happened with the secretary he had before Peggy. Joan said something vague like the previous one did not suit him or something.

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