Oh! I thought of one, Gwendolyn Christie.

I knew a Genevieve in college, and then my son’s best friend in preschool was a Genevieve who went by Jenny (or Geny?) and now my daughter has one in her class, so they’re making a comeback maybe?

I’m fond of “Gwendolyn” but I’ve never met or even known of one, to my knowledge.

I know a 10-year-old Agnes! And also a 40s/50s-ish Agnes (I can’t guess adult ages well).

Sometimes it’s not the kids’ fault. I’d say most of the time the parents need to be involved in some way with the costume (buying, making, helping to make) and some kids just don’t have present parents so I don’t want to punish them for that.

Also I really don’t want leftover candy in my house (because I’ll eat it) so…

And sell it to them. Capitalism gonna capitalize

Blasphemy, using Mr. Rodgers like that!

She is so badass. That last line gives me chills.

Hopefully we’re also more prepared this time. Plus the other side is currently in power, at least the executive branch.

I know it makes me super basic but… dragons. I know, it’s not inspiring. But I must add a caveat. I prefer that they are intelligent, on par with or surpassing humans in intelligence and willing (if reluctantly) to interact with them. Game of Thrones dragons are cool and all but they don’t really do it for me in the same way as, say, the dragon from Dragonheart.

Plus it ended on a cliffhanger and season 3 is in jeopardy last I heard.

Ack thank you, I mix them up even though I’ve never read Brooks, who seems to be better loved.

It’s probably not the worst for me either but it’s easily the first thing I think of. Really left a bad taste I guess.

Oh yes I agree! And I’m a huge dragon fan, so it was extremely disappointing. That one I gave up on after maybe 50 pages. I couldn’t get past the prose. So I didn’t even get to the heavily recycled tropes, but I did see the movie once and they were plenty obvious from that.

No Such Thing as a Fish, from the QI Elves. Funny, informative, rarely about current events which is a breath of fresh air. Just nerds getting nerdy about stuff.

Wizard’s First Rule by Terry BrooksGoodkind. I suffered through the whole thing because I was young enough that I thought that’s what you should do when you’ve started a book, but I was also old enough to know that it was very bad. I’ve heard many people say they read it as teens and loved it, but I assure you, it does not hold up.

Hmm, maybe that’s why my English teacher assigned Huck Finn instead (which I remember liking).

Only makes her more relatable

I was listening to Jon Stewart’s most recent Weekly Show podcast and he had Stacey Abrams on, and she said that increased voter turnout benefits dems right now because the Republicans have power but have generally unpopular policies, but it has been flipped in the past.

I think maybe it’s because the fainting was presumably because it was hot? And if you sweat enough, you can lose a couple pounds or something? Still, pretty gross.

Kinda want to displace “weird” with “gross.” Weird can be good. Gross is never good.