damn dcp, that's amazing.

Now that I understand more about the rules of the universe, I have those to attach myself to. And I find that although I do intermittently want to do damage to Violet, I like how she's fleshing out much better than I had hoped--the bratty teen isn't going away, but there's other stuff there too.

I remember the Alias writers making a decision about Will Tippen when they decided they needed to bring him closer to the audience's level of knowledge because otherwise the audience wouldn't be able to like him, because he'd seem too stupid. That shift for Violet helps her and the story as a whole.

However, HOLY FUCKED UPEDNESS. I can't believe this was where just anyone could stumble across it...It's remarkable for "free" cable, in terms of sexual suggestiveness, maybe not so much, but the violence is gross and it's all so unapologetic. And I am worried about mainlining it, in a way Netflix might have wanted me to be with Hemlock Grove--I thought that show was clunky in reaching for its aspirations, but it pales dramatically in comparison to this.

I did my erranding (art store! YAY AND THANK YOU!) and I have so much housework to do, but I just want to coddle my aches and pains. Oh, and draw my OTP cuddling. I want that a lot.

It's an official family story of when I was coming up the drive from school (Montessori) singing "Eeny meeny miney moe" and my mother holding her breath for the second line...

I never knew it as anything other than a tiger. Until now. Ugh.

I had a very sheltered but also very white upbringing. Until I was out of grade school really and going to junior high and high school in the town with a Marine Base and thus a lot more diversity. It was also where I first saw racism. And heard things that I knew were awful but still needed to have explained to me. Including a friend naming my cat something that it took a month for me to figure out was racist. Name was changed and I never respected that person the same way again. Still don't, actually. I wonder if I'd have been less sheltered with the internets. I read a lot but never enjoyed the books that probably would have clued me in more.

I thought about trying to post about it in Minearverse at the time, but it was just too irrational a reaction, I couldn't come up with the words to start, let alone discuss.

Any time you think American Horror Story has gone nutso, it goes about twenty times further.

I enjoy it because it's a show where stuff *happens*.

I made a salad with too many flavors in it! So some bites are good, but some are terrible. Ah well.

I made a salad with too many flavors in it! So some bites are good, but some are terrible. Ah well.

Complementarity is key.

Complementarity is key.

Yeah, using up the CSA stuff isn't the best organizing principle, it turns out.

Also, I still hate salad.

I made a salad with too many flavors in it! So some bites are good, but some are terrible. Ah well.

I thought you were critiquing AHS.

Ha! I would love to pretend that were true. It...kind of works.