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My take on Trevor is not that he won’t cross the line with Stephanie, it’s that he doesn’t want to. He’s not resisting temptation by saying “no” to a much younger and clearly willing girl, he’s actively uninterested in being with her because he’s not attracted to her. We’ve only seen him be attracted to age-appropriate women, and I love that about his character.

Carl Jung was a big fan of tarot cards and they have a long history of being used therapeutically. The meanings of each card can be used for fortune telling, but they can also be used for contemplation and reflection. A lot of people view witchcraft and associated practices as “spicy psychology”, basically that a lot of New Age stuff is really about looking inward, figuring out what we want and need, and finding ways to achieve emotional/spiritual goals.

Yikes, I hate Ellen’s whole “you have to take me exactly as I am” just because Rachel doesn’t want to be tickled and gaped at the second she gets home. Reminds me of Ted’s “if we have quirks that the other person doesn’t immediately find endearing, we can never be compatible” thing when he dated the woman with the cats on HIMYM. Stories where tolerance, healthy boundaries, and slowly building lives together should really be the norm. Super annoying that that Rachel tried moving away instead of talking to her as well, these contrivances are painfully dumb.

It’s also weird that she wants to go to Johns Hopkins, according to current ranking, JH is the second highest ranked medical school in the US, behind Harvard. Seems weird when she’s so obsessed with status instead of doing something aligned with her strengths and interests, and it’s not like Harvard doesn’t have brand recognition among the audience.

Dr. Motion makes compression socks in crew and ankle styles that look and feel like regular socks, the only way I know they’re working is that my feet don’t hurt and my ankles aren’t swollen at the end of a fifteen hour day. Pacas also makes the traditional knee length compression socks, but they’re all in fun colors (more pastel than MaxDot). I don’t think they’re medical grade, but they all work in terms of preventing foot pain, swelling, etc., which seems to be MaxDot’s target demographic, I don’t think they’re being bought by diabetic or cardiac patients who probably need something more prescriptive.

He has two other wives, and from what we learned at the end of the episode, their relationship is just a piece of paper to him.

I have only ever watched the two-parter where Bea Arthur guest starred, and the most redeeming thing was her hairstyle and outfit were MUCH better than the horrible costuming they did to that poor woman in the final seasons of GG.

Alberta and Sasappis are hopefully safe, because exiting off either of the only two people of color out of eight ghosts (or one of three out of a main cast of ten) is a BAD look. Same for Isaac and Nigel carrying the entire load of queer representation. Flower has done a fair bit of character progression this season, but it’s been a while since she had a mainline story episode, so probably not her. Same goes for Thor and Pete. Doubt that it’s Trevor. Possibly Hetty, but I feel like it can’t be her. I definitely lean toward it being a minor recurring ghost.

Maybe I’m biased in my deep, abiding love for Román Zaragoza, but I feel like Sass hasn’t done anything story wise since the tree episode. Even getting a girlfriend was pretty lackluster. She just showed up and boom, they’re dating.

We know they can feel heat and cold, since they like the shaft of sunlight, and because they objected to having the drafty bedroom last season. Hetty is slower than the others on their walks because she died wearing heels. They sleep, so presumably they get tired. They can alter their clothes to some degree, but always have to be touching the item or it goes back into place.

In their defense, continuing education is essential when it’s actually done well, but my last trauma informed care seminar spent the entire time defining TIC, and explaining why it’s necessary, which everyone in attendance was familiar with, but over shot the mark in explaining and never taught us how to put it into practice. A sadly common experience with CE.

Thor was struck by lightning while wearing a metal helmet. Isaac died of dysentery. Alberta was poisoned, which led to a heart attack. Flower hugged a bear. Pete was shot with the arrow. Trevor died of a heart attack after mixing drugs. Of the main ghosts, the only ones whose causes of death are unknown are Sasappis and Hetty.

I think Flower died after the bear took a swipe out of her, but it continued mauling her—she was watching it rip her apart with Alberta, Sas, and Thor (I think?) and didn’t realize it was her own body she was watching get destroyed. So maybe it’s that we see them at their moment of death, not necessarily how their physical bodies ended up.

Okay, thank you, I thought it was me! If Rae is 17, the youngest that Clare could’ve gotten pregnant is 31, which she doesn’t look at all.

Heidi was better than the pink and lime green blouse?/skirt combo with a belt around her bare waist for no good reason at all (wedding dress hive episode). I was thinking of the episode where Miranda decides to give it a try with Steve, because Big “came through” for Carrie in a big way. Meaning, he had dinner with her and her friends in a nice restaurant in the same city where he lives and has a personal chauffeur, as they had previously planned. The bar is so low it’s in Hell with that plot line.

Pete also died tragically young, and has been stuck in a purgatory since for almost as long as he was alive. He’s been pretty clear about how painful it is to witness life without being able to participate, and how he grieves his own life being cut short. I can easily see him making the (grand)parent’s choice to spare his (grand)child that same pain. And let’s not forget, he’s also sparing his daughter the grief of burying her only child. He’s being a father.

Danielle talking about buying the organic brown eggs now that she has CBS money…. I can’t. She’s amazing. And she’s using her success to take care of her family. Big heart eyes from me. And I love her for pushing for more complex, well rounded plus size characters. I’m also a plus woman, and it was rough growing up in a time when fat women onscreen being thought of as beautiful or desirable was mostly a joke. I love her for this.

That doesn’t sound right. It would make Sam a stalker who keeps reading other people’s correspondence not intended for her, which might actually be illegal. I hope the show didn’t write it this way. On the other hand, it’s not clear exactly why Pete’s daughter would start sending her family newsletter to a woman she met only once, no matter how nice or respectful of her father Sam was. Feels like a family newsletter should be for closer friends than that. It would make WAY more sense if Carol and Laura had just added Sam on Facebook and she read their updates to Pete.

When I worked at a daycare and the teachers wanted to dish about their weekend we called it “baking cookies”.

Unami was spoken where I live, in Philadelphia, so I assume that Sasappis would’ve spoken Munsee.

Munsee is the language of the northern tribe of the Lenape, Unami is the language of the down-river Lenape. Munsee is still spoken by modern Lenape people, but sadly the last fluent Unami speaker died in 2002, although tribal linguists and historians are attempting to revive the language through archival recordings.

The Iliad references the notion of mortality forcing us to grow and adapt the way that the gods can’t. Madeline Millar (in Circe) specifically calls the gods childish for demanding that they be entertained at all times, because work, survival, and change have no bearing on their lives, so they are eternal toddlers, adorable or throwing tantrums as they feel like it. Our mortality makes us aware of what is truly precious in life, and immortals envy us our growth and adaptability. Since the Joes have specifically referenced the Iliad before, I think the childishness of the ghosts is a deliberate reflection on that concept.

My headcanon is that Thor and Sas are both fluent in Old Norse and Munsee, then learned Dutch from the new colonists, but when New York was taken over by the English, Thor gave up because he couldn’t be bothered with a fourth language, but Sas, passionate storyteller that he is, continued to adapt.

The Lenape did not have a written language, you’re correct. However, wealthy children in the 19th and early 20th centuries would not have gone to school (unless they were boys who would’ve gone to boarding school in their teens), so residents of the manor would’ve had English tutors for about a hundred years, and it’s easy to imagine that the daily lessons were the most interesting things happening at the time, so Sasappis could’ve sat in on them. We’ve seen him read before too, like with Todd and Alberta’s journal.

Does anyone feel like the fact that Trevor wants pillow talk—essentially an emotional connection—indicate that he has real, actual feelings for Hetty? I continue to ship it.