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Jodie: The Alternatives to Romance article speaks strongly to me -- not because I'm ace or aro, but because I've always had platonic male friends as well as guys I dated, and I've always had to fight that same goddamned set of assumptions. It's not just the kids who need to see cross-gender friendships modeled, it's their fucking PARENTS and TEACHERS and RANDOM JERKS WHO JUST WON'T GET A CLUE.

KJ: The last major media breakup I had was Bones at the end of season 3 -- where they wrote out my favorite character in a way that was absolutely, completely OUT of character and made no sense at all. I did check out the first few episodes of season 4 (off the torrents, TYVM), and they were terrible; it was painfully obvious that the producers had decided to retcon the whole show from "ensemble drama with lots of snarky, geeky humor" into "wacky romantic comedy set in a forensics lab", and I never went back. And yes, I'm still bitter and still mourning the show it was for the first two and a half seasons, and could have continued to be.