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The irksome thing about the way the Gordon/Allyson not at all a thing actually plays out is that we're going to deal with how Lynn wished her own life had turned out after it became obvious that the boy she'd fixated on had no real interest in her and a lot of interest in a girl his own age. She wishes that a kind fate had awarded her a perfect forever love to make up for her disappointments. Thus do we have Tracey Moore being created out of whole cloth in order to show us how Lynn thinks life should work. First, we have childhood friends and then they turn into partners without all of that romance stuff to make things syrupy and weird....and then she turns into a paragon of dowdiness and repression who never ever does anything to make Gordon feel like a loser or less of a man.

The reason that I mention this is that Lynn would eventually award another doltish stalker who never met a social norm he liked or understood the greatest prize of all: Lizardbreath. Today, it's Gordon not realizing that minor gratitude doesn't mean that he's dating Allyson now. Tomorrow, it's Assthony successfully getting Liz to wait.

Crossposts: https://dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com/1066427.html

Of course, the real problem that I have with the stupid bloody soap opera Lynn thought would improve the last years of the strip is that it did no such thing. Now, Lynn might think that her audience would have been very pleased indeed with the "redemption of Elizabeth" nonsense we were subjected to but it seems to me that had Liz and Anthony not been the stars of a cheesy, sleazy romance comic but instead two more people who get sort of treacly and smug about how faithful they were during University and how they had a tidy little marriage without jolts, shock or drama, they'd be more bearable people than the monsters we wound up with.

The problem, though, is that Lynn had herself a damned itch to scratch and it led her to something far outside her competence zone. Just as Batiuk should have left serious business aside and stuck to doing a down-beat and wan copy of Archie, Lynn's talents lie in the recording and playback of the dirt-ordinary behaviour of tidy little people who try to avoid trouble. Simply put, Pattersons and Patterson-like people are not meant to experience what Liz and Anthony did. They are meant to stand on the sidelines and make ill-informed and superior comments about people who are.

Crossposts: http://dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com/989119.html

Having had an excess of time to consider the issue, it seems to me that the single most upsetting thing about the pathetic and stupid way in which Lizardbreath handled her life after Anthony Caine first became a part of it is that it’s very likely that if she were to see a different cast of characters going through the same disturbing motions, she’d probably correctly identify who the idiot characters were and what their sordid and silly motives were. Contrasting this with the obvious fact that she’s oblivious as to what moved Anthony and Therese and how her own actions might be perceived and it’s distressingly clear that she’s too close to the issue to think clearly and honestly about her past.

I would tend to blame not only her not ever reacting all that well to the idea that someone she knows is ‘allowed’ to have a friend who isn’t her because of her deep-seated belief that people require permission to be friends with people but also her dolt love interest Anthony’s attempt to ‘help’ people by saying the wrong damned thing at the wrong damned time. A person with a brain in his head would keep his damned mouth shut about why exactly it is that Therese thought that the passive and clueless nitwit Elizabeth was plotting her ruin but Anthony is as smart as he is handsome and ambitious. This means that he’d want to help everyone out by explaining to Liz what Therese thought she was doing at the Christmas party with a view to forcing them to get along. Liz might have almost accepted the idea that Anthony was allowed to move on even without her express permission but the idea that she’s thought of as a problem or antagonist made her morals and brains go out the window. She can’t think straight because she never liked the idea of being accused of anything and will probably die moaning about the cruelty of being judged for someone else’s sins despite that being pretty much what always happens in the real world.

Crossposts: http://dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com/989816.html

About the only good thing about a more realistic wedding arc in which Elly's improvidence and refusal to see obvious complications from her viewpoint is that the predictable (by everyone but her) mess would feed directly into her confirmation bias. Just as she'd eventually go on to misinterpret what someone who actually knew what he was talking about when describing how her total fucking ineptitude with The Machine as meaning computers were malfunctioning junk because it can't be that she's a moron who doesn't know what she's doing, the chaos her brainlessness would necessarily have created would mean that she's right to see her husband as being stupid and her children as trying to destroy her.

This is because, of course, she doesn't especially want to see herself as the author of her own misfortune. It won't be that her fear of taking her children to airports that expose her to terrible people who call her a negligent dumbass or her default refusal to understand that other cars will be on the highway that cause the delay that exasperates other people, it'll be on John for willing traffic into existence, the kids for worshiping chaos and Georgia for kowtowing to someone who isn't actually getting married. Similarly, it won't be her blank-witted inability to understand how weddings work that cause people to call her a moron who flips the bird to social norms out of pea-brained immaturity and narcissism, it'll be on the mothers of the world who want to punish their daughters for wanting to be people in their own right.

This leads us to a reminder that it's a good thing Jim's ill health took her mind off of the angry whispers from people who looked at her funny for not planning Liz's wedding like she was supposed to. Did she WANT to go through life as an anonymous drone who didn't see herself as being part of her children's lives and did she not want anything in return for her sacrifice? What the Hell is wrong with this woman and why are they supposed to deal with her being a malfunctioning idiot?

Now, to get to a sort of point about what Lynn thinks is happening in her own strip, let's examine Jim and Marian's reaction to Phil's wedding. As we'll see this August, the idea of her little boy growing up and leaving the nest upsets Marian a lot. Still, despite her wondering where the time went, she tells Elly that all parents look to the day when their children grow up and take their places in society as autonomous adults. Jim thought-bubbles why this is when he tells himself that he and Marian no longer have to worry about taking care of the kids any longer and can finally pursue their own interests.

The reason that I mention this is that for some reason, Suddenly Fatter Than She Was In Life Ghost Marian shows up during the preparation to the hand-off from John and Elly to Liz and Anthony in order to sanctify the teal-and-lavender horror by her presence. This image of a gaseous vertebrate smiling as her granddaughter grows up, puts aside silly adventure and prepares to pop out kids for a clueless asshole with entitlement issues who holds her in contempt just like Elly did serves to sanctify not only the horrible behaviour only silly Martians and evil snarkertrolls who hate love and good things and faith and fate have a problem with, it also has Marian finally admit that yes, it's a good thing that Elly dropped out of school to service a goober who treats her like an appliance. This means that by extension, all things that Elly did were good and Marian should have admitted it and let Elly be happy instead of wanting her to do more and be unhappy.

As we all know, it's been about a month or two since the search-and-rescue people took John and Phil away from Unnecessary Hardship Island after the end of a series of self-induced disasters. As we also know, John and Elly don't think that Paul would have been 'there' for Liz when she 'needed' him and was from a different world anyhow and Warren was too 'nomadic' to be a really suitable mate for their little girl. While it might be stretching it to connect "John thinking that he almost died because he went without food for three days because it never occurred to him or his idiot brother in law to walk around the island to see how close the mainland was" to rejecting anyone who isn't the sunken-chested, humorless and whining drone they love, I think that the Road to the Settlepocalypse started with John being given stupid directions by an imbecile with a scrub brush mustache.

This is because of the stupid lesson John derived from his made-up and self-induced humiliating catastrophe is that adventure is dangerous and bad because a bone-head was mildly inconvenienced owing to his own rock-headed stupidity. Oh, he might pretty it up by saying that kids have to sow their wild oats before joining sober adult society but the fear of the wilds is too strong in him to trust them.

That being said, we cannot overlook the fact that men like Warren and Paul who can thrive in the scary, scary woods quite well makes him feel inadequate and stupid....especially since they humiliate him by saying things like "all that was wrong with you was a panicky imbecile brother in law who had you hunker down like an idiot and a lack of food." Since Anthony would also feebly die within inches of rescue, he's the man for Liz.

As we know, the last daily strip was the closest we ever got to the traditional "Liz gets advice on how to live her life thereby establishing continuity from one generation to the next" speech that always seems to appear whenever we see a wedding story. The odd thing, the thing we made the most note of is that IRIS was the one sharing the warm and fuzzy stuff in which she told Liz what life was supposed to be all about when we expected Elly to do that particular job. It bothered most of us that after a business-deal like 'proposal' in which Anthony and Liz declared that they guessed that they were engaged, the closest thing we got to an actual emotion was when Warren hissed like a Hammer Horror vampire when he saw the Token That Said Liz Was Taken; having Elly outsource the whole "you'll make a lovely bride and wonderful wife" speech to a proxy so that she could hover around the background talking to Connie about how tiring doing everything by remote control was felt like something of a cheat.

The problem is that Lynn has little patience for the idea that the mother of the bride pretty much gets to call the shots when her daughter gets married. From Connie whining about how unfair it is that Molly and Gayle's mother got to be the mad fool riding roughshod over their wishes and Mira whining because Deanna actually thought that her opinion mattered to Shawna-Marie's mother acting like a butt, Lynn is preaching a hip, cool gospel about how the mother of the bride should just butt the Hell out and let the daughter run HER wedding the way SHE wants to. The very perfect model of what a wedding is supposed to look like is, of course, Elly's wedding which was held in Winnipeg for the convenience of John's family because (as I've said before) someone got it in her stupid-ass head that getting a degree meant a life of spinsterhood. This need of Foob women to pretty much cut off their noses to spite their face because they're angry at their mothers for the very stupid and specious reason that they don't want to admit that Mister Right is an imbecile not worth the effort seems to be why Lynn does this.

There are three very interesting things about the wedding that's due to show up next year if the reprints are still a going concern. The first very interesting thing is the fact that Lizzie balked at being a flower girl because the idea of being first terrified her. This, sadly, is because the same fear that led to her clinging to Elly's leg like a freaked-out barnacle as a pre-schooler reasserted itself when the old familiar peril of being alone and unprotected from the looming shape of nitwit malice that haunted the earliest years of her life was put on the table.

Speaking of said looming shape, the second interesting fact is that resentful chowderhead Mike made a nasty and stupid comment about how terrible it would be to be married to Lizzie and how whoever was 'meant' to be married to the horrible child who stole attention away from him had to run away lest his life be ruined by having to share.

Finally, we have to contend with the fact that Lizzie wondered who was compiling the traditional list of uncomplimentary garbage about her for the traditional wedding speech. The reason that I mentioned this is that we were told quite specifically which relative eventually got put in charge when Liz's fear of the scary outside world that wanted to hurt her and make her live alone forever and never be loved by her parents made her cling like a barnacle to the safety of another weakling who couldn't cope with the real world. The person in charge is the writer of the family: a sullen arsebucket who won't get over having to share the spotlight and won't admit that he's being a spoiled brat whining about toys he cannot have.

This can only mean that the wedding speech was more than likely a long-winded, poorly-constructed and overwrought mess that amplified the message "Run, Anthony, Run" to levels that should have been banned by the Geneva Convention. What's really appalling is not that Michael was given yet another forum to squeal like the unpalatable doorknob he always is about how simply awful it is that some horrible interloper got in the way of people waiting on him hand and foot. It isn't that he got all defensive when someone with class and brains (Hi, there, Mira) called him out on being a vindictive turd who thinks that the Sun shines out of his sigmoid colon. What makes me want to wring the filthy necks of any number of fictional characters is that his tsunami of rancid porridge was defended almost as vigorously as the idea that Liz should marry Anthony because he's the only man John isn't threatened by.

Now that we're pretty much at the point where Georgia first becomes aware of the fact that Elly and the others have been aware of a scrawny, flat-chested woman with eyeglasses and chianti-red hair that comes out of a bottle for quite some time, I think it behooves us all to compare this to a certain slow-speed atrocity that consumed the first decade of this century: the Settlepocalypse. The commonality that sticks out like a sore thumb is stupid and useless John stupidly assuming that Phil is simply dating Georgia while he and Connie walk down the aisle like Elly wants them to. It doesn't matter that neither Connie nor Elly want that any longer; what matters is that John is too stupid to understand that flames can die out and that Phil was simply someone Connie had "fun" with while waiting on Ted. Once it got to be too clear that Ted would always chicken out when it came to talk weddings, Phil also became a non-starter and thus given Milborough's shallow dating pool, a change of venue was needed. When you contrast Connie's willingness to cut her losses with Lizardbreath's sheer stupidity, the older equivocating nitwit with the daddy issues comes out a clear winner.

As you might have guessed, I think that one of the telling moments in the lead-up to the Settlepocalypse was when Elly told Connie that her primary reason for preferring Clarice Caine to Mira Sobinski is that unlike a certain domineering monster who wants to enslave the Pattersons with her family politics, Anthony's mother has the decency to be cowed by the Sainted Martyr Flapandhonk.

What this tells me is that when Elly and the others make their asinine comments about family politics, it's obvious as anything that Elly is still burning with resentment because Mira behaved as if she were somehow or other able to tell them all what to do. This is a no-no when interacting with Patterswine because they hate the idea of not being given final say over how does what, cultural norms be damned. It doesn't matter to Elly that the mother of the bride is generally recognized as being the ones calling the shots because she can't take being told what to do by anyone. It's a reminder that she doesn't have a clue what to do and she hates the reminder that she's a dithering imbecile.

The interesting thing about the strip in which Liz does a jig because a person's life collapses in a manner that benefits her is that it reminds us that since she doesn't seem to realize that things don't really magically appear when you trust in faith and fate, she really is oblivious to the forces that shape her life. This means that the Liz Caine of 2012 is as bitter, resentful, self-hating and confused as the Elly Patterson of 1983 because she doesn't realize that what she assumes to the end result of her belief in faith and fate really wasn't destined to happen at all. Unlike her, we know that it was made to happen by people who wanted it to and that it was made to happen to serve their needs before hers. Since she's sort of oblivious as well as amazingly entitled and self-serving, she has no more idea that people had manipulated events now than she did as a teenager.

I know that I don't really need to remind you that we had to deal with a week or two of strips of Liz being so in love with the idea that no boy could possibly be interested in her to notice that Anthony had a yen for her. What I lose sight of when I talk about how dumb she is is that Dawn and Candice had to take matters in their own hands and force Liz to date Anthony. This is because they remembered something about Liz that she doesn't and came to the conclusion that the same Liz who didn't see the obvious was too passive to actually try to find out. While they did sort of succeed in getting the two to pair off, Liz didn't have the sense to be grateful because she's too blasted stupid to notice things like that.

The reason that this inability to see the obvious when it's staring in front of her made her life worse is that she still hasn't figured out that a lot of people put a lot of work into making the Settlepocalypse possible. Her blind trust in fate and faith blind her to the fact that Gordo, Tracy, Dawn, Shawna-Marie and her parents out in a lot of work to ensure that Thérèse knew that her hopes of making something more of Anthony than a bookkeeper for a greasemonkey were as unacceptable as his being married to anyone who wasn't Liz Patterson. After all, the Pattersons needed to be paid back for a moral obligation that their self-serving hatefulness turned into extortion. This means that the Evil Career Woman's campaign of depriving the Sainted Pattersons of a bludgeon to wield over someone they're sponging off of is a bad thing.

The common factor in both successful attempts to load the dice is that passive, stupid little Lizardbreath doesn't understand that what seemed to be the result of destiny working in her favor is actually the end product of a plan to force an unsatisfying resolution that made her miserable and confused. The Liz of 1993 would have been a lot better if she had found out that she could love a boy who was not a stand-in for her dickweed dad and the Liz of right-the-Hell-now would be as much better off as Mike would be had she not done the same stupid thing he did and returned home to resume her role as the conflicted, needy and ignored middle child.

As I said yesterday, Lynn clearly seems to believe that Liz only ever managed to finally disentangle herself from Warren when he screamed in horror at the Token That Said She Was Taken. In the strip in her head, it was obvious to see that while she was building a life with Anthonty and Gee-what's-that-little-girl's-name-again-I-forgot-tee-hee-hee!!, she was also keeping her options open in case Anthony did something crazy like find another woman to make her jealous enough to fight for him like he did with the Wrong-girl-stop-asking-me-her-name-because-it's-just-a-comic-strip; the problem is that, as I said, it looked as if she'd broken things off with him when he didn't come running just because she said so.

The reason that long-term readers of the strip might think that she was trying very hard to discourage someone she no longer had time for merely because he expected her to come a-running is that we had a similar situation in a flashback; you see, Elly had her cap set on some paperboy who'd thought of her as an adhesive, dowdy nuisance and told her as such. Her reaction to his not wanting to contend with a clingy, screeching, pig-ignorant, literal-minded and pessimistic imbecile and laughing at her clumsy advances was much the same as Liz's reaction to being told point blank that people simply can't drop everything just because she's feeling lonely. Since Elly signified being over Colin Winch via Bronx cheer, most readers would be forgiven for assuming the same thing happened with Liz and Warren.

As you've no doubt heard me say before, Lynn seems to be blissfully unaware of the fact that the strip her readers see is not the one she does. Not only does this come into play when she has to defend Anthony against his critics and when she explains that April is really the villain of the piece during the Housening because she doesn't trust people who are shown to NOT have her best interests at heart, she also fails to show us what she thinks was going on when Liz was dating Paul and Warren. In a recent podcast, she referred to them as "the two guys Liz was dating" before she fell for the right ~~surrogate for John~~man; this, as

howtheduck said, made it clear that Lynn thought that she was dating both men at the same time; the problem is that she made it look and sound as if Elizabeth was a one-man woman who went from a failed relationship with Warren to a doomed one with Paul before finding her esoteric happy ending with Anthony.

Where we part company with Lynn is that we let our perception of events color things and believe that when Anthony was stampeded into proposing, it was because Warren was trying to break up the monogamous pairing he and Liz had. Like Adam Savage, Lynn rejects our reality and substitutes her own. The rule as

howtheduck formulated it is as follows:

Relationships only end when one of the partners is caught cheating on the other. If there is no cheating, the relationship is still on. The exception is if one of the partners is a Patterson. Pattersons do not cheat, but are allowed to date multiple people at the same time. For all non-Pattersons, dating someone else is cheating.

This means that since Warren was not caught cheating on Elizabeth and since she, as a Patterson, is allowed to date multiple partners, that she and Warren were still dating up until she got the token that said that she was taken. Where things fall apart is that even Inman would agree with our premise based on what he saw. Good thing for his need to worship Lynn that he uses her press clippings as canon.

Given that Lynn is so inattentive that she forgets the names of important characters like "Wrong" Girl Thérèse and that she thinks that this failure is a charming and funny thing instead of an indictment, she'd laugh off the baffling to her statement that what even her fans saw as Liz going from one bad boyfriend to another before finding safety with a plausible cipher with a perky exhortation to not overthink things.

While it's true that John and Elly congratulated Phil and Georgia on getting married despite the filthy trick they pulled on them, it's clear that they bitterly resented Georgia for outplaying them. Elly was steamed that Phil once again got away with not obeying her commands despite her being older and John was angered that someone who was having a better time than he did continued to do so. It seems to me that the two of them swore that no other person would be allowed to get in the way of their acting as if the alleged horrors they suffered growing up gave them the right to dictate to other people how they should live. It is with this in mind that we should conclude that Georgia's finally getting Phil to grow up is what not only established the pernicious custom of packing the children off to Exile Farm, it was also the first step on the teal-and-lavender path to Liz's eternal servitude to the caprices of her greedy, short-sighted and entitled parents. After all, Anthony did what Martha did not: defend the Pattersons' right to jerk people around for their own petty benefit.

As I've said, it seems to me that the Pattersons know as much about the way Anthony relates to his father as they do about the Mira-Deanna dynamic; since they're very superficial people who aren't overburdened with curiosity and tend to see what they want to see, they're content to only hear the side of the story propounded by someone who tells them what they want to hear. That being said, I should think that Anthony's real catch-phrase is not "I have no hooooooooome". It seems to me that it's actually "You're wrong, Dad!!" No matter what it is that Gavin might say, Anthony feels compelled to contradict him in such a fashion that he sounds like a spoiled child. Thus it is that he can explain away such truths as "It's not anyone's fault that your mother and I broke up", "Nobody is going to hand you things for breathing so you're actually going to have to pay for a car", "My GOD!!! You don't want to marry Liz Patterson!!! In a year, she'll have turned into her horrible mother!!!", "You shouldn't spend your life slaving away for a grease-monkey." and "Well, what did you expect? The woman said she wasn't cut out to be a parent and, hey, treating her like shit because she has PPD is a dick move!!" This tells me that Anthony has more or less set himself on the ruinous course of marriage to a needy, ignorant, shit-stupid lush with an ever-expanding ass and narrower-by-the-second mind in order to give his dad the middle finger for being right too often. Liz is also doing this because of father issues; Anthony is a version of her father who will never lose interest in her no matter how not cute, how not a real little girl, she becomes.

Although John's objections to Elly's matchmaking are doomed to appear on the cutting room floor, it should be noted that he had a strong opinion about what should be done about Connie's love life: nothing. He knew that Elly was trying to do something incredibly damaging to both Connie and her brother Phil to satisfy her own horrible vanity. She didn't care how they felt or what happned, she just wanted an excuse to feel superior to others at their expense. Connie had to have it rubbed into her that Elly was always righr about how bad certain people were for her and Phil had to be reminded that he had to grow and and live on her terms. I can't quite remember how he handled Ted's arrival to complicate things but I do know that he wasn't fond of how it played out. Based on the results of Elly's first recorded attempt at playing matchmaker, it sometimes seems to me that Anthony wasn't the only Perfect Husband for Liz that Elly had in mind; there might have been any number of people that were even less suitable than he is, if such a thing can be imagined. John might have signed off on their plowing through other people's lives only to keep something far worse from happening. Granted, this is a case of the ends justifying the means but it could well be that he'd rather a few people be majorly inconvenienced than Liz marry one of the other monsters that his wife might trot out.

It occurs to me that Liz is ideally suited to be Anthony's second wife and he her husband. After all, Anthony is NOT looking for a woman with any sort of personality, is he? What he wants is a pretty looking non-entity like the Breath, not only because she won't object to too much, but because she'd make a handsome addition to his Chirstmas card photos and be a reasonably attentive step-mom to Françoise. Anthony seems to be Liz's dream man for one reason: he'd never, ever place himself in harm's way and risk making her a widow. Paul and Warren, you see, have fairly high-risk jobs, TOO high-rish for Liz's comfort. If one of them HAD married Liz and gave their lives for their fellow man, we all know she'd be at the graveside blubbering 'He abandoned MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!' because she's vain, clingy, stupid and selfish enough to rate her petty comfort as taking precedence of the needs of the many.

As we know, Mike and his eternally young family are gonna be the focus of the hybrid when it's unleashed this autumn. These last few months of original material before the freeze are designed to close up the story arcs of the former central characters so they can take their place as glorified walk-ons whose purpose is to wander into the Pattermanse and intro old material focusing on them. To that end, Lynn clearly proposes marrying off Liz to Anthony so she can become a no-name brand version of Elly and help Nostache raise his hate-spawned daughter. This serves two purposes. First, it provides the necessary closure on her saga. Second, it prevents her from outshining Mike and Deanna. Not only is she married to someone who can't ever be more successful than Almighty Goldensprog, she's only Françoise's step-mother and thus inferior to Deanna who has real children of her own instead of being stuck with an evil business woman's second-hand brat. Also, nothing can change so Liz can never have kids of her own and outclass Mike and Dee that way. After all, she deserves it for trying to steal attention away from Mike, right;)

Now that it finally seems that Elizabeth and Anthony are going to get married, let's step back and consider why this was necessary in the first place. One thing I've noticed is that Lynn can't seem to portray a realisitic single woman at all well. This is mainly because her experience with single life was not exactly pleasant. Being a single mother after her story-book marriage collapsed because her high-school sweetheart cheated on her didn't leave her with the impression that life without a man in it was at all desirable. She's unconsciously trying to 'rescue' her real daughter from something she can't help but feel is a bad scene AND trying to rewrite history so that she wasn't a 'failure'. (I wonder how Rod feels about being Plan B. I also wonder how Kate feels about this whole revisionist history thing, because if Lynn hadn't married Rod, she wouldn't exist.) There's a second reason for this as well. As aladdinsane pointed out, Lynn had them meet real cute in high school and felt it was one of the best story lines she'd ever come up with. Letting the relationship just peter out and die, like it probably would have in the real world, would mean that her best material was all for nothing because it didn't lead anywhere. She just can't let that happen and will do anything, assassinate any character and commit any logical absurdity in the name of her beloved storyline.

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Remember The New Magic Girlfriend......
The realest dope about the Settlepocalypse.
On Liz Patterson and perspective failure
The hidden upside of a realistic wedding arc.
On blowing the wad and traveling and the Settlepocalypse.
The failed fishing trip as deciding factor in the Settlepocalypse.
Mothers of the bride and other monsters.
Phil and Georgia's wedding as a predictor of events.
Connie: Superior. Elizabeth: Inferior.
The real meaning of family politics.
Who IS guiding Liz's destiny and why she doesn't see them.
The raspberry and the relationship law......
Paul and Warren reconsidered.
Georgia and the Settlepocalypse.
The other side of the Settlepocalypse...
Anthony reconsidered in the light of Phil and Connie....
Lovepocalypse Now! or why Lizthony is so blasted perfect.
The Lovepocalypse: Liz bows out....
Musings on a Lovepocalypse.

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Remember The New Magic Girlfriend......

The realest dope about the Settlepocalypse.

On Liz Patterson and perspective failure

The hidden upside of a realistic wedding arc.

On blowing the wad and traveling and the Settlepocalypse.

The failed fishing trip as deciding factor in the Settlepocalypse.

Mothers of the bride and other monsters.

Phil and Georgia's wedding as a predictor of events.

Connie: Superior. Elizabeth: Inferior.

The real meaning of family politics.

Who IS guiding Liz's destiny and why she doesn't see them.

The raspberry and the relationship law......

Paul and Warren reconsidered.

Georgia and the Settlepocalypse.

The other side of the Settlepocalypse...

Anthony reconsidered in the light of Phil and Connie....

Lovepocalypse Now! or why Lizthony is so blasted perfect.

The Lovepocalypse: Liz bows out....

Musings on a Lovepocalypse.