It did seem unusually brief , yeah . I was surprised that the episode ended when it did . <| sep |> bitch move , cheap shot . got a tap maybe but he ' ll learn shut won ' t fly eventually . <| sep |> I agree with this . I do it too and when reading my work back I quite often pare it back . uthewizardofash , trust your readers a bit more to interpret what your characters are saying just from what they say . Or tighten the dialogue . It absolutely killed an audiobook I listened to recently as well . There were so many times the author focused not on the words but how they were being said , I ditched the book . <| sep |> As a gay person , I also think it ' s foreign to me to have to refer to a trans person as them or they . I ' m sorry , but if you ' re a singular person , I ' ll probably keep referring to you as him , or her . You ' ll be lucky if I can remember your name if I see you twice a year , let alone calling you a plural pronoun . I know a trans person who wants to be called them . They have a name also , but when using a pronoun , I ' m asked to use a plural .