Yeah, this reminds me of my mother. She’s Catholic and republican but when I told her one of my dear friends was trans she just made the pronoun switch immediately and was asking after her. Of course, she’s also super bad with names, so she tends to cycle through female names that begin with the same letter until I…

National hero.

Did this kid piss in the public pool?

It would have to be Catholic, and the monks/nuns already got a monopoly on that.

Back in my day, we just watched porn to get off, not be reminded of the current disintegration of the celebrity family.

Whoa, someone was reading the apocrypha texts.

“Thou shalt not have any other Gods but me except that white kid from Detroit because he knows his shit.” must not have fit on stone tablet.

I tried that at the local Christian bakery the other day.

Unless there is some dramatic twist, isn’t this just a push for the conservative business values of De Niro’s generation? Which might be better than say, Steve Jobs, raging yet-oh-so-charming naturopath-sociopath, but is this.. what we want? Nostalgia?

Hey now. They let that black guy in.

But watch “The True Cost” on Netflix first, everyone.

It’s a Titan, and there is some suggestion that it’s an ancestor of the modern dwarf, but ultimately, no, it doesn’t seem to impact anything in any large or meaningful way, so. “That’s neat”, is what I got from it. Lore-mongers will probably find it deeply exciting, however.

The magic goo that is necessary for magic is actually the blood of this ancient creature, but any kind of depth in exploring the fact that the magic users are literally drinking the blood of an ancient being is ignored entirely because now one dwarf can do magic, I guess? Woo?

Those ties.

My husband is over 100K in debt (student loans). I have none. It was a concern. He will probably not pay it off, since both of us are in academia. It is what it is.

It’s classist, but like most things with an “ist” or “ism”, people from the group it is referring to use it to describe themselves (often humorously) or to do this very nuanced thing to differentiate themselves (good, and thus not the thing) from those who are in a similar situation but worse (thus, the thing).

His most recent ex (and this was five years ago) stole his cats and almost killed them, so. I’m not terribly concerned.

Ooo, links?

Alternatively, studies like this merely detect patterns, which mean little when they cannot account for real people, the complication of experiences, and the messiness of love and heartbreak?

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