A friend’s child really wants to go to boarding school, which his parents attended. I feel very strongly that he wants to go because he is gay and his parents are in total denial about it. They talk about his “girlfriend” and the whole room tips to the side with the amount of eye rolling that happens.

THAT IS THE EXACT BOOK I AM TALKING ABOUT.

Everyone should read Witch Week by Diana Wynne Jones. A much needed corrective, although it preceeded HP, and the first book I felt slighted on behalf of when HP became a juggernaut. Also it’s just a really great book.

Counterpoint: Swinton (who may or may not be real, we may never know the truth) is the one who mentioned a fictional school in the discussion of reality so shit that ain’t real is fair game.

Counterpoint: Magic and flying lessons.

I meant fired but fried, fired... same shit.

Yeah, clothing worn by fictional characters is SERIOUS BUSINESS.

Minus the Desdemona bits. but seriously Melania, guard your hankies.

I could be wrong but I think he means assimilation. Gay culture to a degree really has merged with, well, everything. I’m an old, I’ve seen it happen. I’ve had fellow olds, gay ones, had mixed feelings about this. They like the higher level of acceptance but kind of miss the secret boy’s club aspect of their culture.…

You, however, can fuck off.

The president elect says there was voter fraud. Better do a nationwide recount.

I can tell you that “Inbred People Playing with Knives, Ends Poorly For the Ginger One” is something that happens around my white family quite often.

I get the impression Melania is a pretty devoted mother to her son. I’m not sure about her and Trump but I can see she loves and cares for her son.

This just stirred up a memory. I spent a weekend at Mar-A-Lago (I was there for a charity event) about 8 years ago. Donald and Melania were in attendance. I was pretty close to them as they were mingling. I hate to admit it but he did have a tremendous amount of magnetism (though I found him repulsive then and now)…

that seems obvious to most people, but keep in mind thats not the typical parent/child dynamic in that particular family.

One day I’m going to snap. One day it’s going to happen and I’m going to say something that might get me fired. I hope it is this sentence. Because it needs to be used. It is begging to be used all of the time in every situation. Thank you, Kara Brown. You are a treasure.

Presumably the same one that produced “Surrogte’s”.

I don’t get it either, and I’m a (mostly) straight white person. It seems to be more so straight men though. I have an ex who was very open about wanting to have children someday, and I was very open about not being sure that’s something I’ll ever want. I said if I did want to become a parent, I would most likely opt…

I guess it wasn’t a weiner.