There are also the classics, parlor palm and cast iron plant. Amarylis is similarly hardy, although I have yet to get a bloom, and rosemary (or which there are creeping varieties if you want a groundcover) and lavender are resistant to everything but overwatering.

Formation still sounds just like Ballad of the Green Berets.

I wonder if they’re realizing that he agrees with them as much as he does with people who think Hillary Clinton assassinated JFK: maybe in some of the superficial stuff but not the real meat of the theories.

Yeah, what I saw was that the writers were giving winks to fans on their engagement and those same fans retaliated for their fantasies not being made cannon by calling the show not being outright hostile to them “baiting.”

I think he went beyond that in saying that the fans who insist that any scene that has two dudes in the same shot must be at least “baiting” is basically creating an Annie Hall situation for men, basically telling them that they can’t have a friendship with anyone.

I dunno, this just sounds like the standard Tumblr “if they didn’t want me to deliberately misconstrue everything, why didn’t they come to my house to confiscate my thumb tacks and red yarn” I’ve been seeing since Naruto.

You can see the same thing in arguments about whether YA and fanfic deserve more respect. Straight WASP women writing and reading about gays are somehow more subject to stigmas against “marginalized people” than Chinua Achebe, Elie Wiesel, and Oscar Wilde.

I think he was pretty clearly speaking about straight WASP women using insistence on “representation” to try to get their way. You know, the ones who insist that fanfic and YA are queer and black and so are only less respected than Night and Things Fall Apart because of stigmas against marginalized voices, or that the…

I wish superhero designs would incorporate history and lore more. For example, Kara is classically from siver age Argo city, which distinctively has a design language based around sleeveless-over-sleeves:

Also, “envy” as opposed to “jealousy.”

In Japan, they’re called “fujoshi,” or “rotten women.”

Also, the fujoshi using “representation” and “baiting” as cudgels against rival ships, fans stock in the realm of sanity, and the people making the media.

Classically, Anglo-American homes are sepparated into “zones” by flooring. Entrance-ways (mud rooms) and work rooms are tiled, hosting/public areas get hardwood, and private rooms (bedrooms, den) are carpeted. Long Nineteenth Century homes could often have intermediate spaces defined through rugs (to the point of…

These usually make the comments but are deleted. I remember when they were still trying to destroy slide summary comments.

Yeah, this decision is going to be one of the most-cited in analyses and histories of the court simply because the odd combinations is indicative of it providing a unique insight into the justices’ philosophies of analysis.

The heart is in the right place

By “exploiting,” he pretty clearly meant accusations of queerbaiting. Basically, every time a horny girl decides to fantasize about two guys and the showrunners don’t use her fanfic for the show’s script, she screams “baiting.”

Male friendship - close, deep, platonic friendship between two men (sexual orientation of the parties involved not a factor, they don’t want each other) where there’s talking and shared emotions and deep empathy... isn’t celebrated or seen much, thanks mostly to homophobia, sexism, and the American mythos of being a…

Basically, the fujoshi declare any depiction of homosocial/platonic bonding by men in media to be sexual and lose their fucking minds when the showrunners don’t reveal it to have been sexual, in effect campaigning for the elimination of male friendship from culture.

but getting upset at fans (LGBT+ or otherwise) simply enjoying fan interpretations or exploring that potential in fanworks is even more daft