prove me wrong, kids -- prove me wrong!

[bossymarmalade]

Thank you to dine and stellamira for your lovely holiday cards! It's still thrilling to get mail at the new place; it means we're there for a good long time and I don't have to keep using my folks' address, heh.

Lori and I mainlined the new Titans show and omg, it's so deeply fulfilling to see a DC property made in a way that we feel on a visceral level! Plus the most perfect racebending of Kori and Gar to ever exist! Plus you-know-who showing up for the first time in non-animated form and before he becomes the woobie asshole that everybody inexplicably adores! Plus Dick Grayson cussing = happytimes for me. Also DONNA EEEEE OMG DONNAAAAAAAAAA

In other blithering on about tv, 1) why is Carla Gugino so goddamn hot and 2) why was there not more Craincest represented in Yuletide. We are watching Haunting of Hill House on repeat, as you can tell. I mean I know it's like the lovechild of The Others and Inception, but hey, it's done in such an evocative way! And I've always been a sucker for characterization over plot any day. Plus, idly, I wonder if more ppl in fandom relate to Theo, or to Luke. Or maybe Nell? I can't see anybody admitting they're a Steve or a Shirley. PS. I am a Steve.

I hear The Children on tumblr are, in their posts about Mary Poppins, tagging a certain actor as #dick van d-slur. I just ... insert gif of Principal Skinner here. Either the one that says "no, it's the children who are wrong" or even better, "up yours, children!"

Tim Hortons has some kind of new flavour Timbit that I plucked out of an assortment and I don't know what it was. Maple? Caramel? Coffee? Toffee? Toffee coffee? It was confusing and I didn't like it. New Timbits have no place in my world.

Now excuse me, I need to go stick my finger in a d-slur.

Comments

[the_future_modernes]

Dick van d-slur huh? Hmm.

[bossymarmalade]

Van Dyke is the man's goddamn name! I don't even KNOW how one would get to the d-slur conclusion.

[dragovianknight]

I don't even KNOW how one would get to the d-slur conclusion.

In Tumblr-land, there is no room for nuance. That which is wrong is always wrong.

This is why I've basically retreated from social media platforms entirely.

[bossymarmalade]

there is no room for nuance

Ain't that the damn truth. Some Child was giving a 'preferable' option to spell his name backwards like he's goddamn Mister Mxyzptlk or something.

[goss]

#dick van d-slur

*sporfle*

[bossymarmalade]

RIGHT??!?!?

[petra]

#dick van worst cockney accent--what is wrong with these precious children? I hope for the sake of the locals that one of them ever have to go to Scunthorpe, UK; Dildo, Canada; or Fucking, Denmark.

Do they get worried about Fishkill, New York, too? Words are so scary.

[bossymarmalade]

The Children have utterly confused themselves in their race to be Most Woke -- it's such a parody of itself by this point! And SO US-centric, dear heavens.

[siria]

tagging a certain actor as #dick van d-slur

I hope none of them decide to go into flood management engineering.

[bossymarmalade]

They'll file grievances against the teacher in their very first class.

[st_aurafina]

#dick van d-slur
*chokes*

1) why is Carla Gugino so goddamn hot
I don't know, but I sure am grateful.

I cannot wait for a spare minute to watch Titans! It looks so great!

[bossymarmalade]

HELP THE CHILDREN

omg I have loved Carla forever, her and Rachel Weisz and Salma Hayek. I guess I have a type, heh.

I expected Titans to be a wretched mess, like most other DC franchises, but it's sooooo good! I hope you enjoy it when you watch :)

[dine]

I'm not even *on* tumblr, and I'm so damn tired of The Children.

I totally want to go thump some heads with my cane, whilst screaming "dyke dyke dyke" (I can get away with that, as I am one)

[dragovianknight]

My previous experience with The Children is that you'll get Edumacated about your self-oppression by people young enough to be your own damn kids.

[bossymarmalade]

BINGO

[bossymarmalade]

The echo chamber effect of tumblr takes on some really fucking weird weather patterns, like the insular tornado of anything resembling queer theory. The Children are the eye of the storm and everybody else is ass over teakettle on their way to Oz, lol.

[copracat]

Wait, hold on. You mean there are tumblr posters who are writing d-slur instead of dyke? Dyke? God help them when they get to modern Dutch masters in their high school art class.

This reminds me of when I was watching an epsiode of Angel on TV in Singapore and something weird seemed to happen to the sound during some dialogue. We eventually worked out that one of the characters had said 'private dick' in a sentence and the TV censors had just cut the word 'dick' without replacing it with anything.

[feuervogel]

These are the same children who rain down on anyone who posts the word "queer" as in "I am queer" with "q**** is a slur sweaty :) :) :) ". I've been sick of that nonsense for years already :P

[bossymarmalade]

When my sister and I were running a tumblr roleplay game that we termed 'queer-friendly' we got an anon telling us that queer was a slur and we were like, hrmm, that's the first that these two queers have heard of that. XD

[bossymarmalade]

They will have an uprising against their teacher! And then write about it in their tumblrs with lots of added detail that sounds super duper fake!

ahahahah omg, Angel was just a private without a dick. I feel this is a metaphor for something. XD

[trascendenza]

1) why is Carla Gugino so goddamn hot
RIGHT??? I was just thinking the other day how it's been too long since she graced my screen!

[bossymarmalade]

SHE IS GORGEOUSNESS. And yet she can convey that sense of creeping madness so very, very well. Ugh I need some Hill House icons.

[torachan]

The children are so very wrong.

[bossymarmalade]

The Children are insistently, proudly wrong, bless their little cotton socks.

[allchildren]

DICK VAN D-SLUR

[bossymarmalade]

I DEMAND THAT ALL REFERENCES TO HIM BE RETROACTIVELY CHANGED TO THIS