gaudynight78.bsky.social
Twitter's official Dorothy L. Sayers stan account, 2018-24, now on Bluesky. New Englander in Quebec. Eph '00/YDS '04. Mom, priest (the sweary kind), writer (ask me about my musical!), doula. Yes, my grandma shot a Nazi. She/her. INTJ/5w4.
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Update: the rain has eased off and the class of '75 is umbrella-less
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17yo: "All they need is a caption: 'By some mysterious spell, the entire Class of 2000 has been transformed into umbrellas."
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It's mountain laurel, which is a close relative of rhododendrons.
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Mountain laurel! The state flower of Connecticut, where I grew up.
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At 46 with a 17yo kid, I certainly hope so!
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Same
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Well, and also adults may have very frail grandparents and not do the necessary mental work to remember that the grandparents of toddlers, especially in a premodern fantasy type context, could be 50ish?
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Fair!
(Though I'm always amused imagining his monastic brothers ribbing him for his enormous noggin)
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<medievalist vicar raining on parade> it's "teste" as in "testa," Latin for "head", French "tête" </medievalist vicar raining on parade>
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OH MY GOD SERIOUSLY
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So very valid 🤣
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Did you actually count??
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SAME
Plus my degree was free thanks to the Yale ISM!!
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Hmmm, where have we heard this language before?
"She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless ..."
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Please do not mistake this for celebrating what is happening, I have been dreading this inevitability since November.
And let me repeat that, it was an inevitability.
The open questions were 1) will it be done wisely, and 2) will people roll over.
And, blessedly: no, and no.
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RIGHT?!
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He personally hates LA and all the brown people in it. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Yes!! I've never understood how "picking blackberries" was supposed to mean what she wants it to mean in that line!
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Ugh, wtf. (Remind me what it is that you do?)
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LOLOL
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And also they're not willing to do the necessary work to actually use said force effectively (i.e. feeding their troops).
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Yep. One of the huge failure points of the US Constitution is that there's no provision for admitting the government has fallen and calling new elections, other than on the rigid 4-year schedule.
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WHAT THE FUCK
Guess I know what I'm calling about next
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So floofy!
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Among its many other delights, this story is so deeply, deeply German.
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There is no way to get the powers that be to see protest as anything other than a "fuck you", because ... that is, in fact, inherently what protest is.
Embrace it!!
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I did chuckle when he said "a first, second, third, fourth, sixth grader ..." those all may be harmless, but those fifth graders, man, you gotta watch out for them 🤣