things that are strange

I’m so happy to have been on the conformitygate bus this long because seeing Netflix say “oh uh yeah here are secret tapes of the show that we’re attributing to one of the shadiest characters that was noticeably absent from s5 and that we’re saying we found and we’re releasing one at a time and it’s going to be just the same content, every season of it, with different effects” IS WILD.

it's actually so tragic that my beloved taissa turner got an incredible setup, with consistent theming around seeing and being seen and how this relates to her experience as a highly ambitious black lesbian. in her first appearance (aside from being literally seen on television by another character) she and her family are posing for a photoshoot for a political puff piece, in their home. and it chafes. her wife is stressed, her son is young and over it. the photographer cheerily says "you're the queer kamala!" which tells us the narrow parameters within which she's being seen.

Okay, I hear people saying Mike is Jonathan, and that could be, but as usual I'm going to go one crazier.

Mmh I forgot that Robin and Nancy were also featured in their own chapter of Puzzle Tales in 2024 (while S5 was being filmed), where they went undercover in a hospital 🙃

Late for an appointment this morning because my beautiful son child stole a wrapped and bagged bologna sandwich containing roughly 300% his maximum safe sodium intake out of the lunch box in my backpack while I was on the shitter and refused to spit it out