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8 years ago @ The Toast - Women Who Have Gone Ba... · 1 reply · +64 points

There may even be fewer -- there are only 3 girls in Harry's year in Gryffindor. And, presumably, there were only 4 boys in his father's year or else there was one really disgruntled and left out housemate in the group*. (And, really, doesn't Peter make more sense when you think "There were four of them in the room, how could they possibly have left someone out." )

* I'll admit this didn't occur to me until I read a fic where they had a fifth roommate who just seethed all the time.

8 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 1 reply · +28 points

Aw, one of my 6th grade students came in to check out biographies of Clinton and Albright today and now I can only imagine she is doing research for her coffee shop AU

8 years ago @ The Toast - Movie Yelling: Tea and... · 0 replies · +10 points

Which, as I noted, is also a trope in this movie (though more subtly than in the play), so it's a twofer!

8 years ago @ The Toast - Movie Yelling: Tea and... · 3 replies · +54 points

I wrote a whole paper on this movie in college! I love (and by love I mean hate? hate-love? I kind of find them irresistible) the genre where it's ALMOST saying homophobia is bad but actually it's saying homophobic bullying is wrong because what if that person is actually straight? What then? Then you've called them the worst possible thing for no reason.

This is also one of those ones where the worst bully (Deborah Kerr's husband) was Gay All Along, which is not a trope I have love-hate feelings about, I'm pretty much solidly on "hate."

8 years ago @ The Toast - Which Classic Hollywoo... · 0 replies · +10 points

Coming down here to say the same thing. No one needs to choose, shhhhhhh.

(Everything else on the list is spot on, of course.)

8 years ago @ The Toast - Just A List Of Every C... · 0 replies · +4 points

Most of my concerts are with my parents (but are, I should clarify, people I lo-o-o-o-ve), so I've seen the Eagles three times and Billy Joel four, plus Elton John, Simon & Garfunkel, Barbra (huge disappointment, she basically tricked me into an Il Divo concert), James Taylor, Tom Jones (my idea)...

On my own/with friends/with my little sister, my concert list is a lot more queer college student-y, not much more hip, and pretty much equally unregretted:

Barenaked Ladies, 2003 & 2015 (ft. Colin Hays and Violent Femmes)
Of Montreal, 2007
Bruce Springsteen, 2008
Nellie McKay, 2009 & 2014
Ani DiFranco w/ Erin McKeown, 2010
Lucy Wainwright Roche, 2010
Roosevelt Dime, 2010
Amanda Palmer, 2010, 2012 (singing Purple Rain, it was great), & 2015 (ft. PWR BTTM)
Idina Menzel, 2012
The Both, 2014
Queen and Adam Lambert, 2015 (!!!)

(I feel I should add that I'm Mallory's age...I just had old taste and only saw one concert on my own before I went to college.)

9 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 0 replies · +3 points

Ditto to everyone and the Inman experience. I am from Cambridge and would dearly love to stay here, but I work in Milton and do not make super much money so I'm definitely considering relocating to one of the cheaper neighborhoods closer to work. (Not Milton. Milton is a void in a sea of low-rent apartments on Zillow.)

Actually, I may be thinking of buying a small condo in Roslindale/Dot/Lower Mills because my grandmother has just made an offer of a certain sum of money to all of the cousins, exclusively for use on real estate. I am thinking now that it may actually be more cost effective to use that money as a down payment and pay a mortgage fees tax than to rent anywhere. Especially because it would actually be nice(ish) and I could paint the walls and be in charge and essentially be paying myself, whereas anywhere I'm renting for less than half my income will probably be a junk heap with a landlord who never changes the hall lights or fixes holes in the roof or warns us ahead of time before 11 months of construction. (Not that I'm speaking from experience or anything.)

It just feels so grown up, though! I've fantasized about owning a place through nearly a year of 7 AM construction, but I did not think there would be an opportunity for it before my 30s, if I was lucky.

9 years ago @ The Toast - High-Water Marks For H... · 1 reply · +21 points

Just the mention of Archie Comics made me feel I have to note high marks in ASEXUALITY, which is that Jughead is #confirmed and I bought four issues of the new run this week (and got slightly side-eyed by my lovely* comic shop clerk, but nothing Archie has done since I was a kid has made me regret my childhood attachment to them, so her side-eying will not deter me)

* I've been shopping there for 15 years, and she actually is really lovely, Jughead-skeptical opinions aside; right after this we had like a 20 minute chat about Faith and how exciting it was to have fat positive superhero comic

9 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 0 replies · +4 points

yuppppppppp

But I also DID something really shitty, in addition to having really shitty things happen to me, so it all feels like terrible karma?

9 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 1 reply · +5 points

I am, and I've only been doing it for a month, and really mostly pretty casually, and it is so disheartening and soul-crushing still.

I've been an awful person who has, like, applied to 1-2 jobs/internships/school programs at a time and usually gotten them in the past, so no one needs to feel sorry for me, but this has been a really awful month for other reasons so aggressive silence plus one rejection has not...helped with that.

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