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I own a very similar dress and have also been blessed with a chest that makes some dresses go from perfectly acceptable on the hanger to indecent on my body. I do not need a modesty cami underneath that particular dress.

I missed that one it must have been a story instead of a post. The one pic I see on his feed is completely staged. The room is too dark for anyone to study. And given how MacArthur operates, I can totally see him sparing no expense on a room like that, and only letting in his chosen few while the plebes look on. Maybe Jeremy has library privileges and can study there as long as he is on Daddy MacArthur's good graces.

The copy is misleading, and I can see how this would look like a bait and switch based on that post. My trained eye noticed there was zero natural light in the room. That tipped me off that the room is a repository and display space, not a space for actual humans to hang out. It would also be temperature and humidity controlled. Not a room the average person would want to spend hours reading in.

Anthony Ramos was so adorable and hot and awkward as Usnavi. I agree that Jimmy Smits is aging like fine wine.

As much as I do not want to defend MacArthur and his seminary, as a librarian who has done archival work in the past I feel I must. That is most likely not the actual library at the seminary. It's the rare books room. It's a place to display their treasures for special visitors like that photographer. The books were positioned for the photoshoot and then returned to their normal resting places. This is common procedure at most libraries especially ones who have expensive rare books in their collection. What's the point of owning a Guttenberg Bible if you cannot show it off, so libraries build these special rooms. This is not a room where the average student can go study and use the books there.

This was my first time watching a movie in a theater with other people since 2019. It was so worth it. It deserves to be seen on the big screen with no diversions. Anthony Ramos is adorkable as Usnavi. The movie feels lived in while also having fantastical moments.

A lot of snow?? A torrid affair with either a smoking hot Omar Sharif or an orange Julie Christie, or both??

It's been a minute since I last watched the first Avengers movie, but I do remember Loki's eyes being the bright blue like Hawkeye's for most of the movie until Loki gets pummeled by Hulk. Then his eyes return to their normal blue.

The Amish don't want their faces photographed. Their bodies and the back of the head are kosher. Jill's pics are still hella invasive though.

Mine is Ghost

They really weren't though. Reconstruction was all about bringing the states that seceded back into the fold, holding some Confederates responsible for their actions, and giving some protections to the newly freed slaves. Republican corruption during Reconstruction is another Southern myth. When Reconstruction ended, the Southern whites wasted no time attempting to undo any progress made and disenfranchising black voters. The literacy tests and poll taxes that were enacted to keep blacks from voting lest the South still have black members of Congress. The southern whites used this "corruption" by Republicans to justify their actions in the decades after Reconstruction. This was easily bought by many whites across America, and was a prevailing opinion during the time Margaret Mitchell wrote her book. It's easier for people to believe there was corruption than to examine their own racist beliefs and the racist actions of their ancestors.

It was also completely unnecessary. Elektra building a phone sex empire and making bank is enough. No need to have her launder some man's money for her to become rich.

Why do I get the feeling that your neighbor's dog leaves "presents" for the baseball players to find in the outfield?

The Big Lebowski is a great movie to quote, but not a great movie. The Coen brothers cared more for great lines than a coherent plot or actual characters and character development. In the hands of a lesser cast, the film would be forgotten.

He, as the kids today would say, ghosted her. They had only been seeing each other for like 3 weeks, so it should not have been that shocking to her when he didn't show.

I am completely aware of the Orthodox church. In fact, I was baptized and confirmed in one. But, it's a different religious tradition and really does not intersect with the faith of the fundies we snark on here. The Orthodox faith is Eastern Europe and Greece, the fundies here come from Western European stock. Their church history is completely based on Western European countries like England and France with a bit of Germany and Switzerland.

A couple of months ago, I was talking on the Jer/Jin thread about getting a signed copy of a new book by my Gay Dad, and it came in the mail yesterday. I'm quite pleased with it.

This is good news, but I'm still waiting on the sequel to 2009's Shades of Grey that was promised.

That's also a lot of books for Kevin.

I have never believed that Margaret Mitchell believed in all of the Lost Cause propoganda. In fact, she continues to have Scarlett poke fun at it all the time. Scarlett wants absolutely nothing to do with the Old Guard in Atlanta after the war. She constantly mocks them for their chosen path of genteel poverty and later their obsession with building monuments to the confederate dead. It's the movie that pushes the Lost Cause romanticism, not the book. It also doesn't help that Margaret Mitchell died before she could see how people misinterpreted her book. I do think she believed in the Happy Darky myth.

I have a lot of respect for La Nora, but no fiction series based on one couple needs 30 titles let alone the 50 plus the In Death series is up to now.

Blanca's career trajectory made sense. She finally loves herself enough to go back to school in a field where she can use her natural talents to succeed. I will give props to the show having her reach her goal of becoming a nurse in increments. Lulu kept on getting the short end of the writing stick. Her season 3 arc felt like the writers were scrambling for her to have something to do. I guess they pulled accounting out of their idea hat and ran with it.

Count me as another who had issues with the writing of this episode. It just did not completely gel together and felt forced in places. I was also confused by the timeline. I assume this episode took place after Angel and Papi's wedding so it would be set in 1995. So I was shocked to see that Pray died in 1996. It did not feel like a year or more passed from the opening to his death, leaving out Pray's miraculous recovery and sudden decline. I still don't see how no one noticed that Pray stopped taking the drugs. The 1998 scenes made zero sense as well. The scene between Blanca and Judy in the new OB ward rang false. They went from close coworkers who supported each other in the AIDS ward to people who haven't spoken to each other in years. I don't buy that the hospital was able to close down the AIDS ward and renovate it into the new birthing unit in less than a year, nor that Blanca and Judy stopped speaking to each other in the same timeframe. Yes, Blanca would have been busy getting her nursing degree and that would take her into different hospitals on rotation. And then you get the whole Sex and the City references which would not have happened in 1998. Only the first season of the show would have aired in 98 and that season was far from the glamourous girlfriends meeting up for Cosmos phase of later seasons. Why not push out those scenes to 2001?

And apparently, you can brag about your mob connections to just about anyone and never face any consequences. You would think that the mobsters would frown upon Elecktra telling Hot Chocolate and random waiters she works for the mob.

That sounds about right. Religious art is too Catholic for them, so no print of The Last Supper in their dining area. I wonder if Gothard would allow a painting like Jean-Francois Millet's The Angelus. its religious without being overtly Catholic.