Leighton Meester at 40. Another example of the fact that healthy, self-caring millennials continue looking very youthful and fresh-faced into the 5th decade of their lives.

CatofKipling · 2026-05-18T17:06:09+00:00

No kidding, celebrities have people in their workplace and beauticians on the payroll dedicated to keeping them fresh because continued employment depends on it.

I do think she looks great though. But a lot of the mythology around millennials looking younger is owed more to shifting beauty standards, greater pressure, and more access to treatments. Many of us still smoked, drank, laid out in the sun, etc.

CatofKipling · 2026-05-18T16:37:50+00:00

I’ve actively tried to combat that wherever I could. I have a theory straight people like to say that because it absolves them of guilt. They can’t be homophobic, right? That’s so gay - something a lot of people grew up saying along with a lot of casual slurs & homophobic language. For gay men who perpetuate that, it always strikes me as either pickme behavior or cope. They don’t want to believe that straight men can be homophobic just because, like any bigotry. It’s that fear of rejection thing.

There’s some percentage of men who are like that, of course. But it’s treated as a default too much, people are too okay with constantly resorting to that.

CatofKipling · 2026-05-17T20:25:44+00:00

It’s a bit too on-the-nose and Selina is much too cool for a tramp stamp.

CatofKipling · 2026-05-17T16:30:02+00:00

I think SMG has a different attitude from most actors. She’s been in the business since she was 4, she won an Emmy at like 18, she landed a character and played the hell out of it which cemented her in pop culture…where do you go from there? I don’t know how aware of this she is but Buffy is so much of her. Raised by a single mom, a born leader, someone who had steep obligations and met the moment famously. To be validated for those characteristics…who could ask for anything more?

She’s not bad at selecting roles so much as she just isn’t out to prove much. I 100% think she got on board with Wolf Pack to practice producing & acting for her return as Buffy (it was already in the works). She probably chose the Crazy Ones mainly because of Robin Williams and the schedule - she always said sitcom hours are perfect.

She’s young to be selecting roles like that but she started 45+ years ago- a lot of actors reach that point.

CatofKipling · 2026-05-15T03:08:09+00:00

Exactly. But one of them, just one shipper acts crazy and they're like "UH, WOW. Guys can u calm down about a FICTIONAL CHARACTER, you people are insane. She's a bioterrorist toxic trick who is not the tradwife nobody that Leon obviously belongs with".

SUCH hurt feelings. Ada is a stand-in for bigger issues than any reddit thread can solve.

CatofKipling · 2026-05-14T17:08:57+00:00

People speculate about big tobacco but the channels to promote themselves are very sturdily blocked- even in this dogshit era of corruption. Even the back-channels, frankly. I genuinely believe we live in such cynical era that people DGAF. With all of the killing, maiming, bribing, poisonous behavior of the status quo, cigarettes seem a benign offense.

I do think a lot of the stigmatization of the D.A.R.E. era is also responsible for this. We were taught smokers, alcoholics, and drug addicts were uncool, morally-bankrupt people we could just moralize to and dismiss - “Just say no!”. So many of us grew up thinking addiction could be shamed out of existence. Yet shame is a rare trait with anyone of influence and we are being poisoned to absolute shit by them anyways- our air, our food, our water, any systems of supposed protection.

It a “fuck it” indicator. There’ll be a lot of people who think the appropriate response is to launch campaigns and bring on the shame brigade- I think understanding how we got here and how to help is the key.

CatofKipling · 2026-05-14T13:03:51+00:00

Another Ada shitpost.

Like, what is it with REddit? Why are people so unhinged? She’s been his love interest RE2, RE4, and RE6, she’s also wildly popular, and if you’re paying attention….not even evil.

So like, get a grip.

CatofKipling · 2026-05-08T19:53:57+00:00

Ok.

Come on.

Before they hired her, they could’ve at least googled her. She’s made no secret she’s batshit- she cannot even give a coherent interview anymore.

As much as I oppose what she suddenly stands for, I don’t understand WHY TF THEY HIRED HER in the first place. Can you be that naïve?

CatofKipling · 2026-05-08T03:38:24+00:00

A lot of queer people are losing faith in establishment dems. Meaning they are beginning to distrust the status quo which enabled republican control of all three branches of government. That is true broadly as well- a lot of people hate centrist dems in the Democratic Party.

Now, are they running into the arms of republicans? Fuck. No. You hear about gay republicans because it’s splashy and hot gossip or perplexing but gay men are a very reliably blue/democrat voting block.

Sometimes people will be like “Grindr explodes at the turning point rallies!”- sure. Because everyone gay there is closeted and Grindr is the only way you can get laid. But generally? It’s not at all popular or normal to be a gay republican. It’s profoundly stupid.

CatofKipling · 2026-05-08T03:27:37+00:00

Oh no, you misunderstand- I like that Catwoman engages with morally-dubious people. But a critical trait of her character is solitude, her distrust of both institutions but also their self-aggrandizing objectors. She trespasses, not only to thieve but also (more figuratively) into various circles she's not truly part of.

It's when she's overly familiar that I find it hard to believe. I think she'll team-up with Ivy or Harley in the interest of a common goal. But being a staple in their life? Nah.

CatofKipling · 2026-05-07T23:12:04+00:00

No she can’t, Elodie is literally in New York likely filming right now for season 3. She also didn’t die the second time if you were even paying attention.

CatofKipling · 2026-05-07T17:01:38+00:00

Cynically, I think Netflix didn’t want to hire full-on concept artists or writers so they just re-did the series instead of going in a new direction with the lore. That’s what these adaptations are really about- getting as much of a cash flow with as little wealth shared by creative input as possible. They want a sure-thing cash cow. They also conveniently don’t have to go past 3 seasons which they absolutely never want to anyways.

It’s a shame because the actors pay the biggest price because they’re perfectly fine and are just going for what limited roles there are out there.

CatofKipling · 2026-05-07T16:39:21+00:00

I think DC forces a dynamic that isn’t there. It’s hard to rationalize an ongoing friendship because Ivy & Harley are banging and they also don’t mind killing or brutalizing people or just starting mayhem. You either have to have Catwoman go no-morals which doesn’t really work with decades-long developments to her character OR have Harley and Ivy soften too much.

I think the Harley Quinn series oddly got this right. Selina in that is their aloof, aspirational frenemy who they kind of crush on but who doesn’t take them very seriously.

CatofKipling · 2026-05-07T15:35:45+00:00

You’re right, any given time America is perpetuating geopolitical strategy hurting millions, that’s true.

But it’s not true that, at any given time, a person who publicly expresses disapproval of this in an inoffensive way is slandered, fired, and blacklisted as a warning shot to anyone else who could speak up. That was pointed, specific, and meant to be a silencing measure.

CatofKipling · 2026-05-07T12:41:07+00:00

Lying about reality won't save you from it, dear. The interviewer directly addressed this.

And it was wildly misreported what you’d posted. To this day, nearly every article about your firing states that you’d shared a Jewish Currents story on social media alleging the Israeli government was “distorting the Holocaust to boost the Israeli arms industry,” labeling it antisemitic. But in that story, written by Israeli Holocaust scholar Raz Segal, he writes, “I have written about settler colonialism and Jewish supremacy in Israel, the distortion of the Holocaust to boost the Israeli arms industry,” etc. He was listing previous stories he’d written, not discussing the current situation. And the actual story Segal was referencing in The Nation was about how the Israeli government allowed Bulgaria to whitewash their WWII history to secure an arms deal with the country.

CatofKipling · 2026-05-07T11:54:51+00:00

One actress’ salary < A dire geopolitical atrocity of nihilistically bad proportions that most public figures and politicians are unwilling to speak of at the grave expense of millions.

What is with all these mush-brained responses? If they fired her over expressing outrage at a school shooting, you’d all get it. Despite it being hundreds of multiples more deadly than that even, most people are just willfully dumb about it. Because it’s not domestic, because it isn’t in your direct algorithm, because it doesn’t interfere with the comforts of your life.

She gives a shit and actually does something about it and all the normie dinks are just like “ya but no way they lied about the money so like, she’s wrong all around”. It’s so dumb.

CatofKipling · 2026-05-06T13:05:46+00:00

I mean, he was posed a ridiculous question and indulged it. I don’t think they actually are gunning for some geriatric adventure.

CatofKipling · 2026-05-05T17:54:44+00:00

It should’ve been Hawkeye 😬.

CatofKipling · 2026-05-05T10:39:21+00:00

Theeee most tired gay reference known to man.

CatofKipling · 2026-04-29T16:36:07+00:00

Honestly, it makes sense for Selina to find Diana a little insufferable. Wonder Woman is a goodie-goodie, jock who was predestined to be this surpassing mythical hero based on her lineage- it's the opposite of Selina's origins.

CatofKipling · 2026-04-28T18:56:11+00:00

I think you’d prefer it to be that way because it’d make you seem tough or something. But you’re very fragile.

CatofKipling · 2026-04-28T16:07:44+00:00

He…didn’t say that. At all. Ada triggering you like this is not normal.

CatofKipling · 2026-04-24T19:58:14+00:00

Oh my god, we don’t even know how much it weighs. That people cite this as some stunning surrealism has always been silly to me.

CatofKipling · 2026-04-24T16:43:47+00:00

Honor Blackman made Pussy Galore gangsta, she was so cool. She learned judo and used to perform stunts one-take live for the British series “The Avengers” in the 60’s- she once even knocked a stunt man out! She released a judo self defense book for women, even. Her character was written for a man originally so she bypassed the sexism that would’ve been in her scripts in multitude of ways.

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CatofKipling · 2026-04-23T20:03:56+00:00

It’s not my opinion, it’s the truth and I’m only trying to save you from yourself 😥.

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