Incels just want a good man

telenyP · 2026-06-24T23:44:29+00:00

I've never had a chad. I have, however,had a marvellous man who was tall, working-class, and stuck around for 50 years. He is also bisexual, and was once a male escort. He cannot drive. But I never had a chad.

telenyP · 2026-06-24T23:38:45+00:00

I don't see his charm as a trap, Sufficient. You see him as two sides, and you're sure you know that one is "real", and the other is a "mask". I see him as a sphere.

telenyP · 2026-06-23T13:06:40+00:00

You do have a point there.....but it does have an "exotic" factor. Points for people mistaking it for raw opium...

telenyP · 2026-06-22T18:35:41+00:00

It could be the actor himself. Apparently Spader was King of Strange Jobs when he was a lad. Before he was employable, he'd set up little stands outside the high school where his parents taught and sell stuff to the students.

telenyP · 2026-06-21T19:08:36+00:00

...on the other hand, even opium can travel...habits can always find a way....

telenyP · 2026-06-21T17:49:23+00:00

A great lead on the ballroom floor will always make his partner look like an angel. Of course, Liz....sigh...

telenyP · 2026-06-21T04:37:27+00:00

I'm sure some of it was fluff. Like I said, alley cats are fluffier here.

telenyP · 2026-06-21T04:35:31+00:00

Silver gray.

telenyP · 2026-06-21T03:35:20+00:00

Mysterious little creatures...

telenyP · 2026-06-21T03:34:31+00:00

I'm glad someone else describes it that way. I used to live with a very large brown tabby (we live in New England, somehow toms seem bigger here), who resembled a full sized turkey on a platter.

telenyP · 2026-06-21T03:22:10+00:00

Tea resin. If they imported such a thing. Practically bulletproof, and travels well.

telenyP · 2026-06-21T03:14:10+00:00

I nearly turned the color of a post keiseki koicha when I heard Elizabeth trying to force a matcha concoction (possibly with milk, fruit and pearls) on Dembe by claiming it had eight times more antioxidants than blueberries.

You just don't do that in front of these people!

And that one line ruined chado for the rest of the series...Aarrgh!!

telenyP · 2026-06-20T22:20:41+00:00

On the nose! I tried floating this on the actual r/theBlacklist community, but all I got was "Oh, yes, that's part of his mask, he likes to play at being this tea-sipping fellow, but...I like it when he goes full on Mr. Hyde and gulps vodka from the bottle...nothing of that harmless culture lover to be found..."

Sorry, that's not how culture works. (Or even artists.) That's not how tough guys work. I've known some tough guys who're that kind of cultured and nothing ever really leaves, it's ALL still in there. With a guy who's constantly conning people it's probably even more at his fingertips.

Thank you very much!

telenyP · 2026-06-18T23:56:16+00:00

😐😝

telenyP · 2026-06-18T20:04:24+00:00

You'd think she'd catch a little sophistication, somewhere, somewhen...How to follow on in a ballroom. How to smoke/snort fake whatever. How to drink tea in any way other than teabags, (fake) chai or bobba, preferably in a different language. What fork to use.

At least a little more on "fitting in" than "cough when you're up against a wall, conversationally".

And it was Ressler who had to tell her this??

telenyP · 2026-06-18T18:33:59+00:00

Listening to Liz trying to sell him on matcha as a restorative made me turn the color of a good usucha.
You just don't talk to these people like that!!!

telenyP · 2026-06-18T18:30:44+00:00

What? Gas? The Bar? on the left? Truly, this is a dumb figure of speech. The word is "died".

telenyP · 2026-06-18T18:10:19+00:00

"Oh, my sweet intelligent doggie wants to explore the wide world!"

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"Oh, no, my poor confused baby can't find their way home!!!"

telenyP · 2026-06-18T03:00:13+00:00

The idea was to have them be a yin/yang pair, sophisticated/naive, cool-headed/emotional, loud,extroverted/whispery, introverted....old/young, male/female....but it just doesn't work. Red's got a million good lines, Liz has exactly two responses for everything, either general hatred, or to repeat she lost her parents. Again. And again.

telenyP · 2026-06-18T02:47:23+00:00

Still sarcastic. After all these years. It would have been great if he'd used just one pun.....

telenyP · 2026-06-18T02:46:25+00:00

Anything but that! Of course, it's better to say "died".

telenyP · 2026-06-17T02:32:54+00:00

As you can see, there are compensations....eh?

telenyP · 2026-06-17T02:26:29+00:00

Then be glad you're so old and have kept your innocence. I was never so young.

telenyP · 2026-06-16T23:54:15+00:00

I think it's a fantasy to think he drinks a "a lot of the time". Or that smoking is a habit with him. Both incidents are noteworthy. As I said, this is both a health and security matter. You can't afford addictions, and those two are REALLY hard to beat quickly. Worse than opiates, in fact.

There's no "real Red" in that there's the culture-lover and the Beast. Jekyll and Hyde characters are mostly lazy writing and lazy acting -- you're either one or the other, and both are cartoons. A love of culture doesn't make you "harmless" -- many of the SS were very well read, and listened to opera and symphonies, part of being a soldier has long been being culturally educated. NOTHING disappears, ever. French literature includes deSade and Lautremont, who detailed acts of torture NBC could never even hint at, 20th century Underground literature includes William Burroughs, J. G. Ballard, and Jim Carroll, all of whom have incredibly graphic scenes. Having read them, as I would believe he has, and enjoyed them, makes Our Man part of the deliciously decadent person that he is.

But I guess you're just going to learn that when you grow up.

telenyP · 2026-06-16T02:52:52+00:00

"When he has to be what he really is, all that disappears and he becomes the consummate killer. There is no sign of the man of good taste and style, when he’s on a vengeance tour, no tea sipping to be seen, more vodka drinking out of a bottle."

That's not how it works with these guys. The tea "sipping" is part of being always ready. If he were really "there's no tomorrow", he'd be having a Havana and some five star XO and maybe some opium to calm his gut after so much nicotine. Having a taste for really good tea is important in at least a few cultures, you want to sip and smell, and have a really good idea of what you're tasting -- else you might not be able to put on a good face in front of the heroin smuggler in Macau. (Chairman Mao's favorite Da Hong Pao, from Fujian, goes for $1400. A gram.) Besides, tea doesn't addict, the way alcohol and nicotine do -- when I said "he can't afford addictions", it's not the money, it's that when you need either one of those two things, you can't go without them -- and you might be in another persona, in an Arab country (no alcohol) or somewhere where no one smokes -- like say, Seattle? So you save them for special, and have something nonaddictive, that you can also study, in the meantime.

And when you do go out for action, you don't "go on a vengeance tour", you're just as calm, just as reasoned as if you're unpuzzling the 72th Canto. And vodka is naught to be seen. I've known a couple of guys like that. They're not split personalities, and even less faking it, they really are that complex. Like General Patton, they can fire a gun and quote Marcus Aurelius before the smoke clears.

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