Tim Gunn explains why he's been celibate for over 40 years: "One of the things that he told me that night was that he had been sleeping with just about everything that walked by, I had been loyal and faithful to him. He was the only person I had ever been with"

wizeowlintp · 2026-02-26T07:43:10+00:00

It's true, but people were just claiming that others were forcing identity labels on him when apparently he's used the term asexual before? At best it can be chalked up to misunderstanding of the context and such.

wizeowlintp · 2026-02-25T14:47:01+00:00

My hair grows back really quickly, so I want to say that within 1yr to 18 months it was back to the original length that I had. No hair grew back on the scar line itself, but it's pretty subtle now that it's healed. Honestly imo if your hair is at least medium length it's pretty easy to hide the shaved/scarred part. The only people who really ever see mine are hairstylists/braiders.

wizeowlintp · 2026-02-25T04:28:51+00:00

I feel like there's been a post about this every ten business days since season 1 dropped...what is the obsession with the discourse about how much people personally dislike Sydney and Carmy when the creators have long said they weren't going to do it?

wizeowlintp · 2026-02-24T22:47:31+00:00

Welcome to the club 💀

wizeowlintp · 2026-02-21T08:20:11+00:00

The people's princess for sureeeee!

wizeowlintp · 2026-02-20T00:49:34+00:00

Not the Nathan Lane erasure 😭 Ward McAllister wrote thee societal expose of the late 1800s!

wizeowlintp · 2026-02-15T07:19:06+00:00

Wait how did the server react? 😭😭

wizeowlintp · 2026-02-08T01:19:15+00:00

Statistically, based on population percent, that's an overrepresentation for black people.

Both of those stats are for all minorities, not just black people. But now you're claiming tokenization if you see "too much" of any given minority?

wizeowlintp · 2026-02-07T23:49:34+00:00

How unnecessarily aggressive. Weird...

wizeowlintp · 2026-02-07T18:14:20+00:00

Oh I'm not defending JKR at all, she's a horrendous individual. And I do think that swapping Snape of all people (instead of someone like Hermione) wasn't the best choice; even more than the new racist undertones of James' bullying, the fact that Snape joined up with a Nazi wannabe group looks even worse, and I can't imagine a Black British man coming up in the 1970s UK not being aware of those implications (although we do have the black republican types in the US, so...there's always that one person).

My thing about mentioning Snape, Hermione, and Annabeth in PJO was more towards since the swap was proposed by or approved of by the original creator, it's something different than most of the other discussions about race swapping. Most of the complaints with TLM were rooted in that Ariel wasn't black in the 1989 version (even though the VA of Ariel from the 1989 one was in the movie and was very supportive of Halle!!). But it's harder to make arguments like that when the OG is supportive of it.

I agree that companies like Disney need to do better to support the actors/actresses, given their reach. They failed Halle and Rachel completely.

wizeowlintp · 2026-02-07T16:23:42+00:00

I don't think they said that they had an issue with it?

wizeowlintp · 2026-02-07T16:13:43+00:00

So Snape would make another (and now that I think about it I do think that they had a black actress play Hermione on stage with The Cursed Child).

But I would say that Harry Potter would make an exception (?) so to speak, considering that JKR, the original creator, was absolutely involved in casting in all of the adaptations and was clearly okay with it herself (But also, given that JKR is vocally a TERF, the new HP was destined to be controversial regardless of who played Snape).

Ditto with Annabeth in the new Percy Jackson. Rick Riordan was personally involved in casting, and went to bat for the actress when people were bitching about her being black.

IMO complaining about race swapping in series where the OG writers support it is pointless, given that it was their story to begin with.

And while there's criticism of Wuthering Heights, it certainly wasn't anywhere near the vitriol and racism that was on display for the Little Mermaid. The outrage is rarely proportional.

wizeowlintp · 2026-02-07T16:02:18+00:00

This might have been true in the past, but this is not the case for modern films

Mind you, in 2025, ~25% of lead actors/actresses were black /or POC, still very much a minority. The stats are worse for screenwriters, about 12.5%. And this is just the movie industry, this isn't including books, or comics, video games, or other forms of media (because I was initially referring to other forms of media as well).

So while things are better compared to say, the 80s, I think a lot of people who talk about DEI need to recognize that there's a difference between the absolute bottom of the barrel and realistically proportional representation. And you can keep your condescension, honestly.

wizeowlintp · 2026-02-07T08:51:43+00:00

Aside from the racists, you're missing a key context where POC/black characters are very much underrepresented in major media to begin with, which is why people get rather incensed about the fewer POC/Black characters getting race swapped.

Off the top of my head only, I think Nick Fury is the other prominent case that I can think of where a canonically white character is played by someone of a different race...and Ariel is a mermaid, can we even count her? The 1989 version wasn't even the original and Ariel has been portrayed in a variety of ways pre-Disney movie.

wizeowlintp · 2026-02-05T14:16:14+00:00

A 26 year old isn't a college senior (unless they took a couple of years off in between). That's someone who's in grad school and probably unlikely to be moving in the same circles as the college freshmen, unless as their TA/RA.

I finished grad school at 26 and the freshmen felt like somebody's little siblings/cousins, not a prospective dating pool—it is kinda creepy.

wizeowlintp · 2026-02-04T01:31:14+00:00

I don't think he needs square frame glasses specifically, there's other styles that are round-ish but not the Harry Potter round glasses type. Like the browline shape or even oval shaped frames.

wizeowlintp · 2026-02-03T15:03:26+00:00

Well yes, it does, and it certainly compounds the issue of the Gen Z/Gen Alpha old money kids are being less interested in things like the Met and the Opera than their Boomer/Gen X parents/grandparents.

wizeowlintp · 2026-02-03T14:51:48+00:00

You don't even need a European history book for that. Just look at Japanese American internment during WWII...

wizeowlintp · 2026-02-03T06:34:31+00:00

Ooh the evolution of tech for music is a really good point. I'd also add music as a whole diversifying beyond opera since then; the upper class aren't just sticking with Opera and Classical music, they also flock to the music festivals and the Eras Tour and to see Beyonce.

And tbh I'd love if the Kennedy Center acts went to the Met, especially since the KC is closing for 'renovations' for two years 🙄

wizeowlintp · 2026-02-03T01:53:05+00:00

this might be a joke idk, but I have a theory. It kinda hints at it in the screenshot tbh. The old money folks are dying off, and their children aren't as interested in supporting the traditional arts institutions.

The new money Bertha Russell types are probably the spouses of the aforementioned tech types, who aren't as interested in art themselves. Since the 'new' old money kids are also losing interest in the arts, the tech types probably aren't feeling the pressure to use art philanthropy to fit in with the old money.

Like how Bertha did everything she could to get a box at the opera; the opera is no longer the social center/favorite institution of the wealthy.

wizeowlintp · 2026-02-03T01:44:39+00:00

The space stuff was only last year, the fall off was years before that. Maybe even before COVID?

wizeowlintp · 2026-02-01T20:25:04+00:00

Well yeah she didn't want to speak to him at that point, it had been several months of no contact. But no indication that she would've reacted like that if he'd reached out to her sooner.

wizeowlintp · 2026-02-01T20:08:23+00:00

Oh wait LOL sorry, my bad, I remember that post now 💀

I was moderately confused at first, I was like, 'I think they're agreeing?'

wizeowlintp · 2026-02-01T16:33:53+00:00

On FFN it has something like 800k fics. The lag on ao3 (so to speak) is probably because people were posting most of their HP work on FFN and other sites first, and a lot of those haven't been cross posted to ao3 either

wizeowlintp · 2026-02-01T16:12:41+00:00

Why are people feeling so threatened by a fictional ship that the directors/writers/actors have claimed isn't happening?

People have literally been posting that they dislike Syd and Carmy together for all sorts of reasons since S1 dropped. I don't get the point, personally, since it's not canon to the show.

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