Wesley: Illyria can be...difficult. Testing her might be hard without getting someone seriously hurt. Angel: We'll make Spike do it. Wesley: Good.

'Underneath'


Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


DavidS - Jun 15, 2021 9:09:22 am PDT #7016 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Excellent child launching, flea! May they have a bonny good time in Boston.

Take your mulligan, O. This year was shite.

I'm ramping up my social schedule and it's good! Yesterday I had drinks with my friend Michelle, who is the mother of Matilda's friend, Cat. We try to get together quarterly for cocktails and catching up but had missed Winter (due to lockdown) and Spring (due to...business). But I went over to their house, and we sat on their beautiful third story deck, and her husband, Paolo, made cocktails for us (Thai Basil gimlets). Michelle is the one soccer parent I've managed to "keep" long after that activity.

And this morning I'm taking Emmett's bestie, Joey, out to brunch. He's a starving student teacher living in the city, and a cinephile. I'm taking him to Zazie and introducing him to Gingerbread pancakes.

ION, I was reading this tidbit in Variety and I wanted to share my outrage. They vetoed the producers of Harley Quinn from letting Batman go down on Catwoman!

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“Harley Quinn” is also unique among the current crop of comic content in that its main character and all of her closest allies are villains rather than heroes in the DC canon. That allows the show to do different things with the characters that heroes simply cannot do — at least according to DC.

“It’s incredibly gratifying and free to be using characters that are considered villains because you just have so much more leeway,” says Halpern. “A perfect example of that is in this third season of ‘Harley’ [when] we had a moment where Batman was going down on Catwoman. And DC was like, ‘You can’t do that. You absolutely cannot do that.’ They’re like, ‘Heroes don’t do that.’ So, we said, ‘Are you saying heroes are just selfish lovers?’ They were like, ‘No, it’s that we sell consumer toys for heroes. It’s hard to sell a toy if Batman is also going down on someone.’”


Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 15, 2021 9:59:24 am PDT #7017 of 30000
"You should never say bad things about the dead, only good… Joan Crawford is dead. Good.” —Bette Davis

Who knows, they might have extended their toy sales into the teen market.


EpicTangent - Jun 15, 2021 10:09:08 am PDT #7018 of 30000
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

...or even the "Adult" market!


-t - Jun 15, 2021 11:21:28 am PDT #7019 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Not following the logic there, DC


meara - Jun 15, 2021 11:38:28 am PDT #7020 of 30000

Yeah, I pity the wives of those executives. Damn.

I am working on a new project at work and it is bananas. I just want to hide under the covers and yell “no!” But instead I have to escalate concerns and address client questions and find out where we went wrong over the past year and plan how to not do that again and I don’t wanna. What do you mean this is what they pay me for?!

Good luck on hand surgery Brendan!!

Owen! That sucks but glad he’s at least moving forward with stuff?? I don’t know that I would’ve done well as a teenage with online classes.


Dana - Jun 15, 2021 11:43:04 am PDT #7021 of 30000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

The internet had many reactions to the Batman thing, and they were all the best.


Steph L. - Jun 15, 2021 11:47:49 am PDT #7022 of 30000
Apparently if you're enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted.

“A perfect example of that is in this third season of ‘Harley’ [when] we had a moment where Batman was going down on Catwoman. And DC was like, ‘You can’t do that. You absolutely cannot do that.’

Wait, the Harley Quinn cartoon? That's already gleefully violent and filthy dirty? That's where they draw the line? Preposterous.


shrift - Jun 15, 2021 11:50:29 am PDT #7023 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

USPS informed delivery tells me that I have a jury duty summons in the mail today, so I guess nature is healing.


Steph L. - Jun 15, 2021 11:57:15 am PDT #7024 of 30000
Apparently if you're enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted.

I mean, Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy hook up. We know what they were doing, but Batman can't do it? Also, Selina Kyle would not tolerate a partner for a hot second if they didn't go down on her. Truth.


Jessica - Jun 15, 2021 12:07:40 pm PDT #7025 of 30000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

The internet had many reactions to the Batman thing, and they were all the best.

It honestly got to the point were I had to mute the word "heroes" on Twitter in order to read about literally anything else.