Mucus: not as fun as it sounds.

[bodlon]

So LiveJournal appears to be dead yet still alive (like Leonard Cohen¹). This morning I was able to pull some tabs to read. Replying, though, seems to be more than can be asked for at the moment.

This is me, paying attention to the rest of the Internet this week. Anybody need a Dreamwidth invite?

The allergy thing is getting progressively less miserable, but seems to be sharing duties with some kind of chest cold action. Still, I'm feeling well enough that I had a positively cracking morning working on the novella. I'm also feeling good about the state of this month's Hold Something draft, though it's probably still a few days from done.

It's entirely possible that this feeling of hope is wide-eyed Pollyanna delusion, mostly because I try not to think of either of those projects in the same moment as thinking about my capstone, my philosophy class, or any of my other responsibilities.

I'm sure that I will get plenty of rest in June.

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- I am confused about how the possible upcoming Bill and Ted film is news. Wasn't this news a couple of months ago? Or am I just psychic about things I was freakishly into as a kid?

- David Thewlis played Remus Lupin as gay until he found out his character eventually marries Tonks. Counting down to hilarity in Potter fandom in 3...2...1...

- What Congress would look like if it really represented America. Bonus points for the Talking Heads reference.

- People apparently don't enjoy eating colorless food. I submit that the problem here is not that food lacks color without dyes, but that processed food lacks color without dyes. I have never had problems with fresh food needing a color boost. If anything, my most recent forays suggest the opposite.

- Woman attacks, tries to rip down a painting by Gaugin at the Smithsonian for being "homosexual" and "pornographic." The culture wars, ladies and gentlemen. (The painting, incidentally, is fine.)

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¹ That's Leonard Cohen a la The Young Ones, not Leonard Cohen a la "evil sexy Leonard Cohen" as I have heard him called.

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Comments

[lefaym]

I'm pretty sure that Thewlis said he was playing Lupin as gay on the special features of PoA -- and I think I read that he said that again during the whole "Dumbledore is gay" thing in 2007 -- he said he thought Remus would be the one getting outed.

[bodlon]

Nice. I've never been deep enough into the fandom to follow these things particularly closely.

It's a shame we can't have more than one gay wizard at once...

[lefaym]

I saw Remus as gay long before I was in fandom (which I didn't join until a few months after Deathly Hallows was released) -- and in my head he's still either gay or bi. I honestly can't read him as straight, in a way that has nothing to do with slashiness (as I said, I've read him this way since before I was even reading fic).

While it's not surprising, it's also disappointing and a little chilling that the only gay character that Rowling says is canon is also someone who spent his entire life suppressing his sexuality after one bad experience as a teen. It's ironic, really, that so many fundementalist religious groups were upset by Rowling's revelation, because really, Dumbledore did exactly what they think queer people should do.