Proctor’s Farm, painted by Peter Brook:

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Curious newcomers and those with nothing better to do are welcome to rummage through the Reheated series in search of entertainment. You may find things you’d missed. And this, needless to say, is an open thread.

To you and yours, a very good one.

Some low-grade cross-dressing drama, complete with finger-wagging:

Always the eyes pic.twitter.com/upjZNy9H4z

— shellshock (@shellshockkk) December 17, 2025

Are you not persuaded?

Mr Zara Paquette, our vision of loveliness, has been featured here before, when barking his commands to the actress Keira Knightley, as if she would be watching and dutifully taking notes. Like a good, obedient woman.

Update, via the comments:

Rafi asks,

Hygiene aside, I’m still processing the fact that a man who wants to violate women’s private spaces, who regards womanhood as some kind of costume, and who expects deference from women regarding what they may think and say, is now lecturing us on “patriarchy,” misogyny, and “toxic men.”

Everyone remember where we parked.

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Consider this an open thread. I’ll set the ball rolling.

 

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But, you know, in a jolly kind of way.

Laughed, not sorry:

Imagine the daily torment of being married to someone high in neuroticism (emotional instability), low in conscientiousness, low in agreeableness, and eager to try anything new or exciting.

Imagine a spouse with the psychological profile of a Green Party member. pic.twitter.com/szrZP9A8o9

— i/o (@avidseries) November 25, 2025

And from the replies.

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