Thursday Thread: Things I Relentlessly Mock… But Secretly (Okay, Not-So-Secretly) Love 😂

Let’s talk about magicians.

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Welcome to a whole new Magic, the Gathering!

Hello, Lovelies,

How the hell are you? Excited about Pope Leo? We do love a social justice Pontiff who calls it as he sees it. Huzzah! But let’s talk about magicians…

Yes, those magicians—the ones with completely unnerving facial hair, oddly proportioned heads, and a predilection for saying things like “Pick a card” in a skeezy whisper that suggests they might live in their mom’s basement wallpapered entirely with David Blaine posters.

I have, for years, considered it my sacred duty to make fun of them.

And yet… I recently watched the trailer for the new Now You See Me: Now You Don’t film and friends, I am in. Behold.

Magicians as heist masterminds? Say less. Rosamund Pike as a power-suited villain? Say no more. The premise is slick (I loved the first one), the illusions are wild, and suddenly I’m transported back to the time I went to the Magic Castle in LA and was fully humbled by a perfectly ridiculous man in a velvet blazer who made a coin vanish inside a sealed envelope… inside a lemon… inside my own purse.

So this week’s thread is:

What’s something you constantly make fun of… but actually love? (Think: Hallmark movies, astrology apps, men who own falcons, Trader Joe’s most unlikely seasonal snacks.)

Drop yours in the comments—I’ll be here, wondering if I’ve been hypnotized into finally respecting sleight-of-hand.

Yours in rabbits and hats, - xoxo - gotham girl

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