k luck is green rapture rapture boiling faster 011016 ... b ! what!what!what! 070201 ... epitome of incomphrensibility It sounds weird, but I'm so glad Caitlyn Jenner didn't name herself Kaitlyn Jenner, because it'd give bigoted people the opportunity to sneer about "keeping up with the Kardashians" and whatnot. I guess I don't always_appreciate_alliteration after all. Kardashian_rhythm, interrupted. Syncopated! Yeah, syncopated. Anyway, I know there's this whole wealth and fame gap between her and most people, but I hope (naively, perhaps) this makes things better for more trans people. 150605 ... tender_square brea and i are in total and complete agreement: texting “k” to someone is incredibly cunty. mom thinks we’re exaggerating, she doesn’t understand text etiquette. she’s the only one we know who uses this in her responses, even though we bring up how problematic it is each time. “i do that because i’m so busy,” she claims. “not because i’m mad.” “ma, the tone of sending ‘k’ is like ‘okay, fuck off and die now.’” mom has been in long-standing fight with her sister rena since last year. it all stemmed from my grandmother’s care; last year she was moved from a retirement facility and into a nursing home. both mom and rena are power of attorney for grandma, though mom has been caring for grandma for over thirty years already. the two of them got into a text war the other day. grandma’s cd player broke and rena wanted to get her a new one; rena wanted mom to reimburse her from grandma’s own bank account. “that would make a great christmas gift for her,” mom suggested. “we’re always struggling to think up presents to buy her,” she texted. rena insisted it had to be bought right this minute, wanted mom to give her a signed blank check. mom wasn’t budging. brea and mom called me to discuss the escalation of texts. it got to the point where mom told rena to stop fucking with her. after, rena wrote to mom, “if you text me again, i will block your number.” “i told mom she should text back ‘k,’” brea said on speakerphone. “think about the cunty bravado of that move!” mom didn’t want to reply, didn’t want to stoop to rena’s level. “i agree, ma,” i said. “i wouldn’t respond either. just let it be.” “no! she has to respond,” brea pleaded. “fuck that shit! if she’s going to threaten to block mom, mom has to step to her to see if she’ll really do it.” her argument wasn’t convincing either of us. this morning, mom messaged me to say that after thinking about it for 24 hours, she decided to text rena back. mom wrote, “whatever” in reply to the blocking threat, which was pretty anticlimactic. brea was right; if ever a moment called for “k,” this was it. 211217 ... nr interesting! what if there's an exclamation point? (like "k!") i actually read the opposite from it, like fun and friendly, whereas "okay" is more formal. and it amuses me to no end when a 46-year-old masculine man i know texts me "kk." language is fun. 211217 what's it to you? who go blather from