some-sort-of-interesting-person:
The Bechdel test is actually the craziest shit because at first you’re all like “two female characters discussing something other than men, alright, easy peasy, what a low fucking bar” and then you start to pay attention and you realize that like 80% of the films you watch don’t pass this simple test and it’s just
what the everloving fuck is wrong with our society
Read more »A friend and I, up in tropical Queensland on holiday - land of my birth. We are being buzzed by flies large enough to need Air Traffic Control, and slowly being drained of blood by the clouds of mozzies. The following conversation does not reflect any of my actual views. It was borne of frustration and humour.
Me: -slap- Hey, do we need flies for anything? Like, do they perform a vital role in the ecosystem or something?
Friend (amused): Yeah, I
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It’s official! I have been taking your prompts and turning them into inspirations for short stories for TWO YEARS.
And, because they contain fanfic, I can’t legally charge you for them, so they’re available as pay-what-you-want anthologies!
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For some reason, I can’t post my usual cover-art-and-blurb attempts to sell my books to folks, today. And trust me, I have been trying all day.
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Read more »“You suggested something diplomatic,” [Person] noted.
“What, I can’t be diplomatic?” I asked, affronted. “I’m extremely diplomatic. I’m just brimming with diplomacy.”
“Of the Admiral Perry variety,” [Person] said.
“Gunship diplomacy is still diplomacy,” I protested.
“This is all very well for definitive terms,” reminded Captain Mij. “But when it’s us versus the humans, perhaps a more delicate version of diplomacy might be called
Read more »Read more »1. “…that someone can love food AND have an eating disorder.
Many people with eating disorders spend their entire day thinking and obsessing about food, and many are chefs or bakers themselves. One reason is that restricting directly causes food obsession (see the Minnesota Starvation Experiment, but TW for emaciation, restriction, numbers, disordered thoughts and behaviors). Eating disorders are just that — a disordered relationship with food, rather than no relationship with food at all.
2. “…that eating disorders are an illness,
“It occurs to me…your inability to use the brain evolution granted you is none of my fucking concern.”
(There’s a difference between being differently abled and BEING WILFULLY IGNORANT)
[AN: Oh, don’t I know it. Just look at the majority of the Republican Party, anyone wealthy enough to never worry about bills, or Tony Abbott]
They’d carried through with it. The police, who he paid for with his taxes, had done little but make
Read more »Read more »I’m a man.
When I was born my grandfather congratulated my dad for having a son, and thanked my mother for giving my father a son. I got my grandfather’s name.
When I was a child, I could play with LEGO, because “Lego is a boy thing” and that helped my creativity. My ability to solve problems was stimulated.
I got HotWheels car-washes and gas stations. I also got a box of plastic tools, to assemble and disassemble toy cars
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All of 2014’s instant stories, packaged in easy-to-access format. Corrected of errata.
And because I love you [And because I fail at basic math] you don’t just get 366 stories… you get 367!
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You know, the only good thing about [operating system] is that even the viruses have compatibility issues.
Yusslisstek BSOS had only one advantage over other, more stable systems. It was almost completely immune to any kind of virus, trojan, spyware, malware or worm ever concocted by the devious minds of hackers anywhere.
This was mainly because BSOS was a collection of kludges held together by the willpower of the coders and, some suspected, dark sorcery.
It would certainly explain why, when it
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