For everyone who doesn't get what "ratchet" is:

I had the almost exact same experience. I gained a lot of weight even though I didn't change any habits. Hormonal birth control and an onset of PCOS (I got my wildly irregular period in the 5th grade, boobs in the 3rd grade, period cramps from hell like I was dying, classic onset yet no one told me what it was until…

Ho, and this one is just because I guess most people except me will post english SF novels here... but the real shit is out there my friends. Legend of Galactic Heroes... Compared to this, Ender's space battle tactics are nothing. And once you'll begin to read about Reinhard, you'll remember it for the rest of your…

Oh, I went out with a great one-liner guy. Literally everything he said could have been put in a comedy series. Here:

It's like how when I was 3-4, my parents told me that they were perfectly well behaved children who never said no to their parents and never got upset when they didn't get their way.

I did the same thing! I had a Sailor Moon fan page, and as I learned about web and graphic design though that I eventually decided to open up a dedicated graphics site, that was still Sailor Moon and anime based. Now, over a decade later, I'm a graphic designer with a degree and everything, plus a small Sailor Moon…

Yeah, I've kept my FF fansite going for so long partially because of that. It's great to have so many resources, and maybe it's my ego talking, but I still feel like mine brought something else to the table (and continues to) that you can't get much any more.