I'll be darned if anyone else can turn this heel of a thread towards more crafting puns...

A-Men. I became a feminist before I learned to knit, and I don't know that I would have learned how to if I hadn't been able go give up the bullshit that is internalized patriarchy that had been teaching me that 'feminine' habits were somehow inferior ways of spending your time.

See, I kind of feel the opposite - because I felt genuinely relieved when my creeping sense of dread didn't play out into the horrible ending I was beginning to expect, and that's crazy. Gone Home is actually one of the first times that someone's actually managed to invoke relief as an emotion in me as a result of a…

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Well, this was over 15 years ago and my brother was ten, so his idea of 'clean' was probably not quite up to par.

My brother had hermit crabs when he was a kid (one was named Speedy and the other one was Mr. Fiddly I think) - he also has a permanent scar on his pinky finger from the day he was trying to handle them, and one latched on and would NOT let go. I think it took a solid twenty minutes to get the crab off his finger…

My industry is super gossipy - Who's been laid off, who's got money in the budget, who's suddenly hiring, this and that rumor that so and so is going to quit... yadda yadda yadda. But I guess that's the end result of an industry where companies go under in a matter of weeks and new one spring up in their place…

Vision in silver comes out today! I absolutely adored the first two in this series - Bishop actually does something a little different and interesting with the Urban Fantasy genre with this series, and I really dig it.

When I was about 6 I was the flower girl at the wedding of good family friends of ours (ie: Christmas dinner level friends). I didn't screw up the ceremony, but apparently I pitched such a fit over my dress that the bride resolved never to have children of her own (It wasn't pink enough? I think?). Lo and behold, they…

Here here. I live in a very dry city, and while it does get cold as tits here (technical term), the coldest I have ever been was when I lived near a lake. It would go 5 degrees below freezing (I generally do not consider this very cold, for context) and your eyelashes would somehow freeze themselves to your face…

Sometimes I forget that other parts of the world don't get temperatures below 0 degrees C, so I read these things and go, Uhh duh, how do people not know this? Then I remember and I am sad for them (Maybe I should be sad for me?). Over the years I've had lots of opportunities to interact with people new to Canada,…

I also think its important, especially when the information about you is no longer relevant - Like, say you were pardoned for a crime, it wouldn't be unreasonable to ask that search results about you being convicted of that crime be un-indexed (because, basically, that's all Google could possibly do). Or maybe you…

It is milk - it comes in bags!

My parent's dog does the exact same thing. She gets an after dinner treat, which at some point was intended to ensure her good behaviour while we ate, and to offset any guilt people may have felt about not feeding her table scraps. I recently learned, while dog-sitting that if you don't have dinner by 6:00 PM, all…

It took me about 2 months and like 15 different brands to find a wet food that my cat would actually eat. It turned out he wouldn't touch it unless it exactly resembled shredded chicken, without sauce. We have now expanded our range of foods to include: Shredded chicken with fish in it, shredded chicken with duck in…

I defy anyone not to rub the belly of this cat.

I feel your pain. The guilt tripping cats can lay on you is intense.

She might just have to grow into it a bit - I have a similar figure, and have had since I was about 15 (38/30/42 or thereabouts), and it took me a while to realize that cool androgynous styles don't work terribly well for me, even though I desperately wanted to I've had pretty good luck with Lucky brand jeans, as I…

Is it wrong of me that I'd much rather see To Say Nothing of the Dog instead of Doomsday Book? Don't get me wrong, I really liked Doomsday book but I'm not sure I want to experience that many emotional gut punches in full HD. Meanwhile, To Say Nothing of the Dog is the rarest of gems, a funny, smart, time travel…

Super creepy - way more creepy than mine.