Legend has it that's how slash fiction was born in the first place, with Star Trek: TOS - a show with no female characters.

This has been on my mind lately as well, and for me it really comes down to fully developed characters, and the fact that most female characters in media sort of suck.

As a long-time slash fan (almost 10 years now, god), what bothers me about the fandom obsession isn't the screaming, but the way the fans' fixation on fictional characters can carry over into real life. I love reading and writing about fictional characters being together (because they're fictional, so me shipping them…

Ah the 'but they're you're BLANK' guilt trip bullshit.

"I think a lot of this is that people who are close with their family don't understand the concept of not being close with your family."

I think a lot of this is that people who are close with their family don't understand the concept of not being close with your family. My parents weren't abusive, and I don't actively dislike them or anything, but...I just don't want to be around them. Like, almost ever. I have one or two things in common with my…

I think sometimes abusive parents have a tendency to believe the lies they've told themselves about how wonderful their children's childhoods were. Particularly if their children turned out to be decent adults.

Isn't it a known thing that a teardrop means the person has a murder under his belt?

"She tourniquets her arm at the elbow with an ice pick and towel, washes the blood off, puts the offending knife onto the gas fire, heats it to a nice brick red and...wait for it...cauterize her own arm."

Jesus, that manager in the 4th story is a real sociopath. How would it even make your scheduling easier to only plan one night ahead, at 4am? Do people just plain enjoy making their employee's lives miserable, for fun?

We have to stop criminalizing teenage dumbassness. Teens will always be stupid. That's what being a teenager is for.

Hayley Atwell really is fantastic - every now and then, she pulls an Alias - wears a disguise, does an accent, and you really feel like you're watching a totally different actor in the part.

That they're comparing Iggy's (supposed) sex tape to Bill Cosby drugging and raping multiple women over decades is appalling.

My worst Christmas memory also includes my grandmother...the very last one she was alive for. My father and I drove through a blizzard to pick her up and bring her to our house as she had cried that she couldn't be alone on Christmas. We get back to our house and are opening presents. I hand her one and as she takes…

I have a goodie! Three years ago, my grandmother on my mom's side decided since my sister and I didn't have children, she wasn't speaking to us. Mind you, I was 24 and my sister was 21. Both very single.

Every time I read an article explaining how white people who think they are helping really aren't... this is the response from so many white people. "I don't know what to do then, maybe I should just do nothing?" If we stay inactive with the excuse of "not accidentally making things worse," we're letting the racist…

Unfortunately, all this law accomplishes is moving production and jobs overseas. You can judge all you want about porn performers who choose this line of work, but this is their chosen profession and now they will be out of jobs, as well as many other production people. Boo on you, California.

When I was 14, I was similarly groped...by Chuck E. Cheese. Fortunately, the waitress swatted him firmly in the ass with a pizza tray mid-skeevy hug and hauled him off. When "Chuck E." came back later, he was a foot shorter and much fatter. None of the adults supposedly hosting the birthday party (I was escorting a…

The best part was that when my mom came to get me after I got fired (I was 16 — I couldn't drive myself yet!) she wanted to stop by the mall on the way home. There was a fancy new store that sold tapes and CDs (! — hey, this was 1986!) opening up, and they were setting up the store. In a fit of bravado I asked if they…