I have not felt such an intense surge of joy watching anything election-related in a long, long time. What a strange feeling. :)

I had a psychiatrist who told me once that people are, in general, “attracted to physical signs of health”, which, assuming there’s anything of merit to that statement, is something that is easily overridden by cultural beauty standards or even individual beauty standards.

I also refrained from telling him that is…

Luckily, there aren’t any fire ants where I live. I am ridiculously creeped out by ants though to the point where if I realize I’m holding something that’s crawling in ants, I lose all mental control of my body and I fling the object as far away from me as possible and quite ungracefully start leaping towards higher…

Hey, sorry for the late response! It’s a long one. So my optometrists wanted to be especially certain I was the perfect candidate for LASIK, otherwise they wouldn’t perform the surgery on me. They weren’t there to sell the procedure to me if it was going to cause any significant risks. I’m not sure if all LASIK…

My desire to get LASIK was confirmed after being incapable of finding my glasses in the morning, walking outside to feed the cat, and stepping into a seething pile of ants on my porch. *cries just thinking about it* I do not miss waking up to nothing but the blurry, blobby shapes of my room and falling asleep knowing…

This trailer just reminded me of one of my biggest movie-related pet peeves: that dramatic, adrenaline-pumping whooshy sound that has absolutely zero effect on me other than annoying the crap out of me! Where does this sound come from and why does it seem like every mainstream movie of every genre uses this…

I don’t really know how to identify myself racially and it’s something I’ve been thinking a lot about recently. If genetics mean anything, I’m half-middle eastern, half-white with an entirely muslim name and no real connection to that half of my family other than genes. I realize that the middle eastern countries get…

No, I’m a feminist who is voting for Bernie because from the time I started paying attention to politics (as a very pissed off pre-teen during the Bush era), I do not remember politicians talking about poverty. It was always about the middle class—-the “average American”. Then the recession happened and we…

You know, it never crossed my mind to make a distinction between the two, even though I’m a person who has tried to figure out for years what a good diet can look like. (I also tend to be skeptical of every new diet I hear about for a very, very long time until it passes through whatever informational filter I’ve…

The sole of that shoe reminds me of the underside of a mushroom....not the cute little button mushrooms you find in the store but those gnarly field mushrooms that may or may not kill you if they find their way into your mouth somehow. And now I’m reminded of the time when I was a kid when my best friend chased me…

Whenever I read conversations about literature on feminist-oriented websites, I always feel like there’s a conversation I’ve missed out on when it comes to David Foster Wallace/Infinite Jest. What did he do to inspire so much vitriol and why is he associated with literary douche-bros? I know some genuinely un-douchey…

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Proof that the faces of Victoria Justice and Nina Dobrev are virtually indistinguishable. It is unfuckingreal.

YESSS. His reaction was everything I imagined it would be. The best mix of bewilderment and delight. I even brought the present into the room, all theatrical, after we were done watching The Nightmare Before Christmas and he didn’t even register that it was for him.

This is my getting him back for his prank on me last…

Will do. :)

He admitted to me a few months ago that receiving the surprise cake was intensely meaningful to him. So of course I need to mess with him for Christmas!

I think he found it super boring! :)

One of my best friends comes from a Jehovah’s Witness family, and while does not actively participate in holidays (or the church for that matter), he really, really appreciates being included in my family’s half-assed celebrations. Last year for his 26th birthday, I surprised him with his first birthday present—-a…

Hmm, it’s not crazy at all but I’m very fond of it.
When I was about 4 or 5, I begged my dad to read me Heidi, which I’m sure I was only interested in because the cover was cute as fuck. He starts reading normally (imagine a very heavy Turkish accent) for a few paragraphs, stops abruptly, and then tells me he can’t…

Briefly glancing at the title, I tried to imagine what a “revenge body” might entail, as I’ve never encountered the term until now and all I could think of was a body with weapons grafted onto it.

Someone was just mentioning this quote on my Facebook feed!

Caitlyn said: “I think it’s much easier for a trans woman or a trans man who authentically kind of looks and plays the role. So what I call my presentation. I try to take that seriously. I think it puts people at ease. If you’re out there and, to be honest…

I truly live in a liberal bubble where, among the populace, Donald Trump is only mentioned with a look of utmost disgust, a smirk, a frown, or a laugh and an eye roll (minus the one engineering student I see now and then at my school who proudly wears his Donald Trump “Make America Great” hoodie).

I did the Facebook…