It’s glorious, isn’t it? I love it.

I’m sorry my comment was rude.

It’s always amazing to me that the devices people use to leave comments don’t include google.

Yep, my fellow white women love touching my hair. It’s naturally curly. But usually they will ask me.

I have spent a lifetime reading and seeing things like your comment: caps lock yelling that men shouldn’t be in dresses or skirts. That they shouldn’t wear make up. That they shouldn’t paint their nails. That they shouldn’t like books or movies or TV shows that skew “girl”.

Excuse me, I need my smelling salts and fainting couch. ;)

Spending even a minor amount of time online has convinced me I have terrible taste. I enjoy the new Star Wars movies; I liked Game of Thrones season 7 just fine and infinitely more than season 5; I like Game of Thrones and I’m a woman so I know that’s kind of a taboo in and of itself; I like the Dragon Age games and…

I was thinking the same thing from the moment I saw the headline here, though my mindfulness training, such as it was, came from programs for mental illness. People have tried to teach me mindfulness, meditation, but it doesn’t work for me. So for classes for children, I really hope they make it clear for the kids…

My parents were born in ‘39 and ‘49. They knew lots of kids between them who had these childhood diseases; they had classmates whose lives were forever altered thanks to the measles and polio. My gramma, born in ‘26, had 13 older siblings—she’s the youngest. They’re all gone but her, but she never knew 5 of them,…

One of my biggest complaints about Revenge of the Sith is that the Anakin and Obi-Wan duel was just hitting a story beat. It was a thing that needed to happen to get to the part where Obi-Wan cuts off Anakin’s remaining limbs, grabs his lightsaber, and leaves him to die a horrible, horrible death (this actually makes…

And then a whole bunch of TERFs got real salty about that, piled on, and @GMPCityCentre deleted the tweet and apologised publicly for it.

I got my first period at 10.

“I’ve suffered so everyone else should, too, because reasons” is an attitude I’ll never understand. Perhaps my perspective on it is skewed because I’m a sexual assault survivor and have been ill in one way or another for my entire adult life, but I’d never wish anything I’ve suffered on anyone else. I wish nobody, nobo…

Of course they prevent cancer. None of the siblings my gramma never knew because they died of childhood illnesses before she was even born ever got cancer.

I worked for the now-defunct (at least in Canada) LA Weightloss for a year and it branded itself as a “lifestyle”. It did a wonderful job reinforcing all my disordered eating and making it worse, leading to starvation and laxative abuse.

I never would have expected either of them to be good at comedy, because they always come off so gosh-darn earnest. But maybe it’s the earnestness that helps? IDK, I can’t do funny very well myself—I tend not to watch much comedy because I suffer from unbearable second-hand embarrassment.

I’ve really enjoyed listening to his audiobook narration of the How to Train Your Dragon series, for the sheer number of various Scottish voices he’s capable of putting on.

It does! My nostalgia goggles are thoroughly broken and I find it fascinating and alarming to watch people aggressively defend old bits of media that have hinky-in-hindsight things in them (eg, Lord of the Rings) or are just, y’know, maybe not all that good to begin with (eg, 80s children’s cartoons).

Twice in my life I didn’t get a flu vaccine: autumn of 2008, leading to a spring 2009 flu, and again in 2011, leading to me getting the flu in 2011.

Oh, my heart. That was impossibly sweet.