Not sure if anyone here is into FanFiction – but just in case, I’m doing a bit of shameless self promotion. A few years back I wrote a very long work using The Avengers and Loki in particular. Five years later, I’m working on my sequel to it. In case anyone is interested, here are the links to the original and the…

I fucking hate all of these people. And that goes for every Republican lawmaker in my home state of Ohio, who are trying to pass similar bullshit here. The ONLY reason I stay in this godforsaken state is because my vote is needed, and these conservative pricks can kiss my shiny, liberal ass.

I was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s disorder back in December. Runs in my family, apparently. They put me on Synthroid, because even though my TSH, T3, and T4 were “normal,” I was having all the symptoms of hypothyroidism, and my antibodies were through the roof. I started feeling better, and then they increased the…

I am so, so sorry to hear about this. One of my dearest friends went through this exact scenario with her partner and the only thing that got her through was spending her time with people who loved her and knew Eric. My partner is also a young widow and he found it helpful to reach out to other young widows. There are…

That’s the basic argument against it that I hear.  My response: well, I won’t reap the benefits of the social security taxes I pay, so I guess you shouldn’t get those.

Yeah, that’s the line I’m trying to walk. I don’t necessarily know if he does or doesn’t have a spectrum disorder but between ALL of the symptoms he has, it’s hard not to suspect. If it were just one or two, I’d have a better grasp on the situation but it’s more the communication thing that is difficult to manage and…

So this is kind of a sensitive topic, but does anyone have any advice for how to suggest that my partner go talk to someone about the possibility that he might be on the spectrum?

The silent treatment is emotional abuse, IMO.  It’s a direct, distinct way of saying, “Your feeling do not matter, and I am going to withhold affection/communication until you do what I want.”  It’s one thing to tell your partner you need a hot minute before you engage in a discussion.  It’s another to just go radio…

You are so strong - I am very, very proud of you and am keeping you in my thoughts during this transition.  I’ve been where you are, although I was in my mid-twenties when it happened to me - I promise, you did the right thing.

I don’t know about anyone else but this spring has sucked for me in terms of mood. I’ve been in a deep, dark depressive swing of my bipolar for two weeks, and my psych doesn’t want to change my medications for another two. I told her it had gotten to the point where I was considering self harm, but no dice. She…

I did this. A guy I was seeing was two-timing me and - no lie - my best friend. Neither of us knew until we both realized we were seeing the same guy and we were so pissed that we took that quiz and gave his contact info. Oh well. Not sorry. 

So. If he’s gonna argue that abortion is murder such that a woman can be jailed and/or put to death for it, that means that a fetus is a life, yeah? Well, then, I hope this numbnuts is cool with forcing men to start providing child support from pregnancy, and giving me a tax deduction from the day that fetus is…

My brother bought me a Verismo years ago, and a milk frother.  I make oat milk honey lattes every morning. <3

I hate this state.  The only reason I stay is because I feel like my vote does more good here than it would in, say, New York.

You know what, even if he keeps his teaching job, I hope he’s extremely aware that so many students are protesting his dumb ass.  

I think of stuff like this in terms of lattes. They are the one indulgence I allow myself in my broke-ass life. These people spent like... 77,000 lattes (I’m averaging the cost of a latte here) on an admission they didn’t follow through on. I’ve never had ONE latte I didn’t drink.

I feel like when the kids didn’t know, the decision should be based on how they’ve performed thus far.  If the girl is getting a 3.5 GPA on her own, then I think we should probably let her be - in other words, if they got in unfairly but through no ill intent of their own, if they have since proved themselves a good…

Devin Nunes is just trying to be relevant.  Or, he’s trying to prove he’s a big boy with big boy underpants since everyone has so perfectly and appropriately called him a big baby for suing a fake cow.

This sounds eerily like my 8th grade year, when I tried to tell a teacher I was raped by a classmate and she told me she didn’t want to hear about my relationship problems. Dude went on to make an attempt on my life, and even then he only got suspended for three days because the school confiscated and returned the…

My depression has been so, so awful the last week. Mr. Yacht and I got into a nasty fight on Monday (he had a momentary lapse of good judgment and thought we should break up because he had an imaginary conversation with me in his head that he then translated to our actual relationship and then felt REAL stupid when he…