Especially things that don’t actually truly affect them! (No, “feeling icky” does not count.) It’s not like they are being required to fill out a form and maintain a gender identity that does not conform to how they feel they should live — unlike how they want to force trans/gender fluid/non-binary people to live. Why…

Same. I like this group of imaginary friends better than my other two groups of imaginary friends!

I frequently have to do it around this time of the month due to data plan issues. It is HORRIBLE.

*Vaguely* douchey? For years, all anyone talked about were the tantrums he threw onstage and the times he walked off mid-show. It was kind of legendary. Then he married Mandy Moore (who was 25 at the time, so not *super* young), and it was kind of like everyone shrugged and said, “Well, she’s cool, so I guess he’s…

Same here. And was then confused how J.Law could be attached because I didn't think that X-Men and Avengers streams could cross like that.

Quick note for anyone like me who wamts to learn as much as they can about horrifying things so you have the right information in your arsenal to fight them: Showtime is currently streaming the documentary Kidnapped for Christ, about this very sort of organization (I don’t think it’s specifically a conversion therapy…

Where was this study done? Because Orphan Black isn’t on Netflix in the US, much to my dismay. I wonder whether/how much this differs in the US versus other countries.

FUCKING DUH. I mixed up a whole lot of details, but I was thinking of one of *the* greatest science fiction short stories of all time, Harlan Ellison’s “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.”

No, the one I thought I was remembering was one where the prisoner knew what was going on. Now that I think about this, it might have been a short story where virtual reality technology had gotten to the point where you could make someone *think* they had been serving hundreds or thousands of years in a sadistic…

Wasn't living-consecutive-life-sentences an episode of Black Mirror?

Death penalty? For this guy? No. Two words: Gen pop. The other inmates will address the issue, and there will be a mysterious lack of evidence and witnesses. If his crimes are common knowledge and he doesn’t get special protections, I don’t see him getting any further into his 30s.

Heh. You say that like I have any clue who those two are. (I am An Old and can identify just about any grunge band within two bars, but I have pretty much no clue who current pop singers are. Or whether these people are current pop singers. I consider myself doing well to know who Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran even are.)

I honestly thought that it had already happened and that “Don’t” or whatever that song of his about dating someone who also travels a lot is called was about her.

When I was very small, I hated the top crusts of bread because the stuff my mom bought had crusts that would actually leave little cuts around the edges of my mouth. The bottom crusts were fine, but the top crusts caused me literal pain. Now I get to pick out my own bread, and I get stuff without hard top crusts.…

Also, I read “hide who you are” as “protect yourself from sleaze by not letting them know you one tiny bit.”

I’m not sure I have gummy worms at home. They may have gone to work with me already. I have several other gummy things, like two or three different kinds of bears and Lifesavers. And Japanese gummy candy. And who knows what other kinds of gummy candy since that is my go-to candy genre.

I ate a whole 10mg edible (dark chocolate) on an empty stomach, then I ate a bunch of mini Hot Pockets, then the THC kicked me in the fucking *head*, then I waited for something like two hours before I felt okay enough to move, and then I puked everything up in the kitchen sick. AND THEN I still had another hour or so…

I haven’t had that happen (yet), but I’ve heard from some people who have, especially for sale orders. My orders have all shipped within a few days of ordering. Then again, I’ve only placed four or five orders, and none were during sales (mainly collection launches and GWP things). But almost a full month is…

I feel like it’s one part needing her support system, one part ALL IS WELL. THERE ARE NO PROBLEMS OVER HERE. NOT AT ALL. WOULD I GO OUT IF THERE WAS A PROBLEM? SEE ME SMILE. SMILE SMILE SMILE.

Cleaning. I should actually be doing that right now. My landlord is coming over for her spring inspection tomorrow around noon, and my place is a wreck. I’m desperately scrambling trying to get it at least in please-don’t-kick-me-out condition. If I succeed, I will be going to X-Men tomorrow afternoon. If I fail, I…