I’m here with my girlfriend wondering, do we get married before January, while we still can? Will it mean anything? Will it make things worse for us when that man takes office if we’re legally married, or will we get to keep those rights if we do it? Fuck. This isn’t how we should have to make these decisions.

So their fucking /testimonial/ is about how their culture made these people suicidal before they were pressured into celibacy or marrying someone they don’t love? Awesome. Just...I can’t. I cannot. And they think this is somehow something that makes their church look GOOD? Wow.

Not yet, but I should be! I need to make a second Twitter that matches up with my Kinja handle. And thank you! Yeah, I also find that things like that in general get spookier as I get older. I wrote a very technical paper on torture in undergrad (it was for forensic anthropology, so it was basically like “are there…

Inverness was less personally creepy—like whatever was going on there did not involve me— and more like I’d wandered casually into an X-Files episode in the background and then out again. It’s one of those places that just feels a bit off, not necessarily in a bad way. In the US, a lot of places in the mountains or at…

I think this maybe happened to me last month? I’ve never had it before or since (knock on wood), so I think maybe it was because I had taken half a dose of NyQuil, so it was enough to kind of paralyze me in half-sleep but not totally knock me out.

Dude. DUDE. What is it about studying anthropology in the UK? Getting a bit doxxy, but it’s for the scary stories thread, so...

I really think they do believe that. That’s why Trump defended himself with “Bill Clinton has said worse things to me on the golf course.” That was his initial remark, not bringing up that Bill was also accused of sexual assault— because he and his people clearly thought the word pussy was the problem, not the…

I think it’s the accent and the sweet demeanor (which I suspect similarly conceals a LOT going on underneath.)

Elizabethan London. I want to see plays and get involved in espionage and intrigue, please!

I thought in the documentary they said Amanda’s DNA was on the handle (which is...normal? For a knife in a house you’ve been in?) but the DNA on the blade that was originally interpreted to be Meredith’s was actually inconclusive and almost certainly the result of contamination because they had everything that they…

Yeah, I’m 25 and we did them in my high school. At least then we were old enough to get through it with dark humor, but there was just kind of an acceptance, too. I remember on the bus to 8th grade graduation a kid said “well, now we go to high school and probably get shot.” Now even elementary schoolers have to worry…

SERIOUSLY. This is exactly what happened with Brexit, and I thought MAYBE we’d learn from watching the UK’s mistakes, but apparently not. All those people who were like “Well, I voted leave, but I didn’t actually WANT to leave! I wanted to protest this vaguely related thing that the government/the EU/someone on TV…

I was reading this tittering like “nope, no sex in Shakespeare. None at all. Nope. And no one ever talked about male bodies in Classy Literature TM, ever. Sorry, got to go back to analyzing how Marlowe’s Hero and Leander talks about how hot Leander is naked for like a million stanzas now.” *dies laughing*

But when it’s a scary black liberal with Muslim names who is clearly a Muslim atheist communist, “natural born” means born HERE, with a video record, twenty witnesses, and a document signed by God and George Washington. When it’s an evangelical conservative sociopath, it means born to a US citizen. That’s just what…

I’m just waiting for how those conversations are even going to work.

I mean, once his spokesperson said in a news interview that Obama was responsible for the Iraq war and for the death of Captain Khan in 2004, it was clear that facts no longer mattered. I can’t get angry about it anymore, because I feel my blood pressure skyrocket and I think my eardrums might explode with rage.

There’s a short story set in a future where this is possible, where a serial killer is offered the option of changing to a woman for early release and takes it (which is...problematic, but a very interesting set-up). I don’t want to spoil anything, as it’s a very interesting story, but I also can’t remember the name…

I voted for Obama in 2008, and I started out pretty much thinking the Democrats had a win-win: Hillary, who is extremely qualified and a great pragmatic strategist, and Bernie, a progressive idealist who’d push us further left. Now? Well, I’ve been increasingly concerned by Bernie’s attitude toward the Democratic…

Me too, I think it smells nice.

We don’t know what happened to Shakespeare’s books, ergo de Vere wrote his plays, including those first performed years after de Vere died? Oh lord, whatever happened to Kit Marlowe’s books? We don’t know, so they must not have existed! Who wrote THOSE plays, then?