I randomly watched Accepted the other day, and holy shit Jonah Hill. When I think about his weight loss, I always think about Superbad Jonah Hill to current. But it was a pretty big step for him to just get to Superbad size.

Fair play to her. And a hex on all those obstructionist gobshites who refused to allow Obama his nominee and another hex on all those hateful fuckheads who voted for Trump and a third hex on all those self-righteous gombeens who didn’t vote for Clinton either because she wasn’t ~pure~ enough or because they thought…

This woman must be exhausted, but she knows generations of people whom she’ll never live to even meet will be impacted by her leaving, so she soldiers on. She is a hero. 

I was wearing a Dark Souls t shirt the other day and I could see some guy eyeballing it. I was like “You better not talk to me you motherfucker”. He did not. Crisis averted.

I have the opposite concern - if I wear a shirt that says something, someone might try to strike up a conversation about it. Not worth the risk! 

Yes, thank you for explaining to me what I already know, considering I was an opiate/heroin user for over a decade.

Yes, internet stranger, I clearly should have known that about you based on your two-sentence comment.

I’m not freaked out by lizards in most environments, but something about them coming in from the pipes freaks me out.  I would have a hard time showering for weeks after seeing it, just because I’d be constantly waiting for it to happen again while I was washing up.  

Presumably you have good mental health. Those that don’t, don’t see the world the same way you do. Don’t call these people stupid. They’re ill and our healthcare system has failed them.

Because her taking it actively prevents trans people from using their own voices in a system where they already experience extraordinary marginalization and erasure. She’s an active participant in the oppression of trans folks by taking this role. How is that not clear?

I’d like to point out that no one outside the marriage can ruin a marriage. The husband decided to cheat. His vows, his responsibility.

Unless Kinja is simply acting up, he deleted my comment pointing out his scientific ignorance. For obvious reasons, African Americans are quite genetically diverse. Africa is the most genetically diverse continent.

My father was a rural mountain vet and once had to get out of bed at 3 AM to treat a cat that had been attacked by a coyote, then do first aid on the cat’s owner because he pulled it out of the coyote’s mouth.

The Paying Guests is a *very* slow burn. It does pay off in the end (I think) but it takes a while to get there. I liked it. Have you read Fingersmith? That one is really twisty good fun.

I was in a decade long relationship with someone with BPD and it was and continues to be on some level an abject nightmare in part because I understood that this is a mental illness and that I shouldn’t stigmatize it and that, on some level, it wasn’t their fault. So I accepted the suicide attempts, the physical…

You’re right. They are people, too. I wanted (and still want) nothing more than for that person to figure out a way to be at peace. I’ve never felt more loved and more hated at the same time. I hung in there and tried everything I could think of. I read books, joined boards, offered to do couples therapy, etc. For all…

I like Pete Davidson. I find him pretty brave in his coming out as mentally ill and do not think anyone with a mental illness or related disorder should be stigmatized or subject to any foregone conclusions about their competency based on such a diagnosis.

Mean? You haven’t seen mean until you’ve been in a relationship with a borderline. Sorry. The *world* is cold and mean. I desperately wanted this not to be the hard truth, but it is. If you read the boards, every story is damn near identical. Partners try to be supportive, and sacrifice every piece of themselves, only…

There is also a danger inherent in normalizing it. It encourages people to stay in abusive relationships with false hopes of recovery. BPD is not your average mental illness. Borderlines, by and large, resist treatment except for when it serves their purpose, and then immediately stop once it is no longer of use. I…

Except that BPD often comes with abusive behavior. It’s very different from, say, depression or anxiety. It’s not a chemical imbalance. It’s who they are. It makes them hurt people, emotionally & physically. It’s fine to be sympathetic, because it’s an awful existence, but it’s also important to validate that…