Y'all gotta get on this AdBlock bandwagon. It's a relief to not have to see bullshit like this anymore.

I've been dancing ballet for 25 years and I've been on pointe since age 12. Miss VI is giving me the chills, I'm afraid for her! I know ballet has gone "mainstream" recently and the internet (and my adult classes) is now flooded with girls and women who have no dance training and want to be dance on their toes, but…

Can we lose the talent competition, should grown women be baton twirling?

E.L. Konigsburg 1967- Girl power! Girl runs away to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art! She sleeps in a Medieval bed! She eats at an automat! She fishes for change in the reflecting pool after closing! It was all so glamorous to me, growing up in a midwestern city. All I could runaway to was a corn field...

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman, 1995

The Groovy Greeks by Terry Deary, 1995

I was a very very strange child.

I'm such a child of the 90s. I read every single Goosebumps book and hid Animorphs under my mattress.

A few other individual books whet my appetite for reading, but nothing really hooked me and didn't let me go until Animorphs. I was the girl calling the Walden Books at the local mall every month to see if the newest book had arrived yet. Rachel was a badass.

Man, I was into dragons before dragons were even cool. ;)

Yes very much, in fact I slut shamed myself.

I am posting here to request that every article henceforth be headed with a dinosaur silhouette picture relevant to the content.

I effing love these sexy dinosaur illustrations, I must say.

So I got

hahaha that is awful but hilarious...

knock knock!

This makes me think a rewrite of 50 Shades using nothing but strict medical/anatomical terminology would be FANTASTIC.

My self-esteem SKYROCKETED when I stopped reading "lady" magazines. Even now, if I read some of that shit in a waiting room, I start to get that feeling that I'm not good enough and maybe I DO need to buy some stuff to compete with the other vagina-people, and that maybe my husband IS cheating on me, etc.

SNAPE DIED?!?! SPOILER ALERT PLEASE, GAAAAWD.