Once upon a time (aka the entirety of the ‘90s), my dad worked away from home for extended periods of time. Sometimes weeks, sometimes months, and sometimes in places like Laos and Peru. It was a standard joke among my friends and coworkers that he was clearly in the CIA. I am STILL SCARRED by the time I was visiting…

Stannis *harped*. Past tense. Davos did not make the fatal error of killing Renly and is thus able to keep the tradition going.

I’m just rooting for dragons, full stop. Duochromes, green, and oranges? Come on! *So* much more color potential than just about anything on this list. I honestly expect them to be the actual next trend in mythical creatures.

I posted this elsewhere downthread, but it will probably not be seen, so I’m posting it here, too: In addition to the general political climate nationally right now, the specific weekend of the con, there was a white supremacist rally with accompanying antifa counter-protest just a short public transit ride away. Like…

I’m a Portland native, although I grew up about twenty minutes north and not in Portland proper. People think I’m joking or exaggerating when I say that I can absolutely see Green Room happening here, aside from the part where I question cell service in the woods. In the ‘80s, we had a huge problem with neo-Nazi…

The thing I noticed upon second read was that they were told one day that they couldn’t wear that shit, so they left — and then came back the next day quoting the letter of con policy just to be dicks. Doing this on day one is being a jerk: Understandable but forgivable if you change your ways. Doing it again on day…

That’s actually not what they looked like. I was at Rose City Comic Con last weekend and saw their group posing for pictures in the main photo op area: Standard black SS uniform, but instead of the traditional swastika armbands, they were pink Hello kitty armbands. If you didn’t see the armband, they looked like…

Davos is the hero we all need. I seriously cheer him every time he does this.

I’m not a mom, but I am an allergy sufferer who has to be careful that allergies don’t turn into sinus infections: Other than the sneezing, do you feel any different (woozy and/or all-over body aches)? Do things taste different? Is it getting noticeably worse? Are you in an area that has seasons? If your answers are…

Oh, it gets better: She has some sort of side business, and those are the calls she takes/makes in the bathroom. During work hours for her main job.

Not that I’ve noticed. I’ve tried to figure it out, but if there *is* a pattern, I haven’t been able to identify it. (I’m a native Portlander. Passive aggression is instinctive for us!)

My brother just writes super embarrassing stuff on his son’s lunch bag, like “It wouldn’t itch if you wiped better.” And “WTF? How did I raise *jocks*?” (My brother is not of the sporting persuasion.) And pointed commentary like “And now you know why fireworks are banned in Vancouver.” (That one was after some…

I confess I take perverse joy in loudly shitting when a certain coworker is in the restroom because she’s always ON HER FUCKING CELL PHONE HAVING CONVERSATIONS IN THE WOMEN’S RESTROOM. No. Fuck that. We have multiple perfectly good hallways to have that personal call in.

Same. Kinda shocked at how invested I am.

I keep this photo on my phone for those times I want to remind myself that sometimes these fuckers *do* get at least arrested:

I’ve got to say that one of the reasons I feel better about Fenty than the J/K stuff is that Fenty is essentially owned by a Sephora-adjacent company. That indicates to me that Fenty is of a higher quality since it’s coming from the same place as Kat Von D, Bite, Marc Jacobs, and Ole Henriksen. That alone will get…

I just posted some info on another response in here!

Today, it was the Nosleep Podcast because that’s my cleaning podcast. It’s an anthology podcast of people reading stuff from the Nosleep subreddit. I also really love Darkest Night, which I found via Nosleep, but I’m all caught up on that one. Darkest Night is along the lines of Night Vale in the sense that it’s an…

Slight correction: Nuns have always been the *most* badass badasses. I’ve seen some documentaries about nuns involved in liberation theology, and, wow, they are absolutely heroic.

He has reminded me a frightening amount of my dad for years. This article does nothing to change that perception.