Reading them as an angry childfree twelve year-old, I absolutely hated that Alanna changed her mind about wanting kids at the end. I'd probably be more accepting of the same thing now, but at that point Alanna was my first female hero who wasn't celibate but didn't want children, and I really looked up to her for…

Oh. I didn't really like the Beka Cooper books so I didn't finish the series. :/ Ditto the Circle books sort of - I liked the first set in middle school but by the time the second set came out I was over it. I knew Daine and Ali, and Kel as well, but quit on the Circles and Beka before any of them was old enough to be…

Ohhh yeah. That was before she and Jonathan had even hooked up, though, wasn't it? And she was like, 15/16. I can forgive that shit.

They are not perfect, and I still take issue with one thing about the ending, but that's personal taste, but I'd still say they're worth a good read.

I like Liam now, but I hated him back then for (in my view) sticking his nose where he didn't belong by daring to even talk to Alanna when she already had two potential love-interests.

I think that is a pretty typical twelve year-old girl reaction, honestly. I had only recently gotten interested in stories that had romance or sex in them at all, and while I read other books that were more sexually explicit (hey, Anne McCaffrey and Mercedes Lackey, 'sup) than the Alanna stuff, none of the characters…

I find shit like this hilarious because it reflects perfectly opinions I had when I was twelve.

My dog loves cats. He likes anything smaller than he is, really, but is not a big fan of other dogs. He adores kitties, though. The trick is finding kitties who like him back. I fostered cats for a few years and most were vaguely tolerant of him. A couple were outright hostile. A few would bestow guarded affection,…

I remember once as a kid i saw one of those "Pregnant and scared?" billboards around town, and I asked my mom about it. I was maybe 8 years old, and my mom was pretty firmly pro-life, but she didn't hesitate for a second before telling me that the advertisement was to trick women who were desperate and didn't give…

The best thing about this show is that it made it easier for the kids I was working with to understand my role when I was working as a nanny.

This is a big part of why I've had far fewer relationships with women than men. I've identified as bi since I was 12, and been out as bi since I was 15. Now I'm 27 and I've had only three girlfriends because when I try to meet women and tell them I'm bi, they often quiz me on my past relationships (to prove I'm…

Honestly would not be shocked. A friend of mine is a tour guide in Japan and recently had a couple in their 60s on her tour who were huge anime fans, having discovered anime by - get this - randomly deciding to watch one of the shows on Netflix one day.

I live in Austin, and my friends and I were just discussing how when one of us moves from south Austin to north Austin it's like "Okay, well, goodbye forever then."

I had an imaginary future perfect boyfriend starting from 6th grade up until high school. I could tell you every damn thing about how he looked and what he thought, and even his family and his first name.

Can I get some recs for a new adult toy?

Bonus semi-related event in Texas today: Wendy Davis was nearly disenfranchised (along with, I'm sure, hundreds of other elderly persons, minorities, and Texan ladies) today during early voting because of the new photo ID law. Apparently she had to sign an affidavit as to her identity in order to vote because her ID…

I get looked at askance in certain circles for feeding my dog Purina One, but the truth is, he's healthier and happier eating that than any kind of fancy food. When I got him, I was committed to feeding the best possible food, but the result was always terrible diarrhea.

I know more than a couple very popular and prolific female scifi/fantasy writers started out writing Trek fanfiction, and some thing wrote published Trek stories and novels before getting original book deals. This was back in the pre-internet fandom zine days.

Why do they always have to discuss/have people read the bad fanfiction? No one ever reads the fucking artistic, novel-quality stuff. I guess they can't laugh at the "stupid over-invested people on the internet" if they do that.

I don't think you can objectively prove from the information provided that the adults didn't care about the little girl, or that they did for that matter. Would she have been better off if she'd stayed with her biological parents, or been legally adopted or turned over to the state or sold to someone else? Maybe.…