*jedi hugs*

I am so sorry you had to go through that. =/

...you better not tell the authorities

How much greater of a power gap can there even exist beyond that between the Representative of God on Earth and a child?

Indeed. My ring is amethyst, his is garnet. They are gorgeous and we love them. Our wedding bands were shockingly expensive to me (about $1200 - they’re meteorite!!) and the comment before this one is all about how to insure your $20,000 engagement ring and I am just... that’s the down payment on the house I want. =/

Can you get it melted and reset? I tutored for a woman once who took her engagement and wedding rings and had them made into a gorgeous pendant. I don’t remember the shape but it was something powerful for her.

Tell that to the conductor. Our marching band was intense. (I’m 15 years out of high school, but I still remember all that work.) Fall semester had early-morning practice starting around sunrise, sectionals after school 3-4:30, Thursday night practices for two hours, four hours at football games Friday nights (had to…

Yeah, and it’s pretty central to the plot so hard to just skip over. =/

Maybe Jacqueline Carey? The Kushiel’s Legacy series is set in an alt-history Europe. The protagonist is an anguisette, a person who feels pleasure in pain, so she is trained as basically a professional sub for political purposes. So there’s a shitton of really detailed BDSM, which (iirc) until a particularly horrific…

A Cap in the streets but a Loki in the sheets. ;)

Didn’t she *ask* to sit on the bench, so her team could play, and they said no?

Did you catch <i>Lightspeed</i>‘s “Women Destroy Science Fiction” issue? =D

The flusterment! I have an ambiguous-masculine-spelled first name and a common male first name as a last name. Not only are people flustered, they apologize. Profusely. As if making a logical assumption about my gender is like THE MOST INSULTING thing they could ever have said to me. I don’t get it.

It’s the drug of last resort for stuff like narcolepsy. There is talk of moving it to Schedule I (completely illegal) because there are now better drugs and... because meth.

20,000 of one, seven billion of the other... *shrug*

No kidding. Seriously amateur work if it’s real.

Desoxyn (the prescription form of meth)(yeah, you can totally get a prescription for meth!) is a tablet, too, not a gelcap. I mean, I guess you could drain a legit gelcap and refill it with meth... but that seems like a lot of extra effort and you’d have to dilute the meth.

Working drive-through isn’t a bad place to be a drug dealer. Some poor guy somewhere may be pissed off he didn’t get the pills he paid for.

assuming bro didn’t just make it all up, which is more likely.

Not really, no. We’ve still got liberals up here. =) (I grew up in MO.) Not for lack of the Kochs’ trying... they poured money into the rural areas trying to smear the DFL candidates.

There was a guy in my hometown who would do that! Was, past tense; he got shut down after a girl got mauled taking her senior pictures with a tiger.