I can attest that inking is also very soothing to do. I know a lot of artists who find it really tedious, but I find it tedious in...a good way? It’s brain-numbing, but relaxing. Very enjoyable, and it comes out looking so clean and nice, more like I’ve accomplished something than sketching does.

My film trauma was also Alien at that age (wandered in on my parents watching it, thus only saw the one scene until I was older), but it was the segment where Dallas is sealing off the air vents, and the rest of the crew can “see” the xenomorph coming right at him (supposedly) on their tracking screen, so he moves up…

Not to mention that I would not be surprised if she was actively unnerved by it. Many women have a (justifiably) hard time saying no outright, and having it ignored—repeatedly!—is frightening.

Me too. I was in a committed relationship with the man who I later married and am still with many years later, and I had supportive family members, I’d used protection, and I still felt like a dumb slut pregnant teenager with every loaded, shaming word I could imagine.

There are a variety of funds available if you’re under or around the age of 24—my GP said it would effectively be her sending in a request to waive the fee, my signing something, and we’ve be good to go (unfortunately, I was just over the age for the final two or three rounds, and with my sexual history and situation…

You may also be thinking of the actual-real-person “Emperor” Norton, a failed businessman in 19th century San Francisco who lost his mind and proclaimed himself Emperor of the United States and was quite beloved by the city!

This comment really made me consider how different the responsibilities society assigns to the idea of “my family is my most important priority” are between men and women.

I’m fond of Beth Cavener’s work, which includes some wolves.

Good point. I think the way the discussion is framed regarding older women contributes, too—while our favorite stars are, of course, largely beautiful and handsome people, no one says that George Clooney (or whomever) looks young and that’s way the judgement of his appearance hinges on. He’s older, looks older, and is…

My husband (to be, at the time) was going to change his last name to mine (for a variety of reasons—my last name is much more unique and would otherwise “go extinct” this generation; his last name is the result of a grandparent’s subsequent remarriage and he doesn’t have a ‘Grandpa Johnson’ or anything). We were both…

Yes! I rarely have “horror” dreams, but I often have dreams that are deeply uncomfortable because of a need to do some trivial task for an important reason (a friend is sick and I need to call a doctor) that my dream self just keeps fucking up aargghhh.

Also an adult who had to get a lot of vaccines later in life. I was 26 when I was offered the HPV vaccine; however, since my risk was very low (only had one sexual partner, married, etc), we decided it wasn’t necessary for me. 26 was listed as the cutoff point where insurance tends to pay for it (especially because…

I’m quite trimly built and always have been, save for having a very non-flat stomach. Even when I was extremely ill and lost way too much weight for my body, I still had a stomach! It’s definitely not a thing that’s represented in any campaign I’ve ever seen.

Apparently the tyrannosaurs are actually “ranchers” and good guys!

I have yet to hear of or encounter a situation where someone is being forced to date and have sex with a transgender person of a sex (genotype) they are not attracted to.

From my experience, and that of others who deal with their own “invisible illnesses,” I tend to fall back on a really basic example: happy, healthy, remission me looks almost identical to extreme, crippling physical pain me, and I could be either of those from day to day. So I tell people that the best thing to do, if…

That and Village of the Damned terrified me. I think it was my first introduction to the general concept of sociopathy.

Village of the Damned scared the heck out of me as a child. I think it was one of my first experiences of a horror movie where the villains had no real, explicit motives that the audience or other characters could understand, they were just doing their thing and it involved everyone else.

I’ll remember this and drop you a line if it’s done in a reasonable timeframe. *laughs* But seriously, thank you so much, that really means a lot. I love art, and making some kind of passive income source from it outside of my regular stuff would be really great for me! And honestly, just having a project done and…

Adult is more of the market, as I’ve seen the same thing myself (and all the adult coloring books I’ve found are largely mandalas, designs, botanical stuff—not the “rawr, cool monsters” aspect that I’d enjoy personally), but I mean, I enjoyed detailed coloring books as a kid so I imagine it could go either way.