I mean it’s legal in Ireland now, but it’s legal in the US as well. And just like in the US, there are many people making it as difficult as possible for Irish women to gain access to their legal abortions. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/oct/03/why-irelands-battle-over-abortion-is-far-from-over-anti-abor…

No, the thing that’s often underlooked is that people are not at all in favor of the woman raising or keeping the baby. They think the babies should be adopted into their christian homes. A lot of those Crisis Pregnancy Centers are basically fronts for human traffiking where they push hard for women to give their…

Ahhh, you are forgetting that rape and incest only happen to bad people who aren’t worth saving anyways, the way the great magical space ghost wants it.

His wife’s story is basically the same as Savita Happalanavar’s, except Savita remained untreated, became septic, and died after 3 days of suffering.

They’re really unbelievable. And we know that their convictions would end if the hypotheticals they’ve railed against became their own reality. Even the “good” conservatives, like McCain, are terrible. They only look a little better these days because the worst ones are beyond belief (Trump, McConnell).

That also would have been a much more acceptable and logic end result than Harry ending up with Ginny. It always felt like Luna and Harry understood each other in ways that their friends and classmates never did.

the epilogue is the worst part of the series. So cringe. It’s like how I would have paired them up in second grade. You get married and have baby, because you like each other ! :)

Fandom is about connection. It can be a good thing or a bad thing. If you've read Pratchett, it's about the stories we tell ourselves. 

That’s actually the reason that I preferred the end of the Hunger Games trilogy, because despite also being a YA novel, the ending was so much more believable, exactly what you would expect after all the shit that characters had survived. Sure, the two main characters got together, but the PTSD was palpable and it…

I’m one of those who think that Luna Lovegood would have been a far better match.

I always thought that the relationships felt forced, especially the epilogue. For so many characters to get married to the equivalent of their high school sweet-heart is so far fetched.

I’m not surprised. Even Manson had his groupies.

This goes back at least as far as Wuthering Height’s Heathcliff, the overwrought brooding male asshole who becomes inexplicably popular and elevated as somehow romantic. Probably a lot further back than that too, so I don’t think Snapewives or Kylowives will be the end of it.

Okay so I talked about my creepy haunted childhood house for the home improvement Pissing Contest and was advised to post it in the Spooky Story contest. I have already read way scarier stories but I’ll just cut and paste with a few edits:

This happened pretty recently. I found an old neighbor on the street one day with a bloody face. He had fallen over while walking his dog and couldn’t get up. I called 911 and hung around to see if he got admitted to the hospital, offering to keep his dog if so. He didn’t but I checked on him a few days later, worried…

This is the scariest story I know.

I know many of you are here for the truly terrifying scary stories (me included!), but I’ve got a heartwarming one that I’ve been aching to share for years. Please stick with me, as I promise that there is a payoff after the setup! And with that, come along with me and travel back to a tour bus full of exhausted…

My mom met Paula through the Pittsburgh Junior League in the mid-80s. They’d both moved to the area after getting married, and became fast friends.

Over the years, we went to many a summer cook-out at Paula’s lovely 1920s bungalow, where she lived with her husband and two young sons. But one gathering in particular,…

Like, some of them actually give their stories titles at the start. :/

Caution: This story is liable to be triggering for some people.