My grandma had a surprise baby at 52. She just assumed it was menopause. A lot of the symptoms are similar. Then, the same thing happened to my aunt (at 50). Her first grandchild was two years older than her youngest daughter. This is why my Mom is still on birth control, and why I will probably never, ever stop using…

Getting it. Thanks!

This is only tangentially related but I’ve got two questions:
1) I’ve not read Marvel in a long time. Is this a good point to jump back into the -Men?
2) Which characters are going to form the central group from here on out? *fingers crossed for Nightcrawler*

So Thomas’ colour-change could be read as a shift in his nature...

:-D I’ve also been thinking about colourschemes. Edith’s mother died of a lung disease and so she was smoky and black; the murder victims were drippy and red: Thomas was white/gold (rather like the fairies in Hellboy II) and I was wondering if that was because he was willing/ready to move on. He also looked much more…

This is absolutely perfect, and right on.

That scene in Mama where the little girls are playing with a blanket just at the edge of the frame and suddenly the blanket shoots to the roof and the younger little girl floats by dangling from the end of it freaked my husband right out.

Oh my. It’s not that hard, people. If a person doesnt want to have sex, whatever their context, and you make them have sex, then you are guilty of rape. That’s it.

I’m married to a shorter guy (he’s 5’6, and broad as a bear) and I have to say that most negative reactions come from outside of our relationship. Family. There is definitely a height/status correlation in America that isn’t at all present in the UK. My family are southern and dominance is a pretty major thing for…

Nope. Not at all. Entitlement makes fantastic armor.

I’d like to, but it’s only been in print journals and my American collection. Here’s a link. http://writingknightspress.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/the-go…

This is probably the worst thing that I’ve read in a long time.

It’s only been in print journals and anthologies, but it is in my American collection: http://writingknightspress.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/the-go…

I’ve posted about it on Jezebel before, under my old screen name. Needless to say, I think about it a lot.

That fact really lowered my opinion of humanity. Even if only one in every fifty people tries something like that, it’s still far too much.

Yes. I was so upset that I actually threw up after yelling at her. I made it out of the catacombs first, though.

My husband and I toured the Paris Catacombs. It was one of the pivotal experiences in my life - I emerged with a profound acceptance of my own mortality, along with some insight into the darker side of human nature. While we were in there, we saw a woman (an American, sunnysunny-blond, moneyed, extremely entitled) pry…

Also, if you inject a fetal pig with latex dye you can make the veins explode. I had fun as a student.

Fresh human brains have the consistency of partially-set jello and, when struck, react in a very similar way. Bow waves travel through the cells. I live in terror of contrecoup injuries.

We dissected worms, fetal pigs, and owl pellets. I was scarily good at it. Which served me well when I started (illegally) working or a veterinarian (at 15) who had me (also illegally) perform surgeries on animals. I was scarily good at that, too. Somehow, I did not grow up to be a psychopath. I promise.