Hey, we can’t all be 40-year-old hermetic magicians taking three days to conduct a very complex Goetic ritual. This is why the quick and dirty sells.

Nah. Probably just Hot Foot powder.

I worked an occult shop (as I have previously mentioned) and this is often a suspicion of clients. Everyone is very certain that they are important enough to be cursed by their neighbours. I imagine mental illness may have also played a role.
Anyway, if a mysterious powder appears on your doorstep, the strange old lady…

My boyfriend and I just went to Ikea to look at closets, and it was pretty busy. We managed swimmingly up until checkout, when one of the many screaming children hit just the right octave when letting out a keening shriek and my patience evaporated. I think it’s a great place to test-drive the idea of parenthood.
I…

It honestly sounds like this dude is wading through mental issues more than anything else. I have actually no idea why he was given a platform to air this out with a narrative that makes absolutely no sense in context to the situation.

Oh yeah, have you seen what the Satanic Temple is doing? Progressive moves for civil and social justice? Equality for all? Satan sounds like dreamboat.

I only change my regimen when my goals change. For the last year and a half, I was working off of a regimen designed to increase my cardio output and speed. Now that I don’t have to run as much (it was a necessity for the program I was in), I’ve switched to a regimen that helps me build functional strength and muscle…

OH BOY, do I ever know fifteen years later. There was some emotional heavy-lifting as a result of my relationship with her. Lemme tell you, daughters of beauty queens do not treat their daughters well.

He stopped and looked me up and down, and then said, “Mmm, you’re looking blonde and tan.”
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD:

Similar, but I was at Mass and heard a couple of my grandparents friends snicker beside me about how my legs were hairy. I was 12, very blond (so it’s not like it was even that bad—even if it was... Well, let’s not get into what assholes these people were) and the beauty myth is fucking weird.

I was walking down the street (a concession road slightly above town) in midsummer. It was hot, so I was wearing shorts and a tank top, and was on my way to meet a friend to catch frogs and play in the creek. I couldn’t have been more than 11.
A couple of truckers slowed down to holler at me and asked me where I was…

THANK YOU.
Fuck, why did I read the comments? I’m hip-deep in intellectuals couching this in theory of body diversity, forgetting the fact that this is a goddamned trans man, an actual person, and not a thesis topic.

You know, I totally get what you’re saying, it just makes my eyes roll back so far into my head I can see through time.
If you ever get around to doing something other than armchairing theory, maybe try to get it into your head that sociological and cultural change happen in bite-sized pieces when they do happen— not…

Holy moly, babe alert.

Well then, good riddance! I’m all for women’s spaces— you know, spaces for all women, not this halfsies bullshit.
Second-wave feminism breathed its death rattle for a reason.

He sounds fantastic.

You said ‘utilitkilt’ and now the only thing I can think of is all of those super straight, super white dudes at ren/pagan festivals who come out of the woodwork when a woman is building a fire.
“AHOY THE CAMP. I see you’re building a fire! I have a trick for—”
“AHOY THE CAMP. I brought some mead to share! You’re…

Yep, exactly. It wasn't exactly a super far-reaching study, is what I mean. The scientists involved stated that they would like there to be further study into the matter to help substantiate the possibility, but the media reporting on it hasn't been exactly forthcoming (the sample size only comes up in the fourth or…

Everything that I read on the study said that it was purely correlational. I think that this might be an issue with using grabby headlines, and then people not actually reading the article past said grabby headline.

LOOK AT THE AWESOME CONTROL AND FORM OF THAT RIDER GOING OVER THAT JUMP. SIDESADDLE. IN A BOWLER HAT.
So much class.
I'd have my hands further up the horse's neck, though.