Funny, that's exactly what happened to this guy - he had a grapefruit-sized fatty growth removed from his chest! Don't worry, he managed to convince me to ditch the cone of shame that same night, mostly because he wouldn't settle down for two minutes with it on. :)

For the record, by the way, A Hard Day's Night is very explicitly not a documentary.

They're real people who are presenting themselves to the wider world in a certain way. Depending on the celebrity in question, personal inclination, amount (if any) of media training, and the like, that persona may be very close, maybe close to indistinguishable, to the real person you'd get to know if you met them…

That's an astounding misinterpretation of what I said. The members of the Beatles are real people. The "people" we see on a television screen are the personas those real people are pretending to be. Unless you truly believe that all there was of Paul McCartney circa 1964 was being cute and wacky and giving hilarious…

Well, I suppose it's possible Shakespeare was jerking off while writing Richard III, but I personally find it rather unlikely. Fortunately, 98% of RPF writers aren't doing that while typing their Stephen Colbert/Jon Stewart magnum opus, either.

Can we not? The "slash fandom" (if such a thing exists) is very large. I've certainly met any number of misogynists, especially clustered in specific fandoms, but it's not anything like the kind of mass phenomenon you're making it out to be.

The reason I hate these kinds of articles is that, while fetishization happens, it always brings out the people who think of all slash (and fanfic in general) as porn. Not that I never consume the porn or go looking for it, or disapprove of it, but most of the time I'm reading fic because... I like to read. If I…

I've been in RPF fandoms before. The key is to remember that no one's writing about a real person. You're writing about a fictional interpretation of a real person, based on what you see in performances, interviews, other fic, etc. Writers rationalize it in various ways, and most go to extremes to avoid breaking the…

Yes, I'm the same. I read any and all combinations of het, slash, and femslash, depending on who I ship in a given fandom. But my interest in vaginas not my own is extremely limited (read: non-existent to the point of more than one vagina per scene actively counts as a turnoff), so if it's femslash I tend to skim the…

Frankly, the weirdest part of this email is how dated it is. I mean, I know it's from 2013, but it's dated fashion advice even for then. When was the last time you saw a french manicure in real life, and colors other than pink have been acceptable even in conservative environments for decades now. Ombre hair was super…

As another person with GAD and Bipolar II, that one grabbed my attention too!

I don't have kids myself, but I've heard from a lot of friends over the last few years that not every kid gets their own text book anymore. From the ones in the rich school districts, they all have tablets rented from the school with digital copies and a few paper textbooks are stored in the classrooms for reference,…

See, I was just about to enthusiastically agree, because Wild Cherry Pepsi is my default cola at home, and Cherry Cola is just the delicious backup that gets me through when I'm stuck at a non-Pepsi chain. And then I found out about your hives. :(

The real question is, which of the Coke chains is going to have Cherry Coke available? Because that's delicious, whereas regular Coke is way too salty.

Nope. Their website has only had Pepsi products for as long as I can remember.

Poor guy still has no idea what he did to deserve this.

That's basically exactly how I do it, too. As long as I can avoid ever letting anyone in my house, I'm good with my current level of slovenliness.

Poor guy is currently high on the pain meds, I think, and only slightly less miserable with the collar off and a clean teeshirt on. That what he gets for worrying me by growing grapefruit-sized fatty masses in his chest. Hopefully he'll think twice next time.

My beagle/who-the-heck-knows mix had surgery today, so he's currently dealing (poorly) with a different kind of protective clothing.

Seems like a likely enough answer, though I'll probably never actually go through the testing to have it confirmed. (Fortunately, fresh grapes only are relatively easy to avoid as food allergies go! Basically, it consists of "pay attention when eating fruit salad.")