I love it! The drawing reminds me vaguely of the illustrations in Shel Silverstein’s books - but grown up. :)

That bottle just makes it. Though I almost wish for a trident too. :)

The only weird-but-polite sex thing we are known for is knowing how to have it in a canoe. Though arguably, you could also eat waffles in a canoe.

Dear Lord - you poor poor country. Come to Canada - we’ll waffle you up :)

I refer to my (white WASP but curly headed as fuck) hair as ‘The Bob Ross”. The more humid it gets - the more of the Ross I rock.

I’m still in the greys? Oh the humanity!

Wasn’t there also a description of “walking sun dried tomato”?

My Dad would kill me if I loaded his pic, (but he can’t stop me from linking to where other pics live :) ) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Li… I always said he looks like a cross between George Costanza and Mr Dressup.

Cordelia Chase?

Hoyt is very good. If you do want more Victorian - including addressing the issue of Suffrage and women’s prospects in that era? Read Courtney Milan. I adore her.

The first book that popped in my head? The Handmaid’s Tale.

Now that needs to be cross=stitched somewhere in my apartment.

damn. You're right. I need that cross-stitched somewhere: "At least I wasn't involuntarily licked by an elderly Texan"

Absolutely Courtney Milan - The Countess Conspiracy is brilliant!

I, with absolutely no native or aboriginal blood, am totally offended by this. The headdress is ceremonial, sacred and the appropriation demeans the years of struggles by the first nations to a: own and wear their traditional garb, and b:have their culture taken seriously by the world.

I think my favourite part is the ice clinking in the glass in the background. And the anticipation that she may give herself a stroke.

"he would tell her how much water to drink and when and where she could use the bathroom"

He is so nuts that PM Stephen Harper, Conservative, and someone who i loathe, even told him to bugger off, and said he wasn;'t interetsed in reopening the debate on abortion.

Try Fernwithy. She started writing Lupin/Tonks prior to it becoming canon, and was so eerily prescient about quite a bit, that I used to wonder if JK was just getting her yaya's out. :)

I think the best way to phrase it, and to try to define 'intent' is simply: Would you say it to your Mother or Grandmother?