So, this dude is a dude but are we just going to ignore the fact that, as with most transformative fandoms, most mpreg enthusiasts are cis women? This isn't a 'curious dudes wonder what pregnancy is like' thing this is a 'women like to fantasize about pregnant dudes' thing.

For some reason this episode seems to have brought everyone out to talk about how subtle and well-observed Moffat's relationship-writing is and I feel like I've slipped into an alternate universe. It has always been, for me, the exact opposite of subtle and well-observed. No one talks to one another like real people,…

Taking a different tact

I must be made of stone because my son getting his shots bothered me not at all. Yeah he cried. Babies cry. If you're going to have a conniption every time your infant cries, you need to seriously reconsider being a parent.

Oh hell no.

Bingo.

Slash refers to fanfic with same-sex pairings (might be porny, might be romantically g-reated). Porny fanfic is just porny fanfic, no need for a special term.

In the gentrifying area where I live in Pittsburgh it went like this: stable working class community with a large aging population -> young artist types move in due to cheap rents and old, interesting housing stock -> those folks begin to create stores and restaurants and art galleries in the associated business…

The "move the poor out to the suburbs where we have built them nice shiny new social housing estates with lots of space and fresh air!" strategy was used in Western Europe a LOT in the post-war era, and it failed miserably every single time. It removes people from their sources of livelihood (the urban core) and their…

It actually took me until today to see any because the Jezebel staff had gotten to be ninjas about deleting them, but once they hit ValleyWag it took a long, looong time for the authors to dismiss them. So then I just disabled all i-kinja.gawker.com images with Adblock. Solved.

So far in my life I have worked full time for 20 years. Of those 20 years, I took 8 weeks off after having a baby. I have worked like a man for 99.3% of my working life. For that. 7% difference, the country has gained a future worker and taxpayer. I think that's a pretty good deal.

In some regions yes, but in most regions no. No one where I live in Pittsburgh would know what the hell a Traveller is. But I know in parts of the US with warmer climates there are some pockets. It's super on the DL though.

Sounds like they both have raging anxiety disorders, which isn't their fault but they could definitely use some meds and some therapy.

I bought a bunch of full-on ginormous cotton granny panties when I was pregnant and then when I became unpregnant again I decided that life is too short for uncomfortable drawers and kept them in rotation.

Team Granny Panties

Someone convince me that even though I have no interest in the books and even though Diana Gabaldon shat the bed in a monumentally terrible way when she tried to talk about fanfic on her blog (it was beyond the usual "I don't like it, I wish people wouldn't do it" and went straight to "YOU'RE RAPING MY…

Cuz the books have lots of sex?

Married 14 years and yeah, we very occasionally have had legitimate yelling fights (mostly confined to a very stressful four-year period where a lot was going on that was making both of us short-tempered and less capable of rational responses) but mostly if we disagree we have a few minutes of sniping and then we…

It's not that big. It's got a large metro region but the population of the city is only about 300k. You will find a few coffee shops that care about speed tests (whatever that is lol), such as the one I griped about, but this is flyover country.

Simple: It's a vehicle for salad dressing. Mo' surface area, mo' ranch dressing!