Laura, I absolutely love your profile picture. K bye.

So let me preface this by saying I agree completely with you (and I'm a white woman.) I just wanted to add that a good friend of mine is friends with Kaitlin, and I know the bar where she worked at here in Minneapolis and it's been really interesting to see how even the people that thought they knew her have become…

Haha. Oh, CCD. That was highlight of my weekends. /sarcasm.

Yup yup yup. The great irony of the LBGTQ movement- just becasue you happen to be within this group does not mean you're excluded from being judged/ridiculed/prejudiced against by other members of the group. Because it's made up of humans.

This is brilliant.

....and that's exactly why I love fashion right now. Some are bemoaning the lack of it, but (as the perpetual loser kid who never wore the right thing) I am enjoying the hell out of being able to wear whatever the hell I want.

OMG. Fellow former Animorphs-obsessed teen here. The Andalite Chronicles and especially the Hork-bajir Chronicles still rank as two of my fave books ever (and I love to read.) Seriously, has there ever been a more fucking heart-wrenchingly romantic story than the one of Dak Hamee and Aldrea?

It does kind of look more like a ninja outfit in the illustration. Kind of makes a neat hero costume. Never thought about it that way.

Hahahaha

"so we know she's not just another snooty Times writer in khaki cargo shorts mincing over to Brooklyn so they can write about hipsters with a detached air of wounded nerd superiority;"

^^ This is an actual person.

He does look super fierce! And total facepalm that some people are still so entrenched in the need to heteronormatize and gender-role assign children. Ughhhhh, get the fuck over it, folks. It's a *good* thing sometimes to not have rigid standards. Do some people really get that uncomfortable with shit that affects…

I'm so glad they kept the original cast for the most part in all of the films, and that the actors were dedicated enough to the project to see it through. That's one reason I adore the LotR movies, the cast was the same (although you didn't have nearly the same progression.) It just adds so much to the movies as a…

How about we never use the word synergistic?

If a construction worker getting cosmetic surgery on his ass for purely aesthetic reasons doesn't break some stereotypes, I don't know what does.

Or for Halloween, you could probably suspend a few in a giant red Jell-o mold with some fruit bits to make a faux-alien womb. Could be fun.

I think from a history geek perspective, it's also kind of cool to think this kid is related to the long line of monarchs that pretty much helped shape the current Western world as we know it. I get a kick out of that lineage come to life.

*sigh* Okay duh yeah no shit you don't go to work rolling or tripping. That's just silly. That's why you do these things on the weekend, or when you're on vacation, and because you're a responsible adult drug user, you build in enough recovery time (and that depends, based on the individual) so you're fresh for your…

That's all pretty accurate, I'd say- pain, cramps, little-to-no sexytimes, bloating, fatigue, mood swings, gross-ness. Getting your period is most definitely a pain in the ass, and yeah you get used to it to a degree but it still blows and I still get grossed out by myself. If you're not on birth control like me…

I know plenty of people who do drugs and still have to get up early for jobs and hobbies and running.