I met my partner of 2 1/2 years on couchsurfing. I guess that counts as meeting on the Internet, even though our contact was limited until he actually surfed my couch and started talking about being a kindergarden teacher and having a deep love for Ursula k leGuin and Madeleine l'engle, and the study of religion. He…

Lindy, how exactly do you deal with the parade of assholes who follow you around the internet? It seems exhausting.

So 18 and 19 year olds can win botox? What the ever loving fuck are they going to do with that?????? Best prize ever for someone who HASN'T EVEN STARTED TO AGE YET JESUS CHRIST.

thanks! :D

Annie Hall La di da

fucking love that guy

yeah. happy tears.

I really don't think it's because we have too much free time.

LOVE Phyllis Tribble. Love finding little nuggets of feminist theology on this site.

"walking closet" ??

YES. Thank you!

Wow the comments here are super terrible.

We are human beings- most of us aren't able to detach whatever parts of ourselves are in pain just to make sure our emotions don't make anyone else uncomfortable.

Yeah it's terrible. Especially since most of the stuff being said to her comes with a lot of the patriarchal assumptions feminists try to point out and challenge. Just because this is also women writing an honest piece about her recent breakup doesn't make it "privileged". I'm not understanding the hate.

Fighting the Forces, What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, edited by Rhonda V. Wilcox and David Lavery.

Fighting the Forces, What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, edited by Rhonda V. Wilcox and David Lavery

Fighting the Forces, What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, edited by Rhonda V. Wilcox and David Lavery

Season 6 and 7 are my favorites too. They get so complex. Don't get me wrong, seeing the scoobies in their younger days it still very very satisfying...but the characters and their lives get very real in the last two seasons, and I don't think the series would be anywhere near as good had that gritty dark stuff been…

Having just received (for my birthday, just yesterday) a volume collection of academic essays all centered around the wonderful complex perfection that is Buffy the Vampire Slayer, this makes my heart so happy.