I wore my pewter ballgown skirt to the last one. I wonder if the bubble gum pink one still fits.

Oooh, that sounds like a good combo. Bubble gum pink skirt and awesome black tux-like jacket.

I think I'm going to start adding long skirts (and petticoats) back into the daily wardrobe, come autumn. I've been seeing a lot of them I like, lately.

FEW FANDOMS ARE PREDOMINANTLY QUEER

Oh, absolutely. But some of the TumblrGirls have a very limited sense of the larger fandom ecosystem.

sarameg,

I was listening to NPR while driving to lunch and I heard the opening segment and after that, I clicked off the radio. I was just not in the mood to be crying openly in a rental car in a Mexican food parking lot.

I'll save that for the bathroom at home, thank you.

with visine!

h/t to ita.

I was just not in the mood to be crying openly in a rental car in a Mexican food parking lot.

That is a very special and rare mood, it must be said.

Awww, this is a good thing that happened today.

That is a very special and rare mood, it must be said.

ha! Man. There has to be a song writting about this.

There has to be a song writting about this.

A country song, no doubt. "The music of pain," - Xander Harris.

Looking at that gets me so flummoxed. I don't know where to start what to give. So I've decided to choose simple close to home known quantilites, like to give to Kat or K's Donorschoose while I think about the larger picture. It gets me calm. I've taken the initial (distracting) guilt response of the table, and can consider more clearly.

So far so good.

My sister sent me an email that was going around her line of work (anthropology, the Third World) rejecting the BBC's recently stated position (in the sense that the whole station has one opinion, which....not) that we're seeing the results of a particular pressure cooker and breeding programme called "Slavery" and this is what it looks like on this end.

No, said this article. It's because of the political reform. It's that the Caribbean is a great place to be poor and black these days, so, you know, some of run really fast.

It was a very annoying article, and deserves being read more than it deserves being summed up by an irritated reader. It's here: [link]

For the life of me, I can't tell the age or relative experience of the person that says not cheering to make a may-be-bi character bi is bi-erasure instead of exhorting attention for the gay character which isn't gay-erasure.

But I'm sure gays got everything now, what would they do with exposure?

This is a fandom in which the het ships don't really get played down, but I am one of maybe two people I've seen who ship the canon gay guy with anyone.

eta: My mother friended me on FB. I guess it was inevitable. Even though I'm still not using it, I had to reply to that, and it gave me somewhere safe to post that picture. I'd better play that next move in Scrabble now that Brian knows I'm alive.

Somebody please explain "[drops mic]" to me? I'm seeing it all over the place, and I don't know what it means.