When I need to vent before I kick someone.
I’ve been known to bite, too.
My friend’s fanfic A Shadow of What Was (Bleach fandom, yaoi pairings, SMUT warning) is 94 chapters long. She’s been working on it for years. She has over five hundred reviews and a 5-star rating. Her story has been stolen. Some…person is posting it on fanfiction.net under her own name. Despite the fact she wrote […]
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I use this icon because that’s how it felt–as if I were invisible. The only Apple Store around is in a very expensive area. The I’ve lived here twenty years and never been near it-type expensive. It’s in a gorgeous shopping center with lovely landscaping including waterfalls (in the desert, remember), fountains, and real trees.
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I work at a middle school. I’ve been called a lot of names by 11-to-14-year-olds in nine years. Doesn’t bother me; angry kids will say angry things. In those years I’ve also talked to a lot of kids who got in trouble because “he called my mom a ho!” or “she called me a bitch!”
I started reading an article yesterday in which the writer railed against everything from profanity in blogs (somehow relating this to Fight Club) to indie authors calling themselves “indie” when all self-publishing is crap. Apparently the only novels that are self-published are the ones not good enough to be traditionally published. And when I say railing,
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I wrote to my Senators (both Republicans protecting the rich) ’cause I’m tired of the pouty bullshit. You can find info (probably a webform, quick and easy) to write to your own here. Use my letter if you like. I’m sorry you rich people are being asked to pay taxes. Really I am. But the fact
In reaction to this article by a clueless person: I work in a middle school. We had, for a brief time, a Gay-Straight Alliance. A parent–not a bad guy, just clueless–asked me “Are there gay kids in middle school?” Well, yeah. Before they go to high school, they go to middle school. If you’re a
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