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I've noticed a lot of cute Asian chicks post on Dreamwidth.
Naturally they prove themselves the superior choice in female companionship for discerning wisemen considering their blogs are 95% recipes and 5% pictures of dogs or cats.
Meanwhile what's up with my benighted brethren who date white women?
White women ahoy!
Is there a better word than benighted, speaking of?
It's basically the way Homer would call you an asshole.

Every so often I offer free one-card tarot readings. This includes a second free draw (one card) to anyone who links me to their post advertising this, a three-card past-present-future spread to anyone who donates 2 USD via my Paypal button below, and a Celtic Cross ten-card spread to anyone who donates 5 USD. 

Sorry Persona ruined the tarot forever.
Can't read it with that level of awesome and drama I don't give a shit.
Also you want the cool cards.
WOW KNIGHT OF CUPS AWESOME I CAN GET MOTIVATED ABOUT FORTUNE TELLING WITH IMAGERY LIKE THIS!
No you want the cool shit like the magician or the hanged man or something.

Day Six: Favorite female-driven show

UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUH.

Well, the good news is I'm not treasurer of my square dance club. I would have hated that, even though I said I'd do it. Treasurer has to talk to all the guests and to everyone who wants to buy a 50-50 ticket, and my anxiety would not have liked that one bit.

Square dancing?
Is it 1949?

Bad news is, that's because there's no more club. Square dancing is a dying art, and we're just one more casualty. Last dance of this club's thirty-two years of existence is in May, and I don't think I'll be able to go. If I'm crying this hard now...

Well it had a good run I guess.

#onlinefeminism has taught me most everything I know about the kyriarchy in all its forms. The rest I learned on my own, but didn't understand without the tools online feminism gave me. I thought, for example, that all the times I suggested a thing and nobody listened and a guy suggested that thing and everybody listened, those resulted from some personal fault of my own. Turns out it's a sexist pattern, not my fault at all. Without online feminism, I would never have figured that out.

Yes I'm not a person with no leadership skills--
IT'S SEXISM.

Online feminism has changed my life. At this point it would be entirely fair to say that online feminism (and fandom, but there's heavy overlap) IS my life.

My heart's still beating. Feminism must not be dead

>Feminism is my life
ha wow

Gender correlates pretty strongly with reproductive organs and with the twenty-third chromosome. Correlation is not causation.

I was born a man with bad allergies.
In my heart, though, my right nostril doesn't feel like it's filled with asphalt.
Nope it still is.

There are two basic templates for reproductive organs. There's a whole lot of ways to vary those templates. There is nothing wrong with this.

Yeah.
Like a cock ring.
That's right: a Prince Albert.
A bar going right through the cockhole.
Well if I had any male readers they've stopped reading this entry.

How confused do you think you'd be by a story where, instead of gendered third-person singular pronouns (for this purpose, 'ze', 'ey', singular 'they', et al are gendered), the third singular pronouns are something like na/nan, sa/san, ta/tan, translating roughly to this-one, that-one, that-one-over-there? All gender-neutral, and which one refers to whom changes depending on the speaker.

I don't even understand the explanation.
That's how confusing it'd be.

Help me think of impossible things? 'When hell freezes over', '

Dante depicted the lowest levels of hell as freezing.

 Has anyone seen an email forward about an atheist going to court to
challenge observances of Christian and Jewish holy days on account of
atheists don't have any? Because I didn't see the whole thing, just what
happened to be up on a coworker's screen when I had to ask her something,
and I suspect the punchline is Apr 1 is Atheist Day or some such thing, and
if so I need to be very grouchy at her, because. Hi.

Fucking
hate atheists
they are so annoying.
They're as bad as the deeply religious I swear to fuck.

I wonder if it's possible to write a story with a genderfluid lead without calling attention to the fact except via changing pronouns (and possibly name—like, Alexandra for when the lead is female, Alex for when the lead is male or agender or bigender or whichever one I decide to go with) and without confusing the fuck out of the presumably-not-up-on-gender-minorities-e

xcept-maybe-trans-folk audience.

I mean, I could and probably should explain the concept in the story, but that's not as fun as seeing if the audience picks it up unprompted.

How about

you tell a good story?

Nope can't do that because you have no talent, so--

ZE!

HIR!

EY!

EMPOWERMENT!

FEMINISM!

Standard babble about what I like: Ladies being awesome. Bechdel passing. People of color being awesome. Femslash, het, slash, poly, gen. Porn, pornless shippy fic, gen.

What?

Here's what I like in fiction:

epic poetry

scifi

cyberpunk

classics

that's about it, really.

I bet everyone understood most of mine.

No one understood what the fuck you just said.

Dear little sister:

STOP FAT-SHAMING YOUR BABY SISTER.

Point one: she is, even by the bullshit BMI measure, well within normal weight range for her height.

Point two, which could and maybe should be point only because point one is much less relevant: we are trying to inspire self-confidence in her, and making baby sister feel bad about her body is not a route to baby sister having self-confidence.

Can I get a fucking trigger warning here you insensitive cunt?

Of all the BDSM fanfic in the world, why, why did the one to become a wildly successful origific novel have to be Fifty Shades?

Guess what the ladies at work have been talking about for the past twenty minutes. With much roaring laughter, because apparently it is greatly entertaining that only one of us has actually had sex involving bondage. ("It must be a Jersey thing.") I don't feel it necessary to mention to them that the main reason I haven't is I haven't had any sex, never mind a sexual relationship of enough duration and sufficient trust to explore anything I find sexy in fic.

Can I get a trigger warning again?

Goddamn.

I am deeply, deeply offended by the word "fanfic". 

because getting yelled at for ten minutes, then being unable to stop crying for ten minutes was exactly what my mental health needed today. 

Women.

...yeah, out-of-debt-and-with-enough-saved-to-mov

e-out date is still nearly three years off.

find me happy things?

Find your own happy things.

Fuck you.

Also oh shit I meant to post this last night but I didn't.
Time to do some time traveling.
I POSTED THIS
FRIDAY
AT 11 PM
AND NONE OF YOU NOTICED.