IT'S HAPPENING

Shin Megami Tensei IV is leaking early in Japan!
Meanwhile in Murikuh we have another 57 years to wait.
How are the plebeians handling this news?
With aplomb because I'm pretty sure it doesn't qualify as "their kind of game" in that there's no gay romance.
That's not strictly true, though. Persona 4 had one character who was gay but it was handled with taste and tact so needless to say Dreamwidth missed the memo.

Literally none of this matters, though, because we have more important business to attend to:
VICTOR GREY WOLF.
HE'S TALKING ABOUT ME.
I'm covering this entry then I'm moving promptly on to a different blog because I can't handle the Wolf today.

It is amazing to me how many idiots there are online who stalk someone, right? I mean, do people not realize that if someone doesn't want a person that the person isn't worth their time? I think I have a stalker online, but I guess it is easier for them to copy my blogs and put them on their blog, which is on blogspot, because they would be too cowardly to face me, since they obsess and masturbate to my pictures, and thoughts of me, otherwise why obsess on me, right?

You got me, Victor.
Hundreds of updates and you come up four (now five) times and clearly I'm obsessed.
You are a cunning debater, asshole.
Incidentally how I found this was I was looking at the number of hits my site got this month and breathlessly rubbing myself through my pants pocket when I noticed that entry was found specifically through a search for Victor Greywolf.
Googling your own name, eh?
Cute.
Don't you have better things to do like bury women in your backyard?

I mean, I found one moron who is obsessed on me, since they dedicated a blog to bathouthing me, edie finds a corpse on blogspot.

IT'S ME.
ANOTHER BLOG MENTIONED ME WITH HATE.
IT HAPPENED AT LAST.
You do not know how long I've been waiting for this moment.
Actually you probably do.
Just look at the first entry's post date and that's how long I've been waiting.

I mean, what a moron they are to badmouth someone who they wouldn't even face in real life, right? I bet since they obsess on me, they dream of sucking me off. Don't they have anything else better to do with their lives? This person might be a stalker. I mean, I read their blog, and the obsession on me is far beyond a normal hater. I might suggest therapy for the person. They wouldn't even show their picture. Must have a napoleon complex, or like to hide, because they are so ugly, they would make Freddy Kruger puke. They are that both inside and out. No wonder they obsess on me, since they have nothing better to do. Must be a hit with the sex dolls, or masturbator toys, right? Either that, or live in their parents basement, with only mold as their friends. Go figure, right? Better than stalking a child...oh, wait. They probably do that already.

Oh shit?
Good one, I guess?
I'm far beyond the normal hater.
Victor, with your zippity comments I'm guessing I'm the only person reading this.
But I'm too much of a coward to confront you?
You commented anonymously on my blog once.
It was only later I pieced this riddle together.
How am I coward?
You're doing the exact same shit I am.
I guess the argument is "well he doesn't show his face" and you're right.
I don't.
That's because I actually have a job I could lose if this shit were traced back to me.
Unlike you who flips burgers for a living.
I'm not even going to comment on the other shit you said because frankly you're just saying what I already said about you so it's just a longer version of "no, you" which come on, man.
I expect better.

Well, it is sad when someone has a stalker, actually for both the victim and the one who is doing it. For the victim, because it scars them for life, and makes it difficult for them to trust, and have a relationship, and in some cases, lose their life. The stalker, because it is embarassing, especially since they are chasing someone who doesn't want them, but they deny themselves an opportunity to find someone who WILL want them.

You put this on the internet for people to read, idiot.
If you're that scarred maybe you shouldn't put it in plain sight.
You know back in the day people used to keep paper journals.
As in a journal in a book.
And no one could read it unless that person showed another person.
Maybe look into that sometime, dipshit.

Rejection is perfectly normal, but some people can't accept it, and maybe that is why they refuse to take it, because it doesn't enable their life script. Could also be the case with delusional religious fanatics. (Glad I am NOT one of them.)

... What?

Anyway, as far as that goes, I never understood why would anyone stalk a person in the first place, unless they have a poor self image complex, right? Which is the worst, male or female stalkers, right? I don't know. All I can say is if I did have a stalker, at least I'll have a fan club, right?

As I said before I am the only person reading your blog, true.
Why did you waste time posting this? You're just recycling exactly what I already said about you only you're either saying it about me or spinning it into a positive.
Also to show you how much of a coward I am I'm going to comment on your post about me.
Oh but what's this?

Error

Anonymous comments are disabled in this journal

I may be a coward but at least I have anonymous commenting.

A coward but not a pussy, it seems.

Jesus Christ.

Incidentally I average 10 hits a day from unique sources.

That's not much I know but that is 10 more a day than you get.

And you actually work at being popular.

Know how much time I've spent on advertising? 

0 minutes.

Anyway let's put this to bed and move on to today's merriment: brigantine.

Beer and lots of chocolate for dinner last night. Either of which are lovely in and of themselves, but I am not supposed to indulge like that, but we were having FUN, and... NOt so much fun right now. Ugh.

Let this be a lesson to you youngsters. 

Lightweight. 

Man I hate blogs.

*reaches for moooooorrre coffee*

*hates the world*

Nothing grinds my shit more than the *verbs* thing.

So I was riding the bus, and I tuned out the giggling high school girls at the back...

Yeah good luck tuning that shit out.

...and I thought a lot of thinky thoughts about Jackson Whittemore. For some reason.



And I thought, well of course he leaves Beacon Hills after the whole Kanima thing, and the big showdown at the warehouse. Of course he does.

I don't know how many Teen Wolf fanfics I've read - let's just say a lot - where Jackson has buggered off to the East Coast, or wherever, and in each story he's been villified for leaving. He's ungrateful, he's unfaithful, he's selfish, yadda yadda. But today on the bus on the way to work I'm thinking, what Jackson Whittemore is is a sixteen-year-old kid who set a werewolf on fire, got bitten by another werewolf, ended up turned into a giant lizard, was exploited by not one but two homicidal lunatics, and slaughtered seven people.

Ha, ha putting critical thought into fanfiction.

Teen Wolf is another one of those shows that everyone just fucking loves to write fanfiction about but I know literally nothing at all about.

Dear Fellow Teen Wolf writers,

Guys, it's Jeep, not jeep. Same way as it's Chevy, not chevy, and Land Rover, not land rover.

DEAR TEEN WOLF FANFICTION WRITERS
If you start a letter with that you might as well delete it because nothing you can possibly say after it will matter.

Anybody who's read any of my fic knows I am not a grammar freak. I tend to make it up as I go, so I am one of the least likely people to slam down the grammar hammer on anyone. Or the writing style hammer, whatever.

But. This is a matter of common sense. Jeep is a brand name, not the description of a type of vehicle, same as Chevy and Land Rover are brand names, not descriptions.

This a matter of import.
People writing Teen Wolf fanfictions are not properly capitalizing the name of vehicles.
She is not a grammar freak but she does know when and where to take a last stand and this is one of those situations.

Optimism is a double-edged somethingorother. Just read a Peter/Stiles fic that warned for dubious consent, which is fine, fair warning, but because of the summary, which was funny, I went ahead and clicked.



So. We have drug-enforced non-consent, which I do not care for, but I'm thinking, okay, might be considered sort of consent in that Stiles is getting sort of turned on, and I thought, okay, maybe he's got a secret crush and we'll explore that? But no, it's made clear that this is mostly 'cause he's an eighteen-year-old kid and is always kind of turned on, but clearly he didn't really want this particular scenario, so yeah, this is pretty much drug-enforced rape, and then afterward he gets humiliated, which was presented by the author as being funny, but which I absolutely hate (and do not find funny in the least), and wasn't warned for.

CAN I GET A FUCKING TRIGGER WARNING YOU ASSHOLES?
Trigger warning: rape
trigger warning: drug use
trigger warning: nonconsent
trigger warning: trigger warning

Aaugh, please quit calling it a "wife beater!" I know it's a common term, and I'm probably being a big drama-baby, but it throws me right out of the story every single time I see it. 

Trigger warning: spouse abuse
I'm booting up DUST 514 at last.
This shit is commercial now.
Let's shoot some peeble.

I’m not one for a lot of heavy introspection. Generally, I like the shiny object because it is a shiny object, and that’s enough for me. I tend to avoid analyzing how I write, or why I write, for fear of somehow screwing up whatever method I’ve got going by looking too hard at it, as though I might accidentally break it by trying to take it apart to study it. There is power in a name, and I don’t want to Rumpelstiltskin myself. 

Yeah, good.
Don't analyze your writing too much or else you'll find out you're shit at it.

But I’ve been giving some thought lately to my stubborn dedication to happy endings. Why, I ask myself, have I never even attempted to write the sort of story that ends Hamletesque? Why did I fail entirely both times I tried - just to see if I could do it - to write stories where one of the lead characters was a sadistic sonofabitch, and instead ended up writing two fantasy romances?

>having happy endings
>having endings at all
Everyone knows the best stories come to a natural conclusion point and stop
implying the tale continues without you watching.

Gah. Am I the only one who hates with a fiery hatred the bizarre line and paragraph spacing defaults in Word 2010? Is it just me who has wasted precious time and watched a train of thought disappear over the horizon while angrily figuring out how to shut all that crap off? *sobs*

Who formats while they write?
You just have the minimum stuff you need to be understood then you go back later and fix it.
GOD FUCKING DAMN IT PEOPLE.
 Anyway it's happening
DUST 514
I must go, friends
and kill the Gallente

If you're having girl problems I feel bad for you son

I got 99 problems
and this bitch is one.

So I just reread The Great Gatsby for the first time since my grade 11 English class, lo these many years ago. I utterly hated it at that time.

My opinion now: well, I can see its virtues. On a word-by-word and sentence-by-sentence level the writing is rather good.

I hated it in high school too.
One of my favorites now.

And the whole thing is very evocative of time and place and mood. But wow, I still hate every single character in this book! And am completely unsympathetic with their problems! 

Nick is sympathetic enough, really.
He doesn't have much of a personality but he's supposed to be the everyman of the story, so--
as for the other characters being douches: THAT'S THE FUCKING POINT YOU UNCULTURED SWINE.

I guess my problem here is that I am really really really not into that particular genre of "literary fiction" that is all about horrible people being miserable. It is a celebrated genre and many people are into it and there are lots and lots of books in it published every year but I am NOT THERE. (see also: why I hated Lev Grossman's "The Magicians" so much, because it was written in the patterns of that genre despite being also a fantasy novel. NO GET YOUR LITERARY MISERY OUT OF MY SFF PLSKTHX)

So I think the highest praise I can give The Great Gatsby is that it is a really excellent example of horrible-people-being-miserable literary fiction? Because it is! BUT I STILL HATE IT.

NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE TO "SHIP"
NO STARS.
Gatsby and Daisy are my OTP
She has an annoying writing habit you might have picked up on.
If you haven't you will shortly.

So I finished reading A Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whalen Turner on Friday night and haven't posted about it yet because I keep on NOT BEING SURE WHAT TO SAY.

So here's the thing, I read The Thief and was like, pretty good book, but nothing special. And then I read The Queen of Attolia and I was like REALLY EXCELLENT BOOK minus a couple quibbles, and then I read The King of Attolia and I was like PERFECT BOOK????? 

Somehow I can hear how you can't modulate your voice through the internet.
Also am I the only person on the internet (apparently) that considers a book a major investment of time and attention so I don't just give it freely?
I choose my books carefully.
I know that's coming off the last entry where I admitted to reading a book about EVE Online but I thought that might be good on a personal level.
Maybe offer philosophical insight or something.
At minimum how to be a better space pirate.

Thing One: Used bookstores are so dangerous. I now own four more Rosemary Sutcliff novels than I used to, which means that my collection of Rosemary Sutcliff novels is now 500% larger than it used to be.....

You bought 4 books and your collection is 5 times bigger.
So you owned a fraction of a book, what?

Thing Two: The used bookstore I was in had a copy of Catullus's poetry. I was like "ooh Catullus, I should own that!" But then I was like "BUT TRANSLATORS MATTER" because I was recently betrayed by a translater (THANKS EDWIN GILE RICH AND YOUR DEQUEERIFYING OF VIDOCQ'S MEMOIRS) so I thought I'd better check its quality first. My method: flip to Catullus 16 and see how the first line was translated, because that will tell you a lot about the translator. The translation in the bookstore went this route: NOT EVEN ATTEMPTING TO TRANSLATE the words "pedicabo" and "irrumabo" 

Is that the poem that starts out "I will sodomize you and face fuck you"?
yes it is.
Catallus truly is the greatest poet of all time.
You're supposed to be deeply offended by him, though, snowflake.
Also I just noticed the dominant color scheme of this blog is yellow and blue.
Thank you, website design by preschool teachers.

Today I attempted to art.

I am so bad at arting. The entire extent of my art experience is “lalala let me doodle absentmindedly in the margins of my university class notes while not paying attention to class and then get distracted before I even get anywhere with my doodle” and that was years ago. I do not know what I’m doing! AT ALL!

Bad at fucking writing too you dumb cunt

Soooo I accidentally meta'd on tumblr about Courfeyrac and Tholomyes in response to someone else's reblog of someone else's gif, YOU KNOW HOW IT IS ON TUMBLR.

Faggot Aurelius and bottom man Furius.

... Those are two frequent targets of Catallus' poems.

They are usually addressed as such.

Anyway I have no fucking clue what you just typed but I think you should feel ashamed for it.

I mean I'm sure I have conversations in EVE Online that are that impenetrable but I keep them to myself.

I don't go LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY META 4 LASERS ON MY NAVY APOCALYPSE OKAY.

30% CLONE COST DECREASE IN ODYSSEY DID YOU PEOPLE SEE THAT SHIT?

Although I am spending money like it's going out of style in that game.

I bought

200 million in blueprint copies

75 million for the skill capital ship construction

I'm making a fucking freighter.

Gonna train the other bitch (I have two bitches in that game. Two) for the new freighter skill changes in June and then I'll be flying around with over 580,000 cubic meters of storage space.

I don't know what that is in real measurements.
It's a lot of fucking space.

GODDAMNIT so apparently my brain has decided that Skyfall is my next new fandom. I AM SO FICKLE.

Only, OF COURSE, my brain has also decided that I do not ship anything at all and that what I really really want lots of is gen fic about these people being excellent at their jobs and terrible at their (platonic!) feelings. I have found a bit of this (and what I have found has been glorious!) but there is TRAGICALLY NOT ENOUGH. Sighhhhhh. I am reading shipfic where they are excellent at their jobs and terrible at their romantic/sexual feelings as a sop, but it is not what my soul is truly yearning for.

MY LIFE. IT IS SO HARD.

I tried five times to read this.

I couldn't fucking do it.

Someone make a recording of you reading this so I can know how much I need to hate this cunt.

If you can read it like she'd undoubtedly say it I'd really appreciate it.

 I saw a university student production of Macbeth last night with Essie. It was really interesting! Especially the decision to have Macbeth played by a woman. See, this is a play that is REALLY REALLY INTERESTED in gender roles: Lady Macbeth is as unwomanly as you can get, and DELIBERATELY so (cf: her "unsex me" speech); while Macbeth is really really bad at being a manly man.

Oh shit you got him

Shakespeare wasn't too big on the gender equality thing.

A man living in the 1600s wasn't too progressive by 2013 standards.

You found one the one flaw in Shakespeare's work.

Good job. 

Fuck blogs I'm tired.

NO CHRISTMAS UPDATE THIS YEAR

Christmas on a Tuesday.
Humbug.
Also the enlightened local government decided to resume school on a Thursday this year.
So you know. You get to start a new semester on a Thursday, then go Friday then another weekend.
I'm thinking of just putting those two days in as "work free" (AKA days off) days and hoping no one calls those two days because what the flippin' heck am I going to do those two days?
My break was supposed to start Wednesday but someone needed my assistance Friday so that's how it goes.
I'm too popular for my own good.
Anyway, enough talking about my boring real life. I'm starting to sound like one of those bloggers what like I review--
can't have that.

As a child growing up in LA, I knew that different neighborhoods had different houses. My grandmother lived in a small wooden house in downtown LA, and I lived in a small stucco house in the suburbs.

... Well I grew up in MD and was under the delusion that different neighborhoods had the same houses.
I just assumed every neighborhood was its own parallel tangent universe.

ther neighborhoods had different houses. At the time, I thought that it was geography that dictated the difference, but as I traveled more, I realized that it was time. There were small wooden houses in nearly every city, as well as stucco houses, and old Victorian houses. It depended on when they were built, not where.

It also depends on where you live.
That's why Japanese houses look Japanese--
and houses near the beach are kind of dull colors because the salt water eats bright color paint--
Also if the phrase "old Victorian house" didn't tip you off to perhaps when it was built (the Victorian era) then you might be a little bit stupid.
THAT SOUTHERN GOTHIC LIBRARY NEAR WHERE I LIVE--
WONDER WHEN AND WHERE IT WAS BUILT?

Today we are seeing an uprising of Americans concerned about the loss of their standard of living. The politicians and many people refer to it as the loss of the "middle class".

What was the middle class?

Yes, what is the middle class?
We've been waiting so long for you to explain the concept to us. No wonder the economy sucks.

It was workers who were paid well enough to be able to buy a house and a car, have plenty to eat, take vacations and buy their kids toys and then send them to college.

The pretense now is that the middle class are a special breed of people, hard-working and college educated, honest and thrifty. But that's not at all true. 

Would you believe the term isn't easily defined?

 It was a time, not a people. A time when organized workers got good wages and benefits, and the ruling class was willing to share more of the proceeds of the labor that they got from the workers. People today work just as hard, usually for longer hours, and many college educated people make low wages. The people haven't changed, the times have.

And yet the term dates to the 18th century.
I imagine times have changed more between the 18th century and the 1950s than the 1950s to now.
I don't think things are that different, honestly.
God this entry sucks.
Just typical whinging about how our American democracy is collapsing all around us and who gives a shit, honestly?
I just wish the fucking thing would collapse already so I can tell you people you were as dumb as I said all along.

I may have blogged about one of my co-workers a few years ago, when he bragged about how much he loved going down to Texas, as part of his military police duties, and performing "cell extractions" for practice, because the Texas authorities didn't care how brutal they were. 

Of course Texas.

Last week, he came to work and explained that when he woke up that morning, he had 5 phone messages from the military, telling him that he was honorably discharged, with full benefits, unless he got his Congressman to intervene in 24 hours. WTF? He was dumfounded. And so am I. He said that in no way would he quit the military now, not when he'd worked so hard to get where he is, and not when he had a sweet deployment coming up in October.

OF COURSE
TEXAS.

 Why indeed? And why was someone who has been in the military for years sent to boot camp? And how did someone in the Military Police end up in the Special Forces? I didn't ask him any of that. 

How does an MP end up in the special forces?
Because the special forces recruit from any other job?
You have to understand special forces are basically hired goons that you can just unleash on an unsuspecting populace.

But I do know that the military picks the most brutal of their members to be in the most repressive of their units. So, I'm guessing that that is how he ended up in Special Forces. But why the sudden drumming out? Is it possible that the US is really taking the protests of the Afghan government seriously?

No?
Look, the military is run like a business in the US.
An extremely inefficient business that would go bankrupt without the government propping it up but still it's total decisions by committee 24/7.

And are they weeding out those that they know will live out their brutal fantasies of wielding power and dealing out fear, torture and death to those unable to fight back? Are they actually trying to stop US soldiers from raping, murdering and urinating on Afghan civilians? When I told this story to friends on Saturday, one of them said that the same thing happened to a friend of her children. Although he was diagnosed with PTSD, he was to be re-deployed to Afghanistan, until they suddenly informed him of his immediate honorable discharge from the military. Interesting. 

IT'S LIKE THEY'RE DOWNSIZING OR SOMETHING HURR DERP!

No American Empire

All empires fall, usually from overextension. The U.S. has over 700 military bases around the world, and the stated
goal of the U.S. military is “full spectrum dominance” of the globe. Not only is this impossible, it's illegal and immoral.

>illegal
>immoral
>world politics
No such thing.

All life on Earth depends on the ecosystem in which we evolved. What we call the "economy" is what humans have created to provide for our needs. What we call the "financial system" is the way in which we trade goods and services between ourselves and others on this planet.

Is the system working? I don't think that any rational person would conclude that it is. 

Well I'm not a hunter gatherer and none of my friends are hunter gatherers so I think it's working in at least some capacity--
In fact: never hunted or gathered once in my life.
Still here.

Many people in the United States, including all the corporate candidates and some in the Occupy movement, demand a return of the so-called "middle class".

What was the "middle class"?

After WW2, when the rest of the industrialized world had been bombed into rubble, the US rode high. After decades of agitation, the ruling class gave some ground to the working class, and vast sections of the working class were paid very well, especially the unionized members. Although the widespread purges of the 50s decimated leftists, especially in the government,unions, education and the media, the idea that workers deserved to be paid a living wage, that the elderly deserved a pension, that the unemployed deserved a pittance, continued to form the basis of our society.

Idiot: the middle class was not an invention of the 1950s.
It was an invention of the renaissance. 
It is so embarrassing to read Americans blogging about politics because most Americans really seem to be under the delusion that 90% of the shit that they consider American was an invention of a time well before America was a country.
America invented freedom and the middle class.
Brilliant.

We are told that mammals evolved during the dinosaur era, but were small and few. When the meteor took out the dinosaurs, the mammals flourished.

Faced with the overwhelming control of our country and others by the giant multi-national corporations, many people are responding by forming small cooperative ventures in the belly of the beast.

...
Speaking of something unrelated, what's up with cooperative ventures?
Seriously, what the fuck was that?
What does that have to do with any of that have to do with dinosaurs?

Organic farmers, food co-ops, small manufacturing concerns - all are very good things.

We must switch to locally produced energy, food, goods and services, with trade on a smaller scale than the giant supply lines that the multi-nationals use.

Yes, we need to switch to trade on a smaller scale.
Let me just go to my local cellphone producer--
hey wait a minute.

But it's not enough to gather together and create people-sized organisms, as long as the multi-national dinosaurs continue to trample the lands, people, animals, fish, air and water of the planet.

Yes, let's dismantle all of that shit.
Have fun with no internet, phone system, education system or highway system.
You'd be dead in a month.

Beauty pagaent contestants frequently respond, when asked what they dream of, "I want to feed all the little children of the world." More likely, they dream of a modeling contract, followed by a movie career.

If someone asked me what I dream of I'd just recite that speech Mankar Camoran gives at the end of Oblivion because it sounds like the most insane rambling you've ever heard in your entire life.
And it's all read by Terence Stamp.

What does overproduction of food mean? What effects does it have upon America and the world when 6,000 daily calories of corn for every American is produced?

I know what it means in EVE Online: artificial shortages.

so that a people who used to think chicken every Sunday was high living now eat dead animals for every meal, usually deep fried in corn oil. 

... As opposed to all of us eating living animals, what?

The result? Obesity rates in the US have skyrocketed, along with the rate of diabetes. 75% of Americans are now considered either overweight or obese. It is interesting to see that farm subsidies are never mentioned as the source of the 500% increase in obesity since 1975. As with the skyrocketing unemployment rates, individual Americans are blamed. 

All because America grows a ton of corn?
I'm going to need some citation on this.
Or shit, let's keep it simple: I'm going to need these unrelated things to form a coherent idea first.
I'm willing to buy that because of corn Americans are fat but what the fuck does that have to do with unemployment?

Just as no one ever asks why 20 million unemployed Americans became "lazy" in the last 10 years, when globalization increased the numbers of factories moved out of the country, no one ever asks why so many Americans lost their willpower when the farm subsidies started. Instead, they are sternly lectured on healthy food choices.

Americans don't eat all of the surplus, of course. The rest of the overproduction is burned in cars or shipped overseas. 

Holy shit, international trade?
Fucking
facist
scum.

When the US invaded Iraq, the cradle of civilization, the birthplace of agriculture, one of the edicts forced upon that country was that Monsanto was turned loose to sell seed yearly to the farmers.

Birthplace of agriculture and yet it still looks like the surface of the fucking moon.
Irrigation people, come on.
Oh yeah. Most of the irrigated places are growing opium.
Convenient detail this cunt forgot to mention--
The primary country this country has with drugs is Mexico and the Arab world.
Just legalize the shit.
No one could compete.
Look what this country did with corn.
Corn, a crop relatively devoid of nutritional value and fairly difficult to grow and we grow enough to feed enough of it to keep even the fattest of Americans satisfied.

The greed of the 1% baffles most people. The 400 richest Americans own more than the bottom 150 million combined, yet most of the bottom 150 million Americans would be happy with economic security. While they may dream of winning the lottery, a good-paying job with a house and a car are all they really aspire to.

 Look. I did this shit all the time in FFXIV.
At some point it just becomes this insane game.
I'd corner the raptor skin market for days at a time just because I could.
Did I know if I'd make money?
I don't even know if I did. Money had ceased to have meaning to me in that game.
Things just cost money to me. The specific amount was so trifling and unimportant I didn't even bother keeping score.

But multiple mansions and cars and private jets and private islands don't seem to be enough for the insatiable rich. What character defect drives them?

I remember buying an expensive set of armor, then giving it away and buying it in a different color just because I didn't like the first set's color.
There were like 4 sets in the entire game at the time.

How can they justify taking from people who have almost nothing, in order to add to their inventory of expensive belongings?

Because you have the misfortune of starting a few minutes after I started playing or you weren't as clever at leveling as I was.
Most of my money was had when I was one of about 15 level 40+ leatherworkers.
Leatherworking was probably the second hardest craft to level (the hardest, culinarian, also had no use) and everyone needed some leather product or other.
This also gave me insight into a market most people didn't know existed and yep.
There we go.
My goal now is EVE Online because the market in that game is infinitely more complex and interesting.

Let's get this straight. Wall Street speculators gambled with home mortgages, running up trillions of dollars of collateralized debt obligations. Millions of people lost their houses.

Americans were unmoved. They shouldn't have bought houses that they couldn't afford when the mortgages went up.

Well, you know--

rule 1 of EVE Online: don't fly what you can't afford to lose. 

Never mind global warming. Never mind peak oil. Never mind the 50,000+ dead in car crashes a year, the dead bodies along all our roads, the air pollution, the urban sprawl.

So what?
No more cars?
Lady if this country did even a quarter of the shit you propose you'd be dead.

I can't imagine you growing your own crops.

And I don't mean just for eating.

Who makes your clothes?
Your medicine?
The timber for your house?
The glass for your windows?
Who mines the gold that's in your electronics?
Who synthesizes the polymers for your plastics?
Are you seriously prepared to lose all that shit without a ready replacement?
Where are you going to get water?

Assuming you are enough of a survivalist to grow your own food and hunt for food and leather to make clothes--

where are you hunting?

Where are you growing all your food?

50,000 dead each year from car crashes would pale into insignificance compared to the millions upon millions that would be dead when you rolled the calendar back to the stone age.

Look what happened to Cambodia. 

I wonder if there were cavemen decrying the invention of the wheel as the end of civilization.

Fuck everything.

Ottowa Politicos

Let's do that thing where I just comment on ONTD_Political because I'm too lazy and impatient to find a blog plus there's a story I want to comment on.

An armada of U.S. and British naval power is amassing in the Persian Gulf in the belief that Israel is considering a pre-emptive strike against Iran’s covert nuclear weapons program.

Can't wait to see how America and Israel are evil in the comments.

I mean they are but that doesn't make Iran the good guys.

Basically what I'm trying to say is by the time you're talking large organizations everyone involved is basically evil.

Big groups of people are evil. It's just the way it goes.

Ohhhhhh no. No no no no no no. I have a bad feeling about this.

Yeah thanks for that one, Yoda.

Large naval blockades give you a bad feeling. Let me just inform the Jedi Council--

GUISE

STAHP

This is bad. This is very very very very very very bad.

D:

Yeah.

Iran, US, Israel-- a bunch of dumb sluts on the internet have determined your actions are bad and are using cute words spelled wrong to underscore how bad you are.

I think you should think carefully before you continue your power plays.

This is ridiculously irresponsible and could drag the whole region into war.

Yes, the relatively stable and peaceful Middle East could be dragged into conflict over this.

Hey wait--

.... really? Really?

What on God's green earth would make anyone think this is a good idea? Jesus fucking Christ.

Iran threatening the West's only stable and friendly foothold into the Middle East (AKA oil) with nuclear weapons?

That's probably why.

Because the threat of retribution--

in theory--

will prevent Iran from pulling the trigger.

It's like in EVE Online when a neutral guy goes through my corporation's territory. You don't immediately shoot him but suddenly there are 50 dudes in dreadnoughts surrounding him and it really deters him from taking hostile action and then shit's really tense for like 3 minutes and then it's over and we all go about our industry.

will today begin an annual 12-day exercise
this is probably a stupid question, bue is this sort of exercise some done routinely or really something out of the ordinary? I mean, is it a recent decision taken due to the current situation or something that has been planned a while ago?

God you're fucking stupid.

It's not a real exercise. 

"Military exercise" sounds a lot better to idiots like you than "navy blockade" because "navy blockade" sounds like a military action but an exercise is like training.

Also it's another way to show to Iran that the West doesn't mean actual harm but they have to remind them who has the bigger dick.

Here's a story where some gay guy got kicked off the football team because he kissed his boyfriend in front of everyone--

then it turns out the boyfriend is 65 and this guy is 18 and ONTD_Political isn't sure what to do because they have a butt fucking love (literally and figuratively) for gays but they're also a bit grossed at the considerable age difference.

That's why the coach is saying he was kicked off because he lied about it.

If you say your partner is your grandfather then maybe that's a hint he might be too old for you?

I dunno.

Maybe.

Good luck convincing the special snowflakes on ONTD of this.

Or maybe that's a hint to mind your own fucking business over other people's choices of partners?

And one pretentious twat adds:

This.

And another:

DING DING DING DING DING DING

When I introduce people to my girlfriend I say she's my daughter.

Anything wrong with that arrangement, ONTD?

PEDOPHILIA IS A SEXUALITY TOO.

I wonder how ONTD would handle my troll-fu.

And if he hadn't lied, I bet the coach would have been super understanding and would never have kicked him off.

Also, maybe he said that because people are fucking homophobes.

I know. That's why I have to introduce her as my daughter.

NO ONE UNDERSTANDS OUR LOVE.

No one except Oingo Boingo.

I don't know about this. The age difference really bothers me.

BIGOT.

HOW DARE YOU HATE THIS BEAUTIFUL UNION.

The fuck does it matter, though

??? 65 year old dates 18 year old.

Ok let me make this less appealing for you snowflakes:

65 year old white man dates 18 year old Thai girl.

OHHH NOOO.

Evil white man dominates innocent PoC girl!

I'm not down with pedophilia?

No one gets it, bro. Literally me and you are the only ones that wonder when this relationship actually started.

Ok, but both of them are adults, so what does pedophilia have to do with this?

Because I doubt seriously this relationship just formed.

So because of his age he's more likely to have dated this teenager before he was legal?

Receipts pls.

Yep.

Sometimes the members of this community can be so self-righteous that they refuse to read. Stop trying to pick a fight when there isn't one.

"Sometimes".

Sean Smith, 'Vile Rat' Of 'EVE Online' Remembered By Online Gamers

Bro got podded irl by terrorists.

Should have brought the cloning vats.

Sorry is this insensitive? 

Ohhhhh goodness.

Time for bed~

good night.

 

MMMMMICROFONT

Hope you have your reading spectacles on because this is Livejournal.In grand (new) tradition let's start with the ONTD_Political article I found this shit from:

Poly-Baiting: Why We Need a More Inclusive LGBTQ Movement

I mean come the fuck on. Only five labels affixed to your organization?
Are you even trying to be inclusive?

Poly-Baiting: Why We Need a More Inclusive LGBTQ Movement

by Vivienne Chen

Anti-LGBTQ campaigners have often used the issue of polyamory–or rather, a twisted media presentation of “polygamy,” which is distinct from ethical nonmonogamy and polyamory–as a slippery slope argument against LGBTQ equality, particularly when it comes to marriage.

The worse thing is? LGBTQ activists left and right take the bait.

Indeed.
INDEED.
GET YOUR FUCKING ACT TOGETHER, LGBTQ.
Ask me what group I've joined.
Go ahead.
lgbttiqq2sa
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.
THIS ISN'T EVEN MY FINAL FORM.
Lesbian, Gay, Transsexual...
T--
Queer--
Something--
NEEDLESS TO SAY I AM WAY MORE INCLUSIVE THAN YOU ARE FUCK YOU.

Just as Santorum fears, I believe entirely in the possibility of a “slippery slope” between queer and poly/NM relationship acceptance. However, I challenge the fundamental assumptions underlying the so-called “dangerousness” of this slope. After all, not too long ago in history, a relationship was about the marital union of one man and one man’s property colloquially known as a woman. 

God those were good times.

UHH I MEAN--

wait no--

fuck.

Are my labels in trouble now?

Then, we as a society redefined relationships between men and women to be about love and commitment as equals, with or without marriage. Now, we are fighting for a genderless distinction.

But if LGBTQ activists continue to say that relationships are really about committing to the people we love regardless of gender, race, creed, etc., then maybe society should allow us to commit to the people (plural) we love. Note the assumption here: I believe it is, in fact, possible for some people to love more than one person.

I don't even know what this means for my labels.

Can I just opt into this now and let the community of label affixers decide on a label later?

Is there a label of the month club join?

Is there a book I can get?
You know like a stamp book or those coin sleeve things?

In order to build a more inclusive LGBTQ equality/acceptance movement, we as activists need to learn how to combat the poly-baiting that occurs on the opponent’s side. Regardless of your own personal opinions about the feasibility or acceptability of an open or non-monogamous relationship, we need to have the language to call out anti-equality bigots on their bullshit and false logical assumptions every time they make a “LGBTQ relationships = polyamory (= bestiality = total sexual depravity)” comment.

I can't believe

of ALL the labels you've affixed to your diverse, rainbow coalition

not a single one of you can outdo this logic.

I'm a completely hereosexual white guy and I can outsmart this logic.

Maybe you should add "heterosexual white guy" label to your body and maybe you'll finally get somewhere.

Anyway, on to the blog itself.

Didn't mean to dwell on this as long as I did but what can I say?

Talk of labels gets me all hot and bothered.

My major projects right now include working out and not developing an eating disorder. The former is easier than the latter. I really feel like I need to go back to school to save me from myself. I love my job and I'm proud of what I do, but I feel like school is what I need to take my focus off of my body and put it back on the aspects of myself that actually matter.

Like affixing labels to your body.

All right I'll stop.

I'm just fucking around.

Good things are happening. Arda's gotten a new warehouse with tons of space, and we're moving in this week. All of us get our own office space now, which is nice. We went to the antique market and I bought a mid-century green metal military desk that I absolutely love.

I have 2 warehouses in EVE Online now.

If my math is correct they are several thousand miles in all directions.

I use them to store a mountain of cocaine and alloyed tritanium bars.

And armor plates.

And meth.

Basically if you've seen the movie Blow where they have that room of coke and money that's my daily existence in EVE.

AND I GOT IT

WITH MY OWN TWO HANDS.

There's a picture of you.

You look like that annoying bitch in that poetry class I had who would never shut her fucking mouth.

Just full of pretentiousness and ignorant opinions about fucking everything.

SYLVIA PLATH IS AN AMAZING POET AND FEMINIST AND BLAAAAAAAAAH

Yeah and for all her worldly talents she still stuck her head in the oven.

She nearly killed the guy in the floor below her too, the selfish bitch.

Incidentally I never read a Sylvia Plath poem that made me think "here's someone we should be reading collectively as an institution of education."

Today in the car I spent ten minutes shouting about people who call marriage equality ~assimilationist~ and then ten minutes shouting about people who don't understand logistics.

I had a very stressful day and I'm not sure if ontd_p helps or makes it worse.

I spent part of the day yesterday being accosted by the police over doing literally nothing at all.
Thank you the police state of the US.

We bought a cargo van, used, just a few days ago. It went in for a bunch of repairs before we purchased it, so it's in great condition, except I knew it needed a front end alignment. I was in a hurry, though, and I didn't realize just how much it needed an alignment, or how fast that would cause the tires (which started out in great condition) to wear down.

What are you, stupid?
Rhetorical question.

I bought a Wreathe in EVE Online to move the tons of Mexallon I've been making.

Let me tell you in a seventeen paragraph post/action plan about how awesome this ship is.

No I'm not going to do that.

Why?
Mostly because I don't feel like writing it but also because I'M NOT A DUMB CUNT ON LIVEJOURNAL.

Instead I'm going to tell you about FFXIV.
I feel like I've been neglecting FFXIV in this blog a lot but that isn't the case in real life.

The simple fact is in FFXIV I have transcended petty notions like "leveling up" and "needing money".

Did you ever write so much and type for so long that you start to feel like you really only know two sorts of sentence structure and you're just trying to hide that fact by rearranging things so it sounds more interesting?

Can't say I have, no.

Maybe I'm just naturally gifted but I find I never run into the problems these cunts seem to run into while writing.

The girl looks at him – really looks at him, from head to toe – as she takes a long drag off her cigarette. She tilts her head back, never glancing away, and lets the smoke flow in heavy curtains from between coral lips. The effect is slightly disconcerting, and Eames is starting to get agitated when she finally lifts her head again and says, “All right, I’ve got it. You should walk up to him and say, ‘I think we should fuck.’ Or if you really wanna put it more elegantly, say, ‘I think you’re beautiful, and I wanna see what you’d look like riding my dick.’”

It's terrible.

Kill yourself.

I would love to hear opinions from social justice advocates and writers and people from all sorts of marginalized groups on this subject.

Oh boy.

Harl and I have been trying to hammer out this novel we want to write for like two years now, and I think we've finally got all the general ideas down. It was originally going to be straight-up comedic steampunk, but we've made a lot of changes. It's now a steampunk fantasy mashup, still comedic but also a bit actiony and dramatic, I suppose; we'll see where that takes us. The archnemesis has now become an antihero. The former main character is getting a name change. The plot is totally different.

What is it about steampunk that makes people think it'd be a great setting to set a novel that will make money?

Name one successful novel labeled "steampunk" by the author.

No, you're not allowed to co-opt H.G. Wells. 

My biggest issue through this whole process has been writing a story where women and POC and queers all have a place and it's not standing behind the white straight male leads.

Yeah I have a big problem with that, too.

It's like I need a character that can get shit done without whining about it and--

Oh shit there go all my labels.

MOTHER

FUCK.

 If we couldn't do that, we'd scrap the project. The three main characters at the moment are a a queer Asian man, a queer white man, and a black woman of as yet indeterminate sexual preference who's the brains and the money and the power behind the outfit.

>White man

nope.

Maybe if he were a half black and half white--

and he were INTERSEXED--

and had two different color eyes--

AND A CONJOINED TWIN GROWING OUT OF HIS STOMACH BUT IT'S JUST A FACE AND IT SECRETLY CONTROLS HIS THOUGHTS--

then we'd have a character.

The real issue became writing something that's steampunk and also diverse. We wanted the book to not strike too close to home for marginalized readers because it's meant to be funny and it's meant to be escapist.

>Escapist

>book where black women have brains and money

are you saying black women typically aren't smart in reality?

Fucking racist.

What I want more than anything is more media where queer characters are just characters who are queer and not characters whose lives and stories are about being queer. The same goes for women.

Well I can recommend the movie Yojimbo for you, then.

Okay it's not about queers--

and I think there's like two women in the entire movie and both of them have less than a minute of dialogue--

but it is a 100% Asian cast.

And Toshiro Mifune beheads a bitch.

I would suppose that there are people of color out there who feel the same way about characters of color, though of course I can't speak to that. The real problem is that you can't write a ~just slightly different Victorian era~ and have a character who's marginalized whose primary struggle is anything but one against their own marginalization regardless of what the plot throws at them.

He also throws a knife through a motherfucker.

I'm hoping that this is okay, and I feel like it just might be since at this point, this alternate world doesn't just serve to level the playing field in some ways; the entire plot revolves around the circumstances of this particular alternate world.

 Sorry I forgot to pay attention.
I was just watching this boring scene with a typical boring white guy protagonist.

We wouldn't be able to write this book without utterly rearranging social and political reality. 

No, can't write a good book without doing that.
Seriously am I the only person that focuses on telling a good story?
Story of Yojimbo/A Fistful of Dollars:
lone wanderer drifts into a town with two gangs. There are like 5 innocent people left in the town so the lone wanderer decides to play the two sides against each other and murders basically everyone in the process.
Roll credits.
10/10 would watch again.

And I do feel like it's a mistake to take any area of marginalization as a given state; there have been societies throughout history where sexism, classism, racism, homophobia, etc. have not existed or not fit the mold we think of now. So I feel like if we take this Earth and give it an alternate history that's utterly changed the entire landscape of the planet, why not give our characters who would be marginalized in real life, especially in generic steampunk Victorian London, a chance to shine as something other than marginalized characters?

But you picked an Asian man for your lead.

Do you want to tell Bruce Lee or Toshiro Mifune he's marginalized?

You'd probably get punched in the solar plexus. 

Why not let our black woman be the genius CEO of her own company and have her race and gender be accepted by her social circle but her other character traits pose a threat to her position?

I mean you can do that but it doesn't magically make a good story, you know.

Ohhhhh goodness. I'm done with this garbage.

I'm lazy

Fuck it let's just browse ONTD_Political and its comments.
People whining that some white guy got offended that a black man was bagging his groceries then got banned from the store--
he's claiming religious persecution, inexplicably--

A 22-year-old man who reported he was the victim of an alleged hate crime in Missoula during the early morning hours of August 5 has admitted he made the story up. “It has now been determined that the assault did not occur,” Missoula Police Lieutenant Scott Brodie said in an August 7 statement.

I bet the comments will somehow be whining about bigoted police.

We will never hear the end of this. Any attack that isn't caught on camera will be suspected to be another 'Joseph Baken' case.

Considering this is the first I'm hearing of Joseph Baken I kinda suspect this is the last we'll be hearing of this.

Here's someone claiming they'll fix this when they become "god-king" and I sincerely doubt you'll become god-emperor of man but even if you do I doubt you'd be able to fix this shit because you're be too busy whining--

Roma in France’s northern city of Lille were expelled from their camps over the weekend as police dismantled the settlements, despite promises by President Francois Hollande to end the practice.

The police raids started early Thursday (9 August) morning with 240 others, previously evicted from camps in Lyon, "voluntarily" leaving on flights to Romania on the same day. Each adult returned to Romania received €300 and each child €100.

Francois Hollande has some balls.

France's interior minister Manuel Valls claims the camps are unsanitary and pose a public health risk. The minister said each individual’s case was evaluated by French authorities before being returned to Romania, reported Reuters.

Rights organisations say France must abide by its commitments under international human rights laws to provide alternative accommodation and that it must respect the European Union rules on freedom of movement.

Come and fucking make me.
If they want to live here they'll do so legally, they will find a suitable place to live and they'll follow French laws.

Welcome to France, asshole. Check your weapons.

Veronika Szente Goldston, Europe and Central Asia advocacy director at Human Rights Watch (HRW), said the raids had left 60 children without any homes and that France’s latest evictions are contrary to Hollande’s pledge in April to abolish discriminatory measures against Roma populations.

“Hollande’s promises to end discrimination against Roma couldn’t ring more hollow in the wake of this week’s events,” Szente Goldston said in a statement.

Oh wow a lying politician, imagine that.

Wait, wait-- 

I suddenly remember a quote from someone smart about politics.

How'd that go?

“Politics have no relation to morals.”

-Machiavelli

Q High, a LGBTQ-friendly high school, will open on Tuesday for their first full year of classes. One n Ten, a LGBTQ youth program in Phoenix, will sponsor the online high school.

>Online

can't wait for everyone in the comments to miss that little detail.

Johnny Hernandez cut class to the point that her former school told her not to come back. While meeting with another high school, the 16-year-old was told she had to change her clothing in order to register.

Her clothes met the dress code requirement — the school’s issue was that Hernandez is a male and wears women’s clothing.

“In my head I feel like I’m a girl,” Hernandez said. “I’m just not in the right body.”

In my head I'm a chaplain of the Imperial Fists

but in reality I'm this scrawny white guy--

WHAT THE FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK WHY ARE YOU TAKING MY POWER ARMOR AND GUN AWAY FROM ME DISCRIMINATION

At the same meeting, Hernandez heard about Q High, a high school that opened this year near Third Street in midtown Phoenix. The new high school is for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning students along with straight allied youth.

... How can an online high school have a physical location?

Am I confused?

Q High is a part of One n Ten, a nonprofit organization that focuses on assisting LGBTQ youth ages 14-24. With three satellite locations in the Valley and a youth center in Phoenix, One n Ten holds weekly discussion groups and offers programs to help youths with “self‐expression, self‐acceptance, leadership development and healthy life choices,” according to the official website.

Well with this much nonsense rolling around in Arizona my job application to 3 schools in Arizona should go right through I feel.

At five years old, Hernandez said she began having crushes on boys. Growing up, she said people physically fought her because they didn’t like that she was gay. Three years ago, she came out to her family as transgender. The majority of her family doesn’t like who she is, she said. Hernandez also feels she is “double-profiled” because of her Mexican background.

You know when I said I wanted to be a genetically enhanced super soldier in the grimdarkness of the far future fighting aliens and heretics I was told to grow the fuck up.

This guy gets his own high school.

“If people don’t like Mexicans, they aren’t going to like me, and if they don’t like gays, they aren’t going to like me,” Hernandez said. “I don’t care what the world thinks of me. I am who I am and I’m not going to change for anybody.”

Hernandez’s cousin, Monica Chavez, said several times that they have been out walking and overheard people nearby discuss her Hernandez’s transgender appearance.

THE ONLY THING I HEAR PEOPLE DISCUSSING IS HOW BEST TO CEASE AND REPENT BEFORE THE RADIANCE OF THE EMPEROR THAT I IMBUE

Four years ago, Chavez was diagnosed with limb-girdle muscular dystrophy, meaning her leg muscles deteriorate as she grows older. She began using a wheelchair and wanted to attend a school with a smaller population.

“Ever since I’ve been in my wheelchair, I’ve been scared of what people think or if they’ll stare, and it bothers me if they stare,” Chavez said. “I just get nervous. I’m looking forward to (starting Q High) but at the same time I’m not.”

Dang.
You get all the labels to affix to your body.

I bet the people who comment here are getting label envy.

“My main goal is to make them feel like a teenager, like a youth,” Smith said. “It’s just one part of your identity; it’s not who you are, it’s not what defines you.”

Q High is a public charter school through the Arizona Virtual Academy and funded by the Arizona Department of Education. All classes are online and academic requirements are determined by the department.

I bet everyone misses this, too.

Is this even a thing? Can you take high school online?

How can you make them feel well adjusted, "like a youth" and "it's just one part of your identity" when you've basically acknowledged that they're such special snowflakes that not only can they not attend normal high schools they can't attend high school in a physical location and can only be interacted with through the bubble that is the internet?

Attendance will be taken in order to enforce that the 17 students attend class Tuesdays through Fridays from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. to meet the weekly minimum requirement of 25 hours online.

P. sure high school is Monday-Friday, boss.

I dunno, though. I only graduated with honors and have a teaching certificate. I don't have my school administration degree.

I should have gotten that garbage instead. I'm an idiot.

“My whole vision is to create an environment where they feel like they are in their own school community and not just coming to sit in front of a computer for seven hours on end,” Smith said.

>not just

I've learned some of my most important things from sitting in front of the computer for 7 hours a day. 

What beautiful idea, cut out the bigots and let these kids get on with their lives and education. If the public schools/government won't step up and protect their students, take them out of the game, and reap the benefits of well-adjusted, intelligent human beings who feel safe.

Says one comment.

Isn't part of growing up confronting adversity?

Isn't this kinda like admitting they can't?

Also the state of Arizona, I just checked, is paying this guy a principal's salary.

A principal makes somewhere in the neighborhood of 80 Gs a year.

This school is online only and educates a whopping 17 children.

Soooo let's calculate this out--

assuming there is a faculty of ONNNNE person at this high school (there isn't, there are at least 6 teachers) the average cost to teach one student for one year is 4705.

I'm not too familiar with the statistics of Arizona (because who the fuck is) but the average student in NC costs about 1000 a year for the state to educate.

A student in a physical location.

In an actual building.

With actual books.

4705 dollars.

I know it costs more.

Can you imagine? I can barely imagine what that would be like. The safety and increased self-acceptance. I get dizzy thinking of it.

So happy for the kids who have this!

Of course they're safe. They're learning online.

Unless it's Blackboard. Then your entire future is in jeopardy if Blackboard suddenly decides it's not gonna post what you told it to.

There was a time I had to post a 60 MB file on Blackboard.

It took 27 hours.

No joke I could have walked it to the professor's house and presented it live and been back home faster than that file took to upload.

I can't believe this happening in Arizona, of all places.

I wonder if this school accepts asexual students.

Considering it's ONLINE I'm guessing yes.

They accept both straight and gay students so yeah.

THERE YOU GO.

ONTD_POLITICAL HAS SPOKEN.

I find this a confusing comment. Fynoda wasn't asking whether they accept bisexuals, but asexuals. It's be nice to think that their open, inclusive philosophy would mean they did but in my bitter experience, this is rarely actually the case. it's fair enough to query it, and the answer isn't obvious. Being the minority even within the minority is petty tough if they aren't accepting of atypical difference.

...

Shut up.

With the exception of aromantics, asexuals fall under the straight or gay label (or bi/pan), so why wouldn't they be included alongside other gay or straight students?

... Aromantics?

Oh, shit.

An aromantic is a person who experiences little or no romantic attraction to others. Where romantic people have an emotional need to be with another person in a romantic relationship, aromantics are often satisfied with friendships and other non-romantic relationships. What distinguishes romantic relationships from a non-romantic relationships can vary diversely, but often includes physical connection (holding hands, cuddling, etc.) and monogamous partnership.

I found this on the internet.

Anyway shut up.

I was ready to call myself aromantic because I often find myself playing the juegos on a Saturday night but apparently that's not what they meant.

I mean, you can be straight or gay while also being asexual. Hetero-romantics and homo-romantics and aromantics.

OF COURSE YOU FUCKING CAN.
WHY CAN'T YOU?

HOW MANY LABELS CAN WE INVENT?

Let me see

I AM 

A DUAL-SPIRITED SEX POSITIVE HOMO-ROMANTIC AROMANTIC ASEXUAL PANSEXUAL FURRY WASHTUB BASIN TRIPLE ENTENTE FEMINIST FEMME FATALE GIRL GAMER DON'T HIT ON ME SILLY BOYS

fuck

off

 But regarding whether they accept asexuals, it seems obvious that they do. While the article calls the high school an LGBTQ high school, it seems obvious that they accept everyone--except bigots. Basically, it's a safe space for LGBTQ people that's also a high school. They accept everyone as long as you aren't going to discriminate against your classmates, it seems.

And you don't mind grappling with Blackboard for 7 hours a day 4 days a week.

This is so, so needed here in Arizona. While I was lucky that the response to my coming out was congratulatory and accepting, that is most definitely not the case for many LGBTQIA

Oh, the acronym changed on me again.

Let's see.

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual--

Queer--

I.

Oh don't tell me I know this one--

INTERSEX.

Haha yes I'm awesome.

A.

Oh boy.

Asexual I'm guessing.

Ever read the Chaos Daemons codex in Warhammer?

How the language of Chaos has verb conjugations but also the root word corrupts and that's the true power of the runes of Chaos?

I feel like that's this acronym. It warps and mutates and feels like it isn't physically bound to the dimensions of the page upon which it's written.

I would've loved to have gone there!

The only thing that worries me is that when these kids apply for jobs...wont some bigots discriminate once they see the school name? I hope it's not the case but you know...people.

I'm guessing when this guy shows up in a dress and full beard his odds for a job are pretty much gone.

I mean Christ. I'm a highly qualified (it literally says the words "highly qualified" on my teaching certificate) teacher and I can't even get a job.

I even shave once in a while and own a tie.

Do you honestly think this guy stands a fucking chance?

I'm not saying it's right I'm just saying that's how it be.

IT BE LIKE IT BE.

Yeah they would definitely lose the choice about whether or not to out themselves on job applications, etc. after attending.

Or fuck it let's simplify this:

you went to high school online?

Do you know how to conjugate a fucking verb?

the school’s issue was that Hernandez is a male and wears women’s clothing

no

do not pass go

do not collect anything whatsoever

the school sounds great and everything but I'm really side-eying the article for this bit

SOMETIMES A GUY JUST FEELS PRETTY INNIT
God fuck this blog.

I mean holy shit.

All right let's move to a new article. 

US Embassy Reykjavik Iceland
We decorated the embassy this morning and are now ready for tomorrows Gay Pride Festival. Hope to see you all in the parade.

GAY RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS 

My interest in Iceland has increased from 0% to maybe 10 whole % because EVE Online is made by an Icelandic company and honestly considering what I've read about the country I'm amazed they're aware there are gay people.

The entire country is smaller than the city I live in.

Their contribution to world cuisine is a boiled goat head.

You can just crack the skull open to get to those delicious brains.

AND THE EYEBALLS MMMMM MMMMM--

AND THAT TONGUE?
HOLY

SHIT
THE CHEEK MEAT IS SO TENDER

the fuck is wrong with you people?
Thanks for the cool game though.

Iceland is at the forefront of the global gay rights canpaign. Same-sex partnerships were legalized in 1996, giving them equal legal status with heterosexual marriage. In 2000 step-adoption rights for same-sex couples were legalized, and in 2006 same-sex adoption was legalized, regardless of marital status. In 2008 the parliament passed an amendment to the 1996 law, making it possible for same-sex couples to register their partnership in church or any other religious congregation.

They should pass a law that makes their landscape less bleak. No wonder the entire music score in EVE Online makes it seem like the world is about to fucking end. I think it literally is about to end in Iceland.

I wonder what the temperature is in sunny Reykjavik at this very moment?

Summer, early morning in the Northern Hemisphere? 

54 degrees farenheit.

MMMM MMM MMM.

Rain today,

cloudy tomorrow,

cloudy the next day--

rain the next day--

partly cloudy the next day--

This is fucking awesome.

Most recently the queer movement in Iceland has been focusing on the rights of transsexual people, e.g. the right to change information on gender and name in the National Register. Furthermore, it emphasizes its duty to support queer communities around the world, that do not share legal and social privileges comparable to those of Iceland, by sending letters of protest to mayors, presidents, prime ministers and other authorities repressing queer rights, and doing so in hope to support our brothers and sisters around the world. 

How about you protest the weather because based on your weekly forecast for this week it seems to have gone to war with you.

The parade is very popular in Iceland. One year the police estimated that upwards of 100.000 people attended,

That's a third of the country's entire population but considering your options are that or another day playing EVE Online, the country's only pass time, might as fucking well.

They were probably so awed by a color other than gray they could scarcely believe it.

SVEN

STOP YOUR SLASHER AND LOOK AT THIS:

GREEN!
No wonder that game has a dominant color scheme of black and gray.

which is close to a third of the country's population, and half of the capital area population.

Cooooooooooooooooooool.

I can't imagine an event in the US that would mobilize a third of its entire population.

No wait I have one:

combo free McDonald's and gun show.

Or wait no I have one:

world's largest job fair.

Get it because of the unemployment rate?

Should have stopped at the first one.

This is why I'm forever stuck telling jokes on the internet.

Anyway time to goooooooooo