Two separate sessions of therapy today and ball-aching cold: that shit will take it out of you ( Read more... )

I see what you're driving at but I'm not sure that a Chinese expat living in London etc is going to be better-informed about African history than a 4th generation white African. Example is shoddy, but you get my point? If you want a book on African history written by an African that's fucking reasonable, but actually SAY SO ( Read more... )

I remember years ago asking people what words they disliked and "moist" was basically number one among women. I actually don't mind it all that much and find the word "slick" a lot, lot more annoying, especially in its irritating overuse in porn/fic.

TWO CENTS.

ELITE:

-noun1. ( often used with a plural verb ) the choice or best of anything considered collectively, as of a group or class of persons ( Read more... )

and I wrote this long rambling thing which I can't be bothered to type out again, so the salient points here are ( Read more... )

The only thing that connects us, as humans, is that we are alive and that we are human. The only reward we get for this, this condition of being human, is the certainty of death. That is why, I think, I'm "sort of a nihilist"; our only certainty is that we are alive and must die, our only imperative is to keep living until we die - whether by ( Read more... )

temporal_tech, 243 words ( Read more... )

I have noticed a vicious meme, in the original sense, which spreads through groups of friends and societies like some kind of nasty little thought virus. It is not a pleasant idea, it is a twisted and divisive idea, like so many of the most contagious and persistent ones ( Read more... )

(Apparently I will do anything if it's not "what I'm meant to be doing")

• Ursula seducing/conning Ariel out of her voice (The Little Mermaid)
• Scar whipping the hyenas into a frenzy with promises of future plenty (The Lion King)
• When the Beast gives Belle her library (Beauty & The Beast)
• Ali's initial badass thief manoeuvres evading the guards (Aladdin)
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