What started out as a random Facebook comment on a friend's post became this ( Read more... )

At this point in my life, I've started shrugging it off and doing everything I can to be everything I can, if that makes sense. I can't deny any of this. I can't wish it away with whatever that magical positive thinking is supposed to do... something about asking the universe to help out? Something about deciding to change overnight and then ( Read more... )

Quote from a friend that applies to me in a scary way ( Read more... )

This is one of the most wonderful articles ever ( Read more... )

So, as my Facebook friends have learned, I am dealing with a literal "nervous loss of appetite" - literal in that my biochemistry and brain chemistry is so fucked up that my hormones and neurotransmitters don't remember what actual hunger and appetite feel like (hunger and appetite are not the same, also ( Read more... )

Copied and pasted here to remind myself.


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Well, I have been wearing the back brace for hours, I have practiced varied stretches and exercises, I have taken Ultram and Soma... and of course I hurt. I always hurt. I have accepted this so easily. Because it will not change. No matter what anyone tells me ( Read more... )

I'd heard this quote before, but only just now have been able to place it. It explains some things about society and misogyny in places people don't want to look. I find it fascinating that many oft-used insults are feminine or relating to the female body. As though being female is the ultimate insult. I may just be thinking too deeply, but it ( Read more... )

About the whole "Fatties Making Out On TV" article in Marie Claire: Cleolinda and comments said it well ( Read more... )

Look, don't tell me my gay atheist conservative right wing Republican friends can't exist. They're not unicorns, damn it. People don't fit into your neat little boxes. And don't you dare tell me that it is impossible to be a gay atheist conservative right wing Republican living in Virginia with a long term same sex partner. I just talked to both of ( Read more... )