Because it keeps coming up, with memorial day being today or tomorrow (I don't really know or care which), I want to say this:

If you served in the military during WW2 or before, cool. You're a hero, I guess. (Unless you were a Confederate soldier, then you were a traitor.)

If you joined the military after WW2, though, and especially if you joined ( Read more... )

Strap in everyone, cuz boy howdy do I have a tale to tell you about my day.

Let's start out with the weather. Snowstorms with freezing rain over the last day or so meant that everything outside was absolutely covered in Jack Frost's dandruff, so thick that if it had just been snow, I'd have had to slog through knee-high snow. But it was mixed in ( Read more... )

Fuck Gmail. Fuck Google. Fuck neurotypicals and their constant need to make utterly pointless and hideous changes to things.

This was cross-posted from https://fayanora.dreamwidth.org/1402959.html
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There's always so much uproar against self-insert characters, usually referred to as Mary Sues. But self-insert characters are a dime a dozen in fiction. Take any random book by any random white male author, and odds are pretty good that the protagonist is just as boring and white and male as its boring, white male author, but with like magic ( Read more... )

Coming home from Pride Saturday, I had this great idea for a drawing. I finally got started on it today, but after several hours of working on it, I gave up for the day because it's kicking my ass harder than pictures usually do. It's a particularly difficult drawing because it has two people in profile, and I loathe and detest drawing in profile, ( Read more... )

My roommate just pointed out something I can't believe I never noticed before. I'm making like, $850 a month on SSDI, and that's significantly less than minimum wage. Minimum wage in Oregon is $9.25 per hour. If I were working 40 hours a month at minimum wage, assuming four weeks in the month, I would be making $1480 per month. Minimum wage is not ( Read more... )

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I posted this on Tumblr, but I think it bears repeating here ( Read more... )

There's this New Age belief (which often infects pagans too) that says, basically, that the universe wants you to be happy, and if you remove all negative thinking and BELIEVE hard enough, all your wishes will come true; or, at least, you'll become abundant ( Read more... )

“Money doesn't buy happiness” is a crock of bullshit the rich people try to sell to poor people so the poor people will think twice about wanting to be rich. Well it may be technically true that money cannot literally buy happiness, but it can sure make happiness a lot easier to achieve. When you're rich, you don't have to worry about where your ( Read more... )