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Hi.

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+ So work and life and school have been busy enough that it's easier for me to microblog lately, over on Tumblr and Twitter. You can pretty much always find/follow me over there. I keep trying to make posts here but never feel like I have anything interesting to say, and I feel worse as time passes, and and and. ( Read more... )

LJ's killing me right now. I believe I've managed to load it twice today? Not for longer than it takes to refresh or skip 40, but ( Read more... )

So Gwen's blurb on SyFy's Merlin website has been changed, to:

Gwen's, or Gwynevere's, current situation is a million miles away from her infamous future. She's maidservant to Morgana, a kind mistress, but nonetheless her duties of cleaning, washing, fetching and carrying are far from glamorous. Not that Gwen minds. A job in Uther's court is the ( Read more... )

signal boosting from celandineb.

Gender identity on LJ

LJ is going to start requiring gender identification with new account creations, and they are removing the 'unspecified' option.

More info here.

Hat tip to ( Read more... )

+ My thoughts and prayers are with everyone in the Philippines, in Samoa and Tonga, and everyone with family there.

What you can do to help the victims of Typhoon Ondoy/Ketsana (via lassiterfics):

1. Help for Typhooon Ondoy Victims in the Philippines - This is a good place to keep up with news, with active situation map and a list of ways you can donate. If ( Read more... )

So, Caster Semenya's been placed on suicide watch.She's eighteen fucking years old. I certainly hope the press and the people currently chewing her up and spitting her out as if the fact that she's not like them means she's there for their consumption, to satisfy their curiosity and damn her feelings, are pleased with themselves ( Read more... )

I don't know how many of you have been following the whole fanfiction survey thing over the past couple days in which the mods of kink_bingo were approached to participate in a 'study' because there are 'scientists' who want to 'research' slash fanfiction/slash fans as 'insight' into how women think, and why it's so very 'different' from the way ( Read more... )

Rantiness and politics ahead, in which I am sick of watching the news, so read at your own risk.

+ PSA: For anyone who cares, here's a list of the members of the 111th Congress and their contact information. Best thing to do push for the health care public option is to call/email your senators and, well, push for the public option. Right now I don ( Read more... )

Oeeerr, so I've made some new friends this week. XD Hi and welcome to my journal and everything! ♥ I just want to say that I do not normally rant this much. Fannish babble will return after these scheduled messages ( Read more... )

Using Megan Fox's body to illustrate (a skewed view of) American politics?

Really?

eta: ooh, note to self: don't mention Megan Fox and misogyny in the same post to ontd_political unless you want the post to become less about misogyny and more about how Fox is old, ugly, a blow-up doll, a slut, a vapid whore, and did I mention ugly ( Read more... )