There are always at least a few in every family, aren't they? For every amazing relative like my mother in law, who grew up in the same conservative and rural town as I did, and is now one of the most loving, accepting (not tolerant, fuck tolerant, but ACCEPTING of everyone as just exactly who they are) person that I know, there's one like her ( Read more... )

I have an updatey 'how is this my life?!?!?!' post that I started and saved back on June 16 to complete and post. Something's telling me that the details contained within might just be a little bit outdated.

( I am sick. )

Two years ago, on May 16th, I had the aliens ( Read more... )

So, I've been thinking about this... about the things in fandom that we, meaning specifically me, but also you, take as our own personal canon and fanon. What things are there that you hold as true, both for what actually could exist in the fandom's own canon, and what you hold as true when it's more fanon, and more unlikely to be untrue in the ( Read more... )

I've been commenting in a lot of places over the past few days, and I've friended a few new people, and I realized that I don't have one of those handy 'all about me' posts to give people the quick 'who is this person?' details about who's just shown up to babble in their journal. So I'm gonna do that now.

( Jay Linden used to be my 'oh my god, you're a total freak' name. As in, someone would approach me, be a total freak, and ask for my name, and this was the name I gave out automatically. It was an obvious choice when I came onto live journal, where being a freak is kind of the order of the day and all.... )

Okay. I have Things, and I've decided to separate them into two different posts, because they're whoa nelly different, and combining them would feel wrong. This post is all made up of good things. Thinky things and bad things will come later.

( Today, I had a low-key and totally awesome birthday, which is just the way I like them. )

Okay--it's ten am, and I haven't slept since about one-thirty in the morning or so, when my children decided it would be AWESOME to keep mummy up all night with the yelling and the fussing and the whatever, so! I have a question. Mostly RPG related, but I think it actually applies to FPS/RPS as well ( Read more... )