This time it's for joy. Harper's gone!
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'Tampon tax' will end July 1 - Politics - CBC News

I remember this first becoming an issue at least 25 years ago, possibly more but I only began paying attention once I had to start buying them myself. Of course, there shouldn't have been a tax on menstrual products in the first place, seeing as necessities aren't supposed to be taxed. Text also ( Read more... )

Except for the Gentleman with the Thistledown Hair this is pretty much what the novel looks like in my head.

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A new Blind Guardian album is coming! ^_^

Beyond the Red Mirror

Release date of January 30, 2015 in Europe and February 3, 2015 in North America. Guess what I'm getting myself for my birthday!

It was just the door lock. Ten minutes and I had a working washer again. So now I'm spending the day catching up on about 2 weeks worth of washing, less what I did by hand. (Which would be all the underwear and socks and which is NOT recommended unless you absolutely must ( Read more... )

Is amazing and you should all go see it. There is not a single thing in this movie I did not like. That is vanishingly rare. I honestly was not expecting that, especially not from a breather episode in the MCU, featuring a lesser-known set of heroes. I'm a fan of the soundtrack as well.

Last week or so I went searching for copies of an out-of-print book series. Buying them individually would have been expensive, considering it's only 4 books, then I struck gold on eBay: a lot of 18 hardcover former library books with 3 of the 4 I wanted in it! Cost + shipping was roughly the same, plus more books that I can trade in at the used ( Read more... )

Steve got this for me as a birthday cake. Suffice to say, I was not expecting it.
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Rising from Tragic Flames:



Two weeks away. (Unless you're in Europe, then it's Friday.)

...I appear not to have recced this to everyone yet.

"This" is Monster of the Week, a comic that recaps the X-Files in twelve panels - every Friday, just like X-Files when it originally aired. (My weekly ritual, for a long time, was X-Files, nachos, and Outer Limits. Good times!) It's by the same artist who did Narbonic and Skin Horse, which I ( Read more... )