I can't say it better than this:

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Originally posted by kadymae at Help a fellow fan
Fangirl and Sequential Tart Wolfen Moondaughter needs our help. She's got no health insurance, she's having problems controlling her blood sugar, and now she's having some retinal bleeds.

She's an artist. She depends on vision to make a living.

She's got an ( Read more... )

Apologies to anyone who commented or sent me a message over the last couple of days.

I changed some mail settings and inadvertently ended up asking that notifications be sent to nowhere.
It's fixed, and now I have some catching up to do.

Has anyone else noticed that "fic" autocorrects to "fix"? As in, "I'm going to fix this show with some much-needed explanatory Wincest!"

The moon will be closer to Earth than it has been since 1992. It will appear brighter and 14% bigger. baker_kitty sent me a link with this explanatory video, which is very good, although, like all mainstream reports on this event, it is silent on the issue of whether a bigger moon triggers more werewolf turnings than usual.

Click to view

The Supernatural episode, "Mystery Spot," has colonized my idea of Groundhog Day. This does not help:


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Out, damned spot; out, I say. One, two,-why, then ’tis time to do’t. Hell is murky. Fie, my lord, fie, a soldier and afeard? What need we fear who knows it when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?

Source, with explanatory notes
Sarah Palin can try to scrub that "Don't Retreat ( Read more... )

When I read a political headline that says, "Bennett removed from cabinet," I immediately understand that an individual has lost his appointment as a minister with the government.

However, when I read a headline that says, "Bennett removed from cabinet (with video), I get a very literal image a man being taken out of a giant piece of furniture ( Read more... )

LOLing at this hard. How do people think they can get away with plagarism -- or pretending you were at meetings that you clearly were not at -- in the age of the Internet? If you can find it to cut-and-paste, anyone can find it to out you as a plagarist and liar.

Ryan Grim writes in The Huffington Post:

When Crown Publishing inked a deal with ( Read more... )

Just wanted to post a link to the recent all-points!fail at DeviantArt.

The site recently changed their profile options so that users were forced to state whether they were male or female, decision which has since been changed. transfinite explains what happened via Dreamwidth:

I got a response from a user named realitysquared, aka Daniel ( Read more... )

Recently, a for-profit food website used a blogger's copyrighted recipe and article without permission. The blogger informed the publication that her work was posted without permission and was asked what she would like in restitution. She requested an apology and a $130 donation to the Columbia School of Journalism. She got a scathing reply from ( Read more... )