I heard about Amazon's antics and can't decide whether to laugh or cry. Needless to say, I shan't be engaging in it, for starters because I believe in the gift economy of fandom, but also because their arbitrary censorship guidelines are something I won't fit my work to. In fact, I'm more inclined than ever not to be an Amazon customer as a result ( Read more... )

Question: anyone ever get hypoglycaemia (low blood sugar) while on their period? It's the second time it's happened to me in six months, and while I'm not unfamiliar with blood sugar crashes, these were both so extreme they made me very ill. We're talking extreme cramps, nausea, walking up and down the stairs made me have to lie down, shallow ( Read more... )

...I thought I'd ask y'all a few questions.

Poll

Which is totally irrelevant, but it helps not having to spell it or not having to watch them mangle it, so it's nice, it's low hassle. I discovered the joy today of the Starbucks "rise and shine" muffin (oh, but they are so witty) along with my overpriced super-coffee, and for the joys of six bucks and change, I didn't have to run home to cram ( Read more... )

So, I don't watch this show. I don't intend to, either. But I hear things, and see things, and came across this on tumblr:

( cut with trigger warning, just in case )

Just home from the first half of my very first root canal. Well, yippy. Anyway, Special Dentist, who performed this procedure, was someone I'd never met before and I don't like dentists, as a rule, since they trap you where you are helpless and cannot talk, and his brusque manner needed some getting used to ( Read more... )

So, this has been on my mind since I was making a season 2 playlist for Steve (yes, this is something I do) and the final track was eluding me for a few days until I remembered this:

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It's giving me thoughts, people. Thoughts about how Steve is always going to leave when he feels the need to, whether it's because of his drive for vengeance or ( Read more... )

When I refer to 'porn', I also include written or drawn porn, but I do mean written/drawn erotica solely designed to tittillate (like porn films are meant to do, but sex scenes in mainstream films aren't.)

Poll The one about porn

Please promote this poll on your journal! I like to get as many results as possible. Thank you.

My parents were very restrictive. They had rules and regulations to guide everything, including how many slices of meat or cheese we could put on our bread (one! unless it was a big slice in which case, a half) and how much candy we could have and not being allowed snacks past five o' clock. Sucks to be you when it's 17.05, trust me ( Read more... )

It's this funny thing, right? We all have it and we all change it in varying ways over time or to suit a particular fic or when reading someone else's interpretation. Often, though, I find myself realising I have a head canon I didn't know was there, or I knew it was there, but I'd never really articulated it to myself ( Read more... )