Okay. Situation ( Read more... )

...man. I forgot how much watching Life On Mars was like watching Sam Tyler drive off of and into a series of small cliffs.

It's always fun to look at a story and say, "All right. I need to construct this in such a way as to bring out my MC's absolute worst coping mechanisms.

( Life On Mars, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and the Damaged People panoply. By their powers combined... )

There's something I see a lot in discussion of race, of gender, of any sort of marginalized group, really - someone who isn't part of that group will come up to someone who is and say "Wow, I didn't know. Could you tell me more?" And the person they're asking will say "No ( Read more... )

Ahahahahahaaa, the only sort of problem resolution I'm really good at is debugging HTML, occasional CSS, and PHP. This* has moved from deeply distressing to very prosaic to an absurdist comedy.

*You know it if you know it.On occasion people - usually my mother - assert that I'm good with people. I kinda wonder what she was looking at during most ( Read more... )