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[loneraven]

That Cat, having just run riot around the living room, settled herself down to take a big bite out of my golden-syrupped waffles. I picked her up by the middle - the kitten I could once scoop up in one hand now works quite well as a draught excluder - and put her in the kitchen, and closed the door

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[deathbyshinies]

*right eyeball does interesting twitchy things*

Oh. Oh my. It appears that I am going to have Words with feministing.com quite soon. And I was doing so well with getting on with reading about whether or not the random dead guy who wrote a particular medieval Scottish poem is or is not the random dead guy we think he is or not.

If I don't see you IRL or online between now and then, happy Diwali, love. I would send you sweets, but I don't trust Harriet not to beat you up and take them all :D

[loneraven]

Did you leave a comment, in the end? Because, you know. RAGE.

A very happy Diwali to you too, dear!

[deathbyshinies]

Twice, I'm afraid (I go by 'Scarlett', an old-old nickname, in the feminist and HAES blogospheres). I failed utterly at being calm and rational, and may have just fed the dickweeds who are now turning up and saying 'But you're all overreacting'; 'I thought the post was tounge-and-cheek (sic)', etc.

Ohgod. If I didn't hate people who do it so very, very much, I would so be doing a loud and public flounce on feministing right now.

[anotherusedpage]

Therapist: Why do you want therapy?
Me: Because I want to do this too much to waste it feeling shit.
Him: That's the right answer.

.... that's the first time anyone's told me I've got the right answer in about a decade. *smile*

[loneraven]

Heh. Yes, I know what you mean. My dude told me I was funny, and resourceful, that yes, my mother tells me I'm stubborn, and that's why I force myself into school every morning. It was a nice feeling. :)

[highfantastical]

Stop being a cruel mother and let the kitten have Everything She Wants! This is the Only Way, I think you'll find. xx

[loneraven]

When what she wants includes black coffee and gin, I feel this would not be responsible parenting.

[marymac]

Well, at least she hasn't betrayed your love by clawing your hands and buggering off to suck up to your evil aunts yet. *glares at the fat bastard cat*

Happy Diwali for Monday!
(Some genius setting up Diwali lights on the Lanyon for the festival has managed to break all the outside lights on the main building. Its a bit tragic.)

[loneraven]

My cat, she betrayeth me! And a happy Diwali to you too!

[macadamanaity]

OMG I saw that Feministing article and laughed myself silly in the library at school (Not Recommended (TM) in a law library, btw!). LONG DISTANCE RELATIONSHIPS ARE DESTROYING THE ENVIRONMENT, HOMG! Seriously, by this reasoning we also should either never move away from our families OR never visit them. Whatever. Their environmental concerns basically only apply to people who can afford to fly/drive a lot anyway, and their other concerns are none of their damn business.

I read the three blogs you've mentioned here every day (along with 29 other feminist or LGBT-focused blogs because I'm compulsive, apparently) and I'm usually a fan--particularly of Feministe-- but my appreciation of them has taken a few hits in the past 6-7 months or so. My go-to blog has always been Shakesville. I'm also really digging Hunter of Justice (she's a feminist law prof to boot!) and RH Reality Check of late

[loneraven]

I'm usually a fan, too, but they can be so... middle-class white American, seriously. Thanks for the recs!

People are selling Christmas decorations and cards, and there are adverts on television, and people are asking me where I'll spend it. Sigh. I hate the Christian-centric view of the world so, so much; there is nothing in the world so awful, specially when you're a kid but even now, as a really enormous party that it seems as everyone else in the world is invited to. And your own parties - see, for example, Diwali, a festival I can't celebrate properly because I'm thousand of miles away from where it's properly celebrated - aren't nearly as fun.

Happy Diwali to you too! To you and yours!

[macadamanaity]

Wow. It's like people WANT giant spiders or the Sycorax to attack early this year! Maybe if we don't mention it, the aliens WON'T attack London this year!

:-)