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http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002731 <---MY WEEK. M topped it off yesterday by leaving the more important of his two bags in Boston and then dropping his iphone in Grendel's water-bowl (it revived itself impressively well, but the speakers still seem dodgy)

Plan A was ritually slaughtered by the landlord's condo association. We still have a Plan B, but it is pretty hilaribad. We have not yet given up. (Except that I can't find the packing tape and have seemingly given up looking for it.)

good things this week:
-seeing T&C again and all their lovely housemates
-lunch with Nakki, presenting her with a roll of masking tape and an extra-fine purple sharpie, merry fking xmas /worst fandom friend ever
-frangelico
-delicious emails from

kat_nic, i am so doing it jsyk ♠♠♠♠♠
-much-needed friday night goodsex
-appreciation at workplace, bighugs from the lady from Norway who is way jealous of me for going up to Boston (she used to live there), cheerfully making jokes about communism in front of all the southern people because she has no compunctions whatsoever, lol forever.

bad things; everything else, malevolent world trying to kill me and eat my puppies, etc

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OH I WAS IN GW FANDOM TOO. I GUESS EVERYONE WAS. I have, at least, seen part of the series, albeit not until after the only time I wrote fic. :D

Being an obnoxious troll I passed it around school a bit during 2001-2, sometimes just to shock people, which in retrospect was really dumb but in some cases warranted or even welcome, and hey, I had pretty much no sense of self-preservation back then (and still mostly don't?). But grim as it was the rural Pennines was still a much safer environment than the south is. No one ever talked about teh gay (except when bullying someone, obv) but there weren't any giant billboards saying 'HOMOSEXUALITY IS AN ABOMINATION' either.

I am so glad you spoke to me ;____; fandom is one giant elephant memory, seriously.

I think I saw maybe four or five eps of GW? And, uuuuuh, Yu Yu Hakusho and a few others. Oh, the days when I used to hang out in yaoi forums without knowing anything about the source material, except maybe reading someone's crappy online doujinshi. facepalming myself forever.

God, I bet LHM--probably the whole Valdemar series--would have been banned by the school board (cause almost everything I read in those days came from the school library) and it would have sparked a witchhunt to make sure there weren't any other gay books lurking on the shelves. Which, there weren't. And I would know, since during my tenure in hell I read every. single. one. Hell, they banned His Dark Materials, and even Harry freaking Potter (briefly, there was enough of an outcry over that that they relented). Oh, the South, one day I will escape from here.

Oh, and have you seen any billboards up that way from ProLife America's latest campaign--A Father's Joy, and Men Robbed of Fatherhood? They are everywhere in P.C. :/

No, I have not yet seen those! I think all the more terrible billboards seem to pop up south of Atlanta in places with cheaper billboard rent. Wow. I love pro-life billboards - they are so very full of lies! What/where is P.C.?

Oh my god I hate school boards and school districts in the USA. Not that we don't have equivalents in the UK, just that those equivalents are not comparably empowered to ruin children's lives.

I wish I could pack you up and take you with me when I move north, no joke. :(

P.C.=Phenix City; I was running out of character space.

MY FAVORITE of the prolife billboards is the one that shows a (white) baby with the caption I had a heartbeat when I was six weeks old! And the first place my mind went was, you know what else has a heartbeat and is an inch long? A cockroach! Anti abortion rhetoric is so stupid and full of plot holes.

There is also the bilboard in Columbus with the two white babies and an Asian baby, captchioned America's Greatest Natural Resource (or something similar).

My favourite is still the one next to 75 in north Florida, after all the ones about baby heartbeats and stuff, that says 'Please don't abandon your newborn baby' and then a phone number. CAUSE--->EFFECT, MUCH?

D:

incidentally, did you know the Dept of Health and Human Services just turned down the FDA's proposal that Plan B be made available over the counter? Supposedly to protect ~the children~ because no studies have been done to see what effect it has on girls 18 and younger. Fucking Tylenol is more dangerous than Plan B (all it is is hormones, ffs! The worst it can do is throw off your cycle and give you PMS symptoms; you can't die or get permanent liver damage from taking too much of it!) But it's an election year, what else can we expect. Oh god I just can't with how stupid people are about reproduction. You'd think they'd actually be in favor of something that prevents abortions.

wow, I had not heard that :( I guess they did that because TEEN PREGNANCY IS SO VERY SAFE AND HEALTHY. I will say, I'm used to teenage pregnancy & motherhood being more taboo than it is here - it's one of those classist UK things - but still, pregnancy has one hell of a lot more harmful side effects than contraception does. /facepalm forever

Is it bad that this bugs me in terms of technological advance as much as anything? There is this whole wealth of life-improving medical technology out there and there are people who think this is a bad thing, well, right up until the moment when they personally need to use it.

[Coincidentally, I wrote the above paragraphs last night while DW was in maintenance mode for a code update, so I couldn't post it at the time; today I ran into this gorgeous, very sensible lady of 19 or 20 years old who used to be a coworker, and oh my fuck she has a baby bump. I was asking about her plans to go to school and study radiography but oh, no, that's off now. She was pretending everything was okay and she was happy, but wow do I not buy it. I feel bad for her losing her youth (and her awesome body) like that. You only live once, may as well be too selfish to have kids.

I see your link and raise you another

Attitudes towards unwed mothers have really changed over the decades. All babies are a blessing, while simultaneously being punishment for sluts. How does that work, exactly? But even though you don't see many pregnant girls end up on the street anymore, they can still be damn sure they and their babies will never rise far above the poverty line, unless they're really exceptionally lucky.

Oh fuck it just have the url. In LJ if you leave off the http it will let you post links in comments, or maybe I didn't highlight the whole url, idk.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/study-abortion-doesnt-raise-the-risk-of-mental-health-problems-but-unwanted-pregnancy-does/2011/12/08/gIQArkJgfO_story.html

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looks like eljay's effed up again. :(

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