{look upon my works, ye mighty}

Happy birthday, abrandnewboom. I don't know HOW long you've had that new journal but I still started to type in your old journal name when I wrote that. XD May the new year be utterly awesome and filled with joy. And gay musicians.

In other equally-awesome news:

HAPPY INTERATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY!


To celebrate, I'm writing drabbles for upto three female chars you pick. Any fandom that I usually write! Feel free to repost and share the squeeing over girl chars, if you want, but don't feel obligated to do so.

If you can't think of any fandoms I heart, try Animorphs, Archie Comics, Batman/DC*, Batman Beyond, Big Wolf on Campus, Boston Legal, Bruno and Boots, Chrestomanci, Cold Case, Discworld, Fables, Good Omens, Gravitation, Greek Mythology, Gundam Wing, Harry Potter, Hercules (Disney), Legally Blonde, Mighty Ducks, Mulan (Disney), Othello (the manga), Petshop of Horrors, Pokemon, Sailor Moon season R, Smallville, Spiderman, Stick It, Sweet Valley, The Authority, Utena Revolutionary Girl, Yu-Gi-Oh.

Femmeslash pairings are TOTALLY okay to request. So's het, but be warned that the focus will be on the female character, not on their relationship. ♥ If you want a fandom I haven't listed there but you know I like, go for it!

I'll be back in Boston by the 2nd of September and dude, Davis Square just hopped right to the top of my flist of places to go (apart from Harvard Square so that I can pick up my comics fix, of course). Why?

Well, because of this wank, wherein an idiot suggests opening a hair salon for men along the lines of hooters in a Davis Square comm and the members don't react happily. In the b0ston comm, where the guy posts again about the idea, people also think it's stupid and someone even sarcastically suggests Davis Square. XD

It even hits the b0ston snark comm, and the post on the Red Sox comm has killer tags.

*grinning like a wild thing* Best comment to the entire mess was this one, reproduced in full below:

It's a sorry state of affairs in this country when the lure of titties is necessary to get men to groom properly.

That said, I think Davis would likely be a nightmare choice of location for a business like this. It's the wrong crowd. Since you don't know the area, its only fair to tell you that heterosexuality is far from universal in this neighborhood. We have a very strong representation of gay, lesbian, bi, transgendered, polyamorous, pagan, geek and everything else that doesn't fall smack into the mainstream. Which is not to say there aren't heterosexual men here who like boobies. There are. But there are a lot of women who like 'em, too.

Honestly, I would skip all of Somerville, all of Cambridge, and probably most of Boston except Kenmore and the Fenway area. Someone said Nashua, and that's probably a good bet. You also might do well out in the Route 1 area, where there are a lot of sports bars and strip malls where what you're doing could work out well.

I spend enough time feeling rather dismayed to be American that it's fantastic when something happens that makes me gleeful to be a Bostonian. XDDDD

I wrote a HP 7 drabble. For my new favorite HP char, who'll probably get an entry to himself to explain why I suddenly like someone from HP so very much. XD

Nick has stopped showing 'Help! I'm A Teenage Outlaw' which is pout-inducing but probably a good thing for my ability to get to bed at a decent hour on days I have work in the mornings.

I love the idea of the presidential candidates having answered questions from YouTube vids. I honestly think that it's a fantastic idea, and I can't wait to see excerpts from last night's debate popping up on YouTube. If anyone saw it (I'm in Austria and didn't find out about it until this morning), how was it? Which candidate impressed you the most? Who do you think fared the most poorly?

If you were running for president, what sort of vid would you create?

Someone ought to write Nohari/Johari fic. It's probably going to end up being me if nobody else does it.

Right now, I'm at Numa's (slept over there last night, taking a break from working on my last paper atm), and I ended up doing the Johari and Nohari windows. Do them for me, please? I'll do them for you in return if you do. ♥

Meeting Kathy and Numa tomorrow so that they can help me move into my new quarters and talked to Kathy on the phone yesterday with Numa. Soon the Eternal Three will be reunited! *getting plenty of hugs from Numa in the meantime which is good since she's been affection-starved at uni*

She's pro-choice and pro-sex ed.

Or, to lump it into one reason instead of two, she's pro-reproductive rights.

I found that out thanks to an article in this month's Time magazine where they were talking about the 'pregnancy crisis centers' that give you misleading information about abortions in order to try to stop you from having one. They also use emotional manipulation -- try taking a test there to see if you're pregnant and they'll hand you a pair of hand-knit, baby blue booties with the announcement, "Congratulations, you're going to be a mother."

According to the article, some states have more of those than they have actual abortion clinics.

Fantastic.

Anyway, in the article, Hillary was paraphased as saying that she supports reproductive rights, including proper education about prevention and sex so as to decrease the need for abortions.

THANK YOU.

Something that drives me absolutely insane to read about is the apparent horror America has of sex education. Every time I see an article about how some parent complained to a school that oh noes, their child is being told how babies are made, I end up wondering what the hell is wrong with people.

The odds are that your child is eventually going to have sex. Assuming you don't want them taught about sex ed because you're scared it'll encourage them to have pre-marital sex, what about after they get married? What if they don't want to have babies straight away because it'll derail their career or because they can't afford a baby or because they just think that they're too young? For some reason, I seriously doubt that there are courses on sex ed offered for 'Young Yuppies Not Prepared For Pregnancy', and it's not exactly like they can just go back to a school that does provide that sort of information.

Of course, there's always the Internet but anyone who'd trust the Internet to teach their kid how sex happens is an absolute idiot and shouldn't be having sex in the first place. There are probably great guides out there on how to please your wife/husband/boyfriend/girlfriend/android fucktoy. They're just buried under all the really, really, really bad smut and porn. And porn is definitely not something anyone should be taking tips from, especially if it's the issue of long fingernails in girl/girl sex. Ow. Seriously.

Conclusion? Sex education is good. In fact, people in general being informed is good. If you're not informed, you can't make informed choices and while guessing blindly might be a working tactic for, say, playing Minesweeper (does anyone out there still play it or is that a dated culture reference?), it's a little less practical if you're risking your life because nobody told you how STDs are transmitted, to take a random example.

Sex ed isn't just about not getting pregnant. It's about not getting diseases, about not going through unnecessary pain, about knowing what's happening to your body during sex -- sex ed is basically supposed to set you up so that when you do have sex, you have a smaller chance of anything bad happen and a better chance of you enjoying it.

Since I'm asexual, I ended up ducking out of a lot of the school sex ed courses, including hiding in the changing room to avoid watching the tapes, but I'm still glad that they were offered. I think abstinence-only sex ed is an incredibly bad idea and just setting teens up to be unable to even have a responsible adult figure to question about their worries, as well as make them feel more guilt-ridden if they do have sex and personally, the chances of me voting for Hillary went waaaaaaay up when I read that she openly supports sex ed.

Go Hillary!

...Maybe I'll even make an icon in her favor.

Matt (daemonsadvocate) and I are officially together.

I'm probably going to be babbling about relationship stuff (along with a full explanation of how/what/when/where/why/WHO) in the future, so if you're interested in hearing that stuff, drop me a comment specifically saying you want to be on my r-life aka romance life filter. ♥

First of all, for all of you wondering about the slash mark in my subject line, THAT'S HOW THE TICKETS HAVE IT, OKAY?! The prospect of the Roxy sponsoring gay sex between Placebo and She Wants Revenge would excite me more if I was actually into bandslash/RPS instead of being squicked by it, but even I have to say that it's scarily plausible.

Why?

Because the lead singer of She Wants Revenge (whose name I don't know) has been dubbed (in my head at least), Gay Pirate Roberts.

He wore a hat that flattened his hair down, an open vest thingie over a tight tee, tight pants with one leg folded up (and only one leg) and did the Gayest Poses Ever. And spent a lot of time with his back to the audience, poking his ass out.

...Yeah. I really don't think that I need to justify my choice of a nickname for him any more than that.

( But who cares about She Wants Revenge? It's Placebo everyone wants to hear about! )

Okay. Time to take off all my makeup and wash the blue streaks out of my hair. I wonder if Placebo songs are the right type to sing in the shower? Time for me to find out!