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Friday, October 28th, 2011
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11:47 am - Writer's Block: R.I.P
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I really don't care. Save a complete DNA sequence, Just In Case, then do what you like--I won't be using it any more. My favorite post-death scenario involves being wrapped in a linen shroud and then fed into a wood chipper. -BZZZZZZT- "THERE'S YER CLOSURE!" Bonus style points if bits of shredded me get sprayed over the mourners.
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| Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
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12:54 pm - Writer's Block: Time for change
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Why did I dream about going to visit a midwest farming family with 18 kids in your company last night? And why did we bring a therapist? And what was that game the therapist brought out for us to play? We were still setting up the board and choosing stuffed animal avatars for ourselves when I woke up. I regret that I did not notice which stuffed animal you picked, as I was too busy digging through the box for a velociraptor (although I did eventually settle on a dragon).
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| Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
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12:50 pm - living twice at once you learn
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Some of the things I frequently dream about:
* Norton--a city that does not exist in the waking world, which I have dreamed about consistently and frequently enough to be able to draw maps of it and explain its history, culture, tourist attractions, urban folklore, famous figures...
* Cemeteries--never scary, always fascinating, peaceful, safe places
* Columbariums--see above
* "Elevators"--in quotes because they don't work like real elevators; they're usually wood-paneled boxes that slide along brass rails, very Victorian steampunkish; often they slide up or down along stairways
* Conventions--usually I'm working at them and/or lost
* Secret passages--they're everywhere, you need to use them to get anywhere important, they usually involve climbing, clambering, and squirming through small apertures
* Mice/Rats--generally with a connotation of revulsion, which is odd because I don't have any problem with them in waking life
* Flying--always the best thing to dream about, even though I usually end up bumping against a sky-ceiling; sometimes this is a literal ceiling, with stars and clouds painted on
* Shopping malls--not as often as I used to, but they still show up on occasion, and are usually full of odd things like people in Victorian dress making plots to kill Hitler, dinosaurs, or Christopher Walken
* Museums--much like the cemeteries
* Cats--absolutely and completely unsurprising
Someday the technology will exist, and I will be one of the first best-selling dream artists. I will record my dreams so that other people can watch them.
current mood:  sleepy
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| Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
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5:59 pm - I disagree to agree to disagree
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| Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
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2:38 pm - Mississippi Personhood Amendment
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Originally posted by ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.2) gabrielleabelle at Mississippi Personhood AmendmentOkay, so I don't usually do this, but this is an issue near and dear to me and this is getting very little no attention in the mainstream media. Mississippi is voting on November 8th on whether to pass Amendment 26, the "Personhood Amendment". This amendment would grant fertilized eggs and fetuses personhood status. Putting aside the contentious issue of abortion, this would effectively outlaw birth control and criminalize women who have miscarriages. This is not a good thing. Jackson Women's Health Organization is the only place women can get abortions in the entire state, and they are trying to launch a grassroots movement against this amendment. This doesn't just apply to Mississippi, though, as Personhood USA, the group that introduced this amendment, is trying to introduce identical amendments in all 50 states. What's more, in Mississippi, this amendment is expected to pass. It even has Mississippi Democrats, including the Attorney General, Jim Hood, backing it. The reason I'm posting this here is because I made a meager donation to the Jackson Women's Health Organization this morning, and I received a personal email back hours later - on a Sunday - thanking me and noting that I'm one of the first "outside" people to contribute. So if you sometimes pass on political action because you figure that enough other people will do something to make a difference, make an exception on this one. My RSS reader is near silent on this amendment. I only found out about it through a feminist blog. The mainstream media is not reporting on it. If there is ever a time to donate or send a letter in protest, this would be it. What to do? - Read up on it. Wake Up, Mississippi is the home of the grassroots effort to fight this amendment. Daily Kos also has a thorough story on it. - If you can afford it, you can donate at the site's link. - You can contact the Democratic National Committee to see why more of our representatives aren't speaking out against this. - Like this Facebook page to help spread awareness. |
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2:36 pm - National Coming Out Day
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Wow, I haven't posted here in a long time. I'd like to say that I'll start posting here again Real Soon, buuuut given my track record I'm not going to promise anything. Instead, I will direct you to the places where I have been posting a bit: http://www.tumblr.com/tumblelog/sprackraptor http://twitter.com/sprackraptor
And I will share this Sort Of Coming Out Thing with y'all as well:
I doubt it’s news to anybody, but hi! I’m not gay, but I’m pretty sure that I qualify somewhere in the “queer” spectrum, though I’m tempted to say that’s mostly because I’m generally rather odd. Anyway, I’m also not exactly cisgender—probably not news to anybody either, though putting it in those terms may be a bit surprising. It’s not that I’d rather be a man than a woman; it’s that I’ve never been really cool on being a woman to begin with. It’s nothing to do with sex, really, mostly with body image and being mildly to extremely squicked out by female biological facts and functions. Given an ideal choice, I would prefer to be functionally androgynous in a society of people who are all functionally androgynous, so that it’s pretty much impossible to tell who is male and who is female except when a person decides they want you to know, and it’s considered rude to ask. I’m extremely uncomfortable with being obviously, visibly female (stupid mammal physiology), and tend to dress and behave to minimize that as much as possible. So, that’s me out. Hi! Anyone else?
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| Friday, September 9th, 2011
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12:13 pm - Writer's Block: Freaky Friday
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I decline to answer in specifics. In general: no, I wouldn't leave the house all day. Not that I leave the house much anyway as it is, but I think you get the idea.
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| Wednesday, September 7th, 2011
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2:28 pm - Writer's Block: Blast to the past
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It's not your fault; you have a depressive disorder. When they tell you "just get over it" and "don't take everything so seriously," they're wrong. But it really does get better. Hold on to your dreams, don't let your fear keep you from doing big things. Hold on. I promise, it's worth it.
... wow, this is making me tear up. aheh. I was not a happy child.
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10:56 am - Clarification, because evidently it's needed.
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Okay look.
I'm not saying you can't say something. I have no control over what you say. You can say whatever you damn well please, in whatever sense you like. But just as you have the right to say what you want, I have the right to NOT LISTEN TO YOU. Or to think you're a complete toolbag for saying it.You are free to say what you want. You are also free to DEAL WITH THE CONSEQUENCES OF WHAT YOU SAY. Why is this so goddamn hard?
Also: I don't care if you use the word "gay" (or any other such word) in a non-derogatory sense. I hear gay Paree is lovely this time of year. But using it as an insult? That's a dick move, bro, especially if you're straight. It's not cool, funny, edgy, or innocent; it shows the world that somewhere in your mind you really do think that "gay" equates with "stupid" or "lame" or whatever insulting term you were using it as. Your ass just got hung out in public.
You can moon the world all you want. Let your cheeks flap in the wind until they get chapped and leathery. But I DON'T HAVE TO LOOK AT IT.
current mood:  annoyed
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| Thursday, May 26th, 2011
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| Thursday, May 19th, 2011
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12:12 pm - Writer's Block: Dynamite with a laser beam
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I've got a few.
From my LJ quote: "Don't say you're easy on me / you're about as easy as a nuclear war." (Duran Duran, "Tell Me Now" I think is the title) I like the sly humor, and I think the description is apt for me.
"I am total chaos, strange and abstruse." (KMFDM, "Believe") Because it made me look up the word "abstruse," which is also the reason that I love KMFDM.
"I'm older than my looks, and older than my years / I'm too young to take on my deepest fears." (A-Ha, "Blue Sky") I have felt that way far too many times.
I have to quote a full verse for context:
"Christians and Catholics and Orthodox Jews
All you dumb Scientologists and guys who bend spoons
Buddhists--well, sort of, and atheists too
All you whackjob believers, nobody's immune
You will die."
(Hurt, "Flowers") The song is about how everybody dies, and the "Buddhists--well, sort of" line makes me crack up every time.
That's all I can think of right now, except for lines that 1. I like because they're depressing and have matched my mood so often in my depressed times, 2. are intensely personal for reasons too complicated to explain here, and 3. everybody likes because they're just that awesome.
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| Sunday, May 15th, 2011
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10:30 am - Writer's Block: Say goodbye to Kansas, Dorothy
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1. "I knew it!"
2. "... that explains a lot, actually."
3. "So is there some kind of financial compensation for this?"
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| Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
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3:49 pm - Writer's Block: Behind the wheel
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And if it came with free fuel, and a free license, and free classes on how to fly and maintain it: a small (four-seater) airplane. Because I love flying.
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| Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
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1:05 pm - GIP: recolored PinkiePie does not approve of these shenanigans
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| Sunday, May 8th, 2011
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2:10 pm - mother's day thinkythoughts
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I was lucky enough to have an excellent mother. She doesn't always understand or approve, but she always accepts me and my choices, has always, always supported me, and encourages me to make the effort.
I know not everybody is lucky enough to have excellent mothers--that there are some people for whom mother's day is a painful, conflicted day, that brings up bad memories, a day that may feel icky and weird and that they just wish would get over with as soon as possible. Much like how I feel about father's day, in fact. To you, I give empathy and condolences.
To those of you who are mothers--I know you are trying your hardest. Your children will see it, and remember.
The best thanks any of us can give is to be the best people we can be, for whatever definition of "best" we have. But you should probably call your mom, too (if applicable).
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| Sunday, April 10th, 2011
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3:24 pm - living in the future
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I've seen a couple of people on my friends list post their twitters to LJ all in one lump under an LJ-cut. Can anyone tell me how to set this up?
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2:26 pm - Writer's Block: Sorry seems to be the hardest word
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I can't think of anybody at this time to whom I believe I owe an apology. Aside possibly from a couple of general ones about doing a poor job of keeping in touch recently. I'm sure there are people who would disagree, and say that I owe them an apology for one thing or another... but such is the way of life.
Also, a blanket apology for any bizarre behavior that might have caused anybody else distress during the times I was crazy with depression. yaycrazy!
current mood: coffee
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| Saturday, April 9th, 2011
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8:12 am - copypasta
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Copypasted via the button thing, so none of the commentary below this line is mine, but I've read it and agree. Just in case anybody's wondering and hasn't heard yet why LJ is having problems recently.
Originally posted by clari_clyde at postI’ve been wondering what’s up with all the DDoS attacks LJ has been receiving lately. Signal boosting ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=2) ingridmatthews:
Just in case anyone thinks LJ's downtime is just TPTB being incompetant, read this:
LiveJournal, Russia's blogging platform of choice, is sustaining biggest cyberattack attack in its history. Bloggers say the Kremlin wants to crack down on political discussion.
"LiveJournal, Russia’s most popular blogging platform, has been under a massive DDoS attack for the past few days. The attack has effectively wiped out Russia’s main refuge for unbridled political discussion, a hugely lively and extensive domain frequented by politicians, opposition activists and social commentators alike...
“The reason for attack is more than clear in this case — someone wants LiveJournal to disappear as a platform,” Ilya Dronov, development director at SUP, wrote in a post on his LiveJournal blog earlier this week. He said the hackers were hoping to push bloggers from LJ to social networks where “it's easier to fight individual users.”"
http://globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/bric-yard/russian-blog-site-under-attack
http://putinwatcher.blogspot.com/2011/04/cyber-war-on-russian-activist-bloggers.html
ETA, One more link, ganked from norwich36 about the importance of LJ to russian bloggers: LiveJournal's DDoS and Russian Politics 
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| Thursday, April 7th, 2011
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12:56 pm - fyi kinda thingy
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I have a Dreamwidth account with this same handle, but there isn't any content over there. I have a permanent paid account here on LJ. I haven't been using LJ much recently, but that's for various reasons that have nothing to do with the inconvenience of the DDOS attacks. I will continue to use LJ until the servers burn down, fall over, and sink into the swamp, or until the company does something really horrifically stupid with it (like what Etsy did or FB keeps doing, for example). I probably should be mirroring my content to DW or saving it somewhere else or something Just In Case, but damn, that's a lot of stuff. And I'm still drinking coffee.
In other news: ... meh. MEH. coffee.
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| Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
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3:40 am - Writer's Block: A barrel of laughs
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