Bouvre

Said hello to me, then told their parents they thought I was beautiful. The parents relayed the message in English. I feel blessed.

I'm just trying to get people to love ABBA

I love being the person who explains the melancholic complexity of ABBA tbh. But yes, all their songs are bangers.

Gaymes

Who plays ABBA on every bar jukebox I possibly can

This is my favorite form of board humor.

An office chair is good, but they definitely could've just put more bubble wrap in place of it.

I did milk and cookies once. But other than that, maybe just a thank you note. Maybe. I don't remember really leaving anything outside of that one year.

You're a miracle worker thank you

I mean, since no title is copyrighted...

How is this gif of me related to your math?

Receive

Mickey Spillane is that you??

This could be the title of my memoir about writing this and being in an MFA simultaneously.

One of my karaoke staples.

I'm curious about openly reflecting in a way that might sound as though I'm not asking a question, even though I totally am inviting a response in light of my curiosity.

Novel, not an imagined thesis of what I would pursue as a masters candidate in Cinema Studies.

Which soldier?

I'd love to see the jacket design for a book with a title that damned long.

Imagine me in a silk robe with my pinky finger in my mouth and a martini in my other hand, saying, seductively, "ooOoh, how postmodern!"

Recently, I’ve received the e-mail informing me that the rough draft of my thesis is due to my advisor in 24 days. The current title is very likely going to be trashed, so I've been stressing about creating a new title for it. So let's play a game: I don't tell you a goddamned thing about what my thesis is about, and you generate a title for it. All you get to know is that it's a work of fiction, novel-length. Here's the prize: If I'm inspired by ANY part of your title -- or multiple user’s titles -- I'll put those users in my master's thesis acknowledgements page and read your username aloud to the audience, and for a brief moment, you'll be marginally indirectly introduced to a crowd featuring award-winning poets, nonfiction, and fiction writers. There is a chance nobody will win. Because let's face it, the odds of landing even a partially relevant title to work you know nothing about is pretty slim. But you also have nothing to lose and a very very tiny award to gain.

Homophobic behavior and statements isn't exclusively connected to what's taboo and what's not. I still have good close friends who are working hard not to say "Dude that's gay." The gaming community also extends to the audience who, leaning on anonymity like a crutch, will use homophobic, transphobic, biphobic language like it ain't a thing to them. Some people in the gaming community don't realize that there's oppressive language specifically coded for various identities in the LGBT community. Now, it may be true that it isn't as bad, but western society still does has a long way to go before they're actually "cool" with the LGBT community. On a surprisingly regular basis, I still argue with my family--who know I'm LGBT--about why it's socially regressive to limit LGBT protections to a state by state basis. I'm still terrified as hell to admit I identify stronger with they/them pronouns than I do he/him. That being said, the LGBT community isn't necessarily all bundled up and coddled among themselves. We still have to bicker with trans-exclusionary radical feminists (TERFS) and shit, too, so perhaps there's a point to be made that an LGBT-oriented gaming community is not indicative of safety. Still, perhaps being upfront about being gay really isn't that big of a deal. Perhaps we shouldn't question why people make an effort to point it out. There's still a lot of people who need to know they're not alone. For those who don't identify with that feeling, there is still the Let's Play. There's still the thing they have in common with a whole lot of people who are scared as hell, even if it seems they don't need to be.

Does Ron Jeremy even have the stamina for that anymore?

For LGBT viewers, it does provide a sense of belonging to a particular subculture that isn't entirely friendly/inclusive toward the LGBT community.

Bathroom (Not the shower though. Clogs too easily.) and bedroom. Basically if the room has a lock and I'm alone, I'm golden.