RWJ

They just don’t release the hounds like they used to

in my day someone just let the dogs out. never did know who.

“Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.” ― C.S. Lewis

People have overused Catholic Guilt to the point they cannot recognize the clear and haunting Protestant Shame in front of their eyes. that character Knows they could have worked harder

Your weird friend shows up at a weird hour to tell you about a woman. The last time you followed his advice you more or less ended up getting jumped in an alley. Against your better judgement you listen to him! Get kidnapped. Almost get kidnapped by the people set to kidnap your kidnappers. Get out of all that and then and end up marrying said woman because the police are trying to break down your door wrongly accusing you of trying to kidnap her and the immigration authorities are trying to break down your door rightly accusing her of forging documents and illegally entering the country. You are Ivan Vorpatril.

The second chapter starts.

And this weird friend is your less troublesome cousin, somehow

The Vorkosigan Saga, and why you should read it! 😁

Also she's a renegade princess from Planet Mafia. And her grandmother did those war crimes your planet is still so upset about. And her 9000 siblings are a mixture of modern dance troupe and sociopathic paramilitary insurgency. Every bounty hunter in the galaxy wants her dead. Her metallic blue sister thinks you're a scrub. You have work in the morning. Why is your foyer full of refugee war criminals oh shit it's your in-laws. Your mom likes her. You are Ivan Vorpatril.

all the rights that come with marriage you should be able to have without marriage btw. you should be able to designate a person who can visit you in the hospital regardless of your relationship to that person.

One thing I’m still pissed at Bernie Sanders about is turning a generation against the Democratic Party. Every piece of social progress in the last 80 years, from Social Security to Medicaid to Medicare to integration to the Civil Rights Act to Title IX to Roe v. Wade to labor rights to environmental protections to public health protections to Obamacare to Obergefell, all of it directly or indirectly powered by the engine of change that is the Democratic Party. And then Sanders comes and says this whole apparatus, which he had no hand in building, is corrupt and needs to be completely replaced. Now we have countless young people who think Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are the same partly because they were told that an engine of change and an anchor of stagnation and oppression are equally bad because they were fed the lie that no one in the Democratic Party does anything to improve their lives.

Nothing makes me more embarrassed about my age or generation than BernieOrBust/StillJill/NeverHillary supporters who are basically doing the GOP’s work for them and refuse to acknowledge it. As much as I hate the ageist bullshit I see Baby Boomers come up with, I can see why they think so many millenials need to get their head out of the clouds or don’t know how the real world works when I see the way people my age talk about politics. Like, I know it’s bullshit and I still don’t blame baby boomers for getting mad that young people think they know everything. Because fun story: my university campus is very liberal and very politically active, and during the last quarter there most students strongly supported Bernie Sanders…except for most of us in or connected to the Political Science Department (so Poli Sci majors, International Relations majors, certain other ‘bureaucratic’ majors, etc.) We also loved Bernie, but we all pretty bluntly said we were voting for Hillary and thought she’d be the best President. Most of us were pretty blunt about how “as much as we love Bernie’s message of change, we think Hillary can actually accomplish more of it in the real world”. We were basing our decision on our studies of politics, of what kinds of change have and have not worked in history and why. This support for Hillary, even with our love of Bernie, came from a place of deep understanding of how politics work, of why certain policies or political goals fail, and what various political leaders’ real powers and challenges are. We were called “over-educated elites” because of this.

Nixon, fucking Nixon, signed the core of the ecologic protection laws.

I don’t have a problem voting for “political insiders” because *they freaking know how the sausage is made.* I want a goddamned professional in the job. Wanting an “outsider” strikes me like saying, “I don’t want a surgeon that went to some hoity-toity university and is friends with the the department head! I want some guy who learned how to remove appendixes by pulling himself by his bootstraps and learning by trial and error!”

The thing about Spock being hot is that he isn't framed like he's supposed to be. Yknow? Like the cinematography and the way other characters interact with him doesn't typically imply you the viewer are meant to desire him carnally. So it can be easy to forget for a moment until it just kind of suddenly hits you. And "wait Spock's hot" is perhaps one of the least original thoughts one can have but nevertheless I'm kind of continuously having this revelation

Furthermore he's like. Statuesque. He has a certain poise and grace about him rarely found in men. He's cunty but understated. She ate and she chewed with her mouth closed. You know what I mean? And the whole point of him is that "carnal desire" is extremely off limits. You CANNOT fuck him. Unless.......? And this is the repressed erotic intrigue that invented fanfiction