I first considered the possibility that I might be transgender during a foggy church morning in 2014. Somewhere between the third and sixth time I had to sit down during services, an idea sparked into my head – what if I’m actually a woman? Like most trans women, I grappled with that question at the time. I was slowly distancing myself from my LGBT community, fearing that the movement was incapable of addressing serious questions…
I like talking with people who have changed religions. Here is one of them. Previously: Aadita Chaudhury. Can you tell me a little bit about your religious background growing up? Did your parents talk much about their own faith, or take you to any religious services? When do you first remember being aware of the concept of God, and what did you think of it? I grew up very Catholic. My mother's side was Irish and…
I have already given away my copy of Carry On to my babysitter's fiance, so you cannot have it, please buy your own. It is a truly perfect book, perhaps the greatest YA novel I have ever read, and I know you will adore it as much as I did.
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I forgot if we discussed Isaac Butler's "Is Hamlet Fat?" but a) he IS, and b)
Sammy Peeps! The most endearing quality of everyone's favorite Restoration-era diarist, I think, is his charmingly innocent belief that he was a master of linguistic misdirection. "Pepys' diary was written in shorthand so could not easily be read by a casual browser. There are, however, some passages of a secretive nature where, for reasons of concealment or because his passion deserves a special language, he resorts to a private code involving words based on Spanish,…
imagine that pent up with two women who love me whom I love and who coldly hate each other oh well how could this tragic situation have been avoided mm like trains on a senseless track we speed toward our fates speeding helplessly and speedily see I feel like forcing your wife and your mistress to live with you at the same time if it's not directly a cause you could at least this was…
I set out to write about the psycho-geographical valence of Laramie. That term was my coinage and I was proud of it. The emotional weight of coming to this haunted, haunting place to study. Weather-torn fences staggering out into the bleak windswept stretches of the prairie, the contemplative hush of the snowfall, the blue sky, the burning stars. Place myself in that landscape and the reflection of that landscape in me. The landscape of Laramie…
If there is even the slightest chance you have missed this video of benign Norwegian bodybuilders visiting an extra-small village in order to feel bigger, please give yourself the gift of viewing it now. On my first viewing, I very much
barked out a sob of joy
, like a bereaved seal. I have been unable to stop watching, since I started.
All I care about is reading Rainbow Rowell's newly-released Carry On (YES, it is the extended fanfic that Cath was writing in Fangirl, yes!), which I will certainly have finished by the time you read this. Mallory THAT BITCH got an early copy and has been taunting me with "you're going to looooove it" and "I stayed up all niiiiiight" and "what a shame YOU don't have a copy" and I hate her.
If Tilda Swinton were your girlfriend, you’d be mostly vegan, although Tilda says labels are for the uncreative. You’d marvel at her silo full of legumes, and the only meat you’d eat would be the brown trout that the twins catch on the banks of the firth. You’d feel guilty about that time at your parents’ house when Tilda ate—and loved—pork rinds, since you didn’t realize that she didn’t know they were meat. But, as Tilda says,…
There are, I think, drawbacks to being constantly incredulous. I wouldn't say that a substantial dose of skepticism isn't a good idea; I will merely suggest that excessive mistrust can result in the loss of potential joy, and I do not want that for you. I want you to maximize your possible happiness, while maintaining a healthy, wary outlook that protects you from getting eaten by predators. The possibility that I want you to entertain…
DEXTER: Three years ago I did you out of a wedding in this house by eloping. Which was very bad manners. I'll make it up to you by going through with it now as originally planned. TRACY: No, I don't believe I'll marry you again at all, Dexter. DEXTER: Not marry me again? Why on earth not? I've been skulking around your house for absolute hours, insulting your fiancé and making veiled, insulting insinuations about your…
Nicole Chung: In your Author’s Note at the end of Carry On, you wrote that after creating Simon and Baz and telling some of their story in Fangirl, you just weren’t ready to let go of them. Why did these two characters mean so much to you, and were you at all surprised to find yourself continuing their story? Rainbow Rowell: I think I felt like I’d created these characters and this whole world, but…
MONK #1: what's inside of a dog MONK #2: hmm? MONK #1: like how would I draw a dog, and what it's made of MONK #2: oh oh gotcha red strings and nothing MONK #1: okay so I know that knights and horses go together like in wartime MONK #2: right MONK #1: but how is that arranged, exactly like how does it look when they go into battle MONK #2: oh…
