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  <title>The Original Haus of Ron Abuse</title>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 14 Dec 2013 19:52:20 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>@.@</title>
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  <description>I can&apos;t make heads or tails of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.truthcontest.com/insights/love-sex-marriage/&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; website. The usual &quot;religious&quot; stuff is on there, but there&apos;s something about it that dives into the Uncanny Valley.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like this sentence- &lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Overpopulation: Bringing children into the world is the most important thing we can do, because the more we bring in, the more souls that will get a chance to get to heaven, but we have to manage it better.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bard? Guardian? Anyone? You... you see it, right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=harp&amp;ditemid=28821&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jul 2013 13:56:45 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>I&apos;m Cranky and I Feel Like Being Controversial</title>
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  <description>(Warning: I apologize to my f-list tumblr users, red state residents, and other people)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Yes I&apos;m a girl and I play video games! That warrants a mention or six!&lt;br /&gt;Nerd girl problems: I like books DDDD:&lt;br /&gt;Lilah&apos;s character page from Ctrl+alt+Del. Nerd Nanny. DM&apos;s girlfriend. Gamer Chicks.&lt;/i&gt; F*ckin&apos;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;cut-wrapper&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;span-cuttag___1&quot; class=&quot;cuttag&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-open&quot;&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-text&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://harp.dreamwidth.org/28450.html#cutid1&quot;&gt;The King of Queens says Shuttie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-close&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;div-cuttag___1&quot; aria-live=&quot;assertive&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=harp&amp;ditemid=28450&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jul 2013 19:08:11 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Stuff I Found Out While Not Doing the Last 20 Questions of Embalming Homework</title>
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  <description>George de Mestral invented velcro and it was patented in 1955.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That must mean I know at least one person older than velcro. Woah, does that mean that John Mccain is older than Velcro? Must look that up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*While looking it up* &quot;Make Sarah Palin take the INS test&quot;? Do they have the questions online? Kinda makes America look like a club. Answer these questions to pass! Other countries do that? Wonder how many people in the US could pass. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ha-ha-ha-&lt;i&gt;Waaaaowwwww&lt;/i&gt; are they really asking that? You could really come up with some &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; snarky/smartmouth answers for these. Babby Pissed-off-about-Bush Harp would have loved to answer some of these. So would Northland-True-Blue-Kerry-Stanning-Air-America-Radio-directly-Injected-Into-Veins Harp. But even today&apos;s Grown=up-and-No-Longer-a-Screaming-Activist-Just-Gonna-Keep-Trolling-and-LOLing Harp sees some lulz opportunities in there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Troll Self Test&lt;/b&gt; If you can read through these questions without thinking of one single smartass/snarky/cheeky answer, you are a golden soul with no trolling in your heart. If you do think of something less than srs, you have to write it in the comments C:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;cut-wrapper&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;span-cuttag___1&quot; class=&quot;cuttag&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-open&quot;&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-text&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://harp.dreamwidth.org/28286.html#cutid1&quot;&gt;If you were so inclined&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-close&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;div-cuttag___1&quot; aria-live=&quot;assertive&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=harp&amp;ditemid=28286&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 06:16:39 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Fandom Memory: Deleterius</title>
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  <description>Guardian and I were having a chat on the ol&apos; LJ and it made me want to re-find the article she was talking about. A Google search for an old mod&apos;s name plus &quot;fandom_wank&quot; later and I realize that a lot has happened in five years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;cut-wrapper&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;span-cuttag___1&quot; class=&quot;cuttag&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-open&quot;&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-text&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://harp.dreamwidth.org/28098.html#cutid1&quot;&gt;I get deleterius whenever Sue&apos;s near&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-close&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;div-cuttag___1&quot; aria-live=&quot;assertive&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=harp&amp;ditemid=28098&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 03:52:32 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>And Life Went On, No Matter Who Was Right (or Wrong)</title>
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  <description>This is a reply to &lt;a href=&quot;http://guardians-song.dreamwidth.org/40403.html&quot;&gt;Guardian&apos;s excellent, fun, entertaining post&lt;/a&gt; smacking the Sexual Privilege Checklist. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I already mentioned on Guardian&apos;s journal that when it comes to orientations, Asexuals are the 1%, to put it in &quot;Occupy Wall Street&quot; terms and that stupid checklists are popping up because of Tumblr Social Justice Asshole McCarthyism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the Asexuality Tumblr:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;I’m envisioning the creation of a new tumblr to gather examples of sexual privilege. Stories could work too. I am really excited about this project but I definitely couldn’t take it on alone (also, I suck at images). &lt;b&gt;Let’s do this while it’s still boiling our blood!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And there we have the biggest problem with all of these checklists. They&apos;re not based in thoughtful emotion, they&apos;re based in emotional thought- and there&apos;s a huge difference between the two. It&apos;s not about education or making a change or making anything better. It&apos;s about being angry and yelling and feeling put-upon and having a contest to see who suffers the most. Why &quot;do this while it&apos;s still boiling our blood&quot;? Because once things are settled and given thought, it becomes clear that we are not oppressed. We&apos;re annoyed, irritated, exasperated, bothered, and bored with the endless questioning, but oppressed? No. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt; Let’s create a resource so the next time the sexual privilege argument comes up, we can slam our checklist down on the table! Let’s DO THIS!!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;Let&apos;s get our proof ready so next time everyone&apos;s crying about how hard they have it, we can join in so they won&apos;t suspect us of being happy, because as we all know, this is McCarthyist Internet and if you&apos;re found guilty of being happy, you&apos;re automatically assumed to be part of the problem.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;cut-wrapper&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;span-cuttag___1&quot; class=&quot;cuttag&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-open&quot;&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-text&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://harp.dreamwidth.org/27778.html#cutid1&quot;&gt;Companion to Guardian&apos;s Entry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-close&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;div-cuttag___1&quot; aria-live=&quot;assertive&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=harp&amp;ditemid=27778&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <category>trolling down the river</category>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2013 15:47:18 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Waterboarded</title>
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  <description>Here&apos;s a little passage from Finnegan&apos;s Wake that &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/9zgYzRidzGI?t=3m41s&quot;&gt;Cr1tikal read&lt;/a&gt;. He was having a lot of trouble with it, but he read it so nicely that I wanted to find this part.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Assiegates and boomeringstroms. Sod’s brood, be me fear! Sanglorians, save! Arms apeal with larms, appalling. Killykill-killy: a toll, a toll. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What chance cuddleys, what cashels aired and ventilated! What bidimetoloves sinduced by what tegotetab-solvers! What true feeling for their’s hayair with what strawng voice of false jiccup! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O here here how hoth sprowled met the duskt the father of fornicationists but, (O my shining stars and body!) how hath fanespanned most high heaven the skysign of soft advertisement! But was iz? Iseut? Ere were sewers?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The oaks of ald now they lie in peat yet elms leap where askes lay. &lt;b&gt;Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pharce for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are plenty of translations and explanations online, but not sure if I want to understand that bit up there. It just sounds. nice, and sometimes meaning ruins things.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=harp&amp;ditemid=27442&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:52:37 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Flowers in the Attic</title>
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  <description>Still tryin&apos; to fix my computer so I can get my Draw On. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Book One: &lt;a href=&quot;sockshare.com/file/BA6A1F2E3AAEA611&quot;&gt;Flowers in the Attic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Really enjoyed this one; it might be my favorite in the Dollanganger series. If you enjoy &quot;slice of life&quot; type stories about people just existing, you&apos;ll enjoy this one. Lorelei King is a great reader.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Book Two: &lt;a href=&quot;sockshare.com/file/6E212B633ED33985&quot;&gt;Petals on the Wind&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Honestly, I&apos;d say this was my least favorite book in the series. It&apos;s amusing in that it manages to go at the Older Man/Younger Woman trope from every single angle- adoptive guardian, teacher/mentor, rescuer, upperclassman, step-dad (ish). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Book Three: &lt;a href=&quot;sockshare.com/file/50E8C84BC7F79C83&quot;&gt;If There be Thorns&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Author: V.C Andrews&lt;br /&gt;Reader(s): Lorelei King&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This book is told through the eyes of Cathy&apos;s sons- the handsome, talented Jory and his disturbed younger brother Bart. &lt;i&gt;Boy&lt;/i&gt; is there a lot of talk about corporal punishment of children. They don&apos;t ever go into any detail or even start to or anything, but it boarders on gratuitous sometimes as in &quot;You could really take out three or four mentions and nothing would be lost.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Book Four: &lt;a href=&quot;sockshare.com/file/421259C2AC5E540C&quot;&gt;Seeds of Yesterday&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Book Five: (Prequil): &lt;a href=&quot;sockshare.com/file/54F46A912418F121&quot;&gt;Garden of Shadows &lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Extras: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://weepingcock.livejournal.com/598602.html&quot;&gt;A discussion on LJ about the books&lt;/a&gt;. This was way too much fun, even though we were ripping on the books hardcore. How, you might ask, can you enjoy this junk? This LJ comment explained it best: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt; Andrews wrote junk, but it was consciously messed-up junk. She didn&apos;t pretend that stalking was Twu Wuv or sociopaths were selfless.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That&apos;s all I ever ask. If you&apos;re going to write about stuff, just be honest. Admit when your characters have flaws and do messed up stuff. It&apos;s one of the hardest things to do, but be proud of their flaws in the &quot;I made you complete&quot; way, and let them be proud, even unapologetic of their flaws, too, in the &quot;I&apos;m doing it and I don&apos;t care/it looks fine from my perspective and I can&apos;t judge myself&quot; way. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Catherine, Christopher, you two are brother and sister!&lt;br /&gt;&quot;Yeah. &lt;i&gt;AND?!?&lt;/i&gt;&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;What&apos;s it to you?&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You&apos;re sleeping with your &lt;i&gt;blood sister&lt;/i&gt;, dude.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&quot;Yup. Watcha gonna do about it?&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;Come at me, bro. *Ho ho ho C Wut I Did There?*&quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dude! That&apos;s incest!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&quot;U Mad?&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;He mad, bro.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;Y U Mad Tho?&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;Haters gonna hate.&quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_looosoHTGq1qcxyg1.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=harp&amp;ditemid=26955&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <category>gifts</category>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2012 03:25:35 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Making Dreamwidth our Home</title>
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  <description>Dreamwidth is alright, but there&apos;s something that feels really... wide and clunky about it. I hope more people will migrate to Dreamwidth so we can all be together. The first step is making your new home look pretty.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;cut-wrapper&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;span-cuttag___1&quot; class=&quot;cuttag&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-open&quot;&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-text&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://harp.dreamwidth.org/26613.html#cutid1&quot;&gt;Screenshots Forever- A Dreamwidth Tutorial&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-close&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;div-cuttag___1&quot; aria-live=&quot;assertive&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=harp&amp;ditemid=26613&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:49:10 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Disney&apos;s &quot;Guinea&quot;</title>
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  <description>&lt;img src=&quot;https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-cQxnnX3Me0w/UKex4VUbhwI/AAAAAAAABIs/m4nTISFdYvE/w497-h373/IMAG0246.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There&apos;s a guineafowl by my house, blown here by the storm. I believe she was someone&apos;s pet because she comes right up to people around here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;ve been looking for a home for her because it&apos;s getting way too cold outside, and yesterday, someone I know from the next town over found a home (her parents raise guineafowl). I&apos;m waiting for her to come by now so we can catch her. And not a minute too soon. I found out that yesterday, two of the construction guys were chasing her, trying to get her. They plan on eating her &amp;gt;C Not on my watch, buddies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&apos;s almost like a Pixar/Disney flick about saving an escaped bird. The place she&apos;s going to, by the way, won&apos;t eat her. They use guineafowl to control the tick problem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=harp&amp;ditemid=26222&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2012 18:23:16 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdasffkVEU1rcm80po7_r2_250.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oz, are you AppleJack/Rarity now?&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m asking because I know Applejack is your favorite, so I didn&apos;t know if you would ship her with anyone, so long as she got more Fan Love, or if you were super-strictly AppleDashORDEATH.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(For the record, I am still wounded from the Potter Fandom Wars and my shipping senses are too weary to function)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=harp&amp;ditemid=25641&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:56:36 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Nice</title>
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  <description>Some people on Dreamwidth said I seemed like a nice person. Sometimes I really wonder if I actually am nice or if I just treat people nicely and behave nicely, and I wonder about the difference.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=harp&amp;ditemid=25288&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2012 15:16:33 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>The Kinda Thing You&apos;d Expect with Substance Abuse</title>
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  <description>Except I have not been using anything. All I was doing was getting fed up with this music that&apos;s been playing in my head and finally decided to Google it. I was surprised at how easily I found it- the commercial for Stetson Cologne.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width=&quot;420&quot; height=&quot;315&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/gT0qpYdIXLw?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US&quot;&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowFullScreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowscriptaccess&quot; value=&quot;sameDomain&quot;&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/gT0qpYdIXLw?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; width=&quot;420&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; allowscriptaccess=&quot;sameDomain&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I only remember it as a radio commercial.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to the comments, this commercial came out in 1990, so around the time when I was still in day care. I tried to think back to what had been going on for me back then, and this stoner-azz thought came:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;And there was the time our dad and uncle put together this plastic play kitchen thing for us... vague memory of bringing them plastic blocks and us saying something about &quot;we made you food to say thank you&quot;... God, second hand embarrassment. What was I thinking? Well, I guess we were young and couldn&apos;t exactly do anything... so it was more symbolic than anything. So... when little kids do those things, it&apos;s a symbolic representation of wanting to give. Because they have to attach it to something physical because of their limited perception... But then they get older and... is gift giving mostly a behavior learned from society, or is it a kind of self-taught Pavlovian association that&apos;s left over, but mostly forgotten when we&apos;re old enough to be &quot;expected to be able to&quot; give more? So a diamond necklace really isn&apos;t different from a Fruit Loops necklace...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I get to the end, I realize, miserably, that everyone else in the world has already figured this out and reduced it to &quot;it&apos;s the thought that counts&quot; a million years ago. This is why I consider myself &quot;a slow learner&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unrelated note, I love reading other people&apos;s reactions to this video, so I&apos;m leaving some of them here&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gordtep.com/?p=1248&quot;&gt;City Kev&lt;/a&gt; (He makes a good point)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://commercialforeclosuregoldrushx.com/stetson-christmas-commercial/&quot;&gt;ToledoTopher&lt;/a&gt; (hilarious interpretation)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Hahahaha! Do you remember that Christmas Commercial for Stetson cologne/toilet water de peu? Sounds like it&apos;s making it easy for you to fit into your new life in TX.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;a href=&quot;http://open.salon.com/blog/bexar_boots/2011/03/27/bexar_boots&quot;&gt;RazzleDazzle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nothing like cheap cologne to thaw the frozen snot out of your nose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=43711&quot;&gt;-Mouser&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.muppetcentral.com/forum/threads/retro-commercials-whats-the-attraction.33748/page-10&quot;&gt;These two &lt;/a&gt;had the similar experience to me, in that we didn&apos;t know it was for cologne until we googled the commercial.&lt;br /&gt;And finally, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.retroist.com/2009/12/09/stetson-makes-it-easy-for-you/&quot;&gt;The Retroist&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=harp&amp;ditemid=24764&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:55:53 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Make a Note, Mister Brother</title>
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  <description>Derping around in the kitchen, thinking about livejournal and how much it&apos;s changed and how much things in general have changed. That was at around 5:17. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As of 5:19 PM today, I have decided to officially start making my way off of the fence and towards, er... Bronyness. Brony-Dom? Whatever, joining the herd.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&apos;s not so much the show, although I do find it super cute. It&apos;s the fandom. The adult men. I need more grown up men in my life, friendly ones at that. More adults in general. I miss the Harry Potter fandom of LJ and those grown up people. With the series over, we&apos;ve sort of disbanded a lot and the only people left are the idiots on Tumblr. They really are idiots, too; I&apos;m rather shocked. Potterheads at LJ/journalfen/FictionAlly have mostly fought ourselves tired and stopped giving a darn if Joe Schmoe across the street likes Harry/Molly and not Harry/Bellatrix. While we have retired to a life of reading our own ships, it seems that on Tumblr, everything got distilled into the purest form of emotion and hedonism, strained through a cheesecloth to catch any thought at all. It&apos;s all sensory over there. No words. Nice for pictures, but breeding ground for stupid. And those, unfortunately, are the most active in the Potter Fandom right now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Potter Fandom&apos;s Potted.&lt;br /&gt;My usual RP partners are mostly M.I.A&lt;br /&gt;Fangirls have utterly taken over yaoi and (please don&apos;t be alarmed) have made me utterly bored with male slash. Can you believe that? Used to be that if two men sat next to each other, I&apos;d be writing fanfic about them in my head. Nowadays, they could cart in thirty pairs of gay couples and have them all make out in front of me, and I&apos;d be like&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/158/699/tumblr_lo1qiwCiYS1qzgmxb.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You&apos;ve finally done it, yaoi fans. You&apos;ve killed one of your own veterans. You&apos;ve perv&apos;d the market out, oversaturated, given a bad name to the fans, but ultimately, you&apos;ve gotten your spoiled rotten way in that it&apos;s all over the place and you can swim in it now. I look at the rainbow pool of manlove you&apos;re all splashing in and I want to care about it again, but...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/192/005/tumblr_lt9x2isgL11qa69wso1_r1_500.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I&apos;m off to watch ponies. &lt;br /&gt;And I can&apos;t even bring myself to care about shipping them beyond thinking that some of the innocent fan art is cute.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I miss the spinoff jokes and pictures and memes. I&apos;m going to get in on the Brony scene. They seem like cool friends. It&apos;s going to be painful, I&apos;m sure (with the irrational Brony hatred) and I&apos;m sure that my more BAWing friends will have something to say about the word &quot;Brony&quot; but in general, those are my mean, nasty, hateful friends, so I don&apos;t care.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anybody got an icon of Flim and Flam for me? Oz? I need one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=harp&amp;ditemid=24499&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 23:38:19 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>I&apos;m Listening</title>
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  <description>Can someone explain to me how the heck I got from Humon&apos;s DeviantArt page to &lt;a href=&quot;http://vividrandomexistence.wordpress.com/&quot;&gt;Vivid Random Existence&lt;/a&gt; only by following links?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&apos;s always tempting to read those kinds of things with your mind already made up, &quot;Eeeew!&quot;ing all the way through, but I figured that I have all sorts of strange and different friends that only seem strange and scary from a distance. As Lovecraft said, the oldest type of fear is fear of the unknown. So I went reading that because really, none of us (at least nobody I know) knows exactly what those people feel like.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It really doesn&apos;t make a difference what I think about it, but here are my thoughts:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Firstly, I feel honestly and profoundly sorry for Zoophiliacs. It must suck to be sexually attracted to something that everyone else says is bad/wrong/disgusting automatically. We really should consider how good we have it if we&apos;re sexually attracted to something that most people would say &quot;yeah, so what? No1Curr&quot; about. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I often think about how lucky I am to not have a body/mind that produces feelings of being sexually attracted to anything. Especially after looking at how much of a hassle it is for other people!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. My only issue with people performing the actual &lt;i&gt;act&lt;/i&gt; is, of course, for the safety of the animal. If the animal is being hurt, confused, distressed, stressed, or unhappy about it, then that&apos;s totes not ok. After reading a few articles, it looks like it&apos;s the same deal with any sex act that&apos;s done out of genuine attraction- the (whatever)lover loves (whatever) and doesn&apos;t want to hurt them. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Makes sense. With rapists and child abusers, it&apos;s about an easy target. What they do doesn&apos;t speak of any kind of attraction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3.The author talks about, quote &lt;i&gt;&quot;tonic immobility, a condition in which an animal is in a natural state of paralysis. However, this alone does not equate to being “unethical”[. Y]es, the human possesses more knowledge than the gator he’s having sex with, but whose to say that makes it any more or less ethical? After all, sharks in the wild have sex all the time with each other while they’re under tonic immobility.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That&apos;s not really fair. When sharks do that, it&apos;s probably more to do with reproduction, so people shouldn&apos;t be allowed to get the same pass.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. From the Blog:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&quot;I also understand (and agree with) the argument that intercourse with a python is unethical. So I went on the Internet to see if I could find alternatives. Sure enough, I did. What I found was information about zoophiles who “ethically love” pythons — for example, they will let the Burmese python slither around on their naked bodies. From a utilitarian point of view, this is a perfectly acceptable activity because neither the human nor the python is being harmed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Upon further reading, I also discovered that people ethically love pythons by using masturbation; zoophiles who are attracted to small animals often use masturbation techniques in order to avoid what would be cruel intercourse. Again, from a utilitarian point of view, a person who lets a python slither around their naked body and masturbates is not causing either of them (the human or python) harm; however, whether one would count this as “bestiality” is questionable since intercourse never occurs.&quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would not be one bit surprised if I found out that most of my friends were into this. Or if I found out that any of my friends was. In fact, I don&apos;t think that anyone would be surprised by this. &quot;Oh, you like it when a snake slithers around on you while you get off? Sounds like a music video.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If when these situations came up, or the word &quot;Zoophile&quot; came up, people would take the time to ask &quot;what exactly do you mean by that?&quot; instead of shutting down completely, we might have a bit more peace in the world. But I can&apos;t even fault them for getting skeeved out just from hearing the word. It&apos;s textbook psychology. The only time people ever hear that word, it&apos;s in the context of a joke involving horrendous animal abuse. Schemas get formed. They can&apos;t help it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If only people would realize that they&apos;e working under the influences of schemas, they could decide  &quot;is this a time when it could harm me to follow my schematic instincts?&quot; If someone has informed you that you&apos;ve just left your pet with a person who practices bestiality, then yes, you ought to go running just to make sure. If you&apos;re presented with a book or article written on the subject of zoophilia and you have some spare time, then no, that&apos;s the time to realize that a little education might be interesting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=harp&amp;ditemid=24088&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 01:16:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>&lt;center&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://harpsiccord.webs.com/photos/Sillyfaces/My%20Results.PNG&quot;&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can take the same test &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bronyland.com/pony-personality-test/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don&apos;t think you&apos;re wrong, Oz. I &lt;i&gt;do&lt;/i&gt; have the Pinkie Pie tendency to say strange things that nobody understands and I do eat a &lt;i&gt;lot&lt;/i&gt; of sweets. Truth is, though, that I&apos;m more like Fluttershy. The anxiety, the hanging out in the woods all day, the need to be kind to everyone, being a pushover (you said I was with Rufus?) the solitude, not liking social gatherings (you guys remember that), and even the hairstyle :3 When you told me Evan&apos;s theory about her secretly being really evil, that really sold me. I&apos;d like to think that Pinkie Pie doesn&apos;t have the secret sadness and worry and insecurity that she tries to cover up with being cheerful. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thoughts, big brother?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=harp&amp;ditemid=23921&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 15:58:02 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Welp! Best get ta&apos; postin&apos;!</title>
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  <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UZLE0KE6&quot;&gt;Hurricane Irene Playlist&lt;/a&gt; that I intend to share with the FFA today. I&apos;m going to ask them if they have any suggestions. Speaking of which, I better head down to 4shared... got some more songs to download.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I&apos;m absolutely going to try walking around in the hurricane, yes I am. I don&apos;t want to be stuck inside with unpleasant... ness. So I&apos;ll either be outside or inside at the ONTD_Creepy FFA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Drawing &quot;Rapunzel Dormir&apos;s Rainy Day Karaoke and Drinks Fortress&quot; is a good idea, but like most of them it&apos;ll pass. Man I should really... I should call her...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=harp&amp;ditemid=23574&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 16:57:37 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Oh, I Shuldn&apos;t</title>
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  <description>I really shouldn&apos;t go looking at &lt;a href=&quot;http://cloveflowers.tumblr.com/post/8411520316/about-the-spelling-ableism-that-is-ridiculous-thats&quot;&gt;things like this&lt;/a&gt; on Tumblr, but... but it&apos;s just so fu-hu-hunny that I can&apos;t resist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the linkpobic, a rundown-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anon says: &lt;i&gt;&quot;About the spelling ableism. That is ridiculous, that&apos;s like saying people who are able to walk and do so are discriminating against people who can&apos;t.&quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blog owner replies: &lt;i&gt;&quot;um, I didn’t say that spelling “correctly” is an act of discrimination, the idea that there is a “correct” way to spell something is oppressive.  I love the ridiculous nonsensical analogies that privilege-denying assholes always give me— it doesn’t work to take a thought and apply it to something across the board.  Anyway, read this zine before you ask any more questions please, I’m not willing to have a conversation about this if you don’t make any attempt to educate yrself: &lt;a href=&quot;http://zinelibrary.info/fuck-you-im-dyslexic&quot;&gt;http://zinelibrary.info/fuck-you-im-dyslexic&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... Did you miss it? One more time!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&quot;um, &lt;b&gt;I didn’t say that spelling “correctly” is an act of discrimination, the idea that there is a “correct” way to spell something is oppressive&lt;/b&gt;.  I love the ridiculous nonsensical analogies that privilege-denying assholes always give me— it doesn’t work to take a thought and apply it to something across the board.  Anyway, read this zine before you ask any more questions please, I’m not willing to have a conversation about this if you don’t make any attempt to educate yrself: &lt;a href=&quot;http://zinelibrary.info/fuck-you-im-dyslexic&quot;&gt;http://zinelibrary.info/fuck-you-im-dyslexic&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So tempted to click on the &quot;ableism&quot; tag... must... resist...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=harp&amp;ditemid=23383&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 14:50:51 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Ex-Treeeeeeme Acceptance! Love So Strong, it Turned into Hate</title>
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  <description>There are an awful lot of Radical PCers on livejournal. I&apos;m not talking about reasonable feminists, homosexuals, and transpeople. Not at all. I&apos;m talking about Radical!Queers, Radical!Wyminn, Radical!Not-Racists. People who are so not-racist, sexist, or homophobic that they loop around and turn a hateful eye on all non women, non ethnic people, and non-queers. I call them BAW-ers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Comforting to know that as an FTM, a person has two options with BAWers :&lt;br /&gt;1- Be read as a guy and get lumped in with every single male ever and get blamed for everything&lt;br /&gt;2- Come out as trans so they back the Hell off of us, but get seen as not really a guy but a &quot;poor thing, let&apos;s humor him&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shoot, I don&apos;t want to constantly have to talk about &quot;blah blah I&apos;m trans&quot; because I don&apos;t wanna be that guy, but they sure don&apos;t give us many options. And a few of &apos;em are too proud to even take it back after a person comes out and says &quot;excuse me, Capslock Harry,I just happen to be one of the people you&apos;re supposedly fighting for.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They really don&apos;t like us unless we&apos;re pots of misery whining and crying about how miserable our lives are because of who we are and how we can&apos;t do anything about it. We&apos;re totally &lt;i&gt;helpless&lt;/i&gt;. New theory:  BAWers just have a huge surpressed humiliation/discipline/punishment/sadism kink for women and queers and are fapping to the thought of us being oppressed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They&apos;re twice as destructive as the fiercest Limbaugh Stan. Limbaugh stans will vote to take away our rights. BAWers:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Are &quot;Screw rehab, nail all offenders to the wall&quot; (&quot;It&apos;s not my job to educate you!&quot;) They are anti-intellectual. What do they hope to accomplish by yelling and raging and accusing people of being (blank)ists?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Will accuse their own peers of high treason and sleeping with the enemy if said peers have different opinions (The mod of Trans_Rage and the old mods of queer_rage come to mind)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Make those of us who are in the minority feel as though everyone hates us. They&apos;re like a cult- &quot;All of them hate you. Look, see what he just said? It means he hates you. I&apos;m your only friend. I&apos;m the only one who accepts what a freak you are.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Make others spend energy doing damage control for their stupidity. I often imagine that we&apos;re all on a wooden boat, and they&apos;re running around boring holes into the hull and we&apos;re running after them trying to patch the holes with duct tape.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Make us second-guess ourselves when we&apos;re offended. &quot;I feel hurt, but what if I&apos;m just being a whiny crybaby like them. I don&apos;t want people to think I&apos;m them.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Give the real bad guys cannon fodder when we try to talk about a real problem (&quot;Oh, they cry about everything. Whatever, I&apos;m sick of it.&quot;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Turn would-be allies&apos; rationality into contrition and spite. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*Drive would-be allies away with their constant accusation and broad hate speech. There&apos;s a difference between an insult and a slur (Advance Protip: If you&apos;re at war with Japan, but you have Japanese friends, the following sentence will not go over well- &quot;Oh, God, another incident. I bet they&apos;re letting the fucking nip who did this walk.&quot; &lt;br /&gt;Intermediate Protip: No, not even if you add &quot;I wasn&apos;t talking about &lt;i&gt;you&lt;/i&gt;. You&apos;re not a nip. The nips are the &lt;i&gt;bad&lt;/i&gt; ones.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;Beginner&apos;s Protip: You know how we don&apos;t like it when people use &quot;gay&quot; as an insult...?&lt;br /&gt;Basic! Protip: &quot;Neckbeard&quot; is as much of a sex-based slur as &quot;bitch&quot;, Professor)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;d be a hypocrite if I didn&apos;t end by saying this: Jessica Valenti is the most lovely and wonderful thing ever. She has a book out called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Other-Double-Standards-Every-Should/dp/1580052452&quot;&gt;He&apos;s a Stud, She&apos;s a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know&lt;/a&gt;. The book looks, at title glance, like a list of fifty depressing facts, but it isn&apos;t. She doesn&apos;t just talk about how bad women have it. She talks about how this stuff hurts everybody, including heterosexual cismales. She even gives several huge props to heterosexual cismales who are clearly part of the solution. And does Ms. Valenti stop at just listing the bad things? Hell no! At the end of every section is a page titled &quot;What you can do about it&quot; where she offers advice on how a person can undo the sort of hurtful thinking. She&apos;s constructive, helpful, and dedicated to the cause. And unlike those BAWers, she does it &lt;i&gt;without&lt;/i&gt; resorting to using hate speech.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No art this time. U Mad?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=harp&amp;ditemid=22804&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 20:31:57 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>From Gaia</title>
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  <description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://harpsiccord.webs.com/photos/Gaia-Online/EasterArt.png&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Easter art gift for the Gaia user FragileCompassion. I&apos;ll have to put this on my LJ, too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&apos;s come to my attention that I&apos;m a hub for certain social groups. No wonder I&apos;m so antsy about communication. No wonder I&apos;m best at 3-person dialog. I was wondering what my &lt;i&gt;big project&lt;/i&gt; regarding it would be... relatively speaking big. Big in comparison to making little 1x1 connections. And then, talking to my friend Cricket, I had it. A friending meme! Right on my LJ!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This one&apos;ll be for RPers first, but hopefully I&apos;ll make one for Bois, too. That&apos;ll be harder &apos;cause I&apos;ll have to F-lock it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*Potential Questions*&lt;br /&gt;-RP Medium- (Journal, IM, E-mail)&lt;br /&gt;-Three to Five Genres you&apos;re really into- (If applicable...)&lt;br /&gt;-Number of current games- (Meaning games in which you have posted in the last 2 1/2 months&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fun!Questions:&lt;br /&gt;-Introduce us to one of your characters (either from a past game, current game, or any game-&lt;br /&gt;-Which two characters (that you&apos;ve played) would you like on your team for the outbreak of the zombie virus?- (standard Z-question)&lt;br /&gt;-Wanna give us an RP Confession?-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I feel like I&apos;m missing some questions...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=harp&amp;ditemid=22569&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2010 17:59:10 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Pre-post post Red Riding Lycan</title>
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  <description>I was so excited about this that I wanted to post it here first. It&apos;ll be a few days before I can post it on my own LJ. JettaKD challenged me to draw Red Riding Hood as a werewolf. At first, I was going to make her half-transformed and all snarly, but then I used a reference (No, I did not trace) and this came out. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wanted to put it up so Oz could see X3 &lt;small&gt;&apos;Cause I&apos;m a three year old and want my big brother&apos;s approval, that&apos;s why stfu&lt;/small&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://harpsiccord.webs.com/photos/IndiVidual/LRRwolf.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hosting my own pictures from now on. &lt;i&gt;Like a boss&lt;/i&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;(P.S. if anyone feels like taking this and fixing/doctoring/coloring it, do it, do it, do it)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=harp&amp;ditemid=22380&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 07:12:27 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>More friends on this... that&apos;s what I need to make! I have... what, eight? I want this place to take off, damn it! Here are my updates!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Just finished the audio book &lt;i&gt;Paul is Undead&lt;/i&gt; and really enjoyed it. Now I&apos;m audio-reading &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_%28novel%29&quot;&gt;Room&lt;/a&gt; by Emma Donoghue. It&apos;s... upsetting me. Lots. Especially while I&apos;m not reading it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*Yesterday was &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Blount,_Jr.&quot;&gt;Roy Blount Jr&apos;s&lt;/a&gt; birthday! My absolute favorite panelist on &lt;i&gt;Wait Wait... Don&apos;t Tell Me!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*Finally, someone stopped saying &quot;Twilight has poor grammar&quot; and made a blog highlighting every fail. &lt;a href=&quot;http://reasoningwithvampires.tumblr.com/&quot;&gt;Reasoning with&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strike&gt;Vampires&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;small&gt;They&apos;renotf**kingvampires&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*Have train ticket to Chicago. Arriving October 27th at 8:45 AM!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*Looking into the band The Bird and The Bee. Their song &lt;i&gt;Love Letter to Japan&lt;/i&gt; was good and now this one, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.4shared.com/audio/8b85hlRW/05_Ray_Gun.htm&quot;&gt;Ray Gun&lt;/a&gt; is getting to me. &apos;Course, that could just be because it&apos;s reminding me of that goddamned audio book... man, that thing is really upsetting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here, have some art from Gears&amp;Prisms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://harpsiccord.webs.com/photos/IndiVidual/Desdamona%20Cleaner-1.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Desdemona Crastomancy and Conor Lively&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My livejournal is going to be Friends Only for a few entries while I detox myself from some extreme annoyance involving a Roaring Thundertwat from a (mostly dead) Potter community and an a teeth-grindingly unintentionally irritating friend. I used to wonder what &quot;wishy-washy&quot; meant, wonder why it was bad, wonder why people got upset with a lack of self confidence and a constant apologetic nature. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then I met her and boy did I find out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=harp&amp;ditemid=22168&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 01:06:49 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Puh-Puh-Puh Poker Flakes</title>
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  <description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/234/8/8/Lady_Gaga_Cereal__Poker_Flakes_by_Harpsiccord.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like it? &lt;a href=&quot;http://harpsiccord.deviantart.com/#/d2wz9fx&quot;&gt;Please view and comment!&lt;/a&gt; I&apos;m starvin&apos; for some comments and views.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There&apos;s a clever line somewhere in the lyrics about &quot;muffins&quot;. I just haven&apos;t discovered it yet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=harp&amp;ditemid=21945&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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