Crack courtesy of redkiteslongnights on Tumblr.

I have been called a "passive-agressive-Pagan-Lunatic-Faery"!

THIS IS THE BEST THING I HAVE BEEN CALLED ON THE INTERNET EVER. Thank you, wackadoo "Christian" lady! You've made my night. :D

Don't agree with 99.99% of what the man says, but I will be forever grateful to him for introducing me to the absolutely scrumptious phrase bloviating ignoramus. Context:

The cost of appearing with this bloviating ignoramus is obvious, it seems to me. Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your I.Q. can be very low and you can still intrude into American politics.

Bloooooooooooviating ignoramus.

Delicious.

The Bible does say that if a person votes for a democrat (the promoters and supporters of sin) and were to die without repenting of that, he or she is going to hell.

I think this is an important message for blacks and hispanics who think they are Christians and who don’t want to offend God but who vote lock step for democrats.

I lol'd. Consult the Book of Armaments.

AvengerCats Assemble!

HAPPY TOWEL DAY!



DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR TOWEL IS?

The people representing the Netherlands decided that this was a good idea.



*headdesk*

Yeah, no.

Use your brains, people. ffs.

There's a BEAR wandering around the campus of a school about half a mile from ours. This has happened before, but it never ceases to amaze me that bears are making a comeback in suburban New Jersey.

*back to furtive at-work writing*

In all the weirdness of the past week, I forgot: May 9 was my fifteenth anniversary of participating in organized fandom. Yup, old fangirl is old. Does this qualify me as a geezer, old-schoolers? *g* It's been an amazing and overwhelmingly positive experience, despite the occasional bump in the road. Thank you to everyone who has helped me along. You've each and every one of you enriched my life tremendously, and I can't imagine being without you. *hugs the multitudes*

On a less euphoric note: ( cut for kitty update )

And now to make my traditional Mother's Day phone call, and then write. A peaceful Sunday would be welcome. :)

I'd like pro authors to shut up about fan fiction and mind their own damn business. Thank you, Diane Duane, for being the latest pro author to shower the great unwashed community of fanfic writers with your insufferable condescension. ( cut for ranting )



*sigh* Okay, I'm done.

I swear I'm going to stop watching/reading the news. It just drives me to despair. Silliness and cheap wine tonight. Behold:

If I had read this unspeakable garbage online, I would assume it was a troll. But, no. It's legit. I give you Ms. Jane Skrovota, testifying at a hearing in Lincoln, Nebraska about a proposed law to protect the LGBT community from discrimination in housing, employment, and public accommodations. Warning for the most ignorant, vile, offensive pile of stupid I have ever encountered in one place.



How do people come to believe these things? What sort of mind would invent them? WHY would they invent them? I despair for humanity.

Okay, totally did not see this coming until after the election. President Obama has stopped "evolving" and has stated his support for marriage equality.

*blinks*

*blinks*

Well, this ought to send the evangelical screechies around the tree. Strap in, it's going to get real interesting up in here. Don't get me wrong, this is wonderful, I'm just...having one of those "damn ur old the president is not only black but is also supporting gay rights was that supposed to happen in my lifetime" moments.

Today is the day that North Carolina votes on an amendment (Amendment One) to their state constitution to define marriage as a union of a man and a woman only. The Reverend Dr. William J. Barber had this to say at a press conference on Sunday, May 6.



Yes. God, yes. Ask the right questions.

Courtesy of Quarians over on Tumblr.



*pours wine*

Live feed of kittens.

They're nursing right now.

*ded of cute*

Bruce Springsteen's tribute last night to Levon Helm.

Feeling old tonight.

From a piece in today's Telegraph (MINOR SPOILERS FOR SERIES 3 OF SHERLOCK):

Season two of the BBC series ended earlier this year with an episode titled The Reichenbach Fall based on the Conan Doyle 1893 book The Final Solution. In that book Conan Doyle killed off his most famous creation after a confrontation with his nemesis Moriarty in the Swiss Alps.

*headdesk*

*headdesk*

*headdesk*

The Final Solution? Jesus. Google it, Telegraph. Making a distinction between genocide and a short story title shouldn't be that difficult.

So evidently Elizabeth Warren made the mistake of mentioning that she has Cherokee ancestors, which is not exactly unheard of when you're from Oklahoma. Cue the racists of all political stripes. This one's my favorite, from Margery Eagan at the Boston Herald:

How long before wise guys in feathered headdresses start dancing around parking lots at your events? Somebody told me yesterday your campaign needs to lie low and “circle the wagons.” Whoops. That same someone quickly realized it was the pioneers who circled the wagons when your Cherokee ancestors were blazing across the prairie on the warpath.

Ms. Eagan appears to be a tad confused about how the Cherokee people wound up in Oklahoma in the first place. No "blazing across the prairie" was involved. Sorry. But extra douche points for the phrases "played the Indian card" and "an aggrieved class of people."

Yeah, those genocide survivors are always whining. Can't they just shut up, disappear and let us pretend that never happened? Can't we just forget they ever existed? Manifest Destiny without the slaughter is so much prettier.

F*ck you, Ms. Eagan.

"Oh, the preciouss, we takes it our handssses and we rubs it and touchess it, gollum....no, Smeagol musst not touch the preciousss, the master said only he can touch the precioussss.... bad masster, he doess not know the precious like we does, no, gollum, and we wants it, we wants it hard in our handses, yesss..."

Some vintage "Smeagol/Gollum slash" from Neil Gaiman.

Don't much care for the "training wheels" remark, but I'll overlook the condescension on this occasion, in honor of the masterfully hysterical if inaccurate example of slash above, and the fact that he's not overtly hostile. Dunno, though, sounds more like Gollum/Frodo slash to me if Frodo's been the only one touching the precious, bb... My beta would have caught that right off the bang. ;)