You're a pussy.
Wow, it just got super hostile up in here. I can feel the rage boiling over, kittens. Did Grace just call me weak? Is she using female genitalia slang as an insult? My mason jar of whoop ass, it beckons! That anger is legit. The use of female genitalia, or the feminine in general, as an insult is both pervasive and shitty.
If only I’d been born three years earlier! Then I’d stand a chance of being a decent feminist. Alas, ‘tis not to be. Since I fall (just) in the 20 to 40 age bracket, I fear I may be one of those women who, according to the Independent’s Yasmin Alibhai Brown, “have squandered the hard-won achievements of the original feminism”.
So, there’s a new meme making the rounds, called I Write Like. Basically it analyzes whatever text you pop into it and spits out an author which is similar to your writing style. Back in “the day”, I used to be an absolute madwoman for such quizzes, (to this day my first ever DeadJournal post was me getting “Kimahri” on a FFX personality quiz I found at the time) so of course I had to give this one a try. And I have to admit, the results were…well, not what I was expecting.
First, I copied in my most recent blog post, and got this:
Certainly not a bad result, though admittedly not one I’m overly familiar with.
Then I paused for a moment. While I do love blogging, the style I use on WordPress is vastly different from the style I use when I’m trying to weave a fictional tale. I was also curious to see if I’d get the same result twice, so I popped over to Google Drive and copied in the first chapter of a random story idea I had last week.
And suddenly:
What’s that? A random quiz website just decided to give me a random and unexpected boost to my confidence? Oh, it’s a MASSIVE boost to my confidence? Well, OK then.
Carry on.
Guest post by Zachary Jernigan
I asked Zack for a post in response to recent kerfuffles, debacles, and all-out flame-wars in the science fiction community. For background, read Chuck Wendig's series (links to third post, where you'll find links to 1 & 2), "Calling for the Expulsion of Theodore Beale" on Amal El-Mohtar's blog, and "The Readercon Thing" at
So far, so good!
Progress is a little slower than I’d like, but it’s been a busy few weeks. Not only have I gotten back into jewelry making, but I’ve been doing a lot of work deep cleaning the house and reorganizing things which have gotten out of hand. Meanwhile, a lot of my free time has been taken up by my SW:TOR endeavors. I’ve joined a new guild, which goes on Operation runs pretty much every night. Since the majority of the guild is on PST time, that means I am usually up a bit late, and occasionally it really screws over my sleep schedule. (Though mostly because of my fucking metabolism again, which demands that I eat every two hours, whether it’s a good hour for such things or not) But I’m learning how to cope.
Helping with this is my recent discovery of ASMR videos on YouTube, (Here are a few of my favorites so far) which I find deeply relaxing. For me, relaxation has always been that thing that other people were capable of doing. I neither needed nor wanted it. Relaxation was just sort of an…abstract concept? Like I always imagined it being someone reclining on a chair or beach towel by a pool somewhere, drink in their hand and umbrella to shade their face. The reality is, relaxation comes in many forms, and is not only enjoyable but a useful tool. I think in the back of my head somewhere, I thought relaxing was shameful. Don’t ask me where I got that idea, because I honestly have no clue. It’s a complete falsehood, though, and I have the high blood pressure to prove it. So take some deep breaths and do whatever it is that makes you feel at ease. Trust me, the benefits are worth it.
Other things which have been keeping me happy of late… Well, there have been some truly hilarious conversations I’ve had on Twitter recently, which I have to say “Thank you” for. I think the discussion conducted entirely in cat puns is my favorite thus far. XD Seriously, though, I have some of the best followers ever and I appreciate you guys very much. Have a sticker.
There’s also a series on YouTube I’ve discovered recently which has had me in absolute stitches: Millbee’s “Date-Through” of Katawa Shoujo, which is a Japanese dating sim revolving around the story of a young man diagnosed with a congenital heart defect who is forced to transfer into a school for disabled children. Millbee, of course, is part of the Mindcrack server, (which is how I found him) and is well known for his delightfully crazy giggling and offbeat sense of humor. While sometimes he’s a bit much for me to handle, I am genuinely fond of him and I think this LP of his has been his best yet. Plus, he’s doing it all with a face-cam, which really helps keeps things entertaining as the game is primarily nothing but text and a few pretty pictures.
And the game itself isn’t nearly as silly or stupid as I thought it would be–it actually has a really interesting undercurrent of coming to terms with disability, and learning to see people with disabilities as actual people instead of just their disability. It is still a Japanese dating sim, though, which of course means lots of archetypes, enormous bosoms, and too-short skirts and/or running shorts. And there will probably be a lot of naked boobs flying about at some point. So if either of those things make you uncomfortable, it’s possible you may want to give the series a pass. But I really can’t recommend it highly enough, because Millbee’s sense of humor is an absolute gem in this series and his reactions to the game are fantastic. (Also, he does unique voices for all of the characters. ’nuff said. XD)
Hmm, that plus a bit of Sims 3 and Minecraft, and you have what my life has been like recently. I’ll go into those last two a bit more in later posts–trust me, I have a bunch of hilarious Sims screenshots ready and waiting to go. 
See you there!
I am seriously the worst blogger EVER.
Consider this post a placeholder for all of the multitude of blog posts I’ve wanted to make over the past month, but have somehow managed to talk myself out of writing. I suppose it’s no great surprise that my perfectionism rears its ugly head the worst whenever writing is called for, but it’s still frustrating. You guys probably have no idea how much I’d give to be one of those casual, happy-go-lucky daily bloggers who are perfectly comfortable talking about what food they ate that morning or what great new outfit they just bought. But noooo, I have to get excited about issues with a lot of layers that require a lot of research…or The Sims… >.>
Seriously, though. I hereby give all of my faithful readers permission to come down on my head like a ton of bricks if you don’t see me blogging more in the next couple of weeks. There’s loads of stuff I want (and need) to catch up on over here, and I intend to do it.
tl;dr INCOMING BLOG POSTS!!!! TAKE COVER!!
When feminists decry the objectification of women, most people immediately think of the images that saturate our magazines, movies, adverts and the Internet, of women in varying stages of undress, dolled up and presented for the male gaze. Yet, while sexual objectification is a huge problem, it is, sadly, only a fraction of the objectification of women that permeates our world, from the moment we enter it.
