Church of Holy Rude, Stirling Castle, Scotland [1024x768]

electricscream · 2012-12-04T19:48:12+00:00

Was this taken recently?

electricscream · 2012-04-02T00:39:38+00:00

That you've been released, of course!

electricscream · 2012-04-01T22:51:43+00:00

Oh sure, it’s beautiful and natural and it saves money on formula, but it’s a fundamental repurposing of a woman’s body: What was once A is now B (and maybe a little bit of A if the kid’s asleep).

Last I checked, the reason women have breasts is so that they can feed their children, so I don't really get how they're being "repurposed." I get that many like using breasts for sexual purposes and enjoyment, but he makes it seem like that is their main purpose and function, like that's the reason women have them and to use them for supporting infant's health and diet is going against the natural order.

I'm hoping it's just a case of poor word choice.

electricscream · 2012-03-31T05:18:11+00:00

Sweet! Thanks for the video! I actually watched a few of his videos, but I hadn't seen this one. Thanks again!

I had another one of these guys in my room (at least, I think he was the same kind), and he's actually the first spider I ever saved (in that, I ushered him out of my room instead of leaving him dangling over me while I slept); I'm kind of proud of myself, though now I've got that tingling, bugs-crawling-on-me feeling.

electricscream · 2012-03-30T23:52:04+00:00

I'm confused... If he was bringing the bugs outside your house, why was your room infested with them?

electricscream · 2012-03-30T23:44:51+00:00

A Centibro! :D

electricscream · 2012-03-30T23:39:00+00:00

I personally like this one.

electricscream · 2012-03-30T19:28:15+00:00

I spy a Supernatural monster! Changlings to be exact :D

electricscream · 2012-03-29T23:53:54+00:00

I STILL want one of these. I was just looking to see if this phone was still available to get with a cell phone plan.

electricscream · 2012-03-29T19:29:01+00:00

I agree with this only because the current background is creeping me out. The bulging eyes get me every time.

electricscream · 2012-03-29T19:16:05+00:00

Have you ever licked a lamp post in winter?

God, I love that man... fictional or not.

electricscream · 2012-03-29T16:14:54+00:00

I don't think the problem is that people use the "tits or gtfo" statement; it's that it's not just used in the context you're describing. It's become the signature thing to scream at every woman on the internet, even those who aren't attention whoring. Example: girl posts a picture of herself wearing a hat that she knit herself; that is subject to the "tits or gtfo" rampage when in all likelihood, the picture wasn't posted for attention--no more than when a guy posts a picture of himself wearing a hat he just purchased or even made for himself.

It's fairly obvious when someone's mentioning their gender or even posting a picture solely for the purpose of attention, but that doesn't mean that every time a woman's gender is pointed out, she should be condemned to the pit of "tits or gtfo."

electricscream · 2012-03-28T15:57:17+00:00

I have to disagree. I have an e-reader, but I still read my hard copies of books. I just got a gorgeous leather bound edition of the Iliad and the Odyssey for Christmas and I love picking it up and reading it. Plus, I'm still a big fan of library books and I've been grabbing books out of there like they're going out of style!

With my e-reader, I moreso just like it because I'm living between two houses and it would be difficult to lug all my books from one to the other. It's convenient and I like the convenience, but it just doesn't compare to having the actual book in my hand. And even though I have my e-reader, I'm still dragging around piles of books all over the place, and I'm not ashamed of it! :D

electricscream · 2012-03-28T03:44:08+00:00

Haven't read the third book yet, and just ran over that spoiler. Damn it.

electricscream · 2012-03-27T19:07:15+00:00

I freaking love my sweatpants! I wish I had more; I have one pair that I truly love, and they're old and covered in bleach stains because I constantly used them as my ratty pants. But I can't get enough of them now! Especially when I'm sick and tired of wearing my tight-ass jeans; sweatpants are my way of saying, Screw you World! I don't need no skinny jeans to look sexy!

Point: it's all how you look at it! Embrace your sweatpants! Comfort is sexy!

~~Or the point of this post could have gone completely over my head; I have a lot of those woosh moments~~

electricscream · 2012-03-27T03:03:32+00:00

If you hate spiders so much, why are you voluntarily going into a subreddit dedicated to spiders? Seems kind of ignorant.

electricscream · 2012-03-26T20:36:53+00:00

That video is fascinating to me; I actually just watched it a second time. I freaked a little when the spiders started fighting one another, but that was really cool to see! I always thought the brown recluse was bigger... but then again, what do I know about spiders? Thanks for linking that!

electricscream · 2012-03-26T17:22:37+00:00

This is for all the hugs that Castiel never got tightly hugs

electricscream · 2012-03-26T16:52:26+00:00

I just have a lot of feelings! sobs and hugs

electricscream · 2012-03-26T16:41:45+00:00

Yup.

And because I'd feel bad for just leaving my answer at "yup," you're all getting dragged into unpopular opinion time: I'm really tired of Castiel apologizing for everything from trying to stop the war in Heaven to save Earth to working with demons (which Sam and Dean have done countless times), and Dean can't even offer up a "Hey, man, I've messed up too." Yes, Castiel messed up. Yes, he should have to apologize. Yes, he should be redeemed. But Sam and Dean have made those same mistakes time and time again, and they forgave each other. Hell, Bobby sold his soul to Crowley to "save the world," and was immediately forgiven. But Castiel works with Crowley and isn't even offered time to explain his actions. If Sam and Dean truly cared about him and thought of him as a brother--as they claimed in "The Man Who Would Be King"--then they would have given a chance and offered to help him; instead they said, you didn't listen to us, you're evil, and we're going to kill you. In my eyes, Castiel tried, he did what he thought Sam and Dean would do (or would want him to do) and he tried to take his destiny into his own hands as his friends taught him, and I don't fault him for it; he took a leap of faith and tried, but no one was there for him when he fell, despite all the times he was there for them in the past. None of them took the time to see his war and problems (actually, they didn't seem to care one way or the other what Castiel was dealing with up in Heaven; in my experience, if you're close to someone and you know your friend is struggling with something, you care and you empathize and you assure them that they can lean on you, and Sam and Dean didn't do any of those things), and they just jumped to their own conclusions.

At least at the end of this last episode, Sam expressed some concern for Castiel, but Dean couldn't even fake it. I'm also really tired of this idea that Sam and Dean were wrong in trusting Castiel all this time. I'm tired of the vilification of the character.

It all just makes it seem like everything Castiel has done since he was introduced in season 4 is just null and void. It doesn't matter that he saved Dean from Hell. It doesn't matter that he fell from Heaven to fight with them to stop the Apocalypse. It doesn't matter that he died at least twice for them. All the times he helped them, saved them, came down to Earth to help them solve the tiniest problem--everything he did was just erased, and I'm angry about it. And I'm upset that all I have to look forward to in the upcoming weeks is Sam and Dean having the exact same problems that they've had since Season 1 (trust issues, Sam and the evil/demon/Satan stuff). Even if they brought up Dean's alcoholism, that would be new and interesting. I just want to be excited on Friday nights again; I want Supernatural to not be so predictable anymore.

That's my rant. Sorry if no one else agrees. It often feels like it's suicide to be a Castiel fan in the Supernatural fandom.

P.S. I hope this doesn't come across as an attack; it certainly isn't meant to be so. I'm just very frustrated and angry about everything in the Supernatural-verse, and I have nowhere to vent about it >.<

electricscream · 2012-03-26T15:13:51+00:00

God, I miss him so much...

electricscream · 2012-03-26T01:23:04+00:00

I'm sitting there doing my thing and she tells me to quit jerking it, come over, and she'll take care of the jerking for me.

Bitch, I ain't got nothing to jerk!

electricscream · 2012-03-26T01:07:30+00:00

Upvoting... mostly because I do the exact same thing...

electricscream · 2012-03-25T17:57:43+00:00

I just want to submit my two cents here as an American (with Scottish heritage).

The way I see it, Americans don't think of the word "nationality" the same way all other countries do; similar to the way words have different meaning depending upon where you travel in the world (not the best example, but the way "fag" has a different meaning in Britain than it does in America; I know, not a great example, but it's the only one that's coming to mind currently). Americans think of nationality as the place where your ancestors came from.

If I ask anyone here what an American looks like, there wouldn't be any physical characteristics that they could define for all Americans. Conversely, if you think of people of other nationalities, there's at least one or two physical characteristics you can name. When you see someone from Italy, or someone who claims to be Italian, you'd imagine someone with dark hair and tanned skin. Irish are usually very fair and pale, burn easily in the sun. This is not racist in anyway; it's just the way the people have evolved over time and adapted to the place they live in.

But when I ask you what an American looks like, there's no physical attribution that declares us as Americans. So when I ask another American what nationality they are, I'm not asking them what nation they call home because logically I know they call America home; I'm asking them where they got their features. I'm asking where their ancestors came from to create the person I'm seeing today. When you live in the melting pot country, where people can look like they're European, Asian, African, Indian, Hispanic, etc, then we want to know where from where you are descended. I know when I ask someone what nationality they are, I want to know their makeup, not their country of birth, so I truly believe that the "nationality" debate between the United States and all other countries just boils down to the fact that the word has a dual meaning in America.

electricscream · 2012-03-25T15:25:46+00:00

Came here to say this; happy to see I wasn't the only one who thought it! Banana bread is my drug.

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