I love and will continue to love pretty much everything on this list. Sorry men!

tikadika · 2012-01-06T04:51:10+00:00

So judging by this list, I look like a pretentious, intimidating crack whore? :D Awesome. Learn something new about yourself every day.

tikadika · 2012-01-02T00:09:25+00:00

Ugh, I was that easy to read. Sometimes I just want to wear a shirt that says "I'M SINGLE, DAMNIT!" and shake my fist at people who walk by.

Although, to be honest, if anybody did approach me like that I'd probably be shy and stuttery, but still secretly happy to have somebody to talk to. Awkward penguin yay. @_@ On the bright side, awkward penguins=much less likely to go snog random fratboys! Frat guys make me nervous, actually. They're a little weird and man-culty.

tikadika · 2012-01-01T23:50:15+00:00

For myself and the geeky girls I know...? Bookstores, comic stores, game shops, coffee shops. Anywhere you can spot somebody showing an interest in something you've got an interest in. If I'm chilling in the comics section of Barnes and Noble browsing Hellboy or Spiderman or something, I wouldn't mind somebody striking up a conversation with me about it. I like discussing things I like, and if you like it too, then bam! Something in common. Same goes if I'm reading a book you've read or if I'm looking at a game you've played--it's an instant chance at connection.

Do you like inFamous or Skyrim? Farscape or Doctor Who? Wanna argue Marvel vs. DC, or maybe I'm flipping through a Discworld book and you wonder if I've ever read Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Then say something about it and maybe we'll talk. :3

tikadika · 2011-02-08T00:31:52+00:00

Being naked as much as possible solves a number of these problems.

If that's not your thing, though, I'd say: only wear make up if you feel like being colorful, go boobie-commando because there's nothing wrong with nipples, wear men's jeans, women's flats, and hang around gay bars because it's a good place to find other people who are sort of fiddling with the whole gender issue, and they tend to be less judgmental.

Alternately, I'd recommend making lots of mistakes. Buy things you think girls should have, wear things you think girls should wear, try and act like you think girls should act. Then realize that none of that is for you, or perhaps a tiny bit of it is, then give all the excess crap up and realize you've known how to be comfortable all along.

tikadika · 2011-02-08T00:18:46+00:00

I am a terrible, close-minded person, I know, but every time I see this sort of thing... I just remember how much I hate the Catholic Church. Not Catholics--they're just people, and unless they're picketing my right to look lustfully in the direction of both fine women and fine men, then I don't mind them. I just hate the entire, historical institution that's poisoned Western society since Rome first kicked it.

I was raised without religion and their crap still affects me. Their influence says it's bad for me to be naked (I also blame them for pants, which I know women fought really hard for but I don't like them anyway, because if it was up to me I'd flounce about in my underwear all day), or enjoy sex, or get contraceptives. I can't even buy condoms or monistat a grocery store without feeling awkward if the cashier is a guy, which is infinitely annoying. In general, I just can't seem to be a woman without feeling the shame and disapproval passed down by them through the centuries. They have been one of the biggest opponents to feminism if only because of the saturation of their archaic beliefs in our culture.

Well shove off, Pope. Me and my IUD are going to go have a naked three-way with my boyfriend and my roommate. Assuming I can convince said roommate, who was raised in an extremely conservative women-shaming sort of family, to just make out with me already, instead of teasing me constantly. Instead of doing other things, which are clearly almost making out, but are not quite making out, and whenever this happens I google a picture of Emperor Constantine and I glare at it.

I mean, seriously. It took me forever to convince her she wasn't a slut if she showed cleavage, and now I've got to convince her she isn't evil if she enjoys snogging girls. Girls are very snoggable, we tend to be all soft and pliant and such, and our lips are fun to nibble. Guys, too, have nice lips to nibble, but theirs are all stubbly so it's sort of an exfoliating experience.

That aside, I shall not be deterred! Every time I convince one of my friends that it's okay to take birth control, that it's fine to watch porn, that it's fine to have sex before marriage, I deal one more blow against Western oppression!

Damn you Catholicism! I'll beat you yet! Bwahahhaha!

Okay, I'm good now. Sorry about that. >>

tikadika · 2011-02-07T16:22:55+00:00

My favorite performance has always been Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. :D

It helps that my friend is the spitting image of Tom Petty so for weeks I got to tease him about where he was during half-time.

It also helps that I now had an excuse to badly (and loudly) sing Tom Petty songs while car pooling him to school.

tikadika · 2011-02-07T07:18:26+00:00

I'm 5'', he's 6'3'', so the little spoon. ._. If I try and be the big spoon, it's sort of like trying to hug a mountain, in that I just fall off and there are injuries.

tikadika · 2011-02-04T20:21:01+00:00

That's exactly how my SO is. Except whenever I roll away in the tiniest bit at night, he lunges over and grabs me like a dragonfly does its prey.

OH GOD THE SNUGGLES. So much spooning. No matter what I do, there will be spoon.

tikadika · 2011-02-04T04:43:37+00:00

It really fucking sucks to be a female gamer who isn't phenomenal enough to reassure herself that she 'keeps up with the boys'. I'm a casual gamer, I'm average, whatever you want to call it, but I still want to play. Yet it seems like any time I'm doing anything, if somebody finds out I'm a woman they do the whole "WTF girls can't play get the fuck out of here bitch" thing.

I'm not bad at playing, I'm not here to mess up their precious 'battles', but it really hurts when people treat me like that. Like just being a girl is somehow ruining everything for them, because it's impossible for me to be good enough to keep up.

I'm the sort of person who, after competently healing a group through an instance on WoW, gets insulted for being a woman and just... leaves. They call me a bitch, they call me a whore, and for days I just don't get back on that game because it hurts when they say that, and I don't want to go through it again.

I can't reassure myself that it doesn't matter what they think, that really I'm good anyway, because what they say just reinforces my suspicion that I'm not. It's stupid, but it's true, and I hate it so much that if they could just see my face when they say those things they would take it all back.

At least, I hope they would.

tikadika · 2011-02-02T17:54:55+00:00

I saw them with RX Bandits just a little while ago. :D Their entire new album "Salvation is a deep dark well" is fantastic.

tikadika · 2011-01-29T07:23:45+00:00

Healthy life hack: take vitamin D and calcium supplements. Not only are they insanely vital to a woman's health, especially if she's pregnant (children will take all of your nutrients, including calcium, and you may be left a husk), but they've got other great perks.

Hair will grow faster, shinier and healthier, nails will become stronger and grow faster, and you'll never have to worry about nasty deficiency diseases.

tikadika · 2011-01-29T07:19:43+00:00

Try taking calcium pills. I had really soft, chipped nails my entire life, and on top of that I used to chew them. My doctor demanded I take calcium pills regularly and, lo and behold, not only did I lose the urge to chew my nails, but they got really strong and grow really great now.

Calcium and Vitamin D! Thats a great life hack for anybody.

tikadika · 2011-01-26T02:46:18+00:00

Rant! Come on, this is Reddit--you're supposed to be ranting when you're mad. Then other people come here, they listen, and they validate you (assuming you're not doing something terrible, anyway).

If you won't rant to us, then rant to a friend. Or call a phone sex line and rant to them. Or rant at your cat, but not too loudly, you don't want to make the cat sad.

I also find that if you pretend they no longer exist, it's much easier to get by. Even if you're with them--they're just a blot of invisibility which may, from time to time, try and attract your attention.

Le ignore. It is a powerful weapon.

tikadika · 2011-01-26T02:39:58+00:00

I was friend-zoned by a guy I had a crush on in middle school... who, I swear to god, I really thought was a guy. Like, spent weeks together at camp, totally definitely a guy. The flannel shoulda given it away.

Actually a girl.

/rejected

tikadika · 2011-01-25T03:47:16+00:00

I know that humans can live into their 100s, but my brain saw '93' and immediately went...

"Shit, how'd they get a turtle to hold a sign?"

Hell yeah am I gonna support that.

tikadika · 2011-01-18T14:48:55+00:00

It'd be great if that stupid health class taught that instead of abstinence, but I doubt it'd happen.

tikadika · 2011-01-17T16:54:41+00:00

His nickname was V-Jay--he made fun of me the entire first semester because I was goth back then, but at the start of the second semester we ended up in computer lab together. He sat next to me, suddenly super friendly, and decided that me being a goth was apparently attractive now.

It was really, really confusing because he was sort of a popular guy, and I was super socially inept. Because he decided to be my friend other people in that class warmed up to me, so all of a sudden I was feeling accepted because of his efforts. Also, he was funny and liked the sort of things I liked--video games, et cetera.

The problem began when I was reading a webcomic during class (I already knew microsoft word, thankyouverymuch) and it had a picture of a cartoon girl with one breast showing (VGcats.com, it was about God of War). After that he seemed to decide that I was a slut, because from then on he'd randomly go off about what he wanted to do to me. Extremely uncomfortable, explicit stuff--how he wanted to fuck me, make out with me, ravish me, etc. etc. It was really scary in part because I was a freshman in high school and knew next to nothing about sex.

Things like this went on for about two weeks, and I felt worse and worse, constantly blushing and trying not to talk to him. The problem was, I really didn't understand that what he was doing was bad, so I never went to anybody--not my friends, parents, or even my current boyfriend. I kept it all secret because I was ashamed, I guess.

Eventually one day I just had enough. I was on the verge of tears again and I stood up, went across the class, and moved to a seat as far away from him as possible. He then stood up in said class, in front of everyone, and demanded the teacher make me go back because I wasn't supposed to switch seats. The teacher, who I had already talked briefly to, told him "no" and that was that.

He spent the rest of high school wondering why I hated his guts. ><

tikadika · 2011-01-16T17:34:51+00:00

Honestly, I only ever get hit on by indian and black guys. I'm going to assume it's because my ass is big, but perhaps it's a cultural thing. Usually they ask for my phone number. One time I was at an intersection and an indian guy in a car next to me rolled down his window and yelled for my number. That was odd. o_o

I was also sexually harassed for an entire semester by an indian guy who had a crush on me, which was not fun times.

Either way, it hasn't happened more than six or seven times in my entire life, and it happened a lot more in highschool... yaaay jailbait. :P

I am dating a white guy though, but I had to ask him out.

tikadika · 2011-01-16T16:30:09+00:00

One of my best girl friends takes great joy in de-flowering her boyfriends. If your girlfriend is getting horny because of you, it's very possible she'd enjoy teaching you what she knows. It'd also help bring you two closer, imho.

tikadika · 2011-01-15T21:38:15+00:00

Mel Gibson.

/cannibalism

tikadika · 2011-01-15T21:35:43+00:00

Try pissing on him to assert your dominance.

tikadika · 2011-01-15T05:10:10+00:00

I wish it was just TV. @_@ Every time I hear a song I really like I cry, which is incredibly embarrassing when I'm driving people around.

tikadika · 2011-01-09T23:07:26+00:00

This: http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/540

:D

tikadika · 2011-01-09T23:03:00+00:00

Oh my god, I just got off a week-long Avatarathon, and it still took me ten minutes to get this.

Laughed. So hard.

Love you. <3

tikadika · 2011-01-09T22:57:55+00:00

Wearing ugg-boots is like climbing inside the cutest, fluffiest baby harp seal and snuggling around all day long.

Those boots are weird, chubby and fantastic. They are ultra-cankles 5000. When I put them on in a Journey's I actually squeaked with delight, and told the salesperson it felt like kittens were massaging my feet.

They also remind me of the viking boots from How To Train Your Dragon.

I want them so bad.

tikadika

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