My boyfriend Fox mentioned his favourite author, Mercedes Lackey, and he talked about her with so much enthusiasm that when I got a $5 off coupon from Google Books, I had to use it on one of her books. She's written something like a hundred books so far so it was pretty impossible to choose (and not...

In France, you can't donate if you've had more than one partner in the past year. This is behavior based, kind of. It doesn't distinguish between the type of partners, or even the number beyond "more than one". So someone who has one-night stands without protection every day is considered ...

Awesome, Jenelmo, and grats, Phi! That sounds pretty exciting, good luck with your art studies

My husband learned the term "cis" recently, and that it was used in online profiles (in this case, OKCupid). He pointed out that he felt it was stupid, and that instead of "cis woman" the person should just say "woman". I commented that it would imply that a trans woman...

About the blood ban, the lifelong ban has been lifted but the one year ban still exists. Here are the relevant guidelines as they stand now (since last year): - Defer for 12 months from the most recent contact a man who has had sex with another man during the past 12 months. - Defer for 12 months fr...

Grats Camel, good luck! Keep us posted

I know what you mean. I can be like that too. When someone is feeling bad, I just want to make them feel better, and while that's not a bad thing in itself, I also know that part of it is wanting to feel good about myself and patting myself on the back for being a good person, and that part isn't so...

I understand the feeling, Arclight. When France was passing same-sex marriage last year, there were a bunch of demonstrations and protests and I was really shocked because I guess I had always thought people in France didn't really care, or at least not in Paris, or at least not in my district. But ...

To become an immigrant for work reasons, you need to be sponsored by a company, yes. And they will only sponsor you if they can prove that they couldn't hire a US citizen and had to look for someone from another country. And once they sponsor you, you can apply for immigration. You can't just go aro...

I thought the villain's plan was really convoluted. Why is he going after the soldiers? We didn't even know they existed, and they're introduced only to be killed while in cryo? What was the point of that? And how did he know Iron Man would show up, that Cap wouldn't have told him about ...

My first thought was of you eating batteries >.>

Anyway, good luck! Changing meds can be a pain but if the new meds help more it's definitely worth it in the end

I'm glad you guys liked it! I thought maybe the link had been missed. I can see how pictures that are directly in the thread would be more obvious, but I didn't want to take over the thread with so many pictures either :P And I couldn't pick just one! That jellyfish shirt is definitely something. I'...

Well, people didn't seem to care much in the picture thread, so since I'm a sucker for attention and want to show off my boyfriends, I'm reposting it here

Here is an album of my boyfriends and I being dorks, and sometimes also acting like normal people.

So, I may have mentioned it before, but Fox wanted pictures of Dragon and me for his office so his mother, who is a professional photographer, took a bunch of pictures of the three of us (as well as some individual pictures but I created an album out of just the group ones). Here is the album (I got...

Fair enough. Too many people seem to think only subs need safewords, but doms need them too. And regardless of the dynamics, you don't have to do anything you're uncomfortable with. Personally, I like detailing my answers because I think the reason behind them is often relevant, but I respect that y...

Yeah. You probably want to add an explanation, such as "I'm happy to try new things to please my partner, but I'm not comfortable with that specific fetish" or something.

I guess that means quite a few women have a rape fantasy and favor partners willing to indulge those fantasies.

My pseudonym is Ix wrote:

AdmiralMemo wrote:So I paid $94.95 to do my taxes...

to get a $113 refund.

..is that a bad thing? That sounds like a not bad thing.

Most of the refund went to paying the people who did the taxes, so I figure that would be frustrating.

Well... I've known people who didn't use gt/bf until 6 months in, but to be honest, to be if we're dating, then you're my bf and I'm your gf. People work at different speeds though. I wouldn't necessarily get too hung up on the specific words if he's not comfortable with them but the rest of the rel...

I like the look!

Happy Birthday!

I went to see my doctor today and got my prescription doubled. I'm hopeful about it.

My OKCupid experience involved sending tons of messages without getting answers, even when I messages people who had liked me. Then I got answers from a really cool guy a couple of years ago, we never dated (or even met) but he was pretty cool so that was still a success in my book (at least friend-...

Some people will blame pretty much anything on being vegetarian/vegan. If your blood tests are fine, you're good. There is no known correlation between eating animals or animal products and having good mental health. Make sure you get your nutrition through whatever foods you decide to eat, be activ...

Avistew: I think the energy returning to do more comes as gradually as it leaves when recovering...depending too on self-care getting enough vitamin D and exercise for the other brain chemistry to keep things moving forward. I sorta been feeling that way this week, not sure if I've had a cold or no...

I'm so sorry that this happened, Besty, it must be really hard :( *hugs* to you. You're a sweet person or you wouldn't care this much. I'm sure it was traumatic and it will take some time to feel better over it, even if it's not something that you will just forget about. I was having some sexual sid...