alicelynn0211

All I can think of is how terrified I would be if I was having our baby and my partner wasn't there. A lot of women really need their support, their solidarity. To struggle alone with an experience that can easily kill you if it goes pear shaped would be horrible. And for what? To… Read More

*servicemen and women, sorry

I think they meant that servicemen miss their children's births all the time, so a basketball player is expecting special treatment by sitting out a game. But the idea is definitely crap, for all the reasons you guys brought up.

Thank you. I don't write it anymore because I focus on my other writing, but I was an awkward uber-nerd with such high-spirited joy about my fic and I made the mistake of sharing some of it in my high school freshman creative writing class. I got pretty well raked over the coals,… Read More

Two things, as a lover/former writer of fanfiction: 1. Making an elaborate AU that has very little in common with the source material is close to original work, and many of them have easy ways to revise and make them completely your own stuff. But it's really weird to force that… Read More

My sinuses hurt just looking at it.

If you look at TV shows and movies, there are a lot of jokes the creators wrote to intentionally dance along the border between "Black Comedy Ville" and "Dude That's Fucked Up and Not Funny Estates." Most of them stay just tiny moments of shock and distaste, but when someone turns… Read More

I tried twice to read "I Know This Much Is True" by Wally Lamb. It's about a man dealing with the stress and trauma of being made responsible at a young age for his schizophrenic identical twin. I have schizoaffective disorder (mix of mood disorder and schizophrenia) and it hit too… Read More

I'm fascinated by the human body and how it all comes together due to unseen parts all moving. I had to get pictures of my retinae a few days ago because I got diagnosed with diabetes. It was amazing to see the insides of my eyeballs. (The numbing drops before they dilated my eyes… Read More

I think he was referring to the way a person is made the butt of jokes about their singleness, and especially the jokes that insinuate the person is damaged or defective.