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[November 07 2009] |
Set: Elyse Levesque : 65
Details: female : white : brown : blue : 20s
Link: LINK
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[November 07 2009] |
Set: Greg Robbins : 100
Details: male : white : grey : brown : 40s, 50s
Character Suggestions: HP: Crabbe Snr, HP: Amycus Carrow
Link: LINK (the post is friendslocked, joining the community is open!)
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| kawaii not: unspooled |
[November 06 2009] |
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http://www.kawaiinot.com/?p=299
november 6 2009:
New strip -- Sometimes you have to unspool a little... it helps you get all untangled from yourself.
I'm having a painting sale over at my Etsy shop! I've knocked $10 off the price of the large ones, plus you get free shipping with them as well. Pretty sweet, right?
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Sponsor Link:
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| Pumpkin Soup! |
[November 06 2009] |
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Not sure when this turned into a food blog, but that seems to be what I’m working on lately. And since the fabulous Juliana is requesting pumpkin recipes (and since I didn’t get around to making my chili today after all), that’s what you’ll get…
A friend passed this along to me a few years ago, so I’m not sure of the source. I also tend not to measure much, and I can say that the only time I’ve ever screwed this one up is when I added too much pumpkin and didn’t balance it out with extra spices. So really, everything is approximate and spice to taste. Also, I’m writing this from memory so forgive the lack of exact step-by-step directions.
Pumpkin Soup
4+ cups broth
1 cup chopped celery
1 cup chopped onion
1 15oz can pumpkin
1 tsp sage
1 tsp thyme
1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
1 chopped cooked potato (optional, to thicken)
Directions
1. Saute onion and celery for about 5 minutes in a bit of olive oil.
2. Add half the broth and spices (and potato, if you want). Simmer for 10 minutes.
3. Take off heat and puree in blender or food processor.
4. Return to heat, add the rest of the broth and stir in pumpkin.
5. Simmer for another 10-15 minutes.
I usually end up adding extra vegetables and with about 6 cups of broth by the end. It’s pretty hard to screw this one up, as long as you don’t burn the onions.
Mirrored from December Project. Comments are preferred there.
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| November 7, 2009 - Word Count |
[November 07 2009] |
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Nothing witty today. Am trying to catch up between studying for Bio Test.
Jenn
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| Thomas Dekker |
[November 06 2009] |
Set: Thomas Dekker : 77 icons
Details: Male : Brown : Green : late teens, early 20s
Character Suggestions: -
Link: Link
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| Batman, The Joker, Vagrant Story, The Pirates of Dark Water fandom asylums |
[November 07 2009] |
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![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif) octopon - Pirates of DarkWater fandom asylum. Completed!
gotham_gazetteCompleted!</i>
vagrant_story - Vagrant Story fandom asylum. WIP; will be deleted unless more interest is shown.
And,
Please feel free to join commedia; a personal project of mine, aiming to review and analyze comics (and other selected media) that feature DC Comics' The Joker.
It is currently a WIP because I am still going through my 500+ hardcopy!issues collection. I do not download torrents/scans.
I'd like to point out that currently I have two polls up for debate, as can be seen here explaining two routes the asylum's project can take. IE: spoiler free reviews, spoilerific reviews, and whatnot. =) Otherwise, the FAQ and The Rules are already up. The tags/memory post is still a WIP.
I am also open to affiliating with other comic book and/or Batman related asylums, except for RPGs.
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[November 06 2009] |
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Guys, I kind of miss writing Ted. :|
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| Moral of the story: Don't Lie |
[November 06 2009] |
So, for a while, my grandmother (who is in her mid-80s) has been in and out of the hospital. It started when she fell in her kitchen and scrapped herself up pretty good. Since then she has claimed to have fallen in her apartment several times - each time ending up in the hospital.
It turns out that this was a lie. She had not fallen and she was just using the hospital to get attention from her family.
Okay, a little background. My grandmother has always been a little bit, no, scratch that...a lot manipulative. She has always been the first person to lay a guilt trip on somebody. It wouldn't matter how many times you visited with her or went over to see her, it would never be enough. And while you were visiting, you would be treated to all the gossip about everyone else - even people you didn't know. This talking behind other's back has cost her a friend that she had had for 25 years, but that is another story.
This leads to now, with her being in the hospital. While in the hospital she starts not only playing up the "can't walk" thing (yet refuses a wheelchair) but also starts telling falsehoods of neglect to the nursing staff. This leads to the staff calling in a caseworker from the state. She lied and said that her family never checks on her or visits her.
Grandma is assigned the caseworker and the woman calls all grandma's children (one being my mother). She tells my mother, my aunt and my uncle that grandma needs round the clock care and that they have 24 hours to figure out what to do with her.
Well, my aunt lives in a cramped trailer over 2 hours away, my mother is nursing a broken knee and is in the process of moving and my uncle - well, he has frickin' power of attorney over grandma, which is why he checks on her damn near ever day. But Grandma lied about people visiting her, so therefore the state thinks that the family is neglecting an old woman. This despite the fact that my uncle and my cousin, D, check on her on a daily basis and my other cousin, W, drives her around.
So, due to all her lies, she no longer can go back to her apartment. The apartment where she had a lot of freedom to do what she wanted to do and all the independence to do it. Now, the state is going to send her right from the hospital to a nursing home. One in which she has to be signed in and signed out and they dictate the schedule.
Well, I hope that she is satisfied with what her lying has given her in the end. I am quite sure that it was not her expected outcome. I can just shake my head at the situation. She didn't want to go to a home when the family asked her before, and now, she will probably end up in the same one where she committed her own mother. Irony, this has it.
So, the moral of the story is: don't lie. See, people will find out and it will come back to bite you (even if it takes a while). I wish I had sympathy for her, but knowing what a liar she is...it may seem awful of me, but I just don't.
I am sure the family can fight the state on the case of neglect to get her back into her apartment, but you know, she has so many of us burned out and just burned now, that I don't know how many of us give a damn. Hell, maybe in the nursing home she will have whatever she wants now - people who she can talk trash to about other people and the opportunity to bitch to us how she is being treated. I hate to say it, but I don't recognize this woman any longer and I really don't like who she has become.
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| Another truth about marriage |
[November 06 2009] |
I was looking for statistics* about same-sex marriage opposition when I ran across this precious article posted back in June. (Warning for extreme sexism and various other acts of privilege.)
The author--Sam Schulman--goes on at length about what he objects to about same sex marriage, and what he thinks marriage really is. Bolded sections are emphasis added.
The relationship between a same-sex couple, though it involves the enviable joy of living forever with one's soulmate, loyalty, fidelity, warmth, a happy home, shopping, and parenting, is not the same as marriage between a man and a woman, though they enjoy exactly the same cozy virtues. These qualities are awfully nice, but they are emphatically not what marriage fosters, and, even when they do exist, are only a small part of why marriage evolved and what it does. Got that? It's important. He's tackling the key issue of what is marriage, which is absolutely crucial to any non-religious discussion of and why same-sex couples can't have it. Brace yourself... 'cos he hits the same conclusion about "traditional marriage" that I got, only he thinks it's a good thing.Marriage, whatever its particular manifestation in a particular culture or epoch, is essentially about who may and who may not have sexual access to a woman when she becomes an adult, and is also about how her adulthood--and sexual accessibility--is defined. Marriage is not about raising children, or living together and sharing resources, or being a unit in the community. Marriage is about female sexuality--and the control thereof. In case that wasn't obvious from his earlier quotes, he makes sure you understand: This most profound aspect of marriage--protecting and controlling the sexuality of the child-bearing sex--is its only true reason for being, and it has no equivalent in same-sex marriage. He also points out that "A same-sex marriage fails utterly to create forbidden relationships." He seems to think they are important--nay, mandatory, because, "without social disapproval of unmarried sex--what kind of madman would seek marriage?" He then goes on to talk about the "kinship" that marriage creates: Even in modern romantic marriages, a groom becomes the hunting or business partner of his father-in-law and a member of his clubs; a bride becomes an ally of her mother-in-law in controlling her husband. There can, of course, be warm relations between families and their children's same-sex partners, but these come about because of liking, sympathy, and the inherent kindness of many people. A wedding between same-sex lovers does not create the fact (or even the feeling) of kinship between a man and his husband's family; a woman and her wife's kin. This kinship is important to him--he says
In a world without kinship, women will lose their hard-earned status as sexual beings with personal autonomy and physical security. Children will lose their status as nonsexual beings. That latter seems like a bit of a red herring, and he doesn't explain it well. But it does tie into some of his other points, about marriage and illicit sexuality and the importance of at least giving lip service to the idea of virginity.
Marriage, to him, is all about men getting access to women's sexuality, and since same-sex marriage turns that concept on its head, it is wrong.And he doesn't even spend much time grumbling about the "wrongness"--he's bitching about how the inevitible failure of same-sex marriage (because marriage can't survive without illicit sexuality and forced kinship) will destroy the last vestiges of men-owning-women marriage.
Umm.
Yay?
* Stats: Specifically, I was trying to find out if the opposition splits equally along gender lines, or if more men oppose same-sex marriage than women. Any relevant research info would be welcome.
This entry is crossposted at http://elf.dreamwidth.org/280002.html. You can comment there with OpenID from your LJ or IJ account. Comments so far: 
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[November 06 2009] |
Awwww, sad! Sondre didn't get Peter Parker. Not that I was entirely sure that he would but it would have been SO COOL.
But today has been a good day. I haven't been able to say that I've had a good day in a while, so this is nice. I think the snaps cups definitely helped; I really like the opportunity to say nice things to you all, and reading what you guys have commented to me makes me really happy.
I have a bit of work to do this weekend, but it isn't too bad (knock on wood- haha!). I would love to write/rp with some of you guys, so please comment or shoot me an im or email or something if you're interested!
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[November 06 2009] |
Set: Katerina Graham : 84 icons
Details: Female : Black : Brown : Green : late teens, early 20s
Character Suggestions: the vampire diaries: bonnie, hp: angelina johnson, hp: gwenog jones
Link: LINK - join the community to see the whole set!
All the icons I've posted here are now available on insanejournal :)
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| Richard Croyle |
[November 06 2009] |
Set: Richard Croyle : 107
Details: female : white : brown: late 20s, early 30s
Link: LINK
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| Sharon Small |
[November 06 2009] |
Set: Sharon Small : 63
Details: Female : White : Blond : Green : 30s/40s
Character Suggestions:
Link: LINK
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[November 06 2009] |
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| An Awkward Moment |
[November 06 2009] |
Okay, so among the tutors there is me, and there are my two friends, and there are the people we are friendly with. And then there are those for whom we experience, shall we call it, antipathy. Mainly for their lack of ability to do their damn jobs, and to dump work on those around them, ie us.
Well. Tonight at dinner, me'n'my friends and another tutor were having a lovely meal together, good conversation, the rest of the table mostly deserted. We'd finished, and we were just in the mopping up stages--you know, the few minutes before you actually make the effort to stand up and leave.
And just then, who should come along but one of the tutors we (the three of us anyway) are on not-so-good terms with.
And all four of us were like, "Well, I gotta do this," and "Oh, I have a lot of work," and "Hm, well, I'm off to do such and such," etc. And we all stood up and left, abandoning the newly-arrived Unliked Tutor.
It was awkward. And probably very obvious? But on the other hand, we were finished, and we were just about to leave anyway, and we did say hi to her quite personably before we all up and left.
But, heh. Timing! Whatchagonna do.
I need a *sheepish* icon.
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| Cubicle of Unfathomable Awesomeness! |
[November 06 2009] |
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http://cuteoverload.com/2009/11/06/cubicle-of-unfathomable-awesomeness/ http://cuteoverload.com/?p=34605 We’ve all seen them, envied them: They are the Cubicles of Unfathomable Awesomeness, beacons of style in the soulless sea of the modern workplace. Is your cubicle unfathomably awesome? Look for these tell-tale signs:
- Multiple pages from the Cute Overload Page-A-Day Calendar, the only calendar specially formulated to melt away those stressful brain cells.
- The almost-nearly-completely-as-cool calendar for the ASPCA!
- Pen. (Pens rock!)
- Telephone with more buttons than the Millennium Falcon.
- Web browser open to Google Analytics, bringing instant karmic enlightenment to statistics junkies.
And the crowning touch, the crème de la cool…
Cool pup + cool job = cool you, Ayumi S.
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| Puppy Dog Eyes, Definish of |
[November 06 2009] |
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http://cuteoverload.com/2009/11/06/puppy-dog-eyes-definish-of/ http://cuteoverload.com/?p=33914 “So-called ‘puppydog eyes don’t exist!” you say. “PROVE IT” you say. “Prove it with photography from various Sender-Inners!”
OK then. Here goes:
CASE CLOSED!
Maverick the Anatolian Shepherd Dog by Kristin S. Black and white pup eyes look up by Amanda M. Irish Setter pupples by Paige P. Snow puppydog eyes by Amanda G. Bailey M. sent us puppy Stuart’s eyes. “Higgs Waking Up” is the work of Aurélia M. Jack the Pup is by Phoebe E., and finally, Gavin the Bernese Mountain Dog Puppulence is by Corliss. Final pup added last minute: Beagle mix by Martha P. 
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: Pups       |
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[November 06 2009] |
While I have some major junk food cravings (it's been at least a year since my last burger on a bun) I am hoping my parents won't go today. I'll fall asleep on my way there, I'm sure. Major props to Lori for keeping me amused today.
Young!Rex is not leaving my head with his cute awkwardness and nervous ramblings. My, my, how characters can change in due time.
7 PM needs to come already. I'm running on caffeine and am going to crash harrrrrrrrrrrrd.
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[November 06 2009] |
KITTEN MITTENS.
CHARLIE DAY IS SO TWITCH.
I AM IN LOVE. oh my god he talks JUST LIKE THAT. Maybe not so squeaky. but looooooooool.
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[November 06 2009] |
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I would like to say that I really love Snaps Cups memes because I get to say all the nice things I want to say to people without sounding like a complete headcase for it. :D
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| New Disapproving Rabbits T-Shirts |
[November 06 2009] |
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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DisapprovingRabbits/~3/JcWsDcTTCds/new-disapproving-rabbits-t-shirts.html  We interrupt your daily dose of disapproval to announce that we have a new Disapproving Rabbits shirt for sale this holiday season!
The design (shown above) is a stylized version of Ms. Cinnamon herself, printed on a Black Hanes Beefy-T shirt (Men's sizes only). You can order the shirt at the Birdchick Boutique.
Now, this is the important part: we're taking pre-orders from now until November 29, 2009. At that point, we will stop taking orders. Orders will be shipped first-come, first-sent starting on or around December 7, 2009, via Priority Mail to get them to you in time for Christmas!
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| FIONN MCDIARMID |
[November 06 2009] |
Set : Fionn McDiarmid : 72.
Details : male : caucasian : brown hair : blue eyes : 10s.
Link : +72.
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| We’re Not Even Touching This One |
[November 06 2009] |
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http://cuteoverload.com/2009/11/06/were-not-even-touching-this-one/ http://cuteoverload.com/?p=34452 Sometimes, truth is funnier than fiction, so here’s sender-inner Kimberley H.:
This is little baby Rufi, our four-month-old chihuahua. He loves a bit of warmth, so when Nick my boyfriend called me from the bathroom to “show me something cute” I was initially a bit unsure… then lo and behold what do I see but Rufi nestled in the warm underwear nook!
Ew!
![[Can't touch this MCHammer clip]](http://cuteoverload.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/doh.jpg?w=500&h=500 "[Can't touch this MCHammer clip]")
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[November 06 2009] |
I didn't count my Oliver app, since a lot of it was reused stuff from previous versions of Oliver. But omg SOCLOSE to 50%!
Still no word from Incanto; I know 91 doesn't do adds until Monday. I can't help but be nervous; Joanna's a completely new character for me and a bit different from most of my other characters.
It is 7:30 and I am at Toyota waiting for the truck to get washed. I have coffee and a danish and strawberries romanoff and it is glorious. I seriously need to get myself an espresso maker and learn how to make this romanoff sauce. They're also talking about Fort Hood on tv; I don't personally know anybody there but I have friends who have friends and the like- my thoughts are with the families and friends who lost loved ones there.
And thank you to everybody who's replied to my thread on the snaps cups-- I'm slowly working my way through replying to everybody I know well enough to say something to.
Good golly we're getting up to 80 degrees today. In November. I MISS HAVING AN AUTUMN. And I will stop talking now and post this.
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| Orla Brady |
[November 06 2009] |
Set: Orla Brady : 69
Details: Female : White : Brown : Green : 30's/40's
Character Suggestions: HP: Penelope Clearwater, Mistresses: Siobhan Dillon
Link: LINK
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| an IJ note |
[November 06 2009] |
depending on measure (that is, using the "size:accounts" measure as opposed to the "userinfo:total" measure), InsaneJournal passed DeadJournal to become the 3rd largest LiveJournal-based site around Thursday, October 8, 2009.
(At a rough estimate, IJ will pass DJ to move into the #3 spot based on the "userinfo:total" measure in about 2-3 months.)
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| Abe Fic... now with added Sev |
[November 06 2009] |
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I write fic. Ahem. Yes. Don't ask where this one came from. Long story. I blame ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) hafren. :D
( The Morning After )
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| Alan Rickman |
[November 05 2009] |
Set: Alan Rickman : 92
Details: Male : White : Brown/Greying : 50s, 60s
Character Suggestions:
Link: (friends only), join here.
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| November 6, 2009 - Word Count |
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Post is up a little bit early. I have classes tomorrow and yeah, I'm hoping that you all are having fun and driving your characters through the paces.
Jenn
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| More adventures in destashing… the kitchen |
[November 05 2009] |
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While destashing of yarn is on the back burner, and destashing of my books is in progress, so begins a new destashing project: the kitchen cupboards.
Just before NaBloPoMo started I had seen a blog post made by someone somewhere wherein the author was making an inventory of her canned goods as an on-going project. While I’m not quite that organized, I got the idea that I should at least do some re-arranging since we tend to have a lot of canned goods stored in various places. I also happened to be raised by parents who are very frugal when it comes to food, saving all leftovers and… well, taking expiration dates more as suggestions (hey, it hasn’t killed any of us yet! Usually it’s perfectly fine, at worst it’s a bit mushier than usual.)
So last night I sorted through everything and put the newer cans in the pantry and kept the older stuff up front, which included some canned spinach. Eggs were also on sale this week, so when I went food shopping this morning I picked up some frozen pie crusts as well (I’ve tried making it myself before, and it’s always been inedible.)
And thus, when I got home, I made my first-ever quiche:
Shockingly (to me, at least), it is, indeed, edible. It actually came out pretty good, even if the spinach was the icky canned kind and not fresh (or frozen, as the recipe called for), and the fact that I substituted plain yogurt instead of mayonnaise (the idea of baking with mayonnaise is pretty damn icky to me, I just couldn’t do it.)
Next up… pumpkin chili. Hopefully it’ll turn out better than last time (stupid me followed the recipe exactly, even though it involved adding half of the contents of the spice cabinet.)
Mirrored from December Project. Comments are preferred there.
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Holy snaps cup, Batman.
I don't remember when the last one of these I saw was; I just remember that I didn't participate and comment on nearly enough people's posts. This time, it's my resolution to do better, and so I will.
My only real complaint about the past few days is that the leg I busted at Rocky Horror is restless. It is both sprained and restless. So, I've been taking it easy, trying to NaNo/RP/write for class/do my research assistant stuff, and, then, out of nowhere, it'll start going, "You know what we should do? THINGS. We should go do THINGS. Like, I don't know, DDR. Or running a marathon. Or going up and down the steepest hill on campus just because! Or, or, or SOMETHING. That'd be AWESOME, let's do stuff." …And it's sprained, so I can't do much more with it than the awkward, gimpy walk thing I can do with my crutches. I had no idea a limb could be both sprained and restless.
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| Of Course, You Realize This Means War |
[November 05 2009] |
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http://cuteoverload.com/2009/11/05/of-course-you-realize-this-means-war/ http://cuteoverload.com/?p=34339 The whole human-rights problem was upsetting enough, but now the People’s Republic of China has crossed the Rubicon and gone too far! From sender-inner Kristina D. comes this startling news (emphasis ours):
We were recently traveling in China and Tibet – were you aware that Cute Overload is blocked there?! It’s understandable though, outrageous cuteness threatens social stability, which is their greatest fear… We thought we would surely perish from CO withdrawal! But luckily there was plenty of cute Tibetan pooch action in Lhasa to keep us going.
How dare they block Teh Qte! This outrage can be met with nothing less than… The Glorious People’s Tongue-Hance of Democracy! PTHTFHTFTHPTT!
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| Hilda’s Revenge |
[November 05 2009] |
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http://cuteoverload.com/2009/11/05/hildas-revenge/ http://cuteoverload.com/?p=34413 …Because you’ve seen Hilda’s ears, right? It’s like two furry Venus Flytraps just sprouted out of her head – oh, poo! Sweetie, did I not mention that I needed a French manicure today –anyway, I mean, Hilda has a cute face…it it weren’t for those pipe cleaners she calls whiskers. It’s like, ‘What, did a 5-year-old invent you?’
By the way, how do my brows look? It’s like the one thing Hilda does right, you know?
Um, no. I did not ask for two “creepy cocoons” to be placed above my eyes. Where is Hilda. I need to speak with her.
You could just use Chunk’s whiskers as Q-Tips, Deidra L.
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[November 05 2009] |
Rian is hosting a Snaps Cup and though I always tend to put my name down and fail fantastically at snapping others, I'm going to do it this time. I swear. Last time's fail might have had something to do with me having just started RPing with a lot of the Neo people and not knowing what to say, but I don't have that issue now. So. I promise.
My Snaps Cup.
also I am behind but idgaf.
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| James Franco |
[November 06 2009] |
Set: James Franco : 40 icons & 4 banners
Details: male : white : brown : brown : 20s, 30s
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