Yahoo/Tumblr Censorship. RAGE!!!

I'm so ridiculously upset right now.  Tumblr removed one of my photos for no goddamn discernible reason.  According to le boyfriend, this has been happening to a lot of people recently... so I think it's safe to say that this is all a result of the buyout by Yahoo.

Fuck you.

:(

The offending picture

Excuse me for not knowing that pink fucking hot cocoa was so offensive to your delicate sensibilities.


This may not seem like a big deal to some of you... but getting over 5K notes as a non-tumblr famous person is a big fucking deal.  Even if I post it again, I probably won't get close to that many notes.  Plus, all the blogs that had reblogged this image had the potential to generate traffic for my blog, and now I've lost that.  This hurts my blog a lot more than if they had removed just about any other image. So yeah... fuck them.

Christmas Shopping with Mom

Me: What's your Amazon password?  Is it X?

Mom: What password?  Oh, it's Y.

Me: No it's not.  Is it X?

Mom: No no, it's Y.

Me: Oh look, X worked.  I told you it was X.

Mom: I don't want you knowing my passwords.

Me: Well if I didn't know them, you wouldn't fucking know them.

Mom: Oh... then what's this password for?

Me: Your account

Mom: What account?

Me: Your Amazon account?

Mom: Why do I need an account?

Me: So you can order things

Mom: Oh, so X is my account?

Me: No, X is your password.  For your account.  You type in your email and password to log in.

Mom: Why do I need a password/account?

Me: You don't want just anyone using your credit card on here.

Mom: My credit card's on there?

Me: No it's not saved yet.  I don't have to save it.  But still, you don't want anyone in your account.  I don't want you in mine.

Mom: Well I'd pay you back.

Me: You wouldn't have to if you used your card with my account.  I just don't want you messing up my settings.  I know you would.

Mom: Oh... so now I have an account?  So now I can order things on my own?

Me: Yes, I made it for you months ago!  Don't you remember?

Mom: No.....

Me: WTF?!  It was a very traumatic experience.  How do you not remember??!

Mom: I don't

Me: You specifically asked me to come over.  You said you couldn't make an account because it kept giving you my email address and saying it was taken.  You don't remember any of this?!

Mom: No

Me: (staring in horror as I realize this is my future: fucking dementia)

Merry Christmas, everyone!

war on christmas

 It's that time of year again.  When the conservatives post "War on Christmas" tripe all over your Facebook newsfeed.

This year's article started as a Fox News opinion piece:  http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/12/05/school-bans-christmas-trees-colors-red-green/

Supposedly a school in the Frisco school district was having a holiday party that banned 'Merry Christmas', Christmas trees, and the colors red and green.  It's pretty much the holy grail of "War on Christmas" stories.  Think of the children!

It seemed a little too good to be true, so I tried to find other news sources that were covering the story.  But every single news article I found could trace its source for information back to that very same Fox News article:

http://inagist.com/all/408817627578896384/
http://www.stormfront.org/forum/t1009590/
http://conservativehideout.com/2013/12/07/nichols-elementary-school-frisco-texas-bans-christmas-trees-even-colors-red-green/

There was also a suspicious trend with all these news sources that were covering the story... hmm.

So aside from conservative blogs, religious blogs, or racist blogs, there really wasn't any well known, legitimate news source covering the story.

And then, in a funny twist of fate, I stumbled upon a story from 2005 in which Bill O'Reilly falsely reported a similar story.  I was just about to give up my search and write this off as some stupid misunderstanding or hoax, but without proof, when this article single-handedly became my impetus to resume my search.  Surely if I could find this gem, I could dig up more.

And that's when I found the Frisco Independent School District's official response to Fox News' accusations:

http://www.friscoisd.org/news/2013/12/05/holidays-in-schools


Enjoy the read, guys.  And tl;dr?  THERE IS NO WAR ON CHRISTMAS

Once again... Fuck you, DC

 In case you've been living under a rock, DC comics is refusing to let Batwoman marry her longtime girlfriend, citing flimsy, bullshit excuses.  Story here.  Well, I have some words to say about this.

Read the entire thread here: http://the-funeral-party.tumblr.com/post/60572325584/discowing-elfgrove-gabzilla-z

"Heroes shouldn’t have happy personal lives. They are committed to being that person and committed to defending others at the sacrifice of their own personal interests.”
“That’s very important and something we reinforced,” he continued. … It’s wonderful that they try to establish personal lives, but it’s equally important that they set them aside. That is our mandate, that is our edict and that is our stand.”—-Dan Didio, Baltimore Comic Con in response the anti-marriage edict at DC Comics

If that’s truly their position, I want to know how they can justify their characters having ANY sort of personal relationships (because they all have some sort of personal relationships despite what Didio’s response might imply)?  Why does it only become a problem when the word “marriage” is involved?  Either DC is full of short-sighted hypocrites or a bunch of people who have no idea how relationships actually work.  Their response devalues the relationships that all their characters have established, essentially relegating these personal relationships to meaningless cannon fodder as long as the “M” word isn’t involved.  Because apparently, according to DC, these relationships don’t count and don’t interfere with the hero until they become marriages (which is like super serious for grown-ups only stuff).

Furthermore, as my boyfriend pointed out, heroes get married all the time only to have their relationship end in divorce, death, or simply a villain interrupting the wedding.  So even if DC is committed to keeping their heroes unhappy, they can still have a wedding and let tragedy strike later.  DC, you have no leg to stand on here.

To sacrifice all personal relationships for the goal of being a hero is not noble; it’s narcissistic.

*It's kinda sad how much I and other people use the tag "fuck you dc". 

The VMAs: A Short Review

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