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Hi!
*thunk* Gee, I didn't think my sanity would be so heavy.
Hm...I think I might be allergic to Meyerpire biproducts...

Welcome to the Board. Please feel free to deposit your sanity in the provided receptacle. *indicates bucket marked "Warg Fodder"* You shan't need it here. Also, please accept this gift of a Sparklebomb, created by distilling SMeyerpires in unicorn fluids. You can throw it to distract us with the shiny if we get too scary.
-Mad Maudlin

Hello, and thank you!
...Oh, this is a VERY shiny object...and also very random!

You're on!

Have a bag of pebbles and a Random Shiny Object!

Glad to see more people here. :D

I didn't know this one. But it's cool. See you at the Tall Ships Races 2010!

Ah, cute birdy! Thank you!
Mine will definitely use an RC, mostly because I know pretty much nothing about Doctor Who.

BTW, will your Agents be based in a TARDIS or a Response Center?

Thank you! Now I can sail on tall oceans.

Thank you! They were delicious...

Hi, everyone; my name is doctorlit, and this is my first post on the PPC Boards.
I first heard of the PPC from TV Tropes. I read the Original Series, then started exploring the Wiki.
I'm part of the Lost and Kingdom Hearts fandoms, but I'm primarily a book nerd. Pick any random novel from the general fiction section of your local bookstore, and there's a good chance I've either read it, or have a copy under my bed waiting to be read!

while it disturbs me that people write about it, I couldn't give a toss about the whole "violence against women" stuff. For a start, it's like racism in that the card is being shown far too often for every minor offence (or even when nothing happened). Secondly, in my experience, ninety-nine percent of people dedicated to stopping violence against women are completely ignorant of or don't give a toss about violence towards men (and I'm not sure which is worse).

Yes, violence against men is probably not as bad, but without anyone commenting on it (when was the last time you heard someone say a case would "help raise awareness about violence towards men"?) we won't know exactly how bad it actually is. I mean, how many shelters are there for abused women? How many rape advice clinics? Hundreds? Thousands per country (or state, for the Americas)? Now, how many are there of either for men? I've only ever seen one rape advice clinic, which had about zero funding.

One shelter nearby allows abused women and their children inside, but not men, at all, ever. So is it only female children? Or do they kick male children out when they reach puberty? Because I am really, really f*cking pissed off with the "penis equals rapist" camp.

The whole point of feminism was that it was supposed to gain equality. While in some aspects, it's still trying, in others, it's gone entirely the wrong way and overshot its mark. Take rape trials nowadays. Once, the woman barely got any support (by my understanding). Now, the woman can sometimes get total anonyminity and the man's name is released, whether he's guilty or not. Pulling two cases from my head, take Craig Charles being accused of rape. He lost his job at the BBC even though he was completely innocent. When that was finally discovered, the woman was charged with perversion of justice but was her name ever released? No. Her reputation was fine. Take the Yorkshire Ripper last year(?). One guy was falsely accused and he was instantly named by papers. Even though he was later acquitted, that's his reputation ruined right there. Even if it's later reported that he's innocent, some might not get the memo, some might be suspicious anyway. That is just not right.

While I hate the politically-correct name, I'm probably a "humanist" in that I want mostly equality (true equality wouldn't ever work for our species and we shouldn't strive for it) for everyone, male or female, black or white.

Sorry for the off-topic and meandering rant, but I've been getting more and more angry over the past few years and if I don't blow off steam once in a while, I'm going to go nuts.

and also 粪, 배설물, and дерьмо.

That last sentence at the end really does help. And, well, I've had my say on the rest of it before, so you know what I think. {= ) Good work.

~Neshomeh

I post regularly in the "Battle of the Rapefaces Redux" thread on Twilightsucks.com, but really. RapeIsLove doesn't exist...

I have a newspaper cutting about a re-enactment of the Inklings' readings at a literature fair on the noticeboard above my desk. Just a sample from her book Irene Iddlesleigh: "Speak! Irene! Wife! Woman! Do not sit in silence and allow the blood that now boils in my veins to ooze through cavities of unrestrained passion and trickle down to drench me with its crimson hue!"

I'm a-going to read through it again now. ^_^;

~Neshomeh

How 'bout that?

And, yeah. That would probably be better for me than hanging around the Neopets RP boards. I feel like a creepy old person, but I don't know of anywhere else with the same variety. Not that it's GREAT variety... mostly Warriors (which I haven't read) and other things in which I have little or no interest (though at least the vampire RPers mostly scorn Twilight, which makes me feel a little better). But, you know, some of those kids are really bright, and there are some college-age people, too.

... So, yeah. More AIM. Totally. ^_^;

~Neshomeh

Way to fail at the exclamation-mark convention, too. Sheesh.

I'll keep an eye on it. If someone else wants to claim it, though, that's just fine.

~Neshomeh

After all, Makes-Things fights with SCIENCE! And as everyone surely knows, Calvin and Hobbes' cardboard box technology has the most SCIENCE per pound of all technologies.

I'm not surprised you don't remember--as I said in my Author's Spiel, this happened back in our very first Gtalk conversation, back at the end of May. I'm certainly glad I got it, though.