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Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

When and where was the aus autostraddle meetup? Totally bummed I missed it!

It was in Sydney, last Saturday night. We went to see DeAnne Smith’s comedy show and afterward she made us make a human pyramid.

Are you in Sydney? If so, you and every other Sydney lesbian reading this should email me and let me know that you’re interested in attending future AS meet ups. That way we can make sure you don’t miss the next one, k?

Ask crystal anything

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Do you care about comments on your posts as much as the other writers?

this is one of the weirdest formspring questions i’ve ever gotten

i mean i have no real way of knowing, i don’t know exactly how the other writers feel about comments. but i can tell you that of course i care about them, of course i do. there is no money for doing this, no salary or benefits or even a coffee machine, comments are more or less what i get ‘paid’ for what i write. when i work really hard on something and there are no comments, or the comments are bored or dismissive, or just inane like 'i really hope rachel maddow talks about this on her show!!1" it hurts my feelings. when comments are intelligent and responsive and want to have a discussion and recognize that this is something i put a lot of time and effort into, it feels good.

is this because i don’t respond to comments as often as some other writers? that is because i have a 9-5 job with a 40-minute commute each way where i can’t access the website and my boss can monitor all my internet activity. when i get home from that, i usually have just enough time to start working on another post for the next day, put some food in my face, and fall asleep. if i don’t respond to conversations in the comments it’s not because i don’t care about all of your feelings, it’s because i’m tired and need to prioritize. fair?

Ask Rachel a thing

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i just ready your greysanatomy post n for some reason i freaked out when the pic caption said the heaven thing i dont fallow a religion but i do believe in heaven and hell IM SCARED WTF! maybe its k tho, then finally all the lesbians will be in one place!

i don’t know how old you are
but the fact that you’re queer and you’ve gotten this far in your life
without hearing anyone condemn lesbians to hell
until you saw that grey’s anatomy recap
is perhaps the best news i’ve heard all day.

in any event, please don’t spend one additional second
of your life worrying about something a television character
said on the teevee, especially a character who was supposed
to represent intolerance and cruelty.
anyone worth a salt doesn’t believe what she believes.

here, watch this video:

http://youtu.be/S1-ip47WYWc

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How much does the font cost that you use? Why is it so gddmmm expensive? #newtothis

I don’t know how much it costs, but good fonts (not the ones you get on dafont.com) cost money because people design these typefaces and that’s how they make their living. Typography is art and what they do is painstakingly spend however long perfecting and designing each letter of each typeface in a font family and when you purchase this, it allows them to keep designing actual typefaces that we professionals can use in our work.

So either save up or put it on your christmas list… or! somehow find someone who already has it and then you can share :)

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