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how do you deal with being a parent when you are pmsing/feeling floaty/emotional/in pain/really tired etc? i relate to alot of the things you say on here and i think i could be a parent except on certain days or moments when i totally couldn’t.

it helps to have a yard you can send them to.
also i’m just really honest with slade and tell him that i’m on my period or feeling sad and that i need to lie down and he makes eli a peanut butter & jelly and everything’s cool, mostly.

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How do I get out of the friend zone without risk of ruining friendship and making things totes awk?

i have nooooo idea. everything i touch turns to awkward. just be honest and braced for rejection, i think.
we probably have around 3 articles about this on AS.
don’t do the thing where you bring it up while you’re drinking and then later say that you were just talking out of your ass b/c you were drunk.

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do friends with benefits ever really work out or is the idea a pipe dream or white lie like santa claus? IS THIS GOING TO END IN TEARS BASICALLY.

it will probably end in tears, yes. but that’s only b/c it’s really hard to find two people on the same maturity page with the same needs and same level of honesty, i think.
but also, most things end in tears, don’t they? i had this really cute grey wool peacoat a few years ago and someone BURNED IT WITH A CIGARETTE and i cried a lot and also yelled at them, but i’m really fucking glad i had that coat while i did b/c it looked super cute with my pixie cut.
i have pictures to prove it.

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how would someone come out to their kids?

um, when i did it, he was 7 or 8 and it went like this:
“i’m gay. do you know what ‘gay’ means?”
“no.”
“it means i want to have a relationship with a woman instead of a man. i want to watch movies and cook dinner with a woman. we’ll hold hands and hug, too. that’s 'gay.’”
“ok.”

other questions came up as he got older:
“why are you gay?”
“i don’t know. the same reason some people aren’t gay.”
“will i be gay?”
“i don’t know.”
“i don’t want to be gay.”
“ok. it’s not hereditary. you probably won’t be.”
“ok. how do you know when you’re gay?”
“when the person you want to trust your heart to has the same body parts as you do. and when you want to kiss them.”
“ok. i don’t want to kiss boys.”
“k, then you’re probably not gay.”
“ok.”

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i need some honesty. do people really love themselves or is this a myth in my head? can you tell me please? do people HONESTLY ON THE SERIOUS sit around loving themselves? like shape magazine says? or can we just all agree that we generally hate ourselves

i think we vacillate.
some days i think i’m maybe the best thing to hit earth and other days i want to bury my head in pudding and change my name.
but also i’m a little crazy, so. either way, fuck shape magazine wtf. pick up a copy of BITCH.

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So, there’s this girl that I like who’s beautiful and unique and opinionated and all, and she always brings up “gay” stuff when she’s around me, it seems. (Does she know??) However, she also seems to flirt with this guy all the time! Any advice? Thanks.

some people just like to flirt with everyone. i flirt with guys. guys are easy to flirt with. also like, i’m good at it. i’m better at flirting with guys than i am flirting with girls, actually. with girls i’m usually like OH MY GOD I LOVE YOUR HAIR AND YOU SMELL SO GOOD CAN YOU HOLD ME PLEASE? PLEASE HOLD ME. OH MY GOD I’M GOING TO EAT YOU ALIVE YOU ARE SO LOVELY.
so what i’m saying is, maybe she’s flirting with you the best way she knows how and she’s flirting with the boys to pass the time while you work up the nerve to FLIRT BACK you chickeshit. (love you)
or maybe not. idk.

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Help please? All day today i was like ‘FFFUUU’ because half the time I AM LITERALLY INCAPACITATED BY HER CUTENESS so the whole 'let’s share airspace for an interval of time outside of youth group’ is both terrifying and yet i want to do it. HOW THOUGH.

you are going to hate me for saying this - riese will hate me more - but i swear it works: you have to imagine her using the bathroom.
i’m sorry. it works.

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