You know, we queer ladies have a reputation for loving to get offended over everything and anything, but getting offended over TOFU? I’m not sure whether to hand you a Lesbian Award for Extreme Lesbianness, or just a chill pill. Maybe both.
hi it’s me! you seem to be good at everything. what was the first craft project you did all by yourself? this is important.
hi laneia! you’re the nicest thing i know. i think the first craft i made was a card for my mama.
what made you so interested in linguistics? (i’m glad there are linguistics posts on autostraddle, word nerds forever!)
when i was 9 i wanted to be an egyptologist and so i decided that i needed to learn hieroglyphics. then when i was 12, i started learning spanish and realized for the first time that languages aren’t just literal word-to-word translations, they have entirely different ways of expressing things. when i was 15, i wanted to read the bhagavad gita because i’m a weirdo and so i learned to read and write devanagari and was fascinated by phonetics and the idea of expressing sounds accurately. also i took lots of really kickass linguistics classes in college.
I’m going to be on bus/plane situations in the next week a lot. Good traveling clothes?
sweatpants, soft hoodie, tank top, fuzzy socks, sneakers, flip flops
What was your favorite thing from camp? Love your photos!
camp exceeded my expectations by ~40,000 percent. some highlights for me include:
+ the gender panel
+ the sex panel (kinda want to be on it next time!)
+ yoga with liz in the am
+ that pumpkin bread dessert thing the night of thanksgiving dinner
+ one-on-one julie/brandy inappropriateness
+ two campers telling me i was personally responsible for them being at camp (aka learning about autostraddle through me)
+ meeting several awesome auto team members for the first time
+ uninterrupted QT
+ the degree of commitment and professionalism exhibited by marni & robin
+ the “things said at camp” skit at the talent show
I’m a Kinsey 6-lesbo-dyke-vagina-lover, but the word “lesbian” still makes me cringe a little. Is that normal?
yes. i mean, ‘normal’ is a dumb word, but it’s not weird, so. i don’t like the word 'creamy’ and actually just died typing it.
special snowflakes, all of us.
My girlfriend and I have lived together for 3 years while attending community college, and we’re in love. We got into different universitys and will have to live apart for the next 2-3 years or more. Do you think a long distance relationship is worth it?
worth a shot, but maybe keep expectations low and be flexible. i think this is a good place to start.
“Well, if there’s anything I like more than lighting my armpits on fire, it’s a 10-minute cliche-ridden out-of-the-blue PSA about domestic violence starring a character I’d completely forgotten about until this week, intercut with tedious cock-rock and a baffling sequence of auditions for an imaginary theater school that apparently waits until high school graduation to select its incoming class of aspirant freshman!”
What is this camp y'all keep talking about? Can I come?
1. it is the best thing… and it’s on a mountain!
2. you can definitely come. in fact, riese really wants you to come
Richard cannot imagine a life more interesting or worthwhile than those being lived by his acquaintances and himself, and for that reason one often feels exalted, expanded, in his presence. he is not one of those egotists who miniaturize others. He is the opposite kind of egotist, driven by grandiosity rather than greed, and if he insists on a version of you that is funnier, stranger, more eccentric and profound than you suspect yourself to be – capable of doing more good and more harm in the world than you’ve ever imagined–it is all but impossible not to believe, at least in his presence and for a while after you’ve left him, that he alone sees through to your essence, weighs your true qualities (not all of which are necessarily flattering–a certain clumsy, childish rudeness is part of his style), and appreciates you more fully than anyone else ever has. It is only after knowing him for some time that you begin to realise you are, to him, an essentially fictional character, one he has invested with nearly limitless capacities for tragedy and comedy not because that is your true nature but because he, Richard, needs to live in a world peopled by extreme and commanding figures.
from “The Hours” by Michael Cunningham
does a-camp inspire you to write an autowin blog post? no pressure. just genuine curiousity.
i was standing at the cutting board thinking about dinner
when it occurred to me that a-camp deserves an autowin blog post
i haven’t figured out how to make that happen
but this exchange seems like a step in the right direction