#ghetto people at mcdonalds

[amygdalae]

"The franchise and the virus work on the same principle: what thrives in one place will thrive in another. You just have to find a sufficiently virulent business plan, condense it into a three-ring binder--its DNA--xerox it, and embed it in the fertile lining of a well-traveled highway, preferably one with a left-turn lane. Then the growth will expand until it runs up against its property lines.

In olden times, you'd wander down to Mom's Cafe for a bite to eat and a cup of joe, and you would feel right at home. It worked just fine if you never left your hometown. But if you went to the next town over, everyone would look up and stare at you when you came in the door, and the Blue Plate special would be something you didn't recognize. If you did enough traveling, you'd never be at home anywhere.

But when a businessman from New Jersey goes to Dubuque, he knows he can walk into a McDonald's and no one will stare at him. He can order without having to look at the menu, and the food will always taste the same. McDonald's is Home, condensed into a three-ring binder and xeroxed. "No surprises" is the motto of the franchise ghetto, its Good Housekeeping seal, subliminally blazoned on every sign and logo that make up the curves and grids of light that outline the Basin.

The people of America, who live in the world's most surprising and terrible country, take comfort in that motto. Follow the loglo outward, to where the growth is enfolded into the valleys and the canyons, and you find the land of the refugees. They have fled from the true America, the America of atomic bombs, scalpings, hip-hop, chaos theory, cement overshoes, snake handlers, spree killers, space walks, buffalo jumps, drive-bys, cruise missiles, Sherman's March, gridlock, motorcycle gangs, and bungee jumping. They have parallel-parked their bimbo boxes in identical computer-designed Burbclave street patterns and secreted themselves in symmetrical sheetrock shitholes with vinyl floors and ill-fitting woodwork and no sidewalks, vast house farms out in the loglo wilderness, a culture medium for a medium culture."

--Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

[ferretteeth]

Disco Elysium thoughts

So in the game you’re a police. The game is by no means copaganda, I would immediately disagree with that — it COULD BE depending on your play through but it’s got clear leftist values. It’s set in a shithole town being forgotten about by authorities, the only leftist party is corrupt and trying to evict a small village for construction, racists are in the street, everyone is poor, and you can collect garbage for money (real thing, recycling bottles for money in several European countries). There are two characters in terrible situations you can recruit to be officers so they can get their life together. With very few exceptions almost everyone you meet is unemployed.

This was the case for you and your partner as well. You live in a ghetto being rotted from the inside out. One of the best viable options is to become a cop.

And I thought “I imagine that happens often in real life” but it’s more than that.

That’s happening right now in my municipality. I live in a small city in outer Stockholm that is in an intense state of urban decay. I haven’t gotten a single job I’ve applied for; Footlocker, McDonalds, cashier registers. But what I could do, and what everyone above age 18 with a clean criminal record can do, is apply to become a security guard, a mall guard or “peace keeper.” The requirements to become one is to be able to run 2 kilometers under 12 minutes and be able to pull a 75 kg object a few meters. With a little bit of training, that’s a lot more accomplishable than getting a minimum wage job.

It’s why you see so many young people working as security guards, independent of ethnicity — it was literally the only job available to them.

Disco Elysium feels like home in the worst way. 10/10 game but did not help the existential depression

[xtrablak674]

A Bicycle Story

As I continue to ruminate over my life I realize how truly blessed I have been all through-out my time on this planet. I recall a conversation with my nibling where they inferred I had lived in the ghetto, I had a surprising angry reaction to this flippant comment as I let them know I had never lived in anyone's ghetto.

This was true, I was bought up in a city that was more or less a big town, my building was a lot nicer than where my cousins lived. Even my god grandmother's house, was just that a house albeit the only time I had ever lived in a house. My grandparents live in NYCHA for over fifty years and I remember how nice their projects used to be, but it was never the ghetto, they were upper middle-class people taking advantage of the fact that their rent was based on their income. Even on my own I have lived in very decent apartments, never owning always renting, but never the ghetto.

Albeit we were quite poor in my mom's house I never wanted for any of the basics. And notwithstanding I may not have had the abundance that Kelsey or Robert, one being a single child from a two-parent upper middle-class household and the other from a three children two-parent upper middle-class household who both owned houses, I had all that I needed.

There were also so many opportunities that my mom took advantage of food stamps, government surplus foods, head-start, various extracurriculars like little league, cub scouts, choir, chorus and school plays. Just thinking about how busy I was kept as a kid, to a single-mom with three kids, how could I ever fix my face to say I was missing out on something? I had busloads of first cousins who I saw often and it always seemed like we were going to some family holiday.

My clothes may not have been fresh-to-def but they were clean, the passing fads were just that, passing right by my household because there wasn't even the notion of disposable income. People sometimes think lack of wealth, means lack of joy and I don't think those two things are equivocal. Because there was joy in my home, in lunch at McDonald's, all those Carvel ice cream cakes I had for birthdays, picnics down by the river, summer camp, road trips to Coney Island or something simple like breakfast for dinner, pass the syrup please!

Mom found the joy in family and celebration. Curious as an adult I hold no value in either of those things, because you need one to enjoy the other, and my adulthood has a waning of familial relations, as I said before there's no matriarch to hold it all together. But back to what this entry is about, its about blessings, joy and appreciation, the thing that hit my spirit this morning was bicycles.

I was trying to remember who taught me how to ride a bicycle, and I don't recall anyone actually doing that. As I am writing right now, there was someone who taught me how to patch a flat tire, a skill I have never partaken of. Uncle Larry, one of the sons of my god-grandmother who I looked up to in so many ways. He had a bachelor pad in his mom's house with a shag carpet, record player and drum set, in my eyes next to my dad he was the coolest person ever!

Possibly Uncle Larry taught me how to ride a bike, but I don't think so. But it is possible. I recall the bike quite well, it was actually my younger brother's bicycle a banana seat Huffy with a western-themed name on its crank-guard. It was a beige color and for me it was a key to the wider world in the small city of Peekskill in Westchester County.

The bicycle was a gift from his dad, one of the only times I remember his father doing anything for his first-born son other than maybe a handful of trips. But since I was older and bigger, it sort of became my bicycle. I recall exploring woods and abandoned places with my school mates, zipping up and down the hilly landscape of my neighborhood and the surrounding areas.

I put serious milage on that bicycle and I remember when my grandparents finally bought me my own bicycle, a blue unbranded BMX style ride with black handlebars, I was pissed when Grandma Susie said I need to let my brother ride on MY BIKE! I felt offended, encroached upon, did I already say offended? Why should he get to ride around on MY BRAND SPANKING NEW BICYCLE? In my head I had dubbed the bike K.I.T.T. after one of my favorite TV shows at the time, I remember using the kickstand to make a sound-effect that was very futuristic like the talking car on the show!

As an adult I don't think I ever considered how important these bicycles were to us as children, and that others provided them for us even though they wouldn't necessarily see us use them. I remember when Grandma Susie and Grandpa Melvin got my god-brother a bike too and this bicycle was seriously a reject from an episode of Fat Albert and the Cosby kids, it was made up of parts recycled from other bikes and I remember it was heavy and ugly as fuck!

Now a three-bicycle household I was sometimes relegated to riding the younger kids bikes, not my brand new Cadillac bicycle. As an adult I realize the other adults were doing what was fair, but then I was so done with everybody, as my younger brother got to ride my bike, my god-brother his bike, and I stuck on my god-brother's hoopty! #HowIsThisFair But the fact that we had bikes at all was a blessing.

I didn't realize that I have only had three bicycles in my lifetime, the BMX, which my grandparents upgraded to a mountain bike which I carried into my young adulthood, until it was stolen in Manhattan. To my current bicycle a silver Mongoose ten speed mountain bike, which I bought with my ex for a little over a hundred dollar.

Right before the pandemic I nearly left it out on the street for someone else to have, but decided to keep it and it came in handy when the pandemic came and riding on the train wasn't really something I wanted to do, when I could just as easily bike to my job at the Census in Bedstuy.

The fact that I have had so much stability and I have consistently had a roof over my head most of my adult life is sadly rare and as I reflect it is another thing to be extremely blessed for. Sometimes we get caught up in the things that other folks have but don't take the moment to realize that what we had may not have been ideal, but it wasn't less than someone else's experience. These are the building blocks that create a life and I think when we acknowledge the abundance in our lives we become much more appreciative for the things we do have.

[Photo by Brown Estate]

[the-last-human-war]

GodofWar Punisher WarMachine FutureWinterSoldier MolagBal Sauron

Museum under his Etsy Account, and this Mew 2 Chex Mix actually led him on An Amazing Race through the Grand Bazaar to get to Bag-dad through Pokémon GO while translating Ancient Languages from The DaVinci Code, and carpooling off of Ubers and Lyfts except he was required to give his Drivers 1 Star Ratings and Rub it in their Face for SnapChat and Instagram so the Gifs can go viral on YouTube and even be viewed on VR games like Oculus, and they made a ghetto version of the 1 Star Ratings on Linux Attari Facebook on McDonald's WiFi, and this Friend who retrieved the Package from Zero Aka Cypher took a Triple Decker Greyhound on top of a Poodle on top of a Great Dane Pitbull Bulldog with his Hippie Band Camp, and after the Chex Mix was sold off to the Highest Bidder Cypher Quantum Imploded and Lit the Bag on Fire... After a few trips more around the world, and Finally received by the Diamond Dog Wolf with Mullet Rabies and Peanut Butter Gingivitis, the Fire Turbin Hashish Mew Two or should I say Mew Zero was BURNING with 7 Crimson Super Saiyan Auras like Broly, Cumber, and Ultra Buu Fused into 1 Demon Chex Mix Charmander except Charmander's face was Diabolical like Jeepers Creepers, then Cloned the Powerpuff Girls' Secret Elder Sister Bliss 1,000 times into Cinnamon Dippin Dots Cups, so Bliss was actually cloned 200,000 times, and Achieved Cinnamon Burnt Black Crayon Quantum Storm ULTRAAAAAAAAAAA COMBO Cinter Super Saiyan Transformation with Deep Fried Habanero Hot Tamales Secret Surprise Tortas. The Man on Fire. Just give the Dalmatians squirt guns. Like I said... Aka Dalmatian Terrorist. Bout to Light 8 Jeffreys. Unless ur Steppenwolf you can Hold 10 at a time. Speaking of Torches, the Metal Gear has the Master Lite. All the Soldiers are Fireproof, except for the Child Infantry on the Beach, eeee. All the Fire is Red Phosphorus. Sometimes the Satellites Geoengineer Rain just to further spread the Chemical Fire. And they'll create Zero-G Vacuums just so the Fire could move like A Tsunami. Tornadoes make it even more Twisted. They look like Scarabs walking on 6 Legs. Tanks and Bomber Jets are equipped with Red Phosphorus Napalm too. Carpet Bombs. Grenade Launchers. Tank Flamethrower. Apache Gunship Flamethrower. Soldiers have Flamethrowers. The Torta has a Flamethrower, and the Gordita too. Cluster Bomb, Cluster Grenade, and Cluster Missile Incindiary Rounds. Most Bombs, Grenades, and Missiles are Total Clusterfuck. I Love Russian Nesting Dolls. I Love Hydra things that split into even more mini versions of themselves. Hmmm I guess I Love Cells. BABIES!! Unleash the BABIES HAHAHAAAA!! Wanna now how the Metal Gears make Kibbles and Bits for their Lycans and Velociraptors? You know that Transformer in the Junk Yard that tries to pull everybody into its Big Vortex Mouth?... It's a lot like that. Each Metal Gear has a Meat Grinder Machine to Turn 100 People into Ground Beef, then Feed BIG BOSS's Ravenous War Beasts. Sometimes the Child Slave Soldiers get hungry too. Sometimes the Burger Maker will only drag in A Selected Group, like Virgins only or Babies only or Grieving Widows only. Lmfao Savage. Savage. Some Tanks and Metal Gears will stick tubes into people just to Sap them Dry of their Blood. Sometimes the Lycans love dry corpses. You can see em wagging

[the-firebird69]

I'm more to announce and it's more than just here in Charlotte county. But here they have continued to lay people off and they were getting up there in their layoffs on they had about 5% left in the government and 10% in private and you said they started last week and they tried and the ghetto about 1% of each and they've been kind of coming back and not staying out and the thing with the housing is affecting them and they're not able to get to work and they are getting fired that way and when they try and get back they have more ability to do it because there's less people forcing them back in today they're going to lay off all of them they said but they're going to start with about 2% of the 10% private and then they're going to start with 1% of the 5% government workers in Charlotte county and the higher ups are at about they keep filtering back and they are going to fire 100 more today and they vowed to this morning. They're all so firing people all over the world who are more like and their government positions and they're putting special orders on Trump to drop him like a rock and they need it too they want him out and of course it's McDonald's and they're going after him hard and they're using more advanced methods and procedures and they are cutting him loose from public office all over the world any office defunct areas or not and they're taking the assets including money accounts investments and so forth and they are killing off characters who are holding the positions and that's trumpsters and they're looking at this thing in the UK is a big opportunity to do so and is a huge huge movement of course it will drag others down and it will get kicked the others will get kicked out and it will start a huge process in doing so and the others are not very happy about it and it's going on right now they're getting booted from all sorts of jobs and removed and the West is starting to show signs of falling away from warlock and McDonald's are moving in and they're taking over key spots and we are in foreigners and Max and they are getting crushed we're building the facility and we're not going to stop now and putting up factories and we're not going to stop that they're also taking over their vineyards which were decrepit and they were hardly harvesting anything and they're hardly making any wine and that's a huge deal so we're going to publish and he agrees this is massive news

Hera

Olympus

[debbiepastachan]

Debbie Pastachan is a 20 year old human girl who lives in the slums and the ghettos of San Bernardino, California. She is reckless, buffoonish, immature, and insane, though she can be serious and mature sometimes. Despite her stupidly, Debbie is intelligent for some things and has multiple talents, the most prominent being sword fighting. She lacks a lot of social skills. She has never had a normal conversation with anyone. When she tries to talk to people, she unintentionally scares them away. She is very weird, absurd, and neurotic as well

She has severe ADHD (especially the hyperness) and functional autism

She is half blind (blind in one eye)

She is Ace, Greyro, and Sex-repulsed

Her favorite consumable item is Salame, her favorite salame company is Gallo Salame

Her favorite drink is Propel water. She loves it so much that she calls it "liquid gold" and she calls a case of them "a gold mine"

She also loves eating at McDonald's to the point that she nicknamed the place "McDonkey's"

Her favorite amusement park is "The National Orange Show"

She really likes to degrade, mock, insult, and talk sh*t about Los Angeles

She is a strong believer in anarcha-feminism

Fun fact: Debbie Pastachan is Debbie Jung but much older, completely human with no powers, inhuman abilities, or magic whatsoever, and she's from an alternate universe known as "Reality" also called "The World of Reality" and "Boring-old Earth"

Basically, she lives in a world that is just as sh*tty and reality as ours

Short info about her parents:

Debbie and her emotionally abusive mother (Susan Pastachan) are homeless. They live in a dumpster located on the bad side of San Bernardino (also known as the part of San Bernardino where it gets it's reputation). Her mother is, of course, very emotionally abusive, and she surely is a bi*ch.

Debbie's father (Oscar Chezkun) is nothing like Debbie Jung's father. He straight up neglected Susan before Debbie was born because he is a deadbeat father and an absolute hypocrite. Ever since Debbie was born, Susan blamed her as the reason why Oscar left them on the streets. Even in the current timeline, She still mocks her about it, and Debbie never met her father at all. Susan and Oscar were never married, and they never will be

[the-invisible-queer]

My dad is trying to tell me that if I get a job at McDonald's it will help me get a writing job

He was like "who knows maybe you'll meet someone who works for a publishing company or something"

Sir, our local McDonald's is in the middle of the ghetto and there are videos of people fighting the employees 😭

No one who works at a publishing company is gonna be eating there

[alsjeblieft-zeg]

298 of 2022

   Do you ever feel guilty after you masturbate?

Yeah, even very much so. Guys tend to make it messy, too (such is biology) and I hate my body for that. And for supposedly having this kind of needs, too.

   What is the most you have ever weighed?

More than I weigh now, too much for my tastes. I’m almost underweight, though.

   Would you ever work at McDonald’s?

I don’t think that’s a job for me.

   What do you think of feminism?

I just think radical feminism is not okay, because it’s just a bunch of unfair generalising. Otherwise, it’s a good thing.

   Have you ever done anything sexual with the same sex?

Yeah. I’ve never had sex with a woman, all two people I’ve ever had sex with are men.

   Are you a member of any dating sites?

No. But back in time me and some members of the forum I belong to created profiles on OKCupid just to add one another and check the match, it was kind of a “social experiment” done just for lolz. We deleted everything after a week or so.

   Coolest person you’ve ever met?

My 2nd ex, Nielsje. He’s wonderful, inside and out.

   Have you ever gone to a strip club?

No, not interested.

   If not, would you ever go?

Nope.

   Do you wear boxers?

I do.

   Girls, how old were you when you first learned how to put in a tampon?

Never, guys don’t need tampons anyway.

   Would you ever attend a gay pride parade or festival?

I don’t think so. I am “that gay dude”, but there’s no pride nor shame in who I am.

   Most ghetto area you’ve been to?

I don’t think the street I used to live on counts as ghetto XD

   Do you listen to The Dream?

I don’t even know who that is.

   If so, what’s your favourite song by him?

N/A.

   Do you download music via Limewire or file sharing?

No, it’s illegal in my country.

   Have you ever used a torrent?

No, it’s illegal here. All torrent websites are blocked by the government.

   Did you see Paranormal Activity 2?

No, I don’t even know what that is.

   Have you ever been so scared of a movie you had to leave the theatre?

I don’t even go to the cinemas. Such a waste of time for me.

   Have you ever been to Canada?

No, I’ve never left Europe.

   One place you want to visit before you die.

New York.

   Have you ever gotten in a fight with someone in school?

Probably, I don’t remember.

   What would you do if an old man grabbed your ass?

Haha he must be gay for that, I can’t think of anything else. I can’t imagine your average grandpa touching another guy like that XD

   Do you like moustaches?

Not that much.

   Know any hipsters?

Probably.

   What about gays?

Yeah, myself. Except that, I know one married couple and supposedly one of the guys I like, but he never said it loud.

   Does the song that gets on everybody’s nerves get on your nerves?

What is that song anyways?

   Is daylight savings time kicking your ass?

Most of the time. Then I get used to it.

   Could you hack into someone’s computer if you tried hard enough?

I wouldn’t even need to “try hard enough”. But I’m not gonna use this knowledge, ever.

   Have you ever smoked a cigar?

No, I haven’t.

   What is one thing you want for Christmas this year?

Good health.

   Do you go out on Black Friday?

Is it that shopping day? Then yeah, sure.

   Do you have curtains in your bedroom?

Shower curtain beause one of the doors is broken.

   Did you like the Spice Girls when you were little?

No. I’ve never liked ‘girly things’.

   Can you sing the entire Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme song?

I don’t even know what that is.

   Do you get heartburn?

Not anymore, I take medication for that.

   What internet browser do you use?

Firefox for now, Opera in my phone, Chrome in my tablet, but I hate Chrome.

   Are you scared of elevators?

Not anymore. I use them quite a lot.

   Have you ever seen a dead body in person?

Well, I’ve seen my grandma at her funeral, just before they closed her coffin. Does that count?

   Have you ever seen The Goonies?

No and I don’t even know what that is.

   Do you think Michael Jackson was really a sex offender?

I don’t know and I don’t care, he’s been dead for 13 years, God.

   If you’re white, do you ever wish you were black? Or vice versa?

No. I’m fine being white and even pale. After all, it doesn’t even matter what skin colour you have, every person is either a good person or an asshole, and everyone deserves respect by default.

   Do you bake cookies all the time around Christmas?

No. I usually forget about it.

   Do you like your hair pulled?

I hate it. I’ve had major surgery on my head and some areas on it are too sensitive now. And even before.

   Do you crack your toes?

No, tht has never happened. I crack everything else, though.

   What kind of cellphone do you have?

Samsung Galaxy A-something.

   Have you ever visited a college for a weekend?

No, never. Is there such a thing?

   Are you in college?

I’ve been doing yet another degree in uni, but I put it on hold, involuntarily.

   What is the furthest you will go away from home for college?

15 kilometres maybe. I have a workplace in my city and I can’t move away now.

   Funniest youtube video you’ve seen?

Djent Scene in 5 Minutes, these dudes are awesome.

   Are you scared of public restrooms?

No, just disgusted.

   Do you still go trick or treating?

Still? I’ve never celebrated Halloween at all.

[xmanicpanicx]

Mammoth List of Feminist/Girl Power Books (200 + Books)

Lists of Real, Amazing Women Throughout History

Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World by Ann Shen

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls 2 by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed the World by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo

Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World by Pénélope Bagieu, Montana Kane (Translator)

Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics by Jason Porath

Tough Mothers: Amazing Stories of History’s Mightiest Matriarchs by Jason Porath

Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky

Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World by Mackenzi Lee

Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History by Sam Maggs

The Little Book of Feminist Saints by Julia Pierpont

Rad Women Worldwide: Artists and Athletes, Pirates and Punks, and Other Revolutionaries Who Shaped History by Kate Schatz

Warrior Women: 3000 Years of Courage and Heroism by Robin Cross & Rosalind Miles

Women Who Dared: 52 Stories of Fearless Daredevils, Adventurers, and Rebels by Linda Skeers & Livi Gosling 

100 Nasty Women of History by Hannah Jewell

The Warrior Queens by Antonia Fraser

Sea Queens: Women Pirates Around the World by Jane Yolen

The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience by Hillary Rodham Clinton & Chelsea Clinton 

Fight Like a Girl: 50 Feminists Who Changed the World by Laura Barcella

Samurai Women 1184–1877 by Stephen Turnbull

A Black Woman Did That by Malaika Adero

Tales from Behind the Window by Edanur Kuntman

Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights by Mikki Kendall

Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100 by Max Dashu

Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency by Bea Koch

Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History by Blair Imani

Individual and Group Portraits of Real, Amazing Women Throughout History

Alice Paul and the Fight for Women's Rights: From the Vote to the Equal Rights Amendment by Deborah Kops

Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life by Jane Sherron De Hart

The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-Scott

I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb

Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA by Amaryllis Fox

Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir by Cherríe L. Moraga

The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants: The Female Gang That Terrorised London by Brian McDonald

Women Against the Raj: The Rani of Jhansi Regiment by Joyce Chapman Lebra

Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus

The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor

Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt

The Women of WWII (Non-Fiction)

Women Heroes of World War II: 26 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Resistance, and Rescue by Kathryn J. Atwood

Skyward: The Story of Female Pilots in WWII by Sally Deng

The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II by Katherine Sharp Landdeck

The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II by Svetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear (Translation), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translation)

Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died Under Nazi Occupation by Anne Sebba

To Serve My Country, to Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African-American Wacs Stationed Overseas During World War II by Brenda L. Moore

Standing Up Against Hate: How Black Women in the Army Helped Change the Course of WWII by Mary Cronk Farrell

Sisters and Spies: The True Story of WWII Special Agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne by Susan Ottaway

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell

The White Mouse by Nancy Wake

Code Name Hélène by Ariel Lawhon

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II by Liza Mundy

Tomorrow to be Brave: A Memoir of the Only Woman Ever to Serve in the French Foreign Legion by Susan Travers & Wendy Holden

Pure Grit: How WWII Nurses in the Pacific Survived Combat and Prison Camp by Mary Cronk Farrell

Sisterhood of Spies by Elizabeth P. McIntosh

Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan by Shrabani Basu

Women in the Holocaust by Dalia Ofer

The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos by Judy Batalion

Night Witches: The Untold Story of Soviet Women in Combat by Bruce Myles

The Soviet Night Witches: Brave Women Bomber Pilots of World War II by Pamela Jain Dell

A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II by Elizabeth Wein

A Dance with Death: Soviet Airwomen in World War II by Anne Noggle

Avenging Angels: The Young Women of the Soviet Union's WWII Sniper Corps by Lyuba Vinogradova

The Women of WWII (Fiction)

Among the Red Stars by Gwen C. Katz

Night Witches by Kathryn Lasky

Night Witches by Mirren Hogan

Night Witch by S.J. McCormack

Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith

Daughters of the Night Sky by Aimie K. Runyan

The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff

Code Name Verity series by Elizabeth Wein

Front Lines trilogy by Michael Grant

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

All-Girl Teams (Fiction)

The Seafire trilogy by Natalie C. Parker

Elysium Girls by Kate Pentecost

The Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Nicole Davis

The Effigies trilogy by Sarah Raughley

Guardians of the Dawn series by S. Jae-Jones

Wolf-Light by Yaba Badoe

Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson

Burned and Buried by Nino Cipri

This Is What It Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow

The Wild Ones: A Broken Anthem for a Girl Nation by Nafiza Azad

We Rule the Night by Claire Eliza Bartlett

Tigers, Not Daughters by Samantha Mabry

The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg

Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman

Bad Girls Never Say Die by Jennifer Mathieu

The Secret Life of Prince Charming by Deb Caletti

Kamikaze Girls by Novala Takemoto, Akemi Wegmüller (Translator)

The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See

The Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry

The Scapegracers by Hannah Abigail Clarke

Sisters in Sanity by Gayle Forman

The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place by Julie Berry

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

The Lost Girls by Sonia Hartl

Hell's Belles series by Sarah MacLean

Jackdaws by Ken Follett

The Farmerettes by Gisela Tobien Sherman

A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions by Sheena Boekweg

Feminist Retellings

Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly

Poisoned by Jennifer Donnelly

Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust

The Girl Who Fell Beneath The Sea by Axie Oh

Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins by Emma Donoghue

Doomed by Laura Pohl

The Seventh Bride by T. Kingfisher

The Boneless Mercies by April Genevieve Tucholke

Seven Endless Forests by April Genevieve Tucholke

The Queens of Innis Lear by Tessa Gratton

A Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston

Kate Crackernuts by Katharine M. Briggs

Legendborn series by Tracy Deonn

One for All by Lillie Lainoff

Feminist Dystopian and Horror Fiction

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Grace Year by Kim Liggett

Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand

Godshot by Chelsea Bieker

Women and Girls in Comedy 

Crying Laughing by Lance Rubin

Stand Up, Yumi Chung by Jessica Kim

This Will Be Funny Someday by Katie Henry

Unscripted by Nicole Kronzer

Pretty Funny for a Girl by Rebecca Elliot

Bossypants by Tina Fey

We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy by Yael Kohen

The Girl in the Show: Three Generations of Comedy, Culture, and Feminism by Anna Fields

Trans Women

Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock

Nemesis series by April Daniels

American Transgirl by Faith DaBrooke

Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout by Laura Jane Grace

A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett

Gracefully Grayson by Ami Polonsky

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom

Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family by Amy Ellis Nutt

George by Alex Gino

The Witch Boy series by Molly Ostertag

Uncomfortable Labels: My Life as a Gay Autistic Trans Woman by Laura Kate Dale

She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan

An Anthology of Fiction by Trans Women of Color by Ellyn Peña

Wandering Son by Takako Shimura

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

Feminist Poetry

Women Are Some Kind of Magic trilogy by Amanda Lovelace

Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty by Nikita Gill

Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul by Nikita Gill

Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters by Nikita Gill

The Girl and the Goddess by Nikita Gill

A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland by DaMaris B. Hill

Feminist Philosophy and Facts

The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner

The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy by Gerda Lerner

Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice by Jack Holland

White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism by Bushra Rehman

Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks

Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World by Kelly Jensen

The Equality Illusion by Kat Banyard

White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind by Koa Beck

Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates

I Have the Right To by Chessy Prout & Jenn Abelson

Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World by Kumari Jayawardena

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

How to Suppress Women's Writing by Joanna Russ

Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea Ritchie

Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment by Patricia Hill Collins

But Some of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies by Akasha Gloria Hull, Patricia Bell-Scott, Barbara Smith Women, Race, and Class by Angela Y. Davis This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe L. Moraga, Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDinn

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

Difficult Women by Roxane Gay

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by by Cherríe Moraga & Gloria Anzaldúa

Power Shift: The Longest Revolution by Sally Armstrong

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Had It Coming: What's Fair in the Age of #MeToo? by Robyn Doolittle

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story that Helped Ignite a Movement by Jody Kantor & Megan Twohey

#Notyourprincess: Voices of Native American Women by Lisa Charleyboy

Girl Rising: Changing the World One Girl at a Time by Tanya Lee Stone

Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power by Sady Doyle

Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement by Robin Morgan (Editor)

Girls Make Media by Mary Celeste Kearney

Rock She Wrote: Women Write about Rock, Pop, and Rap by Evelyn McDonnell (Editor)

You Play the Girl: And Other Vexing Stories That Tell Women Who They Are by Carina Chocano

Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco

The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor), Hollis Robbins (Editor)

Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World by Jessica Valenti and Jaclyn Friedman Bread Out of Stone: Recollections, Sex, Recognitions, Race, Dreaming, Politics by Dionne Brand

Other General Girl Power/Feminist Awesomeness

The Edge of Anything by Nora Shalaway Carpenter

Kat and Meg Conquer the World by Anna Priemaza

Talk Before Sleep by Elizabeth Berg

The Female of the Species by Mandy McGinnis

Pulp by Robin Talley

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera

How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr

That Summer by Sarah Dessen

Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen

Honey, Baby, Sweetheart by Deb Caletti

The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Daré

Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner

Beauty Queens by Libba Bray

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

American Girls by Alison Umminger

Don't Think Twice by Ruth Pennebaker

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women by Alice Walker

You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories by Alice Walker

Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo

Sula by Toni Morrison

Rose Sees Red by Cecil Castellucci

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu

Rules for Being a Girl by Candace Bushnell & Katie Cotugno

None of the Above by I.W. Gregorio

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Everything Must Go by Jenny Fran Davis

The House on Olive Street by Robyn Carr

Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman

Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde

Lady Luck's Map of Vegas by Barbara Samuel 

Fan the Fame by Anna Priemaza

Puddin' by Julie Murphy

A Heart in a Body in the World by Deb Caletti

Gravity Brings Me Down by Natale Ghent

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

The Summer of Impossibilities by Rachael Allen

The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall by Katie Alender

Don't Tell a Soul by Kirsten Miller

After the Ink Dries by Cassie Gustafson Girl, Unframed by Deb Caletti

We Are the Ashes, We Are the Fire by Joy McCullough 

Maybe He Just Likes You by Barbara Dee

Things a Bright Girl Can Do by Sally Nicholls

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart

Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix

The Cure for Dreaming by Cat Winters

Dress Coded by Carrie Firestone

The Prettiest by Brigit Young

Don't Judge Me by Lisa Schroeder

The Roommate by Rosie Danan

Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir by Liz Prince

Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present by Lillian Faderman

All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister

Paper Girls comic series by Brian K. Vaughan

Heavy Vinyl comic series by Carly Usdin

Please feel free to reblog with more!

[simonsrosebud]

CAN DALTON AND KEVIN GET TIK TOK AND DO CUTE COUPLEY THINGS OR A YOUTUBE CHANNEL OR EVEN JUST LIKE CUTE INSTAGRAM CAPTIONS I AM OBSESSED WITH SOCIAL MEDIA AUS RN also sorry that seemed slightly aggressive i just got excited feel free to ignore this haha

dalton most definitely has a tiktok.

he doesn’t post videos of him and kevin being couple-y bc those moments are saved for just them, but the world absolutely gets the chaotic side of kevin and the foxes.

the first one to go viral is one with the sound “fuck you my child is completely fine” and then goes right into multiple chaotic clips of kevin hanging upside down off dalton’s couch, ones of him standing in random places around dalton’s apartment eating cereal (in front of the television, in the middle of the kitchen), and ends with him pushing a shopping cart and standing on the back like it’s the titanic.

“what it’s like being an exy wife” and pictures of him and kevin before or after games, on planes, at banquets.  that’s the one that causes people to find his account bc kevin doesn’t have one so dalton is next best.

this one actually evolves into dalton giving actual insight on it, but mainly on how you know, these athletes are just like us.  they’re just people and blah blah

a compilation video of kevin looking very lost in stores.

dalton filming him while asking “what does y-e-s spell?  and what does e-y-e-s spell?” and kevin falling for it and getting more confused.  (aka it’s a trick and some people look right past it and say it like ee-yes bc they just said yes)

kevin and neil shouting at each other in french (about whether vanilla or chocolate oreos are better) and dalton flipping the camera to say “i’m in the ghetto, oui oui” with a french accent and then sticking his tongue out.

it’s one of the very few tiktok’s that neil is in because even though his father isn’t a threat anymore, it still makes him uncomfortable to have his face posted places more than it has to or more than he can control.

“story time on how i met my bf”

videos of him and matt doing the dances but they only do one try and that’s the one that gets posted.

that “i’d like to buy an owl” one with kevin, and cut to kevin wheezing laughing face down on the couch after the punch line.

a few rare thirst traps of kevin bc he’s got an ASS on him.  they’re mosty just unplanned vids of dalton zooming in on kevin with like “promiscuous girl” as the background song.

videos of andrew knocking things over while staring into the camera.  like a cat.

a few videos of the camera doing a 360 around the room, and it sweeps past matt then does a double take to him who’s sitting upright and staring very intently at the camera as it zooms in.

a few videos of matt and dalton sitting with the phone propped up in front of them as they talk nonsense.  these are 95% wheezing laughter ab something that happened or was said before he hit record and no one really knows what they’re saying.

a video of matt going through the drive-thru at mcdonald’s with dalton on his shoulders wearing a cowboy hat, pink sunglasses, and a boa that they found.  dan took the video.  kevin refused to come.

some of dalton just talking about something that happened today or this week.  mainly things his students did but without mentioning names.

a video that goes like this:  a screenshot of dalton’s txt messages, dalton asking if kevin can send him a video of him saying i can’t talk right now i’m doing hot girl shit and kevin saying why but then sending it anyway;  switch to kevin’s video;  switch to kevin trying to do a backbend/bridge on the floor in dalton’s bedroom and failing.

then dalton actually doing the “i can’t talk right now i’m doin hot girl shit” trend but it switches to him following kevin around exites with the words “taking my boyfriend to exites bc he needs to be entertained”

if y’all think of anything else lmk LOL

[daniwoitkowski]

A Closer Look at Milwaukee Zip Code 53206

After reading A Closer Look at Milwaukee Zip Code 53206, an article published in the Milwaukee Magazine in 2014, I’m ashamed of the city I currently call home.

Contained between I-43 to the east, 27th Street to the West and North Avenue and Capitol Drive to its south and north sides is one of the largest zip code areas in the city of Milwaukee. Zip code area of 53206 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin is often written off as the poorest area in the largest city in the state.

An eyesore in Milwaukee, zip code 53206, is where a third of the city’s vacant lots reside. The greatest percentage, nearly 95% of its residents in zip code 53206 are African Americans. Surrounding counties implemented restrictive covenants preventing African American tenants' equal rights, which confined most African Americans to the northwestern portion of the city, or around the 53206 area. The Supreme Court ruled such covenants to be unconstitutional in 1948, they remained on the books until Congress passed the Fair Housing Act in 1968. Milwaukee known for being one of the most segregated cities in the United States.

Warren’s Lounge on Hopkins Avenue, owned by 81-year-old Warren Harper, a “Cheers” like bar hides itself in the middle of the deserted condemned buildings. Warren and his wife, Shirley, have been married for over 59 years, with four children and multiple grandchildren. Warren and Shirley bought the lounge back in 1970. Back in the lounge’s heyday factory workers from around the area would stop in for lunch or beer relaxing after their shift. During the time when the Green Bay Packers played at county stadium, players could be regularly seen enjoying the relaxing atmosphere.

Life has changed and the lounge is not the same, feeling the pain of the abandoned factories. Even though, their children attempt to sway them into having hip-hop bands play into the addition to the jazz and blues bands that periodically play at the lounge. Life has been hard on them, however they will not close, “It’s their life.”

Wandering around 53206 tends to make people, especially white people, uneasy. Too many businesses are either closed or enclosed in metal bars and padlocks. Even with a gem like, Warren’s Lounge, can be intimidating to its visitors as you enter through the small, dark doorway hidden behind a locked heavy metal grate with a bell that must be rung for entry.

Opportunities seem to climb and decline rapidly for African Americans in Milwaukee. So, what happened?

One generation hopes and dreams becomes heavy burdens on the forgotten generations that follow. Looking past educational statures, joblessness and the crime in the areas of poverty, we need to begin looking into the history of the African American population of Milwaukee, Wisconsin at once was and why it became what it is today.

The African American population increased with the Great Migration north, which affected the African American communities in Milwaukee. Like most African American families, Warren and Shirley moved to Milwaukee in 1957 during the Great Migration in search of a better life.

The Great Migration was when millions of southern African American people migrated north for better opportunities between 1916 to 1970. Many came to Milwaukee for the ever-growing jobs with the industrial factories at the time. Families settled down bought homes in the area, new businesses opened and grew, times were good. By the 1980s, times were not so good. Factories started to close in the area and businesses started to move out of the once flourishing neighborhoods. Some people moved out to the suburbs, while the majority of the African American population stayed behind and survived.

Barbara Miner, the Milwaukee-area freelance writer, purpose in this article was to educate by showing a face to the neighborhood around the Milwaukee 53206 zip code. The article brought tears to my eyes as I read about the longevity of people who make up the community even through the absence of jobs, transportation, and sort of conveniences that those of us who live merely blocks away take for granted. Then there is the stealthy growing abandoned housing market. However, many families have still stuck around to support their community or stay for the affordable housing.

Through the article, Miner, is attempting to educate the audience on the poverty in our own city. We have created this blind spot within our own community, and we tend to forget the area’s history. We are left with the assumption that the people living in these areas have chosen their fate instead of understanding the truth behind our ignorance. It’s well known what happened in Detroit after the auto industries started closing, but it is not known how the same affects had and still affects so many in our own city.

Beauty exists, such as with Dr. Carter, a retired Pharmacist who continues to go back and visit his community passing along trusted remedies to his neighborhood residents. Dr. Carter broke down barriers back in 1968 after he founded one of first Milwaukee black owned pharmacies. Now after selling his pharmacy, Dr. Carter can still be found at the store as a consultant in natural remedies.

Yet the media has forgotten about this area as though it doesn’t exist except for the inquiries pertaining to shootings in the area. The problem, or exigence, here is with the ignorance surrounding this forgotten and disregarded area of our city. I begin to ask myself, why do we have such a blind eye with our own neighboring areas? I wonder how the decline to industry in the city of Milwaukee and the poverty relates to the poverty that was created with the auto crisis in Detroit. I would have liked to see more of the information we read from the A Closer Look at Milwaukee Zip Code 53206 article on the non-existence of corporate businesses and declining public transportation and after school programs ties into the jobless market that intertwine in the poverty rates in these areas.

Current circumstances in 53206 go deeper than the loss of factories and that the jobs in the area.

“There’s investment out there, and there are jobs. But they’re in New Berlin or Waukesha. There’s no bus, so how are people going to get there?” (2015, Jan 28)

Perceptions have also been made that the housing bubble was the issue that affected people in this area, and they were of the many that shouldn’t have bought a home in the first place. However, a lot of families that lost their homes in 53206 were long-time owners.

Miner goes on to talk with a group of students from North Division High School who are studying zip-code-53206. Miner gathered their thoughts on how they feel about the area and what they would want people to know about the area, some of which that were mentioned as follows:

“Notice that we are here, that, like you, we are human, and we deserve the same things you want.”

“The police, I can’t explain it, but they don’t like black people.”

“It ain’t got no future.”

“Nothing’s going to change, ’cause nobody cares.”

Unfortunately, conditions such as the few mentioned have contributed to demolish government help enabling people to believe such areas are beyond any genuine rehabilitation, deeming the area in the past too black and ghetto.

Poverty is so much more then people just making bad choices or the wrong decisions in life. The purpose of the rhetors with this medium explain how trauma that stems from poverty begin way before one can make their own choices in life.

Regardless, parents in 53206 want the same things as any other parent anywhere in the world wants. We want our children to be safe, happy and a better childhood than we had. Is there anything wrong with the hope that our children grow up without the worry of crime surrounding them or to be able to go through school without bullying? We all want hope for the future.

Whether we live in Milwaukee or not we can relate to the exigences mentioned in the life cycle of the Great Migration and African Americans in Milwaukee mentioned, you cannot deny the purpose. The effects of poverty have an impact with your entire life, from childhood on through your adult life and passed on through the next generations. We become our parents, our community, our surroundings. We are what we are familiar with whether it be hiding money for emergencies like those who lived through the Great Depression to as unknowingly as our dialect or accent we commonly use day to day. If raised in poverty the traumatic affects you would carry through life, even if you leave those surroundings, the effects remain.

For Milwaukee, the future needs to bring education on the history of the African American population. Milwaukee doesn’t give the same possibilities to the people in the now poverty areas affected by the industrial decline. Such possibilities as, public transportation to give access to jobs and convenience stores, such as Wal-Mart or even McDonalds. Overlooking the truth and ignorance of the past never helped humanity in the future.

Source Cites:

Barbara Miner, Milwaukee. (2015, Jan 28). A Closer Look at Milwaukee Zip Code 53206. 1/28/2015 https://www.milwaukeemag.com/milwaukee-zip-code-53206/

Reggie Jackson, Milwaukee Independent. (2019, Apr 19). REGGIE JACKSON: REMEMBERING A TIME WHEN 53206 WAS KNOWN AS A LOVING COMMUNITY TO GROW UP IN. 4/19/2019 http://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/featured/reggie-jackson-remembering-time-53206-known-loving-community-grow/

Dan Schneider, Dollars & Sense. (2015, Nov/Dec). The Worst Place in the US to Be Black Is... Wisconsin 11/2015 http://dollarsandsense.org/archives/2015/1115schneider.html

[purplesurveys]

1227

survey by seaachange

Do you ever feel guilty after you masturbate? When I was younger, yeah. Not so much anymore.

What is the most you have ever weighed? I would guess I’ve passed the 100 lbs mark every now and then, so those times. I can’t seem to gain weight no matter how much I eat, though.

Would you ever work at McDonald's? I know nothing about food preparation/customer service/restaurant management, so it’s probably a no for me.

If you aren't already, would you go vegetarian or vegan? Yes, if we had more food/grocery options AND cheaper options. Having specific diets is an expensive endeavor here since it’s mostly still seen as a fad.

Are you an activist of any kind? I have my advocacies and I’m very vocal about them, but I wouldn’t call myself an activist. I think I should be doing more to be able to identify myself as one.

What do you think of feminism? Agree with it and I’ll always fight for it.

Have you ever done anything sexual with the same sex? Well I dated a girl for six years in total...

Are you a member of any dating sites? I used to have Bumble on my phone after my friends’s prodding, but I deleted it like a week ago after it’s been just sitting on my phone for months. I used it for...I wanna say only two days? and it was just for an ego boost after my breakup since it felt nice to see people click match on me lmao. I never entertained any of them, though.

Coolest person you've ever met? Probably my uncle Rob.

Have you ever gone to a strip club? I’ve never gone inside one, actually. That’d be nice to experience at least once.

If not, would you ever go? Sure.

Do you wear boxers? Nope.

Girls, how old were you when you first learned how to put in a tampon? I’ve never used a tampon before. Not really common here (and so are other period products other than pads), although very recently I’ve seen more awareness campaigns for them which is great.

Would you ever attend a gay pride parade or festival? Like...a general festival? Right now, I’m leaning towards the latter.

Most ghetto area you've been to? Tondo.

Do you listen to The Dream? I have heard some songs produced by him, but I don’t think I’ve heard anything that he himself sang.

If so, what's your favourite song by him? Coming from the last question, Beyoncé’s Partition.

Do you download music via Limewire or file sharing? I used to, but those days are far behind me lol. I stream on Spotify.

Have you ever used a torrent? ^ Yes, mostly for movies but I occasionally downloaded albums too.

Did you see Paranormal Activity 2? Yes. But I don’t think I was able to finish it because I got too spooked.

Have you ever been so scared of a movie you had to leave the theatre? No because I paid for that ticket.

Have you ever been to Canada? I have not.

One place you want to visit before you die. I would love to go to Chicago.

Have you ever gotten in a fight with someone in school? Not physical, but yeah.

What would you do if an old man grabbed your ass? Realistically, and based from previous experiences, I would probably be too shocked to react and most likely cry once I’m able to process what happened. Ideally I would smack them in the face, age be damned.

Do you like moustaches? I’m neutral.

Know any hipsters? Erm, I don’t think so.

What about gays? Sure.

Does the song that gets on everybody's nerves get on your nerves? What’s that song though?

Is daylight savings time kicking your ass? We don’t follow that here, and it’s rarely affected me.

Could you hack into someone's computer if you tried hard enough? I wouldn’t even know how to start.

Have you ever smoked a cigar? No and I don’t think I would ever be interested in trying. I’m not a big smoker as it is.

What is one thing you want for Christmas this year? I’m getting myself BTS merch for sure. I’ve stopped expecting certain gifts from family/friends since I’m earning on my own now; they can get me anything and I’d be over the moon with them.

Do you go out on Black Friday? We don’t follow that either. Is that the one with the big sales? Idek.

Do you have curtains in your bedroom? Not curtains, but blinds I can pull up and down.

Did you like the Spice Girls when you were little? Nah, I was too young for them.

Can you sing the entire Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme song? For like...a week. I watched and got hooked to the show for a very brief time last year and managed to memorize the theme song, but I wouldn’t be able to recite it today.

Do you get heartburn? Only when I eat something excessively greasy. I remember getting bad heartburn right after eating KFC’s Double Down sandwich lol.

What internet browser do you use? I’ve always used Google Chrome.

Are you scared of elevators? If it’s in an old, not-super-maintained building and I have to ride it alone, then yes.

Have you ever seen a dead body in person? Only when they were already laid to rest in a coffin. Nothing beyond that.

Have you ever seen The Goonies? Nopes.

Do you think Michael Jackson was really a sex offender? I don’t know and I don’t really think about this.

If you're white, do you ever wish you were black? Or vice versa? I’m perfectly fine being brown.

Do you bake cookies all the time around Christmas? No, I never really bake.

Do you like your hair pulled? Erm...as in during sex? Hahaha yeah, sure.

Do you crack your toes? I don’t think I can do that. I’ve probably tried to do it before, though.

What kind of cellphone do you have? An iPhone 8 that is quickly running out of memory especially after starting to get hooked to BTS with the amount of photos and videos I save per day lolol

Have you ever visited a college for a weekend? I didn’t do that before starting college, no.

Are you in college? Not anymore; I graduated last year.

What is the furthest you will go away from home for college? I didn’t move out when I was in college.

Funniest youtube video you've seen? I watch a lot of funny videos on YouTube but I’m not too sure about the funniest. Maybe one of the BTS or Good Mythical Morning compilations I’ve stumbled upon?

Are you scared of public restrooms? Not scared; they’ve just always grossed me out, even pre-pandemic.

Do you still go trick or treating? Nah but I wouldn’t decline if my friends suddenly plan one as adults.

[kontextmaschine]

So like a decade ago I heard people were ghettoing together slot parlors in non-gambling states by building net cafes where each half hour of time bought you a number of contest entries to be "revealed" in a slot-format program, and the use of with-purchase scratch-off games was shielded by the mighty lobbying power of McDonalds defending the Monopoly game. What came of that?

[alarawriting]

Writeober 20-Demons

The thing looked like a toad, if toads were six feet tall, bloated to the point where it was impossible to imagine them successfully hopping, and had razor sharp teeth. Walter backed away from it, reaching for a weapon, any weapon, but he didn’t have one.

Dwayne chuckled. “You see it, don’t you?”

“If by ‘it’ you mean a giant motherfucking toad monster, yeah, I see it,” Walter said, holding his hands out in front of him like he could possibly fight off a giant toad monster bare-handed. “So am I gonna be seeing giant toads all over the place now?”

“Naah. They don’t all look like toads. I fought one last night looked like a bottle of Scotch.”

Walter was not sure if this was a metaphor or not. “A real demon, or a real bottle of Scotch?”

“Well, it don’t matter all that much, since my demons generally look like bottles of Scotch, or bottles of some kind of booze, anyway. But in this case, it was the kind of demon you punch, not the kind of demon you fight by ignoring it.”

“How do you tell the difference?” Walter asked. And what’s that mean for me? His own demons didn’t  look like bottles of anything; they looked like a world where nothing mattered and he was worthless. They sounded like his mother and his schoolteachers and everyone else in the world telling him he was stupid and useless and he should just go die. That was not very much at all like a giant toad monster.

“One way is, you try punching it and see if you get into a fight. Bottles of Scotch don’t punch you back if you punch them; they fall on the floor and break, or they don’t. They only punch back if you drink them.”

“I am not punching that thing.”

The old man grinned widely, yellowing teeth bright against lined brown skin. “Guess I’ll do it for you, this time,” Dwayne said, and marched right up to the toad monster.

Its tongue shot out, trying to grab him. Dwayne grabbed the tongue, instead, and yanked it, hard, throwing the toad off balance. As it fell forward, he wound up his arm and punched the thing, hard, right between its toad eyes. This caused him to lose the tongue, which came at him again. This time he managed to get the tongue down to the floor and step on it, and from there he was able to punch the demon in the head three or four times before the creature got its tongue free, and disappeared.

“You kill it?” Walter asked.

“Nah. Only the person a demon’s come to torment can ever kill it, and it’s damn hard even for them,” Dwayne said, breathing hard. “But you can drive it off. Give whoever the poor bastard it’s come for a break from it.”

“What’s a toad demon do?”

“No way to know. If you’re not the guy it’s after, you’re not gonna know what it’s doing. Could be temper – make a fellow lose his often enough, he ends up in jail, maybe shot by the cops, maybe accidentally kills someone, maybe his girlfriend leaves him and his kids hate him. Could be depression, like yours – make a fellow wanna kill himself. Could be booze, like mine. Or other drugs. All kinds of demons in the world.”

“And the only people who can see them are the ones who’ve fought off their own?” Walter asked skeptically. “Because damn, that toad monster looked real. My depression never looked like that.”

“You can’t see what your demon looks like to other people,” Dwayne said. “When I saw yours, it looked like a cross between a stormcloud and a pig, and it was draped all over you.”

Walter looked down. “Thanks for that again, man,” he said. “I owe you one.”

“Yeah, I know. Why you think I’m teachin’ you to hunt demons, kid? Lady name of Betty kicked the shit outta mine when I was thirty. It came back, but she gave me enough of a breather to pull myself out of the gutter, try to make something of my life, and I been fighting it ever since but most of the time, I got the upper hand. That’s the way it works. A demon hunter beats up yours, after you’ve been fighting it long enough, and then you can see other people’s, and you pass it on by fighting theirs.”

“And we don’t get in trouble? Like, if no one can see the demon, don’t we look like crazies or something, punching thin air?”

“Naah. Once you’ve engaged with someone else’s demon, normal people’s eyes just slide right off you. They forget you were ever there. They gotta be demon hunters themselves to be able to see you, and if they are, they can see the demon.”

Walter shook his head. This was not how he’d expected his future to go. He’d won a scholarship, and he’d planned to go to college, get a degree, get out of the ghetto and get a good job. Depression had had other ideas, and the college hadn’t offered any help at all. His grades had dropped, he’d lost the scholarship, and the future had fallen out of his reach… which had made the depression far worse. He still had a hard time not blaming himself for his failure.

Now he worked at the local McDonalds’, trying to study up to apply for a postal worker job. Could be worse; his boss was an asshole, but he liked his coworkers and at least he had a job. He’d managed to beat back the depression for a while, at least until he started seeing monsters everywhere. And then Dwayne had come along while he was considering killing himself, and done something – Walter hadn’t been able to make out what he was doing, at the time. Now he knew Dwayne had been fighting Walter’s demon, and the depression had cleared up enough that he’d been able to pull himself back together again… and now, Dwayne was explaining to him what the monsters he was seeing were.

Humanity was haunted by demons. People haunted by demons might harm other people enough that demons could take hold of their psyche; other people were haunted by demons no matter how good their lives got, because it was part of their biology. No one could clearly see their own demon – you couldn’t punch your own demon to drive it away. You had to fight it the hard way, from the inside. But if you’d been successful at that, at least for the time being, you could see other people’s demons. And apparently, according to Dwayne, you could beat them up, and relieve other people’s pain for a while. Maybe help them get strong enough that they could fight the things themselves.

“This shit don’t pay the bills, though,” Dwayne said. “You still gotta have a real job. So far, I ain’t seen no one manage to turn ‘demon hunter’ into a paying job.”

“I figured,” Walter said. “If so many people are fighting their own demons, though, how come more of us can’t see them?”

“Some people just can’t see them no matter what. No idea why not. Maybe most people can’t. Maybe we’re special. Like the Slayers on ‘Buffy’.”

“Like what?”

Dwayne rolled his eyes. “Shit, I keep forgetting how old I am. You must’ve been, like, six when that show was on the air.”

“Oh, you mean ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer.’ Yeah, I’ve heard of that. Not really my thing, though.” Walter looked around, half-expecting the toad monster to come back. “Do we even know whose demon that was?”

“Nope. Ain’t easy to find out, either. Someone who lives in that apartment building, probably, but no way to know for sure.”

“Okay. So.” Walter took a deep breath. “We can see demons. Only people who can are people who fought their own – people with mental illnesses, addictions, that kind of shit – and maybe they need to be special people to begin with. Those of us that can see demons can kick the shit out of them, but only other people’s, and all we can do is make the demons go away for a while.”

“About sums it up,” Dwayne said. “So. You in, kid?”

Walter sighed. “Sure, why the hell not.”

[hardtoswallowtruthpills]

Jenna Marbles Didn't "Do Blackface"; Here is How Cancel-Culture Broke the Internet’s Adult in the Room

On May 31, 2020 Jenna Marbles, a well known Youtuber with about 20.3 million subscribers tweeted out in regards to African American’s rights to life and the Black Lives Matter movement. Marbles stated that “This is not a political issue, this is a human rights issue.This is systematic racism and oppression at the hands of law enforcement in our country. We want justice and we want change.  It shouldn't have happened once and it should never happen again.This is not a discussion”. Almost a month later, though, Jenna Marbles released a video on her Youtube channel vaguely titled “A Message”. Her subscribers would come to find when watching this video that Marbles was officially quitting YouTube over messages she had received asking her to address videos that were made in 2011 and 2012 for their “racist” content, as well as asking her to apologize. Marbles obliged, officially ‘canceling herself’ as some have said. Most of her fans are concerned about the break that Jenna Marbles is taking from the internet. Most even begging her not to leave Youtube permanently, but, there are bigger issues within this whole debacle that are being overlooked.

 Mainly, how did we get to the point where the current generation (which yours truly is a part of by the way) is so sensitive, that we harassed, intimidated, and bullied potentially one of the biggest voices on Youtube for the Black Lives Matter movement off the internet for an indefinite amount of time?

Don’t worry dear reader, you probably are wondering what could have possibly caused such a thing. Well, as most media outlets will tell you, Jenna Marbles quit youtube, and in turn the internet, because of accusations of her “doing blackface”. Surface level this sounds bad, doesn't it? It almost seems like her getting driven off the internet by a vocal minority almost seems expected, but remember, this is only surface deep. There's a whole bunch of stuff under the surface that needs to be unpacked, stuff that exposes why those who went after Marbles are, to put it lightly, hypocritical, or if you want it put bluntly, full of it. All of them though, have gone too far. Dear reader, this is a prime example of how the cancel-culture we have created is toxic slacktivism that gets us nowhere, and diminishes real world issues, and inevitably has broken one of the internet adults in the room.

The video that Marbles addressed in her apology that brought on the blackface accusations was one in which she did an “impression” of Niki Minaj. Here's the thing though...she was overly tanned at the time, filming in low lighting, and was wearing a cheap, acrylic, neon pink wig. With all factors combined, it becomes clear that none of this was “blackface” as the slacktivist warriors claim, it was just really bad filming technique. At the end of the video, Marbles even claims that it was “just a joke and that she loves and respects minaj”. We see in this clip one the wig is off, that Marbles was a spray-tan junkie at the time, which was common for girls in their 20’s about a decade ago.

Marbles also went on to apologize for a rap video she did, once again about a decade ago, for an original song called “Bounce on that Dick”. The rap was about toxic masculinity and the misogyny that toxic masculinity encourages. The lyrics express how men constantly brag about penis size or their attempts to sexualize women is ingrained in society's toxic notions of sexuality and masculinity. In this video Marbles, done up as a stereotypical asian man raps "Hey Ching Chong Wing Wong, shake your King Kong ding dong,". In her apology she admits it was racist and wrong and that she has privated the video because of the hurtful stereotype it portrays. Still though, it is being used against her even after apologizing.

Marbles also goes on to mention some of the other private videos on her channel. Claiming that she herself found most of them to be expressions of the internalized misogyny she held within herself back then. All of the videos she mentions in her apology have been privatized instead of deleted, showing in a way that Marbles is not going to pretend like these things didn’t happen, but she is also actively making sure that the videos cannot offend anyone anymore. 

For context, all of the videos that she discussed were around 8 to 10 years old as of this year. Meaning that in the oldest videos, Jenna Marbles would have been 22. Most 22 year olds at the time made mistakes, Jenna Marbles is not an exception to the rule, especially since the internet was becoming a vast place where anyone and everyone could express their thoughts and opinions. Sadly though, it seems this vocal minority that took it upon themselves to harass Marbles for an apology in the name of social justice think that just because she is a public figure, that at 22 she should’ve seen that in 10 years, this would come back to haunt her. The social justice slacktivists that seem to think they have done good in this world also forgot that in 2010, that was the humor of the time. Jenna was participating in humor that, back before cancel culture was really a thing, was considered harmless. She was doing impressions right along Shane Dawson’s Shanaynay, a Ghetto caricature that frequently appeared in videos on his first channel ShaneDawsonTV, or NigaHiga’s fake infomercials that would sometimes contain Ghetto or Gangster impressons and over the top asian impressions. Jenna was right there in terms of misogynistic or sexist stereotyping becoming a joke with Smosh, which compared a “Just Dance” game character to “A Skinny Ron Jeremy”, or comparing soft McDonald's fries to what the penises of men with erectile dysfunction would look like. Needless to say all of these creators couldn't see a decade into the future. It was acceptable to joke about these things back in the day in terms of Youtube culture. Since everyone in 2020 is now overly sensitive to decades old content, though, it is enough to get a creator “canceled”, even if they have shown significant improvement over those 10 years.

This vocal minority deliberately targeted Marbles, and pulled up videos from her past back up in an attempt to find something, anything problematic with her. Mind you, this is someone who’s most exciting, recent content was hydro-dipping a pair of crocs, acid washing old sweatshirts, and throwing a birthday party for her greyhound, complete with treats for the dog, and a  framed picture of Jerry Sinfeld as a birthday gift. Those who contacted her about her past and demanded an apology are directly responsible for what happened. They can claim it was Jenna’s choice to leave as much as they want, but would Jenna have made this choice if she weren’t harassed and bullied to the point where she felt her very existence on Youtube was hurtful? Would she have walked away if she weren’t scared that anything she could possibly say would inevitably offend someone? Most likely, the answer here is no. Instead of educating, or politely correcting past errors in private direct messages, these people decided it was their god-given right to demand an apology for videos that were made 10 years ago. They know that these videos and mistakes don't reflect the Jenna Marbles we all knew for the past 3 years, the one that actually changed and grew from it all.

These people seem clueless that their crusade for clicks and apologies they can turn around and deny under the guise of “the creator not meaning it” are diminishing every aspect of real-life issues and movements. If this continues the way that it is, if Smosh, or NigaHiga, or Shane Dawson are next in line for the cancel-culture call out machine. If they’re next to be accused of deliberately offending people, and when they apologize being told what their intentions were by internet strangers, who’s going to be there when they need big creators to back up their cause the most? The answer is nobody, nobody with a platform will be there to support them.

These people seeking to call out and cancel big name celebrities and public figures for their “racism” are ultimately going to hurt the Black Lives Matter movement. If anyone, celebrity or everyday citizen were on the fence with their support and they saw the Jenna Marbles fiasco, do you think they would be willing to support these movements? Especially in the case of Jenna MArbles, who openly defended the group before the accusations and cancelling began? They probably would be running for the hills. When we let people get away with being toxic, we are complicit in cancel-culture, If we are calling someone out for something that happened a decade ago, if we feel the need to air out their dirty laundry, without first addressing that the ones doing the aring out may have their own dirty laundry, then we let hypocrites get away with their hypocrisy. If you honestly support the Black Lives Matter movement, you would understand that change comes through education of the self and others, through protest, through showing those in power that we will no longer stand for their oppression of the minority. What does not bring about change is liking comments that harass people for mistakes made a decade ago, by canceling anyone over these mistakes, by driving a woman away from a platform where millions could’ve heard the message that she was trying to spread because of the entitled and toxic personality that these people seem to possess. All of this is driving people away from a social justice movement that is trying to bring about change, and is silencing those who are trying to be heard. Those who participate in this kind of toxic cancel-culture, are making movements like the Black Lives Matter movement an utter joke to those who are trying to understand, or worse, those who like life the way it is, who like their privilege, and want movements like this to be undermined.

In the end, it should be believed that those who called Jenna Marbles out OWE her an apology. Your toxicity drove away a proponent to a movement that could have made a difference. You made a woman who has continually educated herself over the last decade up and leave because you refused to believe that change was possible. These participants also OWE an apology to their closest Black Lives Matter chapter, for they need to understand how much their participation has diminished the message and work of those trying to actually make a difference. Maybe after this experience, they will realize that making a change doesn't happen through cyber-bullying. Perhaps, these people who participated in the cancel-culture that drove away Jenna Marbles will realize that they haven’t done anything to better themselves until they pick up a book from a Black author, or actually take to the streets and march for what should be a basic human right. Besides, maybe marching will also give these people a long-needed lesson on how it feels to have your speech repressed, and how discouraging it is when others won’t listen to what you have to say, just like how they did not listen to all of those apologies they demanded get thrown their way.

For now though, sadly, we get to live with the ramifications of the actions of a few. As long as Jenna is off the internet, there is one less platform bringing the much needed attention to a much needed movement. So, thank you cancel-culture, you silenced someone who has grown and was using their privilege to speak up for the good of those who cannot speak for themselves by claiming they were the very thing they were speaking out against. We all hope you're proud of what you did, that you feel superior for bullying someone. Since you like to cause ramifications like this to come to be, we hope that you ride off this high for a long time, specifically so you leave the rest of those using their platforms and privilege for good alone.

[space-x-cowgirl]

Y’all are gonna hate me for this part 2.

226. Wish you were the opposite sex: No.

227. Caught someone doing something: Yes.

228. Played a game that removes clothing: No.

229. Cried during a movie: Yes.

230. Cried over someone: Yes.

231. Wanted to hook up with a friend: Yes.

232. Hooked up with someone you barely met: Yes.

233. Ran away from home: Yes.

234. Cheated on a test: Yes.

Section Twelve: Would you

235. Bungee jump: No.

236. Sky dive: No.

237. Swim with dolphins: Yes.

238. Steal a friend's bf or gf: No.

239. Try to be the opposite sex: No.

240. Lie to the police: No.

241. Run from the police: Maybe.

242. Lie to your parents: No.

243. Backstab a friend for your own well being: No.

244. Be an exotic dancer:Maybe.

245. NQ- Kill the president: No.

Section Thirteen: Are you

246. Shy: Yes.

247. Loud: Yes.

248. Nice: Yes.

249: Outgoing:.No.

250: Quiet: Sometimes.

251. Mean: I can be.

252. Emotional: Wxtremely.

253. Sensitive: Very.

254. Gay: Half.

255. Strong:.No.

256. Weak: Yes.

257. Caring: Too caring.

258. Dangerous No.

259. Crazy: A little.

260. Spontaneous: No.

261. Funny: I hope.

262. Sweet: Yes.

263. Sharing:. I try.

264. Responsible: No.

265. Trustworthy: Yes.

266. Open-minded: Yes.

267. Creative: Sorta.

268. Cute:.No.

269. Slick: No

270. Smart: Kinda.

271. Dumb: A little.

272. Evil: No.

273. Ghetto: Maybe.

274. Classy: No.

275. Photogenic: No.

276. Dependable: I try to be.

277. Greedy: Sometimes.

278. Ugly: Yeah.

279. Messy: Sometimes.

280. Neat: I try.

281. Perverted: Sometimes.

282. Silly: Very.

283. A B****: Sometimes.

284. A Good Listener: Yes.

285. A Fighter: No.

286. A Party Animal: No.

287. A Game Freak: Yes.

288. A Computer Freak: No

Section Fourteen: Future

289. Dream job: Veterinary tech.

290. Dream house: Not sure.

291. Husband/Wife: Current.

292. Kids:2.

293. Names: Aela and Oliver.

294. Pets: Yes.

295. Car: Jeep Wrangler.

296. Age you would want to get married:Beofre 30.

297. Best Man/Bride's Maid: Not sure.

298. Honeymoon: Ireland.

Section Fifteen: Your friends

299. Best friend: Noah.

300. Known the longest: Elise.

301. Craziest: Not sure.

302. Loudest: Noah

303. Shyest: Me

304. Best hair: Jake

305. Best eyes: Jake

306. Best body: Idk

307. Most Athletic: Idk

308. Hot-Tempered: Craig

309. Most impatient: me

310. Shortest: Crystal

311. Tallest: Jake

312. Skinniest: Jake

313. Best singer: Jake

314. Funniest: Noah

315. Can always make you laugh: Noah or Craig

316. Wish you talked to more: Craig or Jake

317. Wish you saw more: Noah

318. Who drives you insane after a while: None

319. Who you can stay around forever and never get sick of: Noah

320. Ever lose a friend because you took it to the 'next level': Almost

321. Whose always been there when you need them: Noah

322. Who is like your family: Noah.

323. How many friends do you have?: like 4.

324. How many are really close? 1.

Section Sixteen: The last

325. Thing you ate: Nerds.

326. Thing you drank: Baja blast.

327. Thing you wore: Work uniform.

328. Thing you did: Peed.

329. Place you went: Taco Bell.

330. Thing you got pierced or tattooed:Nose.

331. Person you saw: Tristyn.

332. Person you hugged: Tristyn.

333. Person you kissed:Tristyn.

334. NQ- Person you beat to a juicy pulp:Alysha kinda.

335. Person you talked to online: Nate.

336. Person you talked to on the phone: My mom.

337. Song you heard: Selfish Machines.

338. Show you saw: Shokugeki Food Wars.

339. Time you fought with your parents: Like 2 weeks ago.

340. Time you fought with a friend: A week ago.

341. Words you said: Go sleepies and brush your teefies

Section Seventeen: Now

343. What are you eating: Mothing.

344. What are you drinking: Nothing.

345. What are you thinking: Sad thoughts.

346. What are you wearing: Pj’s.

347. What are you doing: This.

349. Hair: Down like usual.

350. Mood: Sleepy.

351. Listening to: The fan.

352. Talking to anyone: No.

353. Watching anything: No

Section Eighteen: Yes or No

354. Are you a vegetarian: No

355. Are you a carnivore: Yes.

356. Are you heterosexual: No

357. Do you like penguins: Yes

358. Do you write poetry: Yes

359. Do you see stupid people: Yes

360. You + Me: no

361. Do you like the Osbournes: Yes

362. Can you see flying pigs: no

363. Do you sleep with stuffed animals on your bed: Yes

364. Are you from Afghanistan: no

365. Is Christina Aguilera ugly: no

366. Are you a zombie: Mo

367. Am i annoying you: no

368. Do you bite your nails: Yes

369. Can you cross your eyes: no

370. Do you make your bed in the morning: no

371. Have you touched someone's private part:yes

Section Nineteen: This or That

372. Winter or Summer: summer

373. Spring or Autumn: spring

374. Shakira or Britney: Britney

375. MTV or VH1: mtv

376. Black or White: black

377. Yellow or Pink: pink

378. Football or Basketball: basketball

379. Mobile Phone or Pager: mobile phone

380. Pen or Pencil: pen

381. Cold or Hot: hot

382. Tattoos or Piercings: piercing

383. Inside or Outside: inside

384. Weed or Alcohol: weed

385. Coke or Pepsi: Pepsi

386. Tape or Glue: glue

387. McDonald's or In-n-Out: mcdonalds

Section Twenty: Opinions

388. What do you think about classical music: It’s okay.

389. About boy bands: Good.

390. About suicide: Sad.

391. About people who try to force their opinions on you: Annoying.

392. About teen pregnancy: Not horrible

393. Where do you think you'll be in 10 years: married with kids hopefully

394. Who do you think you'll still be friends with in 5 years: Noah

395. About gay men: they’re nice

Section Twenty-One:

396. Do you have a website: no

397. Current weather right now: cold

398. Current time: 234 AM

399. Any shout outs: no

400. Last thoughts: no