Shout out to my ladies with pituitary gland/connective tissue disorders.
It's easy for the media to forget that you can be "non-standard" for reasons besides X and Y chromosomes.
Michael Phelps has the same disorder I have, marfin's syndrome. And everyone loved him until he smoked weed... Or something... I don't know.... that whole thing was weird.
Anyway. Most of us are not in professional sports because... That is just a really small part of the population.
But yeah, I mean... My hands are huge and I have the arms of a person who is five inches taller than me.
I can also stretch my long-ass fingers apart further than average which makes me extra good at musical instruments and such.
Don't let them erase how weird and wonderful it can be to just be different.
Fuck this discourse about chromosomes in general, but it definitely makes it harder for people with "giganticism"
(marfin's syndrome was still classified as giganticism when I was diagnosed)
Hi! Have you seen the trailer for Almost Human yet??
YOU KNOW HOW SOMETIMES PEOPLE SEE A SUNRISE AFTER A LONG NIGHT OF DRINKING AND THEY CRY BECAUSE THEY’RE SO HUNGOVER AND KIND OF COLD OUTSIDE AT 5 OR 6 IN THE MORNING AND THE WHOLE WORLD IS SO BEAUTIFUL??? (NO, TRUST ME, THIS IS A THING.) WELL, THAT’S HOW I FEEL WATCHING MICHAEL EALY: ROBOT WITH EMOTIONS, AND EVERY MINUTE HAS BEEN A HUNGOVER CHILLY SUNRISE, AND THE WORLD IS SO BEAUTIFUL, AND SOMEONE PLEASE JUST BRING ME A JACKET AND SOME SUNGLASSES, BECAUSE IT’S SO COLD AND SO BRIGHT AND I CAN’T HANDLE THIS ALONE.
same anon: HOWEVER if/when the kings face the blackhawks and carts starts using all that slow-smiling ebullience for scoring evil I will have to set my heart aflame and leave it on the sidewalk as a warning, so, you know, thanks for that too I guess
IF/WHEN THE KINGS AND HAWKS FACE EACH OTHER IN THE PLAYOFFS, I'M GONNA SUSPEND MY EXISTENCE UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE, SO BEST OF LUCK TO BOTH OF US.
Seth and Luke's Big Gay Adventures in Portland!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (This is Ceej, btw.)
omg that fic <33333333 yes good!! A prime and rare example of me accomplishing everything I wanted to do with a pairing in the course of one story. \o/
Rule 2: Answer the questions the tagger set for you in their post then make 11 new ones.
Rule 3: Tag 11 people and link them to your post.
Rule 4: Let them know you’ve tagged them.
I was tagged by Racketstory! Her quesstions are as follows:
1. Do you put up a Christmas tree?
If you do, when is the appropriate time to take it down again? I do, but only if I'm not going home to my parents' house for the holidays. When I do, it usually sticks around until, well, right around now, because I'm lazy.
2. What’s your favorite kind of dinosaur?
I'll be honest, I wasn't a dinosaur kid and I haven't grown up to be a dinosaur person! But I always thought Triceratops were pretty cool.
3. If you could bang any deceased president, who would you choose. (IN THIS QUESTION I DO NOT MEAN HE HAS BEEN TAXIDERMIED AND THEN YOU BANG HIM. HE’S COME BACK TO LIFE BUT NOT IN A WEIRD JESUS WAY. LOOK I JUST DON’T WANT YOU TO HAVE THE EASY OUT OF BANGING OBAMA. YOU’RE NOT SPECIAL, WE ALL WOULD.)
JOHN F. KENNEDY, OBVS.
4. Mary Kate or Ashley?
I have no knowledge of them as individuals, so I don't know! All I know is that they have a fashion label that makes really crazy expensive shit.
5. It’s raining like crazy, it’s Sunday afternoon and you have nothing to do. What do you put on TV?
Are we not counting TV shows that I'm methodically making my way through at the moment? Like what kind of TV I gravitate towards when I'm just like 'meh, nothing to do, nothing too taxing of my brain'? In that case probably an episode of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia or Supernatural.
6. Do you like turtlenecks or do you feel like you’re being choked by a weak person all day?
DEFINITELY CHOKED, THEY'RE THE FUCKING WORST.
7. Who is the strangest looking person you’d have sex with?
Is Matt Smith strange enough to count? I find his face totally strange.
8. Who was your childhood celebrity crush?
Jonathan Taylor Thomas.
9. Do you think that there is a person alive between the ages of 18-35 who does not know all the words to Smash Mouth’s Rock Star?
HELL no.
10. Tell me about your morning hygiene routine.
Lol I'm unemployed right now so I only shower like every other day, at most? And often that shower doesn't even take place until after 1pm or so. And I only wash my hair like once a week. I DO brush my teeth every morning (I know, gold star), and when I shower I put on face cream, then leave-in conditioner stuff in my hair, then get dressed and put on makeup if I feel like. Being neither in school nor employed has seriously eroded any semblance of routine in my life.
11. Should I have hot chocolate or ice cream right now? I have the flu and the question is PLAGUING ME.
Hot chocolate by itself if you've got the chills, ice cream and tea with booze in it otherwise.
My questions:
1. What do you do on the internet when you're not doing fandom stuff?
2. Do you have a go-to karaoke song?
3. Leather couches: y/n?
4. What's your preferred breakfast food?
5. What country would you most like to visit?
6. If you had endless cash to spend on going out to dinner every night, but you could only eat at one chain restaurant, which would you choose?
7. Name an actor or actress that you miss seeing on your TV.
8. When you're home at the end of a particularly trying day, would you rather watch something sad or something happy?
9. If you were giving out an award for Worst Fictional Father (or mother), who would you give it to?
10. Would you rather be the hero in a Western or a Sci-Fi movie?
11. What TV show would you most love to have a musical episode?
Teen Wolf fusion with Chicago (the musical, not the city): Cell Block Tango
Based on this exchange between roseandthebeast, giganticism, and mdecarabas.
The quote's my own (inasmuch as anything in fandom can be my own) but I plan to do sets for the ones these lovely ladies wrote up too (with credit, obviously), especially as "they ran into my arrows ten times" and "some guys just can't hold their mountain ash" are so deliciously perfect. *ahem*
