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thatsnotsexycomic: I made this comic for Women Write About...

Mon, 09 Jul 2012 07:42:13 -0400

I made this comic for Women Write About Comics’ (womenwriteaboutcomics.com) blog carnival, round four. The theme is harassment.

I am re-blogging my own work because seeing other people say this would have helped me, when I was a keen agony page reader.

AGONY AUNT PROBLEM: As well as reading BSB I love Rookie. And their roadtrip.. looks so amazing. But I also feel really terrible about it because we can’t do roadtrips here! And I can’t drive (neither can my friends) - I just feel really sad that they make it look so fun when I can never do that too? How can I feel better? I know that’s really selfish!

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 09:12:00 -0400

AGONY AUNT PROBLEM: As well as reading BSB I love Rookie. And their roadtrip.. looks so amazing. But I also feel really terrible about it because we can’t do roadtrips here! And I can’t drive (neither can my friends) - I just feel really sad that they make it look so fun when I can never do that too? How can I feel better? I know that’s really selfish!:

Click the link for the British Style Bloggers June “If I can’t roadtrip what can I do?!” summer challenge list!

If you're a feminist who understands the (apparently not) radical concept that women can have penises and men can have vaginas (and that there are people with either or both of those who may very well identify as neither a man nor a woman), would you mind reblogging this? I could really use a little faith in humanity being restored right about now.

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 06:53:42 -0400

On the topic of bras..

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 10:22:13 -0400

On the topic of bras..

Clairefix April 2012: he problem of poorly fitting bras in...

Fri, 04 May 2012 10:37:35 -0400

Clairefix April 2012: he problem of poorly fitting bras in summer - FIXED!

One of the many “advices for life” I have given my...

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:40:24 -0500

One of the many “advices for life” I have given my sister, and now I pass it out to you.

It was originally about painting, I think.

"You choose what to think about. And you may not feel that way every day, but the truth is, that you..."

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:23:31 -0500

“You choose what to think about. And you may not feel that way every day, but the truth is, that you choose what you think about. It’s one of the few things that you can choose and it is—it’s kind of the definition, I think, of being a person. It’s that you have this weird gift of consciousness and you get to choose how you direct that gift. Like, how you direct your ability to think about things. So, if you choose to think about the relative health of the romantic relationships of The Situation, you’re making that choice. MTV is not making that choice for you, The Situation is not making that choice for you, you are making that choice. If you choose to think about astrophysics, you are making that choice. Every second of your definitionally temporary consciousness, you are choosing how you spend something that will not last forever. You are choosing how you spend your life, and it will be spent. And that’s a very serious thing that you have to try to take pretty seriously, even though, of course, much of our lives—because consciousness is kind of a burden—needs to be spent turning that off, which is, you know, why God made television. But we have this responsibility to ourselves, to each other, but also to the people who came before us and the people who will come after us, to think consciously about what we’re thinking about. And that was, in some ways the beginning of The Fault in Our Stars for me, was trying to think about, what I should be thinking about. Trying to think how I should be orienting my life, what should I value, what should I prioritize. And I grew up—and so did most of you—I think, in a world that values a very specific kind of heroism. The kind where you jump on a grenade to save your buddy, or you die heroically because your family says that you can’t marry the girl you want to marry, and you’re fourteen and somehow you think that’s a deal breaker?—which is the plot of Romeo and Juliet, I ruined it for some of you, sorry; I should have prefaced that with a spoiler alert, but if you haven’t read Romeo and Juliet, that’s your fault—or in another of our great epics of heroism, The Odyssey—which I’m also about to spoil for you, but it’s a good reading experience, regardless. There’s this dude, his name’s Odysseus, he does some good warring, top-notch warring, and it takes him a long time to get home, because a bunch of stuff happens, and then he finally gets home and his wife has a bunch of suitors, and the correct response to that situation is to be like, ‘Hey! I was gone for a long time, and there’s no text messaging, you didn’t know I was okay, like of course there’s a bunch of suitors living here, that’s cool, but suitors it’s time to head on out and, you know, find someone else’s house to occupy.’ And instead, what happens is that the palace floors course with blood, and that is your happily-ever-after ending. And Augustus Waters in this novel really buys into that idea of heroism, that idea that the best lives are lived on the biggest possible stage, and that the best lives are lived with an eye toward the grand heroic gesture, whether it be sacrificial or otherwise. That, like, the good life, by definition, is the big life. Well, I’m here to tell you that even the biggest lives are temporary, including the life of Odysseus, including the life of Romeo and Juliet, because, you know, we’re temporary. And if that’s the only way that we orient our lives, if that’s the only thing that we value, we’re doing ourselves, I think, a great disservice. So, I wanted to write The Fault in Our Stars because I wanted to write a story that was about the kind of small heroism that almost all of us are going to have to choose; very few of us will have the opportunity to jump on a grenade and save many, many people. The vast majority of us will have to find tiny ways to take care of ourselves and each other in the best ways that we can figure out how to do. And that’s really what The Fault in Our Stars is about, ultimately. It’s about these two kids and their parents trying to figure out how to take good care of each other and trying to figure out how to leave the best possible world for those who will come after, and also live a life that honors those who have come before.”

- John Green, on The Fault in Our Stars at the Tour de Nerdfighting Event in Austin, Texas (21 January 2012)

“I think one of my boobs might be bigger than the...

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:16:05 -0400

“I think one of my boobs might be bigger than the other?” SORTED!

"I don't have the confidence to dress how I'd like" - SORTED

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:58:38 -0400

"I don't have the confidence to dress how I'd like" - SORTED

British Style Bloggers’ second CLAIREFIX advice column,...

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 12:10:27 -0400

British Style Bloggers’ second CLAIREFIX advice column, wherein I explain how to encourage Benedict Cumberbatch to fall deeply in love with my problemeers. Enjoy!

The first column - a taster!

Mon, 23 May 2011 11:09:08 -0400

The first column - a taster!