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"I've written more eloquence than you've had brainfarts." ~~Me, while feeling grumpy.

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Every year I find out a new way in which things can go horribly wrong, and the only reason it hasn't become critical was because I was incredibly lucky in the middle of my bad luck.

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Not many people know that there is a Space Gundam series from Korea, which used the animation of the Macross Breast fighter (later fortunately renamed the Valkyrie) as a magical giant robot. So...

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As Caffeine is looking at this pic intently Me: What are you doing? Caffeine: Trying to improve my makeup. Me: To look better, or to look more like Dante? Caffeine: More like Dante. Me: Th...

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Xueling: I cannot eat junk food. Me: Yes. Xueling: If I eat junk food my body will do bad things. Me: .... Me: Ok, no junk food ever.

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If you think men have no empathy, you’ve never seen how a roomful of lads react when a total stranger takes one to the nads.

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What fundamentalists fear the most is twofold, mirror aspects of the same thing: That good and bad is determined, not by proclamations from a bully pulpit, but by the choices each of us make ac...

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Escapism into fiction may be what eases the pain of life, but it is what you bring back with you out of these worlds that never were that gives you the strength to make the pain stop

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The reason, I realise, why a lot of Batman fans you see online are jerks is simple: They are self-selected. See, assume that comic readers are heterogenous. There will be people who like Batman...

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I've said it before and I'll say it again, a dozen times, a hundred times, a thousand times to different people in different contexts, and it will be no less true each and every time: What kind...

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Xueling lost my old Grumpy Bear sometime back. The following conversation ensued: Me: Where's my rain bear? Xueling: shrug I never lose it. Did you look in the woods? Me: What woods? Xueling...

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But I'll tell you this: I still hate kids. Well, actually, I don't. I'm generally ok with kids, but I hate the concept of "kids", and most specifically I hate the way adults treat them. But th...

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Dresden: Do you remember? The first time you saw her? The first time she looked at you? Do you remember that change? That shift, when the universe suddenly tilted? Do you remember looking at her ...

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In the end, the biggest favour we may end up doing for Xueling is to have brought her to cosplay events. Because she's learnt that with enough effort you can put on the face of anyone you want,...

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We cannot control what other people do. But we can, ourselves, make things better. It's not as satisfying as going after the bad guys, but we can help much more by being the good guys. The most...

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People die. People die and we don't know if they can see us or hear us when they're gone. But we can see them. We go to their graves and we give them flowers and we tell them that we love them an...

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You can always recognise an worshipper at the First Church of the Mushroom God. It's the way, when you shock or surprise him, he shouts "Holy Shitake"

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They build your houses. They do your housework. They clean your tables and drive your buses and cook your meals, and they teach your children, and they do all this because you deem yourself to be...

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watching Days of Future Past Caffeine: As Logan is waking up Whoa, he's buff. Me: as he climbs out of bed. And now he's in the buff. Caffeine: Argh. punch

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Magneto sees the pain that people have inflicted on him, and that is why he is afraid. Xavier sees the pain they suffer, and that is why he chooses to be kind. Mostly.

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It's taken me a while to realise this, but photography is serving the same purpose for me as writing. It is not until I have a camera in my hands-- or sometimes thinking about it-- that the wo...

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I have no vocal talent. I have been humming one tune for more than four years now, ever since Xueling allowed herself to be put to bed without Caffeine^, and I found that (a) she needed music to...

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Someone dropped by last Sunday to play around for a couple of hours: I'm not sure how facetious that sentence was, but I can't think of a better way to explain it. This is Caffeine as Valerie...

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Me: You know, dogs pretty much have two modes: Scary and derp. Caffeine: So you're a dog? Me: Me: Arf.

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At taekwondo training on Sunday: Anton's a fellow red belt. He is also a kid. So the following is actually representative of what it's like training with him: Antonwhile I'm pointing out that a...

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