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by **Aaeriele** » Tue Aug 09, 2011 9:10 pm UTC

superglucose wrote:
Aaeriele wrote:yay!

LOUDER!

yaay!

by **natashatasha** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 12:09 am UTC

♥ & hugs & kisses to you all ^_^

by **superglucose** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 12:25 am UTC

Aaeriele wrote:
superglucose wrote:
Aaeriele wrote:yay!

LOUDER!

yaay!

LOUDER!

by **Aaeriele** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 12:26 am UTC

superglucose wrote:
Aaeriele wrote:
superglucose wrote:
Aaeriele wrote:yay!

LOUDER!

yaay!

LOUDER!

*inhales...................* yaaaaaay!

by **superglucose** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 12:50 am UTC

Aaeriele wrote:
superglucose wrote:
Aaeriele wrote:
superglucose wrote:
Aaeriele wrote:yay!

LOUDER!

yaay!

LOUDER!

*inhales...................* yaaaaaay!

*Flops over on his back* uuuuugh

by **Josephine** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 1:37 am UTC

here, I'll do it for you.

YAAAAY!

by **Weeks** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 5:03 am UTC

You people rock, woohoo~ :D

by **Monika** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 10:14 am UTC

Note to self: Ponies seem to be contagious.

Apropos cute things: http://www.boyinpinkearmuffs.com/archive/introduction/ "The Boy in Pink Earmuffs is a weekly webcomic about two 12-year-old boys, JJ and Danny, who just so happen to fall in young love. More than that, it’s goofy story about friendship, childhood, and growing up!"

by **joshz** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 10:55 am UTC

D'awww that comic is cuuuuute.

by **Josephine** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 7:26 pm UTC

d'awww

by **a_fuzzyduck** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 1:50 pm UTC

superglucose wrote:
Aaeriele wrote:
superglucose wrote:
Aaeriele wrote:
superglucose wrote:
Aaeriele wrote:yay!

LOUDER!

yaay!

LOUDER!

*inhales...................* yaaaaaay!

*Flops over on his back* uuuuugh

?

by **Deva** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 3:14 pm UTC

a_fuzzyduck wrote:?

Followed this script. Copied this too.

by **Aaeriele** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 4:04 pm UTC

superglucose wrote:
Aaeriele wrote:
superglucose wrote:
Aaeriele wrote:
superglucose wrote:
Aaeriele wrote:yay!

LOUDER!

yaay!

LOUDER!

*inhales...................* yaaaaaay!

*Flops over on his back* uuuuugh

Too loud?

by **a_fuzzyduck** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 4:27 pm UTC

Deva wrote:
a_fuzzyduck wrote:?

Followed this script. Copied this too.

ooo, not got that far yet, saving them for the half hour train ride into work, starting next week woo

by **Aaeriele** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 7:29 am UTC

Found on tumblr. Saved right away. v.v

by **superglucose** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 9:11 am UTC

I'd believe it. I love Fluttershy regardless though.

by **Monika** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 11:31 am UTC

Are the pony videos available on Youtube or elsewhere completely? Like not only a few seconds with the cutest/funniest/most famous scenes?

by **Deva** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 12:24 pm UTC

Monika wrote:Are the pony videos available on Youtube or elsewhere completely? Like not only a few seconds with the cutest/funniest/most famous scenes?

Begin here. Look through the uploader's profile for the remaining twenty-five episodes.

by **a_fuzzyduck** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 2:56 pm UTC

Aaeriele wrote:

Found on tumblr. Saved right away. v.v

well we alllllll knew that in -q anyway

by **DaBigCheez** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 5:30 pm UTC

superglucose wrote:I'd believe it. I love Fluttershy ~~regardless though~~ either way.

Bonus meta-flutterlove from me, for reasons some of you may know

by **D.B.** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 7:15 pm UTC

Deva wrote:
Monika wrote:Are the pony videos available on Youtube or elsewhere completely? Like not only a few seconds with the cutest/funniest/most famous scenes?

Begin here. Look through the uploader's profile for the remaining twenty-five episodes.

Ponychan is a good place to find other youtube links, etc.

by **Bassoon** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 8:12 pm UTC

The small things that count: my roommates have apparently been talking to each other, and the other day, they basically told me that they don't care about what I like and don't like, I'm still "a bro" and "we've gotta watch out for fellow bros." I love my roommates.

Also, my boyfriend came out to his mom and told her about our relationship, and she didn't really care too much, it seems. She trusts him and is okay with it. Also, she really like me, apparently.

Let the good times roll!

by **superglucose** » Sat Aug 13, 2011 2:18 am UTC

DaBigCheez wrote:
superglucose wrote:I'd believe it. I love Fluttershy ~~regardless though~~ either way.

Bonus meta-flutterlove from me, for reasons some of you may know

Just so we're clear, my statement was to mean "I love fluttershy regardless of whether she's bi/straight/homo/pan/genderqueer/trans male/trans female/male/female. Fluttershy is someone I love and the rest of it doesn't matter to me."

Regardless seems the correct term since I really do mean "her gender identity doesn't matter to me and will not change that I love her."

EDIT: And I do not know your meta-love.

by **Feddlefew** » Sat Aug 13, 2011 4:33 am UTC

I have a question for the community here.

One of my close friends is extremely, flamboyantly gay. He has a history of making incredibly bad decisions, including pursuing my best friend (male, strait, has Asperger's syndrome and a girlfriend) for two years. He likes strait men, or at least men that identify as strait, and has told me repeatedly that the man he wants is "still in the closet". I'm worried about him, because I'm going off to college and won't be around to talk him out of... doing stupid things. He's been lucky so far in that the men he's been chasing have been ignoring him. The only time he's had a relationship, he dumped the poor guy and started going after my best friend again by the end of the week.

Every time I tell him to stop, he either claims I have no understanding of love or that I'm not supporting him in his exploration of his sexuality. Help?

by **Monika** » Sat Aug 13, 2011 9:18 am UTC

I think your straight friend needs to tell your gay friend that he's not interested and to stop persuing. Can you ask the straight friend to have a talk about this with the gay friend?

by **superglucose** » Sat Aug 13, 2011 11:37 am UTC

Feddlefew wrote:I have a question for the community here.

One of my close friends is extremely, flamboyantly gay. He has a history of making incredibly bad decisions, including pursuing my best friend (male, strait, has Asperger's syndrome and a girlfriend) for two years. He likes strait men, or at least men that identify as strait, and has told me repeatedly that the man he wants is "still in the closet". I'm worried about him, because I'm going off to college and won't be around to talk him out of... doing stupid things. He's been lucky so far in that the men he's been chasing have been ignoring him. The only time he's had a relationship, he dumped the poor guy and started going after my best friend again by the end of the week.

Every time I tell him to stop, he either claims I have no understanding of love or that I'm not supporting him in his exploration of his sexuality. Help?

What he is doing has a term. It is called "sexual harassment." It is rude, it is wrong, and it needs to stop and I congratulate you on telling him.

One day your friend will get in a rather lot of trouble by making a straight co-worker extremely uncomfortable... and will probably end in his termination if not legal action taken against him. What if the situation were different? What if he wasn't gay and your best friend was a woman? His actions are threatening and overbearing towards your friend.

If he says you have no understanding of love, remind him that harassment and obsession are not love. If he says you're not supporting his exploration of his sexuality, remind him that his exploration of his sexuality must not include creating situations where others are uncomfortable. You can't, ethically and legally speaking, explore your sexuality by hitting on a woman over and over and over again after she's asked you to stop.

If after all of this he still doesn't understand, well...

He'll find out soon enough. He'll probably even blame the resulting lawsuit and termination of employment or even enrollment as "homophobia." If he's really, really, REALLY lucky, maybe he'll just get a warning and realize how much of a jackass he's being.

<---- has been the victim of sexual harassment. It's not fun and it's really uncomfortable. Don't let the men in your friend's life experience it. They may be "ignoring" him and saying nothing but... I ignored her. It still really, really sucked to be around and was very uncomfortable.

If someone is not interested whether it's because they present as an orientation and gender combination that does not lend itself to, well, dating you or whether it's simply because they don't like you that way, it's not ok to keep pressing the issue.

by **Feddlefew** » Sat Aug 13, 2011 10:33 pm UTC

Monika wrote:I think your straight friend needs to tell your gay friend that he's not interested and to stop persuing. Can you ask the straight friend to have a talk about this with the gay friend?

He did talk with him. Repeatedly. My strait friend only started ignoring him after it didn't work.

My gay friend has been sent to a councilor (sp?) over this. By me. Several times. He's what you would call "unstable".

@ Superglucose: I know that's what will happen, hopefully instead of him getting shanked or something. I've wanted to terminate the friendship for a long time, but he's so entangled in my limited friendship-web and so "dramatic" about things that he would make social gatherings impossible. I've already kicked him out of the D&D group I run because he was sexually harassing the male players (ALL OF THEM.) above the age of 16.

I'm hopping that once we all scatter for college, he'll stop being a major hub for my friend-web.

by **Boris Veganofsky** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 1:03 am UTC

I've got spots, I've got stripes too.*

I've yet to come out to anyone in meatspace, but I've planned to come out to a few select friends, next time I get one-on-one time with them.

I've been 'questioning' and identifying as straight for a while but now I've accepted myself as queer. For now I identify as 'attracted to people'.

I'm hesitant to come out to my family. My father is pretty homophobic. Right now I'm not seeing anyone so it's easy enough to sweep the issue under the rug but when and if I get a SO with a gender identity other than 'woman' things might get messy.

I don't have a close relationship with him to start with so I'd be inclined to run to the hills at the first sign of trouble. I don't have a close relationship with my mother either but I think she'd be unfazed.

Then there's my sister. I have no idea how she feels about queerness. She assumes I'm straight. I've been trying to improve our relationship, and I'm going to be the godfather to her yet-unborn child; I wouldn't want to burn bridges there.

As far as I know I have exactly zero non-straight extended family members.

*Awesome song.

by **feyayeruka** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 4:42 am UTC

wisdom from my 8-year-old daughter last night:
Mama, I don't really want to have a lesbian mother... but if you're happy, then I'm okay with you being gay. I support you to be whatever you want to be, no matter what.

:oops:

naaaw
Ironically, this is bog-standard stereotypical parent-child "coming out" conversation, only from the reverse direction. LOL

In other news, I broke up with my ladyfriend

and met someone new

but it's not quite the same

rebound sex is great

missing my still-very-much-loved ladyfriend

ponies are cute

by **TheGrammarBolshevik** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 4:44 am UTC

feyayeruka wrote:ponies are cute

Ponies.

by **natashatasha** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 4:51 am UTC

Deva wrote:Begin here. Look through the uploader's profile for the remaining twenty-five episodes.

Damn you! I was supposed to be doing homework! Instead, I ~~wasted~~ productively utilised two days watching My Little Pony!
That said, I love you for the link ♥

And Fluttershy rocks.

by **superglucose** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 5:06 am UTC

natashatasha wrote:And ~~Fluttershy~~ Aaeriele rocks.

FIFY.

by **feyayeruka** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 5:16 am UTC

by **Vaniver** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 5:54 pm UTC

So, I have an intersex friend who has various medical issues which he wants to correct with surgery. As I understand it, it's pretty similar to the FtM transition process. He's looking at a price tag of $22k to get it done in the US, and so I suggested he look into getting it done in Thailand (or some other medical tourism destination). He's asked me to help him look for info, and since I don't know where to look besides googling I figured I would ask here, as I imagine someone else has looked into it.

Are there any numbers on how much riskier this is (if it is riskier)? How much should he expect to pay to have his uterus / ovaries / genitals removed? (He's not interested in constructive surgery and wants to end up like a Ken doll.) Is there a particular surgeon or hospital he should try to get treated by? Is there a travel agent for this sort of thing or should he plan it out himself?

Thanks in advance!

by **scienceroboticspunk** » Mon Aug 15, 2011 2:19 am UTC

I would like to thank everyone for the suggestion of the garment district in boston. I am back home and went there last week. I got some really cute things there.
Also ponies look adorable

by **Aaeriele** » Mon Aug 15, 2011 7:15 am UTC

superglucose wrote:EDIT: And I do not know your meta-love.

The bit that DBC was referring to is the fact that we're engaged.

by **superglucose** » Mon Aug 15, 2011 7:30 am UTC

Aaeriele wrote:
superglucose wrote:EDIT: And I do not know your meta-love.

The bit that DBC was referring to is the fact that we're engaged.

Well belated congratumalations then!

When I sneak down to SF we'll have to all three meet! Well I oughta meet you two, I suspect you've already met :wink:

by **natashatasha** » Tue Aug 16, 2011 2:09 pm UTC

Well ... I came out to my room mate and only other friend within 700km.

I got "This is... surprisingly unsurprising" ... I was so relieved. This has been much more positive that I was expecting. I'm glad I had the confidence to do so now ... I'm so lucky to have these friends ♥

by **Enuja** » Tue Aug 16, 2011 2:13 pm UTC

Yeah! This is so good to hear! I'm glad your friends are being supportive!

You probably already have, but do make sure to tell the first friend you told that he now has some other people he doesn't have to keep your gender identity secret from.

by **Aaeriele** » Tue Aug 16, 2011 4:16 pm UTC

natashatasha wrote:Well ... I came out to my room mate and only other friend within 700km.

I got "This is... surprisingly unsurprising" ... I was so relieved. This has been much more positive that I was expecting. I'm glad I had the confidence to do so now ... I'm so lucky to have these friends ♥

Yay!

Edit: Someone just pointed out to me that an alternative acronym for this thread could be "QUILTBAG" (assuming we're going with unique letters and letting the Q stand for both Qs there).

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