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[Error: unknown template qotd] Cold noodles in peanut sauce. It takes no time to make and it's a good quick lunch. I made some today, actually.

[Error: unknown template qotd] Quite a few times. I was a tiny 12 year old who didn't speak above a whisper and had gotten funneled into the special education system. I was taunted, bullied, and physically threatened by large boys and horrible girls. I soon learned the "batshit crazy" defense was best. It throws people off when a tiny girl who does not talk starts screaming and throwing her desk around. After I knocked a six foot guy on his ass with a well-placed backpack, then put it back on and walked away normally, I didn't have that much to worry about.

Then I took karate, which gave me more displine and control, and also I didn't have to go off half-cocked anymore. Just the fact that I knew it kept things down. It also did wonders for me emotionaly. Not to mention, now if anyone took a swing at me I could just block it and walk away. That was also good for the "look, I don't give a shit about you, so that's why I'm not fucking you up" image. (Junior high is all about image, don't let anyone say otherwise. And my school was brutal-lots of fights and injuries.)

I do regret the "bipolar disorder acting up" violence. I didn't even know I was bipolar at the time. So it seemed really strange to me, not just the people I was screaming and throwing things at.

And, that girl in 9th grade really didn't need to get her lip split.

[Error: unknown template qotd] I have a persistant fantasy about opening a "meat and three"-a traditional blue collar type of Southern home cooking place. They are nicknamed that because you get plates that are meat-and-three vegetables, or meat-and-two, or a four-vegetable plate. For those of you who think this is so nice and healthy, keep in mind that a lot of these places count mac and cheese and banana pudding as vegetables. That's not even getting into the fatback or bacon used to "season" the beans and greens.

So, I would deeply love to open one, but the catch is: I want to open one somewhere that isn't the South. I would *love* to see how such a Southern concept would play in Minneapolis. I have it all planned in my mind: I won't have a steam table like most places (which means I won't have as big of a variety to choose from either-seriously, some meat and threes can have two dozen vegetables and five meats), but a sit-down-and-be-served affair. I want it to be homey, but for the food to be fresh and well fixed. I want a few veggie options. I want good southern music playing that is not country (blues, southern rock, R.E.M). I want to convince Minnesotans to eat okra. I don't know what to call it-"Okra and Grits" will just send them screaming. Maybe "Alabama Getaway" if I was a Dead fan. "Sweet Home Alabama" is too overused.

There is no way in hell this would work, but I still enjoy the idea.

[Error: unknown template qotd]When I was four, I looked up into the night sky and saw a "UFO". I later figured out that it was a plane flying at night. I have a skeptical outlook, but a mind informed by too many sci-fi and horror movies. When I see a small brown thing run across my kitchen floor out of the corner of my eye, I think "brownie or gnome" before I think "mouse in the kitchen!". And it's always a mouse.

The mind can come up with anything it wants, but there is no evidence to support UFO's. Do I believe there is life on other planets? Sure. Do I believe there is intelligent life on other planets? It seems possible. Do I think many, many ships from intelligent life forms on other planets are coming here for no known fucking reason? NO. If they *are* coming, and I am wrong, then Stephen Hawkings is probably right and we should metaphorically run like hell.

[Error: unknown template qotd] The Wizard of Oz is my fallback movie for bad moods and sick days. Other ones I have used are Better Off Dead, and any of the High School Musical movies-generally the second or third. Wizard of Oz is the best though-it's uplifting and Dorothy Gale is a great character. It also has an entire town of small people singing in merriment when a woman is killed by a renegade house. Love it.

[Error: unknown template qotd]Agreed, let people grow it, sell it, and tax it. Make the laws against driving stoned really strong, and don't allow it near schools. It'll have to have an age limit like cigarettes and liquor (each state's choice as to what that is). Rules against being publically blazed unless you are in a stoner cafe. Basically, treat it exactly like alcohol.

It will do me personally no good. I have panic attacks like a motherfucker if I smoke that stuff. I can do that all on my own.

[Error: unknown template qotd]This is an impossible question. But I'm going to go with Freaks, just for the disturbance factor. This is Tod Browning (Dracula director) ruining his career! Nobody in 1932 wanted to see a horror movie starring circus prodigies. It was banned in England for decades, and for all I know might still be. But it's one of the most surreal, odd movies ever. Here, have a scene.



So basically, a cult film needs pure fearlessness!

[Error: unknown template qotd]Well, that's pretty much the recipe for hell there, isn't it? If I was 22 forever, that means I would have kept getting tattoos and having anonamoyus sex with people I didn't care about. I would be running from relationships and me and my husband would have never dated. I would just be running the same loop. I'd be at the clubs right now, getting drunk and trying to think of a story to write, but never actually putting pen to paper.

It would be horrible.

[Error: unknown template qotd]Mmm, I wonder what this question has to do with me. I'm going to answer in relation to fandom, and discuss other "triggers" too.

I like warnings. People need accurate warnings on fics, especially if they're hanging out in the darkfic communties. I can't handle reading rape!fic, for instance, and have a hard time figuring out why it's so popular. I guess people like writing the emotional journey from trauma? Which is totally valid. But I still don't want to read it, for the most part. So, warn for that. Also deathfic, slavefic (I file that under "lack of consent" as well). And those are my personal ones. I will warn for all kinds of things, since other peoples squicks/triggers aren't mine. I warned for "sexual harressment", even though I had already stated that was the prompt. You know, just in case someone didn't read it.

Sometimes the warning thing gets out of hand: on metaquotes someone talked about a person who warned for *consentual* sex. This led to the great response "Show me on the doll where fandom touched you..." People sometimes forget that you don't have to warn for everything.

For non-fanfic people, it's good to warn for "triggers"-stories about domestic abuse, rape, eating disorders. I just consider that polite.

But as far as people who just use "fuck" all the time? No. That's me, and I don't apologize for it. "Cussing like drunken sailor" is not in the same boat as "I wrote beastiality fic". (Hi, person who isn't on my friends list. It's okay, you warned for it, I didn't read it, no harm done.)

And of course, actual porn should have warnings and "you must be over 18" buttons that kids can just push and keep on truckin'. Because how the hell can you check?

[Error: unknown template qotd] "Alarm went off, I have to get up. Why? I wanna think about pretty boys. I have stuff to do though.

"I need to sleep, I'm tired and it's cold. I wanna think about pretty boys. I have stuff to do tomorrow."

My brain is 12.