Because we need straight pride?

You can click through if you want to see it. My cousin Jen, who used to be the most open minded of my cousins, just shared this image on facebook: Straight Pride. it's natural, it's worked for Thousands of years, and You Can Make Babies.

I shared a link to Out in Nature: Homosexual Behavior in the Animal Kingdom in response:

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Deathly Hallows part 2

Just finished the last Harry Potter movie. I'd missed the Deathly Hallows part 2 when it first came out. I'd had this big whole clinical depression thing going on back then. It was pretty bad in the summer of 2011 when, on top of my depression, I was dealing with people at work who were seriously wigging out because the company was downsizing. I thought it was cause for celebration.

• Filch taking all the Slytherin students to the dungeons. So , what, Syltherin automatically equals evil? I'm not completely thrilled with that although in the middle of an attack I can see not having time for subtleties. But Draco grabs two of the students later so at least some of them avoided the dungeon.




• McGonigal: I always wanted to use that spell. Um, the castle's under attack and she's happy she gets to use that defensive spell? She's really big into the glass being half full, isn't she.




• I think it's awesome that those giant spiders are part of the forces attacking the castle.




• And I haven't said this before, but this movie is incredible. I usually watch bits of movies as I'm eating. Yes, I know you're not supposed to eat in front of the tv. I do it anyway. So I generally don't watch movies through in one go. This one I couldn't turn off.




• Hermione's bag: because women just have to carry everything wit them! ;-)




• Snape's last words: You have your mother's eyes. That pretty much sums him up, doesn't it?




• Oh, okay, and I just got why Snape was hiding his memories. They could not be revealed to Harry until the proper moment.




• Harry if a horcrux!




• Oooh, I like that there's a resurrection stone inside the snitch.




• Kikimay told me I'd cry during this movie. She was right. Just as Harry's talking with the ghosts before the battle with Voldemort, I was crying.




• I think witches and warlocks are going to have trouble believing that Voldemort is truly gone for good this time.

Fic: Shanshu 27 - We Are the Hollow Men

Title: We Are the Hollow Men
Fandom: BtVS
Prompt: 477 - ascetic
Rating: PG
Summary: Another chapter for Shanshu
Word Count: 1013
Note: Written out of order. I decided I needed a scene earlier on, when Will and Willow are in the cell.

( Will had moved the jug of water to the center of the cell. The walls were dank, oozing with who the hell knew what, and he didn't want anything contaminating their water. One thing, among many, that he couldn't get used to: no matter how much he drank, the jug remained full. Except he wasn't letting himself think about that. He didn't believe in magic – no matter what the red-head, Willow, said – but he couldn't see how the trick was being played. Perhaps they'd drugged him. Perhaps the whole situation was an elaborate hallucination. It felt real though. Sitting, shackled to the wall for days on end was too dull to be some kind of a vision. )