IntenseDebate - spectra37

7 years ago @ The Toast - The Final Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +4 points

I love you all.

Thank you to the writers and editors for bringing me articles and posts that made me laugh, that made me think, that made me cry.

Thank you to those who spent hours moderating comments to make this place somewhere people could comment with anger, with hope, with despair, with gifs, with subtlety, and with nuance.

Thank you to everyone who wrote comments for helping me spend hours of time and for making me think more deeply, laugh more loudly, cry more earnestly, and live more honestly.

Thank you to everyone who replied to my comments and made me feel at home, who encouraged me to embrace myself or laughed with me or rejoiced with me or just said "Yes, me too," so I felt less alone.

We are all too witches, today and forever.

7 years ago @ The Toast - A note on The Toast · 1 reply · +7 points

Birthday twin! Happy birthday to us!

7 years ago @ The Toast - The Negro Motorist Gre... · 1 reply · +5 points

Wow. Wow. Wow. This was a plain good read, and a really thoughtful journey. I'm going to be thinking about this one for a while.

7 years ago @ The Toast - A Linguist Explains Em... · 0 replies · +27 points

My understanding of emoji is that people who are good at using them can make visual puns and references in a way that other people who are good at using them can also understand, which sounds lovely. I appreciate being able to inflect texts with a smile or a hug-like symbol or to cry with laughter without having to say that I'm crying with laughter. It's really beautiful, and this article is beautiful.

7 years ago @ The Toast - Thank You, Toast. · 1 reply · +9 points

Thank you thank you thank you for all the hard word you did and all the stories you shared!

7 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +5 points

Aaaaaaauuuuuuughhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!

7 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +2 points

I sat in my car after working out at 6am this morning and bought a tote. I had set a reminder. :-)

7 years ago @ The Toast - Conspiracies of Faith:... · 0 replies · +12 points

I feel this so much. I need to say it again: I feel this so much. My faith is so much more fragile and different and wider and stronger and tentative and strange and tense than it was when I was a kid. Even as a kid, I never felt totally secure in my faith, but now? Now I feel like I'm leaning all my weight over the side of a boat, unsure if I'm going to sink or swim once I finally fall out.

7 years ago @ The Toast - Open Thread! · 0 replies · +1 points

I MAY have read Spindle's End at some point but clearly need to re-read it. (I had to stop reading McKinley for a while because her "blog voice" infected her "novel voice" but I think I'm over that now.)

7 years ago @ The Toast - Open Thread! · 0 replies · +4 points

I can't keep a toilet seat unbroken on one toilet in my house, to the point where I have started blaming the toilet itself.

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