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10 years ago @ The Toast - Aunt Acid: Advice for ... · 0 replies · +39 points

Also filial piety and families are overrated go shit in Uncle Freedom's boots when his back is turned and don't look back, is he really something you want to spend precious thoughts/time in your life on?

10 years ago @ The Toast - Aunt Acid: Advice for ... · 1 reply · +63 points

The unfollow and block buttons are your friend. "My facebook? Oh, I deleted it. More peas?"

10 years ago @ The Toast - Sad Queer Classics, Fixed · 0 replies · +3 points

Also, Everything Leads to You had some strife but a very happy ending.

10 years ago @ The Toast - Sad Queer Classics, Fixed · 1 reply · +4 points

But then there's How to Grow Up! Where Tea marries Yelp royalty and buys a house and gets sober and lives happily ever after. (OK, besides the sort of artless non-examination of privilege, which is complicated since she grew up working class/poor, I really liked it.)

10 years ago @ The Toast - In Defense of Pat Gard... · 0 replies · +7 points

Also, that great thread about how much times and manners and social mores were changing (it being the roaring 20s) and how Pat held her own without shaming her forward thinking sister Rae TOO much...that one last fight they had was just heartbreaking.

10 years ago @ The Toast - In Defense of Pat Gard... · 2 replies · +16 points

Unabashed Pat fan here. These books said so much about anxiety and mental turmoil without spelling it out for you--a lot like poor Leslie Ford and hell, even Emily.

10 years ago @ The Toast - Ayn Rand Reviews Child... · 0 replies · +44 points

She danced with the sun, I'm pretty sure she's already holding the universe together.

10 years ago @ The Toast - Things My Male Tech Co... · 0 replies · +114 points

Llorothaag bless and keep you.

(I will never leave the INGO matriarchy not for love or money, not after I heard the coworker I most look up to shout "IT MUST BE AWESOME TO BE A PRIVILEGED WHITE DUDE" down the hall at a colleague.)

10 years ago @ The Toast - In Celebration of Old-... · 0 replies · +4 points

Also, no friends locking + reblogging means your post can go anywhere and get shouted at, so fewer people write about anything personal to them.

10 years ago @ The Toast - The Sequel To Will... · 0 replies · +5 points

In the first draft there was a girl that would have been turned into Peanut Brittle: http://www.roalddahl.com/roald-dahl/archive/archi...

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