Sidetrackedery , n.: the weird, interesting, and/or fun stuff I find via my ever-behindness in my LJ flist, from Twitter, emails, going back through friends' LJs, and elsewhere. --- :: This is fucking awesome. From forwrathandruin , Partially Clips: Canoe in Storm *guffaws* (from partiallyclips.com) :: From antitheism , Stupid things Atheists are Assumed to Be . *sighs, shakes...

"Come and join us in temporarily constructing selves that possess a community but no identity." From aroraborealis 's latest anonymous confessions post

Happy birthday to mzrowan ! I hope your day and your year and the rest of your life are all fabulous! And I’m afraid I’ve been falling down on the job lately; Happy belated birthdays also to bbbsg and aroraborealis . Joy to you both!

This post directly addresses recent issues that have taken place at rahmbamarama , concerning a story posted that contained extremely offensive treatment of African-American hair . That post has since been edited, and an apology has been issued by the authors. As you may recall, one of the very first mod posts made on rahmbamarama asked the community to respect one another's political...

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Last week, aroraborealis hosted her annual LJ Confessional where people were encouraged to post their confessions, anonymously or not. There were a fair number of Post Secret -style deep dark secrets, but many of them were about crushes (it being the week before Valentine's Day). After I posted a comment on someone else's confession, someone anonymously commented that I was hot. It was...

this is apparently something aroraborealis   does every year , found via the always-entertaining and informative rosefox  . i thought i'd repeat it here for fun and profit. Tell me a secret! Tell me a not-secret! Express your maddest crush or deepest curiosity! Expound upon the fabulousness of your friends or lovers or would-be friends or lovers! Do it anonymously or with your name...

Once again, it's LJ-confessional time , hosted by aroraborealis . Go see.

aroraborealis' annual LJ confessional post has 12 pages of comments already! (last year's "only" got 8 pages)

Currently, I have battling obsessive drives going on. Part of me wants to obsessively clean, part of me wants to obsessively read about racism and related issues, part of me wants to obsessively play Sims, and part of me just wants to get back onto some semblance of a normal schedule - which is still predicated on my complex OCD rituals, and so is obsessive in nature itself, but is at least more balanced...