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...

Coming in at #4, my mother, posting as Anonymous. Total comments: 661 1 harimad 127 2 cruiser 106 3 crouchback 50 4 Anonymous 34 5 khedron 29 6 keyne 28 7 xnbach 28 8 moominmolly 28 9 rpeate 20 10 moontoad 17 11 sconstant ...

I'm feeling proud of myself. I think I just coined a new word.

The weather was gorgeous until the very last day. A. and i walked around *a lot* and did all the touristy things, mostly on the first day we got there, in post-red-eye-flight daze, which just added to the dreamlike quality of it all. We met up with some people, all of whom i barely knew and all of whom were incredibly warm and welcoming and fun. Another highlight was seeing Tara Donovan's...