Rec!

For my friends with daughters, I'd like to recommend Lessons for Girls, a 14 part (so far!) laundry list of valuable lessons women have learned and want to pass on. The first, about anger and its value, is my favorite so far, but I love all of it. I wish I'd had this growing up, and that I had a young woman to give it to.

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Interesting link as it applies to fandom, especially hate memes: Opting Out, a post on the blogger's right to conserve mental energy. "So, to sum up, sometimes the best thing is to just refuse to deal with the bullshit. To opt out. It's really liberating, actually. See, at the end of the day, it doesn't matter if people like me. It doesn't matter if people think I'm "inclusive" or "welcoming" or whatever. It's not my job to give a voice to assholes. It's not my obligation to include all people. It's not my responsibility to justify myself to people, to give those people my anger and energy, who will never accept any justification that I might offer. At the end of the day, people who believe in their own position don't bend over backwards to please those who disagree with them or who dislike them. They don't expend energy on making those who disagree with them or who dislike them feel good."

So, y'know, there's my contribution for the day.

FIC: That Middle Road (4/?)

Title: That Middle Road (4/?)
Author: nilchance
Pairing: Misha Collins/Jeremy Sisto
Rating: Adult
Disclaimer: This isn't real.
A/N: Set in poisontaster's A Kept Boy 'verse.
ETA 8/27/09: This story deals with mental illness, specifically bipolar disorder, and with slavery as used in the AKB 'verse. There's also mention of child abuse, suicide, institutionalization and self-harm.

( Funny that Jeremy should even bother. )