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coatkneedee needs about $200 to prevent legal action from being taken against her for an old tuition bill. $$, advice for dealing with collections agencies, job leads in the region, etc. all of potential use. (Go, Team Internet! the immediate part of the $$ crisis is solved).

The Yes Men are responsible for hoax about proposed (fake) bill requiring gay Utah citizens to accept "treatment" or leave the state. Who's more pissed now? Gay folks or Utah? via ravenskye8.

On the on sex and the off-label use of our bodies. via _fx. Note: this post is on the Blowfish blog. There's no NSFW images on the page, but it is part of the Blowfish sex-toy shop website.

Same-sex marriages start in DC today.

sparkindarkness has a roundup of anti-LGBTQ evil.

The more literate a country is, the more likely it is for its citizens to prefer boy babies over girls. via reannon.

Frozen Dead Guy Days 2010.

Okay, I've been a little grumpy about this Tron remake thing. I mean, I _love_ Tron, but it also seemed to be the movie on the TV every single time I wound up in the ER in college (from my own medical mishaps to friends getting gay bashed). But then popfiend linked to the trailer for the new thingy. Um, yeah, I'm on board. Also can I just pause to say that there were some things about the '80s that were fucking great? I loved how much time we spent obsessing on how sexy the future was going to be solely because we really fucking hated Reagan and hey, let's play Space Invaders.

Last night we finished season 3 or Buffy, and started season 4.

I really don't know why the Buffy/Angel plotline annoys me SO MUCH. It's well done. It hits all the right notes. It's the kind of emotional suffering I tend to care about. But somehow I don't get why either of them like each other. And I feel like a hypocrite about that considering I'm all over the Jack/Ianto relationship which has a lot of the same problems (they get together WHY? the age difference is WHAT?). Maybe it's just that David Boreanaz's acting is nothing to write home about. Don't know.

LOVED the moment when all the kids stand up to fight. That's some fantastic shit. Was, believe it or not, sort of sad to see the principal get eaten. Don't love the psychic coma Buffy/Faith crap (yes, I'm complaining about a lack of realism in a show with demon ascensions, shut up).

What the hell was that whole Wesley/Cordelia thing? Like, worst kiss ever because they apparently have negative chemistry in actual practice or because Wesley has no experience at all or what? Sadly, I still sort of like them together in a where's the Cordelia/Wesley pegging fic, thanks way.

And Giles! He gets around, now doesn't he?

Also, Sunnydale U. is so conspicuously the high school set redressed it's hilarious. (Except apparently I'm wrong and just think everything in California looks alike).

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I liked Buffy/Angel in season two, because her pain at sending her lover to hell was so palpable, and because I was young enough when I first saw it to buy into the twu wuv fantasy.

But it was dragged out pointlessly in season three, and I was so offended when he dumped her "for her own good." (Condescending, much?) I always felt there was a passivity to Buffy/Angel--it was all about them being "fated" to be together, and then when they couldn't make it work, they gave up instead of communicating and working together to fix things.

Plus, in retrospect, they barely even know each other and had almost nothing in common. They were each in love with a fantasy image of the other, not the actual person behind it.

I'm glad you'll be watching Angel, too--everyone who's telling you that Wesley is awesome is right. Oooh, and Spike is coming back soon, too.