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• Wednesday Wow: Hot Pink !

  By tigtog on 2007-09-26 • ( 10 )

  No thumbnail for this, the photographer doesn’t want hir work on people’s blogs.

  I reckon the owner of this house/car combo is never seen with a belt that doesn’t match the shoes.

• I’m a bit over the “just sayin'” thing, however,

  By tigtog on 2007-09-26

  if you can think of nothing better to do in a thread where people are enjoying some fannish solidarity than mindlessly slag the fan object rather than provide some substantive critique, and if at the same time your link to… Read More ›

• Horrifying

  By tigtog on 2007-09-25 • ( 1 )

  Lost Clown writes about a woman in the UK who within a few weeks has moved from happily anticipating the birth of her baby to anguish over the prospect that she may never get to hold her child: Social Services… Read More ›

• Continuing the quest for non-misogynist pornography

  By tigtog on 2007-09-24 • ( 1 )

  Cracking post from Amanda Marcotte at Pandagon: Even the porn out there that strives to be non-misogynist gets called “alt” porn, which is basically a label indicating that porn that’s about getting off to sex instead of getting off to… Read More ›

• Now there’s a story arc

  By tigtog on 2007-09-23 • ( 17 )

  Last night’s Dr Who 3rd season finale and the future story of Captain Jack. There be spoilers ahead. If you haven’t seen the episode you really don’t want to click the link if you hate surprises being ruined.

• Looks so innocent, doesn’t it?

  By tigtog on 2007-09-23 • ( 2 )

  Image Source: originally uploaded by gramarye, aka The Crotchety Gardener This skink’s cousin just murdered a moth in my garden. I’d never thought of them as especially effective predators, although I’ve certainly seem them fighting each other and even several… Read More ›

• Heh. Heheheheheh.

  By tigtog on 2007-09-21 • ( 2 )

  I’m putting this behind the cut so that the prank doesn’t get noticed before it’s had its full allocation of LOLZ.

• Wednesday Wow: A Heart Among Giant Desire

  By tigtog on 2007-09-19 • ( 6 )

  Found in my regular trawl through the WOW! flickr image pool.

  I grew up as a bushwalker (hiker/rambler for you foreign types). I’ve never been to somewhere with trees quite like this, but it brings back fond memories of walks through quiet, wild spaces.

• Might as well go for the big three of humourless feminism

  By tigtog on 2007-09-18 • ( 26 )

  Seeing as the two previous posts are Lauredhel’s on rape culture and mine on prostitution, I thought I’d add a link to this post that I had been saving up for later in the week: Trouble in Pornoland. Written by… Read More ›

• Ignoring imprisonment and institutionalisation

  By tigtog on 2007-09-18 • ( 4 )

  As long as it’s only women in the sex industry being exploited and abused, that is. There’s two excellent posts around on legalised prostitution at the moment, examining the way that legalisation seems to have offered an extra layer of… Read More ›