the thread that can't be derailed....

[hazelspikes]

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(Blue and pink hair, green eyes, lavender lips and the genderqueer flag and heart).

I didn't know where to post this. Eheheheheh. And the picture wasn't displaying when I did the insert image code. User error...

My genderqueer Halloween pumpkin named Charlie. Preferred pronouns are zie/hir. Zie was going to have silver glitter in hir hair, but I didn't want it all over the room. And there's no white in the genderqueer flag war paint because there was no white paint. So I'm sorry it wasn't completely accurate. 

[MadelineB]

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(Blue and pink hair, green eyes, lavender lips and the genderqueer flag and heart).

I didn't know where to post this. Eheheheheh. And the picture wasn't displaying when I did the insert image code. User error...

My genderqueer Halloween pumpkin named Charlie. Preferred pronouns are zie/hir. Zie was going to have silver glitter in hir hair, but I didn't want it all over the room. And there's no white in the genderqueer flag war paint because there was no white paint. So I'm sorry it wasn't completely accurate. 

What a lovely gourd. Love that it wasn't cut. Non-op CharlieOLanterns deserve to look their best too! Don't worry about getting the colors any one way. As long as Charlie is happy, that's all that matters.

[hazelspikes]

What a lovely gourd. Love that it wasn't cut. Non-op CharlieOLanterns deserve to look their best too! Don't worry about getting the colors any one way. As long as Charlie is happy, that's all that matters.

Tehee thanks! My dorm was throwing a Halloween party and I went for the food (because I'm a poor college student/band nerd like that). The pumpkin painting was a bonus and I figured "what the heck, I will make this beautiful!" And because I'm not well-versed in painting, it got a bit wibbly. but Charlie O'Lanterns (love the last name) will stay until it looks sad and needs to go to the pumpkin-patch-in-the-sky.

[justmeinoz]

What is the cause of American's fascination with pumpkins?  Do you actually eat them or just carve them and molest them in other ways?  We roast them, boil them, and make soup out of them. Butternut makes the best soup in my opinion.  Otherwise a Queensland Blue.

Karen.

[V M]

What is the cause of American's fascination with pumpkins?  Do you actually eat them or just carve them and molest them in other ways?  We roast them, boil them, and make soup out of them. Butternut makes the best soup in my opinion.  Otherwise a Queensland Blue.

Karen.

Pumpkins are used to make Jack O Lanterns for the Halloween holiday on Oct. 31st 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack-o%27-lantern

But yes, many people also make various treats and such out of them 

http://pumpkinrecipes.org/

[BlueSloth]

What is the cause of American's fascination with pumpkins?  Do you actually eat them or just carve them and molest them in other ways?

When we're not painting them or carving them and putting lights in them or shooting them out of cannons or catapults or trebuchets or whatever, there's pumpkin pie.

As far as I can tell, the pies are made from a special kind of cylindrical pumpkin, with a tough metallic skin, which mainly grows on store shelves.  The interior has a liquidy consistency and no seeds.

[Padma]

And the picture wasn't displaying when I did the insert image code. User error...

Not user error, Flickr has made it a lot more fiddly to link directly to photos these days. They've provided a way to do this:

Click on the Share dropdown above the image - then choose Grab the HTML/BBCode, pick the BBCode button, and copy the code from there (you get to choose which image size to show) - drop that in your topic post and it shows like this:


Untitled by hazelspikes, on Flickr

If you don't want to show your user/title data, you can delete everything from that paste except the part near the beginning from [ img ] to [ /img ] (without the spaces) and you'll just see this:

[Brooke777]

What is the cause of American's fascination with pumpkins?  Do you actually eat them or just carve them and molest them in other ways?  We roast them, boil them, and make soup out of them. Butternut makes the best soup in my opinion.  Otherwise a Queensland Blue.

Karen.

I recently made a really good butternut squash soup. I am planning on making a pumpkin stew in the near future as well.  But, growing up we only used pumpkins for Halloween decorations, and pie. Other than that, at least where I was raised (Oregon) we did not used pumpkins for any sort of food.

[Taka]

right now i'm seriously jealous of people who can flash chest hair

[BlueSloth]

My genderqueer Halloween pumpkin named Charlie.

I like hir.

(I didn't say anything before because I wanted to think of something a bit more sophisticated and longer, but "I like hir" pretty much says it all.. so.. yeah.  hehe)

[kelly_aus]

right now i'm seriously jealous of people who can flash chest hair

You can have what remains of mine..

[Taka]

You can have what remains of mine..

will i get a flat chest along with it?

[suzifrommd]

right now i'm seriously jealous of people who can flash chest hair

Easy.
1. Take everything off.
2. Put on raincoat.
3. Walk up to a chest hair.
4. Let it all hang out.

[Shantel]

I had a single chest hair grow out when I was a senior in high school. It was my badge of manhood. My girlfriend spotted it and plucked it out. It was such an emasculating act that I dumped her. I never grew another hair on my chest, a blessing as I now look back on it all! 

[V M]

LOL... I had a girlfriend do the same thing    I didn't mind though because I only had two hairs, one on the edge of each nipple and they actually kind of annoyed me 

[hazelspikes]

@Padma: Thanks for your help! I'll try to remember that for next time.
@BlueSloth: That's okay! I appreciate your comment.

[Kaelin]

So I was walking to my first class, and on the ground I notice a bobby pin.  It's supposed to be unsanitary to just pick random stuff off the ground, but I go ahead and take it, and I wash it off when I head to the restroom.

Towards the end of my second class, as I was picking up tests from students, I noticed a bobby pin in the room there, too.  I pick it up, and the two pins match (both black, so hardly a surprise).  I clean that one, too.  Since I'm not teaching any other class and am just doing office hours, I've stuck them both in my hair (probably not visible to anyone anyway).

If I was a religious person, I'd probably use this example as a sign from God I have his blessing (nay, an expectation) to dress/express differently.  But I'm not superstitious like that, so I'll chalk it up to an amusing coincidence -- one that nets me two perfectly good matching bobby pins.

[Emma Morgaine]

So I was walking to my first class, and on the ground I notice a bobby pin.  It's supposed to be unsanitary to just pick random stuff off the ground, but I go ahead and take it, and I wash it off when I head to the restroom.

Towards the end of my second class, as I was picking up tests from students, I noticed a bobby pin in the room there, too.  I pick it up, and the two pins match (both black, so hardly a surprise).  I clean that one, too.  Since I'm not teaching any other class and am just doing office hours, I've stuck them both in my hair (probably not visible to anyone anyway).

If I was a religious person, I'd probably use this example as a sign from God I have his blessing (nay, an expectation) to dress/express differently.  But I'm not superstitious like that, so I'll chalk it up to an amusing coincidence -- one that nets me two perfectly good matching bobby pins.

hahaha! i love this story!

[Taka]

just to have said it... i had a talk with a sexologist yesterday. she has studied under one of the best, and was wonderfully open minded. felt nice to talk to someone who tries to understand me instead of meeting me with prejudice or ignorant questions. she also seemed open to trying hrt just to see if this might help me, though probably not before making sure that i'm not just overthinking things. right now i feel like i can get my life going in the right direction (forward), even if things don't go the way i'm hoping right now. i'll be seeing her again in january, that was the earliest she could find time for me. good thing i've learned to be patient, i feel like it's good that things aren't happening fast

[ativan]

just to have said it.. ...i feel like it's good that things aren't happening fast

Congrats! Very happy for you!
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