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Fuck a doodle doo. I had today all planned out in my head. Breakfast out, run a dozen errands, bit of shopping. Instead I have woken up in pieces. The CPAP machine is helping my sleep, but the fact remains that I am still unpredictably KNACKERED.

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One of these pictures has nothing whatsoever to do with Strange Flesh. Can you guess which it is?

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Via drhoz: Copy this sentence into your livejournal if you're in a heterosexual marriage, and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.

I have yet to hear an explanation of how extending the legal protections, privileges, and responsibilities of marriage to serious, dedicated gay couples would affect my own legal protections, privileges, and responsibilities.

What's more, I'm impatient with patently false arguments that gay marriage will destroy freedom of religion or opinion and the family unit. The latter is a particularly bizarre argument: how will legitimising and supporting stable two-parent families lead to more single parent families, polygamy, etc?

If - when - gay marriage is legal, Christian churches would no more be forced to marry Adam and Steve than they would be to marry Jon and I. Teachers will not be forced to teach acceptance of homosexuality in the classroom. (See A Commentary on the Document "Six Consequences if Proposition 8 Fails", which debunks lies about the November California referendum on banning gay marriage.)

Jon and I have no children and are unlikely to have any children. If anyone is attacking our marriage, it's the opponents of gay unions who insist that the purpose of marriage is to produce offspring.

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600 words today: Strange Flesh chapter 1 is now 1800/4000 words. Running out of synonyms for "white", which is what happens when you put quasi-albinoes on a snow planet.

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Dear Doctor Who fandom,

Believe it or not, there is life outside that little corner of fandom which is completely obsessed with Rose. The character is no more the be-all and end-all of fannish life than she was the be-all and end-all of RTD's time on the show.

I know it's hard to see out through windows totally fogged up with your own hot air, but srsly.