Rachel actually =(

Thanks for the recommend! I'll check it out! Gosh what a treat that would be if she rewrote/recompiled it.

In the books (Animorphs) they can speak telepathically when they’re morphed into animals, so the brackets are to show that form of communication. It’s often used in situations they can’t risk speaking aloud in, or to plan privately between each other.

Rachel, actually =(

It's kind of blowing my mind rereading it and seeing how relevant it still feels, if not even more so, than it did back in the 90s. I can't believe it's a "kids" book, but at the same time I think every kid today really needs to read it.

In the books (Animorphs) they can speak telepathically when they're morphed into animals, so the brackets are to show that form of communication. It's often used in situations they can't risk speaking aloud in, or to plan privately between each other.

Have you ever had a dream that, that, um, that you had, uh, that you had to, you could, you do, you wit, you wa, you could do so, you do you could, you want, you wanted him to do you so much you could do anything?

My family uses a water softening filter on our tap water and it makes it go from awful tasting to pretty good. We just store water in a jug after filtering and it really helps and is far cheaper than bottled water.

I'm transfemme and post op. Yeah, lots of big emotions approaching that table, and I'm so sorry that they hit you all then and there.

Take your time and definitely do not rush!!! Therapy is an excellent call, it sounds like you need to really delve into what it is you need. Be absolutely sure you feel comfortable with your surgeon. Be absolutely sure you're ready. Be absolutely sure you have support for after the surgery as well, because the recovery really sucks.

It's not all flowers and roses on the other side either. My surgeon was truly excellent and did a great job, but I had a couple weird complications and a bad UTI, and there are some things I don't like about how things turned out. But there were so many things and health problems I had that came from being pre op too, and it was certainly way worse for me before surgery. At the end, big and complicated feelings. Take good care of yourself and be sure to really get introspective about it all, okay? If it's right for you, great. If not, also great.

Oh my God that's exactly what it was. Awful!!! It was really not good.

I was passing through Montevideo, Uruguay, and me and some folks at the hostel I was staying at were out trying a local restaurant. The guy who owned the place saw we were tourists and said he wanted to treat us to a local specialty, and so brought out... something. It was something like animal bits, chunks of fat, and who knows what else all suspended in a hard gelatin. It was truly vile, and I swear it had bits of hair in it as well. To be polite we all tried a small bit, and then got the heck out of there as quick as we could.

To this day I can't tell if he was sincere, or if he really hated tourists and gave us the contents of his dish trap. Googling has turned up nothing, but thankfully our politeness didn't extend to actually finishing the awful thing.

Before I came out as transfemme, I was in the city of Manaus in Brazil, traveling during Carnaval. Manaus is not terribly popular with foreigners, and I stood out as very white, very American, and very blonde, so lots of people would stare, want to talk with me, randomly touch my long hair, etc. All normal travel things.

During a concert however three guys were actively watching and inspecting me, all turned away from the stage to do so. They'd turn to talk to each other, and then turn right back to stare at me. Not so normal, and I was getting a little spooked and thinking about an exit plan, when they all came right up to me with a phone out.

One shouted over the crowd as he showed me his phone, "This you?!" and showed me a picture of Kurt Cobain. Hilarious, and seeing Kurt in a dress of course is even funnier now in hindsight. I said no, pointed out that he was dead, shook a couple hands, and they wandered off. Fun times.