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Not spending eight dollars on the Kindle version of Gail Carriger's Heartless. Not. Not spending thirty-two dollars on the Kindle versions of the whole series, either. There is a perfectly good county library system that has the first three and will shortly acquire the fourth.

In related news, if you're at all into Victorian steampunk with vampires and werewolves and gay characters, I highly recommend Carriger's Soulless, Changeless, and Blameless, in that order. Our cast of characters are entirely children of class privilege—are they ever—but that's the only flaw in the series.

ETA: Fuck it. I'm buying the book and I'm reading it as soon as I finish typing this, because I went and stepped in the "straight-cis-white-female slashers are Doin It Rong, and so are anybody else whose m/m stories have other-than-hypermasculine characters, and slashers only come in straight-cis-white-female and this-article's-author" puddle and it was a lot deeper and filled with more misogynist muck than I thought it was, and the fourth Alexia Tarabotti novel sounds like exactly the antidote I need.

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There's gonna be a FIFTH Alexia Tarabotti novel and I have to wait until MARCH. I don't know whether to be delighted or dismayed.

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STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND GO WATCH THIS VIDEO. Playing for Change: Gimme Shelter. War, children, it's just a shot away, it's just a shot away...love, sister, it's just a kiss away, it's just a kiss away... They recorded a whole bunch of musicians doing the same song in different places all over the world and spliced it all together into one coherent and gorgeous whole.

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Somebody mentioned tattoos in a Big Bang, which means I'm actually thinking about them while at the computer instead of while driving past the tattoo place.

So, folks with tattoos: What should I know while considering whether to get a tattoo? How much does it typically cost? Does it hurt? How long does it take? And assuming I decide I am getting one, what questions should I ask at the various tattoo places before deciding which tattoo place to patronize?

(I am thinking of something like this, only in rainbow colors including pink and black. I'm queer and I'm Irish. This is who I am and don't you forget it. Or something like that.)