Hope & Change vs Cynicism: Round 451*

Putting on my Hurmorless Feminist hat for a moment here (yeah, I know, as if I ever take it off):

Obama orders hospitals to grant same-sex couples visitation rights

( SPOILER ALERT: I am a killjoy under this cut )

Here's hoping it's the first step of many in the right direction.

(Hat tip to a frequent commenter at Shakesville.)


* Not a Fahrenheit reference; today's Obama's 451st day in office.

Frivolity time

Go go frivolity! Take that serious down a peg!


Donated blood today, woo-hoo! Hemoglobin at 13.2%, which is up considerably from my usual ♥ My blood pressure was down as well (127/80), which means all that Pokéwalker training was healthful ^__^v Only got the bandage off an hour and a half ago, and am still pushing fluids; am quite pleased. Also, my dinner was mostly cookies ._.;;;


Finished the ultra-rough outline for that thar tentacle!plunny I mentioned, which I guess means I'm doing it ^^a (Go! Write! WIN!) There's still some stuff I wanna work out before I start, so here's a quick list:

* Need to work out whether dub-con-ish stuff that I talked down to being less with dubious is still dub-con, and, if so, to what degree and/or if there is already a trope name for this sort of thing (e.g. Aliens Made Them Do It, Sex Pollen), which would simplify things for me. Getting this done would helpful to me for the sign-up procedure, so if someone is willing to lend a tentacle hand, I would quite appreciate it? ♥? I mean, I can probably fumble through on my own, but there are potential negative consequences (bad match for beta, art; accidentally triggering people; etc), so.
* Female main character has a name! Need names for the two male main characters, still :|a ...And any other characters I come across, but those to are the big question.
* Work out more details for backstory/history of main characters; what I have now is acceptable, but more vague than I would like.
* Especially work more to flesh out backstory details that deal with more than one main character. Want a better handle on this before I start writing.

I'm still liking the idea a lot, and even more so since the working-out of stuff I mentioned in the first point :)b It's also something fun to think about at red lights on my route (silently, of course).


And now, I deem it to be time for sleeping~ With any luck, that rain we're supposed to be getting will have started by then, thus combating our unseasonably warm weather. Eighty degrees is so wrong for April.

Edit: Changed first bullet point for more accurate wording; good going, brain, forgetting the correct term -_-a

Not that there's any real difference between the two concepts IRL, but I'd say there might be in fiction.