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I'm reading the latest SPN wank and talking about it this morning with sockkpuppett, and my thoughts can be summed up in the story I told her. When I was three years old, I got all jealous that my brothers had penises and I didn't. So my mother, being awesome like she is, sat me down and gave me the talk on how awesome vaginas are. This is the point I'm told I stripped completely naked and then stood in the window shouting "I GOT A GINA, I GOT A GINA" to the world. I keep being surprised by the fact that we have women in fandom who never quite had that moment. It's a good moment! I sort of want to pull them aside and explain how you do that thing where you look at your own cervix with a mirror and realize, OMG, my ladybits are SO COOL (and I don't even mean that in the naughty way). And then I also love fandom a lot, because any time pussy hating gets transformed into an entire community challenge about pussy eating? Rock.

I need more coffee. Why, I've hardly even had half a pot this morning. That's practically caffeine deprivation.

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History Channel (yes, I am watching a lot of HC lately...I got in the habit of turning it on for The Universe and then got hooked on a bunch of other stuff), had a big special last night called Life After People. I'd been watching the promos for this over the last few weeks practically drooling. An exploration of what life on Earth would be like if people finally did themselves in? Awesome! The triumph of nature over man made creations, the glimpses of high rise buildings covered in plant growth and home to birds and whatnot...oh, yes please. I love that humanity is kind of irrelavent to the big picture, and I have a sort of fascination with our eventual extinction. So you can see how I was all excited about this?

Yeah, I haven't yet made it past the first half hour. Why? 'Cause the first thing they showed was how domesticated dogs would mostly be screwed. The special assumes a rather sudden die off, which includes doggies being trapped in houses (OMG that was the most disturbing and upsetting thing I've seen on my television in forever)...but even the ones who get out, there are so many breeds that are dependent on people that it's likely a vast number of them would die off. The hardier mutts have the best odds, but even their lives get a bit hard scrabble. And...and...DOGGIES. This was deeply upsetting to me. I find myself changing my whole world view on this human extinction thing. I now believe that we have a duty not to screw up and to survive, and it really would be tragic if we didn't make it. Because I finally understand our true purpose on this earth. The meaning of life, if you will. We're here to take care of the dogs.

I'll try to watch the rest of it later. Fast forward through the dog part. Because, dude, that's just not on.