Dat Heinlein!
Hurray for (I believe) Jubal Harshaw quotes!

I haven’t heard much about it, but I probably will.

thequeenonthewall:

frankyfitz:

things to talk about it.

And when this was on my tv all three of went “OH DEAR GOD…”

Reasons to date a blacksmith:  This
(I’m a blacksmith, ladies.  Just sayin…)

deareditor:

I finished the second GOT Party Hard video!

WATCH HERE.

please if you like teh gifs: reblog them, dont post them :)

Rofl, this is beautiful, so beautiful…

mine are cooler than yours! they really love me

Though you may be few, definitely you are beautiful.

adventuresinpoly:

From the ModernPoly tumblr feed:

#FacesOfPolyamory

We want to create a world where everyone can be open about their relationship choices - without worrying about losing jobs and losing children. We want to show the world that polyamorous people are normal, stable, healthy, friendly,…

There are just two places in life where I feel I am free, not only to be myself, but to celebrate that glorious fact that I am and to revel in what I am and what it means to be.
The first place is in philosophy.
And the second is in my relationships.
And with any luck, those two come together beautifully.

I am polyamorous.
And that means I am willing, able, and overjoyed to love multiple people at any given moment.

I was raised in a very strictly Christian household.  I was raised under the orthodoxy of marriage as sacred, and the married unit as indivisible and holy.

And when I came of age to finally want a relationship of my own, I always felt horribly that something was wrong with me when, though in a wonderfully joyous relationship with a very beautiful, loving girl, I still felt affection toward others.  I stifled this with the same iron fist which stifled all my other ‘deviations’.  But still, I grew older and my relationships ebbed and flowed and that splinter in my mind grew and edged deeper because no matter the relationship, no matter how strongly I felt, still, I felt the same stirrings for others which were aroused by my publicly chosen partners.
And it made me feel like a piss poor human being because all my life, the orthodoxy of monogamy was pounded into me.  I was immersed in it and had accepted if off-hand simply because I knew no other way, while still casting about more and more frantically as I grew older for some way to reconcile my feelings with themselves.

And then, in the last months of my 15th year, I picked up a book called Stranger in a Strange Land by one Robert Anson Heinlein.  That book had such a profound effect on my life that I have henceforth divided the portions which came before and which came after into two separate lives.  The transformation was such that I can no longer consider myself the same person I was before reading it.
Stranger gave me my first exposure to polyamory.  Which in itself was not the most significant part.  It gave me not only my first exposure to it, but also declared with a joyous audacity that to love many was not only okay, but deserved to be celebrated just as much as monogamy!  That was my eureka moment.

It is now a little less than 5 years later.  I am 20 years old and Stranger is no longer the most important book in my collection.  But it will forever hold a very beautifully ornamented and supremely important temple within the recesses of my heart for its willingness to tell me that I was not a freak, a monster, and that I should not punish myself for my ability to love many.  If you are one of those blessed people who never had to go through such a transformation, I cannot tell you how relieving and how important it is to have someone there to tell you that you are NOT a monster.  That it is okay to be what you are even if what you are is different from what everyone else is.

I had intended this to be just a short blerb about poly’s meaning to me.  And here now I’ve written quite a lot…
To sum it all up:  To me, I guess… Poly is home.  And there’s no place like it.

P.S.  You are not a freak.  Pass it on.

Waaaaay too much makeup, but otherwise mouthwatering.

adventuresinpoly:

For those who might be even slightly skeptical: I’ve provided all public court documents to several organizations, including the Sexual Freedom Legal Defense and Education Fund…and they are now fundraising on my behalf. Unfortunately, the donations coming in, while certainly appreciated, are…

Now this is something I’ve feared for a long time.  After a pregnancy scare with an ex, and our breakup (related to MY polyamory and her finally telling me she couldn’t accept it after 2 years  Unrelated to potential pregnancy), she told me that even if she was pregnant, she wouldn’t allow me to have any part in the life of our child.
Already knowing that women win 70% of custody disputes as well as prevailing opinion on polyamory, this is the kind of thing that really scared me.
I may not want a child at this point in my life, but that sure as hell doesn’t mean that if I had one, I wouldn’t want to take care of it and raise it.