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I have just walked into a store and bought a gun, multiple times. They have an instant background-check system, and my state doesn't mandate a waiting period. You fill out a form, pay a modest fee to cover the check, they run your information against a database, and if there's no reason you shouldn't have a gun, you just buy the gun.

More recently, though, I've gotten guns via internet sites such as gunbroker.com, via the following process: I order the gun and send payment to the seller, and they ship it to someone in my area who's a federally licensed firearms dealer. I meet that person, fill out the same form, pay the same fee, they check me against the same database, and if I'm clean, they turn the gun over to me.

The latter is handy for all the reasons that buying online is always handy. Shopping around for the best price or a special discount, seeing a larger selection than a single store could carry, and being able to find obscure models or collector's items that you'd NEVER be able to track down otherwise. Plus, the licensed transfer dealer in my area also works as a gunsmith, so I'd be going to him anyway when I need some work done.

I've actually gotten into those type of arguments on FS! before, where people were trying to talk about fictional characters being able to dress how they want and my reaction was mostly, "But they're fictional... they were created by a man... to please men..."

Like I understand the need to not judge how real women dress but ignoring the objectification of women just so you don't slut shame seems to take back the progress a bit.

I agree, if you're going to swap, swap em both.

Episode tag for the last ep of Dragons: Defenders of Berk. Assumes that the finale of Season 1 was a lot darker than what we saw in the show (that's a fic I'm planning on writing later).

Stoick glared after Alvin as he was dragged off to the Mead Hall, held by half a dozen men and Gobber fetching chains for the man.

As soon as he was gone, he turned to Hiccup, who was frozen save for his eyes following Alvin’s path, gripping onto Toothless’ saddle. The dragon was tense and growling lowly at the retreating Outcast, looking for all the world like he wanted to pounce and rip the man to shreds, held back only by the need to support Hiccup.

Stoick could empathize – that was exactly how he felt now.

“Hiccup,” he said carefully. “How are you doing?”

The boy jerked and looked up at Stoick.

“I’m fine,” he lied. “Really. Let’s go see what he wants.”

“What he wants?”

“He came to Berk,” Hiccup said. “He saved Snotlout’s life and brought him back to Berk – there had to be a reason for it.”

Without another word, Hiccup tugged once on Toothless’s saddle to get his attention, then started walking towards the Hall.

Watching his retreating back, Stoick couldn’t help but briefly remember how blood-soaked the back of Hiccup’s shirt had been by the time they rescued him from Alvin.

His skin underneath the shirt had been worse. Hiccup still bore the scars, and probably would for the rest of his life.

He was far too young to be stuck with those scars, to be stuck with a missing leg, for the rest of his life.

With a sigh, Stoick pushed back his memories – of the state of shock Hiccup had been in once they’d gotten him back, of all the cuts and burns and bruises he’d had, of the arduous weeks of physical recovery and the mental recovery ongoing now.

He didn’t miss how Hiccup tensed up every time Stoick picked up a fire-poker to shift a log around.

Stoick pushed all of that away – no matter how much he wanted to, he had to confront Alvin not as Hiccup’s father, but as the chief of Berk.

I don't actually care for genderswapping in fic at all, but I think it's pretty fun to see genderswapped fanart.

LOL! If it makes you feel better, I was raised Catholic and I *still* have a hard time remembering to observe it.

While I don't exactly view the same way you do [personally, it's more about remembering the God/Jesus' sacrifice for us, etc], it is a really good time to get started on changing bad habits - particularly since it's not a specifically a *thing* you have to give up, so it works to give up a habit too.

Also, if I may ask, why did you decide to convert? [I apologize if it's rude to ask, I just always hear the "Screw it! I totes left Catholicism!" and never "I converted to it" so...I'm being nosy. ^^;;]

Yeah, I usually can't get into anything that's pandering that heavily to fanservice. It's just like ugh give me a break.

You'd love me then. I derive a perverse sense of enjoyment from deliberate mispronunciations and malapropisms.

NOT MY MONSTERRRRRRRRR

Also, you know we've done this like, several times already, right?

does anyone else find it funny that this secret got shoved into the fail pile for being too big?

In theory, there's insurance for everything (mostly in that there are some catch-all forms of insurance that can be applied extremely broadly). More concretely, insurance is for things that are either extremely expensive, prone to cause lawsuits, or both.

In some places, yes, you can just walk into a store and buy a gun, though with a few rare exceptions, no where is completely instantaneous (as far as I know). There DOES have to be a background check done (either right then or done ahead of time, re: license), and most often there's a waiting period, ranging anywhere from a few hours to a few days. Gun laws vary dramatically from state to state, county to county, even city to city (i.e. mine has age limits on certain types of guns and ammunition). And of course, there are loopholes and such (i.e. get someone else to buy a gun for you, buy the mostly-unregulated parts and put the gun together yourself, etc.)

Flossing = taking a waxed thread and running it between your teeth, to push out any tiny food detritus that could settle down between them and cause long-term damage. There is some debate about how often to do this (i.e. the 'ideal' is to do so every day, but for a lot of people that kind of regularity can cause gum damage in the long run). Some people do it every day, some people only do it once or twice in the week leading up to their visit to the dentist's office.

You'd be surprised how much a good quality print on good quality paper can cost. And shipping. That could bring it up to $10 on it's own.

Unless you're printing a book and having it bound, printing out copies of regular paper is like nothing.

I watched Pacific Rim because I loved old godzilla.

I'll watch new godzilla because Pacific Rim told me the west is ready to do a Kaiju movie correctly now (and we weren't in 1998, we all know it)

da fuq? Just like all the fanart people commission and look at for free, you wouldn't have to pay to read it. You just never have to commission any. Grow up whiner.

I like that idea of adopting something positive. I think I'll try that this year. :D

Secondly, you're a fucking moron.

Thirdly, you'd know this if instead of picking up your information from some little sjw source on tumblr, you WATCHED THE FUCKING TRAILER AND KNEW WHAT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT

http://youtu.be/vIu85WQTPRc

I will also accept that you don't know your history and what was going on in 1950's and are thus still stupid, albeit in a different way.

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Yeah. I'd be totally cool with that, because she'd probably find it funny.

Here is my very long answer. :)

I was raised fundamentalist Protestant (Southern Baptist) in a family that has become ever-increasingly conservative in worrying ways. The religious upbringing I grew up with racist, sexist, and ignorant. For example, I was told in Sunday school that women could go to college if they really wanted to, but then they should get down to the business of baby-making. My white Sunday's school teacher's son's best friend was a black boy. When he got into some trouble at home, this man told us that he wouldn't allow the best friend to sleep over at their house because he didn't believe white people and black people should sleep under the same roof. Nothing I was ever told about another religion or denomination of Christianity as a child is true, and as this was the pre-internet era, I didn't know any better. This church believes in a literal interpretation of the Bible--the earth is six thousand years old or whatever and science isn't real. The incessant focus on eschatology was also extremely off-putting to me; I don't want to die. I'm not ready for the world to end. I think we have to take care of the world we have now rather than use it up because The End is Near. Lots of focus on hell. I would pray the salvation prayer every night as a child just in case I didn't do it right and it didn't stick so I would go to hell. Also, the intersection of conservative politics (which IMHO espouse the exact opposite of Christianity) with protestant christianity was enough to make me back button out of there as soon as I could.

I become really disgusted really early only with Christianity. I remember being six years old and being super upset because I loved my stuffed animals but not an intangible god I couldn't see. I stayed after the service to talk to the pastor who dismissed my concerns naturally.

My husband is Catholic, and when I met his family I saw that being Christian doesn't automatically mean being a racist, sexist asshole. His parents were heavily involved in the Civil Rights movement in their youth. His mom worked in government for equality. When I went to church with them, I saw black people and Asian people and Indian people. There was a focus on community over individualism. PRIESTS HAVE TO GO TO COLLEGE TO LEARN THEIR SHIT; NO DUMBASS IDIOT CAN JUST BE CALLED BY THE SPIRIT AND START PREACHING. Even though the track record on women and gay people in the Catholic church is shitty IMHO, I think that's changing too. yay new pope!!!!

I like the idea of being careful of what comes out of your mouth rather than what goes into it.

Good luck!

I'm Australian and suddenly have boatloads of free time, so sure! I won't be able to participate much though because of the timezones - new FS posts are up at about dawn where I am. :P

Happy birthday.

I can understand what you're saying, anon. For the most part, I tend not to be bothered by questionable outfits, but damn, there sure are some out there that are way over the top. (And it absolutely is fanservice. IMO Anyone who takes great butthurt in the fact that others may not find it easy to look past the skanky character designs and take the show/game seriously... is either an idiot, or embarrassed by their own interests.)

Also wow that's a lot of typos.

LOL

Also, I can't get over the trauma of how I was raised to truly believe in anything. I feel bereft because I would like to have a spiritual anchor and I do not. I'm terribly afraid of dying, terribly afraid I'm going to hell, and unable to truly believe in Christianity even though we are raising our children in the Catholic church.

Me too. :)

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