Blogaround

1. Home invasion: Mastodon's Eternal September begins (November 9) "Like when you're sitting in a quiet carriage softly chatting with a couple of friends and then an entire platform of football fans get on at Jolimont Station after their team lost. They don't usually catch trains and don't know the protocol. They assume everyone on the train was at the game or at least follows football. They crowd the doors and complain about the seat configuration."

2. Chinese Sailor Returns Home After Circumnavigating the Arctic (November 15) "The 54-year-old man journeyed for 17 months on a solar-powered yacht to raise awareness of climate change."

3. How Many Trans People Does The New York Times Believe There Should Be? (November 15) "Once trans people enter the picture, though, institutions like the Times are eager to reimagine the remaining limitations of modern science and the inherent chance of side effects that come with any medical treatment as invalidating flaws."

4. Eight billion of us: What does that mean? (November 16) 

5. One True Ace Pairing: Toy Story 4 (2019) "A traditional romance movie might have one person make a grand gesture of sacrifice to be with the other, because movies teach us that nothing is more important in life than finding love. But many of us would agree that it is not, and sometimes, even if you’ve met the right person, the circumstances aren’t right for you to be together. But in Toy Story 4, Woody and Bo have cared for each other for a long time, but the circumstances were finally right for them, and I find that just so darn romantic."

6. Missing a Permission Slip (2017) [content note: descriptions of masturbating and sex toys] Here's a really interesting asexual perspective on masturbating.