Letter From Your Editors

Hello Parking Meters!

Well, the 95% of our readers who did not attend camp will be pleased to hear that camp has now come and gone, and therefore we will stop talking about it very soon. However, presently we’re still basking in that post-A-Camp glow and… it feels pretty good! I hope your April flowers have turned into May Showers because our April Flowers sure did look good this May:

Top Row: Erin, Alaina, Raquel, Rachel, Valerie, Yvonne // 2nd Row: Laura M., Casey, Faith, Stef, Maree, Cee // 3rd row: Cecelia, Riese, Nikki, Cameron, Heather Davidson, Molly // 4th row: Nora, Siobhan, Kayla, Sarah, Kaelyn, Laneia

This year’s camp felt especially magical and inspirational. Maybe we all really needed it — a break, a place to celebrate where it felt like we didn’t have to give the patriarchy a break in order to feel comfortable doing so. But despite the food and the weather failing us repeatedly on multiple levels (we’re working on the food thing for next time, the weather is a bit… trickier), campers showed up with such positive energy and openness, the programming was incredible, and I think I really killed it with cabin assignments this time just saying. We also learned a lot about what it’s like to run an enormous camp on an enormous site, and which expectations need to be adjusted for next year. But thanks, y’all, for giving us and each other life we really really needed.

Now, it’s summer! Because of the long hours relatively low salaries earned by our Senior Staff team, I give them all unlimited paid vacation time, and summer is when most of that happens. This means that on any given day, usually only 4/6 of us are actually here, so summer is a lot of treading water to keep up rather than plowing forward on new initiatives. (Also we’re super-broke right now, so!) But we’re all coming together for Shakedown in late June, which’ll be when we start making plans to plow forward on in August. How many times can I use the word PLOW today!!!

We’re super-stoked to have brought on a new Fashion Editor last month, her name is Nora and she’s really rad and is bringing on a diverse group of fashion/beauty editors to share their wisdom with you. You can expect at least two fashion pieces a week going forward. So far we’ve published more fashion/style posts in the last month than we did in like, the last six months, so:

•  4 Devastatingly Dapper Instagram-Inspired Looks for Graduation Season, by Cami Thomas
• Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot: Your Summer 2017 Style Guide, by Nora
• Show Us Your “The Weather Is Finally Good” Style!, by Nora (She wants to do more community-centric fashion posts featuring all of y’all, so pop in and participate!)
• 8 Of the Hottest Fat Fashion Trends for This Summer, by Mey
• Style Thief: How To Dress Like Sia, by Nora
• Wildfang’s Latest Line has Your Dapper and Tomboy Needs Covered, by Nora
• 9 Autostraddle-Approved Travel Accessories for Your Next Vacation, by Nora / The Team
• A Total Beginner’s Guide To Bow Ties, by Baylea Jones
• Style Thief: Your Camp Counselor from 1999, by Alaina

We hope you’ve enjoyed this month’s A+ Content: Getting In Bed With Kristin and Jasika Nicole: Longterm Relationships, Real Live Lesbian Sexting (The Zine) and Thanks, Mom!

Love,

Riese

cosigned by Laneia / Rachel / Yvonne / Heather

Top 10 Most Popular Posts From April 2017

These posts were hella popular last month.

1. 16 Lesbian Power Couples From History Who Got Shit Done, Together, by Riese Bernard
2. Being Kinky Doesn’t Make You Queer, by Carolyn Yates
3. Satellite of Love: Queer Horoscopes for April 2017, by Corrina
4. How to Become a Deadly Misandrist Fairy Vampire, by Siobhan
5. Kate McKinnon Is Witch-Cursed Kristen Stewart on SNL, by Heather Hogan
6. Mildly Thirsty Bella Thorne Wants A Girlfriend, Like Ideally Kristen Stewart (Get In Line, Kiddo), by Stef Schwartz
7. NSFW Sunday Is Into Impact Play, by Carolyn Yates
8. 5 New Dating Apps For Queer Women That Will Change Your Life, by Faith Choyce
9. “Into the Badlands” Is Here to Quench All Your Gay “Game of Thrones” Thirst, by by Valerie Anne
10. Baopu #32: Going to Therapy, by Yao Xiao

Nine Important Excerpts From Editorial Conversations

Rachel: i wish we had a buzzfeed-style video budget so that we could make a medical PSA explaining that it’s totally normal to want to lay down on your bed and suffocate yourself with your own pillow every time you have to think about mike pence
it could start with testimonials from all of us with the sad music they play in the first half of depression medication commercials
“i had to write an article about mike pence last week, and i ate a whole jar of peanut butter in one sitting and then cried during a cat food ad”
and then dr. liz rubin comes in and reassures us that these are all totally normal effects, and that we only need to consult a doctor if we develop hives or swelling as a direct result of mike pence
Heather: omg

Laneia: i wonder what would happen if we brought back “blog anything” for a+
Riese: we would have to write things for it
which was a struggle
Laneia: but it could be anything
it could be a grocery list
it’s not called “blog anything as long as it’s brilliant”

Heather: what’s a less boring way to say this
“You Can Break Bread With LGBT Elders at SAGE Table”
Rachel: mmm is it like a You Should Go type post
Heather: it is, yes
Riese: “Hang Out” sounds better than “Break Bread”
Heather: it does, yes. break bread is the sage wording and my brain just felt broken.
Rachel: Hey Can You Pass the Salt – at the SAGE Table, Which You Come To
Heather: Hang Out With LGBT Elders And Let Us Know If Briana from Grace & Frankie Is Bisexual At Sage Table
Rachel: Is Somebody Bringing the Lentils to the SAGE Table? Is It You
Heather: oh i do like that
Rachel: Briana, Call Me
Riese: can you do that post Rachel, “Briana, call me”
Rachel: god i wanna hang out with real-life bisexual brianna so much. she would not mince words about low-res cheesy bi pride graphics on tumblr
Heather: with briana, “jar wine time” is any time
Rachel: briana sees your “jar wine time” and raises you “tequila shooter time”

Riese: Heather do you know anything about the tv show Animal Kingdom
Heather: gay dudes
it’s like teen wolf but for surfers
Rachel: an obvious niche, can’t believe it was left open for so long
Riese: lemme tell you
searching “Animal Kingdom bisexual”
is quite the journey!
Heather: hope you got some good bonobos making out pics

Laneia: Hey @channel it’s the schedule for May! [LINKS TO MURAL.LY]
Alaina: i didn’t know you could see other people’s cursors on mural.ly and i’m terrified.
Laneia: it’s a lot!
i think there’s a way to disable it but listen, if mural.ly wanted you to have a good time, it would let you know, and it’s not let me know
Faith: Which email do I use to access mural.ly?
Laneia: you should be able to just click the link!
Faith: Do I need to use desktop? On mobile it asks me to sign in
Laneia: oh yes, desktop. the mobile mural is TRASH
like it would be more helpful for them to come to your house and set your flowerbed on fire and then offer you a bowl of brussels sprouts
Faith: I love Brussels sprouts though
With pancetta
Laneia: these have NO PANCETTA
Faith: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Laneia: they’re covered in nutritional yeast flakes and hi-c
GRAPE HI-C
wait other ppl like grape, i always forget that
Faith: oh tite, good save, i love both those things!
Laneia: faith you’re too good for this world
Faith: it’s a curse

Rachel: what are our thoughts on cropping our dads out of photos where our moms look cool
asking for a friend
Heather: into it
i’d for sure do the opposite for my dad
Rachel: okay, that was validating, thank you
Heather: i found a photo of myself today with a goat i rescued as a child
Riese: of course you did
Heather: i didn’t even remember it
Riese: well you’ve rescued a lot of animals!
Rachel: i imagine they start to blur together, yeah
Heather: but then i was like “oh yeah that goat!”

Marni: WHAT IS THE FIELD HOUSE
Kristin: the unmarked building under the tennis courts, to the left of the cabins
that’s what trudy has been yammering about in that thread, the “three garage space” or whatever
Marni: yeah i just couldn’t remember it from the map or real life
three garages EH
HOW MANY CARS
are these wisconsin garages or california garages
Riese: i think it can work for registration, the field house
Kristin: trudy doesnt know how resourceful we are
Riese: we can plot it out more when we get there on the 16th
Kristin: great
i will communicate this to trudes
GUYS HOW ABOUT THE HANDMAIDS TALE THO
i finally watched it
Marni: is that a cabin name
Kristin: wowowowow
Marni: the handmaids?
Kristin: no i diverted from the conversation about registration
Riese: too gendered marni
Marni: episode 3 was so upsetting that i had weird dreams for 2 days, then i thought the last episode was pretty blah, like nothing really happened and it was maybe just setting up the next ones
Kristin: yea ep 3 was a fucking doozy
i love rory gilmore so hard
shes killin it
Marni: maybe the masturbation workshops should’ve been called the handmaids
Kristin: HAHAHAHAHA
Marni: a handmade tale
omg that’s the next bookbinding workshop
Kristin: hahahahahahaha
wow
this is great
ok

Laneia: what if i told the family channel that anyone commenting in #family or on twitter or fb or instagram or in comments on AS who hadn’t already submitted to the mother’s day situation would be immediately fired and replaced with a can of peas
Heather: this week i learned people have so many feelings about patricia lockwood. i truly had no idea!
Laneia: i mean that’s a promise i can keep right
Heather: solid plan, Laneia
Laneia: Heather, i don’t have a single feeling about patricia lockwood
AND I’M GONNA KEEP IT THAT WAY

Stef: i just had my first a-camp/fyre festival mashup stress nightmare so i guess you could say things are going really well
Alaina: oof
Stef: kaylah was my tent-mate
i was really happy i had brought soylent
Alaina: at least you had kaylah and your soy milk
soylent
excuse me
Stef: she is actually bringing me some
just in case
what a dreamboat
marni is it too late to change the name of the family band show to “fyre festival”

Riese: everybody seems to have misinterpreted the exact and perhaps illusive spirit of my food list but it’s ok b/c they love it anyway so i am rolling with it
“meals you make at home when you are depressed” would’ve been a different list!
like “cheese and crackers” ten times
Heather: “ten handfuls of almonds”
“ten handfuls of almonds, ten meals”
Riese: “an odwalla juice”
“toast”
Rachel: “grape tomatoes, optionally dipped into something”
“rice”
“a cold, untoasted bagel dipped into cold cream cheese piece by piece because that’s somehow easier than spreading it”
“plain tortilla chips”
Heather: “what’s in the fridge? nothing. okay, nothing.”
Laneia: sometimes i dip plain loaf bread into bbq sauce
it’s the saddest
Rachel: yesterday i saw someone dipping plain wheat bread into chocolate yogurt
Heather: yeah. when toasting or spreading is too much work, you know you’re in a place.
Rachel: haven’t tried it myself, can’t review it
Laneia: oh WOW
that’s like a super bizarre twist on chocolate gravy and biscuits
Rachel: that’s a thing??
Laneia: yes ma’am
Rachel: well!
Laneia: and the only person who makes it correctly is your grandmother. no one else’s grandmother.
Heather: amen

Meet A New Contributor!

Get to know some of our newest faces.

Faith Choyce, Staff Writer

Website: faithchoyce.com
Twitter: @faithchoyce
Instagram: @faithchoyce
Facebook: @officialfaithchoyce

What’s the grossest food you’ve ever eaten?
A burger that was cooked rare when I asked for it well done. It was so rare it may as well have been mooing. I spit out blood; I’m lucky I’m still alive.

Fuck/Marry/Kill: A case of La Croix, a memory foam mattress, Scarlett Johansson.
Fuck Scar Jo cuz I can pretend that Ghost In The Shell didn’t exist for a night.
Marry a memory foam mattress because you spend a quarter of your life sleeping, so bedtime is basically a LTR.
Kill a case of La Croix because I literally do once weekly.

What kind of lip balm do you use?
Burt’s Bees Classic

If you were a dildo, which one would you be and why?
A long girthy black one because I’ve been told I look taller online.

Complete this sentence: My first kiss was…
With a guy who I dated for 3 months in 9th grade. By “dating” I mean we went to different schools and held hands at church. Poor guy.

What’s the first place you were ever paid to do comedy?
I can’t believe I don’t remember. Now I feel like I need to do a hypnotherapy session and figure out how my brain lost that info.

BOBBLEHEAD HALL OF FAME

Rachel: this is an email that’s in my inbox right now:

“This morning, the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum (NBHOF) officially launched BobbleDonald, and we’re confident it’s going to be a lot of fun for people around the world…maybe even the President himself! At www.BobbleDonald.com, visitors simply type a message, pick Donald’s response and share.

For example, a user can type in “Is James Comey Fired?“. They then choose either “Yes”, which makes Donald’s head bobble in the affirmative, or “No” which makes his head bobble from side-to-side. The visitor can then post the generated GIF on Facebook or Twitter or share the unique link.

BobbleDonald was designed and developed for the NBHOF by a talented team of creative people in Milwaukee. The NBHOF is currently in transition from a preview exhibit, when ended in 2016, to a permanent location in downtown Milwaukee. The Hall of Fame and Museum currently has over 7,000 unique bobbleheads, including many of Donald Trump, that will be on display.

Test it out and let me know what you think!”

Laneia: be sure to let them know what you think
Heather: oh wow, i lived three entire lives reading that
“for example”
Laneia: someone got paid to write that
Rachel: milwaukee! local talent
the first read through i thought it bobbled randomly, which would make it like an amazing magic 8 ball
Laneia: i think the part we’re all glossing over is that Rachel’s about to have a permanent bobblehead hall of fame in her very own city
Rachel: franklin apparently already knew about the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum (NBHOF)
and says it is a “virtual museum”
i’m pretty sure that is a “website”
Laneia: i hope everyone who works there has to go by ‘bobbie’
the national bullshit hysteria and meme museum is twitter
virtual museum, very popular

What We’ve Been Reading

Valerie Anne: Public Relations by Katie Heaney and Arianna Rebolini

Laura M: A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

Casey: Binti by Nnedi Okorafor and Breadfruit by Célestine Vaite

Lucy: The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli.

Stef: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Maree: Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood

Riese: Bluets by Maggie Nelson

Heather D: No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam by Reza Aslan

Raquel: Priestdaddy: A Memoir by Partricia Lockwood and book three of the His Dark Materials Trilogy by Phillip Pullman.

Alaina: The Odyssey by Homer

Erin: Delta Style: Eve Wasn’t a Size 6 and Neither Am I by Delta Burke

Laneia: The Birth Partner by Penny Simkin

SLACKERS

May is a weird month for Slack. For one entire week most of our staff is at camp and we’re talking to each other with our faces and mouths. The week before, everyone is in a pre-camp panic, trying to get their regulars turned in early and get packed and get their camp activities finished and so it’s quieter than usual in Slack. The week after, Camp Plague has ravaged everyone’s bodies and since there’s no sympathy in a group of people who are suffering from the same thing as you, we turn to Facebook. However, Alaina did introduce a new and important emoji into Slack this month.

May Retro-Reading

Some posts from previous Mays Riese thinks you might enjoy.

via I Don’t Like Movies

The Autostraddle Hot 100: Smokin’ Sizzlin’ Great Balls of Fire (May 2009), by The team but mostly Riese – An enduring classic, The Autostraddle Hot 100 has everything HOT and I mean HOT! Intern Hot Laura, Hot Topic, T-Mobile Hot Spots, Soup, Hot Wings! And wow, so much more!

How to Date… Again | Autostraddle, by Sarah Hall (May 2011) – “Breaking up with my last ex was similar to walking into a sliding glass door repeatedly while carrying hot coals in my mouth and trying to whistle. I don’t know where that metaphor just came from but it feels about right.”

Texting Your Ex-Girlfriend In Five Easy Steps, by Lizz Rubin (May 2012) – Remains one of the best Autostraddle posts of all time.

Butch Please: Butch in the Bathroom, by Kate Severance (May 2013) – As the girlfriend to many a butch woman over the last 10+ years, I think this was my favorite Butch Please ’cause it talked about a thing I’ve seen frustrate, debilitate and wear down the hearts/souls of said girlfriends over and over and over again, and also participated in strategies to mitigate these situations. And the ensuing conversation in the comments was great too.

DIY Beauty Bar: Make Your Own Lip Balm, by Laura Wooley (May 2012) – I mean why not! What else were you going to do today you might as well do this!

WHERE IN THE WORLD IS CARMEN SANDIEGO AND SALLY

in the senior-eds channel:

Riese: you guys
did i meet sally at camp?
did you meet sally at camp?
at 2am last night i was like
wait
SALLY
where was sally
Rachel: i don’t know!
Riese: you didn’t meet sally either!
Rachel: did i???
would she have told me she was sally??
Riese: i mean surely, like, we worked check-in so
i should’ve met sally
i even had the back half of the alphabet i think
Heather: i never met sally
Riese: IS SALLY A GHOST
Heather: i love mukwanago, but we’ve really experienced a significant increase of ghosts since we set foot there!
Riese: DID ANYONE MEET SALLY
Rachel: well we also found out about the alpine ghost right when we left there
Riese: did she go undercover the whole damn time
Rachel: i think maybe we’re just becoming more aware of the ghost community
in general
next camp i’m gonna teach a workshop on ghost cats
of the american south
Heather: i call program support for that one!
Yvonne: Wait sally was there??
I met queergirl!
Riese: UGH I’M ASKING THE FAMILY CHANNEL

in the #family channel:

Riese: hello @channel did anybody meet sally at camp, NONE OF US MET SALLY. where was sally
Heather: :ghost:
Erin: I MET SALLY
Crystal: I DID
Erin: I GOT A PIC W SALLY AND CARMEN SAN DIEGO
Cecelia: omg sally
Erin: TOGETHER
Audrey: who’s sally?
Yvonne: WOAH ERIN
Erin: sally roasts me on every one of my articles
Alaina: wait erin what does carmen san diego look like i need all the deets!
Stef: this is even more important than when i made out with charlotte jo
Valerie: i’m so mad i didn’t meet carmen sandiego
or DID I
Erin: Carmen is a bluebird!
You all met her
Cecelia: you’ve totally met Carmen San Diego
Molly: what is happening right now
Valerie: WHO IN THE WORLD IS CARMEN SAN DIEGO
Yvonne: carmen sandiego came to my taco tuesday workshop
Cecelia: she welcomed everyone personally to klub yurt
Alaina: WHEN
Jenna: my brother was ON carmen sandiego and almost found her, does that count
Alaina: i don’t remember anything about camp there are TOO MANY PEOPLE
Riese: you guys! you all met carmen sandiego, I promise you did
Erin: Riese, sally said she came to 2 of your workshops and you didnt say hi
Riese: WHAT
SALLY WAS AT MY WORKSHOPS!!???
I DIDN’T KNOW IT WAS SALLY
Valerie: wait is carmen sandiego australian
Riese: No she’s not Australian
Cecelia: also are we talking about sally the astronaut
Erin: Sally the brit! Who’s sally the astronaut
Riese: HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW
Erin: SHE HAD ON A NAME TAG
Riese: I DON’T LOOK AT ANYBODY’S NAME TAG
WHAT IF SHE WASN’T THE ONLY SALLY
Molly: suzanne was the welcoming crew for my yurt experience
Cecelia: I met a British sally
Riese: UGH
Stef: i met 0 sallys
Riese: I’m so upset

A-Camp Spring 2017 (photo by Robin Roemer)

Five Posts Rachel Can’t Believe You Motherf*ckers Didn’t Read Last Month

Twitter Is the New Black Church, by Cami

Hello this is a smart and interesting piece by Cami! Autocorrect is changing Cami’s name to Camp every time I type it, which feels rude. Anyhow this piece is thoughtful and considered and a good piece of media writing that I was glad I read and you know what, gosh darn it, I feel like you will be too.

Nationalism Plus States Rights Are A Nightmare for Queer and Trans People, by Julia

Listen, I get as bummed out thinking about the nationalistic fervor of calls for “states’ rights” too, but we aren’t going to get anywhere by pretending it’s not happening. So instead you should read this smart and thorough piece about what’s happening so we can all be aware of what’s happening in this world we live in.

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, by Michelle; Now Is A Good Time to Get Into Patricia Lockwood, by Cara; and KOKUMO’s Galactic Bitch Slap to the Queer Literary Establishment, by Kai Cheng

We have published so many good things about good books this month! What the heck! Reading good writing about books is also great because it’s like, an appetizer to the also great experience of then going on to read the thing it was written about. Do not deny yourself this! Life is short and pleasure is ephemeral!

Add Queer & Trans Developers to One 52-Hour Train Ride, Get Rad Inclusive Games, by Tiara

I barely understand how games get developed or designed in the first place, and the idea that these genius weirdos did all this on a train is amazing to me. In addition, this is a smart and well-written piece about the experiences of queer, trans and nonbinary game developers and how this translates into their work.

10 Stupid Questions with 10 Hilarious Queer Women, Part 1 and Part 2, by Faith

Faith, who you also met elsewhere in this insider, is hilarious and cool and I know that you like her a lot. This is her asking some weird questions to other people who are also hilarious and cool. You’re missing out!

Business as Usual

Molly: i informed a white woman about her inherent privilege and biases today, felt a flash of camp in my veins
Stef: i’m finally firing the man tomorrow that i was fuming about firing all week at camp
i’m so excited
Valerie: good stuff all around
Kaelyn: welcome back to the patriarchy, all y’all campers and camp staff! we’ve missed ya’!
cishets are still awful and trump is still president, so business as usual really…
Stef: nobody will tell me what the orb is
everybody’s just like ‘lol here are some orb memes’
WHAT WAS THE ORB WHY DID IT HAPPEN
Molly: i hope i never know
i like guessing
Kaelyn: trump touched this orb during a visit to saudi arabia
it was this symbolic thing to turn on the center against extremism or something
Stef: and someone was like ‘this will look completely normal’
i see
Kaelyn: Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology
not ironic at all
Stef: ‘nothing extreme here’
do people who don’t live in a liberal media bubble think we’re overreacting about the orb?
Kaelyn: do we care?
i prefer the trump pope horror family photo meme personally
are you caught up on that one?
Stef: yes
i am working my way through the news
like what if all this vapid fluff content happened and nobody was paying attention?!
Kaelyn: kristen stewart wore a chanel suspender skirt and bandeau top to cannes now you’re caught up
Stef: i saw a picture of it, it was very rude of her
do we think it was because of the orb though?
Kaelyn: definitely

Ali’s Pick of the Month

A good portion of the Autostraddle staff uses a Passion Planner. A good deal fewer of us are hoarders of art supplies and obssessive followers of the Studyblr community. I am one of those folks, and here I am to pick Planner Accouterment for this month’s insider. For a black pen, if you don’t want to go the fountain pen route, I recommend the fine-point Uniball Vision ($10.82 for a dozen). I got wise to it because Lynda Barry recommended it on her Tumblr. A good dark or black pen is super useful for the parts of the passion planner where you’re essentially journaling and assessing what sorts of things make you happy. For a pencil, I’m using a Draft/Matic .5mm mechanical pencil loaded with HB lead ($10.03). It’s perfect for penciling in plans that aren’t final yet! When plans do become final and you want to color-code blocks because you work five jobs and also have a personal life (only me?), try a set of Staedtler Triplus Fineliners ($15 for a set of 20 different colors). To find the pages with your monthly calendar even as you move forward with your weekly views, I can’t recommend some cute page flags enough. Mine are by Girl of All Work ($5.50). And lastly, keep it all together with The Traveler from Papier Tigre (six euro). In short, make your planning fun with fun office supplies; then you’ll actually do it.

Social Media Spotlight

Top 10 Twitter Responses to Alia Shawkat Coming Out

to the revolution! pic.twitter.com/kKQemEKuOs

— Valerie Anne (@PunkyStarshine) May 13, 2017

https://twitter.com/r0yes_/status/864079708673191936

clearly the biggest question now is whether my fantasy pairing is her and Aubery Plaza, or her and Mea Whitman.

— Chen Drachman (@shokoshik) May 13, 2017

i mean that's the plot of a Broad City episode but i think irl we can make it work

— ex soldier (@satorimountain) May 15, 2017

pic.twitter.com/gJv7wXml7h

— the infamous tess (@tesswalshh) May 14, 2017

@beeswomp, youre not new, so youve prob seen this, but it prob means theres a 100% chance that she & ellen page were together post-Whip It.

— rach gonzalez (@r_gonz_) May 13, 2017

ONE OF US, ONE OF US, ONE OF US pic.twitter.com/CBY9tnJBSh

— 10,000 yo salt mine still active (@clllyn) May 15, 2017

https://twitter.com/r0yes_/status/864079708673191936

Maybe baby!

— C-Mo Cheese-Mo (@cmoallthetime) May 13, 2017

Marry me!

— April ➡️ 🏡 🙏🏻 (@AprilPreston_) May 15, 2017

https://twitter.com/Teadoism/status/863595367622987777

“CAPTION THIS” PICTURE OF BREN AND ERIN AT THE A-CAMP MERCH BOOTH

Heather: [sends Erin the photograph]
Erin: Aw this is right as i was about to fuck up bren’s inventory count
Rachel: this is a good “Caption This”
Erin: I’d like to hear them
Riese: “and then you put your pinky finger in her asshole…”
Rachel: it looks like you’re saying “this is NOT how you fist”
and bren is like “hmmm yes good”
Riese: and bren is like “i’m an old hand”
Erin: WHY IMMEDIATELY FISTING
Riese: i mean
Rachel: why hold your arm like that if not, erin
Riese: exactly
Rachel: you know?
Erin: Lmaooo the real question is what is the other hand doing
Rachel: maybe you’re reaching for a prop
Erin: Bren’s taking it really well, this fisting convo
Rachel: she wants to hold space for you
as you talk this through
Erin: At first i was just going to say “bren is taking this really well”
But then i realized

XOXO

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