Baba Yaga’s School For Abandoned Girls (Part 3)

February 17, 2017April 21, 2020 Ania Onion Bula2 Comments

The boat rocked along gently for about an hour with no trouble. Poor Kleks took on a greenish hue, which was somewhat impressive on a black hellhound. He lay at the bottom of the boat, panting slowly, while Iskra gently stroked his head.

At first, the beauty of their surroundings had demanded a moment of silent contemplation and appreciation, but as time passed the silence dragged on till each of them was caught up in her own thoughts. That’s why none of them noticed as mist began to roll in across the water and surrounded them. It wasn’t until Kasia asked what that smell was, that everyone realized that they were entirely surrounded by a fog almost dense enough to walk on. Her grey owl sat on one of the boats exposed benches, while the cat had squeezed itself as far under as he could.

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Brad’s Tips for Growing your Home Garden

February 15, 2017December 16, 2017 Sunflower Punkdouchebaggery, home garden, man manning, sunflower_punkLeave a comment

Today’s post is written by Brad E. Man

Hey y’all

I’m writing this today because Sunflower Punk can’t possibly comprehend this because she is a woman. I mean she tells me she’s “non binary”, but we all know that there are only two genders. Binaries are for computers and we all know women don’t know how they work.

Anyway, I’m here to talk to you about growing your own tomatoes.

It is not hard to grow your own food. Literally anything you say is a barrier is an excuse. Disabled? Nope. The only disability is your bad attitude.

Have kids? Should have kept your legs closed, slut.

Too busy at work? Do what I did. Don’t work and have your fiance pay for everything.

My Guide to Saving Money to grow tomatoes:

Step 1) have a fiance that pays for all your shit

Step 2) bully single moms on the internet

Step 3) profit (the profit is a tomato)

Really, that’s all there is to it. Step 1 was hard because some women have ridiculous standards like “don’t harass women online”. But I pressed on and after following PUA tactics, I negged someone enough to think I was the best they could do.
Which brings me to step 2. I was peacefully minding my business eating Doritos, drinking mountain dew and perusing return of kings. A woman I don’t know posted the above image. Obviously I had to point out how wrong she was.

She told me she’s homeless. Can you believe that? Homeless and on facebook! I bet she also has a phone. Ridiculous.

Another woman told me her budget and how it doesn’t cover enough to grow a home garden.

Excuses! My phone bill is $200/month, rent is $600 and our food budget is 181 dollars. All this is paid by my fiance while I stay home and tend to the garden. It is after all my pride and joy.

These women with their children and homelessness are haters and will continue to have bad luck because they wouldn’t listen to me.

Brad Every Man is a sometimes writer, all the time douche bag. He enjoys tomatoes, sexism and classism. He has a cat who hates him.

How to Survive Dating a Writer

February 15, 2017 Ania Onion BulaFunny, writers, writingLeave a comment

Last April I was working hard on finishing a book I’ve been working on since about the same time the year before. Although I was already motivated by the desire to finish my manuscript, a deadline presented itself in the form of a very enticing writing contest. In order to reach my goal, several important things got put on the backburner, including time spent with my partners.

People who end up in relationships with writers soon learn what it means to be a novel widow. Sometimes when a deadline is looming, or inspiration is driving you, we writers can get a little hyper-focused on what we are doing to the exclusion of everything else.

To that effect, I wanted to offer some advice on how to survive a relationship with a writer.

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Spherical Cow in a Vacuum

February 13, 2017 Ania Onion Bula2 Comments

There is this meme that goes around from time to time. There are many variations, but a generalized summary is something along the lines of “I’m a better person than you because I don’t unfriend people whose politics I don’t agree with.” The meme is part of a trend of political apathy where people claim to not care about politics, or just write off the entire institution as being an exercise in futility where all parties are ultimately the same and nothing ever changes. The belief is that politics is nothing more than just theoretical ideas about governance, and not really anything tangible or applicable to the “real world.”

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A Mandesty Conundrum ON ICE!

February 13, 2017December 16, 2017 Sunflower Punkcarlton dance, Evgeni Plushenko, figure skating, NSFW, sunflower_punk, tom jonesLeave a comment

Well Readers, today’s entry is a confusing one. I came across this on Facebook and I was ready to write a post about the immodest display by Evgeni Plushenko. But can it really be called immodesty if the man isn’t really naked? Yes. Yes it can. We’ve discussed this before.

So I leave this here for you to draw up your own conclusions:

The music is certainly immodest. Which is not unusual because it’s sung by pussy cat interrogator Tom Jones.

vdnzm1d — The only dance I wanted associated with Tom’s music

The Nice Guys of Seattle Grace: Part 1 McDreamy more like a McNightmare

February 12, 2017February 13, 2017 Ania Onion Bulaabuse, Greys Anatomy, McDreamy, nice guys, Nightmare2 Comments

CN: Abuse, Trauma, Assault, Suicide Attempt, PTSD, Depression

I’ve been re-watching Grey’s Anatomy as my background show. I got pulled back into it after re-watching the episode where Dr. Bailey has to treat a Nazi. There were enough things going on in the episode that I just recognized based on watching the show a long time ago, and there are times when I can’t help it. Not remembering things, especially stories, irritates me and I feel the need to refresh my memory.

The following rant will contain spoilers for the first three maybe parts of 4 seasons.

One thing that struck me quite a bit on this go round, is how the nice men, the “Honourable men”, the so called good guys of Seattle Grace Hospital, are all abusive assholes.

Let’s start with Derek Shepherd aka McDreamy.

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UPDATE: New Year, Same White Fragility: Cathy Brennan is still a Fake Goth

February 10, 2017September 1, 2018 Sunflower Punkcatherine brennan, cathy brennan, experiences, fake goth, feminism, gender identity watch, Racism, respect, sunflower_punk, terf, terfs, transmisogyny1 Comment

Back in July of last year, I wrote a post about Cathy Brennan. Since then, I and several friends have gotten 1, 3 and 7 day bans. Several friends have had their jobs called in the hopes my friends would be fired. They weren’t.
My last ban lasted a week back a few months ago. I was banned for simply posting “Cathy Brennan is a fake goth”.

It is now February 9th 2017, and I have just gotten a 30 day ban for that blog post from July ’16.

I am no one. I have this blog and Mandesty. I have my tumblr and Twitter accounts. I do not have many followers. So why the fuck does Cathy Brennan care so much if I call her a fake goth? It really is like white people JUST LOVE feeling oppressed.

My Facebook profile is a huge source of emotional support. Let’s talk about that, Cathy. I am a Latina, trans, single mom, disabled and poor. I blog about the oppression I face in my daily life.
You are a well off white cis lesbian who I’m told is a lawyer but all you seem to fucking do is go after people calling you a fake goth.

Don’t you claim to care about women, or is it just cis women you care about? No answer needed here. We’re all aware of Gender Identity Watch.
Don’t you espouse supposedly intersectional feminism? Is it in your feminism that you find it’s OK to get a Latina blogger banned on Facebook? Is that sisterhood?

Do you go this hard after the racist, sexist, misogynist posts? After the posts that make light of rape? The homophobic posts? Or do you only care that some small time blogger called you a “mean” name a few times?

Keep getting me banned on Facebook. You can’t ban me on all my social media. You can try but it’s not a good look, gringa. COME AFTER ME, I FUCKING DARE YOU.

UPDATE FEBRUARY 9TH 2017

Cathy graced us with her presence over on my blog’s Facebook page. Below are screenshots of this. Of course she misgenders me and assumes I am male.

According to her, I got banned for “bullying behavior”. If that was the case then how come Facebook never takes down pages or posts which post bigotry? Is she saying that bigotry is not bullying?

As the Blue commenter noted, this Catherine Brennan profile is new. My friends and I had her Cathy Brennan profile blocked. Can it be called bullying when we don’t go to her with this silly name? We post on our own pages, and she’s the one who finds us. That is not bullying. That’s abusing whatever influence or privilege she has to get vulnerable people banned.

As I noted, she insinuates I’m emotional, but again, all I did was post something months ago, and then this post today. Who’s emotional now?

Writing Update

February 9, 2017September 1, 2018 Ania Onion BulaLeave a comment

I haven’t forgotten or given up on my goal to write every day. I’ve been working on the next chapter of my magical school for abandoned girls story which is taking a bit longer than a regular blog post. I’m also currently helping out some friends with move related activities, which has made it difficult to write posts in addition to the writing for the story I am working on. I will post the chapter and some additional blog posts once I am back in Ottawa tomorrow. (I didn’t go far, just not in Ottawa).

In the meantime if you would like to help us out, and help me procure the pain medication that keeps me able to continue creating, please consider donating to Alyssa’s fundraiser or to my paypal.

When a Man Loves Immodesty

February 9, 2017December 16, 2017 Sunflower Punkimmodesty, michael bolton, never nude, NSFW, sunflower_punk, tobias funke, valentines day4 Comments

Readers, preaching the Good Word of Mandesty is rewarding but it is hard work. So I like to unwind after a long day of saving young boy souls by watching some God-fearing programming.

I decided I would check out a new show called The Santa Clarita Diet. I figure it must be about good eating habits. Anyway, as I settled in a for a relaxing evening, I’m greeted by this:

16665859_1312026578857284_231952460815703056_o — I don’t know which is more offensive: the immodesty or the bad photoshop

I will admit I’m not very familiar with this Michael Bolton. I think he sings and used to have a bad hair cut. Frankly, after this, I’m not sure I care to know about him.

A loyal Mandesty reader says this may be how Michael tells us he is a Never Nude. It would explain the dead eyes.

tobias-funke — I wish they did more than that, Tobias

So I’m here now, writing this because immodest men never take a break. Needless to say, my relaxed evening didn’t happen.

arrested-development-quotesjason-batemanwill-arnett — I hope you’re proud of yourself, Michael B

Give Me Your Girlhood

February 9, 2017September 1, 2018 Alyssa Gonzalezfemme, femme for femme, luxander pond, quinceanera, trans man, trans woman, transfeminine, transgender, transmasculine, trauma, triggerLeave a comment

I wrote in my review of Kim Fu’s “For Today I Am a Boy” that one of the most emotionally resonant incidents in its protagonist’s life is when she, upon encountering her first transmasculine person, experiences a fit of inchoate, perverse jealousy: “Give me your girlhood, John, I thought nonsensically. You don’t want it? Give it to me. I want to be the woman you would have been.”

I claimed in that review that this feeling is common among transfeminine people. The truth is, I have no idea if indeed this sentiment appears in many of us. What I do know is, it has long gripped me.

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