Everyone has some things that make them hard to live with — like, literally, like in the same apartment as them. Here are ours.

“The violins kept getting more and more excited and so did I and by the end of that three-minute scene I was gay.”

“I essentially stole my brother’s car and drove it an hour away across state lines to go see my then-girlfriend for only 30 minutes while my parents thought I was at the movies”

There was a time before time, in the yawning abyss of darkness and starfire that is the infinite and ever-expanding universe — a time before any of us had had lesbian sex. Most of us thought about it, though, or tried to imagine how it would work! We were not always correct.

Sometimes living with other people, even loved ones, can prevent you from doing the things your heart really wants — like being completely naked in your living room or kitchen, for example.

These are the documentaries that changed our lives and/or made us better people and/or entertained us. Maybe you’ll like them too!

Turn on all the lights in the house and come read about the Winchester Mystery House, haunted cabins, songs playing from beyond the veil, and our deeply unsurprising number of experiences with ghost cats.

A lot of the requests from readers for advice and for personal writing are about mental health, so today we thought we’d share with you about our brain situations, what helps, what doesn’t, and what we’re still working on.

“I was nineteen when The Con came out, and boy did I ever feel her in my heart.”

Here are first time experiences that seem mundane to everyone else but were truly special for us.

“When I was 10, I wrote a letter to Disney asking them what I should do to become an imagineer.”

“To me, being masculine-of-center means boyishness, it means blurring gender lines, it means a more vulnerable and delicate form of masculinity. It gives me the freedom to not fulfill expectations based on my assigned gender and body.”

“Jessi showed me that it was cool to focus on my ambitions and to form deep relationships with other girls instead of being boy-obsessed.”