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The Comment Awards Longs for Mt. Feelings

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The Comment Awards, The Fresh Maker

In which Carmen SanDiego dominates!

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FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Peaceful, Easy Feelings

I am here this week to suggest a totally weirdo spin on this virtual sleepover: Let’s be happy campers! Come on down and join the positivity party, guys. I really need you to indulge me in this right now.

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Autostraddle + Sorte: A Merch Match Made In Heaven

We’re collaborating with Venezuelan design and clothing company Sorte Tienda to bring handmade, screenprinted, and very queer t-shirts into your life.

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Everything’s fine but for a moment it was almost not! Life is a highway!! Join me inside for a story about home infestation. (Plus my dog in a wig!)

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The Comment Awards Walks On

This week we’ve got meta Oreos, blood wine, imperfect nachos and so much more!

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FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: I’m Never Gonna Stop Sweating

Are you sitting in a pool of your own sweat because even though it’s September and you willed it to finally, please, for the love of everything, to just be Autumn already, it’s still averaging 90º every day? Me too! Let’s talk about it in this week’s open thread!

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The Comment Awards Gets a Goal

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FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: But Does It Spark Joy?

Wishing and hoping and thinking and praying and planning and dreaming? Doing some fall cleaning? Excited for the long weekend? Get in here and let’s hang out!

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The Comment Awards Battens Down the Hatches

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The Comment Awards is Surrounded by Boxes, Considers Building a Fort

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FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: So Like Did You Miss Me Or What

Please spill all of the piping hot tea you’ve gotta spill. Please feel free to open the lid on the salt shaker and just let it loose. I want the hot goss, honestly. Just get in here and TELL ME YOUR LIFE.

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FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Please Help Me Stop Shopping

I, Carmen Rios, do solemnly swear to stop shopping. Maybe. But only if you come on down and tell me about your life to distract me from the big, bad world of nice, neat, shiny things!

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The Comment Awards Adjusts to Humidity and Also Alligators

This week we’ve got vulva cupcakes, the lesbimeter, lesbian sex and so much more!

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