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[heidi]

I've played with the oft-used Marriage Is For Everyone image and would love to have icons avaiable to everyone based on the ones I'm putting here

Unmarried couples don't have the right to take time off from work under the Family and Medical Leave Act, which families use when a spouse or a child becomes ill.

At many companies and governmental bodies, health insurance or other benefits are offered to domestic partners. But the employee must pay income tax on the value of that benefit. If the couple were married, there would be no tax for the spouse's insurance. Some gay couples instead buy a second policy to avoid the tax cost. Or they make their partner a dependent for tax purposes to get around the IRS.

If one partner in a gay relationship loses his or her job, the other partner cannot continue health insurance coverage at their own cost under the federal law known as COBRA. Not so for married couples.

Insurance companies often will not sell gay couples life insurance on each other because insurance companies typically require someone to have an ''insurable interest'' in order to buy the policy on someone else. An insurable interest is usually considered marriage or a business partnership.

When people are married, they can make unlimited financial gifts to each other. So a high-income spouse can shift all he or she wants to a spouse. In a gay couple, gifts are subject to an annual tax law limit of $11,000.

In a married couple, the surviving spouse can roll over the inherited 401(k) or IRA without paying any tax on the money. In a gay, unmarried couple, the proceeds of the account have to be distributed. That means they become taxable income to the survivor. Again, gays pay tax while married people do not.

Unmarried couples cannot own property as tenants in the entirety, a legal status that is reserved for married couples. This legal status helps to protect a couple's property in bankruptcy proceedings. Gay couples can't get it.

In a medical emergency, same-sex partners are often not legally recognized by healthcare providers as family and therefore not allowed to make decisions for each other. This has led to same-sex partners even being denied visits at the hospital.

Now, to reduce the flist-spammage...

: fans self

: brains self. THAT IS JUST SO WRONG WRONG WRONG! Without the facial hair, he'd look PERFECT. Will someone PLEASE do a moustache-free version of the DVD next winter? PLEASE? And for now, can anyone remove it for icons? WAH!

Must. Renovate. Bad. Place.

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[annearchy.livejournal.com]

About the DR photos... *drools* *goes directly to deepest level of Bad Place* What in the world will he look like at 20 if he looks like this at 14??? *tears hair out*
Must say I like what they are doing with his hair!! hehe finally Harry's hair is close to "unruly" :D
And the mustache on Lupin is so, so wrong. Or at least the thin little Inspector Clouseau mustache. Meh. I agree, wipe it out on the DVD and in icons.

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[casira.livejournal.com]

*brief divergence from topic* I love your icon. What's that from? ;)

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[annearchy.livejournal.com]

*brief divergence from topic* I love your icon. What's that from? ;)

It's from a drawing by my insanely talented friend nacey, who does some of the best Harry/Hermione art (and fics) around. They are a tad older than Hogwarts here, maybe 20-21. Yummm :) Sorry for the spam, Heidi ;)

[til-midnight.livejournal.com]

THAT IS JUST SO WRONG WRONG WRONG!

I agree so much. He don't look at all like I had pictured him. He reminds me of a used car salesmen who carries a handkerchief and has hair plastered to his head with scented oil. ::cries::

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[til-midnight.livejournal.com]

Didn't even think of that....

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[moonlight69]

He reminds me of the Duke in Moulin Rouge. *shudders*

[zorb]

Maybe he'll shave it off once he officially becomes a good guy? *hopes*

I didn't have much of a problem with it before, but now, seeing it up close...well, it looks like two little tentacles growing out of his nose. >_

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[nmalfoy.livejournal.com]

And he looks like an ENORMOUS ponce.

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[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Maybe when they snog shag hug in the Shack it won't be visible?

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[nmalfoy.livejournal.com]

Plus it'd be dim in there... one can only hope. Looks like he has caterpillars on his face or something.

[laurac0re.livejournal.com]

I wasn't impressed with facialhair!lupin either.
the moustache is a litte too...creepy-perve Hitler-esque for me.

[phoenixsong]

Speaking for friends who recently went through this:

Gay couples are not automatically considered next of kin, even if they undergo a religious (but not civil) ceremony in a state that recognizes common-law marriages. The surviving partner has to wait for the deceased parner's legal next of kin (a parent, or possibly a spouse they are seperated from but never legally divorced) to explicitly release that responsibility to the surivinig partner. If the deceased partner had children by a previous marriage/relationship, those children revert to their surviving biological parent rather than the surviving gay partner. The biological parent can then legally cut those children off from the surviving partner.


*sigh* And in this case, the bio-father definitely has questionable parenting skills. But that doesn't matter, biology trumps the potential stability of leaving them where they are. Meh.

[contrariwise.livejournal.com]

Moustache-less Thewlis-Lupin: whipped one up here, if you want... Are those scars on his face? Like from a werewolf-attack-when-he-was-very-young-scars? Meep!!

How's this?

[capslocklove.livejournal.com]

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[heidi8.livejournal.com]

THAT IS SO MUCH BETTER! Thanks so much! Um. Can I have it icon-ized?

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[capslocklove.livejournal.com]

sure, here are some bases...



Is that how you wanted it?

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[laurac0re.livejournal.com]

so so much better.

[gryffindor-girl.livejournal.com]

What the hell is that scary IT-looking jack-in-the-box??? Did i skip a chapter or something?

yummy yummy pics though...*drools*

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[flourish.livejournal.com]

Naw - someone's greatest fear is a jack-in-the-box in the books, isn't it? It's the boggart scene.

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[nmalfoy.livejournal.com]

Certainly scares the shit out of me. Looks like a demonic clown and we all know I'm scared of clowns... yeah, that's my boggart.

[misako.livejournal.com]

Oh. My. God.

Oh. My. God.

:: ::

Jesus.

Bad Place! Bad Place! I've fallen in and I can't get out.

Wow. Dan looks ...wow. Last picture is :: guh ::.

Good thing I saw your post AFTER I took my Political Science midterm...I might not have been able to function had I seen it before!

Wow.

Misako

[galeotti.livejournal.com]

Wah. Unimpressed, I am unimpressed! He looks like a younger, blond version of Hitler.

[abigail89.livejournal.com]

Bad Place.

I'm there. It just keeps getting harder to get outta there, ya know?

*dies*

[chinawolf.livejournal.com]

Regarding the Bad Place: FINALLY he looks like he's supposed to look.

Regarding Lupin: *cries and cries and cries*


...


*cries some more*

[madilayn.livejournal.com]

. I know it's just not right! All I can say is that some costume designer has seen "Goodbye Mr Chips" far too often.

I've posted this to my RL lists - but I;ll do it here to.

I'm going to be watching POA with "Please Remus, do us all a favour and SHAVE" and "Is Sirius going to have a hissy fit about that moustache!" running through my head.

Instead - I've given you a nice feelthey puppy icon with this post.