Also, I'd be pretty startled if I sprouted a bullet hole too, so I'd argue that they're both pretty startling, properly used.
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Sean K - Aug 06, 2004 9:26:46 am PDT #2224 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Sue - Aug 06, 2004 9:27:19 am PDT #2225 of 10001
hip deep in pie
I think that the Dean Cain series is something about a baseball team.
He plays a pro baseballer who be-friends and possibly (memfault) adopts the new orphan batboy. (Not that kind of batboy.)
tommyrot - Aug 06, 2004 9:28:00 am PDT #2226 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
(b) a bellowing, rageful cow is nobody's friend.
I dunno. Sometimes they run and crash into things in amusing ways.
§ ita § - Aug 06, 2004 9:28:44 am PDT #2227 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
In both cases, I would call them herding tools, until they were being used on me.
Do guns firing rubber bullets fall under this exception?
Mostly when I think of whips outside the bedroom I think of recalcitrant slaves strapped up and beaten, so I don't need (or want) one to be used on me to appreciate their potential for death and damage.
JohnSweden - Aug 06, 2004 9:28:54 am PDT #2228 of 10001
I can't even.
It's kinda how you're supposed to do it. Not startling. Appropriate.
I tend to think whips have more of a nudge, nudge, wink, wink place in the public consciousness rather than a "you could put an eye out with that thing" kind of place. What was the last mainstream movie where a whip was used primarily as a weapon, rather than a threat? Even the Indiana Jones movies generally used the whip as a batbelt.
§ ita § - Aug 06, 2004 9:34:23 am PDT #2229 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Also, I'd be pretty startled if I sprouted a bullet hole too, so I'd argue that they're both pretty startling, properly used.
Startlingly lethal, though? You'd really think "Wow. A gun killed a person. Didn't see that coming!"
Fred Pete - Aug 06, 2004 9:35:11 am PDT #2230 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
not even a Christina Aguilera corset dress joke?
Well, I know what my nightmares tonight will be about.
Sean K - Aug 06, 2004 9:37:03 am PDT #2231 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Startlingly lethal, though? You'd really think "Wow. A gun killed a person. Didn't see that coming!"
Actually, if I thought anything, it would probably be "FUCK! I've been SHOT!"
§ ita § - Aug 06, 2004 9:38:35 am PDT #2232 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
if I thought anything, it would probably be "FUCK! I've been SHOT!"
So most lethal weapons are startlingly so, then? As long as you are the one in jeopardy?
Your initial post wasn't from the victim's POV, so I didn't realise that's what you meant.
Sean K - Aug 06, 2004 9:44:19 am PDT #2233 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Your initial post wasn't from the victim's POV, so I didn't realise that's what you meant.
*sigh*
I startle easy, okay?