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!"
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§ ita § - Aug 06, 2004 9:34:23 am PDT #2229 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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?
Nutty - Aug 06, 2004 9:49:10 am PDT #2234 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Do guns firing rubber bullets fall under this exception?
No, because cowpokes in the wild old west did not use rubber bullets. Moreover, I can't see as how rubber bullets would work very well on cattle, since I believe the shooter is meant to be some distance away from his targets, thus reducing the classical conditioning usefulness of the pain the rubber bullets cause.
Semantics is funny. I can see a bullwhip as a weapon only if there's also a human victim in the picture, but the cat-o-nine-tails? A weapon and nothing else. (It has no use that I know of, except as a weapon.) A scythe is a tool, unless juxtaposed with a human victim (or a wielder with a maniacal grin staring out of the picture at me). A rake is a tool, and you could probably club someone to death with it, but that's not the first thing that leaps to my mind. (Not the plastic kind of rake, but the old wooden kind.)
Hil R. - Aug 06, 2004 9:58:23 am PDT #2235 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
or a wielder with a maniacal grin staring out of the picture at me
I first read this was "welder." It was a strange image.
Scrappy - Aug 06, 2004 9:59:37 am PDT #2236 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I read it as Wilder and went to a Blazing Saddles place.
"But I shoot with this hand."
tommyrot - Aug 06, 2004 9:59:42 am PDT #2237 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.
I first read this was "welder." It was a strange image.
An image from Flashdance?
Kathy A - Aug 06, 2004 10:04:24 am PDT #2238 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I read it as Wilder and went to a Blazing Saddles place.
Hee.
"Are we awake?"
"We don't know. Are we...black?"
"Yes, we are."
"Then we're awake, but we're very confused."