Travers: Perhaps you'll favor us with a demonstration while we're here. Buffy: You mean, like, right now? 'Cause, already had my recommended daily dose of fights tonight.

'Potential'


Natter 31 But Looks 29  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Beverly - Dec 25, 2004 5:26:50 am PST #505 of 10002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Merry Christmas, those who keep it, bright and happy day to everybody! We're off shortly to pick up StY and head down to the MIL's, where the rest of us are waiting for giftwrap carnage and turkey destruction. Safe travels, everyone who's on the move today. Full tummies and good company to us all.


Lee - Dec 25, 2004 5:28:07 am PST #506 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate it, and happy Saturday to those who don't!

My family has not yet opened presents. People are getting dressed first.

I always knew they were weird.


Pix - Dec 25, 2004 5:36:06 am PST #507 of 10002
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

I want an iPod, dammit.

t brightly

Guess what I got for Christmas?

Presents are goooooooood.


§ ita § - Dec 25, 2004 6:28:14 am PST #508 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

There's a bag under the tree that says "Here's the pony!"

So I guess I'm set.

Merry Christmas to the celebrators and a Happy Damn-Everything's-Closed to everyone else.


Kat - Dec 25, 2004 6:31:26 am PST #509 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

There's a pony in bag? COOL!

We have stuff! It's so fun.

Happy day to all.

(I just spoke to my parents. apparently my bro and SIL are buying a house with 17 acres of land! and my parents got 4 feet of snow this week.)


Fay - Dec 25, 2004 6:34:34 am PST #510 of 10002
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

Pony in a bag. I'm thinking Godfather. Or maybe just Jack Skellington.

Lalalala! The Good Underwear Fairy has been! Lalalala! I have fabulous underwear! And clothes! Lots of exciting new clothes! And I like all of them! Especially the cleavagalicious wine-red blouse with the lace-up batwing sleeves! Lalalala!

t /materialistic

eta

Actually, damn it, I'm NOT materialstic, generally speaking, and the biggest Xmas gift is certainly getting to hang with my family (love love love and LIKE my family beyond all power to express it), and seeing them all like the stuff I got them (to the point that my Mum tried to persuade my Nana she didn't really want the gold-embossed cream-and-toffee coloured leather pouf thingy with the Egyptian designs on it, and should leave it at my Mum's place, and my Nana becoming deeply suspicious and defensive about said pouf, and watching over it in a hawklike fashion)...but, dude, I've had about 3 new items of clothing in the past twelve months. Total. Now I'm back in Britain I'm already all "Ooooh!" about clothes I'd left here and forgotten existed, and I went shopping and bought myself a few new skirts in the sales, and now Santa has brought me more clothes! It's VERY exciting.


Emily - Dec 25, 2004 6:37:15 am PST #511 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

I want an iPod! Unfortunately, of the people who might buy me such an expensive thing, my mother's getting married, my father's building a house, and my brother... lives in San Francisco.

Not that that's any excuse for giving me a non-Buffy-related Vampire Watcher's Handbook. I mean, okay, it looks kind of amusing -- marginal notes and coffee stains and drawings and the like -- but I'm not really interested. Plus, there's the sort of depressing sense that all he really knows about me is that I liked Buffy and thus would appreciate "some vampire stuff".

Eh. Enough bitching. I have new Tan Dun! I have hair things! I have cat treats!


Fay - Dec 25, 2004 6:41:58 am PST #512 of 10002
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

Ah, I remember the year I got the Star Trek: The Original Series alarm clock. Despite not being a Trekker, or even a Trekkie. On the basis that I like SF and weird cult shows, type of thing.

It was...spectacular. A 3-D Enterprise suspended over a plastic faux-planet surface, with a curving black starscape behind it. The buttons were hidden in the craters. When the alarm went off, light beamed down from the ship to the planet, and a generic bloke voice bellowed "Landing Party to Enterprise! Beam us up, Scotty!"

I laughed, and laughed, and laughed, and laughed. And laughed. It's the sort of gift I'd really have appreciated if I were a Trekkie. As it was, I just marvelled at it.


esse - Dec 25, 2004 6:42:38 am PST #513 of 10002
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

Dude, it would rock if you still had that.


Fay - Dec 25, 2004 6:43:24 am PST #514 of 10002
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

It really would. But this was long before I discovered the sheer hilarity of the portmanteau terms for Kirk/Spock and Spock/Kirk.*

(*Kock and Spork, for anyone who missed me cracking up over this when it originally occured to me. And every five minutes ever since.)