Oh, good. Otherwise, it'd just be weird.
Nobody can tell Marmaduke what to do. That's my kind of dog.
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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.
Dana - Jan 24, 2005 6:39:27 am PST #9909 of 10002
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
beth b - Jan 24, 2005 6:40:19 am PST #9910 of 10002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I should have know there was a reason behind the run on Because of Winn Dixie at the library.
Kat - Jan 24, 2005 6:40:28 am PST #9911 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Yep, Dana. In the story, the girl, whose mom had died and whose pastor father moves her into a new town where she can't make any friends, is followed home from the Winn-Dixie by this dog who she then names Winn-Dixie.
A very inspirational smiling dog, and it made me want to throw up.
Hmmm... smiling is even a little bit much. Would it make you feel better, ita, to know that the dog dies in the end? Cause that's what happens.
§ ita § - Jan 24, 2005 6:41:50 am PST #9912 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's something, Kat, but I'd have preferred it at the beginning -- like the first time the fucker smiles.
Does it smile in the book? The trailer felt like a series of people going "Gosh! The dog smiled!"
Katie M - Jan 24, 2005 6:41:54 am PST #9913 of 10002
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Kat: Oh, of course it does. Man, you just never want to be a dog in a kids' book, do you?
Kat - Jan 24, 2005 6:45:05 am PST #9914 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Katie, yes! This book has both kid book tropes of dead mother and dead dog.
Does it smile in the book?
I don't remember it, but I wouldn't be surprised. When I read the book, that never stuck out at me.
But, I would have read a dog's smile, much like how I read Bear's smiles. She's panting and she has on her little Samoyed smile and you're left to decide "Is she panting? Or, is she smiling? And if she's smiling is it a result of her being so excited because she is planning on biting me?"
§ ita § - Jan 24, 2005 6:47:32 am PST #9915 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
And if she's smiling is it a result of her being so excited because she is planning on biting me?
You should warn her that this is a tell.
Kat - Jan 24, 2005 6:51:46 am PST #9916 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
One of my former's students had a mom who is a vet. We used to talk about the opaqueness of Asian dogs. A jindo like Kuma or an akita or a chow often get excited when they see people, not because they like people, but because they do plan on biting the person and the thought of that bite is overwhelmingliy exciting.
Unfortunately, little kids, especially those used to retrievers and labs don't get it and think the dog is happy to see them. But really, the dog is seeing them, but merely as an attack object.
Kat - Jan 24, 2005 6:52:10 am PST #9917 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Plus, ita, Bear's bigger tell is when she curls her lip and growls.
§ ita § - Jan 24, 2005 6:53:03 am PST #9918 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Bear's bigger tell is when she curls her lip and growls.
That's not a tell. That's an attack in and of itself. For the weaker.