Mal: Does she understand that? River: She understands. She doesn't comprehend.

'Objects In Space'


Natter 32 Flavors and Then Some  

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.


Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 11, 2005 12:38:44 pm PST #6472 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Yeah. It's weird how some people just have no issues with letting their parents pay for stuff well into adulthood, and then there are people like me who feel vaguely mortified when Mom sends a birthday card with two $50s inside.

This kind of freaks me out, since I started paying rent toward my parents' mortage and all my own expenses at 18. I mean, I'll let them feed me occasionally because hey, parents, and do stuff that saves me money at almost no cost to them like borrow the use of their washer and dryer. But I just can't imagine being dependent on the folks as an adult barring some catastrophic illness or injury that absolutely prevents me from working.


Betsy HP - Feb 11, 2005 12:39:01 pm PST #6473 of 10002
If I only had a brain...

Hey, I'm still feeling sleazy for disclosing the mortgage payment.


sarameg - Feb 11, 2005 12:40:15 pm PST #6474 of 10002

I don't know if I'm allowed to, I just can't.

I'm picturing you with an evil hand syndrome. You start to answer and your hand lunges menacingly at your throat.


§ ita § - Feb 11, 2005 12:41:05 pm PST #6475 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm still feeling sleazy for disclosing the mortgage payment.

Don't think I'm not judging you, you shameless woman.


Jesse - Feb 11, 2005 12:42:42 pm PST #6476 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

My brain is refusing the information, with lots of harsh whispering like, "Cindy, that is NOT your business."

Huh. None of it sticks in my brain because it's all so irrelevant to me. I mean, what do I care what someone in a different industry, in a different part of the country, with a different background, makes or pays? So I go "huh," and then free up the brainspace.


Allyson - Feb 11, 2005 12:44:24 pm PST #6477 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Don't think I'm not judging you, you shameless woman.

I get not being able to disclose, but is it shocking to read other folks disclosing?


Lilty Cash - Feb 11, 2005 12:44:30 pm PST #6478 of 10002
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."

Oh, no, you'd lose the delightful contrast between the madcap lilt and the prosaic cash! Plus, it looks funny in Verdana.

Well, then, I stay.


§ ita § - Feb 11, 2005 12:45:21 pm PST #6479 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

is it shocking to read other folks disclosing?

No, it's actually very interesting, and it makes me wonder why I'm so damned bougie.

Relief from this binding sensation is found in needling Betsy.


brenda m - Feb 11, 2005 12:45:22 pm PST #6480 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Jesse is pretty much me on this. Though I did think it was curious how many of us (who I probably can't name now) seem to fall in the same general range.


brenda m - Feb 11, 2005 12:46:54 pm PST #6481 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Lilty, I was so pleased with myself when I caught up with Wonderfalls months after the broadcasts and caught where your name comes from.