If Polgara goes missing (frex) can I take the pictures?
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§ ita § - Feb 07, 2006 3:04:41 pm PST #5429 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Allyson - Feb 07, 2006 3:14:01 pm PST #5430 of 10001
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
Yep. But will you understand that I cannot look at the pictures and discern which is a good picture of me, because i have no sense of self-worth?
JZ - Feb 07, 2006 3:18:00 pm PST #5431 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Allyson, at least you're in good company. Flannery O'Connor, a Southern Gothic goddess, wrote a letter to a friend after selecting her dust jacket picture for the first edition of Wise Blood, saying:
I just got my proofs from Harcourt, Brace. The one I chose looks as if I had just bit my grandmother and that this was my only pleasure in life. All the rest were worse.
If you can manage to look at any picture of yourself and feel that it at least looks better than that, you're comparatively brimming with writerly self-esteem.
Also, dearly as I love O'Connor, I've got to admit that you have way better hair.
Allyson - Feb 07, 2006 3:41:35 pm PST #5432 of 10001
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
It's difficult for the photographer, too, though. It's not that ita doesn't take gorgeous photos, it's that I'm completely unable to appreciate anything about a photo of me, and I figure, when the tears roll down my cheeks in complete self-hate, she'll feel bad.
Polgara is somewhat used to this reaction.
Of all the things about this process that make me nervous, the picture is the worst.
deborah grabien - Feb 07, 2006 3:45:58 pm PST #5433 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Allyson, on that one, I can't reassure you. I used to take gorgeous pictures and then I hit fifty and my daughter started bogarting the family icebreaker jawline, the little bitch, and gravity decided it worked, and now I take shit pictures.
(passing cookies and kleenex)
Zenkitty - Feb 07, 2006 3:48:20 pm PST #5434 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I know this will really have no effect on your self-esteem, but for whatever it's worth, Allyson, I've seen pictures of you, and I always think, "She's so cute!" FWIW.
Allyson - Feb 07, 2006 3:52:50 pm PST #5435 of 10001
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
Oh, no, it's totally not about that at all. I'm so aware that small children don't point and scream and run away when i walk by.
It's a total skewed self-image thing that i don't understand myself.
SailAweigh - Feb 07, 2006 4:24:55 pm PST #5436 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I'm with ya, Allyson. I've only got one picture I really like of me and it was taken when I was drunk. For once, my mouth wasn't flapping.
Strix - Feb 07, 2006 7:20:40 pm PST #5437 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
My mouth is always open in pix. And not in that sexy, pouty way, either.
I'm always horrified by pix, but I just think that to get the true full-on Erin, you gotta get the living, breathing, snarking full-body-slam, smoooth-assed deal.
Plus. double chin in my pix. ALWAYS.
Pix - Feb 07, 2006 8:57:41 pm PST #5438 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
My mouth is always open in pix. And not in that sexy, pouty way, either.
I'm always horrified by pix, but I just think that to get the true full-on Erin, you gotta get the living, breathing, snarking full-body-slam, smoooth-assed deal.
Plus. double chin in my pix. ALWAYS.
I can't stop giggling. One of my nicknames is Pixie/Pix, and I kept thinking Erin was talking about me.
"Hey, I don't have a double chin! Slandering hussy!"