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Natter 34: Freak With No Name  

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§ ita § - Mar 31, 2005 2:00:40 pm PST #2029 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I just don't get where the automatic assumption that honesty, even about difficult issues, equals deliberately humiliating your children

How do you feel about it in this instance? I think, as a kid (pre-18 or so), I'd have been mortally embarassed at the level of detail, which is completely separate from the disquiet at learning that my mother has ranked her love in public, and I lose. She's posted elsewhere that she'd make one of her kids take a bullet to save her husband's life, and I can say that's the sort of public honesty I'd find mortifying for a host of reasons.

Kat - Mar 31, 2005 2:01:24 pm PST #2030 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I love the PS...That's the best part, Kristen.

Kristen - Mar 31, 2005 2:05:37 pm PST #2031 of 10001

It is! And they'd be my favorite too if they paid me $2M for photos of my "faux" wedding.

Kat - Mar 31, 2005 2:11:15 pm PST #2032 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

do you think she writes that shit herself?

§ ita § - Mar 31, 2005 2:12:28 pm PST #2033 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

do you think she writes that shit herself?

Dear god, I hope so.

Kat - Mar 31, 2005 2:13:36 pm PST #2034 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

ita, I think Waldman's kids should be as bitter about this:

Frankly, at this stage they are far more interested in Gaia online and Muffin Films Web sites, but there will surely come a day when they will Google themselves, find my blog and both be furious with me for having stolen their lives and humiliated at the extent to which I have laid open my own. I told the New York Times reporter that blogging was "payback for driving back and forth to gymnastics all week long," but I don't really believe that.

From [link]

I guess I'm less appalled by the CultOfMommydom being upset and more weirded out at what Betsy said. Too much info and not locked down enough.

§ ita § - Mar 31, 2005 2:16:08 pm PST #2035 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Dirty laundry, and not even hers. I find her PoV thought-provoking, but am not comfortable with the urgency with which she reveals what she admits are fleeting thoughts and half-truths to the world, including her kids. The only thing fleet about her thoughts once they hit the internet is the wildfire-way they spread. That shit will linger.

Kat - Mar 31, 2005 2:16:15 pm PST #2036 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Dear god, I hope so.

Really? It would be both depressing and poetic if she hired someone to do it.

You do know that my post was in reference to Britney, yes?

Lee - Mar 31, 2005 2:17:06 pm PST #2037 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Kristen, where do you get your car washed?

§ ita § - Mar 31, 2005 2:18:20 pm PST #2038 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

You do know that my post was in reference to Britney, yes?

Yes. I can't imagine why you'd pay someone to write that. Being stupid is one thing. Paying to have yourself made look that way -- I don't want to lower my expectations that much.

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