Just to see what it felt like to believe that if I wanted something, I would get it.
Actually, I do this everytime I pick up the phone to tell someone to give me something for an auction or something. Hm.
Buffy: A Guide, but no water or food. So it leads me to the sacred place and then a week later it leads you to my bleached bones? Giles: Buffy, really. It takes more than a week to bleach bones.
'Dirty Girls'
Natter 34: Freak With No Name
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.
Allyson - Apr 22, 2005 10:58:49 am PDT #8235 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
Susan W. - Apr 22, 2005 10:59:14 am PDT #8236 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I am endlessly amused by people who are SURE that The Rules (not the regressive dating book; just, you know, Life's Rules) don't apply to them. That they are SO special, and such a shining star in the firmament that they don't NEED to have a professional-looking resume, and OF COURSE the Intern Coordinator should drop everything to get back to her immediately and soothe her delicate baby feelings.
These people baffle me. Sometimes they don't even have the arrogance and entitlement, just the firm conviction that the Rules don't make sense. There's a man in my critique group who is on many levels a better writer than I am, but I swear I'll be published first just because I'm happy to submit my work in standard format. He thinks his 1.5-spaced sans-serif font stuff "stands out" and is "easier to read" than doublespaced Courier or TNR.
§ ita § - Apr 22, 2005 10:59:30 am PDT #8237 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm fairly certain I've seen chainmail bikinis offered for sale.
I want a bikini top.
Scrappy - Apr 22, 2005 10:59:41 am PDT #8238 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
But Allyson, you don't want it for YOU. Asking for others is a whole 'nother thing.
Susan W. - Apr 22, 2005 11:00:33 am PDT #8239 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
she'll just get married next.
Just so she doesn't move to Seattle and try to marry in my church.
Betsy HP - Apr 22, 2005 11:04:20 am PDT #8240 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
I'm fairly certain I've seen chainmail bikinis offered for sale.
Oh, sure. At any science fiction convention, renaissance faire, and so on.
Maria - Apr 22, 2005 11:05:00 am PDT #8241 of 10001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
Just so she doesn't move to Seattle and try to marry in my church.
What? You don't want to stick around for the second half of the double-feature: Return of Bridezilla?
Betsy HP - Apr 22, 2005 11:06:10 am PDT #8242 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
DavidS - Apr 22, 2005 11:06:17 am PDT #8243 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
No, you do not get to ask why I know this.
Well, I hope you learned from Red Sophia's mistake and wore nipple shields.
Susan W. - Apr 22, 2005 11:07:31 am PDT #8244 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Just for fun, here's what I could buy in the town where I grew up for roughly the list price of a little 2-bedroom 900-square footer like where I live in Seattle: [link]
And here's the most expensive house for sale in my old zip code: [link]
I've driven past it a number of times. I wouldn't pay that much for it even if it were somewhere I wanted to live.