Wow, that's pretty. It makes me want to set a story in 1877 so I can write about a woman wearing it.
Wait. People? She eats people? 'To Serve Man.' It's 'To Serve Man' all over again.
Gunn ,'Power Play'
Spike's Bitches 23: We've mastered the power of positive giving up.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Susan W. - Apr 30, 2005 7:05:38 pm PDT #6692 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Aims - Apr 30, 2005 7:06:31 pm PDT #6693 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I'm not quite sure what I think of myself - if I had unlimited funds, I would literally collect clothing.
Susan W. - Apr 30, 2005 7:10:37 pm PDT #6694 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
And did you see this one? [link]
If I had unlimited funds, I'd collect clothing plus a little bit of everything else my imaginary people use. I'm not quite sure what to think of myself when the mere act of writing a novel with a Rifleman hero has taken me from, "Guns? But I'm a liberal!" to "I want a reproduction Baker rifle, and I want to take it to a gun range and learn to shoot it."
Trudy Booth - Apr 30, 2005 7:14:22 pm PDT #6695 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
if I had unlimited funds, I would literally collect clothing.
Aims, I'm stunned. Just stunned.
SailAweigh - Apr 30, 2005 7:16:39 pm PDT #6696 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Susan, that gown is gorgeous. I could do some serious covetting there.
Susan W. - Apr 30, 2005 7:21:39 pm PDT #6697 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Susan, that gown is gorgeous.
Isn't it? Like the one Aimee posted, I'm having fun imagining the right woman to wear it. Since it's a 1912 dress, it's a little too obvious to put her on the Titanic, so I'm mentally altering the line and cut just enough to make it an 1812 dress, only neither of the heroines I've created so far has the coloring for those shades, so I need someone with maybe chestnut or dark blonde hair and...
Good lord. Show me a dress and I write a novel.
Narrator - Apr 30, 2005 7:25:54 pm PDT #6698 of 10001
The evil is this way?
I have never watched Gilmore Girls.
Points accusing finger at Topic!Cindy -- HEATHEN!!
JZ - Apr 30, 2005 7:54:13 pm PDT #6699 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.
Egad, Susan, that dress is stunning. Possibly not as showstopping as Aimée's, but probably a sight easier to sit down, stand up and dance in.
D. Griswold, a very happy birthday! Apparently both you and your sister seriously rock.
It's all quiet and peaceful -- Hec is out at another book-related event, and Emmett just went to bed. We watched Lemony Snicket (which improved on rewatching; Jim Carrey was less prominent and irritating, the Baudelaires were more lovely and resourceful and heartbreaking, and the art direction and score were just sumptuous), and then I read him the first two chapters of The Bad Beginning and got him settled into bed, rubbed his back, and asked him about today's Little Leage game and the rest of his team until he drifted off. It was all just good. Sweet and mellow and good.
::tacklehugs billytea::
::steals everyone else's carrot cake::
dcp - Apr 30, 2005 8:13:40 pm PDT #6700 of 10001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Susan, have you come across the story of Rfm. Thomas Plunkett? [link]
I like this bit: "...raised again to corporal 'notwithstanding little fits of inebriety,'...." Hah.
Susan W. - Apr 30, 2005 8:20:33 pm PDT #6701 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Yep, I've heard of Plunkett. Quite a character. I don't have anyone directly based on him, but he's one of the ones I keep in mind as I'm writing.