With groups of women, I can feel like I missed something key when learning to socialise.
The gauntlet of wedding and baby showers I'm running this year has only reinforced my feeling that, yes, my acculturation is wildly incomplete.
You do well to flee, townspeople! I will pillage your lands and dwellings! I will burn your crops and make merry sport with your more attractive daughters! Ha ha ha! Mark my words! Ooh! Ale! I smell delicious ale!
Olaf the Troll ,'Showtime'
What Happens in Natter 35 Stays in Natter 35
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.
shrift - May 17, 2005 1:14:18 pm PDT #5042 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
§ ita § - May 17, 2005 1:16:41 pm PDT #5043 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The gauntlet of wedding and baby showers I'm running this year has only reinforced my feeling that, yes, my acculturation is wildly incomplete.
I've been lucky in that most of those things either fall into family, college friends, or krav circles -- all a bunch of gender freaks in their own way.
And I mean the term freak very gently.
Sheryl - May 17, 2005 1:19:53 pm PDT #5044 of 10001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Happy Birthday Vortex!
Polter-Cow - May 17, 2005 1:20:24 pm PDT #5045 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Happy birthday, Vortex!
shrift - May 17, 2005 1:38:04 pm PDT #5046 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
And I mean the term freak very gently.
Yeah. For me, it's a unnerving sense of the alien, like noticing the off-key details of a dream as you're having a kegger with your college buddies at your great aunt and uncle's two-houses-ago-home and crocodiles are roaming wild in Kansas. Like standing in a Burger King in Budapest and trying to figure out how to order french fries; the landscape looks familiar, like you ought to know what you're doing, but the language is nothing like your own and nobody stops to help you, because you're dressed like you belong there instead of wearing a Hawaiian shirt and a fanny pack and sneakers that light up when you walk.
Like that.
DavidS - May 17, 2005 1:48:08 pm PDT #5047 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'm the poor relation in my family.
Yeah, but you're clearly the coolest, Gud.
erikaj - May 17, 2005 1:49:50 pm PDT #5048 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Also poor relation, but they're all nouveau and shit, so I'm not sure it counts.
§ ita § - May 17, 2005 1:50:16 pm PDT #5049 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't think you can be that poor with a spaceship in the backyard and kids that cute.
Jesse - May 17, 2005 1:57:44 pm PDT #5050 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I never had a spaceship.
libkitty - May 17, 2005 2:01:02 pm PDT #5051 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
I had one, but it was just in my mind, so I don't think it counts.