Emmett in the middle, in red sleeves, last month
He looks like such a man-boy now! Not a little boy anymore.
Right, there comes a point where you have to either move on, or just buy yourself a Klingon costume and go with it.
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Spike's Bitches 24: I'm Very Seldom Naughty.
[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.
ChiKat - Jul 05, 2005 2:29:46 pm PDT #8594 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
JZ - Jul 05, 2005 2:30:19 pm PDT #8595 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.
I guess those are good years for being a girl too.
Um, yeah. Whatever.
Actually, I had a lot of good times between 9 and 12; it's just that most of them were good times spent alone, and the handful of good times with other people (a) could be counted on one hand, and (b) were entirely the result of bonding over our common state of tormented loserness, cowering from the popular pretty people.
Which brings me more or less back to Um, yeah. Whatever.
JZ - Jul 05, 2005 2:33:05 pm PDT #8596 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.
However, like Darth Tigger, Emmett is still willing to dress up like mad on any provocation, or none whatsoever. Between the pirate outfit, his collection of hats, the brocade vest that's the only part of his wedding outfit that remotely fits anymore, and his recently purchased week's worth of mustaches, he is more of a San Francisco boy than he realizes just yet.
I know there are costume pieces I'm forgetting, but I'm sure Hec can link to pictures of all of them.
erikaj - Jul 05, 2005 2:33:23 pm PDT #8597 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
9 to about 11 were good mostly. Could have been great if not for Family Weirdness.(divorcing parents...etc.)
Hil R. - Jul 05, 2005 2:37:01 pm PDT #8598 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
9 to about 10 1/2 were pretty good, I guess.
I'm back in DC now. It's pouring. I took a cab back to my apartment from the train station, and the driver had the interesting habit of turning on the windshield wipers for about five seconds every time the rain let up a bit, but then turning them off again as soon as it started raining harder. Also, he was wearing sunglasses.
Cashmere - Jul 05, 2005 2:37:16 pm PDT #8599 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
I guess those are good years for being a girl too.
Um. Nope. Difficult as the 13-18 years.
Susan W. - Jul 05, 2005 2:38:41 pm PDT #8600 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
JZ is me, but 9-12 was better than 12-17 because I didn't mind being alone as much. (17 marked the point where life started to improve for me, because it hit me that I didn't have to be part of the same group in the same town for the rest of my life, and getting out was as simple as applying to an out-of-state college.)
One thing I've found fascinating is that the further I get from adolescence, the more I've started picking up my childhood interests. IOW, the things that fascinated me when I was 10, that I wouldn't have been caught dead doing/reading about at 14, are all back on my personal must list--everything from paleoanthropology to old-fashioned weapons.
§ ita § - Jul 05, 2005 2:39:13 pm PDT #8601 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Are there any absolute good or bad ages to be?
Aims - Jul 05, 2005 2:39:55 pm PDT #8602 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
One day less than dead, I would imagine.
§ ita § - Jul 05, 2005 2:41:47 pm PDT #8603 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Depends on what you have planned for the day.