There's, like, bugs and spiders and dirt and god only knows what other icky stuff.
Yeah, good thing there's none of that at ground level.
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
The Minearverse 4: Support Group for Clumsy People
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
brenda m - Jun 30, 2005 7:15:49 am PDT #441 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
askye - Jun 30, 2005 7:17:30 am PDT #442 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
I'm horrible with heights. I'm on the second floor here, and there are open areas where you can look down to the first floor. Waist high glass and metal walls around the openings, but still it was months before I could look over without getting dizzy.
joe boucher - Jun 30, 2005 7:20:11 am PDT #443 of 10001
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
There's, like, bugs and spiders and dirt and god only knows what other icky stuff.
I don't think Mama Bad Seed would allow dirt or bugs near the tree house. She probably had it steam-cleaned and put astroturf (the new, natural-looking astroturf) over the grass. Other than the random bloodstain I'd guess that tree & treehouse were spotless.
sarameg - Jun 30, 2005 7:21:08 am PDT #444 of 10001
I read it as distaste, not fear.
-t - Jun 30, 2005 7:28:16 am PDT #445 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I don't think Mama Bad Seed would allow dirt or bugs near the tree house. She probably had it steam-cleaned and put astroturf (the new, natural-looking astroturf) over the grass. Other than the random bloodstain I'd guess that tree & treehouse were spotless.
I concur.
I loved the contrast between Ellen calling to Henry "You better not be in the pool. You know one of us has to watch you" or something similar, and Madeline's mom saying "You better not be in the pool with your hat".
§ ita § - Jun 30, 2005 7:30:06 am PDT #446 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Not hat -- cast.
JenP - Jun 30, 2005 7:30:18 am PDT #447 of 10001
I read it as distaste, not fear.
So did I.
-t - Jun 30, 2005 7:33:26 am PDT #448 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Not hat -- cast.
That makes far more sense. And still works for the contrasty goodness.
lisah - Jun 30, 2005 7:38:06 am PDT #449 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
I really want that treehouse...It looked like an awesome hangout.
JenP - Jun 30, 2005 7:40:51 am PDT #450 of 10001
I loved the striped tent top. Waterproof, too, I'd gather. It was kind of neat. Fun place to go read or whatever. And, you know, plot and plan.