Mal: You are very much lacking in imagination. Zoe: I imagine that's so, sir.

'Out Of Gas'


Spike's Bitches 25 to Life  

[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.


Jars - Aug 09, 2005 7:14:49 am PDT #5453 of 10001

I took a mental health day today. I highly recommend it.


beth b - Aug 09, 2005 7:24:52 am PDT #5454 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

happy birthday Aimee!


Ginger - Aug 09, 2005 7:25:46 am PDT #5455 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Such a little house, yet so much can go wrong on any given day.

Nora has just summed up home ownership in a single sentence.

I think it's been at least 10 years since I bought dress shoes. I haven't worn a dress or skirt since 1998, when I started my own business. One of the many reasons I wanted to leave corporate America was that the shoes hurt my feet.


DebetEsse - Aug 09, 2005 7:26:30 am PDT #5456 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.

I have a new Debet Original tiara with the Leo glyph on it.

I'm glad it got there in a timely manner!

wrt Character shoes: Have you looked into any sort of non-skid-type things you could put on the bottom that might help with reducing the wearing?


§ ita § - Aug 09, 2005 7:29:15 am PDT #5457 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

any sort of non-skid-type things you could put on the bottom

I did not know that these existed -- do you have more details so I could froogle?


WindSparrow - Aug 09, 2005 7:32:20 am PDT #5458 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.

Mmmm, Jars, good idea.

Happy Birthday, Aimee!

Susan:

At least so far I'm not even trying to peg my characters' regional British accents. I try to avoid Americanisms and anachronisms, and I do subtle vocabulary shifts to show education levels and some regional variation, but that's it.

That's an excellent choice. I throw away or possibly across the room, in great disgust, books that annoy me by shallow, stupid attempts at dialects that I have a passing familiarity with. Books with too many modern or American idioms will get talked to, out loud - i.e. "Oh, come ON, she so did NOT say that!". Those are more tolerable, and won't get thrown unless the rest of the writing is poor as well.


§ ita § - Aug 09, 2005 7:37:11 am PDT #5459 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I throw away or possibly across the room, in great disgust, books that annoy me by shallow, stupid attempts at dialects that I have a passing familiarity with. Books with too many modern or American idioms will get talked to, out loud

Doesn't that leave a messy middle ground where eschewing dialect means you are putting American idiom into the characters' mouths? Or do you prefer the writers to avoid writing characters for whom they can't nail the dialect?


Amy - Aug 09, 2005 7:38:43 am PDT #5460 of 10001
Because books.

I want cake NOW.

I say this at least three times a day. Every day.

I think it's been at least 10 years since I bought dress shoes.

The last two pairs of dress shoes I bought were purchased at Target. I figure if I never wear them, aside from the occasional wedding, why spend good money on them?

I am such a flip-flop girl.


DebetEsse - Aug 09, 2005 7:39:09 am PDT #5461 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.

I did not know that these existed -- do you have more details so I could froogle?

Something like this: [link]


Betsy HP - Aug 09, 2005 7:40:34 am PDT #5462 of 10001
If I only had a brain...

Fluevogs are not very comfortable for me. Pretty, yes, but no arch support.

The rage among theater geeks when I was in college was to buy character shoes, then take them to the shoe-repair place to have street soles put on them. That worked fine. I just wore them on the street, then had the heels and soles repaired as necessary.