Oh, wow. This place looks great. Oh, I feel like a witch in a magic shop.

Willow ,'Help'


Natter 40: The Nice One  

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.


Allyson - Nov 17, 2005 9:18:02 am PST #4912 of 10006
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

I've written love letters, and now I wonder if they were creepy.


§ ita § - Nov 17, 2005 9:20:33 am PST #4913 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I've written love letters, and now I wonder if they were creepy.

Write me one, and I'll tell you.

Me, unsurprisingly? I've never even thought of writing one.


Allyson - Nov 17, 2005 9:21:31 am PST #4914 of 10006
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Write me one, and I'll tell you.

I think I did, it's called Safe Harbor from Ann Arbor.


§ ita § - Nov 17, 2005 9:23:17 am PST #4915 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Not creepy at all!


DavidS - Nov 17, 2005 9:42:26 am PST #4916 of 10006
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Man, I've never gotten even a creepy or sucky love letter.

Yeah, but you have gotten a valentine.

What counts as a love letter? A first time declartion of love, or just regular schmoopy letters between separated lovers? I've got plenty of the latter.


Allyson - Nov 17, 2005 9:45:49 am PST #4917 of 10006
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

I don't think they're necessarily declarations of romantic love, like the essay I wrote about ita, or Tim, they can just be about how much you love someone. I'm not sure if either essay is schmoopy, but they're both about how much I love them, and how I came to love them.

I have written the romantic love letter, though. I think romantic love letters are less complex, for me, anyway.


Lee - Nov 17, 2005 9:45:52 am PST #4918 of 10006
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Happy Birthday Jilli!!!

no-pain-ma on your surgery as well!


Sue - Nov 17, 2005 9:46:29 am PST #4919 of 10006
hip deep in pie

OH! Happy Birthday Jilli!!!


lisah - Nov 17, 2005 9:48:40 am PST #4920 of 10006
Punishingly Intricate

I have all the letters my boyfriend in college wrote to me. As well as all the letters I wrote to him while we were together. He gave them all back to me when we broke up. Also a letter he wrote to me a few years ago apologizing for being such a dick when we were together (not written out of the blue in a creepy way. I had sent him a card when his dad died).


Steph L. - Nov 17, 2005 9:49:33 am PST #4921 of 10006
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I always think of love letters as "Oh my dearest, how I miss you, etc., etc., etc."

Which I have never gotten, as I don't inspire feelings of "how I miss you." It has something to do with my misanthropy, I think.