Jayne (Husband): Oh, I think you might wanna reconsider that last part. See, I married me a powerful ugly creature. Mal (Wife): How can you say that? How can you shame me in front of new people? Jayne (Husband): If I could make you purtier, I would. Mal (Wife): You are not the man I met a year ago.

'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."


Kat - May 14, 2012 5:49:38 pm PDT #18687 of 28440
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

And Herr Theissen! I loved him.


§ ita § - May 14, 2012 5:52:24 pm PDT #18688 of 28440
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Kat, but I keep forgetting you're my sister's age. For two responsible adults you're wildly divergent in lives.

She's doing a thing for her 40th, and I keep thinking "Am I 40? 45? Wait, this is about her...I'm so confused."


Kat - May 14, 2012 5:58:50 pm PDT #18689 of 28440
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

She has a life and I'm... well... boring.


§ ita § - May 14, 2012 6:13:34 pm PDT #18690 of 28440
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Yeah, that whole significant other and two kids is no big deal. Not a societal ideal, or anything. Nothing a parent wouldn't basically beg her children to achieve.


Kat - May 14, 2012 6:16:01 pm PDT #18691 of 28440
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

But fuck. It's so much more exhausting and less interesting than a doctorate, a good job and the ability to take vacation without being trailed by 5 year olds. One of whom refuses to stop being on himself.


§ ita § - May 14, 2012 6:40:16 pm PDT #18692 of 28440
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm not going to get into a battle about what's more exhausting living for two people who aren't me, but that's drawing glittery hearts around my sister's life right now that really aren't there.


Burrell - May 14, 2012 7:22:32 pm PDT #18693 of 28440
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Oo Kat I totally support the having a party for your 40th. I was going to, and then my MiL got diagnosed with cancer, which kinda put the kibosh on my plans. So then I was going to have a 42nd birthday party, and that just fizzled out. Now I have to wait until I'm 50.


Atropa - May 14, 2012 7:23:56 pm PDT #18694 of 28440
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Oh, who do I have to bribe so I can have a Night Circus -themed birthday party?

Sometimes, when I'm trying to drift off to sleep, I amuse myself by making up tents for the circus.


Burrell - May 14, 2012 7:31:03 pm PDT #18695 of 28440
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

psssst, Jilli, I think you should try to ribebay atKay


Ginger - May 15, 2012 5:59:07 am PDT #18696 of 28440
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

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