Emily - Emily's Helpful Notes for Writers, #583:
Lathe? Lave? Two different words. You cannot "lathe" someone's skin. It's a noun. And even if you could? They would not have sex with you afterward.

Betsy Hanes Perry - And laving somebody's skin has inappropriate church resonances anyway, at least for those of us in Catholic-derived churches. I mean, I keep expecting there to be silver laver, and a heck of a lot of linen to launder.

Ms. Havisham - Well, you could lathe them down to an amusingly-shaped toy...

Madrigal Costello - Oh, see I was trying to think of what body part one could use for the lathing. I mean, there's one obvious one, but the spinning would tricky unless they were on a merry-go-round or sturdy lazy-susan.

Betsy Hanes Perry - I mean, I hear "his tongue laved her breast" and it's like hearing "her fear transubstantiated into desire".

FayJay, on the appeal of Stargate:

Teal'c is mine, I tell you, all mine. He just needs a nice English girl with a burning passion for apostrophes, a fascination with Ancient Egypt and a hardon for strapping, earnest & honourable chaps with broad shoulders and permanent sparkly eyeshadow.

Jen:

There really needs to be a musical genre called "apocalypso". Beautiful, lilting rhythms describing the end times--who wouldn't be hooked?

(PS. "Apocalypsi" is so wrong)

in Due South, somewhat in reference to Stargate:

SA: Now I have to become a large, buff black man who wears eyeshadow.

FayJay: Yes. Because then I would never ever stop licking you. Ever.

erikaj in ...Beep Me

Good News For Beep Me: I've got a very good shot at getting published in a national magazine! Further details in "Great Write Way", this is just the attention-seeking behavior therapists used to warn me about. And you will not get rid of me over Turkey day, cause you guys are my most favorite homicide preventative.I mean, since we took the attorney off speed-dial.

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Oh, as usual a t /i closes an t b - in a way that is not.

lori in Buffy not spoilery in that it refers to cats and the word, lave:

When our cat Maceo does this, with his back foot raised straight up in the air as if he's raising his hand in class, we have this conversation:

Us: Who's licking their own ass?

Maceo: I am! I am!

Amyth on the writing process over in Smallville:

"Okay people! We need to accomplish the following things in this episode: We need to introduce a love interest for Lex. No, no a woman. Right. So that the audience remembers that Lex and Clark are just buddies. No, not that kind. Get with the program here! You may even want to make the love interest, well, interesting this time. People are starting to talk. Next, we need to show that Lex has a scary, violent streak. You know, with the whole supervillain future ahead of him. We have to work up to it. Right, sure, he can be violent in a sexy way, whatever, fine. Wait a minute! Who are you anyway? Are you one of the writers? Mark, call security, please. Thank you. Okay, where were we? Right, love interest (hetero), sexy violence. Good. Next, we need for Gabe Sullivan to have a couple of lines, his agent's been on our asses. Yeah, don't worry about it, just give him The Pete Treatment, it'll be fine. Finally, we need to cast Jonathan Taylor Thomas. Yeah, I know, I know. Look, I really can't get into the details, let me just say that a favor was owed, and the less you know, the better for your own safety. So, we deal.

"So--we done here? Okay, good. Now, whoever draws the shortest straw from my hand here has to write the thing. Now, c'mon, no whining, we agreed this was the best way. Good, good. I'm sorry, what was that? A-plot? Like I care. Make that Taylor-Thomas kid some kind of meteor freak--duh! And, you know, Clark has to save whoever's left, or whatever. Who's left? Glover's doing theater. Oh yeah, Lana and Chloe! Yeah, he saves both of them! I don't know, figure it out. Oh yeah, and Clark's, um, ambivalent this week. Think you can throw that in? About what? About everything!!! We've got a big budget! We can pay for ambivalence!

"No more questions? Good. You've got 20--no, sorry 18 minutes. Chop chop!"

That explains so much about the episode. Except that they slipped and accidentally the Lex heteroloveinterest had chemistry, which has never happened before.

Anyway....

Nilly in Natter:

Translation is hard. Can't you just read my mind or something? A hivemind is so much more useful if it's actually connected.

Canadian Gloating from Elena:

Angel moving to Wednesday?

So, we'll have Buffy on Monday .. .. and Angel on Monday ... .. And you'll have .. .. Lemme see, how will that work.

Oh, yeah... MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

I'm going to need a lozenge, what with all the evil laughing I'll be doing.

Karl, Buffista Fic Critic, in Bitchy Fic(The kind of review every writer wants.) Mere sexual favors cannot express how wonderful this writing is.