ita: Lots of things that squick me have plenty of precedent.
Hec: Sure. Vivisection, Steve Gutenberg, soy-based meat products.
Overwhelming? How much more than whelming would that be exactly?
Anya ,'Touched'
Coffee On My Monitor
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esse - Oct 14, 2002 12:33:20 pm PDT #361 of 10000
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Fay - Oct 14, 2002 12:37:02 pm PDT #362 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Damn, I love COMM. Although I very nearly died here, choking on my brioche as I laughed in a most unsightly fashion. Not the most embarassing way to die (the guy who was electrocuted to death whilst pissing on railroad tracks is pretty high on the list), but still fairly embarassing. And untimely. Anyway, unspoilery discussion of Fred/Gunn over in the Angel thread:
victor: Am I wrong to think Fred is hot?
p.m. marcontell: She's pretty, but I think she'd boil your bunnies if you dumped her. IJS, she's not all there.
Besty: I just imagine her putting little fuzzy hand puppets on his penis.
Going out for a brainwipe. I may be some time.
Nilly - Oct 14, 2002 12:43:34 pm PDT #363 of 10000
Swouncing
Nutty (whom I seem to just follow around and COMM today), in Natter:
The New Testament is slightly hampered in its unified message by its being translated badly several times, and the bad translations being taken as earthshatteringly Right And Infallible, which is just cruising for a Greek nerd to get all "um, actually".
Moral of this story: Primary sources are our friends, and make us not look like morons lo those 1100 years later.
Trudy Booth - Oct 14, 2002 1:07:04 pm PDT #364 of 10000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I sometimes have to remind myself that most of you come by these things from a completely different angle - mostly, you know so much, that I need to remind myself that I can't use a Hebrew word when I'm missing an English one, because no, you won't understand it (that's why I was so startled the first time ita wrote 'Krav Maga', both Hebrew words - it was like the very thing I was trying to avoid doing jumped in my face and said 'ha, I'm here anyway, from your subconscious to computer screens worldwide').
-- Nilly
Steph L. - Oct 14, 2002 1:31:44 pm PDT #365 of 10000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
It's like anthropology in miniature - - putting on your coats/jackets . . . see what you were doing last time it was cold.
--Sumi
Betsy HP - Oct 14, 2002 1:35:38 pm PDT #366 of 10000
If I only had a brain...
Erin G.:
I want to have gilded slave- of- love nipples, but the cat ate all my gold flake. Now he's pooping ingots.
JZ - Oct 14, 2002 2:14:51 pm PDT #367 of 10000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
billytea:
See, here's a thing for me. Whenever I hear some autobiography or article or interview being advertised as "Randolph Stoatbladder - in his own words", I always think "What, he ran out of English ones?" Like, if you tuned in you'd get "Fninkle. Yarzblot, nak blint geznibah." (Pause for rapturous applause from captive audience.)
esse - Oct 14, 2002 2:44:19 pm PDT #368 of 10000
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Betsy Haynes Perry: If people were writing "David Bowie takes me out to dinner and chit-chats" stories, I would be indifferent. It's the "Everybody in N!Sync gets off with each other and a raccoon" fiction that I find deeply offensive.
RPF talk in Fanfiction.
lori - Oct 14, 2002 3:02:47 pm PDT #369 of 10000
Michele T. in Buffy:
I cannot possibly imagine William, the human, from even the little we saw of him, going "eh, I was a vampire, these things happen" and going on. I called him snapping like a twig over the summer, and I'm happy that he did.
I actually can believe him like this. He doesn't even have half a deck, but he's holding on to his three pretty tightly.
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§ ita § - Oct 14, 2002 3:06:07 pm PDT #370 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Julie, depressing me in Firefly:
I told someone else on another board- Joss was in love with Buffy and he still loves her, he just doesn't want to be with her.
And just because Daddy Joss left mummy Buffy doesn't mean that he doesn't still care about us. And Auntie Firefly is probably a nice person, and no, she isn't mummy. But no matter what happens between her and Daddy, he STILL isn't coming home to mummy.