Inara: Mal, this isn't the ancient sea. You don't have to go down with your ship. Mal: She ain't going down. She ain't going anywhere.

'Out Of Gas'


Natter Area 51: The Truthiness Is in Here  

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.


Daisy Jane - Apr 04, 2007 5:35:34 pm PDT #780 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

Oh good, I'm glad I wasn't the only one.

Oh no. Loved that. And, no he wasn't devastated. Just didn't understand why no one thought it was funny.

And Poor Tim! He so doesn't want to abandon Bo, being abandoned himself, but knows mom's right. Gah.

Love. This. Show.


Kat - Apr 04, 2007 5:43:12 pm PDT #781 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I was NOT an easy kid on many levels but on other levels, I had a perfection issue that made me easy too.

I miss Tivo.


brenda m - Apr 04, 2007 5:44:17 pm PDT #782 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Honestly, I'm probably more forthright about my emotional state in the semi-anonymous online world than I am in meatspace (outside my family.) Which is all kinds of fucked up, but anywho.

Fucked up? Not at all. I suspect that applies to a lot of us.


sarameg - Apr 04, 2007 5:44:56 pm PDT #783 of 10001

Eh. Just because we don't know where you live it doesn't mean we don't count.

No, very true. Hell I'd argue the opposite. I know the opposite. All your points are right. The friends I've made online are more numerous and just as dear as those in meatspace. It's more that those who can be my physical nearby backups and who... I tend to insulate them. I am not wholly honest with them. I think I blurt more to the ether than I do to the people I talk to everyday, or on the phone or...

Which also explains why Thanksgiving spent 24/7 with people from the internets is less stressful than a party of people I work with everyday thrown by a meatspace friend here.

But where I boggle at my oddities is the anonymity. I throw out stuff on the internet that I don't in my other lives. Anyone can see it. ANYONE. And yet, some stuff I'm hesitant to tell my dearests.


Kat - Apr 04, 2007 5:49:18 pm PDT #784 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Because telling is harder than writing. Writing is so much easier. Text means distance.

And pthbpt! I know where sara lives.


brenda m - Apr 04, 2007 5:51:56 pm PDT #785 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

The insulating thing - that's big, I think. If I'm freaking about something (not like, politics, but something personal), venting to people who are part of it or know the people involved - half of me is trying to protect or not upset them or not somehow implicate them in whatever the situation is. Here, it can be about me, and I can ask people to sympathize or teeth-grind on my behalf. Or they'll tell me I'm being a bonehead. Either way. It's both more personal and more distanced, if that makes any sense.


sarameg - Apr 04, 2007 5:54:40 pm PDT #786 of 10001

Text is... no less revealing, and hell, I do that a lot. It's still a weird distinction. I know, I know.

pthbpt yourself! Me calling is such a huge thing, as you know. Speaking of which...


Daisy Jane - Apr 04, 2007 5:56:25 pm PDT #787 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

If I'm freaking about something (not like, politics, but something personal), venting to people who are part of it or know the people involved - half of me is trying to protect or not upset them or not somehow implicate them in whatever the situation is.

That's so it. Plus, here? People can be on your side.

Hey, what's it like for people with significant others who are also buffistas?


sumi - Apr 04, 2007 6:03:01 pm PDT #788 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

I just turned the channel and spoiled myself for who gets auffed on Top Design. I can't believe I did that.


dcp - Apr 04, 2007 6:28:38 pm PDT #789 of 10001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

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