I'm just waiting to see if I pass out. Long story.

Mal ,'Heart Of Gold'


Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns  

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.


tommyrot - Aug 01, 2007 11:20:45 am PDT #1622 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Please stop talking about people who like Ann Coulter. It makes my heart hurt.

You probably don't want to read their review of Ann's book, Godless, then....


§ ita § - Aug 01, 2007 11:21:49 am PDT #1623 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

My last smile, last sincere smile, was probably watching Eureka at lunch and thinking that I might get to see Colin soon.

There have been work smiles since, but they don't count.


Jesse - Aug 01, 2007 11:23:40 am PDT #1624 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I just had a sincere smile about trying to guess what race people are by their names. Don't ask.


erikaj - Aug 01, 2007 11:25:48 am PDT #1625 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

ew...Coultergeist cooties. Personally, for her book, how about "Shameless"? Maybe that's just me. Although she has been Worst Person an awful lot... not as much as Billo, but she has the will to win.


Daisy Jane - Aug 01, 2007 11:26:01 am PDT #1626 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

Tell me the last thing that made you smile?

In a good way? Talking to a dj who works in my building about going to see his reggae band play this month.

In an evil way? Email round robin tearing someone a new asshole.


shrift - Aug 01, 2007 11:26:21 am PDT #1627 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Tell me the last thing that made you smile?

This: [link]

Okay, so it made me smile in the dirty way, but that counts, right?


§ ita § - Aug 01, 2007 11:26:23 am PDT #1628 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

But I want to know, Jesse! I could have another sincere smile.

Right now I'm weighing the odds of me living until 7:45 tonight. Not looking too good.


Kat - Aug 01, 2007 11:27:01 am PDT #1629 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

did you know social smiles are a developmental milestone?


§ ita § - Aug 01, 2007 11:28:45 am PDT #1630 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

What's the opposite of a social smile? An "ah, fuck you, you'll all die horribly" smile? Sounds like a big milestone too.


Jesse - Aug 01, 2007 11:28:51 am PDT #1631 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Oh, we had to fill out a form which included people neither of us had ever met, and then we just started riffing on the whole thing, including people who look Asian but have European last names (married? adopted?), people who are white but have Asian first names (parents fighting predjudice?), and the fact that we should probably shred the scraps of paper where we wrote down everyone's race, especially considering the fact we might not have been 100% correct about everyone.