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.
I'll just jump in my time machine, go back to the twelfth century, and ask the vampires to postpone their ancient prophesy for a few days while you take in dinner and a show.
Giles ,'Selfless'
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.
§ ita § - Aug 01, 2007 11:26:23 am PDT #1628 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
erikaj - Aug 01, 2007 11:29:26 am PDT #1632 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
no...you mean smiling AT people, Kat?
Kat - Aug 01, 2007 11:31:28 am PDT #1633 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
yeah, erika's got it right. They mean smiling at people. The idea of a work smile reminded me of that though.
§ ita § - Aug 01, 2007 11:32:59 am PDT #1634 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
We have a couple white-to-the-eye people at krav who are 1/4 Chinese (one with the Chinese surname). One Chinese guy who is Jewish, and one Jewish-European guy who looks as Asian as his (actually Asian) wife.
I've given up on the race/ethnicity thing there, not least of all because gender is more confusing. Drag queen eyebrows or breasts and 5 o'clock shadow on the same person makes my pronouns hurt.
Lee - Aug 01, 2007 11:33:37 am PDT #1635 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Okay, so it made me smile in the dirty way, but that counts, right?
Yes. Without even really knowing who that is (I am guessing MCR?), Yes.
Liese S. - Aug 01, 2007 11:34:53 am PDT #1636 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Hee.
My Asian names are all hidden. Used to be clear I was Japanese. But with a western first name and a western married name, none of my phone contacts ever knew. Then again, I could go by my middle & maiden names, and you'd never know I wasn't Japanese from Japan until I opened my mouth and spoke Midwesternese.
tommyrot - Aug 01, 2007 11:35:51 am PDT #1637 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.
So, who knew "burglariously" is a word?
Not only is it a word, but the related "burglarious" has the Sir William Blackstone seal of approval. Westlaw also manages to beat the OED on this one; "burglariously" is attested by the OED only as far back as 1807, but a quickie Westlaw search locates a 1792 North Carolina case reporting an indictment "for feloniously and burglariously breaking and entering into the dwelling house of one Rice." Google Books finds a reference from The Gentleman's Magazine in 1789; Galenet finds one from 1724, which apparently paraphrases a 1640 statute as providing that
If any be Indicted or Appealed, for the Death of any evil disposed persons Attempting to Murther, Rob, or Burglariously or Feloniously to Break any Mansion House (and the same is so found by Verdict) he shall Forfeit no Lands or Goods for the same, but shall be fully Acquitted thereof ....