I'm feeling really discombobulated about reading at Comic Con, passing out postcards and such.
Like, full on nervous breakdown alert.
And we live to fight another day.
Mal ,'Objects In Space'
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.
Allyson - Jul 27, 2007 6:21:49 pm PDT #702 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
§ ita § - Jul 27, 2007 6:27:31 pm PDT #703 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Just stay away from the Floyd Patterson (guy on left) look.
Oh, I wouldn't change the length from what it is now. At cutting time I leave a bit at the front about twice the length (a whopping 12mm) of the rest, and it's lighter for having been bleached more often than the rest too.
Speaking of cheating in sports and scandals thereof, I skimmed through SI's top 25 non-drug-related sports scandals, and am agog at Rosie Ruiz. Of all the cheaters, she's the one I'd most like to slap. That's just...wrong. And marathoning is nowhere dear to my heart.
Paperdol, the problem is you have a lower opinion of yourself than your public does. If you can pretend for an hour that we're not all terribly terribly misled about you (and that "we" includes Tim, natch), you'll get through it fine.
What's happening to you...what you earned is so damned cool. Breathe deeply, and even if you can't relax enough to enjoy it, don't let it distress you.
DavidS - Jul 27, 2007 6:29:41 pm PDT #704 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
ita speaks true, paperdol. Aside from everything else trust this: what you wrote is very much your voice.
How people respond to that is an honest and fair appraisal.
So if it succeeds (as it is), then it is true and earned.
Aims - Jul 27, 2007 6:29:58 pm PDT #705 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Rosie Ruiz. Of all the cheaters, she's the one I'd most like to slap. That's just...wrong. And marathoning is nowhere dear to my heart.
No shit. What a cooze.
sarameg - Jul 27, 2007 6:43:28 pm PDT #706 of 10001
What ita said, paperdol. Especially the fucking earned part.
Also, my parents finally got a copy. Dad left work early. I interrupted my mom's reading. She made a point of that. Mainly, you're in the acknowlegements! You called before I read more! Ah, parents.
Read the book, mom. And paperdol? Thank you. Really.
More hilariously, I had to explain EW to the 'rents.
§ ita § - Jul 27, 2007 6:47:41 pm PDT #707 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My sister will be buying herself a copy when she visits NY next month, but that reminds me, dolly dol, that the fam wants a signed-by-the-author copy for their selves.
I let one of the instructors (the 17 year old) read my chapter. Her comments were "Curvalicious?" and "Oh! She talks about you like you're nice!"
Kids today, I swear.
tommyrot - Jul 27, 2007 6:49:33 pm PDT #708 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.
"Oh! She talks about you like you're nice!"
Heh.
Kat - Jul 27, 2007 7:07:38 pm PDT #709 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
HA! M is so cute and she's right! You aren't nice. polite, yes. Colin = much nicer.
I need to do something with my hair. I am liking it being all a shade darker than my natural. But I miss the pink. It's a dilemma.
Pix - Jul 27, 2007 8:23:42 pm PDT #710 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
I let one of the instructors (the 17 year old) read my chapter. Her comments were "Curvalicious?" and "Oh! She talks about you like you're nice!"
Bwah! That's even funnier when I picture her saying it.
tommyrot - Jul 27, 2007 11:17:54 pm PDT #711 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.
The fuck?
Someone apparently jumped or fell out/off of my building and landed on the roof of a garage next door. (My building is 6 stories tall. Maybe he fell out a window not all the way up?) Anyway, paramedics are getting him off the roof of the garage now. There was a lot of screaming a few minutes ago as they put him on a stretcher.
Sounds like a broken leg/foot is the worst of his injuries.