OMG I suddenly know what tattoo I want. Thanks meara. I can't decide if I'm happy or scared or mad or what. I would alter the colors a bit
Death is your art. You make it with your hands day after day. That final gasp, that look of peace. And part of you is desperate to know: What's it like? Where does it lead you? And now you see, that's the secret. Not the punch you didn't throw or the kicks you didn't land. She really wanted it. Every Slayer has a death wish. Even you.
Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Spike's Bitches 37: You take the killing for granted.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Laga - Sep 08, 2007 5:26:53 pm PDT #4756 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
§ ita § - Sep 08, 2007 5:30:32 pm PDT #4757 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm so glad I knew what bemused meant. Thinking misle was a word has really scarred me.
I don't have the steel to tattoo my wrist. I originally though that's where I'd have my first one, and cover it for business when needed, but I'm way too scattered for that. I'll be sticking to torso, because when that shows in a work context I'm already in all sorts of trouble.
All that having been said, cool tat, meara!
Hil R. - Sep 08, 2007 5:33:37 pm PDT #4758 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
But if this many fairly well-read people all had the same wrong definition of "bemused," doesn't this kind of become a prescriptivist vs. descriptivist thing?
Amy - Sep 08, 2007 5:37:12 pm PDT #4759 of 10001
Because books.
I knew bemused wasn't the same as amused, but quizzically! Like ita, though, I thought misled was "mizzled" for the longest time, when I was young. I actually wish mizzled was a word.
'Course, once in high school I also spelled segue as segueway, since I'd only ever heard it spoken. Oops.
§ ita § - Sep 08, 2007 5:44:43 pm PDT #4760 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
if this many fairly well-read people all had the same wrong definition of "bemused," doesn't this kind of become a prescriptivist vs. descriptivist thing?
By "this many" we're up to, what, five? Who knows--maybe less well people (and they do have numbers) know what it means justs fine.
Hil R. - Sep 08, 2007 5:49:05 pm PDT #4761 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
OK. Merriam-Webster has "to cause to have feelings of wry or tolerant amusement" as its third definition. I feel less crazy now.
Pix - Sep 08, 2007 5:49:12 pm PDT #4762 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
I knew what bemused meant (and the shades of meaning around it), but I don't think it's a big deal to have confused it a little. Lots of times we learn words through context in books, and if we never actually look up the word it's easy to get ideas about their meanings that are slightly off the actual definition. I've discovered plenty of words that I didn't have quite right once I looked them up.
SuziQ - Sep 08, 2007 6:14:23 pm PDT #4763 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Families are so weird. I'm staying with my Dad's sister and she does not get along with either of her sister-in-laws who are also out here (one lives here and one is visiting).
I feel kinda stuck in between everyone. Playing peacemaker. Not that there is open warfare - it is much more subtle than that - but I'm still in the middle.
Tomorrow we are going to Wet N Wild...not that I brought my swim suit or would be seen in public in it even if I had...but hey, more time with the cousins.
Trudy Booth - Sep 08, 2007 6:17:25 pm PDT #4764 of 10001
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 think we need Erinaceous in here for a consult. Stat.
beekaytee - Sep 08, 2007 6:47:00 pm PDT #4765 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Whoa! meara, representin'. Very cool.
Where did you have it done and did you like the service?
I'd like to get my existing tattoo embellished. Every time I approach someone who has ink I like for a referral, their work was done somewhere not here.