You can call me any time you want me to take you to the ER. I live 3,000 miles away and I don't have a car, though.
Zoe: Is there any way I'm gonna get out of this with honor and dignity? Wash: You're pretty much down to ritual suicide, lambie-toes.
'War Stories'
Natter 54: Right here, dammit.
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.
Tom Scola - Sep 23, 2007 3:21:33 pm PDT #2344 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Typo Boy - Sep 23, 2007 3:22:16 pm PDT #2345 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Anything else you want to know will have to wait for extreme pain and...
If that is a required ingredient I hope we all wait forever.
JZ - Sep 23, 2007 3:23:23 pm PDT #2346 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
They are so madly in sibling love it's just... it kills you ded, being in its presence. It'll be very interesting, when Emmett is a bit older, to ask him about his only childhood and his dread of her and how her arrival broke him wide open. For her, he'll have always been there, part of the landscape of her family and her heart; he'll have a before and after that he can remember and maybe even talk about.
Requisite adorkably cute story: Hec recently played Harry Belafonte's "Matilda", which various adults have been singing snippets of to her for ages, for Emmett.
Emmett was completely, earnestly and utterly horrified. She's a terrible role model! She's a thief! She takes all his money and runs away to Venezuela! Matilda must never, never hear that song!
Susan W. - Sep 23, 2007 3:34:45 pm PDT #2347 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Emmett and Matilda are such adorable siblings!
DavidS - Sep 23, 2007 3:41:52 pm PDT #2348 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
§ ita § - Sep 23, 2007 3:45:11 pm PDT #2349 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
And Emmett's all "This is my Matilda. You don't have a Matilda. I do."
DavidS - Sep 23, 2007 3:48:15 pm PDT #2350 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
And Emmett's all "This is my Matilda. You don't have a Matilda. I do."
Yes, he is. I was quite genuinely surprised for him to tell me that she was better than a finger monkey.
quester - Sep 23, 2007 3:49:00 pm PDT #2351 of 10001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Emmett and Matilda
They love each other.
Soooo adorable!!!
§ ita § - Sep 23, 2007 3:58:06 pm PDT #2352 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
He'll let you bask, won't he, Hec? But not borrow. That's how he looks. I mean, you can play with her, but you can't borrow her.
Zenkitty - Sep 23, 2007 3:58:19 pm PDT #2353 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Photos of Emmett and Matilda are wonderful!
I've read days worth and can't remember specifics, so I offer ~ma and yays and glitter to all.
I did note to myself that I wanted to chime in with this:
I think there have been some weird anecdotes where flatlining patients have described events in a surgery theatre that they couldn't have observed from their prone (and at the time, DEAD) position,
My stepfather said this happened to him when he flatlined during open-heart surgery. After he woke, he asked the surgeon who was the other guy in the operating room who died on the table. Turned out it was him. Apparently he told the surgeon exactly what he'd said while it was happening, and freaked the doctor right out. My stepfather was a singularly unimaginative man, and was surprised when I told him that other people had reported similar things. I don't have any idea what did happen, but I don't think he was lying. I might think that he just came out of anesthesia a little, except that he was clinically dead at the time. I dunno. Things like this fuck with my worldview. And that story about the blue-jean girl gave me creeps. I get creeps easily. I'd really like to think that every time I felt "haunted" it was just a subsonic hum from something.