"Swords, daggers could be used to seriously harm victims, so this is a very serious crime."
Well, duh.
I'm a vision of hotliness, and how weird is that? Mystical comas. You know, if you can stand the horror of a higher power hijacking your mind and body so that it can give birth to itself, I really recommend 'em.
Cordelia ,'You're Welcome'
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.
Connie Neil - Sep 25, 2007 9:40:32 am PDT #2884 of 10001
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Aims - Sep 25, 2007 9:40:53 am PDT #2885 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
How far back have various people gotten with their ancestral tracking?
My grandmother got her paternal back to pre-1650 in the Scottish Highlands. Again, before that time period it's based on a lot of passed down stories and family legend than anything concrete cause hello? Not a whole heck of a lot of paper. But she did have the success she did based on church records for marriages and deaths.
§ ita § - Sep 25, 2007 9:40:59 am PDT #2886 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
But with correct weapons, right?
You know it. I observe very proper ordnance etiquette.
flea - Sep 25, 2007 9:41:36 am PDT #2887 of 10001
information libertarian
I am not the genealogist in my family - on either side - but both sides have had rabid ones. My maternal grandfather's ancestry is clear back to 1630, Massachusetts Bay (I am a 15th generation American!), and my paternal grandfather is back to the 1600s too (Scots/Irish).
shrift - Sep 25, 2007 9:42:22 am PDT #2888 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
You'll be happy to know I've been spreading the gospel of boys in eyeliner far and wide.
This warms the black cockles of my crusty little punkass heart.
Susan W. - Sep 25, 2007 9:43:52 am PDT #2889 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
How far back have various people gotten with their ancestral tracking? I've got a couple of lines reliably back to the 1600s--hooray for early immigrants and obsessive-compulsive New England genealogists--and one line traditionally back to the 1200s.
A genealogy-obsessed second cousin got one line of my family all the way back to the late 16th century, but when I had to do my family tree for 11th grade American history most of the lines petered out somewhere between 1820 and 1850. I'm sure if I was really into genealogy I could push it back a bit further, though.
brenda m - Sep 25, 2007 9:46:37 am PDT #2890 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
WASP -- The one person I know who's embraced the designation was pretty solidly middle-middle class (as in, lived on the "poor side" of one of the richest suburbs in America).
I don't think of WASP as necessarily wealthy. To me it has a more whitebread, "republican-cloth-coat" feel to it.
§ ita § - Sep 25, 2007 9:47:16 am PDT #2891 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Okay, black crusty cockles sounds icky, no matter how punkass.
Can you have moist crusty cockles?
juliana - Sep 25, 2007 9:47:30 am PDT #2892 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
How far back have various people gotten with their ancestral tracking?
Great-grandparents, and that's it. Grandpa doesn't even know which village he was born in in the old country, so anything earlier is pretty much gone. Hooray for peasants!
Emily - Sep 25, 2007 9:47:54 am PDT #2893 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Maybe middle-class, but I too wouldn't assume servants-and-prep-schools from WASP.