Maybe her kink is for wearing her underthings wrong? It's perfectly natural!
Lorne: Take care of yourself and ah, make sure fluffy is getting enough love. Gunn: Did he have anything? Fred: No. And who's fluffy? Are you fluffy? Gunn: He called me fluffy? Fred: He said make sure…wait. You don't think he was referring to anything of mine that's fluffy, do you? Because that would just be inappropriate.
'Conviction (1)'
Spike's Bitches 42: Which question do you want me to answer first?
[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.
amych - Aug 11, 2008 5:11:11 pm PDT #1125 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Steph L. - Aug 11, 2008 5:14:45 pm PDT #1126 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Maybe her kink is for wearing her underthings wrong? It's perfectly natural!
Ha! The LJ I linked to, Midori's, makes the point that the stylist of the photo shoot should be mortified for putting the corset wrong, using cheap crap-ass boots, and such a poorly-fitting bra. All of which are valid point, kink or no.
Susan W. - Aug 11, 2008 5:15:07 pm PDT #1127 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Sigh.
Maybe I should just admit cooking is not among my gifts and stop trying new recipes just because they sound interesting.
Signed,
Just spent over an hour in the kitchen (30-minute meal my ASS) producing a half-burned, crappy-tasting mess, and on my way to pagliacci.com for a replacement dinner
Jessica - Aug 11, 2008 5:17:40 pm PDT #1128 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
common things that are considered to be wrong
...like not knowing how to lace a corset?
Steph L. - Aug 11, 2008 5:20:05 pm PDT #1129 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
common things that are considered to be wrong
...like not knowing how to lace a corset?
Bingo, pretty lady.
Strix - Aug 11, 2008 5:28:51 pm PDT #1130 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Ugh. 12 hour day. School starts Thursday. Utter (well, not utter) chaos.
Nora and Tom -- suck. Job hunting is such a horrid stressor.
Barb -- does it help that I totally name-dropped you just yesterday?! One of my ex-students emailed me, asking to critique some fiction she's done, and I was all YES blahblah-cakes Rule #1 of Writing: READ EVERYTHING, and blahblah, ooh, read BARB! I know her! (my ex-stu is so very much like your protag in ATMOL.) She's Mexicana, not Cubana, but it was nice to be able to rec an author who was writing stuff that would be a lot closer to the things she's interested in, and blahblahblah I have logorrhea tonight I am so tired shut me up CALLATE!)
ION, I am making jambalya with chorizo. Yum.
Oh! Two students at my new school are old students of mine! One of whom I love! I was so happy to see her -- she got booted from my old school cause she is kinda fighty, but SO much better than she used to be, and I got along great with her, no probs.
Most of my new students are African-American, which is cool, but I really lovedloved the almost 100% Latino (Mexican)pop. at my old school -- I just got along really well with almost all the kids, and it makes me so happy to see Latino students at my new school. I'm so used to seeing them as the majority culture, it's weird to see them as a minority here. I feel protective. Is that weird, since I am white as Wonder bread?
Cass - Aug 11, 2008 5:31:45 pm PDT #1131 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Kristin, enjoy diving. But, um, Cozumel has sharks. Tiny ones were all I ever saw, but they were there. Turns out you can totally have and get past a panic attack underwater which was good to know.
Barb - Aug 11, 2008 5:52:40 pm PDT #1132 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”
You mean, they don't tell you why they're not pleased? They just wave it off and mutter obscurely?
Oh yeah... that's kind of the worst part about it. Each revision, I got an email from my editor telling me that she loved the changes I'd made, but if I made a few more... and then, again, how much she loved the changes I made, how I'd done everything she'd asked for but it prompted some other changes she wanted to make, until finally, after the fourth revision, I received the "I love it! I totally love it!" email from her.
That was in May. In early July was when I first heard that the publisher, in other words, my editor's boss and She Who Has Final Say, wasn't crazy about it. She feels it's not in line with what they publish. That it's too commercial.
DavidS - Aug 11, 2008 5:54:17 pm PDT #1133 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
That it's too commercial.
Yeah, that'd suck if it sold a lot of copies.
Strix - Aug 11, 2008 5:57:35 pm PDT #1134 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
She feels it's not in line with what they publish at Dial. That it's too commercial.
Oh, now that is a shite response. (A) Revisions as per instructions from editor, of whom it may be reasonably expected s/he knows the expectations of the company one is revising for, and (b) I may not be OMGPubishingQueen, but I know enough to realize that unless a company is a small and/or specialized press, sales come first, and then lurve of teh book. At least, speaking from a company view.
I mean, they are BUSINESSES. The product must sell, yes?