It's simple. I slap 'em around a bit, torture 'em, make their lives hell...Sure, the nice guys'll run away,but every now and then you'll find a prince like Spike who gets off on it.

Buffy ,'Get It Done'


Natter 62: The 62nd Natter  

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.


DavidS - Jan 07, 2009 10:25:45 am PST #9905 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I think I love all the virtue names. Faith, Hope, Charity, etc. Although it's possible I'm not thinking of a key one or two.

JZ's RenFaire name is Prudence Cobblepot. A combination of my grandmother's name and The Penguin's last name (in some continuities, anyway).


JZ - Jan 07, 2009 10:29:25 am PST #9906 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Actually, it's Repentance Cobblepot.


Trudy Booth - Jan 07, 2009 10:29:46 am PST #9907 of 10002
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

My mind has been completely corrupted by fandom. I'm proofing a book with illustrations of the Wright Brothers, and one totally looks like Captain Jack and Ianto Jones in pre-WWI period dress rolling around in a meadow.

Is there something I don't want to know about the Wright Brothers?


javachik - Jan 07, 2009 10:33:46 am PST #9908 of 10002
Our wings are not tired.

I love Honor and thought it was sweet that Jessica Alba named her baby that.


Kat - Jan 07, 2009 10:35:06 am PST #9909 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

WRT Esme.... There are gonna be so many Esmes and Bellas in the nearish future. Shudder.

One of the craft blogs I read, in fact, has two cats, Esme and Bella. I couldn't stomach reading it after I realized how CRAZY this woman was about Twilight.


Lee - Jan 07, 2009 10:35:51 am PST #9910 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I have a new list. It's called Things not to see when it hurts to laugh.

First thing on the list: The cat getting a role of tape attached to the end of its tail and running through the apartment in a panic trying to get away from the tape.


Liese S. - Jan 07, 2009 10:37:24 am PST #9911 of 10002
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Captain Jack and Ianto Jones in pre-WWI period dress rolling around in a meadow.

Mmm.

What? Were you saying something?

That reminds me. My ljArchive foray turned up a fandom song I wrote for Ianto and chickened out of posting. Ima post it over there now.


amych - Jan 07, 2009 10:41:15 am PST #9912 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Repentance is fabulous, in that wacky Puritan name way. On the male side, when was the last time anyone named a kid "Increase"?


Calli - Jan 07, 2009 10:43:40 am PST #9913 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I remember a Russell who did that, but not Emmett. It was night, the road was closed for repairs, Russell decided to walk down it anyway.

Oh, right, it was Russell. It's those doubled letters that confused me.

Temperence!

I have a "Temperance Baker" way back in my family tree. 1700s New England. Presumably she wouldn't have been one for making rum cakes, but given my family's history of drunks the name may well have turned out Little John-ish.


beekaytee - Jan 07, 2009 10:50:00 am PST #9914 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant

Basically drank himself out of school.

We had a Myron who did that.

David, you chose the one name mentioned today that I'd take as a super sekrit coolio middle name. I love the sound of Esme...and I've never read a word of Twilight.

I love Honor as well.

In the personal mission statement worksheet I passed out a couple of weeks ago, one of the elements is choosing words that, if necessary, you would be comfortable substituting for your actual name.

In a case like that, my alternate universe name would be True. (Sans the evil-AU manchu, ftr.)