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Naraht! That's his name.
Yeah, but you're an amateur fry cook and I come from a long line of fry cooks that don't live past 25.
Buffy ,'Showtime'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[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.
Connie Neil - Sep 16, 2009 12:49:50 pm PDT #23433 of 30000
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Strix - Sep 16, 2009 12:53:27 pm PDT #23434 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Hmm, yes, Connie- GtWC is a *tad* on the "men are evil, unless they are SNAG's, OMG, run!"
Also, I get the impression that she thinks liking sex makes you an intellectual moron. Heh. Well, I don't have to agree 100% with an author . Sometimes it 's more fun to mentally argue with them!
Strix - Sep 16, 2009 12:53:28 pm PDT #23435 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
-t - Sep 16, 2009 12:56:42 pm PDT #23436 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I rather like Tepper, but I tend to read her stuff as thought experiments. I don't know that I buy her conclusions but I'm interested in her premises. Or I was, at least, I haven't felt like reading anything of hers in quite a while.
Strix - Sep 16, 2009 1:00:55 pm PDT #23437 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I agree, -t.
Connie Neil - Sep 16, 2009 1:04:44 pm PDT #23438 of 30000
brillig
Tepper's women often annoy me because they often are advocating this "striving and questioning lead to pain, why can't we just settle down here and raise babies and corn and not make a fuss?" thing. But in Raising the Stones one of the heros, who's gotten himself tangled up with questions etc., manages to turn that on its head and make you stop and think that he's right to question and challenge the status quo.
I love moments in books when I stop and stare and feel my skin prickle at the absolute rightness of something.
StuntHusband - Sep 16, 2009 1:07:48 pm PDT #23439 of 30000
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
I love moments in books when I stop and stare and feel my skin prickle at the absolute rightness of something.
THIS.
And now I'll go read "Raising the Stones". Thanks, Connie!
Burrell - Sep 16, 2009 1:14:00 pm PDT #23440 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I think I'm going to go with a dollar coin. Owen's starting to learn about money and I think it would be cool. I can actually teach him to start saving them up. That way he can figure out how much it takes to buy one Lego set.
Yeah, it sounds like money would be the way to go then. Franny is old enough to know money can buy her stuff, but she has no real sense of how much she'd need to actually buy something.
Put it this way, I still have to remind her to look at the number value on the dollar in order to count how much it's worth. She reverts quickly to "one money, two money" etc. Whereas one of her classmates (whose mom owns a retail shop I add) had money and its value down pat in kindergarten.
sj - Sep 16, 2009 1:24:27 pm PDT #23441 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
After seeing this ad way too many times. I bought the lipstick supposedly featured in it, except for it looks like a weird orange on me instead of a real red. I thought I would mention it in case anyone here was thinking about purchasing it.
§ ita § - Sep 16, 2009 1:35:13 pm PDT #23442 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
II find true red lipstick is the hardest colour for me to find satisfaction with. Probably because there's such an image to match, and that image has nothing to do with my skin colour. I end up mixing two colours--a red and a brown--to get something that doesn't look orange or blue against my skin.