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billytea: News of the boy: tonight I passed the toilet to discover Ryan standing in front of the loo, peeing and saying over and over, "Downloading, downloading, downloading..."

I'm wondering if I should be concerned as to what he's been learning in his tech classes.

NoiseDesign: Yeah. I think that would more accurately be uploading.

billytea: I was going with live streaming, myself.

flea, in Natter: I also recently had The Talk that every mother has to have with her growing daughter at some point. No, not THAT talk ... the Leggings Are Not Pants talk.

Saw this from ita in the Bureaucracy thread. I know how thwarted she felt by her health issues, but this line made me feel a tiny bit better. She knew what a beautiful thing she had made. She knew its worth and value. An amazing legacy in itself, for all the other worlds she didn't get to conquer.

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ita: Oh, we are so not a CMS. Hand-stitched from the deepest layer.

MM finds comedy and truth in tragedy. every non-ita FB post on my feed has really thrown me.

Yeah, it feels like all those Buzzfeed shiticles should be like:

This Guy Did Some Re-Modeling and What He THE WORLD IS DARKER NOW, JUST FUCK THIS SHIT!

Zenkitty ately I've been feeling like I needed to realign my life's priorities. There are a lot of signs along the road that say, focus on what matters. Most people don't see them. ita did. She wasn't one of those people who left undone the things she really wanted to do while she focused on things she "should" do; when she wanted to do something, it seems she just went and did it, to the best of her ability. She didn't put the special things on a list for someday. Someday was now. She didn't leave the world wishing she'd got around to taking those krav classes, or taking up drawing, or wondering what she would've looked like in a tie or a pink gingham dress or a really short blond haircut, or trying to get up the courage to move to LA. She did it. That's what I want to bring into my life from today, from my memory of ita. There's no someday. Someday is now.

And I'm crying again. Okay.

edited to cite MM

Is this where we are, now? Is this the time of our lives where we...we just talk more and more about those that have...?

Well, maybe it is, but...not...not ita. It's like Superman dying. It's not real, right? It's a gimmick, it's marketing, it's just to spark our interest again...

...she'll be back, right?

I mean, yeah, we'll have to deal with a few months of itagirl, ita's clone; and Cyborg ita; Steel ita; which one is the real ita Returned? But...

But...

...

...real life sucks ass

For many reasons

Zenkitty:I'd like to legislate "ita's Law": If a doctor doesn't prescribe a person in pain adequate pain meds, they get a solid kick in the nads and tasered while they're down, and then two doctors stand over them, one to ask them to rate their pain on this frowny-face chart, and the other to write them a scrip for one Tylenol.

in Natter

Zenkitty:

A well-written evocative piece in a major news/entertainment magazine would be really helpful, I think.

Allyson:

It's a shame we don't know any writers.

In Bitches.

Toddson:

Buffistas ... can't define them, but you know one when you see one.

Trudy Booth:

We're like art. Or porn. Or both.

Sophia Brooks: Oh dear. I just found fluoride rinse conspiracy theorists.