In hindsight, perhaps the capitalization is not helping.
I always say the first step in any plan to exchange sex for drugs is getting the capitalization right.
Lorne: Snakes? Uh-huh. And they came out of your what? Okay. Okay, well, did they get up there themselves or is this part of a, you know, a thing? No, I'm not judging...Do we fight snakes? Angel: Only if they're giant. Or demons. Or giant demons. Are they giant demon snakes? Lorne: Well, unless this guy's 30 feet tall, I'm thinking they're of the garden variety.
'Lineage'
Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
[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.
Jessica - Feb 08, 2010 8:59:13 am PST #9510 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Sean K - Feb 08, 2010 9:00:54 am PST #9511 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Well, I *do* love a tasty beverage....
Connie Neil - Feb 08, 2010 9:05:32 am PST #9512 of 30000
brillig
However are you to get on a path to self-improvement, then?
Just because you think you're nifty doesn't mean you don't think you can't be niftier.
sj - Feb 08, 2010 9:09:09 am PST #9513 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
One of the things I love about TCG is that he has no clue that he is a catch.
§ ita § - Feb 08, 2010 9:09:46 am PST #9514 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Just because you think you're nifty doesn't mean you don't think you can't be niftier.
Stopping being scum and getting niftier are two different game plans.
I can't argue against reality. Especially since being scum is often the sort of thing that hurts other people.
Jessica - Feb 08, 2010 9:24:14 am PST #9515 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Well, I *do* love a tasty beverage....
I'm just saying, don't put this on your Gay-for-Coke business cards without proper capitalization.
Scrappy - Feb 08, 2010 9:29:18 am PST #9516 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
There's a huge difference between thinking you're a nifty person when you are a nifty person or trying to be one, and thinking you're a nifty person when you actively destructive to other people and thinking you are nifty allows you to dismiss anyone's concerns about your behavior. I think of a friend's Ex who asserted that the fact that he shoved her into a wall and punched her in the stomach was okay because after all, they were arguing and he "didn't hit her in the face". He thought he was so nifty that the problem was totally hers and not his.
Jessica - Feb 08, 2010 9:33:31 am PST #9517 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
There's also a difference between thinking "I deserve love" in a general not-being-suicidal sense and thinking "I deserve a date right now at this stage in my life because hey, the last time I exchanged sex for cocaine was, like, over a week ago."
smonster - Feb 08, 2010 10:09:23 am PST #9518 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
There was nothing nifty about this dude, nor did I sense any kind of ambition to become nifty. Just a lot of, "gee all these things have *happened* to me and I don't know *why*?" After the drugs for sex revelation, he didn't even say, "...but I don't do that anymore," which would strike me as a good first step.
Steph L. - Feb 08, 2010 10:34:00 am PST #9519 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I think of a friend's Ex who asserted that the fact that he shoved her into a wall and punched her in the stomach was okay because after all, they were arguing and he "didn't hit her in the face".
Awww, what a good guy! He sounds like the guys who think they deserve some feminist-of-the-year award since they don't go around raping women.