Timelies all!
Brief, heavy rainstorm here. Meanwhile, Nova is staring intently at a bug. Yeah, my life is exciting.
Inara: I think she looks adorable. Mal: Yeah, but I never said it.
'Shindig'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sheryl - May 27, 2010 12:58:02 pm PDT #2042 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Atropa - May 27, 2010 1:04:18 pm PDT #2043 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Some of those are women whose hair is worn in two.
raises hand I'm wearing pigtails right now, because it's an easy way to keep my hair semi-controlled under my hat without putting it up in a bun.
Kat - May 27, 2010 1:05:36 pm PDT #2044 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
The pigtail thing cracked me up! The article is, well, tone deaf.
§ ita § - May 27, 2010 1:08:32 pm PDT #2045 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The author is also apparently a child, which makes it even creepier.
Beverly - May 27, 2010 1:15:18 pm PDT #2046 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Definition needed. In my lexicon, "pigtails" means hair parted in the center and braided. Hair parted in the center and put in twin ponytails is...ponytails, high on the head, over the ears, low on the neck, all ponytails, plural.
Hair gathered into a single braid is a braid, or a pigtail. Plait is a synonym for braid, either verb or noun. Hair gathered into a single ponytail, to one side or centered, high or low, is a ponytail.
When people say pigtails, do they mean twin ponytails? What if someone says "a single pigtail", do they mean a braid? Or a single ponytail?
tommyrot - May 27, 2010 1:17:50 pm PDT #2047 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
When people say pigtails, do they mean twin ponytails?
Yeah.
What if someone says "a single pigtail"
Then they are crazy and you should probably run away.
Steph L. - May 27, 2010 1:22:05 pm PDT #2048 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
When people say pigtails, do they mean twin ponytails? What if someone says "a single pigtail", do they mean a braid? Or a single ponytail?
Two bunches of hair, gathered and held with an elastic or clip (but not braided) = pigtails.
One bunch of hair, gathered and held with an elastic or clip (but not braided) = ponytail.
Any number of bunches of braided hair = braid(s).
Sophia Brooks - May 27, 2010 1:25:00 pm PDT #2049 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
My definitions:
1 or 2 bunches of hair, that are short-- pigtail(s)
1 or 2 bunches of hair that are long -- ponytail(s)
any braided hair-- braid(s)
§ ita § - May 27, 2010 1:25:41 pm PDT #2050 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The writer is using pigtails to mean what we called "in two" growing up. I never would have called them pigtails, because hey, kinky hair. "In two" was a superset. Pigtails is for straight hair.
I have no idea, however, what pigs did differently from ponies, exactly, to get all this.
eta: Oh, and braids==dozens and dozens of tiny plaits or cornrows.
Hil R. - May 27, 2010 1:26:02 pm PDT #2051 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Steph's definitions are mine, basically, but I think that hair in two braids with elastics at the top and bottom could also be called braided pigtails. Braids without the elastic at the top are just braids.