Maybe I've always been here.

Early ,'Objects In Space'


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.


tommyrot - Jun 03, 2010 7:54:14 am PDT #3643 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.

Chigurh would make sense, what with his flipping a coin to decide who lives and who dies....


§ ita § - Jun 03, 2010 7:55:24 am PDT #3644 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Doppleganger FCM:


aurelia - Jun 03, 2010 7:57:08 am PDT #3645 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Doppleganger FCM

All I can think is... Yes, please!


Nora Deirdre - Jun 03, 2010 7:57:32 am PDT #3646 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

76 is not old, or it shouldn't be, dagnabit.

Eh, I don't know. I think it's pretty old.

This is probably an unpopular opinion, but I don't know that the quality of life in the 80s, 90s and beyond is something I want to experience myself.

I am very close to my 93 year old grandmother, and will be very, very sad when she eventually leaves us, but she has been pretty miserable and scared and in general discomfort and pain on a daily basis probably for the last 5-6 years. She wonders why God won't take her.

Obviously this is a very personal and individual situation and I'm only talking from my experience.


§ ita § - Jun 03, 2010 8:01:00 am PDT #3647 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

All I can think is... Yes, please!

It is a selfish FCM, isn't it?

I don't know. I think it's pretty old.

My father's 73, and he looks great and is still playing a bit of tennis and being generally active mentally and physically, so yeah, albeit quite selfishly, I think 76 is pretty soon to be hopping off the mortal coil. Should his quality of life deteriorate pretty severely in the next three years I don't want to see him suffer, but right now, things aren't looking that badly for him, nor for my other relatives at that age or older.


smonster - Jun 03, 2010 8:01:27 am PDT #3648 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

It got posted on IO9, where some people pointed out it was femme-light, and a number of women were suggested for it. Bones, Sam Carter, Hoshi Sato, Zhaan, Liz Lemon, Laura Roslin, etc.

Oh, good, someone beat me to it.

Check out this video starring Christina Hendricks. [link]

I just watched that. I think, given the video content and song lyrics, that one could argue that it makes a relatively sophisticated metaphor* about the price of fame and the empty promise it holds. Possibly even the lack of control women have in a male and male gaze dominated industry. Maybe CH even identified a bit with her character.

And then one reads the comments and it's all about how hot Hendricks is. Which, yes, but. And one of the articles about it (on PopEater IIRC) calls her a "video vixen." ::sigh::

* music video - low bar


§ ita § - Jun 03, 2010 8:03:41 am PDT #3649 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

smonster, the comments on that video on IO9 did include a lot of "I'll be in my bunk" (okay, she's incandescent--I'm straight and she makes me think that too), but your very thought was posted too.


Nora Deirdre - Jun 03, 2010 8:05:22 am PDT #3650 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

My father's 73, and he looks great and is still playing a bit of tennis and being generally active mentally and physically, so yeah, albeit quite selfishly, I think 76 is pretty soon to be hopping off the mortal coil.

Absolutely, it definitely depends on the person or situation.


Jessica - Jun 03, 2010 8:06:06 am PDT #3651 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I don't know that the quality of life in the 80s, 90s and beyond is something I want to experience myself.

I think it varies widely. My living grandparents are in their 80s & 90s and are still very active, socially and physically. My dad's mom & stepdad run a successful book business, my mom's mom writes for her local paper.

At 76, my grandfather was still playing tennis (taught himself to play left-handed after a right shoulder injury when he was 70) and taking us sailing. It would have been a real shock to lose him that young.


Jesse - Jun 03, 2010 8:07:33 am PDT #3652 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Yeah, my 90-year-old grandmother is pretty much All Set at this point, but she was great at 76. Heck, she was pretty good at 86.