No. You're missing the point. The design of the thing is functional. The plan is not to shoot you. The plan is to get the girl. If there's no girl, then the plan, well, is like the room.

Early ,'Objects In Space'


Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?  

[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.


Glamcookie - Jul 22, 2011 7:09:17 pm PDT #25964 of 30000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

Glam, what's the deal? they want you to sign up to see it.

There are a bunch of styles at over 50% off.


Atropa - Jul 22, 2011 7:24:43 pm PDT #25965 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

So if I, as the minority, have to be the one to educate the minority, I will have to do it ad inifinitum. I may be the only minority the majority person has ever encountered, but I have encountered many many of her.

It's nowhere NEAR the same sort of thing, but I'm in a similar space. I have pretty much set myself up as the spokesperson for Goth, and yet, there are times when I get tired of explaining the same thing over and over, having to tell people that I'm not wearing a costume, and no, they can't touch me, please stop.


sj - Jul 22, 2011 7:34:02 pm PDT #25966 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

So if I, as the minority, have to be the one to educate the minority, I will have to do it ad inifinitum. I may be the only minority the majority person has ever encountered, but I have encountered many many of her.

Yes, this. I have zero interest in educating every stranger I meet on disability or to the their children who they send over to ask me question. People can ask really personal things, and I'd rather live my life and not think about any of it any more than I absolutely have to.


meara - Jul 22, 2011 9:24:34 pm PDT #25967 of 30000

Oh Nonian, so sorry you're still sick! Yeesh! Immune system, activate!

Please remind me I need to step away from Facebook and not keep responding to my cousin's post that's happy there are Planned Parenthood clinics closing in Texas.

oof. I'm so glad I don't have hardly any friends or relatives on FB who post that kind of thing (a few of them are definitely way more conservative than I am, but they tend not to post political things)


§ ita § - Jul 23, 2011 5:47:45 am PDT #25968 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

It's a life, not teaching material. Treating it otherwise is continual othering, and can be quite rude.


Kate P. - Jul 23, 2011 5:55:46 am PDT #25969 of 30000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

Well said, ita.


hippocampus - Jul 23, 2011 6:47:44 am PDT #25970 of 30000
not your mom's socks.

Agreed, Kate. Well said, ita.

ION, for sprog moms, TD bank is doing a summer reading promotion that puts $10 in your child's savings account if the child reads 10 books. Plus they have great, free coin counting. HKF is now a penny-hunting machine, plus happy to double up her reading program swag from both the library and the bank.


smonster - Jul 23, 2011 8:57:35 am PDT #25971 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

I have helped a friend move, gotten a temp library card and checked out two books, and am back home. I did *not* stop by the library book sale, or check out all the cool shops near my friend's new place, yay me. I need to vacuum out my car and do a million other things, but since I didn't sleep well last night, I think a nap may have to come first.


Cass - Jul 23, 2011 9:03:46 am PDT #25972 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

I have briefly abandoned Jilli at her supersecret Goth project to come home and medicate Kittenish and do some straightening around the house (including redoing everything under the kitchen sink now that my garbage disposal has been replaced and everything seems to have dried out.) before it warms up today.


meara - Jul 23, 2011 9:13:45 am PDT #25973 of 30000

I had breakfast and worked out with my trainer, but feel like a weakling and like I"m not getting any stronger. Argh.

Now trying to decide what to do until dinnertime. Besides go buy more bandaids.

Things I really should do: clean house, it's a pit. Lutherans everywhere.