My great-grandfather met my great-grandmother when he was 31 and she was 8. He waited until she graduated from college (in 1907) and then married her.
Man, flea, you guys have the most interesting family stories.
I always thought the name Serenity had a vaguely funereal sound to it.
Simon ,'Out Of Gas'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Consuela - Jun 20, 2011 10:04:20 am PDT #13385 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
smonster - Jun 20, 2011 10:06:32 am PDT #13386 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Like, the werewolf falls in love with the newborn vampire?
Wait, what? Really? Not enough EWWW in the freaking world.
I don't mind emoticons, really, as long as they're not overused or incorrectly used. They're helpful for establishing tone, standing in for facial expression and inflection and such. But I don't use them here, although I trust Buffistas more so than others not to abuse the emoticon.
meara - Jun 20, 2011 10:06:57 am PDT #13387 of 30001
Man, flea, you guys have the most interesting family stories.
Hah--oddly, somehow i read that anecdote as having been posted by ita, and was...also not surprised. They both have interesting family stories!
§ ita § - Jun 20, 2011 10:09:32 am PDT #13388 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My related story would have been the daughter who stole a man from her mother. She's had a very marked thing for men the age of her father all her life.
sumi - Jun 20, 2011 10:18:06 am PDT #13389 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Atropa - Jun 20, 2011 10:18:40 am PDT #13390 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Isn't that part of the plot of the last sparkly vampire book? Like, the werewolf falls in love with the newborn vampire?
Yes, that is part of the plot for Breaking Dawn. And one of the reasons I'm slightly looking forward to the movie. Because that is going to be AMAZINGLY creepy on-screen, and I will laugh and laugh and laugh.
Ginger - Jun 20, 2011 10:28:55 am PDT #13391 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
He said he was planning to wait for her, let her grow up and experience the world, but he always thought they would end up married.
That's pretty much the plot of Heinlein's The Door into Summer. That's one of the Heinleins that seems way creepier when you reread it as an adult.
Jesse - Jun 20, 2011 10:32:36 am PDT #13392 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It happens in the Time Traveller's Wife, too, right? (Note that I never read the book or saw the movie, so I could be totally wrong.)
And now I just saw a thing about a 51-year-old actor marrying a 16-year-old singer, neither of whom have I heard of, but whose marriage is on eonline: [link]
le nubian - Jun 20, 2011 10:36:17 am PDT #13393 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Yes, that is part of the plot for Breaking Dawn. And one of the reasons I'm slightly looking forward to the movie. Because that is going to be AMAZINGLY creepy on-screen, and I will laugh and laugh and laugh.
Okay, so Jilli has the right outlook. Cleolinda's recap of that book is still burned into my memory and I cannot figure out how they are going to film this book. I haven't seen any of the previous movies, but I might catch this one just to see how they handle the WTF.
le nubian - Jun 20, 2011 10:39:12 am PDT #13394 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Jesse!
That actor is Eugene Tooms! He married a 16-year-old. The creepy factor went up by 20.