Aw man, I'm sorry Cash.
You do well to flee, townspeople! I will pillage your lands and dwellings! I will burn your crops and make merry sport with your more attractive daughters! Ha ha ha! Mark my words! Ooh! Ale! I smell delicious ale!
Olaf the Troll ,'Showtime'
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.
billytea - Sep 14, 2011 12:36:05 pm PDT #26197 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
meara - Sep 14, 2011 12:40:29 pm PDT #26198 of 30001
Once in a while they HAVE NO PREFERENCE.
...I don't care if you call me (realname), meara, or Indy (drag name). I answer to all three. I like all three (well, OK, I like Indy and meara better, but I answer to realname a little easier because it's so uncommon...)
§ ita § - Sep 14, 2011 12:41:46 pm PDT #26199 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You don't care if you are called David or Dave? WTF? WHAT IS YOUR NAME?
Seriously! You're Deb, Debbie, Deborah? Can I call you Suzie? WHAT IS THIS MADNESS?? WHERE DOES IT STOP??
Sophia Brooks - Sep 14, 2011 12:42:08 pm PDT #26200 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I have carefully called my BFF's husband and brother (2 different people) Billy and Philip, which is what she calls them. Turns out Billy goes by Bill and Philip "has no preference". I now work with Philip and everyone except me calls him Phil.
P.M. Marc - Sep 14, 2011 12:43:39 pm PDT #26201 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I call my sister Al or Ali, but I don't think people who know her outside of family get to call her that. Anyhow, as she saddled me with MY name, she can suck it if she doesn't like it.
§ ita § - Sep 14, 2011 12:43:43 pm PDT #26202 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
my BFF's husband and brother (2 different people)
Good.
Allyson - Sep 14, 2011 12:44:47 pm PDT #26203 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
You know, it's probably a, "but this is the name on the credits!" thing.
§ ita § - Sep 14, 2011 12:45:32 pm PDT #26204 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
but this is the name on the credits!
That's entirely legally driven, though.
javachik - Sep 14, 2011 12:46:35 pm PDT #26205 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
I'm with you guys on the name thing. I HATE when people call me "Nan" and I don't answer. I try to take it in the spirit that they're trying to call me something endearing or to show affection. But I am not nor have a I ever been a "Nan". To family and long time close friends who knew me as a tot in Hawaii, I am "Nani" (pronounced "NONNY") but not to anyone else.
Cashmere, I am sorry about your brother. You're right, it's not safe for him to continue living with your parents.
Amyth, I am so hopeful that those horrendous seizures remain only in your past.
And that's what I hope for Perkin's c, too.
Toddson - Sep 14, 2011 12:46:59 pm PDT #26206 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I came across someone whose real name is Meara ... brightened up my day, although it wasn't meara.
And Cash, I'm so sorry you're having to deal with this. But I'm glad your parents have someone who can deal with it. Living with someone who's willing to attack you is scary.