I knew a girl named Susan who, for all of fifth grade, would alternate between spelling her nickname as Suzi and Susie every two weeks. I never understood her rationale for this, and she'd get very annoyed if one of us wrote her name the wrong way for that particular week. After a year of this, she settled on being Susie.
Saffron: You won't tell anyone about me breaking down? Mal: I won't. Saffron: Then I won't tell anyone how easily I got your gun out of your holster. Mal: I'll take that as a kindness.
'Trash'
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.
Hil R. - Sep 14, 2011 4:56:29 pm PDT #26293 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
sarameg - Sep 14, 2011 4:58:05 pm PDT #26294 of 30001
My SIL looks more like my brother than I do. But my brother is very clearly from both sides of the family, though in discrete parts. I'm a weird mix of both sides that doesn't obviously resemble either because almost all of the main identifying features are muddled. Mom & Dad's noses averaged out to a very nice nose. Paternal jawline, maternal cheekbones. Mouth from who knows where. No one else has green eyes. Paternal shoulders and ribcage (damned barrel), maternal hips. I have my dad's legs from the knee down. Feet are SO my father's. My skin alternates between maternal freckling and dark swede tan.
sarameg - Sep 14, 2011 5:04:01 pm PDT #26295 of 30001
I mean, this is me with my family and my paternal grandmother and aunt in 1991 or so: [link] and SIL and brother when Dominic was born [link]
§ ita § - Sep 14, 2011 5:05:36 pm PDT #26296 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It is pronounced like there is a double s in the middle...Sussan. Or even more phonetically, Sussanne.
Is that different from Suzanne?
A friend tried to assure me I both spelt and pronounced my middle name wrong. She wasn't really good at understanding when she was just 100% on the wrong path. My middle name isn't Susan. So I'm under no responsibility to either spell or pronounce it that way. She did that shit a lot.
And tried to sleep with your boyfriend, but I don't think that was related.
sarameg - Sep 14, 2011 5:06:32 pm PDT #26297 of 30001
OH! And one of the pictures of me where I can barely see that it is me: [link] Me and baby D. Not sure if it is the angle or what.
DebetEsse - Sep 14, 2011 5:13:45 pm PDT #26298 of 30001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I spent the better part of a year of Junior High trying to transition to my middle name. It didn't take.
Sue - Sep 14, 2011 5:17:10 pm PDT #26299 of 30001
hip deep in pie
I used to throw kicking, screaming tantrums if someone called me Susie, or Susie Q. Now, I just wish I could.
Steph L. - Sep 14, 2011 5:18:06 pm PDT #26300 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I spent the better part of a year of Junior High trying to transition to my middle name. It didn't take.
When I was 12 I campaigned hard to get the family to call me Stevie. Didn't work.
§ ita § - Sep 14, 2011 5:21:21 pm PDT #26301 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I intended to spend a week being called by my middle name and my father looked so wounded I only really lasted ten minutes.
However, at capoeira I will go by an entirely different name. Just about the only context.
I still want to change my last name to de la O, though.
meara - Sep 14, 2011 5:23:10 pm PDT #26302 of 30001
My circle of friends in college included Big Dan, Little Dan, Drunk Dan, Boston Dan, and Squirrelly Dan.
We had a similar bunch with Phils. Orch Phil, Plant Phil, Gay Phil, Sexy Phil...I think there might've been another one...