Thinking about that comparison makes my brain hurt.
Xander: How? What? How? Giles: Three excellent questions.
Xander/Giles ,'Never Leave Me'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
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.
tommyrot - Mar 29, 2012 10:44:04 am PDT #28643 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.
meara - Mar 29, 2012 10:45:05 am PDT #28644 of 30001
I mean, yes, I've heard criticism of the whole women-writing-gay-men thing, but...I don't think it generally carries the same cultural and historical weight as blackface!!
Kate P. - Mar 29, 2012 10:48:09 am PDT #28645 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
meara, precisely! Also, this is for a brief column that has neither the space nor a particularly good reason to get into definitions of and debates over slash fiction, so the comment would have been almost entirely without context, and read almost entirely by people lacking any context for or understanding of fanfic or slash. Just... seemed like a really bad idea.
Polter-Cow - Mar 29, 2012 10:54:40 am PDT #28646 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
My brain isn't working. What's the name of the effect that observation has on phenomena?
Gentlemen, what we have here is a terrifying example of the reindeer effect.
Strix - Mar 29, 2012 11:00:20 am PDT #28647 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
OK, I dunno if anyone else has read Joel Stein's IDIOTIC tweet on YA book readers, but I am writing a rebuttal in a white-hot state of WTF? and would love a beta over in GWW. It's a rough draft; I just finished the draft.
Jesse - Mar 29, 2012 11:08:12 am PDT #28648 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
He's an idiot, and it was in one of those idiotic NYTimes.com point-counterpoint roundups.
Typo Boy - Mar 29, 2012 11:09:04 am PDT #28649 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Strix - Mar 29, 2012 11:12:24 am PDT #28650 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
He IS an idiot...but...cannot....stop...self...from rebutting.
It's a sickess.
tommyrot - Mar 29, 2012 11:36:59 am PDT #28651 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.
NYT article on men who wear high heels: [link]
tommyrot - Mar 29, 2012 11:37:56 am PDT #28652 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.