Aw, Kate, names are really, really hard. Hec and I intensely disliked each other's boy names and were cooly indifferent shading into mildly hostile to most of each other's girl names, including much-beloved family names. If Matilda had been a boy, she might still be nameless.

And I feel your pain on having to let go of a name you'd had your heart set on. It's trivial in the long run, but right in that moment it really is a little sad, especially if it's a name with a rich personal or family history.

Mr. Flowersocks sounds wonderful - you two sound like characters in one of your own stories (especially the one about the thrifter who agrees to help a nice stranger clear out his grandparents' house; if he has a secret locked attic or basement or a lot of startlingly random family treasures lying around, then obviously you have in fact written your own future).

I'm glad Byron is still hanging in there, beloved and loving. I hope all his days are happy ones right to the end.

I'm trying to work out merman sex.

Actually, how do mermaids get pregnant? Really special blow jobs?

Holli, thank you, and insent.

I think most fish just splooge all over the eggs once they are laid, but sharks have something they stick inside the female.

Er, not that I know anything about fish sex really. Oh billytea! Where are you?

Actually, how do mermaids get pregnant? Really special blow jobs?

There must be a slit down there somewhere.

My boss just managed to extract my political leanings out of me. Jesus fuck. Nobody does that. How did he do that? Motherfucker.

Egad, did I really just say "splooge"? How crass of me.

I think most fish just splooge all over the eggs once they are laid

What do they splooge from? A bladder? A pokey thing? A pimple? WHAT???

Actually, how do mermaids get pregnant? Really special blow jobs?

::sporfle::

I think I've shared this before, but if I'd been born a boy my parents were seriously considering Frodo. My birthday is only one day off...

I always thought it was spooge, no L. Hmm. Where do you look that up? ita will know.

if I'd been born a boy my parents were seriously considering Frodo

Oh dear. Adorbs.

I mean, is it something they could stick inside a girl?

AFAIK, only fish that bear live young, like sharks and guppies.