Tim Minchin has a great song about everything.
Jayne: Well... I don't like the idea of someone hearin' what I'm thinkin'. Inara: No one likes the idea of hearing what you're thinking.
'Objects In Space'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
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.
Jessica - Apr 01, 2014 5:49:50 am PDT #24178 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Jesse - Apr 01, 2014 5:55:19 am PDT #24179 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I will have to come back to that.
Steph, I would totally just comment "IS THIS REAL????"
§ ita § - Apr 01, 2014 6:11:46 am PDT #24180 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
IS THIS FANTASY???
There was a point in Teen Wolf (related to HIMYM and GW) where one of the kids was told "She was your first love, but not your only one. Move on." And I cheered! And the character seemed to take it to heart. But that was kinda undone with the other half's dying in his arms and proclaiming him her only love while her current boyfriend looked on.
So, we're still not free of that there either.
Do authors really need to believe that, why they sell it so hard? Or was it that way for them, and maybe their current SOs should be a bit nervous instead?
My sister just finished half a self-guided Breaking Bad tour of ABQ. I'm trying to explain to her that for all my fangirl status, I haven't gotten on a plane to a different country to do that.
Perhaps I should say yet.
I made the mistake of making low gly lemonade. I doubt it will last until lunch.
Jesse - Apr 01, 2014 6:18:29 am PDT #24181 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Do authors really need to believe that, why they sell it so hard?
I think this is my question. It makes no sense to me!
Connie Neil - Apr 01, 2014 6:32:53 am PDT #24182 of 30000
brillig
I quite enjoy The Hoff. Instead of fading away into obscurity, he's riding the irony. Kind of like William Shatner and all the commercials that play off his own cliche.
Kat - Apr 01, 2014 6:41:55 am PDT #24183 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Jesse did you see NPRs Monkey See blog about TGW? I thought it was interesting and touched on part of what you are talking about.
-t - Apr 01, 2014 6:46:08 am PDT #24184 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
See, I was just like- couldn't you go on Rte 88-- it isn't that hard!
It shouldn't have been that hard for Odysseus either, right? Just looking at a map, anyway.
In my imagination, upstate New York is full of sirens and Cyclopes and so forth.
Jesse - Apr 01, 2014 6:51:48 am PDT #24185 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jesse did you see NPRs Monkey See blog about TGW? I thought it was interesting and touched on part of what you are talking about.
Yeah, and it was actually reading her piece on HIMYM that made me have to post -- but not enough to register on the NPR site....
Steph L. - Apr 01, 2014 6:51:49 am PDT #24186 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
In my imagination, upstate New York is full of sirens and Cyclopes and so forth.
It's NOT?!?
Update on the maybe-married friend: at least one person has commented on the FB post with "Wait, what???" Which isn't quite the same as "IS THIS FOR REAL???" but close. I've decided to just watch it unfold without commenting. (Which, in the end, may make me a dick for not offering congratulations on a real wedding, but hey -- you get married for real on April Fools' Day and announce it without a disclaimer that it's for real, then you risk my extreme disbelief.)
-t - Apr 01, 2014 6:57:06 am PDT #24187 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That seems fair, Tep.
It's NOT?!?
COuld be, as far as I know. Sophia?