My god...he's gonna do the whole speech.

Buffy ,'Chosen'


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.


Sophia Brooks - Jun 10, 2014 9:00:18 am PDT #29577 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

ita, that happens in hockey rpf, too. They are all pretty big guys (except Patrick Kane), and athletic clothes come in sizes like S-M-L-XL. Aren't they all pretty much going to wear XL due to having wide shoulders?


Zenkitty - Jun 10, 2014 9:01:00 am PDT #29578 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Somebody motivate me to work. I can't focus. Maybe going cold-turkey off caffeine is a bad idea.


-t - Jun 10, 2014 9:01:16 am PDT #29579 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

bon, I believe the idea is for the hypothetical husband or boyfriend to stretch his body until the t-shirt no longer covers the hipbone.


Jesse - Jun 10, 2014 9:05:44 am PDT #29580 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I am only at work three days this week, and have a shitload of meetings in that time, but also other stuff to do, and I don't wanna! Oh, I could maybe go meet with my boss now. Meeting = better than working....


Sophia Brooks - Jun 10, 2014 9:08:37 am PDT #29581 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I don't wanna work either. Which is why I am thinking about this t-shirt problem. I don't think v-neckls really get that much bigger with size-- when I was younger and 5'2" and a size 4, I could wear men's XL v-neck undershirts without showing my clavicle. Do these people have giant heads that are stretching the necks?


Jesse - Jun 10, 2014 9:13:06 am PDT #29582 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Oh yeah, men's shirts usually don't have that much of a vee, right?


-t - Jun 10, 2014 9:16:33 am PDT #29583 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

They make "deep V" shirts for men now, yes? I believe I learned this from Happy Endings, so, grain of salt I suppose.


§ ita § - Jun 10, 2014 9:36:15 am PDT #29584 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Arms up, arch back, t-shirt goes up over the bellybutton. As I recall.

Regular wakey-wakey arching, or I'm-Kat-doing-a-back-bend arching? I mean, my women's cut shirts are all short enough to show belly if I do much stretching at all, but that's part of the point. I am only one inch shorter than the average guy, and stretching in a medium tee--well, it doesn't do much.

And, like Sophia says, usually they're talking about big guys--the example I hit, there's an inch between them, and a round neck is showing clavicle. I've found women's cut v-necks show a lot of clavicle (I can have my portacath accessed in one without damaging it, but I haven't really worn any men's. The ones I see (thank you, SPN fandom) are more likely to show navels. Men-hussies, the both of them.

Oh, and is that "they're wearing my clothes I own them now I must fuck them immediately" a thing that happens with relevant regularity in life? My sister and I swap clothes a lot and I'm happy to say it does nothing for me (see, fandom makes me check all sorts of things).

Though, on the not-as-normal tip--is is supposed to be gross to sleep with someone a friend or family member boinked? I had a cousin once removed (generation older) tell me her ex was superb, I should totally bone him, so I did (it was okay, but I've later learnt said cousin didn't discover vibrators until...age 50? 55? and possibly also masturbating (at least to orgasm)). But I got so much shit from said cousin's sister that I though there was an incontrovertible law I'd broken.

I totally suggest my sister sleep with the guys I've slept with who were amazing in bed. YOU ALL SHOULD. And she'd give me (I'm not sure about all of you, though) the same leeway.


Kat - Jun 10, 2014 10:26:20 am PDT #29585 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

All of my shirts ride up when I stretch. Normal stretching not backbends.

Grace is still I surgery according to the computer tracking. It's been 90 minutes, when usually it is shorter. Good thing or bad? I fear they have tried decannulation then had an issue and had to put the trache back and had to re-cut because the stoma closes fast.


Amy - Jun 10, 2014 10:57:54 am PDT #29586 of 30000
Because books.

I just made S. stand up and raise his arms above his head -- not even stretching, really -- and his t-shirt rode up enough to show hipbone.

I just came back from lunch with my mom and burst into tears. And we had a lovely time! My guess is heat and hormones and general anxiety, but I really just want to nap now.

Fingers still crossed for Grace, Kat.