We die horribly and painfully, you go to hell and I spend eternity in the arms of baby Jesus.

Gunn ,'Not Fade Away'


Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Scrappy - Jul 05, 2017 1:17:44 pm PDT #13524 of 30002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Aww, sarameg, tooth pain is the WORST. I'm so sorry.


Kat - Jul 05, 2017 1:44:55 pm PDT #13525 of 30002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Oh sara, I'm sorry. Will the pharmacy get the antibios for you?

Jilli, it sounds like you've been through the ringer.

I have a house full of crabby people. Including me.


sarameg - Jul 05, 2017 1:55:48 pm PDT #13526 of 30002

Not without a script! I'll just have them call in a new one to the pharm below my office. I told them originally to send it to one on the way home from the endodontist, but I'm not fucking going back up there tomorrow.


Sheryl - Jul 05, 2017 2:12:21 pm PDT #13527 of 30002
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

Sorry so many are having sucky days. Gentle hugs and health~ma to all who want/need them.


sj - Jul 05, 2017 2:26:12 pm PDT #13528 of 30002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Can you pulse the greens up in the blender and make a pestofor pasta? I hope you get your meds and feel better soon.


sarameg - Jul 05, 2017 2:33:40 pm PDT #13529 of 30002

Wrong kind & I don't really like to eat much pasta anymore. Basically, all I want & have to eat right now is problematic. I mean, there's soup, but it is fucking hot and I don't like cold soup. Everything is just trash.


Dana - Jul 05, 2017 2:40:13 pm PDT #13530 of 30002
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

That sucks, sarameg.


billytea - Jul 05, 2017 3:48:08 pm PDT #13531 of 30002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

What is Rabid Puppies?

Ohh dear. Basically, neo-fascist writer of bad sci-fi who organised a group called Rabid Puppies to hijack the Hugos. There's a lengthy write-up here: [link] Assuming you don't have that kind of time, some highlights of the views he's expressed:

  • Women shouldn't have the right to vote. He's spoken favourably of acid attacks on feminists.
  • He's called the (brilliant) African-American fantasy writer, N. K. Jemisin, a "half-savage", and not equally Homo sapiens sapiens. He believes that race and intelligence are linked.
  • Homosexuality is a birth defect.
  • The Taliban's attempt to kill Malala Yousafzai was perfectly justifiable.

A real charmer there.


hippocampus - Jul 05, 2017 4:42:16 pm PDT #13532 of 30002
not your mom's socks.

Oh billytea I am hugging you. Sorry that you've discovered this. There are so many good writers - I'm sorry you had to bump into this.


-t - Jul 05, 2017 4:54:42 pm PDT #13533 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Ugh, sarameg, I'm sorry!

Also sorry about that friend, Gud.