Timelies all!
Sorry so many are having sucky days. Gentle hugs and health~ma to all who want/need them.
Mighty fine shindig.
Mal ,'Shindig'
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.
Sheryl - Jul 05, 2017 2:12:21 pm PDT #13527 of 30002
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
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.
sarameg - Jul 05, 2017 4:57:22 pm PDT #13534 of 30002
Next time I need a root canal, I'm going to lie and say the pain is debilitating and I don't want any -codone temp solution. Got me a root canal that same day w/o the stupid abx wait a decade plus ago( and was true.) This isn't that bad, but it is going on too long and I'm over it.
WindSparrow - Jul 05, 2017 5:24:04 pm PDT #13535 of 30002
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Gud, sorry about your friend.
sarameg, that is just crap icing on top of a crappy cake.
sarameg - Jul 05, 2017 5:44:27 pm PDT #13536 of 30002
I've hit peak whine; I can find a way to hate EVERYTHING. Bourbon isn't making me not care fast enough. (Yes, for me, alcohol works better than Advil-Tylenol cocktails when I don't have to actually be functional. Except I prefer to be functional most of the time, so nights only. Effect sure as hell lasts longer.)