Mal: Yeah, well, just be careful. We cheated Badger out of good money to buy that frippery, and you're supposed to make me look respectable. Kaylee: Yes, sir, Captain Tightpants.

'Shindig'


Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess  

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.


Consuela - Sep 26, 2020 6:22:11 pm PDT #26753 of 30019
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

that sounds marvelous, amy.

I am trying to write, for once. It's been so long and I miss it, so I'm making myself write instead of doomscroll.

It's been so long I've kind of forgotten how to do transitions...


amyparker - Sep 26, 2020 7:31:58 pm PDT #26754 of 30019
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.

Oh, suela, that's wonderful news! You will remember, and if you don't, it's still making something.

Ursula Vernon tweeted this yesterday and I felt seen:

Sometimes I write a character that's wiser than I deserve, like the cook in SEVENTH BRIDE cooking biscuits & saying "Yes, everything is terrible and unfair, and yes I could sit down and cry with you for hours, but everything would still be terrible and we would have no biscuits."


aurelia - Sep 26, 2020 7:56:49 pm PDT #26755 of 30019
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

I'm so sorry for your family's loss, amyparker.


Katerina Bee - Sep 26, 2020 8:36:18 pm PDT #26756 of 30019
Herding cats for fun

(({{Amyp and Jim))}} I'm sorry this happened


Shir - Sep 26, 2020 9:31:41 pm PDT #26757 of 30019
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

I am so sorry, amyparker and family. My condolences.


Sophia Brooks - Sep 27, 2020 3:52:12 am PDT #26758 of 30019
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

My condolences to you, Jim and the rest of the family.


Calli - Sep 27, 2020 4:16:03 am PDT #26759 of 30019
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I'm sorry for your family's loss, Amy Parker.


Theodosia - Sep 27, 2020 5:05:23 am PDT #26760 of 30019
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

I'm so sorry for you and all your family, amyparker.

May I endorse reading The Seventh Bride by Ursula Vernon (under the name T. Kingfisher) which is so very clever and worth your time.


-t - Sep 27, 2020 5:20:58 am PDT #26761 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Love that book


Trudy Booth - Sep 27, 2020 5:25:07 am PDT #26762 of 30019
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

So sorry to hear it Parker, please give Jim my condolences.