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Jayne ,'Jaynestown'

Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.

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DavidS - Aug 07, 2023 7:48:45 am PDT #23574 of 30000

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Jacqueline is writing little emails to Matilda from her hospital bed.

Subject Line: On Love

"It's great. First love is rarely only love, though, and heartbreak is torture. My first love broke my heart three or four times, because I let him. It hurt just as badly every time, especially because every time I knew it was time to go but I couldn't bear to. If you can manage not to make that mistake, you'll be way ahead of me. When it's time to go, it's time to go; it does get better, no matter how much it feels like it never will; there is always someone else out there who'll make you feel all the good feels, no matter how much it feels like there can't possibly be anyone.

There, that's Mama's sack of cliches, borne of hard experience. I hope they help. Nana didn't share them with me, but I wish she had."

beekaytee - Aug 07, 2023 8:08:19 am PDT #23575 of 30000

Compassionately intolerant

Beautiful. And so deeply true.

Pix - Aug 07, 2023 8:09:43 am PDT #23576 of 30000

We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

Like all of Jacqueline's writing, just perfect. Exquisitely perfect.

Tom Scola - Aug 07, 2023 8:14:34 am PDT #23577 of 30000

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

I can't speak for Matilda, but I certainly needed to hear that.

vw bug - Aug 07, 2023 8:19:08 am PDT #23578 of 30000

Mostly lurking...

Such wise and loving words.

sj - Aug 07, 2023 8:30:43 am PDT #23579 of 30000

"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Such beautiful words. I know that I wish my father had left something like that behind for me. My heart breaks for Matilda so much.

Nora Deirdre - Aug 07, 2023 8:51:17 am PDT #23580 of 30000

I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

Since I haven't been on the board for so long, I was poking around in some TV threads and found JZ's Our Flag Means Death-related burbling yet insightful analysis of the characters and it's just so Jacqueline, having the squees and also talking about the why of the squee. Everything she writes is a pure delight to read. Always.

Laura - Aug 07, 2023 9:32:13 am PDT #23581 of 30000

Our wings are not tired.

Beautiful and wise.

erin_obscure - Aug 07, 2023 10:00:12 am PDT #23582 of 30000

Occasionally I’m callous and strange

I am here for JZ’s words of hard won wisdom. I love you all. This is so damn hard. Again.

DavidS - Aug 07, 2023 10:21:06 am PDT #23583 of 30000

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Since I haven't been on the board for so long, I was poking around in some TV threads and found JZ's Our Flag Means Death-related burbling yet insightful analysis of the characters and it's just so Jacqueline, having the squees and also talking about the why of the squee. Everything she writes is a pure delight to read. Always.

It made her write fanfiction again which was such a joy to her after so many years of not writing.

That and her return to RenFaire this last fall were two huge reclamations of her creative self.

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