Riley: No pulse. Anya: Yup. The space lamb got 'im.

'Never Leave Me'


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

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.


askye - Aug 22, 2023 8:41:53 am PDT #24258 of 30000
Thrive to spite them

I put a card in the mail for Jacqueline and David, it went out...today I think based on when I dropped it in the mail. I posted on facebook because I had really wanted to do something and struggled and then found "effulgent" in a dictionary after the Zoom call and was able to add it in. Felt like the thing that was needed.

I know it's very late in getting this out but I kept struggling with the right thing.

Laura, I'm sorry I can't imagine how hard this is.

Arthur!! YAY baby!


Amy - Aug 22, 2023 9:31:34 am PDT #24259 of 30000
Because books.

Excellent Tim news! Recuperating from surgery like that is no joke.

Chiming in with the others, Tom. I don't think our brains do a lot of subconscious gaslighting or minimizing, and I think substituting JZ (possibly! who really knows?) for something that gives you a beautiful voice in the world is fitting.

In other news, it took a year, but work finally made me cry. (Although it might have more to do with hateful sinuses and a wretched headache.)


Calli - Aug 22, 2023 9:44:04 am PDT #24260 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Welcome to the world, Arthur! (Sorry about the bits that are on fire, but we’re working on that.)


-t - Aug 22, 2023 10:00:15 am PDT #24261 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Welcome Arthur!

Sorry about the upsetting dream, Tom. Subconsciouses can be right bastards.


Laura - Aug 22, 2023 10:11:42 am PDT #24262 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

(Sorry about the bits that are on fire, but we’re working on that.)

Seriously, I hope some progress is made before he has to step up.


Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 22, 2023 10:12:55 am PDT #24263 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Welcome Arthur! And congratulations, Debet and family!


Atropa - Aug 22, 2023 10:37:14 am PDT #24264 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

New baby! Welcome to the world, Arthur!


Cashmere - Aug 22, 2023 10:44:56 am PDT #24265 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.

Welcome, Arthur! I love that new human smell.

Jacqueline is in her bed. On morphine. She is surrounded by a circle of her closest women friends and Matilda. And they are all talking and getting drunk.

I’m putting this down in my advance directive.


Anne W. - Aug 22, 2023 10:53:10 am PDT #24266 of 30000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

Welcome, Arthur!

I shall be having a glass of pomegranate punch in JZ’s honor tonight.


Steph L. - Aug 22, 2023 11:08:00 am PDT #24267 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Update on the OT: she was, in fact, very happy with Tim's progress in terms of his back. However, because she is awesome and wants to treat the whole patient, when Tim was describing problems he's been having with his rheumatoid arthritis pain since surgery (he can't take any anti-inflammatories for 6 months, because they inhibit bone growth, and bone growth is necessary for the spinal fusion to, well, fuse), she was like "I have solutions for your RA pain!" (Where "solutions" means some ergonomic changes, as well as some exercises he can do.) So she's going to come to the house once a week for a month.

It takes a goddamn village to get a Tim back on his feet.