Mother and Daddy. Which sounds weird, but AFAIK isn't that uncommon in the South.
Not uncommon at all. I call my parents Mom and Daddy. But, they both called their mothers, Mother.
Tara: 'Your One-Stop Spot to Shop for Lots of New-Age and Occult Items.' Catchy. Giles: Think so? Tara: Uh huh. In a... hard to say sorta way.
'Sleeper'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
ChiKat - May 19, 2005 11:36:29 am PDT #7711 of 10002
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Betsy HP - May 19, 2005 11:37:12 am PDT #7712 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
I call my parents Mama and Daddy, and they're in their 70s.
sumi - May 19, 2005 12:11:24 pm PDT #7713 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
But -- a mother name -- not a family nickname, right?
§ ita § - May 19, 2005 12:18:10 pm PDT #7714 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
a mother name -- not a family nickname, right?
Depends. My paternal grandfather was called "Bapa" by everyone, and I think it's a father name.
Also, my Aunt Faye is Aunt Faye to just about everyone in her family (her daughter calls her Ma Faye, and I've heard people not her children do that too). And her first name isn't even Faye.
sumi - May 19, 2005 12:19:08 pm PDT #7715 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Was he called Bapa as a young man before he was married?
§ ita § - May 19, 2005 12:23:31 pm PDT #7716 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Nope. A father name as in he was called that as a father. Wouldn't that count as a family nick, or have I missed something crucial?
Oh! Her childhood. I thought the passage meant they'd called her that in their childhood.
Never mind.
Susan W. - May 19, 2005 4:03:46 pm PDT #7717 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
One of the interlibrary loan holds I picked up from the library today came from Yorkshire. Cool, eh? I didn't even know ILL was international.
Jesse - May 19, 2005 4:04:50 pm PDT #7718 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Never mind.
I think this may be an occasion to make note of.
P.M. Marc - May 19, 2005 4:50:22 pm PDT #7719 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Susan W. - May 19, 2005 5:32:40 pm PDT #7720 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Very very funny.
You must always discover your sexuality for the first time under the hero's manly control.
One of my critique partners wants me to cut out what I think is a perfectly tasteful and discreet masturbation scene for this very reason. I nodded, smiled, and left it in. I am following the cliche of having a widow from a bad marriage who never had good sex with her husband, so I thought it was more believable for her to fall into bed with the hero quickly if she wasn't completely sexually unawakened--especially since, if anything, she's the aggressor.