psst: tell us in whitefont
Giles: Stop that, you two. Riley: He started it... Xander: He called me a bad name! I think
it was bad; it might have been Latin.
'Selfless'
Spike's Bitches 40: Buckle Up, Kids! Daddy's Puttin' the Hammer Down.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Laga - Apr 09, 2008 10:56:54 am PDT #3831 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
brenda m - Apr 09, 2008 10:58:04 am PDT #3832 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
C'mon, you know you want to. I hardly think we count as "anyone".
Stephanie - Apr 09, 2008 10:59:20 am PDT #3833 of 10001
Trust my rage
plus, you would be typing not telling.
brenda m - Apr 09, 2008 11:04:07 am PDT #3834 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Ooh! Spoilers Thread!
Pix - Apr 09, 2008 11:11:20 am PDT #3835 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
Tell us in code!
Laga - Apr 09, 2008 11:13:32 am PDT #3836 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
ooay eahyay, atwhay Istenkray aidsay!
JZ - Apr 09, 2008 11:21:56 am PDT #3837 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Go code! Choose code!
Vibing back~ma to Sean and quick-recovery-and-home-soon~ma to S. And if the universe would try to play nice with them for a bit after this, we'd all be very grateful.
ION, gah. I just frivoled away an hour watching a rerun of What Not To Wear, and it was really kind of heartbreaking. The latest in a series of drop-dead gorgeous stone foxes in their twenties who dress like crap and can't bear to look in a mirror. Proof, I suppose, that no woman in this culture is ever allowed a free pass from the Body Image Demons: I just had a completely wrecked and woeful mom-reaction to this beautiful young woman--big dark eyes, cheekbones for miles, curvealicious, shrift-worthy thick shiny hair--cringe away from her own reflection, rate herself at a 4 out of 10, and say on camera that, given the chance to change something about herself, she'd choose "Everything."
I just want to lock up all these girls, young and strong and lovely and utterly, sincerely despising everything about themselves, in a tiny room with a DVD player and the My So-Called Life episode "The Zit" and make them watch it until they crack.
lisah - Apr 09, 2008 11:27:10 am PDT #3838 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
I just frivoled away an hour watching a rerun of What Not To Wear, and it was really kind of heartbreaking.
But did she like herself in the mirror at the end???
Laga - Apr 09, 2008 11:33:30 am PDT #3839 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Oh I just do not want to call people about their job applications today
JZ - Apr 09, 2008 11:39:42 am PDT #3840 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
In the end, yes. But it took a lot of work; she was just so utterly convinced of her own awfulness. And all her friends and family were saying they'd been telling her for years how beautiful she was, and every time one of them said that within earshot of her, she got this cringey "Please don't make me listen to the terrible words" look on her face.
In the end, though, yes, she loved herself. Ugly knees, weird arms, twenty post-marriage extra pounds and all. And it was totally fabulous to see her being so happy in her own skin; it's just depressing to think that practically every single woman under thirty they've had on the show has started out reciting exactly the same litany of BID self-loathing, and to think how many millions of under-thirty women there are reciting the same litany who'll never get the BID exorcism.