Let him do his thing, and then you get him out. No messing with him for laughs.

Mal ,'Ariel'


Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Steph L. - Feb 23, 2010 5:56:35 am PST #10039 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Wait a minute, that's no moon!

That's excellent.


Amy - Feb 23, 2010 5:56:53 am PST #10040 of 30001
Because books.

This is something that I think about a lot, for obvious reasons. And my conclusion is, I have NO idea what being female "feels like."

It's so interesting, because I'm trying to think why I feel that way, and I'm not coming up with anything that explains it. And there are certainly times when I feel more masculine, although I hesitate to call it "tomboyish" because I associate that with climbing trees and playing kickball and skipping rocks or something, which isn't me.

I'm not sure I have enough caffeine for this yet, though.


Jesse - Feb 23, 2010 5:58:15 am PST #10041 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Please let me be this awesome when I'm Old As Fuck: [link]

That is fantastic! Good job by the bikers as well.


Jesse - Feb 23, 2010 5:59:23 am PST #10042 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Can I still get riding-ish boots, or will they be out by next year?


Steph L. - Feb 23, 2010 6:01:35 am PST #10043 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

This is something that I think about a lot, for obvious reasons. And my conclusion is, I have NO idea what being female "feels like."

It's so interesting, because I'm trying to think why I feel that way, and I'm not coming up with anything that explains it.

Heh. That's me. Once I tried to think about what female "feels like," I came up with....nothing. "Feminine," yes.

Fooking bizarre.


Amy - Feb 23, 2010 6:03:37 am PST #10044 of 30001
Because books.

I think riding boots are sort of classic, Jesse, aren't they?


Daisy Jane - Feb 23, 2010 6:04:19 am PST #10045 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

You want to know what's pretty funny on a Tuesday morning? A bunch of Texans/Louisianian gathered around weather.com trying to figure out what those new colors on the radar map mean. Green, dark green, yellow even-we got. Blue and pink? No clue. Is the front expecting?


Vortex - Feb 23, 2010 6:18:33 am PST #10046 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

There seems to have been a furry convention in Addison this weekend

Interestingly, we just had a conversation about furries last night. With a friend's co-worker who had just moved from Texas. He was very confused. Then, somehow, we moved on to BDSM because BFF's neighbor has a BDSM flag. Quote of the night came from BFF's DH regarding said flag "I don't care if you're into BDSM or whatever, I care about bad graphic design!" (for reference, the flaq in question [link]

Cool house though, but the owner is surely making a fortune from dock fees. I think I would have a big privacy issue. Still looking.

This could be a temporary issue. You're only required to honor the contracts until their expiration, so you would probably only deal with it for a year at most. You should ask the owner about it. You could even keep the dock fees, but add restrictions on access.


brenda m - Feb 23, 2010 6:19:25 am PST #10047 of 30001
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

That's a good distinction to make, I think. I do feel very female when I'm dressed as I usually am (jeans, sweaters, boots) but there is a difference in how feminine I feel when I've got on nail polish or I'm wearing a dress.

I see the distinction but it doesn't quite work for me. I think because when I think "feminine" I go to a frills and ruffles and Laura Ashley patterns (which is my own cultural baggage showing through).


§ ita § - Feb 23, 2010 6:24:28 am PST #10048 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

That's why I was trying to draw the distinction between being and performing.

But to me, then, performing female includes things like doing krav and driving NASCAR and lactating. And so is pretty useless. Feminine is much easier to both use as a signal and to emulate.

I don't know what feeling female feels like, but that's because gender dysmorphia totally boggles me. I cannot imagine how it would feel wrong to be my gender. I'm that solidly, entitledly, cis. I just know that everything I do is female, no matter how few other women may do it. Because I am female, and that's all that matters.

I got my first outfit reaction. A lady with whom I have coffee-room acquaintance had a squee explosion over my dress. "It's a Lucy dress! I love Lucy dresses! And it has petticoats! Let me see the sleeves! Oh, I love it! I didn't know anyone but me loved these dresses! Oh!" She was hard core.