Tara: What's so bad about them coming here? Aren't they good guys? I mean, Watchers, that's just like whole other Gileses, right? Buffy: Yes! They're scary and horrible!

'Potential'


Natter 69: Practically names itself.  

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


§ ita § - Jan 12, 2012 10:58:43 am PST #15894 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

He was saying that pregnancies shouldn't be outsourced to external wombs. He starts off by saying that pregnancy is natural and pregnant women are beautiful and the experience is wonderful.

I said that evaluation was best left to the people who actually get pregnant, and he said he's been through it twice before, because he's a dad.

My takeaway from that and discussion is that pregnancy is just beautiful enough for him, and I haven't been a father, so I couldn't understand, and I can't raise any points of unpleasant pregnancies for some women. If we're going to rate people's visceral involvement in pregnancy and childbirth, you pretty much put the pregnant woman at the top, and everyone can scrabble about it as circumstance dictates.

Good, god, my doctor is letting me run out of methadone again. I really have no idea what their process is for drugs like this. So far I've had a pissy doctor turn in the script, and then I've had a less pissy admin take it to the pharmacy for me. This is absolutely not the sensible way to do it (good for me, because I'm lazy), but it's dumb.


Amy - Jan 12, 2012 11:12:24 am PST #15895 of 30001
Because books.

Not looking at additional holes of any kind.

I don't think my water ever broke on its own. But I don't remember them breaking it with Sara, either. I guess it went somewhere at some point.

I think S. can say more about Jake's birth than most dads, since he saw it and I didn't. The anesthesiologist knocked me out accidentally, so he saw the whole C-section and held Jake and all that while I was unconscious. The pregnancy was all mine, though, for sure.


Fred Pete - Jan 12, 2012 11:18:33 am PST #15896 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.

The phrase "we're pregnant" make me think of the '70s. It refers to an expectant father who'd attend childbirth classes, be in the delivery room, and do other things that were enlightened then and unremarkable now.

If a man is going to be more than a sperm donor, fatherhood is going to change his life completely. English needs some way of acknowledging that reality. Beyond that, I got nothing.


Burrell - Jan 12, 2012 11:27:25 am PST #15897 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

He was saying that pregnancies shouldn't be outsourced to external wombs.

Oh you were being nice to him, ita. I can't even follow his logic.


§ ita § - Jan 12, 2012 11:42:34 am PST #15898 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

If a man is going to be more than a sperm donor, fatherhood is going to change his life completely. English needs some way of acknowledging that reality.

Becoming a parent doesn't work for you?


Consuela - Jan 12, 2012 11:55:34 am PST #15899 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

That Io9 list doesn't mention Farscape. I'm not sure if I'm pleased or annoyed at being ignored. ::shrugs::

I am going to ignore all the talk about extra holes and pregnancies, and note that I splurged on Popeye's for lunch, and got a salted caramel cupcake at a food truck for later. Of course, as I stood in line at Popeye's, my boss walked past and snarked at me.


Ginger - Jan 12, 2012 12:05:15 pm PST #15900 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I want a caramel cupcake. We have no cupcake trucks.

The news is having all kinds of fun with the fact that the boat show had a flood after a 200,000-gallon wave pool collapsed. "It's high tide at the boat show." "It's a good day for a boat." "Rising tide did not lift Atlanta boat show."

It was probably not amusing to the people who had to clean up.


sumi - Jan 12, 2012 12:21:55 pm PST #15901 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!

We have no cupcake trucks here either.

How are we supposed to survive a blizzard w/o a caramel cupcake???

I have secured a ride home.

It's still snowing. Do you suppose it wants to make up for all the unseasonable weather we've enjoyed for the past two or three weeks?


Sophia Brooks - Jan 12, 2012 12:26:40 pm PST #15902 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Shoot. It will probably be here tommorrow and I left my boots and one pair of socks at workz. This will be fun.


msbelle - Jan 12, 2012 12:27:56 pm PST #15903 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

another interview with a staffing agency next Tuesday. All well and good, but I want actual interview with companies.

Showered and got dressed in real clothes, productivity is already increased on the freelance work. Silly me with procrastinating.