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[ SECRET POST #2577 ]

⌈ Secret Post #2577 ⌋

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[Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald-Crane, from the soap opera Passions]

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[BBC Sherlock]

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[Nobunaga the Fool]

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[Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia from Star Wars]

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[The Quick and the Dead]

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[Nathan Fillion]

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[Warehouse 13]

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I don't care about either one of them.

Ridiculous. This movie is great.

She had a mental illness? :/ I didn't know

My direct ancestors (as in, great-great-great-grandparents, not distant cousins or anything like that) on my mother's side were a royal dynasty who were pretty powerful in the 13th-14th century.

That means they were cattle rustlers who were so full of themselves that they hired people to compose songs and poems and build sculptures to make sure no one forgot about just how dope their their mad cattle rustling skillz were.

Edited 2014-01-23 04:53 (UTC)

Tuxedo cats are cute, but there's something about all-black kitties--maybe it's just that they look like mini-panthers.

Yeah, you go and do that. Please be sure to come back and tell us which story it's in, maybe in tomorrow's General Comments.

P.S. Asking for a citation for a claim isn't idiotic, that's how reality works. People aren't obliged to believe everything you say, especially when it strikes them as less than credible. On the other hand, someone who makes rather outrageous claims and then throws a tantrum when people ask them for evidence is definitely "being an idiot on purpose".

Your vague distant connection to 90s rock is cooler than my vague distant connection to old-timey dissection. :D

Just have fun with it. The chances are good that every single other time you have sex after that is going to be better and more fun (because you'll start to learn what you like and don't like, what hurts and what feels incredible) so consider this a prototype, a draft, or an alpha test that you'll tinker with from now on until it turns into something really amazing.

For me I was raised ultraconservative complete with SEX OUTSIDE OF MARRIAGE WILL SEND YOU TO HELL, HEEEELLLLLLL!!!! morals, and a huge emphasis on the sanctity of sex, how it was "God's gift", how it was this indescribable moment of pure awe and it would change your life forever because "science" says your "attachment" hormones will make you fall in love (and other bullshit from your good ol' abstinence class) so sex had a lot of baggage for me, even though I'd long since abandoned those mores by the time I first got laid.

Then when I actually had it I spent the whole night afterwards laughing to myself - not that the dude wasn't decent in bed, but in the end it was just... a rote biological function. With the same kind of orgasm I'd given myself with my hands countless thousands of times before. It was fun, pleasurable, and I definitely wanted to do it again, but it was like eating an absolutely delicious meal or getting an amazing night's sleep: just something your body does. There's nothing mystical or transcendental about it all. I didn't feel any differently about my partner than when I started, either. It was like we went dancing or played a video game together, but with less trash talk and more mess.

Sex: it's good. And it'll be even better the next time.

I can't believe that's still fucking legal in the US.

In Canada it's illegal to fire someone over a pregnancy and she could have sued him for everything he was worth.

...Then again, we also have national maternity leave, so go figure.

She has bipolar disorder and a history of addiction.

OP, if it helps, I have pretty severe mental illness and I do still have some very happy moments. It is possible. I know it doesn't feel like it when you're struggling, but there are always bright points.

Irene Adler and Violet Hunter. :)

That's a really good point! I've heard some people suggest that maybe Holmes didn't realize that Watson would be so grief-stricken by his death, but that was never convincing to me. I don't think Holmes is that obtuse or that poor at judging people's characters, and I don't think he's that ignorant about people's feelings -- he just has a different perspective on how important they are in the big picture *thinks of The Dying Detective*

And even if he was that ignorant before The Final Problem (which I really don't think he was), he would have to be either an idiot or deliberately disrespectful to not realize how strongly Watson felt for him and how devastated Watson would be if Holmes died after Watson followed him halfway across Europe to protect him while refusing to turn back no matter how much Holmes asked him to go home to safety.

So I thought Holmes knowingly being so cruel, rather than unthinkingly being cruel, was always the lesser of two evils, but the idea that he was also consciously hoping Mary would be there for Watson softens it even more.

AYRT

It's just ridiculous. "Hey fatso! God you're fat!" I NEVER KNEW. I THOUGHT I HAD TO WEAR PLUS-SIZE CLOTHES BECAUSE OF LABEL ERRORS.

Most writing advice that says you should avoid doing xyz basically means if you can't do it well. Having dual protagonists is a challenge. Readers are mostly used to having only one protagonist and one main plot to care about, it might be tough dividing your energies to balance two plots that intertwine, etc. etc.

But the rule is that good writing trumps all. If you can pull it off, you should do it. And you won't know whether or not you can until you try. Just write, OP. You can take advice like that into consideration, but nothing is as important as writing what you want and finishing what you write.

Men do not have emotions. We shamble numbly through life, our stoic exteriors a perfect reflection of the emptiness inside.

Livestream with some good friends who are, unfortunately, scattered to the four winds. We got to chat for a couple hours and it was lovely. :)

Nice! :D Internet shrinkage happening again.

Shitty writers giving shitty writing advice because they themselves struggle with something (or personally don't like it) yet you can find almost infinite examples of people doing the opposite and doing it well.

There was a "published" author on my LJ feed (indie erotica vanity press published, I mean) giving all kinds of "never do this" and "always do this" advice, and I got so sick of it I started to respond "well, actually, X author did that thing you said to never do and it was great, and X, Y, Z all didn't do that thing you said to always do and it was great" to which she responded "yes but you aren't as good as they are - I struggle with those myself".

...She's never read any of my writing. She just assumes everyone reading her "advice" is a worse writer than she is, and needs patronizing to-do lists. This guy is probably the same. There are metric shittons of books with dual or multiple protagonists that have sold more than this guy ever will.

My father was a child molester and fuck you if you think I'm going to follow in his footsteps.

AYRT - oh, in that case it sounds like you've got everything in hand. Go for it!

My great-aunt on my mum's side (by marriage) was some sort of journalist or academic or something in her state in India, and my great-grandfather was a famous doctor who contributed a fair bit to a certain very specific area of research.

More than that I can't say, since we haven't done the tracing-ancestry thing.

Martin Luther. Not King Jr.- the 95 Thesis guy

Someone who tried to assassinate Hitler with a suitcase bomb

that's about it

She's already said that she's looking forward to parading pictures around her various social media sites like it's her new child, so keep an eye out!

Nobody famous that I know of, but most of my relatives died during WWII except the one branch that immigrated to Canada before the war started because shit was getting real.

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