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jmtorres ([personal profile] jmtorres) wrote2011-03-17 01:04 am

Party Poison

Kid, shut up. I'm not writing you.

(What is it with the redheads tonight?)
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Re: And what do I see today on /network?

[personal profile] jackandahat 2011-03-18 08:23 am (UTC)(link)
Ha! I think there are several people on my flist who do... but I'm going to blame you personally. Or the tiny redhead in your brain. ;)
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Re: And what do I see today on /network?

[personal profile] jackandahat 2011-03-18 08:26 am (UTC)(link)
You just mentioned surgery - which is why I copied that here - but not what particular type.

(I'm so glad I only have Show Pony in my head. He doesn't strike me as the type. *eyes him* I hope.)
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Re: And what do I see today on /network?

[personal profile] jackandahat 2011-03-18 08:30 am (UTC)(link)
Oh! I totally missed that part of that sentence.

Um.

On the one hand... I can't blame him. On the other hand... WTF MAN ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR TINY SHINY??? At least get someone else to do it for you! Ye gods and tiny teapots.
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Re: And what do I see today on /network?

[personal profile] jackandahat 2011-03-18 08:44 am (UTC)(link)
Clearly! I mean.. no, that's exactly what I mean - clearly he is!

And I thought my muses were bad. I think I owe them an apology. (I'm not sure I'll give it to them, give them an inch and they want a novel, but I probably owe them one...)
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Re: out of his tiny shiny

[personal profile] jackandahat 2011-03-18 08:56 am (UTC)(link)
"Have a go at"? - what do you mean? (I know what I think it means, but hello idiolects and such.)

It's funny who is and isn't comfortable in your skin. I have several characters who are weirded out by the whole disabled thing, there's an "Excuse me, why does your body not do what it's told?", because that's outside their realm of experience, but the weirdest one was writing a short 13 year old girl. I've never been "small" in that sense. Up until 15 I was tall for my age (then I quit growing and everyone caught up). At her age I was taller than some of my teachers. So it was very strange to get into the mindset of someone who saw herself as being small, and navigated the world that way. There was a lot of "Why don't you just... ah. Wait. Can't. Fair enough!"
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Re: out of his tiny shiny

[personal profile] jackandahat 2011-03-18 09:07 am (UTC)(link)
Ohhhh. I wondered - and this is one of the things I love/find amusing/occasionally throw shoes at on the net, we all have different linguistic backgrounds. I'm Anglo-Irish - Cork and Yorkshire. And to "have a go at" someone (or something) means to yell at/tell them off. So while I knew you probably meant something else, I had this mental image of Party Poison crouching down to eye-level with someone's breasts and shouting at them. (*facepalm* Yeah, this is why my brain isn't allowed out on his own.)

Ahhh, yeah - it's weird as hell the first time it happens. They don't give you a manual on this, and they sure as hell don't warn you! My muses are mostly the shoulder-surfer type, they "sit" just behind my shoulder on the deaf side and chatter away. (I have been told "Well, it's not like you're using that ear anyway".) But there is very much a sense of them physically too.

...god, we really need more vocab for this. *throws up hands* I know what I mean, just not how to communicate it.