Joss Post at Whedonesque
POSTED BY: FireflyPassenger
UPDATED: Monday, June 11, 2007 08:49
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Mmmm-ahhh!-lishus replied, in particular:
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...I am doing very well! I just finished school (at MY age, that's an accomplishment!) and I will receive my certificate in inferior design in August. Yay me!!
Nick and I are back together, sans the booze. Yay Nick! We are not yet re-married, I want to give the sobriety a full year before discussing it. But the prognosis is on the positive end of the scale (Fingers are crossed. Other limbs......not so much! )...
'Yay!' for both you and Nick, indeed. I truly hope the second go around is better for both of you. We can learn from our mistakes, as long as we realize we made mistakes, instead of finding someone/thing else to blame for our failures. I'd only caution not to expect blissful perfection. Improvement, yes; fairy tale ending, no.
God, this news has made my day. You have no idea how much empathetic pain I've experienced worrying over your situation, young lady! It's a great relief to me, to know that things are flowing your way. I don't mind losing track of friends on a positive note; but, it bothers me no end to lose track on a negative swing...
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...I avoid mirrors these days. I am no longer reflected in them. Some over-weight old lady is in there! Spooky...
My dad and grandad are in mine. Which is, oddly, a comfort. It's nice to know us Neanderthals are secretly still going strong, in the shadows of willowy, aggressive CMs. It may be an evolutionary cul-de-sac (explains a portion of my thinking, yeah?), but at least 'modern people' can't come hurtling down the street at full speed, threatening the play of children...
Happily,
zoid
P.S.
So... Did I guess correctly on the approximate shading of the dye job (ouch!)? You know I won't drop the subject; I'm a fool for women's hair... Errr, by which I of course mean your hair, my Benevolent If (Totally Justifiably) Fickle Goddess Of The Fates Of Mortal Men.
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"I aim to misbehave." -Capt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity, a.k.a. 'the BDBOF'
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My hair color, as you know quite well by now, is itself ever evolving. The genesis was a box of #63 Feria. The result is a tapestry of lights and darks, some curl and some wispy bang, with speckled shadows and streaks of brilliance from a far away forrest on a sunny day thrown in for good measure, making it a mixture of colors totally my own.
Translation: It's brown with blonde highlights.
Do we know how many hi-jacked threads this makes for me? It could very well be my 100th; and, if so, I deserve a parade with confetti and horses, do I not?
Mal-licious
I'm going to add cursing and the hurling about of things to my repertoire.
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Well i have to pay credit where it's due Whedon you have nailed it, you've absolutely pile driven that nail on the head.
This is the view i see around among my mates in Australia. Now I wont say all my mates but a couple of them. Women are perhaps the most remarkable, strong and toughest things on this planet (Diamonds just have better Press services).
One comment i will make to the person who stated that Islam has the women hating thing going. For starters it's not in their bible at all. Which i will point out is a claim that the Clean cut Christian fuzzy book can't claim, just check out who they authors blamed for original sin. Also take a gander at the Querelle Des Femmes (damn it i hated that Shakespeare course but i'm getting side tracked). It's probably important to point out that i consider myself at best Agnostic and at worst Atheist.
I have broken both my legs, my wrist in three places and dislocated it at the same time. Had three split chins, cut my forehead and had three stitches in my knee. (yeah i'm somewhat clumsy) However i would sooner go through all that a hundred times over then even attempt to live through the things a woman has to endure.
I was always raised to respect women i remember reading this story in the paper and i still get a little tight in the throat when i remember she was only 17. Killed because she loved someone of another faith.
Again Whedon you nailed it.
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Let's Watch A Girl Get Beaten To Death
And some folks still don't understand what Christopher Hitchens is talking about ?
People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy. - Joss
" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "
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I agree with Whedon that women are undervalued around the world; but I want to bring up one point about the violence he discussed and a word which was used consistently in his post and in others here - EVOLVED.
If we can never get past this belief in many circles that man "evolved" from first nothing, then gases, then amoebas, then slime, then tadpoles, and on up the illogical scale... than what do you expect to happen? If humans are nothing more than animals, than why not expect the killing of their own children, brothers, sisters, neighbors on the Serengheti Plains - for a small reason, or no reason at all?
Why not expect the torturing of innocents, or having teens going to movie theatres in droves to see people incessantly dismembered, maimed, shredded, etc. and think it is funny? Why not expect babies killed up to the point of birth, and some right afterwards thrown into trash barrels? Why not expect those in Africa with absolute power to rape, cut up, and kill children without conscience???
Until people realize there is pure evil in the world, that we are NOT descended from apes, and that a human life matters in all its forms, it will only be more of the same!
And one off-point note about the honor killings... Radical Islam is pure evil, and the sooner people around the world realize that evil will not be appeased by making nice with the likes of Bin Laden, Zarqawi, Ahmadenijad, etc, women/girls in these countries will continue to be killed by their own sick family members because of the smallest indiscretion - as recognized by the "righteous" men who perpetrate a greater evil on others than the evil which was supposedly committed.
"And I believe there's a power greater than men. A power that heals."
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