Awesome! :)

I have never stared down a roach. Squished, shuddered, chased, poisoned, flushed, and trapped, but never stared.

But it's not good *storytelling*. Unless the dangling plot participles are there for a reason, it's bad for the audience.

I really, REALLY hope they live up to what they're doing here. There are so many plot threads and so much story being brought to life.... I desperately hope none of it gets dropped.

*shudder*

That dog after the Punky Brewster show. You know. "Sit Ubu, sit. Good dog." But the dog never moved... it just stood there with a frisbee in it's mouth, like a taxidermy dog. Like time was frozen, like it was a dead dog's photo.

I love that today's io9 is sponsored by this movie. Love love love.

I still say modern medical care is the same thing as the sci-fi trope of the magic pill that makes you live longer, only it tastes like earwax-flavored jelly beans in the real world.

Neeaaaahhhh, she telegraphed that punch from the US to England! But ooooh for John Simm. :)

Intent rarely makes a difference to how things are taken, true enough. Which is why clarity in writing is key and my replies tried to explicate my intent - possibly without success, because I was a bit peeved at being assumed to be a heartless pig and writing when you're peeved is rarely helpful.

I'm constantly being told how lucky I am these days. Ten years ago, folks backed away from me or fled the room when I cheerfully tried to tell them about my childhood. It's frustrating to be constantly told that ten years of constant effort are luck, or genetics, or any number of other things.

Oh; I was thinking of the book.

I've read some lovely blogs by f to m swappers. If you're one, then congratulations on your change, and I hope the world is much nicer about this sort of thing someday.

I didn't think Stardust was supposed to be funny?

My most common mistake: writing stuff without completely explaining the thought process behind it. Also, a complete failure of predictive emotional empathy, leading to things that sound insensitive. Should have unpacked the idea a bit more - people can't read my mind.

Yeah, I didn't specify how *much* work or how long it would take. Given the sensitivity of the topic, that was probably a mistake. But- as I replied to someone else - if you do no work whatsoever, you will go nowhere and have no chance at all. Slim chances and hard work and struggle are better than no chances every…

Hey Little D, I replied to someone else on this. Possible I didn't say what I meant clearly.

Ya'll seem to have taken what I said completely out of context and made some assumptions. The "getting over it" isn't easy. It's not immediate, and it's not just an attitude change - although it starts there. It could easily involve getting therapy, meds, meditation, etc - it's just a matter of deciding to work on…