What you desire, respire, explain and TBD

[sovay]

Because time has gone so weird that I have not acclimated to the month yet, I opened the package that arrived this afternoon from yhlee and it was a birthday gift of shells: heart cockle and abalone, sundial and spindle shells, scallop, limpet, cat's eye, silver conch, lynx and money and purple-top cowries and more. He said he would have sent me the sea if he could, but he thought it might be hard to fit into our apartment. It's almost certainly true. We don't even have room for all our books.

In response to my prompt in the Comfort Fest, sholio wrote me a beautiful coda for a scene in the fourth season of Turn: Washington's Spies (2014–17), between the characters of Abigail and Edmund Hewlett: "Acts of Kindness." I basically consider it canonical. I need to figure out how to write about TV shows without generating monographs.

spatch is calling this my New York Dolls phase.

Comments

[cmcmck]

Lovely pic! :o)

[sovay]

Lovely pic!

Thank you!

[thisbluespirit]

it was a birthday gift of shells:

Aw, how lovely! And it's a good pic.

[sovay]

Aw, how lovely! And it's a good pic.

Thank you! (And thank you.) I feel very fortunate in my friends.

[asakiyume]

What a gorgeous-sounding collection of shells! Each one telling a slightly different tale of the sea, Rashomon-style.

You look beautiful, though my cultural ignorance means I don't know the significance of New York dolls (but that's what Google is for, never fear!)

[cmcmck]

Check on 'Jayne County'!

[sovay]

What a gorgeous-sounding collection of shells! Each one telling a slightly different tale of the sea, Rashomon-style.

And from all different kinds of seas. I have seen some of these shells on beaches all my life. Others are from oceans I've only seen pictures of.

You look beautiful, though my cultural ignorance means I don't know the significance of New York dolls (but that's what Google is for, never fear!)

Thank you! (Seminal punk music of the 1970's.)

[gwynnega]

Great photo! Now I want to hear you sing the New York Dolls' "Frankenstein."

[sovay]

Great photo! Now I want to hear you sing the New York Dolls' "Frankenstein."

Hee! Thank you. It would be seasonal . . .

[selkie]

Child just worried you were going out. "You know, OUT?!!" I assured them you would not, per se, go on a coffee date during a flaming pandemic.

[sovay]

Child just worried you were going out. "You know, OUT?!!" I assured them you would not, per se, go on a coffee date during a flaming pandemic.

Hell, no! I have self-preservation, a compromised immune system, and even in pre-plague times club music hurt my ears.

(I appreciate their concern.)

[selkie]

I’m just not used to having a child who, via Netflix’s The Baby-Sitters’ Club, groks adults going out. I don’t think their parents have been to a club racier or thumpier than the Birchmere (where one partakes of folk music and cider and gets fleeced on parking) since they were ~four.
Tangentially, they mostly like people who identify as girls but anything besides watching Disney+ or MAYBE like making cookies or smoothies = a dumb waste of time. Thank God.

[sovay]

I’m just not used to having a child who, via Netflix’s The Baby-Sitters’ Club, groks adults going out. I don’t think their parents have been to a club racier or thumpier than the Birchmere (where one partakes of folk music and cider and gets fleeced on parking) since they were ~four.

Pop culture is an amazing vector of knowledge. One I mostly bypassed, personally, but I respect the line of transmission.

Tangentially, they mostly like people who identify as girls but anything besides watching Disney+ or MAYBE like making cookies or smoothies = a dumb waste of time. Thank God.

That is nice to know and I am so glad your ten-year-old is not trying to date during a pandemic.

[selkie]

A) They are in scary reach of 11 WTAF
B) BUT THEY KNOW ABOUT IT THAT IS TERRIBLE

[sholio]

I loved the story that you wrote for me, and I would be thrilled to read more like it. ♥

That's a lovely picture!

[sovay]

I loved the story that you wrote for me, and I would be thrilled to read more like it.

This still makes me so happy. I hedge all of my fic-writing around with apotropaic warnings because it is so rare, but if anything changes on the Torchwood front, you will be the first to know.

That's a lovely picture!

Thank you!

Seemed like it might be relevant to your interests

[kathmandu]

I don't know if you've seen this? It is an attempt at Beowulf translated into Yiddish-inflected English.

Re: Seemed like it might be relevant to your interests

[sovay]

I don't know if you've seen this? It is an attempt at Beowulf translated into Yiddish-inflected English.

I had not seen that! Thank you.

"And did they have tzuris?
Oy, like a bad machatunim,
You shouldn't know from it."

[sorcyress]

...this is the picture that makes me suddenly and sharply realize that when I picture October Daye (from the Seanan McGuire books) I am picturing you as her. Physically, not personality-wise, but still a weird realization.

[sovay]

...this is the picture that makes me suddenly and sharply realize that when I picture October Daye (from the Seanan McGuire books) I am picturing you as her. Physically, not personality-wise, but still a weird realization.

I have not read the series, but I can see that sort of thing being weird, especially if your brain didn't notify you about the fancasting in advance. Thank you for letting me know!