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[jinian]

Wow. Um, I've never spent a good chunk of an evening writing erotica before. It's not good, but I wrote it. And it might become good with some more work. Wow, I'm kind of impressed with myself.
If it ever does become good, I will post a link to it.

In other news, my hands and arms are really getting tan already. My fingers are noticeably darker than Wim's. I think he attributed it to my being a "bad-ass bike bunny". Please to correct me if I have misremembered the phrase.

I keep being unsure about the ethics of calling down blessings upon people. I don't have any problem sending them to the Cats Available for Adoption, but it seems like I should get consent from people for anything that feels more organized than general good wishes. Maybe I can just try to draw some of the fire away from them instead. And perhaps I can see a mundane way to help. If I had called my dad instead of being pervert girl tonight I might have gotten farther with that. :)

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[rosefox]

I keep being unsure about the ethics of calling down blessings upon people. I don't have any problem sending them to the Cats Available for Adoption, but it seems like I should get consent from people for anything that feels more organized than general good wishes.

I tend to send "GoodThoughts" and add "Prayers if you'd like them", if someone's told me about a distressing situation. Then I wrap the prayers up in a little thing that says "Do not open if [whomever] doesn't want me praying for hir" and send them up that way.

I have, however, taken to blessing anyone who blesses me when I sneeze (I figure anyone who doesn't want blessings probably isn't going to go around giving them out, and will stick to the religion-neutral "Gezundheit" or "Sante" or "Would you like a tissue?").

*achoo*
"Bless you."
"Thank you! And you too."

You get the most interesting reactions. If someone else sneezes, I'll say "Blessings", not because I think sie's sneezed hir soul out of hir body (which is such an amusing notion, and makes me think of Ian Watson) or is deathly ill, but because I don't--to my mind--bless the people I care about often enough, and so I take it as a reminder to do so. It's shorthand for "I care about you and want you to be well, and want whatever deities keep an eye on you to be smiling on you, so I invoke their blessings and my own". Approximately, anyway.

Pardon my ramblage, I'm up very late. *)

Don't throw me in that briar patch

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Those are several good ideas, thank you.

I don't know Ian Watson, but I'll see if Google is illuminating on the matter.

Oh. No. Please save me from the blathering of Rose, two of whose posts I have marked unread in alt.poly right now just so I can read them repeatedly. This is simply dreadful. Do stop.

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[rosefox]

Ian Watson wrote a short story entitled "My Soul Swims In A Goldfish Bowl", about a man with a bad chest cold who coughs up his soul. I believe it's in the collection called The Very Slow Time Machine. Most recently, he's helped to adapt AI for the screen. His writing is weird, but not quite as weird as Tom Disch or Philip K. Dick, which means I can actually read it every once in a while.

Which two posts? I am mightily flattered, and want to know what I'm being flattered for so that I can try to do it again. *grin*

Re: Don't throw me in that briar patch

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Ooh, more authors to try.

<1eu9p0x.61749mqkymbkN%rwp@i.am> and <1eui63d.f7hl6n1lxprz2N%rwp@i.am> are the posts in question (which I will try to summarize if you can't search by message-ID). I could characterize my reactions to them as "*purrrrrrr*" and "I think I love you" respectively. You already do it again all the time, though. I don't think you need to try any harder.

Re: Don't throw me in that briar patch

[rosefox]

Those are two I'm very pleased with anyway, so I'd be trying to write like that no matter what anyone else thought. It's nice to know that they're reaching people, though.

I definitely recommend Watson's short stories over his novels, though The Martian Inca was interesting. And now it occurs to me that Harry would probably like it. Once my books get here I shall have to lend it to him.

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[baratron.livejournal.com]

I'm so amused, because having spent a reasonable amount of time around you both I can hear your voices in my mind saying what you've written here out loud. Especially when Kylee starts Talking In Capital Letters with irony :)