Girls

[littera_abactor]

The recent spate of genderfuck stories triggered something of an epiphany for me.

I'm no good at being a girl.

I'm happy to be female, yes, and I can't even imagine wanting to be male, but the distance between "female" and "girl" is huge.

Actually, the difference between "female" and "girl" is me.

I can't dress myself. I finally learned what a

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[sienamystic]

I have some rudimentary knowledge about girl things, but generally can't be bothered. For example, I technically own a slip, but I haven't worn it in about ten years, and actually don't think I own anything that requires one, because I avoid those. And I own makeup, but wear it about once every two months or so, and generally end up having one of my friends actually apply it (they got girl lessons somehow - I know how one of them managed, but I have no idea how the other one learned all this stuff late in life. Maybe I should pump her for information.)

And, judging by peeks through other apartment's porch doors, it seems that people somehow manage to decorate their homes in some sort of coordinated manner. I think some of these people even have real cloth napkins. I don't understand this, because my decor consists of lots of bookshelves (for me), random pieces of musical and recording equipment (for the husband), and a fourth-hand sofa that has been extensively clawed by the cats. Oh, and my collection of Green Men and masks, hung on the walls in no comprehensible fashion.

[thefourthvine]

OK, first: which fandom has sweaty cage sex? The only one I can think of is XMM. So is that it, or is there some, say, sweaty LotR cage sex I should know about?

Maybe I should pump her for information.

Yes! Specifically, the time and location of her remedial girl classes. We'll get to the bottom of this yet. And then we will share with the world, by gum.

I don't understand this, because my decor consists of lots of bookshelves (for me), random pieces of musical and recording equipment (for the husband), and a fourth-hand sofa that has been extensively clawed by the cats.

Books are decorative. Everyone knows this.

Right?

At any rate, while we were house shopping (and therefore saw every house in this area OMG, and don't let anyone tell you house-shopping isn't fun and informative; it's not like trying to buy dresses), I came to the conclusion that they were. The people we bought our house from didn't have any, and she was a teacher. Even their small children didn't have any.

Therefore, books are clearly an optional decoration type thing, and I am a sleek interior decorator for having so many. (Plus, good excuse for having no pictures up: "We're saving that wall. It's the only place left for more bookcases.")

And when you consider that my natural instinct, at any rate, is just to cover the available floorspace with huge teetery towers of them, really, I think we both deserve points.

Plus, music-recording stuff. That's decorative! And pretty! And really costly, which is a good explanation for why you don't have, like, vases or whatever.

[sienamystic]

OK, first: which fandom has sweaty cage sex?

Mwahahah. *Guides you over to cupiscent's site and mumbles something about pimping a tiny fandom* It's Constantine (movieverse) and the main character, well...his bed is inside a cage. To keep things out. But the possibilities of keeping things in were noted very quickly.

Specifically, the time and location of her remedial girl classes. We'll get to the bottom of this yet.

Seriously, she went from a high school look that involved no makeup and clothing that even I, the fashion victim could see wasn't quite right, to being the most polished, perfectly-made-up person I know. And she didn't tell me *how she did it*. So very unfair.

And when you consider that my natural instinct, at any rate, is just to cover the available floorspace with huge teetery towers of them, really, I think we both deserve points.

I agree! By god, I never knew I was at the forefront of home decoration before. My eyes have been opened!

Plus, music-recording stuff. That's decorative! And pretty! And really costly, which is a good explanation for why you don't have, like, vases or whatever.

Well, um. We don't have vases, because if the cats didn't conspire to break them, I would, in one of my characteristic, "trip over my own feet and hurtle into furniture" fits. And I'm not so sure how pretty all the music gear is because I think there may be duct tape holding some of it together. Ok, scratch that. I *know* there's duct tape involved.

[sienamystic]

Yarr, I bollocked up the link. Constant Fiction

Oh, and I do know you're you, and that the other you is you also. Yes.

[littera_abactor]

And, once again, I have replied to a comment with the wrong LJ name. But you're a friend of this LJ, so you know thefourthvine = littera_abactor, right?

I suppose I should've known that having two LJ names was going to prove too difficult for me. Yes. That seems like something I should've been able to foresee.

Although I'd have them both even if I had. That's got to be some kind of definition of success: looking back at the mistakes you made and thinking, even knowing what I know now, I'd still do that.

Well, I hope it's a good sign, at any rate. Because that's pretty much my attitude about my whole life to date.