Hurray! You're back. (I've been trying to post these comments since this morning. Stupid LJ.) And it's spring at last in Widespot...where they hardly need the help.
I'm laughing at Daytona's chair, but it's also disturbing, the way everything is power positioning with her. What if Hamilton does get higher than her in the career track - what does that do to the central personal relationship of her life? (Yeah, she loves Valentine, but if it came down to him or Hamilton she'd drop him like a hot potato, and he's too much of a parent himself not to know that. Hamilton's too used to it to know it.)
Why do I feel like the contents of that drawer just got put on the mantelpiece in place of a gun? It could be a one-off joke; but Virgie knows where that stuff is, now.
I wonder what exactly was going down at the Make-Out Spot? I trust we'll find out in another family's installment.
I loved the painting party at the Newsons' - Virgie leading a vanguard of aggressive kindness; Gavin completely out of his depth, accepting help and liking it; little crosscurrents in the smooth flowing of the established couples; River fussing about messes nobody else notices; Ginger stuffing everybody with grilled cheese. (I bet Rocky loves visiting the Newsons - all they ever eat is comfort food.) David and Virgie are too used to the view from the top to spend much time on other people's inward states, so of course Goldie has to explain to David why his joke went sour. And maybe he'll get it, but maybe he won't. Scot would be upset if he knew Virgie was feeling disillusioned about love and permanence, but so far that's just one more thing for them to work out between them. They don't have the same working models of love and families, to begin with; his family is all about duty and roles and hers is all about hierarchies and authority. If they can't find their own way to approach it, no, they won't work long-term, but that's what the going steady period is for.
Oh, Mary, you do not need to clean up after everybody who's going through a rough patch! You need more help than Ham does right now. She doesn't even have that many neat points, either. Habit is a powerful thing.
I'm with Penny on the picture. He can't erase Sandy, and Penny wouldn't ask him to, but he's got other pictures of his baby he can put up, and other places this one can go that won't be presiding over his most private life. Right at the moment, Sandy is still the first face he sees in the morning. That's not a good thing.
I see you beat me to getting up subpart B! Since I could, I went ahead and restored a few scenes but it's up now, Part One complete. I would've had it up, whole, a couple days ago but it's been the battle of the character limits and I just had to concede defeat.
Glad to see the comment eventually came through! LJ needs to be less stupid. That should be some sort of psa.
Funny and disturbing, check! That's also kind of her relationship with Peter in a nutshell. It's wrong on so many levels but they still make me laugh. And that's the day Peter fell in love with her, too.
Staying more than one step ahead of her son on the career track is essential to Daytona. She never even planned for the possibility of his encroaching on her territory. There are already some things subtly shifting in their dynamics like slow-moving tectonic plates but it could be cataclysmic if they wound up moving too fast or colliding.
Well, Virgie doesn't forget much, even though I might. But she is a handful, I'll say that.
Lots of Newson influence, in this update (these) and on the teen scene in general. One of the options I discarded from the painting party showed River doing that "how can you be so hot" gesture and even though he's on about Woody it looks like he's kind of hooting at Gavin and Virgie together, which would further tick off Scot. There's a bit of Scot's own musing in B so I won't say too much about that yet but their relationship isn't going to be smooth sailing no matter how right it looks to them. They're going to have to really dig in to make it work.
Mary. She definitely does have her own stuff to deal with so it's good that particular idea bounced off of Hamilton instead of Daytona, because she might have taken her up on the offer.
Penny's point is glaringly obvious but I'm afraid Hamilton's going to keep a blind spot about that. If only because I LOVE that picture :-D (though, of course, it could go elsewhere if he got the message).
I'm laughing at Daytona's chair, but it's also disturbing, the way everything is power positioning with her. What if Hamilton does get higher than her in the career track - what does that do to the central personal relationship of her life? (Yeah, she loves Valentine, but if it came down to him or Hamilton she'd drop him like a hot potato, and he's too much of a parent himself not to know that. Hamilton's too used to it to know it.)
Why do I feel like the contents of that drawer just got put on the mantelpiece in place of a gun? It could be a one-off joke; but Virgie knows where that stuff is, now.
I wonder what exactly was going down at the Make-Out Spot? I trust we'll find out in another family's installment.
I loved the painting party at the Newsons' - Virgie leading a vanguard of aggressive kindness; Gavin completely out of his depth, accepting help and liking it; little crosscurrents in the smooth flowing of the established couples; River fussing about messes nobody else notices; Ginger stuffing everybody with grilled cheese. (I bet Rocky loves visiting the Newsons - all they ever eat is comfort food.) David and Virgie are too used to the view from the top to spend much time on other people's inward states, so of course Goldie has to explain to David why his joke went sour. And maybe he'll get it, but maybe he won't. Scot would be upset if he knew Virgie was feeling disillusioned about love and permanence, but so far that's just one more thing for them to work out between them. They don't have the same working models of love and families, to begin with; his family is all about duty and roles and hers is all about hierarchies and authority. If they can't find their own way to approach it, no, they won't work long-term, but that's what the going steady period is for.
Oh, Mary, you do not need to clean up after everybody who's going through a rough patch! You need more help than Ham does right now. She doesn't even have that many neat points, either. Habit is a powerful thing.
I'm with Penny on the picture. He can't erase Sandy, and Penny wouldn't ask him to, but he's got other pictures of his baby he can put up, and other places this one can go that won't be presiding over his most private life. Right at the moment, Sandy is still the first face he sees in the morning. That's not a good thing.
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Glad to see the comment eventually came through! LJ needs to be less stupid. That should be some sort of psa.
Funny and disturbing, check! That's also kind of her relationship with Peter in a nutshell. It's wrong on so many levels but they still make me laugh. And that's the day Peter fell in love with her, too.
Staying more than one step ahead of her son on the career track is essential to Daytona. She never even planned for the possibility of his encroaching on her territory. There are already some things subtly shifting in their dynamics like slow-moving tectonic plates but it could be cataclysmic if they wound up moving too fast or colliding.
Well, Virgie doesn't forget much, even though I might. But she is a handful, I'll say that.
Lots of Newson influence, in this update (these) and on the teen scene in general. One of the options I discarded from the painting party showed River doing that "how can you be so hot" gesture and even though he's on about Woody it looks like he's kind of hooting at Gavin and Virgie together, which would further tick off Scot. There's a bit of Scot's own musing in B so I won't say too much about that yet but their relationship isn't going to be smooth sailing no matter how right it looks to them. They're going to have to really dig in to make it work.
Mary. She definitely does have her own stuff to deal with so it's good that particular idea bounced off of Hamilton instead of Daytona, because she might have taken her up on the offer.
Penny's point is glaringly obvious but I'm afraid Hamilton's going to keep a blind spot about that. If only because I LOVE that picture :-D (though, of course, it could go elsewhere if he got the message).
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