Also I have this ungodly and unwanted sudden "hello" from my libido and burnt fingers

[apiphile]

The latter are a result of my continuing battle with Electronics class, in which patience gives way to rage, rage, and more rage with the increasing number of burns on my hands and inhalation of solder fumes. Invented several compound swearwords and went off on a loud and vociferous tangent about precisely what kind of dicks designed strip board to

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[ladyhadhafang]

(The only flaw I've found in the former is the "reinventing yourself is a myth", because no, people walk the fuck out on their old identities and should be allowed to do so. I have giant angry words for any culture - ANY INCLUDING MINE - that try to steal people back from their choices. NO. NO. NO. NO. No matter how much you love someone or how much their absence hurts you, they are not yours. [/whoops someone stepped on one of my landmines]

*This*, so very much. Seriously. :)

[morecake]

My views on family are similar to yours at the 'hahahaha no fuck off' point. This -

'Not the ways in which they can be "redeemed" by a return to the fold, but who they become when they realise they are not enfolded any more.'

is a very interesting point and one which is not examined enough, or certainly not in the media I've been absorbing. I'm not sure I'd describe people who leave their folds as monsters though, although perhaps I've misunderstood you. Thanks for posting though, it's good food for thought.

[apiphile]

Monster is a term I have been using for about five years on LJ now to refer to people who don't fit the societally-proscribed molds they're intended for, and I believe that Gaga woman has adopted the term independently of me also.

I'm very, very keen on the idea of non-hereditary traits, reinvention, and people who are not carbon copies of their parents, as opposed to this weird "sins of the father" thing which continues to poison a lot of media.

[swear_jar]

I'd rather keep my own idiom than make friends with the kind of people who dislike the way I talk, because I am a very petty and self-centred person.

Me too, then.

I totally get not bothering to comment/post about certain things because picking apart what I want to say and sanitising it for the utterly-not-the-general-public pickiness of the internets sometimes just doesn't seem worth it.

[apiphile]

Which is annoying because there are probably a lot of people who would like to be able to read it, but instead I, idk, email you or bitch to Liza about it on AIM instead, and I don't have to play fuck-knobbery with whatever euphemism for "argument" we're using now.

[unnecessary_]

eames is fat, screw your fanon the man is not a sex ninja, arthur is a robot serial killer

That even sounds appealing to me and I'm still not 100% on where Eames is from. Inception, right? I still hate myself for not having seen it.

[apiphile]

Dude, stop hating on yourself, get a download, and watch it!

[unnecessary_]

I wwwwiiillllll.