Wish I could slay your demons, but now that time has passed.

[doublefourtime]

"Among the daughters of the air," answered one of them. "A mermaid has not an immortal soul, nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny. But the daughters of the air, although they do not possess an immortal soul, can, by their good deeds, procure one for themselves. We fly to

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[22by7]

oh you know the little mermaid is an allegory of bestial nature versus christianity *cough*

how do i cry? erm, like a drunk who's been in a bar for far too long. i set my head down on the nearest flat surface/babble and blibber like an idiot. i do it very rarely, though, but whenever i do it the occasion must be appropriately trivial. gravely upsetting occasions demand grave stoicism.

[doublefourtime]

I really shouldn't start looking around for essays and the like analysing/critiquing myth/fables/stories, now. Really. Dammit.

Stoicism is my lovah. It sounds so pretentious and wankerish (because it is), but I enjoy my stoicism. So yes, trivial crying > grave situation crying.

[ophelias_lament]

Fairy tales, of any kind, are love. It was fun reading that, thank you. :)

I'm fascinated by all the different ways people cry. Some people cry so easily (not me) and...loudly (really really not me.)

Like you, if I'm crying something fierce - its a deep shuddering sob that kind of thunders in the chest. More often though, I don't even sob. Tears just kind of fall down my cheeks and I feel the need to swallow a lot.

But if I'm trying hard not to cry (namely if anyone is around within eye or ear shot) and someone talks to me needing an answer? I'm screwed. Halfway through a sentence I'm in hysterics.

And I look gorgeous when I cry. In fact a lot of people do.
Maybe I should really do it more often. *g*

[doublefourtime]

Fairy tales and the like = yet another thing for me to get around to reading. I read them obsessively when I was younger.

Tears just kind of fall down my cheeks and I feel the need to swallow a lot.
I have that at the beginning, and then if it's bad enough I graduate to the shudders.

I look so awful when I cry - one time I was crying in the bathroom back home and I started laugh-sobbing, because we have mirrors on three of the walls there, and I looked so ridiculous!