"I wanted to love you like my mother's mothers' mothers did."

Apr 13, 2013 13:31

I'm not even going to get started on idiot neighbors who have a crew of workmen show up to reroof a garage at seven ayem on a goddamn rainy goddamn Saturday morning. Thanks to the miracles of modern pharmaceuticals, I more or less slept through four hours of incessant hammering about ten feet from our bedroom window. It was like sleeping with a ( Read more... )

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setsuled April 13 2013, 18:02:39 UTC
Can there actually, genuinely, really and oh-my-fucking-god truly be people in the world who think "s's" is a good idea?

I was marked wrong all over an essay in British Literature class for using "Keats'" instead of "Keats's". Heh. I see now Firefox is putting the squiggly red line under "Keats's" but not "Keats'". At least Firefox is on our side, for once.

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greygirlbeast April 13 2013, 18:11:21 UTC

I was marked wrong all over an essay in British Literature class for using "Keats'" instead of "Keats's".

It's just so...ugly.

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setsuled April 13 2013, 19:49:07 UTC
Is was especially ironic since the text of Keats we read used "s'".

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aoniedesade April 13 2013, 20:14:58 UTC
I don't get why purple seems to be the lazy artist's way of saying "hey, this book has supernatural/scary content!"

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humglum April 13 2013, 20:17:47 UTC


But purple is so... "oooh scary!!!"

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greygirlbeast April 13 2013, 20:38:31 UTC

It just makes me think of "grape" bubblegum and "grape" soda.

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aoniedesade April 13 2013, 21:03:12 UTC
Purple is also the color of The Ghost of Drag Queens Past.

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