I know I don't watch anymore, but ...

[apocalypsos]

AWWWWWWW. Although I could do without the "homophobic dad walking in on a gay kiss" scene from now on.

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I'm thinking of posting what was going to be my Bigbang in chapters to encourage me to finish the thing. In all honesty, I've got a good chunk of it done, it's just a matter of filling in the blanks.

On the other hand, I'd much rather finish it in total and then go over it for mistakes and stuff. I think the WIP-posting thing is just my impatience rearing up.

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The Duggars are having their 18th kid. Damn. I think I'm not so much creeped out by the number of kids -- hey, if it's eighteen kids, it's still your choice -- as I am by the clothes, the haircuts, the J-names (what, no M-names? Or would that be too much like acknowledging Mom?), and the smiles that never, ever go away. If they had two kids, I think they'd still creep me out. Urgh.

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Can we have an election now? Please? Can I vote for somebody so we can get this over with, please? *headdesk*

EDIT: GODDAMN IT. All right, that's it. I give up. I just splashed tomato sauce all over my kitchen carpet and my writer sweatshirt while I was trying to make dinner. Just another capper on a crappy day. I think after I'm done eating I'm going to go into the kitchen now, retrieve a two-liter of Pepsi and the amaretto, and drink myself silly.

Comments

[deathbymutation.livejournal.com]

I died when they kissed. Too cute for words. I WANT THIS IN AN ICON...YESTERDAY

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

That kiss was gorgeous. Simply gorgeous.

What bugs me about the Duggars is the "buddy system" - she has a baby, nurses it for three months and then hands it off to the baby's "buddy" - whichever daughter isn't either taking care of a baby or is a baby herself. And then she gets to work on the next.

Her daughters also make and clean the clothes and do the family cooking. Mom has babies. And homeschools.

I know large families. The older kids do, in fact, help out with household duties and childcare, and that doesn't bother me. But they don't bear sole responsibilty (and boys do their share, too.)

[allegraconbrio.livejournal.com]

I am the most non-confrontational person ever, but that icon is not the right one for this post. I don't watch GA regularly now, either, and I KNOW I am being a buzzkill, but please reconsider that icon. I did watch the entire ep because one of the blogs I read clued me in and it was awesome. The moment deserves more than your funny icon. It is a funny icon, I love it, but please reconsider the context.

Dont Ask, Don't Tell is a bad policy, and it about more than touching willies. You are funny and clever and you make me laugh, but please think about this.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Changed. Sorry. My bad.

[allegraconbrio.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much, J. I really, really appreciate this. xo

[poisontaster]

Dude, THE EYEFUCKING the two of them had going on...not just in that clip, but throughout the episode. And that kiss just melted my brain.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

It was very hot and sweet. Well, in that clip. You couldn't get me to watch Grey's these days if you paid me. ;)

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

It's gotten better - really. I think the strike did the writers good.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Eh. I don't really miss it much, you know? I kind of follow it out of the corner of my eye now like I do with Lost or Reaper.

It's nice to know the strike did some writers good, though. *glares at last night's SPN*

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

My reaction to last night's SPN (well, this afternoon because that's when I watched it?)- utterly inappropriate.

They had the guy who woke up in a bathtub of ice because his kidneys had been stolen! They had *that* guy!

After that...I just couldn't get to the scary place. I mean, I ate take-out sushi while watching this.

But. Dean is a complete and utter Hufflepuff (maybe Gryffinpuff), isn't he?

Sam, however? Is Slytherin. :)

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, I loved the main plotline. Oh, boys. Sam would so never admit to being a Slytherin but ... yeah, totally him. :)

The Bela stuff, on the other hand ... UGH.

[cleverthylacine]

Dean is pure Hufflepuff. Like Cedric.

Sam...yeah, he's in my house.

Last night's ep was all over the place, I don't think SPN has improved on account of the strike. Ghostfacers was awful and last night...okay, I could get behind kidney theft, they do do urban legends--but I work in a transplant unit and you just do not, you do not do any surgery like that, but especially not a transplant.

[florahart]

The Duggars are having another one? Wow. What Mamadeb said as far as the whole buddy system/gender roles thing, but also, less seriously: how has her uterus not fallen out of her body yet? That much constant ...wear, I suppose, has to be seriously rough on her body, and I think I think that one of the things that used to happen to women when they had kid after kid (my grandmother was one of eleven kids, of which she and her sister were twins, so ten pregnancies in 20 years, and their mother died at something like 45 or 50 of some complication that made her weak after all that) was that the muscular structure would basically fail of overuse and they'd end up with 1. literally things hanging where they oughtn't to, and 2. incapacity to keep carrying to viability. I worry she'd going to die of something failing one of these days--a placental rupture, of which you will bleed out if you aren't sitting in the hospital when it happens, for instance--and her poor daughters are going to have to take up the slack. Jeeze. I like babies, and am loath to tell people about the politics of babymaking and family dynamics, but that? is too many babies.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Okay, this is going to be really, really, really, REALLY crude, BUT.

My brother -- my twenty-two-year-old sexist pig of a brother -- responded to me telling him about the story by saying, "Wow. It must look like a baseball player throwing a handful of chopped meat at a wall down there."

And while I don't really want to agree with something that fucking gross, I just keep waiting for a story on the Duggars that features the phrase, "vaginal prolapse." Seriously, sooner or later you stop worrying about making babies for Jesus and start worrying about Mom staying well enough to be around to take care of them.

[cleverthylacine]

Actually, number #16 nearly killed her and they told her to stop, but she won't.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Okay, see, now that's fucking selfish. That's caring more about making more babies than about being around for the ones you already have.

[sgriobadh.livejournal.com]

Where do they put them all?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I can't even imagine. There certainly can't be many with rooms all to themselves, if any at all. (Then again, that can even be a luxury in a family with only one child if money's tight, but this is pushing it.)

I just keep thinking about my mom's family. She was one of seven growing up, and her grandmother lived with them. Their house was big enough for everybody, but the only people who ended up with their own rooms were my great-grandmother and my oldest uncle. My mom shared a room with her sister, my grandparents had one of the other bedrooms, and they converted the attic to make a bedroom for the four other boys.

Privacy? What's that?

[sgriobadh.livejournal.com]

I looked it up. The girls are all in one room, boys in another, and the parents have their own small room.

Crazycakes.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

o.O

Are they bedrooms or barracks?

[sgriobadh.livejournal.com]

Bunk beds (so, barracks).

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, boy! Between that and having to take care of your own baby siblings, it must be like being a camp counselor FOREVER. \o/

[kerri]

Isn't that different, now? I thought they moved into a much larger house awhile ago.

[thornsilver]

YOu know it's "J" for "Jesus", right?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

... seriously?

Okay, you know how creepy I said the rest of it was? Quadruple that creepy. And then add a dash more creepy. And then slather on creepy icing. And then sprinkle it with creepy glitter. And then top it with a dead guy on a stick Jesus FTW!

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

I know a family with 11 kids. They're a farm family, and they all work hard. All the kids pitch in, both parents are responsible, and that's fine. The Duggars? That's goddamn medieval. I hope those girls get to have jobs or go to college. Just get the hell out of there.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I know they're supposed to be all, "Yay for Jesus!" but I seriously wonder how many of those kids are still going to be in contact with the family if they go back in twenty years? Figure at least one of them will be gay, maybe one of the daughters marries a black guy ... I just can't see them being like, "Whoever makes you happy, we accept them with open arms," except maybe to the media.

[beanarie.livejournal.com]

I agree with everyone about the Duggars. They've profiled other insanely large families on Discovery Health who occasionally got pissy with each other and there was nary an eighties bang in sight. This group just gets under my skin. It feels like Mom and Dad didn't so much have eighteen kids as one kid eighteen times.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

God, yes, especially that last bit. I keep remembering some interview I heard about where one of the really little boys -- like, five or so -- said he wanted to be a missionary when he grew up. A missionary? What five-year-old even knows what a missionary IS?

[beanarie.livejournal.com]

And now I'm flashing back to that scene in Jesus Camp where the mom-teacher is prompting the kid-student to explain exactly why global warming is a myth conjured by people who don't love God or something. Someone take a poll of the Duggars and find out if any of them believe in evolution. Or are pro-choice. The older boy said once that it bothered him that people assume he can't think for himself, that they're all mistaken because the kids definitely have different interests and blah blah blah. I'm sorry, but there's more to individuality than liking the clarinet over the French horn, Beaver Cleaver!

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I know, right? They home-school, they have church in the living room -- trying to picture the kids out by themselves in the real world is wince-inducing. It'll be like eighteen versions of the Waterboy in that scene where he's arguing in class with the college professor and getting everything painfully wrong.

I can't even bring myself to watch Jesus Camp. It makes my brain hurt just knowing it's out there.

[beanarie.livejournal.com]

Now there are enough of those people out there that they don't even have to deal with the real world if they don't want to. That scares me more than anything else.

The film sticks with you. That's for sure. It's not even that they hold views different from mine that freaks me out, it's that they all do. How can evangelicals say they don't brainwash kids when no one is allowed to disagree?