Selkie
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Cool! How much upper body strength does it require to operate? With my physical limitations, I don't want to have to push super hard. (I hate my body SO MUCH!) I do, however, want the house to look clean at least occasionally.
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I don't know who those other people are, Selk.
You don't want Law & Order, The Shield, OR Without a Trace?!! I thought I'd be likely to strike some recognition with at least one of those...
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Who here owns a Dyson vacuum cleaner? What do you think of it? Is it likely to be worth the investment for a household containing two dogs, one cat, two birds, and a human who is mildly allergic to same?
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You know what bugs me about Beyonce and Halle Berry? The most popular black female entertainers look white. Why can't we have a sister that looks like a sister in the media?
Oprah Winfrey looks white? As does Queen Latifah?
Also:
S. Epatha Merkerson (Law & Order)
CCH Pounder (The Shield)
Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Without a Trace)
*I* want to know why black women in the media are "allowed" to have much more normal body types than white women!
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Thanks, Rogan and Alseid, for the links to the Hellblazer/Hogwarts fanfic. I haven't read a fanfic since I (foolishly) followed a dare to Google "Harry Potter slash" and was irrevocably scarred, but this was actually funny and remarkably in character for all concerned.
"Peeves? I'd like you to do something for me" - ha ha ha
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A (hopefully) easy one for the gay guys: As used by a third party, what's the polite, politically correct term for your lover/boyfriend/significant other/husband/domestic partner/(full in the blank)?
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Which curls your toes more: length or width?
Honestly? As long as it's within the very broad range of "normal," size and shape really doesn't matter. The female body adjusts quite nicely, and besides, the bits men expect to be really sensitive ... aren't. I get such a huge laugh out of textured condoms "for her pleasure," though I appreciate the sentiment behind them.
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I stopped counting at 153. I'd guess there are another 25ish hanging around, so call it 175.
Yikes.
No wonder I don't have any space around here!
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A little off season, but no one dies in "Lord of the Dance", do they? It's certainly not a representative issue, but that will be a problem with any issue that doesn't include a death.
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Thanks again to everyone for the support and compliments. I hope the judges like it was well as you guys do!
James, the neck, muzzle, saddle, and sidecoat shading are indeed airbrushed. Even the black shading around the eyes is airbrushed, which is something I've very proud of as it was extremely difficult to do without overspraying. The only brush painted areas are the eyes, nose, and the edges of the black ear fringes. All of the pale cream areas are the natural clay color.
Claire, just for you I'll take pix from the front and 3/4 tomorrow, assuming the weather cooperates. We had snow drifting down all day and I didn't want to get the camera wet. Thanks for noticing the minimalist decoration! Most of my pieces are done in the style my customers expect. This one's in a style *I* like, but I don't think they would.
Rogan, did I read the phrase "dog hairstylist" correctly?!
Keeyah, my friend hasn't even started her horse, so I now get eight months to tease and cajole her into making it. I am *so* looking forward to what's in store for her. 8-)
As for the breed, everyone who knows me IRL was surprised I chose an Afghan for my first dog sculpture. I've shown and coursed greyhounds, Ibizan hounds, and a Whippet (so my first dog sculpt was definitely going to be a sighthound), but never an Afghan. I chose the breed for reasons that were partly practical, partly artistic. A friend of mine has been breeding, showing and coursing them since almost the exact day I was born (her first trophy is dated two days before I was born) so I had a ready supply of models.
More importantly, the sculpts don't stand on slender legs, so there's much less danger of collapse during the firing. I use very high temperature clays that soften slightly before they harden. During the time that they're soft - about the consistency of hard rubber - anything with a high center of gravity or spindly supports tends to warp or even pancake. Not only is the sculpt ruined, you have to scrape away a decent part of the kiln to remove it. Now that I've done a few, I love doing them for purely artistic satisfaction. They're fun, and I can do them in a lot less time than most other breeds. In fact, tonight I'm tempted to ignore all the other half-finished pieces sitting on my table and do a wild and crazy hand-sculpted Af, just for myself. It would certainly beat sculpting the fin rays on the goldfish I've been working on!
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I'm over the moon about him, electricinca. He's not quite the piece I'd present to the Guild as a potential masterpiece, but he's as close as I've come yet. Wish the photo were a bit better, but given that (a) I'm not a photographer, and (b) it was taken in knee-high snow, I'm not too unhappy. A big shout-out to everyone here for your compliments and encouragement. Special recognition to hildegard h for helping keep me awake during the all-night firing!
Turns out the deadline for entries is next Wednesday, not next Saturday, so it's going to be a real race to the wire to get my slide in on time. I always was a deadline artist!
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Well, it turns out that he wasn't *quite* as doomed as I thought, although I must say I have never, ever had a piece give me this much trouble before and live to tell about it.
Below is a version of the slide I'll be sending to the jury:
Wish me luck! Entries close next Saturday, and even if everything goes flawlessly from this point forward I'm going to justbarely make the submission deadline.
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Carla Speed McNeil, "Finder"
Jane Irwin, "Vogelein"
Layla Lawlor, "Raven's Children"
Wendy Pini, "Elfquest"
Pia Guerra, "Y, the Last Man"
More as I think of them ...
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Women are certainly taught to fear men, though. In fact I refer to it as "The Fear".
We are taught from an early age that all men we don't know are rapists. It's a terrible and illogical fear that hampers and victimises women. It's also conterproductive, as the bigger the threat of male violence seems to women the less likely they are to believe that they can fight back.
This paragraph deserves to be framed and put on public view everywhere it would do some good. Absolutely spot on.
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What do you think of shy guys? Or guys with Hairy legs,arms an asses. Or nerdy guys. Do they attract you or repulse you.
Shy is good. Nerdy can be good, depending on the type and depth of nerdiness. I met my current SO on a comic book message board, after all.
Hairy legs and arms are not a problem. Not so thrilled with hairy backs or asses, but if I like the guy it's not something I'd be concerned about or (the trees forbid!) ask him to change.
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Is/was losing your virginity as important to you (as a young woman) as books and films depict?
The non-TMI version is: distinctly underwhelming. Never did have a rose petals and romance view of the event, but it was even less of a deal than I had anticipated. I waited longer than most women due to practical considerations but it wasn't a source of stress or anything. Morality wasn't an issue either; I will never marry and don't consider sex outside marriage to be sinful. Being an atheist has its privileges. :happy:
Glad I selected the guy I did. Just experienced enough to be useful, not so experienced I had to be worried. Are you getting the sense I wasn't exactly a starry eyed romantic about the whole thing? Good. That's all ye need to know.
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I. Fucking. Hate. Stalkers.Yes, twice. Once by the ex-girlfriend of a guy I was dating, at his request (!!) That one wasn't so bad. The other, by a psycho ex-boyfriend ... that was very bad, and messed me up for a long, long time.
Hang on, your boyfriend asked his ex, a woman, to stalk you?
Yes. While we were dating, and for quite a while thereafter. He had gotten her pregnant, and she had had an abortion (I suspect against her wishes). Her family had forbidden her to see him, but she'd still do whatever he wanted. Had I known any of this at the time, I would have dropped him a lot faster than I did.
Psycho ex's fucking suck and should be shot.Mine should have been locked in a rubber room for a *very* long time.
The even more bizarre twist came when, a few years later, I wound up working for his father, who had NO idea what he had done to me, only that we had broken up abruptly. The father had played no part in my hiring, and was almost as shocked as I was when I was assigned to work for him. The first day I was there, totally freaked to begin with by my first "big girl" job, he took me into a conference room, and made me swear that neither of us would ever reveal we had known each other previously. I was still pretty shakey over all that had happened (don't worry, sharing details would be wildly inappropriate) and it took very little to remind me of the ex. I had always told my ex that his father, for some reason, reminded me of a chipmunk. I hadn't known that the father had a little toy chipmunk on his desk, and it was a daily reminder I could have lived without. So was the university coffee mug (we had met in college, and dated through most of three years). I always dreaded the day a co-worker would ask me, in complete innocence, whether I knew his son.
The worst - and, oddly, the best - was when, shortly before I quit, he took me to lunch and asked what happened. I knew I was pretty well healed when I didn't give him the gory details, because it was knowledge that would have bothered him the rest of his life, and I saw no point in making this very nice man feel miserable.
Based on what he told me, the next girlfriend wasn't faring very well. :icon_cry:
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But seriously. Have you ever been stalked, because a number of my girl friends have been?
Yes, twice. Once by the ex-girlfriend of a guy I was dating, at his request (!!) That one wasn't so bad. The other, by a psycho ex-boyfriend ... that was very bad, and messed me up for a long, long time.
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Shaving the legs: do you only do it because you think you have to? (If you do it.)
I shave my legs only when:
* Wearing a skirt is unavoidable
* I'm in a mood where I never feel clean. (NB: No need to read deep psychological implications into this. When caring for lots of animals, and making pottery, staying clean is an uphill battle)
* Preparing for sex. (Less hair = more sensation).
Otherwise, I don't bother.
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awww... so that's why gitrls want ponies?
Actually, surprisingly, not usually. Little girls who want horses fit into my description above. Little girls who want ponies want, in essence, big cute dogs. Still a major cut above little girls who play with tea sets, but not usually the same crowd as the girls who want horses.
Strange, but true.
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Pretend that you've been raised in a culture where, explicitly or implicitly, you've been conditioned to believe that you're weak, powerless, passive, and that enjoying physicality is somehow inappropriate, dirty, or even sinful. (And I'm not just talking about sex).
A horse is a large, powerful animal that exists on almost an entirely physical level, and which obeys you. The horse provides raw power, speed, and freedom to do almost anything - even fly, albeit for brief amounts of time. Don't even make me get into the psychological implications of having that all that power between your legs and under your control.
Besides, horses are pretty to look at, wonderful to touch (and in a touch-starved culture, that means a lot more than you'd expect on first blush), and you can have a relationship with them - which is why horses are much nicer than cars.
Make sense?
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MADDI - what IS the deal with S&C - some girls swear by it, like it's the holy bible, most men find it duoll, pretentious and degrading to both sexes, and some girls are repulsed by it mor ethan men, which also looks kinda supicious...
Either you find it a refreshing series where the women live independent full lives, freely enjoy sex without being "punished" by the writers, and have built supportive relationships with other women that don't involve "crabs in a bucket" syndrome" or ... you don't. FWIW, I find the show hit or miss, but it's definitely a guilty pleasure.
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Who should make the advancement/first move in a possible relationship - man or woman?
Either/or. But please, don't look like you've been hit by a 2x4 if the woman makes the first move, 'k?
If bald, stubble but shaveable, and super nice are all hot, then I am, I'm proud to say, ridiculously hot. *struts*Strutting: not hot. In fact, icey, icey cold.
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Marriage. Popular culture would have us believe that it's always the females who want to marry, and they must work hard to ensnare the naturally reluctant males. My experience is that this comedy staple is hogwash. Aside from a tiny percentage of highly marriage-minded women, it's always the men who want to tie the knot. Are my experiences typical?
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Marjane Satrapi . I absolutely can not believe I forgot to mention her earlier, as I consider the first Persepolis to be one of the truly great GNs. (Haven't read the second yet, but am not at all concerned it will be less than stellar)