afterallthistime: (what's my perversion?)
I'm pretty sure I have a serious, legit problem guys.

People throw around the phrase "slash goggles," when they talk about people who seemingly ship m/m anything and everything. "Looking at x through your slash goggles," they'll say. Well, slash goggle I have not.

SLASH RETINAS, GUYS. I HAS THEM.

I seriously, seriously, do NOT go into things looking for a pairing. I don't. Hand to God, and I know you won't believe me, but I know it's true. But I inevitably emerge going, "Hmm," and suddenly I'm on Google searching "x/y" and then going, "whaaaaat-the-fuck-am-I-doing?!"

So lately I've been reading Robert Asprin's Myth Adventure books.

...You guys fill in the rest.
afterallthistime: (smart funny beautiful)
"Forney," Novalee said, "do you ever feel like you're playing grown-up?"

"What do you mean?"

"Like you're a kid who's just acting like an adult."

"I am an adult."

"So am I. But when I get this feeling, I don't feel like one. I feel like a kid."

"You mean like when you lock your keys in the car, or..."

"No." Novalee kicked off her shoes, shifted her weight and tucked her feet beneath her. "Look, say you're doing something..."

"Like what?"

"Like... packing a suit case 'cause you're going to New Mexico. You're packing, see?" Novalee pretended to be folding clothes. "You put your shirt here..." She pantomimed arranging a shirt on the table. "...and you put you underwear here. Then all of a sudden, it dawn on you. Packing a suitcase is something adults do."

Forney nodded in agreement.

"But right then, at that very moment, you don't feel like an adult. You feel like a kid
playing adult. You know you're just playing grownup."

--Billie Letts, Where the Heart Is, pg. 222


These moments hit me out of the blue all the time.

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