"Welcome to the Hellmouth" / "Bring on The Night"

[red_satin_doll]

"You're standing at the mouth of Hell. And it's about to open up." *

***
"I'm beyond tired. I'm beyond scared.
I'm standing on the mouth of Hell and it's going to swallow me whole. And it'll choke on me." **

* Joss Whedon
** Marti Noxon & Douglas Petrie

Comments

[rebcake.livejournal.com]

Heh. Yeah. One of the few areas where I put my foot down with my very expressive kid is: no cherry prints. "Why not?" she says. "Get the strawberry fabric instead," I say. "You're weird," she says. This has been going on since she was 14, but I think she's figured it out by now, 3 years later. ;-) It's a ridiculous line to draw in the sand, but I don't want her to unwittingly project some Lolita thing, and I don't want to quash her love to cute cherry prints. She can wear them when she's an adult.

I'm open to negotiation on things like pet snakes and cartilage piercings — but NO DAMN CHERRRIES!

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

"Get the strawberry fabric instead," I say.

:) Ironically enough, you just reminded me that when my sweetie and I were first together 17 years ago (I had been a virgin when I met her), "eating strawberries" was our codeword for "making love". I'll leave the "why" to your imagination. So I don't know if that'll affect your feeling on strawberry prints!

[rebcake.livejournal.com]

Nah, I'm not trying to keep her from having a sex life. That would be mean. I just want her sexual identity to come from a position of strength and positivity, not the "oh look how sexy my lack of sexuality is" that comes with cherry imagery. Grrr. I may be...over-reacting.

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

I may be...over-reacting.

But then that's your job, isn't it - to protect her? But not protect her too much...and nobody can really tell you how to do it. No user's manual.

I decided in my teens I didn't want to be a parent. Being the oldest of four latchkey kids convinced me of that, and I don't regret it. I would have been utterly clueless, so my hat's off to you for having the courage to raise children, esp a daughter in this day and age. Sex is everywhere, we're saturated in it in ways that would have been unimaginable to me growing up even in the '70's and '80's.