"This girl can stand up to MacKenzie!"
..
"Luv ya!" - 'swoon'
"Maybe later" - 'waits hachiko-style'
"Don't luv ya!" - 'cries'
...
Stand up to hand him his hat or what..?!
(Though compared to other novels-made-manga the banter was mostly kept alive)
This escalation once the door closes inevitably reminds me about my instinctive "bless you"-anwer when my neighbor in the opposite building sneezed. (Built in the 1960: I can even tell when the neighbors handy alarm goes off - one story above.)
I'm amazed by the level of soundproofing rooms supposedly have nowadays ^^
(▰˘◡˘▰)
"Oven? Isn't that just where we put the dirty dishes?!"
....now just hold on a diddly darn minute.
I really like some harlequin-stories, so I don't intend to be a party-pooper but...
*coughs*
..that scar won't disappear magically after crossing the ocean...(￣∇￣")
(One shouldn't expect a PTSD-therapist out of nowhere in this setting, but still...*sighs*...nevermind, I'll take this unwanted snippet of realism and put it back to where it came from ^^)
"...if you met another pitiful and unsatisfied snake, what would you do?!"
Like, really, what WOULD you do...
As far as I am concerned, by brain decided that this is the only proper moment to remember furuba, Tohru, Ayame and a very cold day.
(￣∇￣")
It's finally happening, I guess. Me losing it, that is.
After a roundtrip to get to the bottom of the word "shrew"...I'm pissed. Well, in my language the "shrew"-part of the title is meant as "unruly, rebellious" (which I'd take any day in opposition to "Xanthippe, virago").
it's kind of interesting that there's a plethora of (ancient) names for women who don't do as they're told (or as expected), but none of them is positive...long story short: I guess I'd have been burned on the stake if I had been born back then.
(and on a side-note: if being " a Xanthippe" means I'm about to kick my husband's ass because he's spending money and "philosphizing in Athen's streets" is his means of killing time, while endangering his sons...yeah, then I would be one, too! #－.－))
Misogyny at it's finest ^
The shrew – an unpleasant, ill-tempered woman characterized by scolding, nagging, and aggression.
At that time any show of high intelligence or independence from a woman would be considered a shrew....I guess all modern women would be shrews. We’ve come a long way!
Waaahhh...braved my inner "oml it's tragedy, DON'T"-resistance, steeled my mochi-self and learned: this is the prologue.
(￣∇￣")
But yes, intriguing!
..when you're just a LITTLE icked out by the porn setting and this fluffball (with a boner) admits him being a sad, naive and lonely fluffball.
*fights the urge to pat a fictional character*
"Now, tell me everything. Then I'll give you my opinion on which one of you is the bigger fool."
"So who was it?"
"Me. She said if I had a brain, I'd marry you, then divorce you and collect every penny you own."
Vicious.... I like it.