Strangeness. Apparently it's hereditary.

[resonant]

Me: Should I ask why the baby doll's hands are tied behind her back? Or do I not want to know?
Kidlet: Oh, I just decided to handcuff her.
Me: OK. Why?
Kidlet: I wanted to see what she'd do.

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[svilleficrecs.livejournal.com]

Hee. How else you supposed to find out if your doll is prone to panic attacks?

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Or if your parents are really paying attention!

[byandby.livejournal.com]

*is rolling on the floor*

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I had a tough time saving my fit of hysteria until after I came downstairs!

[logovo.livejournal.com]

I think I had this conversation with my mom when I was 7.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Huh, must be something about the age, because she's 7, too.

I would ask whether this predicted your being into bondage when you were an adult, but maybe that's another thing I don't want to know.

[logovo.livejournal.com]

*raises eyebrow*

hee heee heeeeeeeee

[kormantic.livejournal.com]

Ah, nature and nurture and the apple so near the tree!

Re: hee heee heeeeeeeee

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

The spouse says, "This is your doing. You and your strange ideas." And then he goes back to reading Heidegger and laughing.

[misspamela.livejournal.com]

*dies*

That's so awesome! Today, my daughter asked me, "Mommy, how do I get to Harry Potter's world?"

evil mothers might say Waterloo

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

I wonder how many kids batter their heads against that brick wall in London ...

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Aww! And this is how people grow up to be writers, I guess.

[mz-bstone.livejournal.com]

Your child is invited to my house for tea. I'll let her use the china cups and make fairy cakes.

*g*

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[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I'm sure she'd adore that.

What are fairy cakes? Or is that something you can only know the answer to when your age is in single digits?

[mz-bstone.livejournal.com]

Well, the recipe I have is a fried dough thing - but very light and sweet and dusted with sugar. You have a regular skillet or pan, about a quarter inch of mildly flavoured oil, and you put a teaspoon of batter. It spreads a bit, sort of floats in the shallow oil and quickly turns golden; you flip it gently to finish. People used to leave them out for the fairies to avoid tricks and trials.

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[resonant8.livejournal.com]

People used to leave them out for the fairies to avoid tricks and trials.

Oh, how cool!

Of course, with the kidlet in question, I use lollipops for just exactly the same purpose.

[joandarck.livejournal.com]

Rock! Er... did the doll do anything? No, I probably don't want to know.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I asked her that today. She said, "She wasn't on, so she didn't do anything." (It's a battery-operated doll that cries and laughs, my father's gift and some sort of vengeance on us, I'm sure.) Then she said, "If it were a real baby, I'll bet she'd pull and pull and cry and cry."

[seperis.livejournal.com]

That *rocks*.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

We're all weird, so we get along really well.

[slashpervert.livejournal.com]

Laughs happily. Well met.

Our son, age ten, wants to know why JKR doesn't just have Harry and Draco fall in love and work together. Seriously, I did NOT show him any fanfic. We were trying to explain without cracking up why that isn't likely to happen in mainstream fiction.

Of course, this is the same boy who last year declared after finishing the Buffy the Vampire series on DVD that he wanted to "date Spike" and well, big grin on his face, "Spike AND Buffy" if he could have two.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Well, he has good taste! And he's probably only a little bit below the average age on fanfiction.net.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

*coughs up hot tea* ... so, the question now is: what did Dolly do?

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Well, she was turned off so as not to drain her battery, so she didn't do anything. She's a microchip baby who sometimes laughs, and sometimes cries until you pat her back just right, so I actually wonder now whether she would react in some way to being tied up.

[sage-theory.livejournal.com]

So on my list of "People who may turn out to be mad scientists/evil geniuses that try to take over the world"...

That is so hysterical. Really.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Yeah, one of these days I expect her to reveal the true depths of her Lex Luthorness.

[moonpupy.livejournal.com]

Your daughter's name isn't "Wednesday" or "Mistress" of anything is it?

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

No, but she has pointy eyebrows and sometimes a very wicked expression.

I love your icon!

[reginagiraffe]

That is *awesome*. She's going to be a world-famous scientist! Or, um, a world famous serial killer.

One or the other.

*is dubious*

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

When she was 4, I said, "You've got a strange little brain, there, kidlet," and she said, "I know. It's in my skull."

[springwoof.livejournal.com]

your kidlet is as awesome as you are....

in awe of the genes, there...

Feedback!

[almondsamote.livejournal.com]

I am posting to let you know that I have been enjoying the bejeezus out of your writing!

I actually like Transfigurations better than JKR's books. I hope that will not turn the internet against me.

Thank you for sharing your work! Publish something one day, please.

Re: Feedback!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Aww. This is sweet! I'm so glad you've enjoyed the stories.

I have so many HP WIPs and I don't know whether I'm going to be able to finish any of them! It's weird how sometimes you just walk off the edge of a fandom and can't seem to claw your way back on.