- @georgelondon Careful, she's Greek Cypriot… in reply to georgelondon #
- Girl One gone to evening shift. Know I should make/eat food, & either play games or do something productive, but I suddenly feel drained. #
- @SorenLorensen You KNOW I only have your best interests at heart! (Whatever that means…!) in reply to SorenLorensen #
- @SorenLorensen Hahahaaha! It's a damn shame that that WASN'T a euphemism, frankly…! It'd be a good one. in reply to SorenLorensen #
- Just played Tenacious D's The Metal, Weezer's My Name Is Jonas, & The Devil Went Down To Georgia on Guitar Hero. On Easy. I am NOT GOOD. #
- @davidbaillie That's because I faxed you a photo of it. Keep up! in reply to davidbaillie #
- @SorenLorensen Aww, yay! You rock!
Has @ILoveMyBrick unloaded the chowder on your bowl, yet? I only had a can of chicken noodle soup.
in reply to SorenLorensen # - In colossal game of British Bulldog at end of time, to decide who gets into heaven, I already know I want you on my side, @SorenLorensen..! #
- … You too, @RedMummy, especially if you've got marauding elephants. #
- @SorenLorensen Bloody hell! @ILoveMyBrick is a hero…! Your very own veritable chowder fountain! in reply to SorenLorensen #
- @RedMummy I hope at least ONE of the mariachi singers is @Glinner. @belle_lulu do you keep them with the chickchucks? in reply to RedMummy #
- @RedMummy, @belle_lulu, must say that @SorenLorensen's appreciated show of support was pre-emptive. Previous threat hopefully dealt with. #
- Actually, @RedMummy, I went looking for video proof of @glinner's mariachi performances a bit back, & found NOTHING. Suspicious… #
- @SorenLorensen Naughty naughty BBC! in reply to SorenLorensen #
- @SorenLorensen Heh… I saw. I totally follow him. Not to toilets, as SOME PEOPLE would have you believe… in reply to SorenLorensen #
- Got to say that what with @SorenLorensen's food provisions, & mine & @ILoveMyBrick contributions, today has been a good day for cum humour. #
- Stand down, strike team! @RedMummy, best leave pachyderms & Mexicans in t'car, go get yourself a cup of tea… Wait for sitrep. #
- Quite struck with my idea of British Bulldog on Judgement Day. Final Trump would be like the playtime whistle… #
- @RedMummy You might want to crack the window a little bit, just in case! I know it's night time, but car WILL get stuffy… in reply to RedMummy #
- @davidbaillie Is it a birthday? in reply to davidbaillie #
- @evangineer S2 just utterly didn't know where it was headed. Made mistake of thinking people watched for convoluted nonsense, not fun! in reply to evangineer #
- @charltonbrooker That, sir, was a lot of fun. in reply to charltonbrooker #
- @kierongillen Still a remarkably young man. Well done! You survived another year! #
- Woah. 2 chaps that I'm both vaguely in awe of & have actually met a few times share a birthday today. Happys, @kierongillen & @davidbaillie! #
- @douglasnoble Wait, what? Did YOU just have a birthday, too? in reply to douglasnoble #
- @davidbaillie Well, well done you! in reply to davidbaillie #
- @davidbaillie Did you know that I'm now taking part in a weekly comics podcast? in reply to davidbaillie #
- @georgelondon Oh, no, I was shocking. But then, I never had @SorenLorensen on my side. Also, stakes weren't as high! in reply to georgelondon #
- @CaminoHolidays I'm IN Europe, so your idea that this is somehow a uniquely American thing is… well, almost racist. Personally, I feel… in reply to CaminoHolidays #
- @CaminoHolidays …sympathy for you & your child, but don't see how my use of a word speaks to my understanding of their situation… in reply to CaminoHolidays #
- @CaminoHolidays …& it's a little presumptious of you to think that you know what I think or know. But good luck in your mission! in reply to CaminoHolidays #
- @CaminoHolidays …I use word "retarded" to speak generally. I don't assume for a second that one condition is the same as all others. in reply to CaminoHolidays #
- @CaminoHolidays …In the same way that when I say someone or something is Mad, I don't mean that they specifically are bipolar or whatever. in reply to CaminoHolidays #
- @CaminoHolidays …To cluster all of these conditions together is to undermine understanding of each. in reply to CaminoHolidays #
- @SorenLorensen You've just gone nuts for the brandy, now… drunkard! (Why haven't I got brandy?) in reply to SorenLorensen #
- I am off-sick. It should be noted that by saying that, I don't mean that I have the palsy, or the AIDs, or Pig Flu. I just have a cold. #
- @SorenLorensen Just spent an hour or so getting up to date on The Daily Show with dog under duvet on settee. Not YOUR settee, of course. in reply to SorenLorensen #
- Dammit! The sun is killing us! What will we do about this fiery menace?? @andynyman #
- @Sulman There were wraps? And curly fries?? Did you eat in the refectorery and that? in reply to Sulman #
- @Specsneedaclean Thankyou… I don't feel it's healthy to oversell what is essentially mainly discomfort & unpractical, rather than deadly! in reply to Specsneedaclean #
- @tbush Oh yes, shouldn't be a problem… mainly spending day trying to get over the thing now so I'm actually useful tomorrow/Friday tbh. in reply to tbush #
- @CaminoHolidays Well, true. But shouldn't assume understanding is issue… worked around mentally handicapped kids for years, one in family. in reply to CaminoHolidays #
- @CaminoHolidays Sometimes other people are just smart enough to know what they are saying without needing you to act as conscience for them. in reply to CaminoHolidays #
- @Sulman Grrr… d'oh! Mind you, that's YOUR office. By the time it gets round to mine, it's the large lady in the tabard doing the rounds. in reply to Sulman #
- @Specsneedaclean
in reply to Specsneedaclean # - @Emmavieceli Oh… well, that's… kind of a good thing? Maybe they already own your work elsewhere?
in reply to Emmavieceli # - @CaminoHolidays You're doing it again. I don't care if it's a word you use. It's a word I use. Where I worked, the word was "inclusive"… in reply to CaminoHolidays #
- @CaminoHolidays …I find that worse. in reply to CaminoHolidays #
- @Sulman HAH! in reply to Sulman #
- @CaminoHolidays You can use whatever words you want, though… I don't mind! in reply to CaminoHolidays #
- @CaminoHolidays That's kind of how I take people on Twitter, so it shouldn't be a problem for me! Greeting thing normally comes at start? in reply to CaminoHolidays #
- @CaminoHolidays Heh… I don't have an interest in grammar. I'm just a writer, so I use it. in reply to CaminoHolidays #
- @jhewlett Oh my that's a good feeling. Always SURPRISINGLY good feeling, if I recall right. in reply to jhewlett #
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Peach for godsgirls

Illustration by Victo Ngai for the fiction “Sweet Dreams” by Peter Stamm
“She went to the bathroom, filled the tub, and got undressed. The mirror misted over with condensation, and the smell of pine needles filled the air. She turned off the water, and the apartment suddenly seemed very quiet. Then she heard footsteps, and Simon’s voice through the half-open door. He said, I’ll just go downstairs for the bottle of wine. I thought you’d gone already, said Lara, and she poked her head through the crack, and he kissed her on the lips and tried to barge the door open, but she held it shut. They kissed again. See you soon, said Lara. It was odd, she still felt a little ashamed in front of him.”

This scene is one of my earliest comic memories. It was the first point at which I saw a comic character making a mistake, which meant it was probably the first time I really processed them properly as characters and human.
Spider-man has webbed up a doorway to stop a criminal escaping, but then realises that the criminal is escaping out of the window instead, and in his hurry to catch them he forgets his own webbing.
It seems gloriously ridiculous out of context, but if memory serves it was part of a pretty intense and dramatic story featuring Alex Summers (Havok).
(This was me, by the way.)
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