10 Dec 2007, 09:52 · names, ranting and politics
- I think I want to get divorced sometime. Sorry marriage, I just don’t care about you. It would be much funnier to be divorced to my loverman, and introduce him as my ex-husband. The former Mr. Mundy. I think this would offer a much more accurate shorthand expression of our relationship. Right now I think the government approval is confusing.
- So I am trying to figure out how to not have that look like we tricked people into giving us wedding presents. Because it wasn’t like that. (Except for the usual capitalist / consolidation-of-wealth aspects of the whole institution of marriage, but we actually work pretty hard to get around a lot of that.)
- This would solve my main wedding-related regret, which was forfeiting the opportunity to birth a third-generation bastard. Both Galen and I were conceived out of wedlock, and so were his mum and my dad. I think this is a proud heritage, even if it makes my dad roll his eyes.
- I would be willing to conceive a baby in wedlock (but not in a headlock) and then birth it outside of wedlock.
- Also I am considering not disclosing the sex of any children I might squeeze out for at least a few days after they are born, to give them some space to be treated as ambiguous slugs. I don’t think that’s weird, but Galen thinks it might freak people out. So heads up, people who would be meeting these hypothetical spawn.
- I guess that means they might not get named for a few days, also.
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You can always give the baby a unisex name – something like ‘Avery’, the name of the Elf ruler .. which makes me wonder, are there males elves and female elves? I am not sure I believe LOTR.
— Amr · 12 December 2007, 11:12