Gloom and doom, solutions:

Dragoncry · Post by **Dragoncry** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 8:38 am

Simple. Feed her to Morty. Either she will be cured, or at least they will be able to distract each other and she will be less of a ... situation.

Squirrelly61104 · Post by **Squirrelly61104** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 9:46 am

Or, we could stick her in a defective transporter with Velvet and a bag of sugar.

We'd either get two reasonably cheerful individuals, or one menace to society, bent on destroying the world.
Either one could make for a good story arc!

(i have got to stop reading narbonic before making posts)

Somber Cat · Post by **Somber Cat** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 6:18 pm

Actually the best plan of action is to simply leave her alone. Without having too much direct input from Penny, I've inferred that she is doing everything she can to be "Not-Lily". The doom and gloom attitude, risque attire, and sexual promisquity are all reflective of what Penny percieves as not Lily. I'm rather surprised she's not trying to pretend she's a lesbian (though homosexuality doesn't exist in RH's world) as that would be an ultimate rebellion against who she perceives Lily to be. I'm guessing a little inferiority complex enters into it. After all Lily, to the perception of Penny, has everything she might want or need. A devoted husband. A stable income. A life that seems perfectly in order and actuallized. Envy is a perfectly natural responce to that when her own life is stuck in transition. Since Penny is desperate for a distinctive personality that is not her older sister's, she makes herself into Lily's silloette. Unfortunately that's not a stable state of being. You can't identify yourself by what you are not. Eventually you're nothing at all. I'm not sure how close Penny is to psychological implosion as we didn't get a sample of her poetry. Not far would be my guess, unless she's a lot more depressed than we've been shown.

The course will run with time. Eventually she'll come to aquire independant personality traits irregardless of her sister. Hopefully they will be constructive and responcible personality traits, but you never know. The more mature Penny gets the more she will be able to appriciate that Lily's life is NOT perfect. That just because she isn't her sister doesn't mean she has to construct her life for the sake of contrariness.

"Of course it's perfectly possible I'm reading too much into the scripted life of a person remarkibly like my own. Grains of salt."

Somber

Earl McClaw · Post by **Earl McClaw** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 1:55 pm

Somber Cat wrote:A stable income.

And here I thought the Bruins ran an arcade, not a horse <smack> <smack> <smack> ...oogh...

Mwalimu · Post by **Mwalimu** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 6:27 am

Earl McClaw wrote:
Somber Cat wrote:A stable income.
And here I thought the Bruins ran an arcade, not a horse <smack> <smack> <smack> ...oogh...

Maybe Lily's planning to open a bridle shop.

Labrusca · Post by **Labrusca** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 7:09 am

mwalimu wrote: Maybe Lily's planning to open a bridle shop.

Ooooh, Kinky!

Jwrebholz · Post by **Jwrebholz** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 10:38 am

ARGH! The puns! There's no escape!!

CasVeg · Post by **CasVeg** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 2:56 pm

jwrebholz wrote:ARGH! The puns! There's no escape!!

I thought the Internet was an e-scape.

Wayfarer · Post by **Wayfarer** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 7:38 pm

CasVeg wrote:
jwrebholz wrote:ARGH! The puns! There's no escape!!
I thought the Internet was an e-scape.

Ahh, but then it's not a real e-scape, is it?

Somber Cat · Post by **Somber Cat** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 9:22 am

I doubt Lily's sexual interests run far from vanilla. I doubt they need to. I'm certain that their mutual affection is well manifest and known to each other. Kinkiness generally operates under novelty, a lack of percieved affection, or the thrill of the taboo.

"Whatever floats your boat."

Somber

PS: as for the puns, I was misfortunately vaccinated against them at a very young age.

Labrusca · Post by **Labrusca** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 5:05 pm

Somber Cat wrote:I doubt Lily's sexual interests run far from vanilla. I doubt they need to. I'm certain that their mutual affection is well manifest and known to each other. Kinkiness generally operates under novelty, a lack of percieved affection, or the thrill of the taboo.

"Whatever floats your boat."

Even vanilla is improved with a little chocolate syrup now and then.

And Lily is not THAT vanilla. Remember "The seventh posture of the perfumed garden" ? Take it from someone in a marriage with a lot of miles that even affection does better with some variety in it. Which is to say that you can have a lot of good clean dirty fun within a marriage if you use a little imagination. Shows your spouse you care enough to try the very best.

Sharuuk · Post by **Sharuuk** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 5:32 pm

Now why does the concept of "clean dirty fun" appeal to me so much? 8)

S'aaruuk

Labrusca · Post by **Labrusca** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 7:16 pm

Sharuuk wrote:Now why does the concept of "clean dirty fun" appeal to me so much? 8)

S'aaruuk

Do you REALLY want that answered? Inquiring minds DON'T wanna know.

Somber Cat · Post by **Somber Cat** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 10:58 pm

Meh. It's a subjective call. Every one experiments, especially post virginity. How much and what they do however isn't really a decent subject, for real people or not.

"Hense I withdraw from the subject... and if you drew innuendo from that, Bad you! Bad bad!"

Somber

StrangeWulf13 · Post by **StrangeWulf13** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 12:04 pm

"...withdraw from the..."

*baps head on the wall*

*offers Somber a newspaper* I admit it, I went down that road... go ahead and punish the wulf.

Sharuuk · Post by **Sharuuk** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 12:08 pm

StrangeWulf13 wrote:"...withdraw from the..."

*baps head on the wall*

*offers Somber a newspaper* I admit it, I went down that road... go ahead and punish the wulf.

"Ohhh.....beat me, beat me" says the Masochist.....

And the Sadist says: "No."

*soft, high pitched maniacal laughter in the background*

S'aaruuk

Squeaky Bunny · Post by **Squeaky Bunny** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 6:27 pm

Sharuuk wrote:
StrangeWulf13 wrote:"...withdraw from the..."

*baps head on the wall*

*offers Somber a newspaper* I admit it, I went down that road... go ahead and punish the wulf.
"Ohhh.....beat me, beat me" says the Masochist.....

And the Sadist says: "No."

*soft, high pitched maniacal laughter in the background*

S'aaruuk

*pulls ears down over his face and groans*

Somber Cat · Post by **Somber Cat** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 9:09 pm

No. I'm sure I'll say things down the road that will be deserving of beatings too.

"It's human nature."

Somber

SolidusRaccoon · Post by **SolidusRaccoon** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 3:07 am

Somber Cat wrote:No. I'm sure I'll say things down the road that will be deserving of beatings too.

"It's human nature."

Somber

Well I got my Clue Bat ready in case you ever need my help.

Shyal_malkes · Post by **Shyal_malkes** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 9:44 am

"ladies and gentlemen Solidus has entered the building..."

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