hotel corridors; my brain is making weird noises tonight

[aesc]

Clearly it's making up for almost being turned into brain gel during work today because now it's being all sorts of crazy and unfocused.

Anyway, sheafrotherdon is stuck with morons in her hotel and amberlynne has had a bad night. So. Meeting a post-coital John Sheppard in one's hotel hallway would make a lot of things better, I think.

aesc: I bet Rodney wouldn't notice the yelling in the hotel hallways because he would be too busy being ravished by John
sheafrotherdon: eeeee
aesc: actually, they might be the rhythmic thumping sound on the other side of the wall :>
sheafrotherdon: hahahahah there really was rhythmic thumping earlier
aesc: see?
sheafrotherdon: I was all . . . . really? really neighbors?
aesc: there was probably really low, fervent moaning and if you'd listened really closely, you might have heard John whispered, all rough and broken
sheafrotherdon: asdfjhlakjshdlfjkhaldf
aesc: and then in the morning when you step outside to start your day, John wanders out of the room in search of the ice machine, scratching just above the elastic of his boxers, and he nods a greeting and gives you a slooooow, lazy grin as he wanders by
sheafrotherdon: ahlskdjhfkjaflasdf I would go BOOM
aesc: aitches go splodey
sheafrotherdon: he would be stubbled
aesc: and rumpled
aesc: and his shirt would be wrinkled in some places, stretched out from being tugged at in others
aesc: and he wouldn't have the top button of his jeans fastened
sheafrotherdon: and there might be a little dark mark on his throat from someone else's kisses
aesc: that he sees you looking at and touches briefly
sheafrotherdon: asldkjhfalksjdhf gah!
sheafrotherdon: *boom*
aesc: WANT
aesc: and there's that smile of his, the one that would be shy except for the fact he's touching *bites on his neck* and he's stubbled and rumpled and doesn't look the least bit repentant about keeping you up half the night

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it's not a symbol (well, it is, in the sense that all letters and typograhical notations are symbols), it's a+e close together, as with other ligatures (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographical_ligature) - except, o oops, not:

The character Æ (æ, or aesc) when used in the Danish, Norwegian, or Icelandic languages, or Old English, is not a typographic ligature. It is a distinct letter—a vowel—and when alphabetised, is given a different place in the alphabetic order, rather than coming between ad and af. In modern English orthography Æ is not considered an independent letter but a spelling variant, for example: "encyclopædia" versus "encyclopaedia" or "encyclopedia".

Æ comes from Medieval Latin, where it was an optional ligature in some words, for example, "Æneas". It is still found as a variant in English and French, but the trend has recently been towards printing the A and E separately.[5] Similarly, Œ and œ, while normally printed as ligatures in French, can be replaced by component letters if technical restrictions require it.

I hope the CP works, otherwise you can read that bit by clicking the Wikipedia link. :) In HTML, you can reproduce it by typing (spaces removed)

& a e lig ;

, I would guess, since I type the same but with an o instead of the a when writing the French words that require it, like cœur (French for heart).

/explainy!

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Aiee, thank you! ::saves link for when I am not in the process of dashing off to work::

I am one of those people who are curious about language but really don't even have the basic vocabulary to discuss it, so I appreciate this!