RL things I love

[Arkandel]

Chris Paul is a Rocket. Paul George is a Thunder. Kyrie is a Celtic. Isaiah is a Cavalier. Jimmy Butler is a Wolf.

Goddamn but the NBA off season is more fun than its regular season.

[Sunny]

@Auspice

It is the only place you will likely ever find one. Or maybe Goodwill.

[Aria]

@Faceless OMG, you are the RL equivalent of "Girl, get you a man who looks at you like Tormund looks at Brienne."

I approve.

[Aria]

...Walmart has the pumpkin spice cereals in already. ^_^

(Fuck you, you do not get to judge me!!!)

[Arkandel]

@Aria MSB's main exports are snark and judgement.

[WTFE]

@Arkandel said in RL things I love:

@Aria MSB's main exports are snark and judgement.

And pictures of booze.

[Aria]

@Arkandel And irony that gets missed in text.

Like, yeah, man. I'm a white girl that likes fall and pumpkin spice. I know. I know.

PS - It apparently weirds out even Walmart people if you whisper "Pumpkin Spice is people" and then gleefully throw the Cheerios in your cart.

[surreality]

The microsoft scammers are calling again.

...from an easily remembered number on Caller ID. Spoofed to be from Washington D.C. and ends in 1234 -- and they've used it exactly three times today. So they're not changing it.

OMG IMPROV PRACTICE CHRISTMAS CAME EARLY THIS YEAR!!!

There are precious few people I think should be fucked with as often as possible in a manner that wastes as much of their time as can be wasted with minimal effort on my part. The microsoft scammers are on that very short list, for all the older folks they do successfully scam and steal money from.

[surreality]

@Sunny said in RL things I love:

I think it's felt but it may not be, I don't know. I had it for many years, until my brother in law's friend (he was helping me move) saw it and thought it was the greatest thing in the history of things. So it's in his garage now getting the love and respect it deserves.

There's flocked velvet paper out there for exactly this. It's what all the 'velvet paintings' are done on.

Bonus points if she's riding a tiger. Please tell me she's riding a tiger? Because that would be even more amazing, and quite possibly actually be the greatest thing in the history of things.

[Sunny]

@surreality

No, but she had peacock feathers...not that they were covering anything...

[surreality]

@Sunny OK, peacock feathers are truly magnificent as well. I didn't even think of that as an option!

We have a few weird family bits of bric-a-brac, some of which... they will never see the light of day ever. My father's mother's side of the family was Italian, as in half were living in Italy and half were living here of her generation (she had 10 siblings that lived to adulthood) and... well. One of them was in the military (and not on our side of that particular war) and was stationed in Ethiopia. We know none of it was pillaged or looted or valuable at the time -- was just tourist trinkets of the day of a man and a woman in the local village's art style -- but, uh. Some of it we think is real ivory, and that is a whole world of 'I don't want to display this and potentially inspire more people to acquire similar items' and also, uh... like, for real, Nazis. (Family dinners with the dude who was a resistance guy must have been amazing after that, what I wouldn't have given to be a fly on that wall. An Italian-speaking fly. Unless I could just read all the hand gestures? Possible.) All the nope, though, I mean, Nazis. But it somehow feels worse to throw away something that's probably carved ivory? Nnngh. So it all sits in a drawer until I figure out an appropriate museum to donate it to.

[Aria]

@surreality said in RL things I love:

@Sunny OK, peacock feathers are truly magnificent as well. I didn't even think of that as an option!

(Family dinners with the dude who was a resistance guy must have been amazing after that, what I wouldn't have given to be a fly on that wall. An Italian-speaking fly. Unless I could just read all the hand gestures? Possible.)

One day, if you all do your chores and eat your vegetables, I will tell the story of "The Time Aria Accidentally Had Dinner at a Nazi's House."

(And no, I don't mean a neo-Nazi. I mean a Nazi-Nazi.)

[surreality]

@Aria I'm in Delaware, so that could absolutely happen at some diner somewhere some day.

I only ever met the resistance dude relative, but I can only imagine. He's another great 3am diner story, because wow... he was a character all right. It rightly should terrify nigh everyone that I'm one of the handful of people in my family that even bothers to try to pass for sane. (Resistance Great Uncle was... well, he was a baron. Really, no shit. Of course, he lived in the crappy middle-middle class suburb one over from ours, was more broke than we were, and insisted on playing 'Lady of Spain' on the accordion at every. single. family. holiday... could cook a mean veal cutlet, though.)

[WTFE]

So, I'm getting a CARE package from Canada. It started off life as a call for certain medication but it snowballed out of control to this ultimate step:

I'm getting this hat.

In the meantime my wife's getting this hat.

Family can be god-awful at times, but then shit like this happens and all is forgiven!

[SG]

@WTFE what kind of adventures are you going to go on with those hats? You need machetes, knee socks and khaki short shorts to go with them!

[Bobotron]

So the Masquerade LARP I was running ended on August 19th. Our last session was an insane crazy time, including:

• Characters involved in a Beckett-related 'meta event' where they went to Kaymakli came back to town, being followed by something that was claiming to be/they thought was Lasombra.
• It was really Lasombra, who had been following them from LA.
• The players had stumbled upon some Thaumaturgy warding rituals that use ley lines that they were trying to use to keep out things of a certain power scale in light of Gehenna happening.
• One player finally revealed himself as the Last Daughter of Eve (they had previously been involved in the killing or elimination of the REAL one, as well as her Magi such as Ferrox the Gargoyle and Smiling Jack).
• They got their shit together and their internal fighting almost overcame their desire to have a 'safe place' to exist in light of Gehenna.
• They worked on the ritual, even to the point that Troile (NPCed by a player whose character died two games prior), in the guise of the Gangrel Lizzie 'Borden' Hartwell, was helping to deal with Lasombra.
• Multiple PCs died, but they got the ritual off, which ended up creating a zone that would harm anything that was above a certain 'pay grade' (IE: rampaging Antediluvians). It drove out Lasombra and Troile.
• Our players got to declare their epilogues over the next 50 years as our game ended with the 'Caine rules for 1000 years' Gehenna ending, The Camarilla collapsed, the Sabbat eventually collapsed, the Nephtali became the rebellion against the rule of the 'sane' Antediluvians.... and our epilogue went very much Vampire Hunter D in the way the world works.

It feels good to not have to deal with writing and building things for the LARP any more, but also sad. I cried twice while building up and writing up the last of the story stuff before the last game.

This is the first LARP we've ever had a 'set ending' to. A little more than 4 years. I think we had a good run.

(And yes, we had 2 Antediluvians on site... it made sense in the context of our 'living world of darkness' setting, and things the players had done, including a local Brujah setting up and heading the anti-Troile movement after she got unsealed from the ruins of Carthage and her and the Baali started the Carthaginian faction of Infernalists. Our players loved it, and our game was for our players, so...)

[WTFE]

@SG said in RL things I love:

@WTFE what kind of adventures are you going to go on with those hats? You need machetes, knee socks and khaki short shorts to go with them!

What makes you think I don't have the rest of that?

[Faceless]

I love that quicksand isn't as prevalent a threat to my daily existence as pop culture tried to make me believe, while I was growing up. Pretty thankful for that.

Edit to include: I'm also thankful that having your young child piss on you while changing them is either easily avoided with good reflexes or simply not as common as pop culture in the '80s and '90s would have lead one to believe.

[Meg]

@Faceless You stole this from John Mulaney. As a RL thing I love, I seriously love John Mulaney.

[Kanye Qwest]

I was relievappointed that nothing Night Vale-y happened during the eclipse. Like, I'm glad skeletons didn't come up and take all our skins, but I mean, not 100% glad??