Who are you?

[Arkandel]

@ganymede That's why we have paralegals such as Frank Castle.

[Salty]

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[dontpanda]

Sure, I'll bite:

• I am possibly the most politically/philosophically conservative I've encountered in this hobby. I've also found little tolerance for those differences of opinion from others, so I tend to not bother engaging that stuff.
• I am Canadian and can only barely skate, and have no love for hockey. Please don't tell my government or they'll take away my passport.
• None of the characters I've ever played are very much like me.
• I'm a better than reasonable cook. I am not handy at all, and very much wish I were. I would be willing to trade almost any of my talents to be good at fixing things.
• I rarely read anymore, though I used to read hundreds of pages a day. For fiction, I'm all about my kindle. For reference books, I need the physical thing so I can write notes in margins.
• I strongly dislike social activities and relationships at work, and have gotten a few concerned "talkings-to" about my lack of engagement, and what it communicates to the people I lead.
• The last 3.5 seasons of DS9 are the best in sci-fi, and I'll fite you with teeth and fists.

[BobGoblin]

I am a white male that grew up as the only person of his race in High School. (I grew up on a Native American Reservation)

I play 9 instruments, have been a professional musician, in 5 musicals, but cannot sing to save my life.

I have been hit while walking by cars 3 times and did not even get more than a bruise from any of them despite cracking the windshield with my body all three times.

I have won national math competitions in my youth but no longer can do basic algebra.

My eyes change colors daily and seldom match each other.

I believe Thomas Malthus was right, just about 200 years too early.

[Crawfish]

@dontpanda said in Who are you?:

• The last 3.5 seasons of DS9 are the best in sci-fi, and I'll fite you with teeth and fists.

Yes!!

[Layla]

• I've driven across the country four times. It's really not fun to do in the winter, there is nothing like having the interstate shut down and you have to find lodgings out of the blue.

• I am godmother to the most adorable baby ever. Well, that I know of at least. https://imgur.com/u3HFHzP

• I've spent the last two days cooking, and will probably be making pies and cookies all the way up to Christmas Day. Precious few people in my family like to bake, and I make a lot of extra holiday cash by helping out.

• When I was in fifth grade someone called my mother a snowblower, and it literally took until I was twenty three to figure out what that meant.

• If I ever win the lottery, I'm moving to Snoqualmie Pass. The few times I've driven over that mountain were enchanting. There is always so much snow there.

• I sometimes go through a book a day, and my Kindle Unlimited subscription is essential to me.

[Autumn]

• I am slightly red colorblind, which makes fashion decisions a constant adventure.
• The smell of canned tuna makes me physically ill.
• Every level of mathematics above geometry was difficult enough for me that I was lucky to pass.
• I am a mediocre cook but a mean baker.
• One of my characters wore a t-shirt that read "I like to take hot showers so I can practice burning in Hell", and this sentiment is pretty much mine.
• In 25 years of reasonably constant employment, the only thing I have ever worked on that you are likely to have heard of is the Kepler project.
• Even modest levels of spice give me vicious heartburn, so living in New Mexico is challenging.
• I am so WASP that there is a Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem about two of my direct ancestors.
• Tea, never coffee. My parents drank their coffee black, no sugar; I have never been able to enjoy any coffee drink. No, not even the crazy syrupy sweet Starbucks confections.
• I am rarely without a pocketknife of some sort, and I insist on having a wide selection so I can fit my mood and the occasion. (Do not carry a knife in your purse. It will cut you.)
• No ink. No piercings besides ears.
• Going too long without telling a story of some sort makes me anxious, and my attachment to the MUSHing hobby is a direct result of this.

[Testament]

@dontpanda said in Who are you?:

• The last 3.5 seasons of DS9 are the best in sci-fi, and I'll fite you with teeth and fists.

I really, really don't want to fight you on this, because I more or less agree, but Babylon 5 seasons 3 and 4 would like a word with you.

[Crawfish]

@testament WHY NOT BOTH

[Testament]

@sincerely Ugh, I can't argue it too hard because DS9 had 'In the Pale Moonlight' which is just...ugh, SO GOOD.

[GangOfDolls]

I meant to add this earlier but spaced:

I'm relatively newer to RPGs (tt games, larp, mu* - I kind of freely associate them as being facets of the same hobby). I didn't start doing the nerd stuff until well into my adult life. Part of this was having some interest but feeling the social pressure of not standing out so feigning disinterest in my youth. Part of this was having parents- at least one who is actively weirded out by all this and for religious reasons associates it with the occult- who would have never been supportive.

This has resulted in not being out to my parents about this hobby. I'm also in the closet at work about my free time. I "go camping" a shit ton, my co-workers think I'm super outdoorsy. It helps that I'm pretty athletic and I live in the Pacific Northwest where people don't look twice at the frequency of that hobby. I definitely also notice different levels of socialization between me and other gamers in certain situations- this is not always to my advantage.

[Wretched]

@hedgehog said in Who are you?:

• Clearly the goth/industrial wearing black thing was NOT a phase, 30 years on.

So i have had a mohawk of different shapes and sizes since before y2k was a thing, I legit feel WEIRD with hair on the sides of my head. My highschool best friend taught me the ways of the goth. Family was not a fan.

So thanksgiving we did a family thing, but my brother scheduled it earlier than I anticipated. You see i was gonna get a haircut and show up looking like a normie for my grandparents. SO instead I am mohawked as normal, and I tell this fact to my Oma, who waves her hand dismissively 'Your hair looks lovely.' and i just sit here staring at her in shock. "Finally" i tell my Mom and Opa "I can stop rebelling."

It got a laugh at least.

But yeah, 38 and still with the black and pierced and weird colored hair. Odly tho my Music tastes are leaning deeply into Hip Hop at the moment, tho goth/industrial will always be my home.

[Crawfish]

@wretched you have an Oma. Every time I hear people talk about their omas I get weepy. Thank you for sharing that! Your family sounds fun.

[Vixanic]

@dontpanda said in Who are you?:

• The last 3.5 seasons of DS9 are the best in sci-fi, and I'll fite you with teeth and fists.

A-fucking-men!

[Vixanic]

Uh, okay.

• I like pineapple on pizza. I accept that some people don't.
• I like cats, I love dogs, I have neither. Sadly working full time means having a pet would be irresponsible.
• I can cook pretty much anything given a decent recipe and some time to experiment. I also enjoy freestyle 'let's see what we can make with this' cooking.
• I can bake absolutely nothing. No, not even box cake. It just doesn't work.
• I have a job with co-workers that I like and a supportive manager. Even so, I have impostor syndrome.
• I have peanut intolerance, which is much easier than dealing with a peanut allergy.
• I have no practical/survival skills that would make me valuable in the event of an apocalypse of some kind (other than, maybe, cooking).
• I worry about the above more than I should.
• I also spend far too much time imagining how I would earn my keep if I were transported back in time to various periods/countries.
• I am asexual and aromantic, and get really annoyed by love songs. But in contrast I do enjoy reading romance books.

There.

[Bobotron]

Hrm.

• I'm the youngest of 6, and all my siblings (all half-siblings from my dad's first marriage) are significantly older than me. My oldest brother was 18 when I was born, the next up from me was 13 when I was born.
• I have no tattoos, used to have my ears pierced, and still have my tongue pierced.
• My mother and my third grade teacher are the reason that I love reading. I still have my very first 'horror' book that my teacher had us read, House of Hackman's Hill. It holds a special place in my heart. And I regret losing the entire collection of Star Wars novels that my mother collected and we both read after she died.
• I used to play a lot of video games, but I don't really any more. I have tons of video games for my computer (thanks Steam sales and gifts and free bundles!) but I don't have a computer that'll run all of them.
• I had an allergy to a yellow dye that is common in foods when I was a kid (especially cheeses), so I don't have a taste for cheese. I think I grew out of the allergy (I've eaten other things with it in it), but it's so ingrained for me to say 'I am allergic to that' as I've grown up. It's always weird to say that and have someone say 'wow, I feel sorry for you, you don't know what you're missing' and have to explain 'look, I don't have a taste for it, but I know what I'm missing: possible ANAPHYLAXIS OKAY'
• The above is especially the reason I love italian foods, despite being raised southern in KY.
• I hate seafood of all kinds except calamari and eel.
• I'm such a softie, I love all animals no matter what. The more ugly-cute something is the more I squee like child.
• I have trained away my southern accent, but I absorb the accents of the people around me, so it's funny to go home and come back and people ask me about my redneck accent.
• MU*ing saved me from suicide. A good friend on BWTMet and M3 offered me to live with him for a summer, which kept me from killing myself over my being gay and not having a way out of the hellhole town I was born and raised in. Led to my current now-married situation with my husband of 17 years.

[tek]

• I am an Egyptologist. I can read hieroglyphics, I've been on dig, and basically all of my friends have been dead for 4000 years

• I have a good eye for spotting counterfeit antiquities

• Fifty Cent once bought me a bagel

• My husband and I have matching hedgehog onesies

• I recently played one of my dream roles, Emma Goldman in the musical "Ragtime"

• I can fit fifty grapes in my mouth

[PuppyBreath]

• I've been deeply obsessed with horses since I was capable of having obsessions.
• My current horse is a rare breed, of which there are around 300 in the US and 1500 in the world.
• I have a tumor in my head that caused me to go through puberty super early, and may cause blindness in the future if it ends up growing.
• I've been grooming dogs for over a decade. I'm really good at it, but I hate it. So much.
• I have a BS in Software Development, but no one will hire me because I suck at resumes, cover letters, and interviewing.
• I've had issues with depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation since I was around 10. I was so depressed in my 20s that I barely remember those years.
• I'm not big on labels, but if I had to pick right now I'd identify as bi-aposexual.
• I was co-Valedictorian of my high school class solely because I didn't want to give a speech, so they had me share it with someone who actually cared.
• I'm obsessive about learning, and I pick things up pretty quickly. I think one of the biggest sources of existential despair in my life is that I can't learn everything.
• My son will be old enough to vote in the next presidential election.
• I have a low content wolf dog.
• I was allergic to bubblebath when I was little, so I played with shaving cream in the bath instead.
• Ron Glass kissed me on the forehead.
• I have a thing for camo patterns.
• I prefer driving a stick shift.
• I quit drinking soda cold turkey about 5 years ago.
• I've played World of Warcraft with Kristian Nairn (Hodor in Game of Thrones).
• I have severe plantar fasciitis and I'm super jealous of people who can stand up and walk around for more than a couple hours without intense pain.
• I'm sorry my list is so long, I got carried away pretending I'm interesting.

[Aria]

@surreality said in Who are you?:

@pyrephox said in Who are you?:

• I have sordid addictions to paranormal romance novels and cooking shows. If you managed to write a romance series about competing chefs in a fantasy world who fall in love, I would buy every copy.

My former mentor wrote a series fantasy novels about knitting witches. Alongside each novel, she'd write a book of patterns. She did well enough with it to produce companion audiobooks of them. If someone actually did what you're describing, and released a side-by-side recipe book people could opt to buy as a 'set', they would likely do pretty fucking well.

What is this and how do I make them take my money?!

[Aria]

• I don't have a favorite color. No, really. I've been through so many 'favorite colors', I've just given up on the idea. The sole exception is with clothes, in which case 'Does it come in black?' is probably the first thing out of my mouth. If it comes in black, I am buying it in black.

• I have two tattoos, a dozen piercings, and previously have had pink hair and a faux-hawk.

• I currently work in the notoriously conservative financial industry, otherwise my hair would STILL be pink. My hair has been about every shade of red since, just to try and keep things a little interesting.

• I have personally rescued about 15 cats in the last ten years, about half of which I have rehomed. There is usually some kind of cat food in my trunk, 'just in case'. I've had the neighbors try to call the cops on me because they thought I was stealing someone's car. No, dude. I was just crawling around under there trying to get a half-starved, mangy, limping little calico to come out so I could make her better. (Also, you don't hot-wire a car from underneath the front-end, dumbass.)

• This is hilarious, because I am actually a dog person.

• The sadder and uglier an animal is, the more likely I am to lose my mind trying to love on it. I have a few scars to prove this.

• The first time I was diagnosed with depression, I was 8. I also have anxiety, and mild OCD.

• And a crippling fear of being perceived as 'crazy' thanks to my super dysfunctional home. If I think I've upset you, I will monumentally overexplain myself. You will probably think this is me trying to prove I'm "right". It's actually me trying to prove my thought process did not involve a detour over to Crazy Town. It usually just makes things worse. Sorry.

• Once, I met the Dalai Lama. He accidentally elbowed me in the stomach. Then laughed.

• I have been to more concerts than I can count. I consider this good for my health.

• I punched a neo-Nazi. It was one of the prouder moments of my life.

• I was an overacheiver in high school. I didn't graduate from college until I was 30.

• Macaroni and cheese is my comfort food.

• Condiments are the devil. Don't. Just don't.

• Except for hummus. I will eat hummus in giant buckets from Costco. And guacamole. Chutney is also acceptable in certain cases.

• I wasn't allowed to drink soda as a child and I still don't like it. The fizz is weird and stingy.

• I own over 100 bottles of perfume oils. I should stop buying them. I say that every year.