Writing a fanfic (yeah, okay, so I write fanfic of a French parkour superhero romance cartoon; everyone needs a side hobby) and posting the first chapter, only to immediately start getting comments posted on it like "It is too early for me to be crying like this" or "thanks, this broke me".
Yesgood... I will drink the readers' tears and let their anguish nourish my soul.
a.k.a. Packetdancer (or "Pax" for short)
@Sparks said in RL things I love:
(yeah, okay, so I write fanfic of a French parkour superhero romance cartoon; everyone needs a side hobby)
… CyberSix?
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
@Ganymede said in RL things I love:
@Sparks said in RL things I love:
(yeah, okay, so I write fanfic of a French parkour superhero romance cartoon; everyone needs a side hobby)
… CyberSix?
Nope, @moth nailed it. Miraculous: Les Adventures de Ladybug et Chat Noir. That ridiculous series has become my no-stress happy place over the past two and a half years or so, and I love it.
@Pandora I had to look those up. I sew, it just looks like it's fleece, slapped together like a french pillowcase edging. But the price, ouch. If you let me know your dimensions, I have fleece and can rip you off a few. The fleece has been sitting forever on my shelf and I'd rather see it used. Also, keep an eye on joanns for fleece, day after christmas sales, their no pill fleeces go on ridiculous cheap. Like 2 bucks a yard. And coupons through the year gets you 40 - 60 % off. You can even buy heavy duty hem tape and make a no sew one, with just your iron and the hem tape.
@surreality I feel like I just witnessed some slam poetry
@jibberthehut said in RL things I love:
@Pandora I had to look those up. I sew, it just looks like it's fleece, slapped together like a french pillowcase edging. But the price, ouch. If you let me know your dimensions, I have fleece and can rip you off a few. The fleece has been sitting forever on my shelf and I'd rather see it used. Also, keep an eye on joanns for fleece, day after christmas sales, their no pill fleeces go on ridiculous cheap. Like 2 bucks a yard. And coupons through the year gets you 40 - 60 % off. You can even buy heavy duty hem tape and make a no sew one, with just your iron and the hem tape.
It's fleece with a sewn diamond pattern to keep the material from shifting, a waterproof bottom layer, and a layer of organic, absorbent bamboo to hold the piggie wee. I looked into making one myself, but I don't know where to source organic bamboo fibres on this bloody island, so GuineaDad gets (all) my money. 
Tinuviel about 9 hours ago
I hate you with the power of a thousand Pandoras.
@Pandora said in RL things I love:
@jibberthehut said in RL things I love:
@Pandora I had to look those up. I sew, it just looks like it's fleece, slapped together like a french pillowcase edging. But the price, ouch. If you let me know your dimensions, I have fleece and can rip you off a few. The fleece has been sitting forever on my shelf and I'd rather see it used. Also, keep an eye on joanns for fleece, day after christmas sales, their no pill fleeces go on ridiculous cheap. Like 2 bucks a yard. And coupons through the year gets you 40 - 60 % off. You can even buy heavy duty hem tape and make a no sew one, with just your iron and the hem tape.
It's fleece with a sewn diamond pattern to keep the material from shifting, a waterproof bottom layer, and a layer of organic, absorbent bamboo to hold the piggie wee. I looked into making one myself, but I don't know where to source organic bamboo fibres on this bloody island, so GuineaDad gets (all) my money.
sounds like when I looked into making my own weighted blanket. And it was like okay, the...... materials aren't too bad, but when you factor in a sewing machine that can handle it (big enough working area to maneuver in) and the time involved in doing it, it's almost easier to just buy one.
@Auspice Yeah, you need like an 8 inch throat to handle even quilting. It's why when I had money years ago, I got the Singer Quantum, because it had a really generous throat and I could do a queen with just some tight rolling and adjusting how I basted and pinned and dear god I just realized how dirty quilting sounds....
@jibberthehut said in RL things I love:
you need like an 8 inch throat to handle
(#sorrynotsorry I had to)
@Auspice Okay I'm not the only one, thank gods.
When I read that this happened in my head:
@jibberthehut said in RL things I love:
@Auspice Yeah, you need like an 8 inch throat
to handle even quilting. It's why when I had money years ago, I got the Singer Quantum, because it had a really generous throat and I could do a queen with just some tight rolling and adjusting how I basted and pinned and dear god I just realized how dirty quilting sounds..blowjob.
WORD. I JUST LANDED ANOTHER SOLID CONFERENCE CALL MOMENT.
There's a moth flying around my office right now.
Guy on phone: There's a butterfly or something flying around my cube.
Other Guy: Yeah it's a moth, pretty big one, too.
Me, in a Buffalo Bill accent: It's uh death's head moth...
I'm high fiving myself right now about as much as I did as the time a guy said that voltage was running high by about 4 watts and I told him he's gotta turn down 4 wat.
Delete the Hog Pit. It'll be fun.
I really don't understand He-Man
@Ghost said in RL things I love:
I'm high fiving myself right now about as much as I did as the time a guy said that voltage was running high by about 4 watts and I told him he's gotta turn down 4 wat.
...I want to borrow this one to share in the electrical engineering lab here at work.
a.k.a. Packetdancer (or "Pax" for short)
@Sparks do it 
I know someone whose name is actually Duncan Macleod.
It's distracting.
Delete the Hog Pit. It'll be fun.
I really don't understand He-Man
@Ghost In fairness, if that's your last name why wouldn't you name your son that?
@Arkandel AAAAABSOLUTELY. Duncan or Conner. If it's a girl? Connie or...Duncan.
Because if your name is Duncan Macleod it is literally valid to introduce yourself as Duncan Macleod of the Clan Macleod
It's so easy to make smols happy. I sent my nine-year-old to go brush teeth the before bed and got hit with a massive case of the sulks. I intercepted in the kitchen and pulled skewers and marshmallows from behind my back. We roasted a marshmallow each over the gas stove and danced around the kitchen. All smiles to go brush the sticky from the teeth afterward, and bedtime only delayed by 5 minutes to bring back the happy. So worth it.
@Pandora Oh thank god I'm not the only one who does that. My husband thought it was weird and "bound to burn the house down" and I just look at him and roast the marshmallow anyways.
Writing a fanfic (yeah, okay, so I write fanfic of a French parkour superhero romance cartoon; everyone needs a side hobby) and posting the first chapter, only to immediately start getting comments posted on it like "It is too early for me to be crying like this" or "thanks, this broke me".
Yesgood... I will drink the readers' tears and let their anguish nourish my soul.
