@arkandel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@aria Yeah, that guy is a bloody moron.
... I'll let myself out, I'm very sorry.
@arkandel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@aria Yeah, that guy is a bloody moron.
... I'll let myself out, I'm very sorry.
The Epic Saga of Miss Kitty continues.
We were not permitted to bring her home last night. The humane law officers needed to make at least one final attempt to contact her owners, despite the fact that 24PetWatch apparently attempts to make contact ten times before they stop trying, and this doesn't include my door knocking, neighborhood post, found pet report with animal control, or the shelter reaching out.
They showed up at the house today and found weeks of mail piled outside. Addressed to someone who isn't her owner.
We're now applying to adopt her, and hoping they don't give us a hard time about our vet records showing all our pets have out of date vaccines, because I use the low cost clinics instead.
Until then, here is another cute picture of one of my cats.
.....we have a lot of cats.
@insomniac7809, my boyfriend. Whose primary hobby is "arguing with dumbfucks on the internet."
ILU, babe.
@arkandel Hey. Hey. Last year, he got a beautiful art print of a map of Lancre from the Discworld, which was also one of the last things Terry Pratchett signed before he died, as verified by his daughter.
It was declared that I had Officially Won Christmas.
I'm pretty sure I get to just hand him shopping lists from now on.
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.
@zombiegenesis said in Good or New Movies Review:
Finally saw Aquaman. All I can say is, wow! I thought it was fantastic. I think it's the first DC movie that can really hold it's own with the top tier Marvel movies. I could not have asked for much more from a comic book movie.
......Wonder Woman. FIGHT ME.
@highfalutin said in Good TV:
I just finished it. Having read the novel when it was released, I.... have complicated feelings about the show. I mean, I loved it. I really loved it. But the book made me deeply uncomfortable with its fascinating portrayal of the narrator and how truly disturbed and delusional he was. The show made me deeply uncomfortable with myself, because despite knowing from the very beginning -- even without being familiar with the book, so no spoilers -- that he's a fucking psycho stalker, I actually really liked him and was kind of rooting for him at the end?
I'm not sure whether that says more about the incredibly fucked up idea of 'romance' we have portrayed in media or about me, but either way, I'm sitting here pretty skeeved out by having thought to myself, "Aww, Joe. You'd be such a great guy if you weren't a violent lunatic." And this is from someone who reacts with an instinctive, visceral anger to the slightest hint of Nice Guy (tm) bullshit after horrible real life experiences growing up.
Man, exactly this. All of it. When I got a pleasant stomach flutter as Joe was running at a full pelt for Beck's place (accompanied by a straight up grin when he tried to do that romantic "stone tapping on the window" and it broke instead) I was so sickened by my own reactions I almost turned it off.
I found myself rooting for him consistently, and that's insane. I don't know if the credit goes to the actor who portrayed him or the story - probably a combination of the two - but they did a hell of a job. I deeply enjoyed the show. I just don't know what to think about how I responded to the "protagonist."
I honestly feel like a fair portion of that was the actor? I mean, in the novel they do a much better job of portraying just how angry and disgusted he is. Don't get me wrong -- Peach is horrible and her arrogant, classist crap is a big part of it. In the show, it makes you feel bad for Joe; in the novel a lot of it is countered by his internal rage centered on how very little he thinks of them, how he -- the poor, uneducated, working class white man who is just smart and well read -- is so much better than them, and it just sort of clicks in your brain. Like, "Ohh. OHH. He's that guy, the ill-adjusted, socially isolated 'intellectual' white boy that thinks he deserves whatever he wants because he's absorbed this narrative and he's just angry he isn't getting what he's owed and congratulating himself for being such a 'gentleman'." And having existed in the super misogynistic circle that was 90s gaming culture, I was all "I know this guy. I know twenty of these guys and it's terrifying."
The show trades a lot on Penn Badgley's charm and good looks, but if there's one thing that I give it credit for, it's being very keenly aware of that. If you read any of the interviews or tweets or whatever he's made about his views on the show, how looks and charm and whiteness and maleness are so valued in our culture that we skew towards giving Joe the benefit of the doubt even though we know he's a murderer, it's brilliant. It becomes a different kind of horror, one that's as much a send-up of our culture and our complicity in these stories, in the idea of Beck as some sort of prize that Joe's supposed to win for doing everything 'right', a horror with ourselves and our reactions.
I love it. I love it so much. SO MUCH.
A++. Would buy again.
ETA: Having started watching this right after finishing the Ted Bundy tapes -- like, Netflix was all, "Hey, you apparently like shows about violent lunatics that murder women (which I am mentally questioning even as I type this, like maybe I should just go watch Fuller House or something for awhile), you should watch You! You'll like it!", things got.... weird. Like at one point I was examining my reactions to Joe and kind of went "*Ohh, fuck. This is how Bundy got married while he was literally on trial for raping and murdering a twelve year old girl, isn't it?!?!", and it's a whole..... thing to sudden feel a wash of sympathy and pity for Carol Ann Boone.
@Sparks said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Finding a comfortable, durable bra is like finding a unicorn.
Sadly, I have not caught any unicorns recently.
Ladies, ladies.
Herroom.com is the secret. Thousands -- yes, thousands -- of bras that you can sort by size, style, feature, brand, color, general taste (sporty versus sexy, etc). Also, they have a discount off your first order. Also, they sell discontinued colors from normally very pricey brands, which is how I have a drawer full of Wacoal, Natori, and Chantel bras at prices you normally see at Kohl's. And again, since I have boobs the size of an adult human head, that means I'm buying bras that normally range from $60-$100 for $30-$50.
Granted, my bra and my panties never come as a fancy matching set as a result, but I maintain that women who manage that without at least a week of carefully planned laundry are probably witches with some kind of hell-power, anyway. Like women who can do winged liner in one try. Or look cute in cap sleeves. It's not natural.
(To note: They do SELL the matching panties on the site, but fuck you if you think I'm shelling out $18 for a single pair of underpants. But I dunno. You may be willing to spend more on covering your butt. As the kids say, YMMV.)
ETA: I recommend using the "universal cup size" search filter if you're over a D-cup, since the States and Australia are the only countries that does this weird "D -- DD--DDD-G-H" nonsense. The UK does "D-DD-E-F-FF", which also makes no goddamn sense, and continental Europe does "D-E-F-G-H". Japan goes straight through the alphabet but skips the "AA" size, so it's like European sizes except they're all off by one. Just save yourself the nosebleed and use the automatic converter and it'll search their database all at once for the right size regardless of where the bra is made.
PS: Dudes reading this comment? Bullshit like the above is why your girlfriend is always angry about something. The more you know. <twinkling star arch>
I certainly understand gallows humor. It's my default when facing from situations, including terminal diagnoses in my own family...
But I also kind of want to punch all of you right now. >.<
I think that it's entirely possible to regard both events as tragedies that induce strong feelings -- in one case heartbreak and in the other rage, at least for me. And that wanting to help in whatever form a person can is a natural, and worthy, instinct. If someone is fortunate enough to give to multiple causes, whatever they may be, good! There are literally thousands and thousands and thousands of problems in this world that need solving. And if they can only give to one, whether its of their money or time or energy or voice, that it should go where their heart and conscience pulls them.
No one can fix everything in this world. There's way more than enough awful shit to go around and finding the greatest or most deserving need doesn't eliminate the rest. So lets not play that game, yeah?
@insomniac7809 said in Game of Thrones:
@Sparks said in Game of Thrones:
@Snackness said in Game of Thrones:
@Sparks The Captal's Tower?
Got it in one guess.
Ask @Aria about that one...
I mean, Martin's working on a narrative that can be generously described as 'sprawling.' And yeah, he doesn't have what you'd call the strongest work ethic. (He's frequently taken breaks because he's bummed over a sports franchise or a political development. Not casting stones here, my house is spun sugar at best...)
And yeah, he feels like he's under a lot of pressure since the IP he's working on has become a defining Nerd Thing.
Dude takes his time.
Ohh, god, do not get me started on Melanie Rawn. I've been waiting for that book since I was 13. I'm going to be 35 in, like, two weeks.
I love her work. Love. I would, as I have posted in other threads, play the shit out of a Sunrunner's MU*. And I whole-heartedly agree with Neil Gaiman's sentiments about Martin not owing anyone his creative work.....
But I also don't owe artists my money. If you're going to drag things out, delay series, leave work unfinished, and then bitch about your fans, well. Sooner or later I'm going to run out of sympathy. And stop giving you my money for your other projects.
Finish your fucking books, Melanie.
We went to a 5:30 showing and left the theater at 9:00, which I was very, very surprised by when one of my friends told me what time it was. Yeah, it's three hours long, but it didn't feel like it at all.
@cocopuffs said in Game of Thrones:
@Kestrel They did.
https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/2019/05/13/how-long-game-of-thrones-final-episode-lengthHBO offered them a full season of episodes and the writers said no.
I think that was a round-about way of her saying she's pretending Season 8 never existed.
@surreality said in RL Anger:
I have also noticed the little note of panic that appears in your voice whenever you're reminded that you may have to do all of tasks that weren't supposed to be a part of my duties but which you were Way Too Busy with Super Important Things to handle.
There's no compliment like hearing that tone of voice that comes with a blaring subtext of 'I just peed myself a little in terror' in these situations, truth. Savor it!
Dear IT Help Rep --
I don't mind you calling over one of your co-workers to help you with my ticket even though I have to sit on hold while you figure out where he, and half his team, went. I realize it's a weird problem and a pain in the ass, which is why I had to call you instead of being able to fix it myself using the available tools. However, please inform him that your microphone does not have an immutable sound barrier on it blocking out everyone's voice but yours, and I can in fact hear him talking about me in the background. Including when he insisted that I was "calling about nothing and just keeping you from lunch", right up until this supposedly "impossible" issue happened for the sixth time as he was looking over your shoulder at the remote view of my desktop.
Sincerely,
Aria
PS -- Thank you again for repeating the message when I said, "Please tell Noel that I can hear him, and also that I said I told you so." I hope the look on his face was as priceless as the gagging noise I heard. By the sounds of your muffled laughter, it was.
....My MIL sent me a two page list of shit to include in the "stuff to do" section of our wedding website. That doesn't include the website links, addresses, or blurbs/reviews she wants included. Just the list.
Two pages.
Two pages.
I've written up bits about nearly a dozen restaurants, several brewpubs/distilleries, shopping, museums, parks, gardens, libraries, sporting events, walking trails, kid's activities, and historic spots (including ones that are just statues) that are all opening/happening in this little college town over the course of one weekend.
I've reached my breaking point. How can you tell?
Duck Pond @ Alumni Center Gardens
There's gardens! And a pond! And ducks! It's cute - and also self-explanatory.
This is it. I refuse to write a descriptive review of a fucking duck pond.
When a bad person you know who does bad things and treats people badly gets caught - and slapped with felony charges.
Sooner or later, karma's gonna get you. ^_^
I just got my third high-five in 24 hours from one of my area's TLs today about the presentation that I gave in yesterday's staff meeting.
Apparently, the team liked it so much that they're forwarding the links, video, and documentation out to our sister teams in our subdivision for use with all the future cohorts we're training.
I spent 12 years as an executive assistant, doing work that isn't all that different than what I do now....
Being recognized and congratulated for it feels weird. Definitely weird.