Best posts made by Aria

My boyfriend, bless his heart, has somehow managed to lose... I dunno, like every sock I've ever bought ever in the process of doing laundry. I don't even mean the occasional, universal "The dryer ate it." I mean that I literally cannot find a single pair of socks in the house, because he somehow manages to lose them in strange places every time he does the wash.

But I was complaining my toes were cold. So he brought me the last clean pair of his, and started a new load of laundry so he has some to wear to work tomorrow.

@SparklesTheClown said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

@Rucket said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

I see @Aria talking about a Philly WoD game, and now all I want is a Philly WoD game where Gritty is some sort of supernatural creature that beats the shit out of alt-righters.

But I've also pined over 7th Sea for quite some time too, so I know @Cobaltasaurus's feels there.

Hello, Philly Native here.

I will accept this if Gritty smells like pee. I always insist that Gritty needs to smell like pee to truly embody Philly.

It's difficult to put into words about why this is true and right.

I mean, have you ever really been to Philly unless you've accidentally stepped in a puddle that may be rainwater, may be pee, but definitely smells like the latter on the small streets around The Gallery or the convention center at least once? No. No, you have not.

@Jennkryst said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

@Rucket The WoD Philly MU was just CoH, but with x20. Yes Sneks, no Mum-Rahs. Alas

I tried that place. It was horrible. And by horrible I mean that staff told me there wasn't really a setting or a plot and on my second login, some rando started paging me about how we should make twins. I had literally never spoken to them before. Did not log back in.

@Auspice said in Good TV:

I finally began watching The Expanse.

And just outright binging it.
Oh god I love this and everything about it and want all of it forever and ever.
This is the best sci-fi I have seen in a very long time. It's so good.

I also just started watching the series last weekend! I love it and badly want to binge it, but I've had like... a scene or a date or a concert every night this week. But the weekend. It is coming. And when it comes, the binging will follow.

Also, double post because A++, would play fae L&L game. Please make the thing now, despite the title of this thread.

@Auspice said in RL Anger:

I think I'd rather be a lonely, crazy cat lady than deal with people like him (or the other common type I get on dating sites: the 'you're bi so you'll be a third for our threesome fantasy right?').

And in my experience, it's always the husband contacting you.

Which means it's his threesome fantasy.

And of course, his wife doesn't know he's talking to you.

Dating sites are why I decided to give up on dating and just occasionally fuck a friend for about two years in my twenties.

@SparklesTheClown said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

@Aria said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

Also, double post because A++, would play fae L&L game. Please make the thing now, despite the title of this thread.

A part of the reason I made this thread is in case anyone got inspired by other people's ideas they didn't want to make for one reason or another.

Also I would play a fae L&L game too, to be honest. Similar vibes to Hell in my opinion, but more trippy bullshit.

Would also play the Hell L&L game. Do the thing.

@Ghost

We have our own Megadeth story, but it's tied into the year we were voted the "Most Intimidating Fans in the NHL" based on a survey of players.

Someone writing an article on the subject compared the appearance of Flyers fans to security at a Megadeth concert. And because Philly is Philly, naturally this was something we found hilarious and took pride in.

At the next fan appreciation night, they gave out orange t-shirts that had a picture of a cheering fan and "Most Intimidating Fans in the NHL" on the front. On the back, it just said "Megadeth Security" between two Flyers' logos.

I have that shirt. I love that shirt.

I just got to type the phrase "It's like the "Where's Waldo?" of medieval penis art."

I love bored scribes, man. I really, really do.

@auspice said in RL Anger:

@surreality

Well, listening to the lecture, I think I've found one person to ask to file the complaint with me.

Student: "I don't appreciate the way you keep saying you already told me three ti-"
Instructor, cutting him off: "I have!"
Student, forcing back in: "I am asking a specific question for a scenario and you're not giving me an answer."

This after the instructor tried to demand he stop asking and ask him outside of the class. The guy is trying to find out if he'd be marked off for writing something a specific way (re: formatting). And the only answer he's getting is 'Write it how you want.'

This guy takes mansplaining to the extreme, I swear. Listening to the Q&A part of the class now and he's just over-explaining and talking to everyone like they're children.

Yep. Contact the guy getting interrupted and go to the professor's department head. Specifically mention to them that even your adviser acknowledged having received multiple complaints. If it was in writing, even better.

Be forewarned: If the asshole has tenure, it's much harder to do something. Not impossible, but harder. If he's an adjunct or associate professor or trying for a tenure track job? A long history of complaints is going to be problematic for him.

@tempest My favorite Thor is probably Thor and his roommate Darryl.

@auspice I have some of her stuff!!

@tnp -- Sadly, it doesn't work quite like that. Mostly because -- with the haircut I was aiming for, most of what determines the length is the back of my hair. And with my head tilted down, it's really hard for me to see in the mirror. With my head tilted down and her cutting the back of my hair, it's impossible, mostly because of that whole not having eyes in the back of my head.

And in this case, in an attempt to get the back of my hair to lay the way I wanted it to? She was apparently having problems getting it to do that. She didn't tell me that, though. She just kept cutting. And cutting. And cutting until it was short enough to lay that way. By the time she was coming around to the front and I could see where the scissors were and going "Uhhhh, Katie, why is there a giant lock of cut hair on my shoulder? What are you doing?" my options at that point were let her finish the cut or stop and have what would've basically been a reverse mullet -- party in the front, business in the back.

So not me, but basically my hair now:

Pinterest board I brought with me, to commiserate with @Cupcake and @Auspice having shitty experiences.

On the upside, I've realized over the last two days that is an objectively cute haircut and does look nice on me. In fact, it's exactly what I wanted for shape and style.... just much, much, much shorter. Like, I can't even pull it back short. And as @mietze said, I was trying to grow it out, so losing that much hair all at once means it's going to take about a year to grow back. If this -- and the other fuck up that happened while my regular stylist was on maternity leave -- had not happened? My hair would not be chin length right now. It would be several inches past my shoulders, which is what I was hoping to have eventually, and had just gotten it to the 'slightly past my shoulders' point.

Super frustrating.

Is there any way at all you would be comfortable having this man as a part of your life in any way?

Think on that question. Because if the answer is 'no', then the only person who could possibly derive any benefit from contact is him. And if the only person who would derive any benefit is him, then.... you don't owe him forgiveness, or closure, or the assuaging of any potential guilt he may feel. That's his fucking problem.

I know that sounds harsh, but we as a culture -- and especially women -- are often encouraged to 'be the bigger person' and 'find healing through forgiveness'. And hey, if that would actually help you? Great. If all it would do is minimize other people's discomfort caused by conflict or drama, absolve responsibility, and stress you out by forcing you into interactions with someone who's treated you poorly? Don't do it. Just don't. And rest secure in the knowledge that no one can make you.

@Faceless -- I just started "The Blade Itself" a few days ago, though it's currently on pause. Since the boyfriend owns that one, I tend to put down books I own when my limited-availability ebooks pop up from my waitlist at the local library. (And my copy of "White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America" just popped up.)

I should be back to it in a few weeks, if you want to go through it together!

.....I live in the Northeast. It's 42* right now and I don't have the heat on. In fact, I had the windows cracked -- just a little -- when it was 50* and sunny all day. My car windows while driving in to work today, too.

An office set to 84* sounds like a circle of hell to me.

....Gary Oldman.

Gary Oldman was my favorite actor for a long, long time. The man is an underrated genius, who has never in his career voiced two characters the same way. To the point that between that and makeup? On more than one occasion, I've looked at his IMDB page and gone "Holy shit, that's him?!!?"

He is also apparently a crazy old racist. And not just any kind of crazy old racist. No, no. He's the kind of crazy old racist who assumes all white people are secretly just as racist as he is.

So then it was Fassbender. Who beats women. And Spacey. Who is a sexual predator -- a fact I'd heard about awhile ago because I have friends of friends who worked at the Old Vic under his tenure. He's had a quiet reputation, at least in the theater end of the industry, for years.

I swear to God, if anyone takes Patrick Stewart away from me, Aria gonna cut a bitch.

@ixokai As someone who's been assaulted, and spoke out when it happened, and basically got told "boys will be boys" and "but he's such a nice guy" by my own fucking father....

I have a pretty low 'burden of proof' expectation in any of these situations. Because I know from personal experience that it's almost impossible to prove and unless you have physical evidence, there's a high likelihood you won't be believed. (And even then....)

The only one that I'd like to be met in the case of very old stories and accusations against someone who is now in the public eye is pretty much "Did they mention this to someone -- anyone -- before it was in the newspapers?"

If the answer to that question is yes, then I tend to believe they're not doing it for money, fame, or revenge.

@kanye-qwest said in Good or New Movies Review:

@ganymede Yeah that chick gives great face as a model but holy whoah can she not act.

She's one of those people that I primarily associate with a character played by shitty person who did shitty things to several of my friends over a period of years. I kind of want to smack her in the face every time I see her as a result. I know it's not rational, but there it is.

If she could act, I could likely dissociate the two, but given that she can't, her stand-out "role" for me is.... one she didn't even play.

@surreality For me, it's literally her and Jason Schwartzman, who was the PB of the guy that stalked and harassed me and Mr. Aria for about four years. Fortunately, Jason Schwartzman tends to play assholes/villains in most of the movies I've seen him in, so my unreasonable frothing hatred of him doesn't really interfere too much.