Best posts made by Aria

I can't stop laughing. It's like someone encapsulated "adulting" in a gif.

My doggo went to the vet today. Normally, I wouldn't be happy about this, but he's hit 10 years old and sometimes his breed doesn't make it much past that.

Turns out, all the things I was worried about are various kinds of cysts. I can go back to referring to them as his "old man lumps" instead of freaking out about him getting more and more of them.

There is enough racism and hate in the real world. Please don't make me deal with it in my escapist hobbies, too.

It's been many years since I've punched a Nazi in the head, but I'm really starting to miss it, you anti-Semitic piece of shit.

First haircut since Christmas.

FUCK YEAH.

#accurate

So I'm in the SCA and tonight I'm running ethereal (read: Zoom) court for our local group.

This basically means that I get to spend my evening on a call with a bunch of people I haven't physically seen since last December, giving out awards and recognition and shinies and nice things to say for a bunch of talented and dedicated individuals. Including the "noble" whose court I'm running, who has no idea that I've slipped a surprise present for him from one our seamstresses onto the docket.

Tonight I get to make people's pandemic suck just a little bit less.

This makes me happy. ^_^

So I just applied for an internal positing at my company.

Into the exact role and department that I've been eyeing up for four years. Under a leader I really like, and whose boss I really like. I've applied for it twice before and the interviewer who'd been pretty clearly using me as a filler candidate for predetermined hires has since left the position, and I've since developed a stronger skillset, job background, and started an MBA.

Guys.

Guys.

....Can someone please bring me a Xanax and a paper bag or something?

I realize that this doesn't quite apply to movie sets, where prop guns are used to portray the act of firing a weapon at someone, but....

I am -- as my gun-toting, NRA-loving, second amendment-quoting, 'Molon Labe' bumper sticker-having father likes to call me -- a bleeding-heart liberal. But I grew up in his house and was taught basic gun safety from a very young age.

You treat every weapon as if it's loaded with a live round. Period. If someone hands you a weapon, you check it yourself. It doesn't matter if they say it isn't loaded. It doesn't matter if they're your shooting range supervisor or your shooting instructor. You check it yourself. Period. And then you still treat it as if it's loaded with a live round. You do not point the barrel in the direction of anyone or anything you don't want to drop dead.

Ironically, my father now gets irritated that I check things he hands me because apparently it means I don't trust him, but fuck that. You check. You behave as if you're holding a weapon. Because you are.

Every time I hear something else about "safety measures" on that set, I cringe just a little bit more. I feel bad for Alec Baldwin, but as far as I'm concerned, everyone else with even a modicum of authority on that set or even a semblance of responsibility for the safety of the cast and crew should absolutely have their asses handed to them atop a platter of lawsuits and any criminal charge that might stick.

I think I may have just gotten a FedEx driver in really deep shit and while I always feel bad about putting someone's job at risk, this time I'm kind of fine with that.

My new laptop was scheduled to arrive today. Since FedEx tends to hit my neighborhood way earlier than UPS or the postal service, I was worried I wouldn't be home in time to sign for it, so I shelled out an extra $6 to pick a three hour delivery window between 5PM and 8PM and was going to leave work early.

.....the driver showed up at 12:39PM when my husband was still home, didn't knock on my door or our neighbors (it was indirect signature required), forged my signature, and left a $900 computer sitting on our porch in a box clearly marked as containing a computer, in an urban neighborhood on a day it's supposed to rain.

Fuck that guy.

..................

My wedding reception is this Saturday. Two of my friends aren't coming, and I just found out why in a Discord of our RL, local friends because they asked if someone could dog-sit for them.

They're going to a fucking LARP.

Seriously, screw you guys.

I now present "An Actual Conversations with My Work Bestie: Discourses on Love in the Modern Era."

Her:

Me: MARRY THAT MAN. All these silly girls who are like, "I want romantic declarations! I want to be swept off my feet! I want the fairytale!" No, bitch. No.

Her: Um, clearly the answer to happiness is to date on FarmersOnly.

Me: My husband has never been sexier than the time he walked into our bedroom and announced "I fixed the problem with the plumbing. You can shower again." except for maybe the time he baked cookies without me asking.

Her: One hundred percent!

Me: Get you a man who fixes your house and brings you food. #priorities

You're welcome for the solid life advice here, everyone.

@greenflashlight said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@too-old-for-this said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@ganymede That's what I was saying. I wasn't advocating tube-tying over vasectomies, just showcasing how much easier it is for men to get it than women, and yet men will scream bloody murder at the idea of having it done like it will end their lives for forever.

I've heard things on TV that make it sound like men consider their virility a defining aspect of their personality.

I had a friend once come to be pretty much just flat-out distraught because he was getting married and his wife didn't want to take his name.

His wife who, I should note, has a graduate degree and a semi-recognizable name as a professional artist.

Apparently, he felt that his family name was "the only thing he could really give her" and definitely did not appreciate my opinion that if the only thing he was offering his future wife as a part of their marriage was his last name (and not, y'know, things like love, understanding, emotional support, companionship, patience, divisions of household labor, shared financial security, an equitable share in raising their future children, and generally just a life together), that he was gonna make a real shit husband.

I was not invited to that wedding and I have zero regrets.

TL;DR - Dudes get weird about a whole lot of shit there's no need to get weird about because patriarchy tells them to and patriarchy is toxic and bad for everyone.

...I'll just be over here in a corner, waving my little anarcho-syndicalist flag and reminding everyone that America doesn't have a "left-wing" party but it's super cute when folks think we do.

@greenflashlight said in Critters!:

@aria Thanks so much for letting us know how Tibspupper is doing, Aria. How're you?

Enjoying watching him sleep, like I'm some kind of stalker.

Also, have a cute picture for tax on my blathering.

@insomniac7809

Happy mail.

@sahin said in RL things I love:

I would indeed like to wear the blood of my enemies as a warning.

So I will.

I will never forget the time a dude told me I wore too much eye makeup for
-- and I quote -- nice guys like him.

Or the look on his face when my answer was, ".....Yeah, that's the point."