Posts made by Aria

@JinShei Heart - These Dreams

If you fall asleep with Spotify's "Tastebreakers" playlist, you're going to wake up in the middle of the night trying to figure out WTF is happening and what that noise is. She said at 5:16 AM.

<mumbles> Motherfucker, I don't get up this early for work.

@Rinel said in Giving Thanks:

The suicide attempt rate for trans people is terrifying. It is entirely possible I would not be alive but for my family and friends. That is a very sombering thought to carry with you.

Yes. Yes, it definitely can be. But I'm going to spin this on its head for you.

"It is entirely possible I would not be alive but for my family and friends." This means you have people who love you, who support you, who badly want you to be here with them, alive and well. As someone who has been part of the family left behind twice? Don't ever, ever forget that.

(Almost) Every Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV or Movie Adaptation in the Works Right Now

You're welcome.

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

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

Austin has no magic shop that I can find.
And I don't mean M:tG. I mean 'place I can go to buy silly magic trick gimmicks because I'm a dork who likes them sometimes.'

This reads like a Mage character's background.

"She loved magic, but after looking high and low for a store that sold tricks and tools of prestidigitation to no avail, she noticed a door that she couldn't quite remember having ever been there before..."

This is actually how at least one Bruce Coville book I read as a child started.

You know it's love when your husband walks in on you eating a sandwich like a hamster, with your cheeks all puffed out and a bite still clutched between your teeth, looking all wide-eyed and startled that someone opened the door. And instead of being grossed out, he just starts laughing.

And when you say around a mouthful of food, "I'm your pretty, pretty lady", he just laughs even harder.

I bowled a 115!

This... is not a very good score, but I've never broken 100 before. I'm excited. Just let me have this.

@Auspice said in Why We Don't Make New Friends Anymore (Or Creepers Do Creepy Things):

I played M:tG for a while when I first lived in SC (so, 2007/2008). The first store I played at closed because the owner was diagnosed with cancer. The only other store in the area that held tournaments (without driving really far)....... well. I only went once.

I know my chest gets stared at. Hard to be a 36HH and not. And in the summer, in the south, it's gonna happen more (cause tanktops or v-necks or). I've just accepted this.

But the guy who owned that place couldn't stop staring or leering. He'd be in conversations with other people and just blatantly staring.

I've been creeped on. Hit on awkwardly.

But no one's ever made me feel ashamed of my body in the way that guy did.

I never went back to that stop and was so glad when this other guy opened one closer to my house. He was vastly, amazingly better, and had no qualms banning creepers from his store. Even after I stopped playing regularly, I'd go back for the occasional draft or FNM to support his shop.

But that other one.
Ugh.

When I'm not literally in the middle of my second game, remind me to tell you the story about the gaming shop owner that basically tried to whore me out when I was 19.

One time I decided I wanted to try heavy fighting in the SCA. Really, trying heavy fighting was why I joined the SCA. So I went to an event designed very specifically for new people who might not even be members yet. They had fighters there! I was super excited!

So I went up to the fighter in charge. I explained how I know heavy fighters in other areas around the country and they were really encouraging and nice, and told me not to be shy and just ask the person in exactly his position to help me get started!

He proceeds to stare at my silently for several seconds, then explain that they won't be able to fit me into any of the loaner armor because <waves his hands about half an inch from my admittedly very large boobs>. Then shrugs apologetically and walked away.

I'm still in the SCA. I don't do heavy fighting.

(Also, PS: I've seen some of our most successful fighters from my area. Some of our most successful and really very large fighters. If their man boobs will fit in armor, so will my regular ones. Jerk.)

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

@Aria Just hang out and occasionally yell "SHUT THE FUCK UP, DONNY."

I meeeeeeeeeeeean..........

I am having fun! Like, I am well and truly enjoying myself. Mostly.

But I'm a terrible bowler. Like, a truly terrible bowler. My handicap is almost 100 points that they just give me so I'm not sad. But I also warned them that I'm a terrible bowler, many times, and that I'm kind of fine with that because I'm there for the beer and the chatting. So the sheer amount of mansplaining from bowling nerds who think they're competitive sports nerds is buhhhhhhh. It's pretty tempting to shout "SHUT THE FUCK UP, DONNY." Like, regularly.

"Join the office bowling league!", my friend Michael said. "It's really fun and super casual!," he said. Don't worry about being a terrible bowler. No one takes it seriously! It's not actually competitive....

I now know more about bowling ball coverstock and internal weight layouts than I ever thought I would or, if we're being honest, wanted to.

<just leaves this here while she laughs and laughs>

@Auspice said in RL things I love:

https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-claim-a-they-ve-found-even-more-evidence-of-a-new-force-of-nature

I see your particle physics and raise you an astrophysics about water plumes on Europa.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/18/world/europa-moon-water-scn/index.html

@Sunny said in Thena @ Arx:

I mean my partner and I have IMed before from the same house, but this is just weird. >.>

Nah. Insomniac and I do it all the time when we're on different floors.

@tek said in Hickson @ Arx:

I know he probably doesn't read this forum, but if anyone knows if he's still on the game, let him know that Mimi!Player greatly enjoyed her RP with him. He's just a 100% great dude and I'd be happy to contrive a reason to meet up with any bit of his on either of my alts!

He's still on the game on his alt. Which I'm not gonna out like a jerk. I'm just saying as much to let you know that if you post this on the OOC board there, he might pop out of his den and chat with you himself.

Goddamit.

Now I'm over here feeling a feeling and everything.

@Alamias said in RL Anger:

@Auspice said in RL Anger:

flask was moved and is still full of whiskey.

Laws in Texas (I think that is where you said you are now, right?) are surly more lax than they are in So Cal. I would get busted for open container laws if I had a flask full of whiskey in the car...lol

Sorry people went through your shit. =(

Yeah, open containers of alcohol in your car are super, super illegal in Pennsylvania, even if you're stone-cold sober.

....Which is why it's called a road soda and you don't keep it in a flask. Duh.

(I say this for passengers. Not drivers. I have a college friend that still owes $300K in medical bills for his reconstructed arm after being the only dude to survive a drunk driving accident in which he was very much not the driver. Driving drunk? Don't... don't do that.)

This chick dropping some truth right here.

Terminator: Dark Fate was solidly okay. I mean, not full-blown amazing and OMG dredging up all of my childhood fangirl freakout over those movies, but. Linda Hamilton is wrecking some goddamn robots and I'll always show up for that.

@Sunny Right?! I think what I find doubly annoying is that I actually have pretty dry skin. When I get a zit, I can usually feel the damned thing stretching against the surface and only discover it because I've looked in the mirror to check on the source of physical discomfort.

So not only do they look red and icky, but they are uncomfortable, too!