Posts made by Aria

Wait. I have a question.

...what system are you looking at using to begin with? Or is this going to be brand new, customized for the game?

@lisse24 Hey, Lisse! I don't think we know each other, but if you need help getting settled, but me up.

@il-volpe I mentioned a few aspects in the other threads, but I'd also like to see the disciplines at Brakebills built out further than the Physical Kids.

@il-volpe It's been awhile since I've watched the show and I unfortunately think I left my books in South Carolina when I was there visiting my RP bestie for his fun-tervention, so I'm a little rusty, BUT....

I really love the dichotomy between the 'urban fantasy' feel of the real world +magic and the high fantasy feel of Fillory, so anything that emphasizes that being forced to switch back and forth between what seems imaginary and your 'real' life is A++ in my book. Also, as someone who loves the Acanthus from nWoD Mage and the original, unsanitized fairy tales, particularly those from Slavic countries, and Pratchett's "Lords and Ladies"..... I like the fact that the fairies are just dicks. Like, all the time. No cute Amy Brown winged pixies with a stocking fetish, but just 100%, all the time operating on rules and logic no one else gets and that makes them pretty much just awful.

....The one thing I took away from this was "Wait, there's a Magician's MU happening?!?OH, ME! Pick me! ME ME ME!"

I don't care what you call it(though I do like the suggestion @TheOnceler made), just TELL ME WHEN IT OPENS, PLZ.

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

Learn to say no. It's your health. You're your best advocate.

I'm going to prescribe you X.
No, it doesn't agree with me.
The initial side effects...
No.
I've really had some good results with...
No.

If you can document your reasons, such as you were on it from this date to this date and this dosage, etc even better. You'll be taken more seriously. Women especially.

I've had to deal with this one many, many times before. It's fucking exhausting, but seriously, stand your ground. Absolutely stand your ground, because being horribly misdiagnosed with what mental illness I had and being put on the wrong meds almost killed me in my early twenties, and a quack psychiatrist about four years ago who wanted to "experiment" with fistfuls of the newest and greatest anxiety meds almost landed me in the hospital with the sort of blood sugar levels that can put a person in a coma, and had to figure out what all my symptoms meant myself.

I'm not saying don't take your meds. I'm not saying refuse to try something on the basis of "I don't want to". But you live in your body 24/7, and for most of the users on this forum, for about 30+ years. You do not have a medical degree or the knowledge that comes with it, but your doctor is trained in medicine -- not living inside your particular meat-suit, with all its oddities and quirks and bumps and feelings and reactions. It's okay to remind them of that, especially in a system where they spend maybe ten minutes looking at your records and stats and if you're lucky, fifteen to thirty minutes talking to you. If you can provide documented reasons as to why, even better, because doctors miss things and make mistakes and while a lot of them are loathe to admit that, absolutely none of them want a malpractice lawsuit on their hands.

@jinshei Sent!

@tinuviel There's a version that they play at the BF's store that really is full blown ".....What the fuck?", hence the comment about it being roofies. Unfortunately, the playlist is dictated by the corporate office, so even he's like "........" every time he has to hear it.

^ Yep, pretty much that. I'm aware of how it was intended at the time it was written. And I find that pretty awful, too, in a way that doesn't really alleviate how sleazy a few of the modern versions I've heard come across.

@tinuviel Yeeeah, we don't really have that. Instead, we have "Baby, It's Cold Outside" or, as I like to call it, "the holiday date rape song" with its 57 cover versions. They range from "kind of squinting at this" to "it's roofies, honey, he put roofies in your drink" and everyone pretends this is fine. It's weird and very uncomfortable, and the gender swapped version wasn't cute. It was also creepy af.

If anyone else in here is a retail employee, I will happily gift you the link to the Christmas playlist I made for @insomniac7809 a few years ago.

....it's called "Merry Christmas, Ya Filthy Animals" and is forty punk songs either covering Christmas songs or, often, about how fucking awful the holidays are.

....I just spent 45 minutes at Lowe's. Trying to buy lightbulbs, FFS.

I am going to murder someone.

@paris said in Good Music:

@selira said in Good Music:

@kanye-qwest said in Good Music:

I can echo (from a year ago) St vincent and pomplamoose, and I think anyone in the world should listen to Gogol Bordello - Start Wearing Purple, Dogs were Barking, American Wedding, Illumination, I Just Realized...also the best live show I have ever been to, even in a small DC club.

Let's not forget Wanderlust King if we're going for their songs that get you absolutely pumped.

They are /amazing/ live and absolutely the nicest people in person, just all around a fantastic band.

^ Very true. I've actually lost count of how many times I've seen them perform. Probably around ten, and it's never been a bad show. Ever. Not once.

The Interrupters "She's Kerosene"

It's like the ska-punk from the late 90s popped up two decades later to look at your thirty-something ass and ask when you decided to start taking life so seriously and really, I'm sort of fine with that.

After much back and forth with the shelter and with the humane law officers, and a great deal of deliberating about names, @insomniac7809 and I are delighted to announce the arrival of our first little girl. ('Cause seriously despite having rescued seven other cats and a dog over the years, somehow all our pets have been boys.)

Meet Jane Pawsten.

Kitty Glamour Shot:

Kitty Not-So-Glamour Shot:

And OMG, you guys. She doesn't just have majestic ear tufties. She has toe bean tufties. And they are amazing.

I just finished season three of The Last Kingdom. This show makes me so happy.

@Auspice

I do not own this palette, but I do own some of Nyx's "Avant <Whatever>" palettes, and the purple version of their "Love in Paris".

Perfect Filter in Olive You

It's well reviewed, has a pair of decent looking shimmery olive-ish greens in it, and some other nice neutral colors for a look that won't read like my "I'm wearing green with green and some other green and if you think I look like a clown you can get fucked because I like this" look. Bonus? Nyx is having a 30% off everything on their site sale this weekend. I'm stocking up on my daily use products like I did with my hair stuff at BOGO prices from Ulta.

Oh, hey. ALSO.

I know this is a double-post, but seriously, if you don't use eBates? YOU SHOULD. It's basically this company where, if you click to whatever site you're planning on shopping at from their referral link, they give a portion of the money they get for it. It also compiles sales and coupons on the site for you. I use their Chrome extension and whenever I'm shopping somewhere that has cash back or a coupon, I get a little pop-up asking me if I want to activate it. Then they pay you out once a quarter and I've literally gotten $360 back over the last two years on shit I was going to buy anyway.

I bought fancy electric toothbrushes for insomniac7809 and me today and it was like, "Hey, girl. Here's another 15% off that already bangin' sale price for no real reason and also we're gonna give you another 6% back in, like, March. That's cool, right? " and I was like, "Yeah, eBates. We're tight."

@auspice said in Holiday materialism! Let's talk gifts.:

@aria said in Holiday materialism! Let's talk gifts.:

These boots.

Those are sexy af.
But so expensive.
And it's 80F today so I clearly don't need winter boots.

I just need new boot-boots.

The high today is 30F. It was 19F when I left for work and it's already snowed this year.

The last time I bought snow boots was when I lived in Sweden in 2005. I think it's time.

(Also, yeah. Expensive AF. Fortunately if they carry something like them at his store, he'll get a discount.)

@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.