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what no Dengar?!

@Kestrel said in Good TV:

American shows tend to be 20+ episodes a season

A lot of American TV is dumping this model and I think it's for the better. Look at recent seasons of Good Place, for example. 13 episodes per season with a winter break in the middle. It makes for a lot tighter TV.

That said.

I 100% agree on Elementary vs Sherlock. I liked Sherlock. Elementary, on the other hand, I tried one or two episodes of and it just felt bland. It felt like Yet Another Cop Procedural with a Sherlock set dressing haphazardly tossed on top.

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

Handful of white chocolate ones + handful of caramel ones.

As someone with a pseudo-allergy to chocolate, it's worth the pain.

Keep it.
I am not a fan of white "chocolate." Blech.

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

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

Currently within arm's reach on the coworker's desk:

Peanut Butter
Classic M&Ms
Peanut
White Chocolate Peanut
Crispy
English Toffee Peanut

;.;

Wow that's... a hell of a lot of candy to have on your desk.

That's just the M&Ms. There's also...

a big jar of random candy
a jar of Starburst
a jar of lollipops
a jar of pixie sticks

And a few misc. things here and there.

My coworker just finds joy in providing snacks for people. And people from all over the building will stop by to get their 'fix.'

....and they all ask me how I manage to sit here and not just eat candy all day and I cry a little because some days I do just graze.

ETA: forgot to add the big drawer full of bags of candy to refill the jars.

@Ominous said in Favorite Youtubers?:

Everyone else's lists look like the programming from NPR and mine is basically "Get drunk and watch people play video games."

I mean, mine has Dope or Nope on it. And kiwami. And HowtoBasic.

I have a couple game-related channels in my subs, but by and far I just can't enjoy watching other people play games. It's not something I've been able to get into.

I didn't put Brad on mine because of the personal shame of not watching every video lately. :X

But he is just a gem of a human.

@toreadorfool said in Favorite Youtubers?:

@Auspice Nope or Dope are good people! I know them! We make the same kinda videos and such.

I kind of love them and would absolutely hang out with them for a day. I just realize that it's like the epitome of junk food for the brain.

@nyctophiliac

losing a pet is hard. And for some, it will stick with you (I was in my 20s before I fully got over the loss of a cat I had as a kid). I'm glad you found two pups to adopt! Your baby would be proud.

Someone put up posters all over work for a fundraiser they're doing for Australia.

And I'm like.
This is cool what you're doing but covering the poster with glamor shots of yourself plus like, two stock koala photos is weird and means I am prob just gonna look for an official foundation thanks.

(p.s. Australia is more than just koalas.)

@GreenFlashlight said in The Work Thread:

@Auspice said in The Work Thread:

Someone put up posters all over work for a fundraiser they're doing for Australia.

And I'm like.
This is cool what you're doing but covering the poster with glamor shots of yourself plus like, two stock koala photos is weird and means I am prob just gonna look for an official foundation thanks.

(p.s. Australia is more than just koalas.)

Yeah, I won't take shots at anyone trying to help, but I'm really suspicious of how basically every story I hear about the Australian fires frames it in terms of animals dead and contains no mention at all of the effects on the indigenous population. It makes me think there's a horror going on there we're not being told about.

I figure it's just 'people like cute animals and koalas are v. fetch rn'
because I adore flying foxes and there's reports entire populations of them are gone, but you don't hear much about them at all in the news.

btw reading that article:

*That’s precisely the kind of reaction Mikey Dickerson envisioned for VoteWithMe, an app drawing on public voting records to show whether friends and family in your contact list are participating in America’s democracy. *

yikesyikesyikesyikes

look, I don't approve when people don't vote, but I don't shame them either.

There's a cycle I didn't vote in because I had moved before the cut-off, had to do an absentee, and it arrived over a month after the election. I don't need someone up in my face all WHY DIDN'T YOU VOTE IN 2004?!?!?!?!

@Pandora said in Separating Art From Artist:

Election day should be a federal holiday and the fact that it isn't smacks of a contempt for the right to vote for the poorer working class who have less control over their work schedules.

Unfortunately with the utter disregard for any other federal holiday anymore, I doubt it'd make a difference. It'd still leave issues, too, of transportation and childcare.

It's why I'm so very pro WA's election style. Sit down, take your time, drop it in a mailbox or one of the drop spots all over your town (postage already paid).

someone in my group is winning me over to the idea of learning sashiko because I totally need another craft

but then I look at a brown jacket I've been debating things to jazz it up and I'm like y'knooooooooooooow
Esp. when she links stuff like this:

@Snackness said in The Crafting Thread:

@Auspice I may need this pattern. For me. And like, everyone I know.

http://cunningcrossstitch.blogspot.com/p/syoa-letters-from-hogwarts.html

be prepared to cry over the prep stage.

all I've done is the top-left Hedwig.

You start with that and your wand (which is decided via die roll). The first 'chapter' is your House (your choice, I'mma be doing Slytherin) in the top center.

@Snackness said in The Crafting Thread:

@Auspice I meant the demon-summoning one! Though I do like a challenge.

Ah! That one is: https://www.etsy.com/listing/676918702/please-dont-summon-demons-in-the?ref=shop_home_feat_2&pro=1

@Ghost said in RL things I love:

It made me think about how back in the day comic book artists, graphic artists, etc were basically contracted to draw something and then securely transport what was likely the original copy of the work to their employer. These days there are drawing tablets where your mistakes are eraseable. I'm not saying the older artists were more talented, but the risk of destruction of their work (and/or needed rework) was much higher.

I have some insight here:
For one, many comic artists do still prefer to work in a physical format. As someone who spent a semester in art school and has dabbled with tablets... pencil/paper has better tactile feedback. I can see the merits of a tablet, but it is still quite common for something to be drawn physically and then scanned in to be worked on in Adobe.

The biggest hit in comics has been lettering. Lettering used to be a whole career in and of itself. Nowadays, however, artists (and/or the writer) are expected to do lettering themselves. This is why, in my WRITING degree program, I had to learn how to do comic lettering.

I enjoyed it, but our prof said for most people... it's their least favorite few weeks of the whole program.

But there just isn't work in lettering anymore. There are people who get freelance gigs doing it here and there for the odd artist/writer team that doesn't enjoy it, but it isn't the career it was.

Same could be said for inking, but I think that was often someone who was striving to be an artist in a sort of not-internship-but-still-prove-yourself-to-us role.

@Ghost said in RL things I love:

@Auspice Oooh good point about the lettering. I hadn't thought of that. I also know of some comic artists who still work physical, and I think that's great.

TBH I'm trying to move over to digital because I like being able to control layers and work through them without the risk of erasing and smudging, but 100% props to people doing it physical.

An Apple Pencil is absolutely on my list of things I Want so that I can doodle more. I'm bad at the drawing thing, so I just waste paper and get angry.

@Ganymede said in Separating Art From Artist:

Or a hairstyle from the 80s.
Or fashion from the 80s.

<side eye at the rise in mullets and fanny packs IRL>

@Kanye-Qwest said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

@Auspice i have a box full of notebooks. i have 3 spiral notebooks on/in my work desk RIGHT NOW

I have one shelf of my bookshelves at home of just notebooks, but there's more on the built-in shelving behind my desk. My backpack and purse both have a notebook (.... I think the backpack has 3 tbh) in them.

My work desk has..... 2 notebooks and 2 legal pads. >.>

I tried bullet journaling and it just turned into lists. IT DOESN'T END BUT IT ALSO DOESN'T HELP.