Posts made by Cobalt

I miss him too. He was one of the first people I met when I started mushing.

@Auspice @faraday I think that's the worst part of being an aural thing. Because I don't think in images, but sound, when I hear something and it gets stuck it is SO HARD to get it out.

@Ninjakitten said in A Lack of Imagination:

@Admiral Annoyingly, I'm no longer sure where, but I have read that dreams are apparently separate and imagery for them happens in a different place in the brain. I have definite memory of vivid dreams, including dreaming in text (I very rarely remember dreams at all anymore, but that's a different thing).

...though part of my brain likes to point out that when awake I can only remember them in the same way I remember things I saw IRL, so how do I actually know I ever saw them the way I think I did and that they didn't actually start as the same kind of 'image file code' that real things are stored as in there?

I've also had text dreams. Usually have many, many, many hours of staring at a MU* or reading for a long time. It's usually less that the entire dream is text but just that what I see is a screen of scrolling text. How is yours?

@faraday said in A Lack of Imagination:

@Apos I also can 'hear' music in my head far more clearly than I can 'see' images. And yeah there are definitely degrees. I know my cabinets are a sort of orangish brownish color, but I couldn't describe the countertops if my life depended on it.

T.H.I.S.

I don't see stuff in my head at all-- with the exception of when I do, it's usually when I don't have control of it: Such as dreams, or if I'm freaked out about something and having a PTSD episode or something.

But I have insane aural recall. Often, especially lately, I will wake up because some music I was listening to the night before, or someone in my apartment started playing while I was asleep, will just put itself on loop in my brain. Do you know how hard it is to go back to sleep when you have "Oh, she's cute but she's psycho, yeah a little bit psycho." stuck in your head?

@LittleLizard said in Pokemon Go Frands:

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@tek said in Pokemon Go Frands:

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Thank you both. I've added folks and left a couple of people pending (not sure if you're from here or fb) so that if another research pops up going "make more fRieNdS" I can do it immediately).

@JinShei said in Pokemon Go Frands:

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Thanks! Two more to go.

I need three more for stupid research. Frand me. I'll send you gifts (in game).

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I am the goblin. GIVE ME YOUR SHINY MATH ROCKS.

@Arkandel out of curiosity did it work when I reported it? Cause I saw it and went "wtf" but he was still around for a day.

@Ghost It's honestly only the known troll that is Carex.

@buttercup I don't really think thanks is necessary, here. I feel like most of read what you were saying and got what you meant. That it wasn't WHAT but HOW. However, thank you for clarifying for us.

@Carex Except you could have started with 'What do you mean by what is and isn't acceptable in your house, Buttercup'? Rather than going full force. No one disagrees that telling your kid what they can explore is ok. But we do disagree that trying to keep them safe while they explore is abusive.

@Carex Why would you assume that I mean there was only one computer? Most teenagers have phones these days, and phones give them access to both mushing and porn literally anywhere they are.

@Carex Please quote in Buttercup's post where they said any of that. You literally have no idea what is acceptable and is not. As I said, it could be about the kid's safety and what is socially acceptable behavior in a family unit. e.g. It is not really socially acceptable to be engaging in sexual activities (whether physical or writing them out) in a public family room. It is also not SAFE for the child to make OOC sexual contact either physical or say through the phone with people they know online.

Buttercup never once said anything about the content of their child's thoughts, feelings, etc. Only that they discussed what is and is not acceptable in the house.

@Caryatid We are also working on setting up specific territories for the kitties. The boys are not allowed in my room anymore. Roommate 1's cat is obeying pretty good, but roommate 2's cat is a little shit and she refuses to discipline him or train him at all. So he's being more difficult to keep out.

And when I can afford it I'm gonna grab pheromone collar's that help keep kitties calm.

We have finished our vet visit. Oya has an inflammatory reaction, and some white & red blood cells in her urine. They think mild UTI and stress from my roommates cat(s) being in her territory. So we have some work to do to get her territory set up specifically for her and the other cats kept out of it.

She has been given a long lasting antibiotic shot, a small dose of painkillers to help with any pain, and been given some samples of urinary proactive pet food I'm gonna see if she'll eat and get more of if she does.

Thank you so much for everyone who donated! I was so worried it was something worse.

If anyone needs the money they donated back please let me know via PM and I will get it back to you ASAP once I'm out from under scrambling for my rent.

@Auspice Thank you! I'll let you know.

Update: Oya has an appointment Monday. I will let you all know what we find.

@Caryatid said in Help A Kitty :

Sent a little extra because vet visits can run over total pretty easily. I hope she feels better soon!

Thank you!

And to everyone else: thank you!

Any extra will go toward any medication she may need. I'm hoping that she just has a urinary infection or something really easy to clear up.

I don't hope she's sick but she's been acting weird, so I just hope it's something small.

So my precious princess has not been acting right lately. She's been very vocal and sounding like she's in pain. She's not eating as much as she used to, and she's peeing in inappropriate places even when the box is clean. Unfortunately, I had a bad run of being sick and missed a lot of work and I'm really strapped.

I hate having to ask for help, but if you can I'd greatly appreciate it.

(I can also pay you back later on once I'm back to working full time and out from under being late on my rent.)

https://www.gofundme.com/f/oya-needs-to-see-a-vet?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1

@Ghost "Only social group" is pretty much why I stayed LARPing for longer than I should for that group. I got out after I found out hat a particular member had a) done some questionable consent BDSM stuff with another member he was dating, and also b) basically destroyed her entire life by pretending to have a job while not actually having one and running through all of her money.

But at the time of the event it was my primary social group outside of my husband and mushing. I was out of work, I believe. And so it was my only in-person contact with people outside of my husband. So I stayed in longer than I should have. But I learned afterward that you shouldn't share a hotel bed with a guy you're not already involved with, even if you think you're friends and you can trust them.

Short of it: Went to an out of town game, shared a hotel with a married couple (they got a bed) and another member (we were gonna share a bed). Female part of the married couple is even awake, but on her laptop not paying attention. I go to bed and wrap myself up like a caterpillar preparing to be a hideous moth the next morning as is customary. Dude gets into bed, starts rubbing all over my legs, hips, thighs, etc. Try to get grab my hands and pull them over to him, but can't get them out of my blankets (I wrap myself up night and tight with even my feet tucked in, no monsters getting me. >:|). He eventually gave up and went off to the bathroom for like thirty minutes.

(Sidenote: @RDC 's theory there was something along the lines of quote: "he was a gross asshole who went to go jerk off when he failed at getting you to do it". RDC being one of the few people I ever told the above story too.)

I just sort of froze up during it. I was in my early twenties, and still pretty sheltered, and like I said that was my only social group. It was either RDC or Spider who urged me to talk to the people in charge of the LARP about it, to get him kicked out. But ... well, I spoke to the wrong person. I think if I had gone to the Miami folk, rather than the Ft. Lauderdale folk something would have been done. But Reba was more interested in running an aforementioned LARP house than really being a good person.