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@mietze If you popped up as my family, I would flip my shit for joy.

(And you pretty much are family anyway.)

Mr. Nancy is the cowbell of American Gods and I am ready to die on this hill.

Why isn't Orlando Jones considered a national treasure?

Is anyone watching Jonathan Van Ness' Gay of Thrones recaps because they are spectacular.

I volunteered with Rock at a local festival for the greyhound adoption group's booth. He wore a donation dog vest with little pockets on each side for people to put cash in. Apparently he was very popular because...

Someone put a $100 bill in one of the pockets.

My boy knows how to shake his money maker!

@Ganymede Thank you. It's a little sad to realize that I was genuinely surprised by the fact that everyone I've spoken about this decision to thus far has given complete support in favor of it, and I am very, very grateful.

I've made a lot of choices in my life where I've felt that the only way to gain love and acceptance was to take on the weight of suffering rather than inconveniencing others. Trying to do that breeds resentment, resentment leads to snapping under the tension of it, and Yoda and so forth.

The current action plan is to write a draft and review it with my therapist before posting anything.

I am going to go off on the next non-resident of the greater Seattle area who tries to tell me that the city is a war zone/third world country.

While it lasted, the CHOP/CHAZ was a 6 block occupied zone in an 80 square mile urban sprawl.

I could drive into downtown Seattle this minute, take photos standing in various places, and show evidence that it's just fine.

My favorite Tweet re: Carrie Fisher:

Carrie Fisher went out the way most women would want to: after telling the world she fucked Harrison Ford in his prime.

With the help of an online friend who's seriously into genealogy, I was able to discover more information about my paternal family line.

Turns out I am related to Jonathan Harrington, who died during the Battle of Lexington. I can be a Daughter of the American Revolution!

Folks at Gray Harbor are kind and inclusive. Add me to the list of folks who recommend the place.

@Shayd said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

I was involved in a duel over the idea of polyamory where my character was portrayed as less than honorable because of a publically-expressed (non-sexual) musing about it. I'm willing to fully own the idea that I portrayed myself poorly, or that I was wrong.

eeeeeh, you were involved in a duel involving bi-erasure. (And polyamory).

So there's this lady at my workplace who wears a wig and is always dressing in long skirts and blouses past her elbows and I asked her if I could ask her a personal question and followed that up with "Are you Orthodox?" and she said yes and we spent ten minutes gossiping about local synagogues and how Hanukkah decorations in an office are always lacking and I'm just THERE IS ANOTHER TRIBE MEMBER IN THE OFFICE!

To me, WORA was at best the twelve car pile-up on the highway that you cannot stop staring at no matter how hard you try, and at its worst, a cesspool for the worst of behaviors that people can permit themselves on the internet just short of arrestable crimes without the kind of consequences involved with seeing the people you are squatting over and shitting on. Was there ever productive discussion? Sure. But one good apple does not make the entire barrel of rotten to the core any better. Shaming had less to do with the means of rehabilitation, but rather entertainment.

MSB is not rainbows and hugs and bunnies, we all know this. But I do think it is a million times kinder than WORA. Criticism is given and taken, and as I've mentioned in another post, most of the time it's sarcastic in tone, but we do not reach out past the realm of our hobby. I don't know if because as a society we've gotten past the initial hump of taking advantage of anonymity to be cruel and made it to the revelation that we are more successful being relatively kind, but to this day I have yet to see the kinds of behaviors that the worst that WORA offers - the doxxing, the slutshaming, the attacks - here on MSB.

@mietze, bless her soul, gave me a large Kong for my dog and he has taken to it spectacularly.

For those of you who don't know what that is, it's a hand-sized rubber gourd with a hole at each end, one small, one a little larger. You stuff it full of treats, and then give it to your dog to entertain them as they try to figure out how to get the treats out. It also gives them something to chew on which helps the state of their teeth.

I start with breaking off pieces of his large dog treat biscuits, then mix kibble with some kind of soft food item that he likes. So far I've had success with cream cheese and canned pumpkin, which can be used to sort of cap off the top hole.

Watching him try to gnaw his way toward the larger treats and manipulate the kong so that the pieces fall out has been delightful!

I think I've mentioned this project before, but I thought this may be a smart place to get feedback.

My mother made aliyah in 1996; which is to say she emigrated and became an Israeli citizen via the Law of Return, which entitles anyone who can prove their Jewish heritage the right to become a citizen there. She passed away in 2007, and while I had been to Israel while she was alive, I haven't been since, and I've never been to her burial place.

It is of course, an insanely expensive trip, even if I was living in better means than I am now, which is basically paycheck-to-paycheck But having never said the Mourner's Prayer at her graveside or seen her headstone has weighed heavily on me, regardless of how complicated my relationship with her had been.

So I have come up with the idea over the years to crowdsource a trip to Israel, for the primary purpose of visiting my mom's grave, but also to try and discover, or rediscover, some semblance of the more spiritual aspects of myself. I'm not looking to become Orthodox, or even more religious than I am now, but I think it would be good for me.

However, the notion of simply crowdsourcing this seems kind of - I don't know. Like I'm expecting something for nothing, even though there isn't exactly a lot I can give. So I've wondered if maybe if I do engage this, I do a blog/vlog, not just of the trip itself, but of the experience of trying to fund the trip and engage with my heritage a bit more. Part of that process would be reaching out to various Jewish organizations and seeing if they're willing to offer donations as well. Would documentation of such an experience be worth people putting money into it?

Logistically, it wouldn't even go live until I have some concrete numbers. There's a lot to consider, even beyond the plane tickets, which would be insane to begin with. Hotel/Air BnB, food, travel money, passport renewal, transportation costs, etc. So before any sort of donation option was made available, those projections would go up for review.

I don't know. Would this be the sort of thing to attract people's attention, enough to make them willing to help? Is it innovative, or would it come off as just another person trying to con themselves a trip?

Feedback welcome.

@roz said in Good TV:

@ortallus I love Sense8 with the power of a thousand suns. I know at least one person on here hates it because they always make a point to talk about how awful they think it is when it comes up, but I can't remember who. BUT I LOVE IT.

I can't stand people who do that.

I mean, it's okay to not like things, but don't be a dick about it.

Having a manager who I was always pretty sure hated me tell me that she's so glad I'm part of her team and she's really excited to help me develop further in the company.

ugh now I have an idea for a Lost who gets her Glamour juice by inciting angry fanboys and reaping their distress.

I have come into finally realizing that trauma can actually have an effect on your memory. Like not just the memory of the traumatic event, but your overall memory. Which explains why I can't remember a lot of my high school experience, mainly the names of people except maybe 2-3 folks. Why I know I had a detailed conversation less than a year ago, but might not remember who it was with or the particulars of it.

It's relieving to know there's an actual cause, and I'm not just a careless person.

Hello you all deserve this

Y'all haven't seen him in a while, so...