Best posts made by Kestrel

@Ganymede said in RL things I love:

As far as I can tell, being filthy and horny is great and the sort of thing that a hippie like Jesus'd enjoy.

Why were he and his mother both virgins, then?

(Allegedly.)

@Aria said in RL things I love:

(remind me to tell you guys the story about me having to explain to my college roommate that no, he would not be able "tell" if his girlfriend had cheated on him the next time they had sex)

Oh my god. I have heard this one. I think?

Queefing is a sign that a woman has air trapped in her vagina caused by having had sex with another man.

Allegedly.

I heard this amazing fact told by a married man.

Learning the Corona brand is losing money because of fears surrounding the Coronavirus has both made and ruined my day.

Vent peeve.

I wish I knew how to help someone with anxiety.

I mean, I have anxiety. So from a personal perspective, I know there's pretty much nothing someone else in my life can really do to help if I'm in bad shape. Right now, though, I'm fine. I have spoons in spades. My mana bar for providing others with emotional labour could not be fuller.

Unfortunately, I have other friends with similar issues (because like attracts like I guess) who are not in good shape and I don't know how to help them. If I could just give them my spoons, I would. I've been reaching out and saying, 'Hey, if you need someone to talk to, I am here for you, friend.' But they're just not able to accept that help right now and while personal experience means I rationally know I can't be mad at them for it, it is just so frustrating.

I am a spanner friend. I need to fix people's problems. Accepting I can't is the hardest thing.

Double post because life is good I guess? Shockingly. When did that happen, wow.

'You have rogue girl written all over you' — conversation about D&D archetype preferences.

Thank you, I will take that compliment.

Can't make my family go vegan, but as a result of the COVID-19 craze I have managed to get them on board with taking slightly better care of their health & immune system, and I am now their bonafide green smoothie guru.

Hello (from the Inside) — Adele parody

Sam Lloyd, AKA Ted, the sad-sack lawyer from Scrubs. Also a really good singer.

Died of an inoperable brain tumour, not coronavirus.

Yeah I had the 'we have a video of you masturbating' email scam a while back. They made it more convincing by claiming to have had access to all my information for a while now, with which they've been recording me in secret, and as proof did accurately offer up one of my passwords, likely purchased from a data breach.

A simple google search indicated this was a hoax, but as a result I now religiously monitor and update my passwords, so in all honestly they did me a favour by scaring me like that.

Also, I'm incredibly offended by the idea that they thought I should pay them for a video of me masturbating.

My really petty peeve today is people overcomplicating good, simple recipes that have been perfect for generations.

Not in a way that adds a fun, interesting twist to it — I love a good fusion — but in a way that just makes it worse. Silly pretentious stuff that feels like someone thought having a longer list of ingredients or adding more steps is the same as making something better.

I'm talking about stuff like pea guacamole, carrot hummus, or the latest nonsense I've seen, using bicarbonate soda to strip the skin off of beans and then scooping them out of the pot at a gentle simmer instead of cooking/enjoying them as they are. Just stop. Why? Why?

(Quarantine has me on a crazy foodie kick.)

@Groth

Look, I said it was petty.

But honestly, who peels beans???

When someone whom you owe absolutely nothing, who is in no position whatsoever to haggle, asks you for a favour but is super entitled and disrespectful about it.

Damn, Karen. I already said yes just to keep the peace between us, but if you're gonna keep being a bish I can just not do the thing and 'forget' to reply to your emails from now on.

@Aria

lol

My post above yours was about my widowed elderly neighbour.

The walls are thin. The garden windows are frequently open. She has been consistently awful to me (literally tried to blackmail me, vandalised my garden door, somehow found my dad's number through google research or something to try and contact me through him after I blocked her number) so, I'm sorry, but I have no shame. When the boyfriend's over she gets to listen. I don't put music on.

I feel so called out.

Above post: life is kind of stressful right now. I vented. Then I realised this probably isn't the place for that.

So, on the topic of RL peeves, disgruntlements and irks, I guess I'll just say life is weirdly, ludicrously stressful right now.

@badger said in RL Sads:

She was the best dog. That's all.

As far as I'm concerned I lost a child when I went through this. I'm sorry for your loss.

Why am I getting notifications every time some rando edits a post somewhere. What.

Well my life recently fell apart and I am sad.

Also I've never felt more inspired, my creativity is through the roof and all I want to do all day every day now is write, write, write.

Happiness is the enemy of creativity. And that makes me confused, and sad.

Speaking of diaper babies, I think the weird cringe-horror surrounding copious amounts of milk is, inexplicably, my favourite part of the show.

I binge-watched the first season with someone and every time a scene crops up involving that I start cracking up laughing while yelling, 'WHAT! WHAT THE FUCK?'

Queen's Gambit got me into chess.

Also, it's a good show and Anya Taylor-Joy is excellent.

There’s no ‘Bad TV’ thread so I’ll just share this here and offer an empathic HBO can go fly a kite.