Posts made by PuppyBreath

The turn this thread has taken, which no longer bears much resemblance to what the thread was originally about, has at least been enlightening in answering why I've struggled so hard to connect with many games recently. And perhaps why the ones I did connect with didn't last.

I personally dislike how Scheduled-Plot-Scene heavy games have become. I miss the connections of just collaboratively writing with other people vs participating in what I imagine a RPed tabletop session is like.

But I absolutely understand why it works better for most people.

@rucket said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

Well a more recent show taht could be a cool MU idea, or maybe a seasonal type thing on HorrorMU if that was still going would be that show From.

Yesss. I just told my partner about From as a MU concept the other day.

14 is the only Final Fantasy I've ever played.

I'm on Malboro, nearly finished with Endwalker (gave up for awhile hoping they'd fix the audio issues). Happy to tank or dps, and have a friend who can fill any role.

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

Agggh. I dislike this.

If you come across it in your feed/up next, click on the three dots near the video and select 'don't recommend this channel'.

Youtube considers any engagement (clicking on a video, liking/disliking, leaving any comment) in its algorithm on what to recommend you. It can't tell if you're watching a video you hate accidentally, to be a troll, or because you support the content, and it doesn't care. It just wants you to watch.

My experience of trying to make/maintain MU friends.

Finally managed to email someone about an eval, and their waitlist is through August.

I really just want my brain to not be constantly on fire.

My dog has been living with my parents because my partner and I have been struggling to move somewhere that allows dogs for a variety of reasons. He's been with my parents for way too long, I don't disagree with that. I have almost constant anxiety about it, honestly, and I've been desperately trying not to pass that on to my partner.

For some reason my mom picks tonight, during the holidays, in the middle of winter, right before a blizzard is expected, to be like 'since you haven't found a place you can take your dog yet, you should find him a new permanent home, take him to the shelter, or find a rescue to surrender him to.'

Happy fucking New Year to me, I guess.

Gorgeous!

@crawfish Derovai. I wouldn't claim to know the character at this point, but it was super adorable and honestly seemed in-theme even from what I did know.

I love all of them, though! You can't go wrong with water color + cats, imo!

I haven't played on Arx in ages, but even seeing an OC I created long, long ago pop up was pretty delightful.

Family stuff is so rough sometimes. I always had a pretty okayish relationship with my mom. At one point I considered her my best friend. All of that was kind of shattered in 2016 (YOU KNOW WHY), and I've never been able to look at her the same. I've distanced myself a lot.

I haven't forgiven her for xmas 2020, which I've vented about already, but we had a decent interaction at the beginning of May after I asked for help with moving my horse.

Last week she asked for my help, but I had to decline. She wanted me to meet the farrier and hold her horses while he did their feet because she couldn't be there. The last time I did this for her, though, this farrier started ranting about how covid was a hoax and masks were stupid, blah, blah. So I told her that I wasn't comfortable with that farrier. I also pointed out that I would have found a new one.

At which point she called me Hitlerish because I would have fired someone because I didn't agree with his 'opinion'. Never mind that she also doesn't agree with that 'opinion'.

My middle sister's baby shower was today and I didn't go in large part to avoid my mom. Fortunately my sister is awesome and understanding and I'll hang out with her sometime soon instead.

But jesus fucking christ, I can't wait to cut off my parents entirely.

I started posting videos of my cats on tiktok and now I can't stop.

I heard you like cats. And, yes, my horse has a rainbow bit.

@saosmash said in Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab:

BPAL is one of my favorite places for random impulse purchases that aren't video games or dice, but WOW y'all are organized. I just have a plastic box in my sock drawer where I hoard them and apportion tiny amounts of nice smells to portion out to myself as a reward for surviving weekdays.

Mine are in a little box and I regularly forget that they exist until something (LIKE THIS THREAD) reminds me of them. So thanks for that! But absolutely no organization at all here, haha.

I looove BPAL but I haven't let myself get into it. I have some imps from like 15 years ago now, and my most recent purchase was a bottle of Nasty Woman, so whenever that was sold.

My favorite is probably O, but I also love Coyote, Whip, Dorian, Juliet... so many. My only other bottle is Purple Phoenix. Mmm.

@aria I relate to that a lot in theory! But in practice, professionally, I would rather cultivate my intimidating aura. Which is a thing I've been told I have. In person. To my face. By a woke cisdude coworker. But, you know, as a compliment. It is now the standard to which I hold all other compliments.

What was I talking about...

My abuse of exclamation points is roughly equivalent to me wagging my tail!

@greenflashlight said in Critters!:

It's probably just that I'm old but I love that he looks like he's about to say "Hey there, Wilbur."

I was tsking him for trying to solicit the affections of his reflection, so it might be more along the lines of, 'ma'am, could you give us some privacy.' XD

I know owning a horse is an immense, absolutely ridiculous and indulgent privilege. My inner pragmatist tries to convince me to sell him pretty much every day. But he's the reason I bother existing day to day, and the reason I can picture myself in any sort of future. I'm obsessed with this beast.

I've been told by a male coworker that I have an 'intimidating aura'. I've also been told by a female manager (I think was a compliment?) that I'm really good at blowing people off, and I think that 'intimidating' face is what she was referring to.

I'm quietly terrified of literally everything and everyone, though. I'm just bad at having facial expressions.