@tinuviel said in Battling FOMO (any game):
@ganymede You're typing like there's any sort of logic behind how people feel. People can know perfectly well that how they're feeling is unreasonable, but they still feel that way.
This is real, legit, and I felt it to my soul. I know my thoughts are utterly irrational 99% of the time, but it is still there and it is still very real to me.
I was enrolled in an endometrisosis pain study recently, but washed out because my pain wasn't "severe" enough. This led to a conversation with the nurse in charge of participants about some of the questions they were asking.
One was similar to, "Have you missed work in the last 24 hours due to pain?"
My answer was always no - because I don't have the monetary or structural ability to just... not go to work? Like 10/10, if I COULD have stayed home today with my heating pad, I would have. I know the chances of me throwing up if I eat due to pain are pretty high so I'm just not going to eat today until the pain retreats.
It just made me reflect on how the real world doesn't always mesh with the academic one.
When awesome people bridge the gap between your anxiety and what you want to do.
I appreciate it from the bottom of my heart. I hope someday I can give back.
They are SO GRUMPY at me making them take their meds, clean their eye gunkies, and giving eye drops.
***=There are seven of them, but little Rhea is passed out in back.***
We have a real problem with fireworks being set off all times of the year. A lot of us complain and report it to the police because it is //illegal// every day but the 3rd and 4th of July.
A few days ago someone posted a kind "Enjoy your holiday, but after remeber our pets, and neighbors with PTSD, Autism" on Nextdoor and people were calling the poster a Karen for it.
Enrages me.
LIE THESE BABIES ARE PERFECT ANGEL BASTARDS.
I never shared this family's story and want to now.
Mama Juno was caught and the shelter went and got her. They realized she was lactating and realized she had to have kittens out there. They worked with the people who caught her to release her again in hopes she would lead them to the babies. Juno never did though, so they trapped her again and brought her in.
Since she DID have milk they decided to see if she would accept a singleton baby they were hand nursing. Juno was the best mama ever and raised that baby till he was ready to weaned . The foster during this was watching and went 'Huh, she sure is getting chunky... I think she might be pregant.' Just to be safe they did the ultrasound and YEP. Mama Juno had 5 little beans growing.
So she was given over to another foster who specializes in birthing mothers and newborn kittens. Few weeks later these five were born.
The prevailing thinking is that she had kittens, and hopefully they are okay, and she got knocked up again in the few days they released her hoping to find said kittens.
So while she is ADORABLE and the best mama ever, this is why all pets (because she isn't at ALL feral) should be spayed/neutered. With this kind of virility she could have had lots more kittens.
(This will be her last mamahood though. She gets a nice retirement now.)
Lol! The door actually is open, so little gray one (Cecelia) is behind in the space the door jam creates from the wall. They like to play paw attack under it.. We have a baby gate shrouds the doorway itself so the kittens don't escape when we enter (until they are big enough to jump it...) and to let some fresh air in.
They also play paw attack with my kitten Calypso.
Yes your majesty
***=NSFW content***
And I have some tictoks my husband has made that show faces... is that okay?
It took a bit but Cinder finally realized that play with other cats is way better than play with people, and she and Play-doh have been adorable since.
My elder Kiva is even accepting and sighs when I put the baby on her.
Husband wants to rename Cinderella to Jalapeña because she can be so spicy and opinionated, and Play-doh to Dr. Kit Baker DQT because she loovvveeesss to wrestle. (I'm currently calling her Squishy because she is all soft and Squishy when you touch her.) The names will stay the same on the paperwork but we call her what we want. 
Also, a bunch of my babies are going home today! Charley has found a family with two fluffy goldens and a one-and-half year old friend, as well as a mama and papa who both work from home (prepandemic even!) so he can be doted on 100000% of the time.
Indica and Sativa also found a mama! I was so worried because they are so reserved but she fell in love with their pet finder bios and came to see them especially. They must have known because they came out of hiding for the first time for her!! They will be the only cats and she works from home so it will be perfect.
Sugar and Cecilia have both had apps, but no one has passed muster yet. I'm sure it will be soon though!
Little baby Cinderella came to cuddle with me, and take a little zzzz. She was almost in full flop mode on my chest when across the house her BFF started squeaking. Cinder woke up from almost full sleep to race across the room and make sure her friend was okay.
Then she came back to resume zzzs.
It was perfection.
Change is scary AF. It's always a balance between what you deserve and the amount of risk you can take.
Zero judgement if you choose to stay.
Zero judgement if you choose to leave.
Ngl, the more you guys talk the more I would want this. Post-Korra time just so that the advanced tech is more available. It would be fun to play a grunt in that world.
CHEER FOR CAT LAWYER BOT
Or buy him a drink..
actually probably that second one
Arkandel has the right of it but... @tek.
It's easier to describe Sanderson's work by splitting it into different words.
First, the cosmre.
Brandon has built an entire universe that's interconnected and has several different 'worlds.' These worlds all have their own magic systems but as you read the books you come to realize that they are interconnected. It's not always clear HOW, but the more you read the more you find. What seems like a throw-away chapter/paragraph/section in one of the novels will take on ENTIRELY new meaning when you read a separate novel in the cosmere. He's had some drift over the years so if you read some of the earlier books, like Warbreaker, you have a little cognitive disconnect. However, as @Arkandel said, he is a METHODICAL planner. He does pause in some places and reevaluates his overall plan for the universe. Then in his future books he'll work to gather those stray ends back into the fold.
Many of his cosmre books are built in similar ways to the Wheel of Time books (fun fact, Sanderson was the one trusted to take Jordan's notes and finish that series after Jordan died.) There are usually 4-5 main characters who the point of view switches between, though the switching is NOT consistent. You can meet a character in the first chapter of a book, then not see them again until the final third. Often between his chapters he'll introduce minor characters that flesh out the worlds by showing the things the major characters simply wouldn't be able to know. His narration shifts from omniscient to limited perspective depending on the focus he's chosen. I found it REALLY difficult the first time I read A Way of Kings to keep everything straight, and even now, I can't say that I have it solid.
These books are ones I'm going to reread for the rest of my life and find new complexity to every single time.
YA Novels
If you want something less complex, these are the ones you want. They are called YA more because the age of the main characters than the content. These include the Reckoners (a finished trilogy), Starsight (2 books now, 3rd is in production), Alcatraz and the Evil Librarians (these I recommend even to elementary school kids, because they're full of a bunch of zanny humor that younger kids love. They miss the more adult themes, so if a parent can read them WITH their child? 10 points, both people will have fun), and The Rithmatist (a series in perpetual ???? WILL HE EVER WRITE MORE?! mode, it's sad.) With the exception of The Rithmatist you can put these books firmly into the science fiction category.
This is also where I suggest people start with Sanderson if they're not ready for the rest of the WORLD. They're fun, they're quick, and you won't regret the time you spend on them.
Novellas
Sanderson has dozens of smaller less than 100 page books. These are like candy for a starved reader. You can finish them easily within an hour but they tell a full and complete story. SOMEHOW he manages to build a fully fleshed world in these small novels. I've bought every single one I can get my hands on, and I still find ones I don't own and get annoyed that I don't own them already. These novellas stretch between genres, jumping between fantasy and science fiction depending on his whim. Some tie into the larger stories (see Cosmre and the YA novels) while others are totally stand alone.
Other
With all his amazing ideas I find it basically unfathomable that Sanderson can write in ANY worlds but his own, yet he has. There is the aforementioned finishing of the Wheel of Time books, some Video Game novels (seriously, they're like fan fiction but like, polished and published) and a Magic, the Gathering novel. I haven't read these (even the Wheel of Time - I never got past book for, but I was younger and stupider. Someday I'll do it.)
SO THAT IS BRANDON SANDERSON. If I haven't scared you off, I can give you a few starter titles.
It doesn't feel like wood in the least but gdi, it feels CLEAN. I vacuumed after the guys left (I have different clean standards than most guys, example, my husband didn't notice all the dust...) and knew it was ALL UP.
My Calypso and Kiva were able to go upstairs for the first time in months and I knew they weren't tracking ringworm fibers back down with them. 
I just need someone tell me who and when to venmo some money. I come here way more often then I need to and it has become a valuable part of my life.
@Apos said in When To Stop Listening To Those Voices:
It is simple. Don't think too much about your own character.
^^^ That, that, that.
