Posts made by surreality

The stupid temporary bridge snapped again, and I don't even know if my dentist is open yet to get an appointment to re-glue it together so I don't slice the inside of my mouth apart on the sharp-as-fuck edges.

Augh.

...again.

@Botulism

Definitely there for that.

This was so 'do I love this or hate it', but it definitely falls on the side of hate it in the end.

My father sends the 'Biden's great grancestor owned slaves!' meme. <insert urge to throttle the shit out of my father for about 300 reasons here>

This gives me the opportunity to note that children don't get control over the lives of their progenitors -- particularly those who died before they were ever born -- but I fully welcome him to engage with me about why they somehow should.

Like, dude, you're someone who had at least one uncle who fought for Mussolini in Africa. Pretty sure if you or I had a say in that in any way, that wouldn't be the case. (Never talk to my grandparents' generation about WWII; half were resistance, half were in Mussolini's army. Holy shit they lucked out that there wasn't a Thanksgiving dinner to have over there.)

@SuperiorHuron OMG, that faaaaaaace! It's the 'I may be trouble but you love me anyway? I'm all choked up!' face of

In the vain effort to get a picture of Weaselwobble (sans flowers, alas, because I like not bleeding to death) I swear... that cat can dodge a camera.

The other five were a hopeless blur.

Very wobbly weasel. So round. So plush. The only cloud computing in the house, really.

ETA: Yay, her wee nose freckles show up a lil there. They almost never do.

Thus far, liking the Snowpiercer series. They do not seem to have spared the budget on this one. Same for the new Penny Dreadful.

Well-timed for both, too. The core issues in these two may have rung a bit hollow to the audience-in-a-comfort-bubble before we were, well, all living in bubbles more literally and the world exploded in ways that were impossible to ignore.

@Goblin ...this looks so much like my cat I'm tempted to inflict this on her. Well. Tempted. I like my blood inside my body as much as possible.

@Rinel If you want interesting tidbits on Gothic churches and their architecture, do a search for 'R. W. Billings' in the various online library collections out there. Some neat stuff. He also did two books examining the geometry behind Gothic windows. They were all published over a century ago and goddammit even the notes for the workbook-style things are really interesting, like how he made an effort to do one of them specifically in a printing method that meant more people could access it and develop their skills and and and and...

Totally not saying that because it's a rabbit hole I fell down a month or so ago, noooooo, not at all, sorry not sorry. (No, really, there's some cool stuff, so it's worth peeking at if you're really interested.)

@Testament

1. Those are pretty frickin' neato.

2. This used to happen to me... all the time with shoes, and I am a ridiculous girly shoes ho to the nth. We had a discount store near us that was amazing for shoes. This was great! ...unless we forgot to check there first.

I dropped $275 on a pair of Docs once that were and perfect while traveling, because hey, unique and almost sold out and omg last pair is in my size! That place never had Docs... until I got home, and they had a whole fucking display full of that specific line. I felt only the tiniest bit better that they didn't have that exact pair. (And I did pick up another pair I liked for $25, so... I force myself to mentally average that shit out.)

My disgruntled irk: that place is now gone. WOE.

Woe because more than once I'd fallen in love with something fancypants that was $150-$300 and they'd have it there for $20-$50, sometimes the very next day. (They got tons of department store overstock, and I have the small feets in the sizes that don't often sell out fast.)

I miss them. I miss them so hard.

@Rinel ...yes, it's a thing.

Also:

Me: <stares into fridge>
My brain: You want literally none of these things.
Me: What do I want, then?
My brain: You want cherry pie.
Me: I don't have cherry pie.
My brain: Refuse to eat anything until you get cherry pie.
Me: I will literally die.
My brain: FINE then, have a string cheese.
Me: This is not cherry pie. <still staring into fridge as if cherry pie will magically materialize>
My brain: Well, die, then?
Me: <grabs random pudding/yogurt/flan/something that is neither cherry pie nor string cheese and stomps back upstairs>
My brain: You now have a food.
Me: <gets distracted by something on the screen, forgets the food is there until fading into drowsy>
My brain: <observes the sad, lonely, uneaten food> This is what you get for not being cherry pie.
Me: Fuck this, I'm going to bed.

@Prototart I used to keep a couple of alts logged in to idle.

The same few dudes would always page with the random requests, and they were just going down the list and paging every mistress with this.

I know this because I'd see the same page appear on two or more screens within 20 minutes from the same person.

Once, I called them on it and said I am not inclined to RP with someone who does that, because their so-called 'interest in my fascinating concept' was obviously nonsense, if they're paging the same thing verbatim to every mistress on the game.

Dude swears with all the faux offense he can muster he isn't doing that.

...until I c+p the pages he sent to the two other windows over to him with the timestamps, at which he swears a lot and demands I never contact him again. (This is aces OK by me, after all he's the one who contacted me.)

Was the same dude so cosmically stupid that he still did the same thing (on all three windows) three days later?

YOU BET HE WAS.

Yeah, like... don't tell people that story on Shang. You'd get requests.

I had -- note the past tense here -- a long-standing habit of having characters sarcastically spitball some absurd bullshit in an entry pose, like... walking in while finishing an argument on a phone, or grousing to an assistant about how they were at their wits end because they're trying to find/do some patently ridiculous thing.

On Shang, I had to stop doing that.

Because, in the prep for a party/festival thing, I posed in complaining to the person helping me about 'how the character had to insist we were not going to literally spit and roast someone to eat alive at the party' to another coworker.

At which point someone in the public space I entered started to ask if I would please please please please please do this to them and wouldn't leave me alone for two weeks begging me to do it every few hours, despite me telling them NO repeatedly.

...so, uh, yeah. Cautionary tale, y'all.

@Prototart Yeah. I knew a few PoC players (players, not their characters) who had major problems because of it, too.

I know one had endless requests from people who wanted the gross because his character was black. And he was like... not human black, even, he was a supernatural creature that was literally like volcanic crust with lava fire cracks in it and whatnot, but people saw 'black' and... cue asshattery.

He'd already given up playing a PoC at the time, but even that wasn't safe.

@HelloProject This touches on some of the stuff that was prevalent on Shang that just... really made me not want to play there.

@Ominous Oh, I definitely got that, it's just... the question it generated tragically has an answer.

...because nothing gets somebody perky in the nethers like 'this person is an egotistical jackass without a clue about how the world works'. Or, they seem to think that's how it works.

@Kanye-Qwest The assumption being that the dude in the equation is gay, and 'you're the woman who changed his mind'.

There are a lot of people into that one, and not remotely subtle about it, from every possible angle there. Like, it might be the one thing bi/pan folk ever escape: 'the conversion fantasy'.

Except we don't really because our version is 'the one who made them finally pick for good', which is... also flinch-bait.

@mietze I knew someone on Shang who was Not A White Dude, but would play characters a lot of us would probably find problematic. He used to say one of them especially was his 'activist white girl detector' because it lured in all the angry pages, and almost universally, from white females flipping out on the part of groups they were not in (but he was). It was never played, it just existed to idle, and accumulated pages (of pages).

@Coin I enjoy it, too, I just know it's definitely in that 'guilty pleasures' category with all the similar shows on CW.