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In all seriousness, she looks and sounds so much like my amazing shrink from high school, too, so it's like... extra time. So adding to the love pile.

@mietze If you haven't been watching the TV series adaptation of 'What We Do in the Shadows'... the first two episodes are worth that hour. The second especially made me think of the stressy crap you've described dealing with re: local orgs, and you have probably more than earned the laugh. (And would likely be able to spot even more things about it that are funny that folks not involved in such things wouldn't notice.)

Vampires at a local community council meeting. No, really.

This thread reminded me of what we've come to refer to as 'The Xanth Incident'. Because I also grew up reading those books -- starting allllllll the way back in that 'grades 1-4' range.

Which means I got none of the lewd humor at all. None. And there is... a lot. Since I stopped reading them in about 4th grade (I forget off hand what I mostly moved on to then), this never really dawned on me save for a generalized later understanding that it was known to be there. (I was too busy giggling wildly as a kid over 'the catastrophe', which I still find funny to this day.)

Fast forward to about 2013 or so, and we're planning a road trip to Florida for the first time, and bringing my mother. This is also a reminder of childhood, because my father used to cover spring training for the local paper, and would be there for 3 weeks every year (split with another writer from another local paper); we'd go for one of those weeks and beach comb.

So, all the happy nostalgia, and since all three of us are going to be driving down, we're looking for something Mom-Friendly as an audiobook, and my husband said he could borrow 'those Xanth books you read as a kid' from a friend who had the whole set unabridged.

We thought this would be fine.

Y'all are already picturing the gif, right? Because it was apt.

And we were all trapped in that car for over twenty hours.

@Ganymede That's where the husband works half the week. I am perpetually like '...but why though'.

Sleep dep resulting in random rants like this:

Because I mean lottery crazytown house.
I yearn for a walk-in pantry.
A spice rack of the gods.
possibly just a whole steel wall with the magnetic spice tins all over it, only sometimes arranged to spell out rude words
I MEAN COME ON YOU KNOW...
Spice wall arranged all FUCK THIS OUT OF SAFFRON
Though they make magnet boards out of the chalkboard stuff now? That you can use the chalk markers on then wash down? And I would totally.
Little arrow pointing to a tin all 'this is where the pink himalayan salt goes <HUSBAND>'
Another little arrow 'GODDAMMIT <FRIEND> how does one person even use that much sage'
It would be best kitchen
'FUCK YOU <ME> STOP HIDING THE SPICY SPICES' 'no'
not sure if I am describing heaven or hell right now but I know that is where I deserve to be living and so do all of you

^ Not sure if this means too little or too much coffee, but definitely way too little sleep.

I have been like this so long I couldn't even tell you at this point in the ways I consider 'core', really. (Namely, 'creating stories' in some fashion.) This goes back so far that, as a kid, I had trouble falling asleep, so like many moms, mine would read me bedtime stories. But, y'know, I would still sit there staring at the walls and side-eyeing the closet for hours after that, so I'd make up other stories in my head based on whatever she'd read until I was actually asleep. As a little kid, there were the usual 'make believe' games. I remember passing notes to write 'shared stories' back and forth about any given thing with friends going all the way back to second grade. I... really don't remember a time in my life when I was not 'this way' in a way that's instantly recognizable as part of how folks 'do stuff' in the hobby (coming up with plots stories as a creator/st, sharing stories with folks back and forth, etc.)

I am very much that pretentious ass who will cut a fucker who scoffs at that cheesy quote about the universe being made of stories, not atoms. A lot of the genuinely shitty things in my life have been made less shitty because while they may have given me hell, they also gave me stories. (There's another great quote from the Hannibal series about this, but I am not going to butcher it in paraphrase and don't recall it exactly at the moment, dammit.)

The gallstone that nearly killed me was apparently in the shape of a D10, though. So I almost had an ultimate gamer-geek finale?

I still have the set of story books my mother read from -- and they were the ones her mother read to her from when she was tiny. They are still fucking gorgeous and they will never not be considered genuine treasures of the house.

@Highfalutin That is amazing and I'm elated to simply have read it.

This is the kind of accident we used to have in MOO all the time, too. I am now so nostalgic it itches, and I wish I remembered some of the incidents, because... omg, yes, this.

@Pandora I would have done the same. I know you've mentioned playing princesses and similar often enough, too, so if you were at the time? Dang, if I was in your shoes I'd be a little nnngh on that since it'd sound a bit like I was being lined up to become another notch on that bedpost as just part of a princess collection. Allllll the 'no thanks'.

@Sparks I am so sorry to hear this. All the hugs, if welcome. That is heart-breaking.

Monday is over.

@Cobaltasaurus "hot vampiric seed" and "mangoo" also live in mental infamy for me.

@AeriaNyx I still love me some Legends, but simply because it is so cheerfully derpy.

This season is letting me down some from last, though, which is a shame, since it had such promise. (And the unicorn will never not be funny to me.)

I think if they hadn't gone in the weird military/gov't agency direction, it would be considerably better. That just vibes 'wrong call' so hard.

@Coin I managed to sell the husband on it with just the recap section of the second episode on comedy, and he's a hard sell on anything I like watching. (He remembers the comic as all around depressing, so it was not an easy pitch.)

So minor, but:

Finally, finally nailed a method for making tapioca pearls for bubble covfefe at home that works for me.

Naturally, I'm now out of them, but... <shakes a fist at the sky> I KNOW WHERE AMAZON IS AND I CAN GET MORE.

Someone, please tell me I am not the only one watching Doom Patrol.

I'm finding it wonderfully absurd, but with a fair measure of soul, too.

(Yes, I have a weakness for the 'team of misfit fuckups' trope, deal with it.)

@Quinn said in Sexuality: IC and OOC:

The only people that have ever made me feel uncomfortable about any of that in the hobby have been male players playing lesbian/bisexual lady PCs that come after mine. I've only ever felt like someone was being really pushy about things like that a handful of times in the entire hobby, but in all those times that was the scenario and I noped right out of there quickly. Everything from "The PC is close minded if they don't go for this" to "You as a player are close minded if you don't go for this" and it's like you do you, but I am just not interested and neither is my PC. Sorry! Then they never RP with me again and that's fine by me.

This is a real issue and it's one I run into more than I have any patience for.

For one thing, if someone -- no matter who they are -- is trying to push me into bedding down with them with some kind of negging or guilt-trippy nonsense like this, it's going to be a no. I don't care if they're the second coming (pun not intended), it is simply not going to happen, because this behavior is horrible.

Where I get annoyed with myself is that, in person, if someone said this to the real me, I would have zero issue telling them to go fuck themselves in as creatively florid a manner as possible.

On a game? For some reason, it's harder. I have no idea why, and it goes beyond the simple territory of 'my characters do plenty of things I never would'. My brain tells me this should be way easier, but it's not. On a game, I just feel incredibly uncomfortable and awkward and bother trying to be polite about the 'no, no, no, and fuck you for being gross' and get highly avoidant instead.

Part of the issue is that the kind of pressure tactics you're describing are rarely IC. When they are, it's a bit easier to disentangle in some IC fashion. They're usually OOC guilt trips and negging, and wow is that shitty behavior that sucks.

@Ganymede I don't care, but then... I'm also fussy as fuck-all and FTB-prone more and more. There are... four people I've written anything like that with in the past four years.

I have had too many experiences like the one Salty describes to veer far from my 'all straight chicks' comfort zone.

There are a handful of sane players I'd be OK with f/f scenes with, but since it's not something I chase down, it's in that territory of 'if it happens some day, it happens some day, if it doesn't, it doesn't', and I'm pretty zen either way that shakes out.

@GamerNGeek It has chilled a bit on that. People tend to group up IC and schedule a thing now more than most else, which has definitely helped. Smaller groups, too, rather than the huge piles.

@GamerNGeek Check out HorrorMU. I evangelize a lot, but there's reason for that.

The amount of time you're talking about is safe, though much less than that could start getting hard to keep up, if that makes any difference. Things move at a decent pace, but a lot of folks (including the headwiz/plotmistress) try to keep people updated and in the loop IC and OOC, since that's about the amount of time a lot of folks have these days.

ETA link: http://horrormu.com/index.php/Main_Page

@Roz I just send them the links to whatever alt-right memejunk he's referencing now. I guess Malignant was too subtle, and he had to change it.

ETA: I'm almost sad to see that post go. Rick pretending to be a Chad was probably the closest thing we ever had to action in the play-by-post department on the forum.