Posts made by Wretched

@livia Yes come to America, ignore the news, we're not actually 100% on fire yet!

@auspice I have done similar, shrugging my shoulder and stretching and then pulling a muscle int he back of my neck that was sore for a week.

@aria

Also: A year in review from Dave Barry https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/magazine/wp/2018/12/30/feature/dave-barrys-year-in-review-2018/?utm_term=.15d31f00e6da

@paris Yeah the Doctor said to check back in 4 weeks to talk about PT or surgery. The brace i have is pretty awesome so far, super stable even for my overweight ass.

@aria I only got two left and you live in Narnia last I checked. ALAS. Also burns are terrible, what was on fire?!

@aria slow clap

During my holidays, i have dislocated my knee! Storytime.

So i decided that I needed to clean a gecko tank, so, I scrub it down in the bathroom, and clean all the fixtures and get it mostly done, and then i turn to leave the bathroom when i feel it.

It's a hard feeling to describe, when a joint does things it's not supposed to do. There's a grinding feeling and a sort of nasty 'decoupling' sensation that part of my brain recording in exquisite detail while the rest of me was flooded with pain and i screamed something incredibly loud and high pitched.

During that time I must have teleported because i was then on the floor, and feeling my kneecap re-couple and pop back into place. That was another scream.

Now because i was cleaning the tank the shower was on, so my Mother in Law was afraid to come in the bedroom area, because i guess she thought i was naked or something. But eventually she did peek in to see me crawling on the floor towards my bed like some sort of boot camp exercise, so I could prop myself up.

At first i could kinda gingerly walk on it, and despite my earlier detailed descriptions, at the time I wasn't 100% on what happened, but managed to hobble about, turn things off and fish out an old cane from my closet. But this cane was poorly made and made of plastic, and as the night went on, i could put less and less pressure on said injured knee, and it became clear this cane would not suffice.

So I waited until my wife got home (little after 1 am, we are a late night household) and we went to the ER where they gave me Xrays (that showed nothing but possibly minor arthritis (so lets add that to the future worry list)), a knee immobilizer, crutches, an appointment to see a sports medicine doctor, and some Norco.

See Doctor next day and he tells me not to wear immobilizer and get an MRI.

Few days pass, Get MRI.

Nearly a week passes with me hobbling around on crutches before Doctor gets back to me (yay Xmas season) . MRI confirms Dislocated Knee and torn ligaments, and now i have a fancy knee brace with this gel-like horseshoe insert that hold my patella in place. It's actually pretty rad, I can kinda walk unassisted with it and the pain is almost gone, which is good, because the norco is too.

@ganymede The spiderverse soundtrack is so gooood.

@aria They should have like... a reverse uber for car mechanics.

hey, just ride around with me in my car all day, see the shit I am dealing with.

of course if you did that it'd never happen while they are driving about with you.

This just made me think of all the conversations about typing in accents.

@paris As someone who always wanted to be a 'drawer' growing up, i was religiously attached to pencils (preferably mechanical) and good paper. I wanted to draw comics for a while, or illustrate.

Then life happened and Family happened (you wanna take drawing? how about drafting, that is like drawing but you can totally get a job with it. What do you mean it's your elective, were your parents and we know best) So instead i took drafting, which i hated, then wooshshop, which was better but also not 100% my jam. then Finally drawing one year (after a long fight about how no, i did not want to take drafting 2., and then peer pressure to take DRAMA from friends, which i hated.

ANYHOW, a few years back i got a tablet and started doing some doodling on it and the learning curve is STEEP. Trying to dust off old skills too is rough, and as Theno said, the bamboo's quality is pretty crap these days and the software... ugh. I havent bought one in a few years but am looking again.

However, coming back to the mention of them starting young, fuck yeah. I was drawing on my dinosaur books as young as i can remember. Definitely get them a tablet, get them familiar with the tech as it comes out, feed that passion. Dont set up roadblocks like my family liked to do.

• I am a bastard born from my biological father cheating on his pregnant wife, with my mother.
• I have 2 half brothers from my mother and stepdad, but they are my brothers, we dont care about the 1/2 thing. I have a 1/2 sister my age that i have never met save for a brief awkward facebook exchange. And 4 other older 1/2 brothers I will likely never meet. Those 5 from the father and who the fuck knows.
• I will be 12 years married on the 26th.
• My first pet was a budgie name-- wait, this isnt my banking question page is it?
• I am A White, Semi-cis, male.
• I am woker than many but not as woke as i would like to be, but i believe that wokeness is a journey along a forever progressing landscape.
• I married a sexy goth librarian sugarmama who's kinks match my kinks. So I believe that means i win at life?
• I am SUPER LIBERAL who believes that the laws should be based on science, facts and compassion. I also believe in fiscal responsibility. Also legalize weed. '
• I registered as an independent because i believe that makes my opinions more relevant.
• I was never a pothead when i was younger. That has changed.
• I have been GOTH AF since the mid 90's, Shout out to Death Guild, Rodericks chamber, Camera Obscura, Adrenochrome, and all the other goth clubs in the SF bay area over a decade ago.
• The most piercings i ever had at once was 5, none of them in my ears, all on my face. Only the septum remains.
• I once had a threesome with a pair of girls that were cousins.
• I enjoy TMI
• I am kind of an asshole and i dont really mean to be consciously, I get wrapped up in being right. Way more often than i like. Work in progress yadda.
• Diabetic type 2 (misdiagnosed as type 1 for 7 years) Depression! Anxiety! Obesity! (thats newer, i was 115 lbs when i was 20, now i am more than double. HOWEVER I'm 25+ pounds back down and going save for the fact that...
• i sprained/dislocated my knee a couple days ago
• I am on Norco and weed right this moment for the pain. (Mmm White Widow)
• Yes Miami is still being worked on, no I do not have an eta, there's a bit of a holiday lul.
• I have a kitten that i love very much and she is my baby. her name is Lilly and i have posted her many times in the Critters area.
• I used to go back stage and hang out with the bands for all the Psyclon 9 Shows in the bay area before they got big. It's my biggest name droppy cred thing I have for the old goth/industrial scene. Back when Nero Bellum was 'Marshal Carnage' None of you will likely understand who I am talking about.
• I love to cook. I am 100% Amateur but i think my cooking tastes amazing. So long as you like Sushi, Chinese, Italian, or Steaks. Also Seafood. I even make veggie versions of things for my wife.
• I am really good at taking things personally.
• I am pretty bad at forgiveness. Well no. I am good at saying i forgive, but i know, i remember, and it seethes.
• Positive outlooks are hard these days, but I am trying.
• Sagittarius
• I really do think that people that support Trump at this point are either deliberately evil, insincere, or deceived/brainwashed. There is no other explanation. I believe that liberal and conservative values can coexist and should even balance one another, but this administration is a corrupt opportunistic dumpster fire of insane proportions. I know, I am brave for this opinion. No, thank /you/.
• A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie's now album 'Hoodie SZN' is dope AF. https://youtu.be/T23serDmhXA
• I am the grandson of immigrants. (And i am an Oma's boy) My grandmother was in a displaced peoples camp at the end of WWII I heard horror stories. She fled through tobaccoo fields with her mother at 16. Growing up with these stories really influences my core beliefs.
• I love fantasy. I hate Dragons and Elves and Steampunk.
• I was arrested for theft on April Fools day some 13+ years ago.
• ADHD af, I am not good at Adminny type work, it is like nails on a chalkboard for me. Which is why i like having Admins. Currently hiring admin for Miami.
  *I ramble. I have deleted about half of the things I wrote here.
  *Despite spending the better part of the last 20 years at a computer, my typing is terrible and i typo CONSTANTLY. it's the source of some significant embarrassment.
• Changeling is my favorite WoD game.
• I love visual imagery, photoshopping and every character i make has extensive visual research. Flavor usually comes before personality.
• I regret dropping out of college sometimes, on the other hand i did have a lot of fun.
• I met my wife in a club. She walked up to me and said the words that will stay with me forever. "You are too industrial to be here." it was an 80's night at some club i'd never been to before.
• Merry Christmas.
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@hedgehog said in Who are you?:

• Clearly the goth/industrial wearing black thing was NOT a phase, 30 years on.

So i have had a mohawk of different shapes and sizes since before y2k was a thing, I legit feel WEIRD with hair on the sides of my head. My highschool best friend taught me the ways of the goth. Family was not a fan.

So thanksgiving we did a family thing, but my brother scheduled it earlier than I anticipated. You see i was gonna get a haircut and show up looking like a normie for my grandparents. SO instead I am mohawked as normal, and I tell this fact to my Oma, who waves her hand dismissively 'Your hair looks lovely.' and i just sit here staring at her in shock. "Finally" i tell my Mom and Opa "I can stop rebelling."

It got a laugh at least.

But yeah, 38 and still with the black and pierced and weird colored hair. Odly tho my Music tastes are leaning deeply into Hip Hop at the moment, tho goth/industrial will always be my home.

Persistent world is a huge one. Free? That too. Also the anonymity. I cannot suspend my disbelief in a LARP, also I cant just be chilling alone at home in my underwear while I pretend to be a victim of faerie.

@zombiegenesis Fuck yes, it does indeed. This is right up my super hero horror alley.

https://nextshark.com/japan-cafe-paralyzed-robot-servers/?fbclid=IwAR151j9VwER_LhQklSd6DqplOWv7P1BbmLaL6_w7Fc_P--jMNkgQg64TjTQ

@arkandel

@hedgehog Awww

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51OB2YoC4sg

Stomps about nostalgically.

@packrat I LOVE HER PAW FLUFF!