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I know how to Kitchen, and I will refuse to make a store-bought pie for anyone who says otherwise. >.>
EDIT: Ack! Going from putting freezer stuff into a hot oven with no clothes is extremely uncomfortable! *re-dresses*
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So.
Fourth job just asked me to audition informally for LGBT erotica audiobooks.
...
Flattered Freehold is flattered.
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Put some clothes on kitchen aid.
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Cooking, like all art forms is best expressed naked.
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I know how to Kitchen, and I will refuse to make a store-bought pie for anyone who says otherwise. >.>
EDIT: Ack! Going from putting freezer stuff into a hot oven with no clothes is extremely uncomfortable! *re-dresses*
v.
So.
Fourth job just asked me to audition informally for LGBT erotica audiobooks.
...
Flattered Freehold is flattered.
You know, somehow, I think these two should be reversed, in their page-positions.
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...in their page-positions...
Huh huh huh... he said, "Positions," huh huh huh...
EDIT: And I know I just hit half a year of sobriety (183 days now), but I'm less than a pound away from 'halfway' through my diet, so I'm prepping a bigger post for that, hopefully within the week...
Quick! Does anybody know the active player count of EVE Online?
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Air flow is a wondrous thing.
We're having a 'cold snap' in the Bay Area, meaning it's in the low 40's for most of the day and night, with a bit of a rise into the mid-50's during the day. And our living room heater was just not up to the task of keeping the living space warm.
So, it used to be able to just fine. What changed?
(1) A big door-sized hole leading into our garage. But I keep that door closed or near-closed all the time.
(2) In the kitchen, we have one of those rotten slatted-glass windows that always leaks air. When we lived here before, I'd stuffed a huge chunk of 4" insulation to block off that window.
So, as an experiment. I hung a towel between the living room and kitchen. That's it. No super-insulated fantastic space-age material. Just. A. Towel.
The living room is now toasty warm, and we no longer need a refrigerator as the kitchen is an icebox.
Air flow always astonishes me...
Now, off to the hardware store for some 4" foam. I have an appointment with a window...
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I know how to Kitchen, and I will refuse to make a store-bought pie for anyone who says otherwise. >.>
EDIT: Ack! Going from putting freezer stuff into a hot oven with no clothes is extremely uncomfortable! *re-dresses*
v.
You know, somehow, I think these two should be reversed, in their page-positions.So.
Fourth job just asked me to audition informally for LGBT erotica audiobooks.
...
Flattered Freehold is flattered.
you said it.
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When I first applied for my landscaping job in Seattle I also applied, and was hired at an erotic bakery, but landscaping paid an extra two bucks an hour and let me work outside.
Sometimes, I wonder what might've been...
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When I first applied for my landscaping job in Seattle I also applied, and was hired at an erotic bakery, but landscaping paid an extra two bucks an hour and let me work outside.
Sometimes, I wonder what might've been...
it's obvious which one I would have gone for.
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it's obvious which one I would have gone for.When I first applied for my landscaping job in Seattle I also applied, and was hired at an erotic bakery, but landscaping paid an extra two bucks an hour and let me work outside.
Sometimes, I wonder what might've been...
Erotic landscaping? Topiary art for the discriminating golf course.
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Erotic landscaping? Topiary art for the discriminating golf course.it's obvious which one I would have gone for.When I first applied for my landscaping job in Seattle I also applied, and was hired at an erotic bakery, but landscaping paid an extra two bucks an hour and let me work outside.
Sometimes, I wonder what might've been...
[Archer]That's actually...better... [/archer]
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I did a patio once that looked like dick and balls, I should find the picture and put it on Photobucket.
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That's easy. Carve out some hedge vulva, and I'll be impressed... among other things.
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I could do as a pebble mosaic, won't even charge for labor.
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I focus more on stone work.
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Remember Y2K? Sometimes it's better when predictions don't come true.I FORESEE... some FaWTLie will get nekkid in less than another two dozen posts.
DARN YOUR ACCURACY A NEW PAIR OF SOCKS!
Road trip to Germany!!Just gotta crossthat big blue road...
Poseeeeeeiiiiidann... look. at. meeeeeeeee~!
In my 7th grade yearbook, the question was asked what will you be doing in the year 2000. Why I will be in my flying car doing loop de loops.
I think Lexus made the hoverboard so that's a start
Also, Nike made self-lacing shoes (and sent a prototype pair to Michael J. Fox), and another car company I linked a few pages back is working on an energy system that uses garbage as a method of generating electricity for hybrid vehicles (still the best car commercial I've ever seen). Not to mention there are a dozen privately-funded Fusion-development/speculation companies that are working on, well, fusion. Neither exactly functions like Mr. Fusion, but it is pretty great, over-all.
EDIT: added something, then made it it's own post with a new alias...
I focus more on stone work.
Workin' hard or hardly workin'? Amirite, Mac?!
Fourth job just asked me to audition informally for LGBT erotica audiobooks.
Workin' hard or hardly workin'? Amirite, Mac?!
I know how to Kitchen, and I will refuse to make a store-bought pie for anyone who says otherwise. >.>
EDIT: Ack! Going from putting freezer stuff into a hot oven with no clothes is extremely uncomfortable! *re-dresses*
Workin' hard or hardly workin'? Amiri- ... no, no, definitely in the "hardly working" category, at present...
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My attitude, pre-SMBC: YAY GAMING! Who cares about schoolword?
My attitude, now: I might as well play some games and ignore my schoolwork, I guess, because nothing matters in the long run, I'm going to die alone, and this whole universe is probably a simulation run by some strange beings for a perverted purpose.
End result: the same.
Auntie Lynora's Unsolicited Advice:
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I am mostly done with my Christmas shopping now. About half of it was buying gift cards. Because trying to figure out what my relatives actually like is way too much trouble. :)
Love getting that out of the way so I can just enjoy the rest of the holiday season without having to stress about anything. Until it's time to actually visit the relatives. I like to save all of my stress for actual emergencies. :P
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So.
Fourth job just asked me to audition informally for LGBT erotica audiobooks.
...
Flattered Freehold is flattered.
Wait. Since when is there a fourth job?
Anyway, you so need to do this.
my jobs (in order)
1. Social worker (sorta kinda) at (name omitted for work reasons)
2. Recruiter for studies on (mostly lgbt) sex out of hunter college
3. Selling shirts(we used to sell h, but no longer) for Rfandom(look 'em up on that site I hate!)
4. Editing (mostly lgbt)erotica for Inkstained Succubus
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I need a soundproof room to record my audition reading in.
In what will be a hilarious crossover episode, it turns out second job has soundproof room I can use for free!
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My attitude, pre-SMBC: YAY GAMING! Who cares about schoolword?
My attitude, now: I might as well play some games and ignore my schoolwork, I guess, because nothing matters in the long run, I'm going to die alone, and this whole universe is probably a simulation run by some strange beings for a perverted purpose.
End result: the same.
Auntie Lynora's Unsolicited Advice:
Existential angst, much like sadness and self-pity, is best enjoyed in short bursts. Have your time, then shut it down, DO YOUR HOMEWORK, and then if you still want to you can go back to the existential angst and/or gaming. :)
what she said.
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I JUST BEAT INFINITE SPACE.
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Why does so much awesome worldbuilding inspiration come at a time when I am busy writing an extremely important research paper that is due soon?
Long story short, I talked weeks ago in this thread about Dwarves being like Mamluks: high value slaves that are treated well, allowed to fight, and outrank many free people. Well, I want to take what I wrote for Dwarves, shift it to a much more military thing (so, even more like Mamluks, basically), and give it to Orcs (which is where the Orcish reputation for fighting comes from.). Dwarves become the low status slaves. Which makes sense for miners. It's miserable, dangerous, painful, exhausting work that shortens your lifespan quite a bit. But what about all those stereotypes of Dwarves as people who drink merrily and sing boisterously, and love backbreaking work and being underground all the time? It's people trying to justify the evils of slavery. It is literally like how white Southerners used to talk about how happy the Negro was in slavery and how it was the best condition for them. Without other races to run their lives, the Dwarves would never stop drinking, wouldn't be able to do their jobs properly, and would just live in utter squalor and drunken debauchery until their livers gave out or they starved! Yet by teaching them the value of hard work, people make Dwarves into happy, productive individuals! They love the mines, because it gives them purpose besides getting drunk all the time!
In the post slavery era, Diggy Diggy Hole would be seen as racist crap on the same level as a minstrel show in America.
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Why does so much awesome worldbuilding inspiration come at a time when I am busy writing an extremely important research paper that is due soon?
Plot bunnies flourish on deadlines...specifically they require deadlines of projects that do not involve them for sustenance....
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Why does so much awesome worldbuilding inspiration come at a time when I am busy writing an extremely important research paper that is due soon?Plot bunnies flourish on deadlines...specifically they require deadlines of projects that do not involve them for sustenance....
Aye. I did type in some details above. Which is more than I should have, and only a fraction of the ideas I have now.
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Ever feel like you're trapped in a never-ending spiral of failure? (I'm asking for a friend.)
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Why does so much awesome worldbuilding inspiration come at a time when I am busy writing an extremely important research paper that is due soon?
Long story short, I talked weeks ago in this thread about Dwarves being like Mamluks: high value slaves that are treated well, allowed to fight, and outrank many free people. Well, I want to take what I wrote for Dwarves, shift it to a much more military thing (so, even more like Mamluks, basically), and give it to Orcs (which is where the Orcish reputation for fighting comes from.). Dwarves become the low status slaves. Which makes sense for miners. It's miserable, dangerous, painful, exhausting work that shortens your lifespan quite a bit. But what about all those stereotypes of Dwarves as people who drink merrily and sing boisterously, and love backbreaking work and being underground all the time? It's people trying to justify the evils of slavery. It is literally like how white Southerners used to talk about how happy the Negro was in slavery and how it was the best condition for them. Without other races to run their lives, the Dwarves would never stop drinking, wouldn't be able to do their jobs properly, and would just live in utter squalor and drunken debauchery until their livers gave out or they starved! Yet by teaching them the value of hard work, people make Dwarves into happy, productive individuals! They love the mines, because it gives them purpose besides getting drunk all the time!
In the post slavery era, Diggy Diggy Hole would be seen as racist crap on the same level as a minstrel show in America.
I like it.
I like it alot.
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I actually do have a bottle of honest to goodness bottle of mead in my room. Can't drink it, though. Need to stop Youtubing and DO HOMEWORK. The mead is for after the semester is over, when I have time to warm up my copy of Skyrim and raise my flagon to another dead dragon.
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Ever feel like you're trapped in a never-ending spiral of failure? (I'm asking for a friend.)
I have found that "life" is the series of mundane and overlooked events that occur between the peaks and valleys of outrageous fortune that we spend considerable time obsessing over.
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Why does so much awesome worldbuilding inspiration come at a time when I am busy writing an extremely important research paper that is due soon?
Long story short, I talked weeks ago in this thread about Dwarves being like Mamluks: high value slaves that are treated well, allowed to fight, and outrank many free people. Well, I want to take what I wrote for Dwarves, shift it to a much more military thing (so, even more like Mamluks, basically), and give it to Orcs (which is where the Orcish reputation for fighting comes from.). Dwarves become the low status slaves. Which makes sense for miners. It's miserable, dangerous, painful, exhausting work that shortens your lifespan quite a bit. But what about all those stereotypes of Dwarves as people who drink merrily and sing boisterously, and love backbreaking work and being underground all the time? It's people trying to justify the evils of slavery. It is literally like how white Southerners used to talk about how happy the Negro was in slavery and how it was the best condition for them. Without other races to run their lives, the Dwarves would never stop drinking, wouldn't be able to do their jobs properly, and would just live in utter squalor and drunken debauchery until their livers gave out or they starved! Yet by teaching them the value of hard work, people make Dwarves into happy, productive individuals! They love the mines, because it gives them purpose besides getting drunk all the time!
In the post slavery era, Diggy Diggy Hole would be seen as racist crap on the same level as a minstrel show in America.
I like it.
I like it alot.
I have an addendum. I see slave overseers as Orcs, but that isn't a warrior's job, and you wouldn't pay the very high price of an Orcish warrior for that duty. Nowhere near economical. Which gives me an idea. Orcish slave overseers are the Orcs who just weren't good enough to train as warriors. Naturally, they are much cheaper. And all the other Orcs HATE them. Cowards and weaklings. Of course, taking someone constantly pushed around and called useless and putting them in charge of the only people worth less than them is a recipe for constant abuse of power. Beatings were extremely common, punishment was an excessive as it was petty, and a lot of the violence of mine life was a means of asserting control over an incredibly depressing existence. Slave overseers and pillaging captured cities are the origins of the whole "Half-Orcs children of rape" thing (another very offensive stereotype in the modern day), and modern Dwarven bloodlines do usually contain at least some Orcish blood. There are still Dwarves who hold this against Orcs, even with all the slave overseers long dead of old age. The "Orcs are barbaric monsters" stereotype is a direct result of the behavior of slave overseers, and is seen by other races as a rather Dwarven thing to believe. That kind of cultural memory runs deep.
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Alright, I updated my writing blog again, but I feel like this is another chapter that I could have done better. Anyway, here's a link to those interested.
I didn't realize until recently how depressed losing that library job made me. I haven't been in the mood to write or draw in weeks. I just want to lie in bed and do nothing half the time...
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The General is working overtime this week, which means I get to be morning dad again!
I'm so tired.
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I have an addendum. I see slave overseers as Orcs, but that isn't a warrior's job, and you wouldn't pay the very high price of an Orcish warrior for that duty. Nowhere near economical. Which gives me an idea. Orcish slave overseers are the Orcs who just weren't good enough to train as warriors....Why does so much awesome worldbuilding inspiration come at a time when I am busy writing an extremely important research paper that is due soon?
Long story short, I talked weeks ago in this thread about Dwarves being like Mamluks: high value slaves that are treated well, allowed to fight, and outrank many free people. Well, I want to take what I wrote for Dwarves, shift it to a much more military thing (so, even more like Mamluks, basically), and give it to Orcs (which is where the Orcish reputation for fighting comes from.). Dwarves become the low status slaves. Which makes sense for miners. It's miserable, dangerous, painful, exhausting work that shortens your lifespan quite a bit. But what about all those stereotypes of Dwarves as people who drink merrily and sing boisterously, and love backbreaking work and being underground all the time? It's people trying to justify the evils of slavery. It is literally like how white Southerners used to talk about how happy the Negro was in slavery and how it was the best condition for them. Without other races to run their lives, the Dwarves would never stop drinking, wouldn't be able to do their jobs properly, and would just live in utter squalor and drunken debauchery until their livers gave out or they starved! Yet by teaching them the value of hard work, people make Dwarves into happy, productive individuals! They love the mines, because it gives them purpose besides getting drunk all the time!
In the post slavery era, Diggy Diggy Hole would be seen as racist crap on the same level as a minstrel show in America.
I like it.
I like it alot.
Awesome.
Now go into half orcs.
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Ever feel like you're trapped in a never-ending spiral of failure? (I'm asking for a friend.)
Yes. Often. Considerably often, in fact, and it has been a massive stumbling block for me.
But I can't let it bring me down. It's all about perspective. I'm still breathing. I'm still alive.
There's so much good going on all the time that I ignore it, because it's commonplace. I can turn a tap and drink clean water whenever I want. I have a home, a bed, and people who love me, even if it's not that many: if I can count one person who cares, I'm blessed, and I can think of at least three. I can read. I can write. I am right now typing on a computer I keep in my pocket that also serves as a phone, camcorder, personal assistant, and more while I'm pooping.
It's all about perspective. How can anything really be a failure when I can say all of that? There's millions of people who can't. There's people starving, sleeping on dirt, drinking filth, who are illiterate and persecuted all because of the unfortunate circumstances of their birth.
10% of life is circumstance for those of us in the first world, 90% of life is attitude. Yeah, I feel like a miserable failure all the frickin' time...but I refuse to focus on it, because that's when the spiral occurs.
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I'm loving this "dwarven slave race worldbuilding/theorizing" stuff since that's where dwarves started out in my group's homebrew setting as well, as a slave race to humans and halflings in the ancient civilizations of my world's Azlant/Thassilon/Suel/Netheril/etc. counterpart.
Admittedly when those civilizations collapsed, my dwarves had a bit of a firm advantage in that they were the skilled craftsmen and laborers and thus knew how to make things... most primarily ships... and promptly up and left their former masters in the dust while taking to the seas. Some of the more generous/benevolent sorts eventually came back and began offering the humans and halflings the opportunity to sail as passengers, but the vast majority set out to sea and never looked back.
It's also definitely a contributor to the current general mindset of most dwarves is that the only authority they recognize is that of parent and captain (and more often than not the two are one and the same, or treated as such), and beyond the borders of one's own ship authority cannot be extended because the ocean cannot be tamed or claimed. Even victory in battle against another ship only holds your authority over them temporarily; either the ship will be scuttled or sunk afterward, surrendering your control over it to the sea, or its crew will be released and your control over it will end when it sails away, and there's almost no way you can enforce a claim of authority when you might well eventually end up on the opposite side of the world. Even magic is unreliable for this; it's not like you can teleport to another ship to check up on how your underlings are doing, after all. Not unless you really like swimming.
I can definitely see the kind of "if we don't keep them working they'll just be drunken lazy reprobates so this is good for them" being a common mindset/stereotype by humans and halflings in that era (and probably persisting in the humanistic country of Anhur that was founded shortly after the fall of the ancient age of magic and persists to this day), along with "Look at how they're built, they're literally made to do labor, while we thinner, lighter-framed humans and halflings are constructed for more intellectual pursuits".
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Also, if I may add, when it feels like life sucks most, help someone else. It's when you least want to do good for others, but it's when it is of greatest benefit to you. Not only does it change your perspective for your own situation, but helping others brings more personal joy to the helper than anything else (legitimately studied, IIRC).
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That 20 minutes of sun sure was nice.
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Ever feel like you're trapped in a never-ending spiral of failure? (I'm asking for a friend.)
Have you been talking about me with my mom?
Hey: anyone know a suitably "intense" sound that can also be used for a courtroom drama/heavy exposition with no actual combat.
The situation: the PC finds herself having to defend a psychic bond between a kind of sentient animal and a young man (not quite legal age, aka "15 and three months") as not only not vile sorcery (it's not), but also not of evil intent (it's not), and natural (it is).
She must do this as a foreign diplomat in a land of devoted theocratists who believe that it is vile sorcery, of evil intent, and unnatural.
Basically, intense, but not "action" or "violent" in tone.
Thanks!
EDIT: turned a spoiler into a link...
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That "DAH DAH" transition sound from Law and Order.
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Jaws!
Although it loses some of it's suspense if it's played on an Accordion.