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I need to get back to the gym. they were remodeling right as my contract ran out so I figured I'd wait till they were done to get back in there. Was doing yoga there every Tuesday. one of the hardest workouts I've done which surprised me. Plus I can touch my toes now and my back felt better for it.Vidmaster7 – try Pilates. The last time on tampines sports hub opening, they were offering free classes, so I signed up for pilates, which my colleague said would help with my fat tummy. So I went for the course and boy was it tough. Good thing back then I did Yoga every Monday, so I did have some foundation in the core work. The old auntie next to me was fine, but sitting in a V-shape is tiring as fk. Again, I was outperforming some polytechnic students ;)
But school physical education sessions will never make you do that much core work,so they were unprepared for that kind of thing. Again that old auntie had been doing yoga for over a decade, so she definitely was definitely better then I was at it.
Touching my toes is a sometimes food for me. Without yoga it’d be a not at all thing.
Yeah, Pilates is rough. Good exercise but rough.
I didn’t really understand until recently that not being able to touch toes was really a thing. Like doing it from standing I can put my hand flat on the ground. After sliding them between my legs so that my flat hands are resting on the ground behind my heels. The trick is not letting my knees bend the wrong direction when I do it. I struggle to keep straight legs. If my knees don’t bend one way, they go the other one. Which hurts. Not being able to touch your toes is probably better than that tbh.| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Well, if you can figure out how to add some kind of healing factor to take care of the damage that all the dislocations and subluxations do, I’m all in! :)Vanykyre, I think you're like Lynora who can twist herself without even realizing it. But is your finger causing you pain or something? I don't think I'd go around with a broken finger...
Oh I'm also running a sleep defecit but it's my own darned fault for too much slay the spire. I just had an electrifying run last night.
Psst: I played the defect and focused on lightning powers, then started blowing everything up in short order. And it looked completely natural.
Oh, god, for his sake I hope not! I wouldn’t wish my issues on my worst enemy!
*pops jaw back into place* (not saying this for dramatic emphasis or anything either. I really did just pop my jaw back into its socket. It’s been acting up lately.)i am torn between wanting to heal you and wanting your x factor to continue your transformation into a superhumanly flexible being.
Wait, why cant we do both?
maybe we should turn you into a slime girl? The monster, not the band.
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*Yawn*
Time for some sleep…I'm one tired turtle.
Happy the rest of the day and a goodnight to every FaWtL'er!
*Nuzzles Mort goodnight, hugs Lyn and fist-bumps John before lumbering over beside Mort's basket. He spins around himself a couple of times before finally settling down and retreating into his shell*
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I need to get back to the gym. they were remodeling right as my contract ran out so I figured I'd wait till they were done to get back in there. Was doing yoga there every Tuesday. one of the hardest workouts I've done which surprised me. Plus I can touch my toes now and my back felt better for it.Vidmaster7 – try Pilates. The last time on tampines sports hub opening, they were offering free classes, so I signed up for pilates, which my colleague said would help with my fat tummy. So I went for the course and boy was it tough. Good thing back then I did Yoga every Monday, so I did have some foundation in the core work. The old auntie next to me was fine, but sitting in a V-shape is tiring as fk. Again, I was outperforming some polytechnic students ;)
But school physical education sessions will never make you do that much core work,so they were unprepared for that kind of thing. Again that old auntie had been doing yoga for over a decade, so she definitely was definitely better then I was at it.
Touching my toes is a sometimes food for me. Without yoga it’d be a not at all thing.
Yeah, Pilates is rough. Good exercise but rough.
I didn’t really understand until recently that not being able to touch toes was really a thing. Like doing it from standing I can put my hand flat on the ground. After sliding them between my legs so that my flat hands are resting on the ground behind my heels. The trick is not letting my knees bend the wrong direction when I do it. I struggle to keep straight legs. If my knees don’t bend one way, they go the other one. Which hurts. Not being able to touch your toes is probably better than that tbh.
freehold has waited years for this moment of nude pilates/yoga/stretching.
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The real question is do you also rock a super sweet cape as a fashion statement?Remember when the first Pres. Bush had to prove he was actually the President to a skeptical Kindergartener by showing the child his Amex card, and the American Express company was mortified because he only had the standard green Amex and not a gold card, so they very publicly upgraded him?
I think that was the moment I stopped thinking of "gold" or "platinum" membership levels as status symbols.
Now, if there were a "gold-pressed latinum" membership level, that I would consider.
as an aside, I will be issuing gold pressed latinum as use for currency within the abscondi-cave. Use it for everything and anything, from ice cream sundaes to massages or just plain throwing at the tv when your sports team loses/you discover your show is being cancelled/the fictional character you are in a relationship with carries on with that guy/gal on screen instead of leaving them for you(which is by far the wiser option).
Note that these gold pressed latinum pieces will have my picture on them, and be worthless outside of the abscondi-cave.
I am also having a full bar and grill installed. I am in the process of hiring reasonable facsimiles of all the Doctors to act as bartenders, each of whom will know how to make their signature number drink.
HOLY S&&& I'M REVERSE LANDO CALRISSIAN I HAVE HAIR WHERE HE DOESNT AND HE HAS HAIR WHERE I DONT!
I...I also don't work much of the time...
no, i wear hoodies, which are the opposite of a cape.
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as an antiauthoritarian, i must say those numbers are off, if only because my spanish teachers and my math teachers would have differing opinions of me, my work ethic, and my school career.I know this does happen but hearing about it is so weird to me. As an overachieving perfectionist I tended to encounter either other overachievers or the ones who just didn’t get it for some reason and needed help. I spent a lot of time in high school and college tutoring other students. I just never interacted with the ones who didn’t care, so I have a hard time understanding the mindset behind thatYep... so many kids who are so much smarter than their work shows because they know they can just skate through on a C. I'm sure this won't backfire horribly when they start looking at college...or trying to start a career with their horrible work habits leaned on for years...Of course our system isnt perfect. Since 55 gets you a passing grade, we have what we call 60% culture'.
Doing just good enough to pass, as a better grade doesnt matter in a lot of cases (unless you want to get into a numerous fixus study).
This causes a lot of underperformimg.You hung out with the wrong kids, and were never a teacher. :-P
Seriously. I'd guess 60-70% of my graduating class in high school fell into that category.
That's not my estimation as a teacher, because as you say, that experience is quite different. That's an evaluation of how many of my friends and peers actually cared at all about doing a decent job at school.
The answer was an easy, "Less than half."
Most just wanted to pass and make passes.
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*Scratches the spinning cover turtle on its shell*
I just find that so cute…
*makes sure the Cover Turtle is properly covered*
And yes Freehold, No Capes!
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I thought it was links but links don't appear to be the issue. Cover Turtle you really should go to an optometrist to get your left eye checked, dashing as an eye patch may look.
It could be cataracts, glaucoma and possibly other stuff that if left untreated, could cost you vision in that eye.
Should be right eye, my typo.
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Steve McQueen.In honor of a classic movie, I suggest The FaWtL 7. ** spoiler omitted **Who's gone die first?
NOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Still not over it.
Still not over The Great Escape, either.
Or The Sand Pebbles.
How in you tell it's a great classic movie?
Steve McQueen dies in it.
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That got pretty severe in there. I feel for you Mort.Gran and Vidmaster7 would probably say working at the front desk/customer service makes you lose faith in humanity.
I lost my faith in humanity when my players in my Strange Aeons game decided to Murderhobo NPCs because they did not want to help the party.
Woran - the extended rant was here
And it got so out of hand that a mod had to step inThanks. No surprise I'm mostly retired from PBPs and PFS, eh?
But that experience hurt. And I'm still not really whole.
Because of that incident, I get down days where I feel the whole GM thing is underappreciated and generally players are a self entitled bunch.Big internet hug from me.
Im sad you ran into a bunch of people like that. I'm generally blessed by an older player pool locally (25 years and older) and that saves a lot of drama. Altough I had to ban one player from my venue.
My play by posts are going pretty good now. Its had its ups and downs and some games did not continue, but luckily that was all due to real life happening.
GMing is hard. And I encourage everyone to try it at least once. A lot of people dont know the amount of time and effort that goes into it, untill they have to do it themselves.
Incidents like that can certainly make you feel down and doubt yourself. I hope the feeling will fade with time.
Fun fact: The offending players in question were over the age of 25.
Under the PFS rules you cannot ban particular characters from your games, nor particular players, if I am not wrong, no?
Don’t get me wrong, I understand why the rules were there, so that PFS can get maximum number of people playing and don’t get GMs saying they’re not running games for certain people out of pique.
If you cannot answer certain things due to confidentiality as your position as a VC/VL/VO, I understand as well.
But on the other hand, there’s GM’s feelings to consider as well, and trying to run a game with people you don’t get along with just leads to GM burnout. And then you have a smaller pool of GMs.
In Singapore mostly everyone has played most scenarios non core, so they’re currently waiting for Pathfinder 2.0, and currently playing Starfinder. But before the scenario exhaustion, there was a shortage of GMs. I had a group that I ran scenarios from rather low level (3 ish), all the way to seeker level. They were cheese monkeys, but also an adorable bunch. I liked them.
Well…to me GMing is entertainment, but it really s*cks your energy when you have people you can’t get along with. And honestly it seems like you’re more likely then not to recruit one these types in an open recruitment.
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WHAT THE!!??
I leave for one night, and I have 107 posts to read through!? What is this madness, I had less than this, from Saturday morning to Sunday evening!
I know!!! It’s so hard to catch up!!!
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Nh just did a fancier version of what I was going to suggest- put sauce in pot with raw meat, cook forever over low heat with a couple of cups of wine(one for the pot, one for you, one for the pot, one for you, stop when you start singing showtunes. Or if you are lisamarlene or lynora, stop when you cannot remember showtunes)....at least 19 hours. That's *almost* as long as my mother-in-law cooks a turkey.
Lol. And yeah, sounds about right ;P
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if it takes you 19 hours to get stewed to the point you cant remember hamilton, you may need to invest in several bottles of wine for this recipe.Nh just did a fancier version of what I was going to suggest- put sauce in pot with raw meat, cook forever over low heat with a couple of cups of wine(one for the pot, one for you, one for the pot, one for you, stop when you start singing showtunes. Or if you are lisamarlene or lynora, stop when you cannot remember showtunes)....at least 19 hours. That's *almost* as long as my mother-in-law cooks a turkey.
Hahahahahahahaaaa!
Okay, so I sing/hum when I’m stressed. It’s basically stimming behavior. So over the last few weeks we have really stretched my husband’s tolerance to the limit. He’s so sick of Hamilton. And Les Mis. And Phantom of the Opera. And Miss Saigon. And the soundtrack to Star Wars, Indiana Jones, the princess bride, several weird and not very good theme songs from old tv shows, random nursery rhymes (I’m told they’re creepy when you hum them), and.....are.....are you starting in on Queen’s greatest hits??? Okay, that’s it, you need a night out... and that’s how I ended up getting a whole night to myself to go see Deadpool 2 ^.^
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ROFL. Do you have any idea how many tries it took to get my voicemail greeting to sound like that? More than the number of hours my MIL cooks a turkey.(You would *really* hate to be in our car on a road trip.)as I have quite accidentally heard your talking voice, I would have no problem being serenaded by you during a road trip. I would request silence should I snapchat any landmarks, however.
Ugh. Voicemail. I always sound so...chirpy. I really try to pitch my voice lower so I won’t sound like a little kid. Sometimes it even works. But I usually keep whichever version I can get all the way through without stuttering or lisping no matter how chirpy it sounds :/
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It is. The more I think about it, the more I want to do it. But, programming / working with microcontrollers is a bit out of my area of expertise.I came across plans for a speech synthesizer using an Atmega128 microcontroller. It seems to me that this could be used for an electronic talking polyhedral dice roller for visually impaired players. The buttons would have Braille on them. This seems to be something worthwhile to develop.This is a really awesome idea
Maybe you can do some more research or find someone who can help you develop the idea. It just seems like something worth pursuing. :)
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If I used the word store girl, for some reason, most of the stores I go to, the retail assistants are female. I have yet to figure out why.
Maybe because guys are more likely to make purchases with a female retail assistant?
That, and the fact that, Gran and Vid notwithstanding, working retail females are less likely to lose it and punch out the oh-so-deserving general public.
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On the other hand, "said" becomes invisible after a while. Writers trying to get clever with synonyms leads to nonsense like "Moist!" he ejaculated.
>:(
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That, and the fact that, Gran and Vid notwithstanding, working retail females are less likely to lose it and punch out the oh-so-deserving general public.If I used the word store girl, for some reason, most of the stores I go to, the retail assistants are female. I have yet to figure out why.
Maybe because guys are more likely to make purchases with a female retail assistant?
Hey now! I never punched anyone!
I just played dumb or wandered away.
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Happy Anniversary to the lady lioness (Lady Firedove) and I! Woot! 13 years! 13 years!
Slightly belated happy anniversary! :)
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I just meant, if you want to lose all hope in humanity, try parenting a teenager.
It doesn't matter if they're tech savvy if they lie about every g%@!%@n little f*$~ing thing.
I was going to argue the point and then I remembered that
A) the kidlet is not neurotypicalB) neither am I
C) if my sisters ever pulled this crap they waited until after I left for college cause I bloody well raised them better than that
D) the stories I’ve heard about my husband’s teen years would definitely back up your statement...
So I will have to take your word for it. My challenges raising a teenager are just very different than yours...less lying more what do you mean you can’t figure out how to microwave popcorn? I even wrote out the directions... and why is the living room covered in nerf darts??? :P
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Been there. I do understand. Completely. I had to screw a particular bedroom window shut at one point.I just meant, if you want to lose all hope in humanity, try parenting a teenager.
It doesn't matter if they're tech savvy if they lie about every g&#&@#n little f@*@ing thing.
Sounds like when my stepbrother came to live with us when we were in high school. The boy was... popular. My mom knocked on his door to wake him up for school one morning and heard giggling. She opened the door and there were two girls in his bed. After they had been escorted out through the window, she nailed it shut herself.
(His father's only response was, "Hot dayum boy, good job.")
O.o
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Hey, anyone able to find that post that I compared mosquitoes to demons, and the morality of eradicating them?
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I really don't understand marketers, with their constant switching between "irrevocable Evil" and "irrevocable stupid".The word (portmanteau) you're looking for is malcompetence (malicious + incompetent). I find I'm using it in conversations almost daily now.
In related news, my extended family's usual July 4th cookout, family gathering, and drinking fest has been canceled this morning over U.S. politics. Whether we go full Hatfields & McCoys or not remains to be seen, but the day is young and the feud seems to be only getting hotter.
Sorry Fritzy for breaking the peace, I owe you a meatball.
And I have a new favorite word!
Sorry about the feud. It’s a rough time for that kind of thing right now. :(
The only mention you made of mosquitoes was when you were talking about how hot Florida is. Other than that, no.
Yeah, I can find a few others, but not the post I'm looking for: it was actually one I was talking about morality and comparatively (seemingly) reprehensible actions and mass extinction by creating a fake creature that just so happened to (intentionally) strongly resemble... mosquitoes. I've found a lot of my posts simply aren't coming up in post searches anymore. Anyway, thanks! Goodnight!
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In case anyone is interested I've been working on a satirical youtube channel in which a rabbit fur I happened to have found in a box after moving and named Rufus "reacts" to games, and hopefully some actual videos.
A watch, or some helpful comments might be appreciated, but keep in mind this channel will likely only ever air 50 videos in total.
quote for easy finding later
I've got a player who wants to play a one-shot in which he is required to non-lethally defeat and capture an ancient chromatic black dragon. It will be just me and him (my group is rather short on players at the moment), and he will be using gestalt rules.
Does anybody have any ideas for plot hooks I could use?
Several.
The ultimate question you've got to ask is, "Why?"
As in, "What do you get from a live dragon that you don't get from a dead one?"
Several concepts immediately jump to mind:
- a magical power source
- a curse that will turn it into a more powerful undead
- replenishing resources (scales that grow back, blood that regenerates, acid-vomit that keeps increasing, and so on)
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[spoiler=And now the long rambly bit where I accidentally come up with a...
hhhhhhhhhhhhhhuh cool idea for review later
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Well, I'm in for some wailing and gnashing of teeth this coming year. To try and motivate my kids to put forth that extra effort on their projects, I'm going to implement a one-point rubric (i.e., the only criteria written on the thing are what will get you a C. I might be generous enough to make it C-low B. You have to exceed the bare minimum to get an A).
A lot of kids come in with the mindset of "doing the bare minimum = A+ work." That won't fly with this grading scale.
This is hitting me really wrong. I can understand your reasoning, but as a parent who just had to badger a whole series of teachers to explain unclear rubrics this is just....not sounding like as good of an idea in practice as it sounds in theory. :/
I wrote all this up to Orthos, so I figured I'd share some of our FR deities that have come about as a result of our own games:
Basha*, Chinac**, Crystal***, Ennajen****, Stonecutter*****, Tessa******, and Thor^
There are others, I'm just not thinking of them right now.
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Glad you like it!Please sir, can we have some more?Hah!
Erm... let's see what I've already covered, versus what we've already done. Sadly, we weren't able to play last night: we both fell asleep, then, in sickness* we both veggied out in front of MatPat and Steph** on their LiveStream highlights.
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**That said, here are a few things that might tide you over? It's the background stuff on our world.
Copy/pasted from an earlier post:
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But let's see if there are more highlights I can pull up...
The first post about our actually-running game... hm, most of it's there.
I suppose I can go into...
Also this! With url'd link! :DYeah I'm playing Shaggy, Alchemist, with the construct rider archetype (which of course that is the Mystery Machine). I also took whatever Alchemist archetype (can't remember off the top of my head) that allows me to share my mutagen at half strength with allies (that's the Scooby Snacks).
I'm using the Shaggy minifigure and Mystery Machine minifigure from the new Lego dimensions game - it has a spot directly on top where I can have Shaggy sit when he's 'mounted'. (fixed link)
that one time that I saw TOZ play games!
Tell cyz, "hi!" for me, and sorry we were never able to get together!
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It really bothers me that we as a culture have come to just accept mediocrity. I can tie a lot of it to a growing reliance on instant gratification - there simply seems to be an overall lack of ability to accept a later and better product at the cost of getting something inferior now. There's also the "somebody else's problem" effect. We all know someone will care enough to do the thing properly, so why should everyone do so? But when more and more people buy into that, we get a tragedy of the commons.
I don’t want to start an argument over this, but I really don’t think it’s as simple as that.
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I know this does happen but hearing about it is so weird to me. As an overachieving perfectionist I tended to encounter either other overachievers or the ones who just didn’t get it for some reason and needed help. I spent a lot of time in high school and college tutoring other students. I just never interacted with the ones who didn’t care, so I have a hard time understanding the mindset behind thatYep... so many kids who are so much smarter than their work shows because they know they can just skate through on a C. I'm sure this won't backfire horribly when they start looking at college...or trying to start a career with their horrible work habits leaned on for years...Of course our system isnt perfect. Since 55 gets you a passing grade, we have what we call 60% culture'.
Doing just good enough to pass, as a better grade doesnt matter in a lot of cases (unless you want to get into a numerous fixus study).
This causes a lot of underperformimg.You hung out with the wrong kids, and were never a teacher. :-P
Seriously. I'd guess 60-70% of my graduating class in high school fell into that category.
I’m also the believes the best about people and wow it’s amazing how they rise to expectations almost every time kinda person. So a lot of my ‘little lost lambs’ that I worked with to help get better at academics might have ended up in that category in other circumstances. So that’s also skewing what I see in people.
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So glad I missed the whole schedules thing. I do not do well with schedules. And trying to read the posts where y’all wrote out your schedule in 24 hour time broke my brain a little. Like, it shouldn’t be hard, but for some reason I cannot hang onto it in my head and it just ends up as gobbledygookHuzzah! A fellow anti-scheduleer!
(It's a quirk of mine that drives my loving wife up a wall...)
Sometimes I make schedules....and then totally ignore them:P
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I thought it was links but links don't appear to be the issue. Cover Turtle you really should go to an optometrist to get your left eye checked, dashing as an eye patch may look.
It could be cataracts, glaucoma and possibly other stuff that if left untreated, could cost you vision in that eye.
Seconded!
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Seriously cut down on online activities if you need more time with your family. We'll understand.Just missing her and feeling concerned. Thanks. I'll pm.Hey, has anyone heard from Lynora recently?
A little…
She sent me a short pep-talk the 1. June.
She seems to have her hands full with getting the propper treatment for her kid.
But please don't take my word for it. PM her if you're worried or have something to discuss with her LM.I understand LM.
She's such a sweet soul.*Pats LM on her shoulder with a turtle foot*
*blushes* awwww.....thanks ^.^
And sorry to worry you LM. The kidlet’s health crisis followed by trying to help him catch up on school so he could pass ninth grade and also all the doctors appointments ate up all my time for a while.
Yeah, and I do when I need to. But social interaction is also needed for mental health, or so I’ve heard, so I try not to stay away too long! ^.^
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ZOMG GUYS INCREDIBLES 2!
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maybe we should turn you into a slime girl? The monster, not the band.Well, if you can figure out how to add some kind of healing factor to take care of the damage that all the dislocations and subluxations do, I’m all in! :)Vanykyre, I think you're like Lynora who can twist herself without even realizing it. But is your finger causing you pain or something? I don't think I'd go around with a broken finger...
Oh I'm also running a sleep defecit but it's my own darned fault for too much slay the spire. I just had an electrifying run last night.
Psst: I played the defect and focused on lightning powers, then started blowing everything up in short order. And it looked completely natural.
Oh, god, for his sake I hope not! I wouldn’t wish my issues on my worst enemy!
*pops jaw back into place* (not saying this for dramatic emphasis or anything either. I really did just pop my jaw back into its socket. It’s been acting up lately.)i am torn between wanting to heal you and wanting your x factor to continue your transformation into a superhumanly flexible being.
Wait, why cant we do both?
Ummmm......not so sure about that....slime is not compatible with wool. I can’t give up my knitting!
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WHO would spam posts to get someone naked?
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Certainly not me...
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Nope...