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 Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2024 1:49 pm
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I think maybe two other people stop in here with any regularity. ^^; One of them, the cap'n here, was pretty busy with irl stuff last I talked to him, so I don't really think he'll have been by to read much in depth. The other only drops by occasionally, think they're off RPing or something, dunno if they bother reading the novels I write, anyway, probably mostly look at the cute pictures when I post them. cat_razz
Well, it's good to have SOMEONE to talk to about stuff, whether that be current earthly concerns or otherwise. And, well, I'm not gonna be a Judgy Jason about anything, so might as well choose the accepting strange person on the internet, right? And I suppose if anyone has a problem with the weirdo from the internet listening to you and believing, they can bring their concerns straight to me if it's a huge deal. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Oh, I'm not alone, then! There are days where I Just Can't with various Normal People Things. Always kinda figured it was because I was defective. =w=; I'm better with some people (the ones I get on with well, like my beau, a couple of people I know IRL, and a few folks from the internet that I consider friends), but I still have times where I just log in, do daily things, stare at notifications when I have them, and go no further because my brain is just like "haha, no."
Heh, yeah, I've been known to be quite gullible. I'm a little too nice and easy to take advantage of sometimes... My beau helps balance me a bit, he's a cynical skeptic about lots of stuff, even if he is also a bleeding heart. But I love to think of all the possibilities! I dunno, maybe it stems partly from my being very mathematically-minded, where even numbers can be 'soft' in the right circumstances. But there are just so many things where it's like, just because we can't see it or prove it as of yet, doesn't mean it has to be a hard no to its possible existence.
Out of curiosity, I asked my beau (out of nowhere, confusing him, but he still answered) who he thought we'd be from TMNT. Turns out I'm probably Donnie, hands down. Like, there was no hesitation after he got over being confused, "You'd be Donnie, I'd be somewhere between Leo and Mikey, probably." And then he clarified this was based on the old animated series that ran late 80s to mid 90s (I don't think he's seen any of the later animated series, or the newer movies). (I personally think he'd be between Leo and Raph, but I'm not as... well-informed on the turtles and rely mostly on fandom rep and what I've seen with my cousins.)
Astrological signs are complete garbage, imo. >>; Like, my date of birth says I'm a capricorn, but I don't really fit that star sign. Personality-wise, I fall between, like, three signs, and none of them are my own, it's hilarious. Also, anyone that would let the stars best visible on the day of their birth determine who they were friends with must have more than a few bats in their belfry, so to speak.
And I just wanted to make sure you knew you had the option of PMing me! I'm not particularly fussed either way, but if you ever wanted to remove the possibility of the world at large seeing a message, my inbox is open. |
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Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2024 1:13 pm
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Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2024 3:08 pm
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Honestly glad to chat with random weirdos, seeing as in reality I'm the one of the many biggest ones of all. (I mean if we >Me and the TLer family I know around EL here.< took our true forms and all, we would be huge outsiders.) And we really do not need me sharing my true thoughts about things here and there about EL and ELers some, just in case of the few whom really love their EL and all. ^^;
I'm just glad gaia has life in it honestly even if the life is small amounts. cat_sweatdrop
We are what most call introverts when they want to be nice to others.
Honestly some days you just want to do your own stuff even if it seems "boring" to others. (the most hilarious to me thing is when those kids say it's boring and then proceed to want to see/watch.)
Aye I get it for both cases, I have no idea where that sets me down on the scales for skeptic and believers... I guess maybe partial skeptic?
(Obviously for my TL case it was believable a little faster for me, course it helped to have my TL parent be in the same town even if it was for a little while.)
When it comes to turtle integrations I am both a little sad and little proud to share this information; I have seen a lot of them the classic 80s cartoon, 2003 cartoon, 2012 cartoon, TMNT the movie, Michael Bay's TMNT movies, Rise of the TMNT series & their movie, fan made TMNT youtube videos, the 90s movies, & the newest one I can never recall the name of but it's the one with the just discovered by me Peatos snack mix (idk how old or new they are so I assume I'm late to news of Peatos tbh. Me forgetting that movie is the reason I'm not proud cause it sucks to forget. DX), and for comics I am trying to read them all I can but internet readings on Youtube is best I got for older issues before my time of birth. (And I have The Last Ronin comic series on my wish list for comics even though I know a few bits cause I did read the earlier ones.)
All I can say is each time the turtles can 'semi change' their personalities, but overall most integrations of the turtles stick to the whole known thing of; Leo is the eldest and follows orders from Splinter, Raph is the 'spiky' personality one whom does love his family but will fight on following orders & having Leo be the leader, Donatello is the smart turtle whom invents their modes of travel and some devices, & Mikey is the youngest brother whom loves to clown around and never seems to 100% take things seriously.
In Rise of the TMNT they got really weird... Raph was the eldest brother whom followed orders from Splinter & his destructive behavior happened when he was nervous, Leonardo was a goofball whom didn't follow orders and was an arrogant POS (really ticked me off seeing Leo in this way and the movie literally humbled him down and got me to kind of like him.), Donnie in Rise was Donnie still but also was arrogant with is smarts which had me being all "Yeah cause those actions make him SO LOVEABLE!!!", and Mikey was still Mikey.
The main weapons in Rise was even stranger some; Leo had one sword which allowed him to teleport around, Raph had Tonfa with a magic power to boost his strength, Donatello was kind of cool imo as he had his bo staff still but he decked it out with his technology/mutant world technology, and Mikey had chained sickles which had the magic power to shift into things like a chained boxing glove or a chained up ninja star buzz saw thing. (flashy stuff to please kids obviously.)
Honestly Rise did a lot of changing about which I was okay with and kind of hated both mixed. |
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Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2024 2:10 pm
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Huzzah for random weirdos! I'm just as weird irl as I am online, but forum posts don't show how big a ball of anxiety I am. (Which is good for me, honestly. Interactions are generally hard for me regardless, but conversing online is slightly less hard.) As for whatever your true thoughts are on this life, well, you're allowed to feel however you feel. And others can feel however they feel. And we can all just live like that. Like, just because one person thinks things suck, doesn't mean another's enjoyment is any less valid. We all like different things.
I can agree with that! Certain things can be tiring around Gaia at large, but I still enjoy dropping by daily.
"Introvert" is probably the nicest way it's ever been put for me. cat_razz I've certainly been called worse. I've been called "boring" rather a lot, too. Mostly just for reading books. =w=; Like, I'm clearly not going to be finding any dragons in true form in the real world any time soon, so sod off and let me live vicariously through fiction! Or when I practice one of my many "boring" hobbies, like crochet. But then people will sit and stare while I craft like it's a fascinating magic trick, turning a strand of yarn into a plush toy or scarf or whatever. It's not magic, I can teach them how to do it, but lots of people these days have been conditioned by television and smart devices to have very little patience.
Hm, I might call that "realistic believer" or "optimistic skeptic." Y'know, so far as systems of belief go.
Hilariously for me is that despite it all, I'm not very trusting of people's intentions irl, even if I always want to believe in the best. I find it a bit ironic, all things considered.
Yeah, I know OF all the TMNT iterations, but I only really have experience with the old live action films and whichever cartoons my cousins liked. I know a bit about the comics, too, but that's all kind of secondhand from when my beau was on a TMNT binge on Youtube and watching fanlore vids about the comics. I... have no idea what Peatos is. cat_sweatdrop So, uh, you're not as late to the party as I am.
I've read and heard... interesting things about RoTMNT. I'm not entirely opposed to all the differences, I can just consider it an AU (alternate universe; dunno how much fandom slang you know, thought I should clarify) if it really bugs me, but, well, there were certainly some choices that were made for that one. The weapons seem really cool, though! I'm rather partial to interesting weapon design. |
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Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2024 1:57 pm
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Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2024 3:34 pm
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Being a little blunt honest, the few ELers whom I was dealt in my EL made me have a major dislike and lack of trust towards newer ELers now, course having a step mother say you're the reason she and your ELdad will never truly be in love later after being divorced get you accused of a life damaging crime, having those EL authorities colors fly as they accept bribes of flesh and cash, and the judge being the "kindest" of all the bribed people as she decided she'll not put it in your records as long as you work your childhood all away never going to vacation of of town again until you are past 18 otherwise they'll let the evil step bitcher have her wishes fulfilled & that woman's wish was your death when you were only 11 years old in EL here... You tend to kind of get a major distrust and dislike for estranged EL people. Heck I'm amazed I show any ounces of joy in my EL now tbh.
I will admit I also got ELers I love dearly & would kill for gladly, but sadly those numbers are small & getting smaller as we transition them into joining as in TL as newly made TLers. (which really means my dad of TL does it all as really idk how to do so.
And scaring you with TLer power we got I'm equivalent to being only five years old and I got magic powerful enough to blow up half of Earth here, which thankfully no ELers had made me that upset. (and I mean really thankfully, I'm 100% certain my mother whom is a kind woman to all OLers would whip me if I blew up half of EL here, my dad may also do so but he's normally more laxed after mom does moming. But to anger dad also is a nightmare for if that happens you can bet on it going more down the lines of mom is only putting you in the box for a time out for worse and dad is going to kill your bum as he has enchantments to make it all really hurt.) even worse is being the TLer family rogue many siblings older than you think you been ratting them out digging up secrets. (they're not 100% wrong, but I only do it to older siblings I hate atm cause they got mean! So mainly only ever Renji, heck I'm bad as I go trying to set up Renji at times cause he is such a jerk of an older brother for all lives I do not care if you got him as one in an OL or if he be your TL one he just plain as day sucks. Worse of all Renji is a bandit which really is more warrior focused rogue than straight rogue but everyone goes saying I'll be like him when I'm him age and it pisses me off for when have I ever seem as jerky as him!?)
Moving on as I deal with them now in my EL as I got my niece's kids here so my great nieces and one nephew... ELer kids I will not lie, really REALLY annoy me the most anymore & I think it's all jealously... I'm 1000% jealous they can act up so much and most ELer Parents just ground them only if not put them in a time out. Half the things they all do would have me getting whipped and grounded in TL!!! It's all unfair!!! QAQ
Even worse TLer's got special TL punishments for us whom are TL kids which suck more!!! Like the box; imagine being put into a dark room that's 100% sealed up where you have no powers for all that time in there and you have to sit down doing nothing all that time, and it's a time out with no powers at all! So you are there feeling scared as heck as what if some bad creature comes to attack and you have no powers!?
Oi speaking of creatures... my most upset with ELers are the ones whom do know of TL things and TLers and yet they all chose to add to bad things for TLers!!! It aint enough we got to fight off your evil OLers, maybe including the darker sides of our own kind!?
I just want friends I'm a young TLer now, honestly I do not want to be doing the knowledge and get more TLers seeking thing here it's rough balancing TL and an OL equally to not get screwed in both of them!!! And atm I'm flunking EL as I got no money and am getting helped by my EL family members to survive and I hate it as I miss the ELer independence I had. (Well to be more honest, really I just miss the feeling of having a good sum of ELer money. ^_^;
I will always try to be on gaia much as I can be for as long as it lives tbh. (it is my second home on earth after all when earth was tough most on me.)
Closet dragon we got in the earth world here is the Komodo dragon and I love those little things. xd
Man 100% the nicest thing they all will say is "Introvert" I too been called boring and much much worse, and again it's for liking to read I may not have read a load of books when I got older and grew a darker mood and attitude with life cause how life behaved towards me and my family all... but even then I'd like more to be called an "introvert" over "a boring worthless waste of space" or something crueler.
In my experiences it is best to never 100% trust people sadly... (and it didn't help that in 2020 chocolate bombs really hit the fan when my best friend I stuck through with thick and thin since kindergarten went and backstabbed me by siding with the bad tenant whom robbed my home.)
I recalled the peatos TMNT!! (it's mutant mayham.) it escaped me cause I just recently got to watching mutant mayham honestly, the snacks of peatos however I had back when mutant mayham was just out I want to say, but tbh idk really...
All the same Peatos with all I know which is jack nothing they are a healthy version of cheetos and funions both as they got peato rings too. I got no idea what is in it fully but to wild guess I guess peas are involved with such a name. (I'm going to be both scared and laugh nervously if I learn later peatos are more dangerous for me than cheetos and funions are combined.)
Best TMNT I know are 2003 cause my youth, 90's live action movies cause older siblings had the VHS and I would steal and watch them a lot, & 2012 cartoon cause my great nieces and nephew love the 2012 version. (I also love the 2912 version but my only beef with it is I'm never use to a young April O'niel and Casey Jones thanks to 90s movies and the 2003 animated series.
Overall with TMNT my preferred April's job has to be scientist assistant and it's not because of my 2003 cartoon I grew up watching most for them, it's simply because on the few comics I know of she went and built some pretty scientific things with and without Donatello that I feel she could have always been a scientist if not an assistant to a famous scientist.
With RoTMNT I honestly loved a lot more than most do about the show (being on TMNT fan pages on both Reddit and FB you see many ideas of fanbase & holy crap RoTMNT is hated by the old farts older than us with many going as far to say 'THE ONLY GOOD THING OF RISE IS THE OPENING IS CATCHY!') And here I go knowing the 80s cartoon some cause of siblings but mainly knowing the 90s movies and the 2003 cartoon best of all for my time of youth able to say I like a lot more things than I thought I did too the more I stay on focus about RoTMNT.
Like Aye it made me mad at first how Leonardo was in the series, but now rewinding back rewatching rise and having seen the movie I think I got a love for him as he slowly grew up into being a good leader like the average Leonardo idea everyone has for Leo. (sure it took all those episodes and the whole movie, but it was a fun time now that I sit on it.) |
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Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2024 3:00 pm
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In all fairness, there are bad apples in all forms of life. That's just how the whole "free will" thing always seems to work out. But I get it; humans suck for the most part. And plenty of them won't hesitate at all to crush someone else to better their own position (like the step-witch of yours).
Eh, even if destroying half plus of the Earth would upset your authority figures, I'd have to argue that humanity deserves it. Pretty sure they're driving nature to annihilate themselves anyway, you'd just be shifting the timeline a bit. S'pose sibling will always be the same in every life, though. Sometimes they're good, mostly they suck. (Not that I have any personal experience with siblings, being an only child and all, but I know if I'd had siblings like those my friends had, I'd have probably not turned out as nice or patient as I am.) Really hate it when people say "Oh, you'll grow up to be just like this, or this!" Uh, no? Free will is a thing, and I plan to take advantage of it. Also, every single being is unique, so even if there are similarities, you can't end up "like" anyone else, you can only be yourself.
If it helps any with being jealous of "normal" earth kids, most of them tend to feel like any punishment is basically the end of their world. Like, being grounded without television or games or electronics is tantamount to taking a wizard's magic away for most of them. I was usually punished by being forced to apologize (I was taught that I had to mean it when I said "I'm sorry," and very rarely did I ever feel sorry about things I was supposed to apologize for) or being made to go outside without any books; taking books from me was basically like shutting me in a lightless cellar with nothing in it, or forcing me to lop off a limb, going outside was just salt in the wound, I wasn't... an outdoorsy child. I would have (and sometimes did) take corporal punishment over either of those any day.
Yeah, I'll probably be here until the place burns down, too. So long as they don't make any questionable changes to any of their rules/terms. Beats the heck out of Facebutts and other Social Garbage (Facebook and social media). At least Gaia isn't straight-up selling my information, nor is it owned by a rich man-child with questionable interests.
Komodo dragons are awesome. So are chickens and other birds; they're modern dinosaurs! (Literally. They're the closest descendants of dinosaurs in the current age.) Frilled lizards are pretty cool, too. Who could hate something that can don a neck ruff on demand?
I still read a TON, the real world sucks, so I escape into stories. Which, obviously, still makes me "the creepy, weird nerd," but since most of the library regulars are vagrants and I have an understanding with them (I treat them like I treat any other person, they don't mess with me), I don't run into trouble very often. Well, not in the process of acquiring reading material, at least. Other businesses, well, that's up in the air, depending on how they treat me. (Because I WILL retaliate in kind when staff treat me poorly.) I honestly get on better with the local vagrants than I do with "normal" people. Not sure what that says about me, or them, or "normal" people...
That is, unfortunately, also my experience with people as a whole. My mother and I have been taken advantage of a lot. We're too nice, and I have a hard time saying "no" to people. I will almost always try to help where I can, and will go above and beyond to try to satisfy people. I may not like people in general, but I don't want anyone to think ill of me either, it's weird.
I ended up looking up Peatos; allegedly a grocery chain back in my hometown carried them, but I swear I've never seen them. They ARE, in fact, made with peas. And they're better than other snacks, like Cheetos, Doritos, and Funyuns, but I wouldn't call them good. Like, they only have marginally fewer calories, and their sodium content is about on par with the others. But they are gluten-free, non-GMO, completely plant-based, and don't have any artificial bs in them (which would be a big plus for me; I'm allergic to most artificial colors) while containing a moderate amount of protein (partial protein, I expect, being made of peas) and fiber. Could definitely be worse, could also be better, but between them and cheetos, they're definitely the better choice.
There's more actual character development in RoTMNT, which technically makes for better plot. People just hate change and will (almost) always cling to what they already know. I don't think it's really any better or worse than any of the others, it just is. Like, its gravest sin is being different. If people could take off their nostalgia blinders for a bit and quit holding it up to their childhood ideals, they'd probably be able to appreciate it a little more. The same way you can enjoy a film adaptation of a manga or book or whatever more when you don't go in expecting specific things of it. There are a lot of movies that are considered critically terrible and are generally disliked by the public that I think are fantastic, so long as you don't try to hold them up to something else (e.g. the Ghost in the Shell live action movie; a darn good movie if you don't try to shackle it to the anime). Also, let's be honest, some of the old stuff people cling to, like old 80s cartoons, it's not nearly as good as those people seem to think it is, they just view it through the rose-tinted glasses of their childhoods. |
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Posted: Thu May 02, 2024 3:00 pm
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Posted: Sat May 04, 2024 9:53 pm
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Life is strange no matter what yours really is, wont lie though I think we TLers take the cake for weird. We would make for a really entertaining anime adaptation though with our crazy ways.
Honestly I agree fully, but that scary TL mother of mine likes to give any other lifer many chances & I do not want to upset her most of all between both TLer parents as she has the parts om her to control what dad does. (I know it's estrange for youngsters to know those things but mind you I do live OLs & in this one I am an adult much to my dislike of it. Not use to the tallness, age aches, because being in EL here not doing magic much minus minor ones that pass for ELer Magics and when you are not a magician profession in EL you can't do much minus the slight of hand ones by TLer law to keep well hidden.)
I got a lot of older siblings imo & slowly gaining all my memory of TL back in time of living I can only name a few and share what they do for life but it is a good sum all the same... Good ones I have we got Nobunaga (a genius mage like dad if any.), XIangwa (a mighty warrior.), Roshi (great marital artist), Hina(martial artist), Kanna (a beast tamer), Mai (cleric), Kai (mage), Kairi (an Artificer) & Jonsei (a Spell sword.) For bad ones I have Renji (only other rogueish kind of person we got in the TLer family being a bandit though really he's more a warrior.), Karen (bossy as heck mage.), & Vi (A cleric and Karen's twin she is also kind of bossy and being the one still mostly at our castle home and highly trusted by parents she can do punishments. it aint fair to judge her as so I know but for me it's "she's bad" cause she 100% can do that.)
I'm 10% sure corporal punishment is the same minus the obvious facts of for ours in TL parents have ways to shut off your powers/skills so you can not fight back at them normally. My parents in TL are crazier and expect us all to not fight back which I wish I never did for it all only makes it worse.
Personally I hate the corporal punishment with my TLer parents as tbh idk why I just hate it the most. (^_^; )
Yeah social media is butt mostly, specially with all the changing of owners.
There are many fun creatures on Earth here. (not so talkative cause of the kids of my older than me niece.)
Vagrants are good people sometimes depending the ones you meet up with. sweatdrop (I met a good mix of good and bad ones.) Honestly hanging with the "weird" & "bad" crowds is all I ever known and honestly a lot of them are decent people really, rough around the edges maybe for a few but decent guys and gals. Being a delinquent once I was considered obviously one of the only "bad" kind of people, so I kind of respect delinquent people long as they are not too far gone in being bad people only.
It's sad how life gets to being for some people, specially when it causes families to go against each other at times too. (my life has lots of issues about in it some I know others I just learnt of and others idk about at all maybe. x-x)
Amazing to me how there are few things that are around in you own town and you just find out about them. For example I known of them for a few years now but back then I heard of Faygo only and never knew Emmett Idaho here had any until the day I decided to do some homestuck cosplay. (it was always in town since it was a thing, but I just learnt of faygo being sold in my hometown here when I was a teenager.)
All the same we both can agree Peatos may not be best healthy choice but they are better than going to cheetos normal for it is a "healthy" snack.
Aye always the case with changes to things people knew sadly, I will admit not all changed things are decent but some are good like RoTMNT & honestly some other things long as you go look past what you knew. (however I will always have some gripes here and there with things, like with the ender's game movie I was so upset they had Bean and Ender on the same shuttle to the school simply cause "BEAN COMES LATER!!!" exact words I shouted angry at the movie when I first watched it as my friends watched my face do that fun uncomfortable look that was screaming "I got to critique this moment!" overall though I still like the movie ender's game just as much as I loved the book from when I read it when I was young.)
Aye 80s stuff got a lot of bugs and get weird when you look at it. heck our 90s stuff was also not too grand. (animation errors, perverted af moments, racist designs on some characters, and sometimes even wrong characters used for moments.)
Like if you see the 90s TMNT when "Raph" shouts on the roof of the building if you really look closer it's really Mikey on the roof and they just put Raph's voice over it all. And Dragon Ball as an anime had lots of perverted times/jokes. I still dearly love them both but they got their bugs or flaws whatever wording you wish to use.
Before I forget thanks for the kindred gift you sent, I'll take good care of the kin and raise it to be mighty. 3nodding
{I got to talking more near the end as the kids whom stare over at text left out to the RV they are suppose to be in more than being inside the house here. I'm sorry they are killing how much I talk too but after a whole two months of people not normally here just being always here all the time it's all bleh...} |
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Posted: Sat May 04, 2024 10:01 pm
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Posted: Sun May 05, 2024 3:44 pm
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Thinking about it, if you went through some of the more... esoteric isekai/reincarnation anime/manga/light novels, chances are you could probably turn up a few plots that come close. There are some... interesting isekai plots out there. Regardless, I'd probably watch that anime, so it's not, like, Goblin Slayer or Chainsaw Man kinds of weird. Jojo levels of weird are fine, though, and I could probably live with Berserk levels of weird, too.
I find it kind of a shame you don't have anything like a "magic-safe-space," where you could practice away from the masses. It seems like not being able to really DO anything other than what basically amounts to minor illusions would feel rather a lot like going through life in heavy shackles and chains. Which seems like it would in turn lead to... more rebellious natures, I suppose is the best way to put it, in the younger folks. But maybe I'm viewing it wrong, or over-simplifying it, I've little knowledge on the subject.
Quite the spread of sibs! Looks like a pretty even split between magic- and physical-focused. At least the better part of them are decent, more than most "normal" families can say, I expect. ;p
Honestly, the people that own the social media corporations wouldn't bother me so much if they weren't all downright awful people with seemingly zero sense of decency or respect for people or the security of their private information. I have... very strong feelings about social media and the contracts their consumers implicitly condone through using their services.
Yeah, every 'slice' of society has good and bad in it. The vagrants that spend all their time juking and shooting up in public parks, for example. I don't really interact with them. But the folks that hang out at the library have to follow the library rules, and the staff have pretty low tolerance of detrimental acts/behaviors. Plus there are a lot of services available through the library, counseling and aid programs, that most of the vagrants that are regulars take advantage of using. Most of the other regular people we know in town think I must have balls of steel to hang out at the library with the vagrants, but they've all been good to me. I don't really understand why others think so poorly of them, just for living their lives in a different way.
What's a family without a healthy dose of Issues TM, right? cat_lol This is why I choose not to interact with most of mine any longer. Tired of all the extraneous drama. Two cats whinging at me every day is about my limit for drama, anymore.
I don't know if the grocery stores I actually visited carried Peatos, just that the chain itself is supposed to be a big retailer for them. There were tons of things they just wouldn't stock, especially the one that was closest; it has the honor of being, literally, the smallest store of that particular grocery chain in existence. It was always a toss-up as to whether I could even find vegetarian brands or basic tofu at that one. I know all the local stores, even the IGA hardware store combo that has been run by the same family for generations, carried Faygo, though! People in my hometown couldn't live without their Faygo Redpop. cat_sweatdrop Like Southerners and their Sun Drop. =w=; Couldn't get it in my hometown, so my uncle's ex-wife would have her mom ship some to her regularly. (If you've never heard of it, it's basically Mountain Dew, but only regionally available, and worse, in my humble opinion.) Also couldn't get livermush in my hometown, people would look at you funny if you asked about it.
Unfortunately, some of the gripes people have about film adaptations of novels are simply unavoidable changes that had to be made. There are things you can do with written fiction that just won't carry to the screen. Like when we're privy to a character's inner monologue or, even worse, multiple characters' inner monologues, that doesn't really translate well into film. Plus some adaptations would be really awkward if they adhered strictly to the source (e.g. Coraline). A lot of people don't seem to understand that, though, and will basically riot over the littlest changes... Big plot changes, though, I'm with you on hating. 'course, I don't watch films very often, so I don't get much chance to even make comparisons. I will admit to wanting to flip tables over some of the current canon Star Wars lore, though. (I'm a fan of the old "Legends" expanded universe lore that includes a hefty number of novels, which I am just weird enough to enjoy.) Though the guy currently in charge of bringing lore to life has been steadily working at making a lot of Legends lore canon again, which is quite entertaining to me.
You're welcome~! I love my sakura fluff for farming, and wanted to spread the joy of the little pink tanky kin. cat_razz I've not really met anything my fluff couldn't handle with a few potions, except in cases of bad luck with debuffs, so you'll be free to farm wherever you desire! |
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