Vienna Teng - Stray Italian Greyhound

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"Stray Italian Greyhound" is an odd little metaphor for the odd little feeling of unexpected optimism when you feel you can't afford to be hopeful again. Vienna Teng wrote it after an Obama rally, during his first presidential bid. Both she and Obama seem mostly retired these days, but I could still use this ( Read more... )

To my paladin PC:

I apologize for never having learned how to flirt properly, and saddling your 16-charisma ass with sudden confidence issues.

From, me.

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The last game of my Saltmarsh campaign will be on Monday. I am nervous, sad, and excited.

I will hopefully finish White Knight of the Dresden Files soon.

I will also hopefully schedule all the meetups I'm supposed to do whilst on vacation soon.

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A player quit my Wednesday game. Not cos the game wasn't good or anything, but. Can't pretend I'm not a little sad. I haven't felt this particular brand of dejection since Mandy left the AP physics lab group. Mustn't grumble, tho. BJRC had it way worse when he lost two players and the DM (hisself). I'll just have to... do better than I was doing ( Read more... )

Okay I didn't think anyone was actually going to read all six thousand words of my lore dump for the upcoming game. But I think they all did. Except Krogoth, who reads slow, but he's playing a Colonial, so honestly that makes sense.

Also last night I dreamed I was doing origami in a library with a sexy medical student who looked a lot like Steven ( Read more... )

Yay! And, just a few weeks til my designation finishes processing...

I have some new creative pursuits on the horizon.

First of all, the BSG finale WRECKED ME BIGTIME. I started crying when the opera house dreams started aligning with the present, except that everyone was wearing TACTICAL VESTS and I couldn't handle the CONTRAST and the SOUNDTRACK ( Read more... )

So I've been busy. New things I've found that I love:
- Battlestar Galactica - I'm in Season 2, it's just so freakin good, I can't believe I'd never watched it before!
- Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American - So I've heard a bunch of their tracks on fanmixes but never listened to one of their albums straight through until now. How did I miss this too ( Read more... )

just making this entry to note that this night's session was followed by two hours of dicking around in the discord voice chat about... just a lot of stuff. Making long distance relationships work. Older editions of d&d. Twenty-first century musicianship and piano shooting. Weebdom. Bandsluts, and American Pie. Mass Effect and alien tiddies. The ( Read more... )

Turns out starting the game I planned does not actually dispel the d&d nightmares - it gets me all amped up afterwards, before going to sleep, and makes them all 3x worse.

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So I was talking with my Saturday group about how the DM might've screened out secret nazis during his search for players:
"When I was trying to pick people for this group I absolutely encountered a few secret nazis. The disclaimers [i.e. "no sexism, racism, harassment, etc. will be tolerated. This will be an inclusive campaign."] made it easier to ( Read more... )