"Help! I'm in Asia and I have pustules!"

[greygirlbeast]

No comments, then why am I doing this? Though, please. No overly contentious comments with big words and needlessly complex syntax. They make my head hurt, and I need all this grey matter to make the happy words come bubbling out

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[greygirlbeast]

Yutyrannus huali is wonderful! Thanks for the link.

Glad to spread the word!

Sometimes I come across ancient evidence of feline misbehavior and have a sweet memory of a long lost friend.

Yup. Long after Selwyn expires, there will be his oral signature.

[chris_walsh]

My family still has hardcover books partially chewed by our yellow Lab Sophie, who we got in 1990 (age 2) and who lived to 2004 (age 16).

[greygirlbeast]

I have a book chewed to shit by an Irish Setter I had in 1976.

[corucia]

I plan on ordering the Alabaster hardcover at my local comics store when I drop by this evening. It'll be one bright spot in an otherwise dismal week.

All of our cats have been shelter rescues well past teething stage, so thankfully no teething marks on the books or furniture. However, I just found that the black long-haired cat has been napping in my sweater cubby all summer, and everything has a thick black coating now. De-fuzzing is going to take a while...

The feathered Yutyrannus is a gorgeous beast. If we ever manage to send people back in time to that era, the first few visitors are going to be devoured, because they'll be too busy staring in wonder at how different the dinosaurs actually looked in comparison to the illustrations in most books.

[greygirlbeast]

I plan on ordering the Alabaster hardcover at my local comics store when I drop by this evening. It'll be one bright spot in an otherwise dismal week.

Thank you!

The feathered Yutyrannus is a gorgeous beast. If we ever manage to send people back in time to that era, the first few visitors are going to be devoured, because they'll be too busy staring in wonder at how different the dinosaurs actually looked in comparison to the illustrations in most books.

Yup, and yup.

[stsisyphus]

Not having mounts is bullshit. A civilization that can figure out how to make guns, but not ride some sort of animal?

Having fooled around on a Secret World trial this weekend, I sort of had the same problem with vehicles. I'm running all over Kingsmouth, dodging zombies of all varieties while passing up scooters, bicycles, motorcycles, etc. And I'm thinking, why can't I pick up one of the mopeds and scooter around a bit? I can pretend it's because the gas tanks have all been siphoned by the survivors, but there are other events that suggest that's not the case...

BTW, I keep hearing people referring to the Kingsmouth zone as being an homage to Innsmouth, but mostly I'm rather reminded of Antonio Bay from John Carpenter's The Fog. Unfortunately I think it's too much of an oblique reference for most people to catch.

Unfortunately, I unsubbed from RIFT this week too. The endless world events that it was generally impossible to keep up with didn't help.

A thirty-foot feathered tyrannosaurid?I'm not even a sauridophile and I find

[greygirlbeast]

And I'm thinking, why can't I pick up one of the mopeds and scooter around a bit? I can pretend it's because the gas tanks have all been siphoned by the survivors, but there are other events that suggest that's not the case...

Sigh.

Please come to GW2. I have a guild. All you have to do is buy the game, and it's free from thereon. Seriously.

The endless world events that it was generally impossible to keep up with didn't help.

I don't hate the world events. It's the holiday shit I hate (straight out of WoW). But playing town games makes it hellishly hard. We're not even attempting RP in Rift. Just gaming.

[sovay]

But...I think that's not actually true. I'm pretty sure it dates back to the invention of the telegraph in the 1800s.

I learned from watching the latest season of QI with derspatchel on Monday that the abbreviation "OMG" was first used by Admiral of the Fleet John Arbuthnot Fisher in a letter to Winston Churchill in 1917:

I hear that a new order of Knighthood is on the tapis-O.M.G. (Oh! My God!)-Shower it on the Admiralty!!

Was not expecting that.

[greygirlbeast]

It's all deranged, as David Bowie said.

[ladyblue56]

Brain has not been good so less commenting from me going on

[greygirlbeast]

We folks who experience triggers are responsible for ourselves and shouldn't expect everyone to fold just bc we're in the room so to speak. If I'm feeling entitled to being handled w. kid gloves then I'm not making progress and taking responsibility for my own actions. Triggers can be so sneaky and surprising, like my daughter getting a Netflix DVD in the mail that triggered me bc of the subject. Completely unexpected and all I did was read the synopsis on the mailer but I don't blame her for my reaction.

As someone who also suffers severe PTSD - for which I am on meds - yeah, exactly. A point I was trying to make, but which a lot of people either couldn't or wouldn't understand. Which makes this all sort of ironic. People do not want to take responsibility for themselves.

Preordered two hardback copies of Alabaster from Ye Olde Comix Shoppe and on a better brain day I recently read issue #5. A nice, good ending and I look fwd to seeing where Dancy goes next.

Thank you.