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brotherhoodoftheslice replied to your post “another wip excerpt”

I did NOT know about the eating raw meat thing, and it literally just made my day.

I was looking up the potion toxicity stuff on the Witcher wiki [witcher.fandom.com and of course I can’t find the part where it’s mentioned] and I just saw a snippet about the gameplay that was like Geralt can hunt and eat raw meat for a stats boost and I was like hwat the fuck

and then of course I immediately was like well I have to use that because this is who I am as a person

you can tell though that I didn’t think this through until recently because I posted a chapter in Meet Death Sitting where Geralt’s talking about herbs that have vermifuge effects (deworming! something I’ve been researching in real life for organic livestock) and that’s a thing he clearly would not care about if it was irrelevant to him, but I’m leaving it in because well, maybe his teacher left it in because maybe Witchers who wind up being instructors at Kaer Morhen don’t take enough combat potions so they eventually do have to worry about parasite load, who knows.

csevet replied to your post “another wip excerpt”

b have i told you lately that i love your writing because i ADORE your writing, especially when you get to write about Gross Dead Animal Nonsense

I was just very sweetly told over chat that my #brand is that I write Hurt/Comfort For Grownups, and I was all set to really internalize that and adopt it as my personal marketing, but now I see the error of my ways and realize that it’s the Gross Dead Animal Nonsense that is the true thing that sets me apart from the many other brilliant writers of fandom.

I mean, porque no los dos, but also, I feel very seen. GUYS LET’S TALK ABOUT VISCERA GUYS

walburgablack replied to your post “another wip excerpt”

i love Jaskier so much?!

He absolutely Cannot Shut Up and I overidentify far too much

i actually did just have the thought that people probably expect me to like, mention Geralt, in the ongoing story, and I’m like oh right, but well, it might just be the Continuing Adventures of Jaskier, Underpaid Academic And Victim Of Fame

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sugarspiceandcursewords replied to your post “ain’t dead”

Happy birthday! Enjoy whatever activities strike your fancy to celebrate!

bebeocho replied to your post “ain’t dead”

happy birthday eve!!

walburgablack asked “Happy Birthday!”

Thanks, y’all.

I’m 40 this morning, and my hair is not suddenly gray and my aches and pains have not suddenly intensified so I guess it’s okay. :)

I’ve been reading the October Daye books, at BFF’s insistence, and they did suck me in pretty well, and there’s a pretty main-tier character who is a shapeshifting cat, so this morning as my cat, who I have sorely missed this last week and a half of traveling, was being ridiculous I was thinking about how realistic a shapeshifting cat should be. I think McGuire is pretty demonstrably a cat person, and her cat-based characters are reasonably realistic, but as I watched my cat sitting on top of the back porch minifridge warbling in distress and then starting to heave because she’d eaten grass and needed to puke, I tried to imagine Tybalt the King of Cats doing the same, and it was unaccountably hilarious. A smug, lithe man in leather pants suddenly shifting down to a burly striped tabby tomcat so that he could hup-hup-hup gack a wad of chewed-up grass wetly onto the floor is a thoroughly diverting image.

Also, clearly there’s some source text lore that everyone who writes fantasy novels based on the concept of Big Bad Mean Faerie is using, because a ton of the same concepts keep popping up in the Daye books as did in the Element of Fire. I don’t know what the source text is, though. I ought to care and don’t, alas.

It did make me wonder if anybody’s written fic where Kade Carrion and Thomas Boniface cross over into October Daye’s ‘verse. 

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walburgablack replied to your post “adventures from the family groupchat”

I want to say spiders should be able to insulate themselves just fine, but what an intriguing thought.

I mean. Obviously they can. But. Their tiny spider paws! Their itty little legs! I was sad enough when I realized all my beautiful neoscona etc. barn spiders only live a year and die in winter, but for some reason i was just suffused with An Concern about the hogna etc. wolf spiders. They make burrows but only a few inches, they’re so wee– I mean, for spiders, they’re fucking enormous, but in the grand scheme of things, they’re only like an inch, inch and a half. And I mean, they don’t have blood or whatever, so I guess they wouldn’t suffer from cold, they’d just slow down. 

But can you imagine tiny tiny spider sweaters and little booties for their tiny spider paws. OMG. I need to stop thinking about this. 
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mannersminded replied to your post “not shaped like a human”

in solidarity: im hauling around a 36K right now (or i was when i got the last bra, that i am growing out of… right now…) shit SUCKS. big hugs to you.

Thanks. I mean, they’re not that bad to actually haul around, they’re just literally impossible to clothe in current fashions, and by current I mean “of this or the previous century”. Oh, this sort of touches on another thing, though– when I still cared and was really looking and trying to find or make bras and following blogs and participating in communities swapping tips and brands and sizing info and such, there was always this inevitable theme of people who would be like WELL OBVIOUSLY YOU NEED TO CUT THEM OFF. 

That shit got so upsetting. It would happen IRL too. It was always a woman who’d get insistent about it, always someone who’d had a reduction herself, and even though I was always careful to point out that listen, I have no health problems here, I get that some people do and my sympathies to them but I’m perfectly fine and have even done a lot of pretty athletic shit; it’s just that I can’t find clothes that fit, and I’m at the end of my tether trying to clothe myself. They were always like YOU MUST UNDERGO SURGERY TO CORRECT YOUR PROBLEMATIC BODY and shit, if that’s not an exhausting thing to hear. I had kind of blocked it out, but it’s definitely one of the reasons I stopped participating in the busty-advice communities on Livejournal. 

walburgablack replied to your post “clotpoleofthelord replied to your post “not shaped like a human” …”

Would corsetry be better, for back and boob-support? or is that also impractical, for whatever reason?

I’ve tried it in the past! No ready-to-wear options exist that fit me in any kind of comfortable way, so I spent a decade learning to sew, and made some supportive garments for historic re-enactment stuff that wound up reasonably comfortable. But you can’t just. Wear that. In your day-to-day. People always want to know where the costume party is. And it’s not like you can just wear a boned bodice and jeans for casual daily stuff. And it’s absolutely not suited to physical labor. So… I mean… I have a couple pieces of formalwear I made myself and wore, but it does not give a currently-blends-in-with-normal shape at all. If I worked at a historic site I’d absolutely be delighted to make my own pairs of bodies etc., I find late 18th-c a very comfortable silhouette and you can do it without whalebone and such, but. 

I don’t work at a historic site, so. Generally that silhouette isn’t well-suited for sitting in modern chairs either, so I could wear it to my office job and just deal with people thinking I was nuts, but I wouldn’t be comfortable either.

wyomingnot replied to your post “clotpoleofthelord replied to your post “not shaped like a human” …”

omg, the bras here. if i can even find the band size i need (i’m pretty damn big by US standards; i’m a fucking blimp by chinese standards), the cups are always too close together and while i have found bras that fit around me and my boobs fit in the cups… they pushed ‘em together and the effect was something akin to a significant uniboob. which i will pass on, thanks.

(i am lucky enough that i can get bras that work for my body at a not-bad price. if i cared more about my appearance, i could get nicer bras, but really… nobody’s looking. so there’s no point. as you said, i look better with the money in my pocket.)

<3 and yeah I think that’s a huge component of how poorly-suited bras are for online ordering. It’s just really hard to know without trying them on whether they’ll fit, there’s so much individuality in how that area is shaped and so much variation in bras and oh gosh.

I am tired of thinking about it. :( But it does make me think, at some point I should pull out all the bras I own, and photograph them all at one time. I own so many. They’re one thing I feel like I can’t really donate– they’re such weird sizes, and I’ve probably worn them half to death– and I feel weird throwing them out because there’s so much hardware on them, and yet there’s so much going on there that I can’t really take them apart and repurpose them– maybe if I get them all in one place, though, I can make an effort to give away the less-worn ones, and pick apart the others and save the notions for the someday-far-away fairytale world where I figure out how to make bras. (Or maybe I could make a hilarious quilt that is just a bunch of bra cups stuffed and sewn to a backing, kind of like a huge demented yo-yo quilt. it’s Art.) (Isn’t there some goddess with a thousand breasts? I should look her up and ask her where she buys her lingerie.)
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