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Outgunned Math Question

Nov. 14th, 2025 08:30 pm
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Outgunned's task resolution system involves rolling six-sided dice and looking for sets.

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The PPE-ople’s Champion

Nov. 15th, 2025 01:00 am
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Me: "[Worker], this is the third time I've told you. PPE when you're welding!"
Worker: "You can't make me."
Me: "Well, you're right in that I can't physically make you, but you can be written up and lose your job if you persist."
Worker: "It just gets in the way!"

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DCU Nostalgia: Batgirl (2000) #28

Nov. 14th, 2025 06:15 pm
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For people running ublock origins, a link where you can read this: Batgirl (2000) #28.

I revisited this issue today because I refound this exquisite redraw of a page from it, which if you don't have Tumblr you can see here. I adore the redrawn and racebent Steph, and the whole thing feels like an expression of the purest form of fannish love I know.

I had forgotten just how gloriously kinetic Damion Scott's work is, and how much I adore Cass and Steph's relationship as it's developed in the issue. I don't think you need much backstory for this issue other than "Cass was raised in silence by a man who made her learn body language instead of spoken language." There's all sorts of other canon going on outside the context of the issue, but this one's pretty complete as it stands.
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I haven't done this meme since 2011, but I refound it today and had a good laugh, so here we go:

Give me a character's name and I will tell you three reasons why it would be terrible to try to date them, have sex with them, or be in a long-term relationship with them.

For an extra challenge, pick characters you know I'm fond of. Anyone can tell you reasons not to date Cthulhu, after all.

For reference, my fandom list.

Maybe Call It ‘Vintage’?

Nov. 15th, 2025 12:00 am
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Me: "Hi, this was given as a gift. We don't have a receipt, so we're not expecting a refund, but we were hoping we could exchange it for something here of equal value?"
Clerk: "Hmm, it's not scanning. Let me get my manager."

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Thanksgiving

Nov. 14th, 2025 06:46 pm
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Bah. It looks like Aldi isn't going to have the holiday ravioli that I've been having for Thanksgiving the last few years (these two for those curious), as it should be in stock by now if they were going to get it.

I'm going to have to figure out what I want to do for my Thanksgiving dinner this year, as I'd been assuming it would show up eventually like it has in the past. I don't have it in my budget to do anything super fancy, but it will be nice to try to have something a little out of the ordinary just to remind myself that it's a holiday in the first place.

I get paid next Thursday, 11/20, and I'm working in the office the following Monday and Tuesday (ie, the week of Thanksgiving). I think that I'm going to go to Aldi during my lunch break that Monday before Thanksgiving and see if I can find something that looks yummy but is out of the ordinary for me. And then I can get some cheap beer or wine (depending on what I end up getting food-wise) to go with it as a small splurge.

A Survey Survivor

Nov. 14th, 2025 11:00 pm
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Me: "Look, you ask me if I'm interested every time you see me. And I tell you no every time you see me. Why do you keep asking?"
Rep: "Well, you can't expect me to remember every person I see!"

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pootling through life

Nov. 14th, 2025 10:07 pm
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Annual leave is so nice but now I have to go back to work on Monday :(. On the other hand, I do still have a whole weekend first, even if it's relatively busy. The deacon trainee is being ordained acolyte and lector on Sunday and some of the training people showed up last weekend and Announced that we would be providing more servers than we actually have seats for and also a thurifer, and since I am presently the only thurifer available, I have to go. Truly I am punished for not having arranged the training I was supposed to be organising back in the spring before Mum got sick. Fortunately one of my four Sunday video calls has rescheduled so it's a slightly less ludicrous calendar than might have been the case.

Anyhow. I have done very little; read two turn-of-the-century novels (nineteenth to twentieth, that is), finally caught up with laundry after getting out of cycle while I was with Mum, got through the three Tablet issues I had waiting and started the one that arrived today, did the tragically overdue washing up, and went to the cinema to see The Choral. I enjoyed it! I would say it was a war story more than a choir story, but Gerontius is important to the plot and I did like what they did with it. And, much as I love superhero films, it's nice to see something that isn't one of the endless sequels, remakes, shared universes, etc etc, that make up most cinema these days.

I also progressed my ebook catalogue a bit - went through all my StoryBundle purchases, downloaded anything that wasn't on my phone and therefore in the catalogue already, and added them to the catalogue (along with the source) and the phone. Also added a sheet for audiobooks and put in the ones I've bought from libro.fm since I started my subscription. Next up would be the various Humble Bundles, which is a much larger number of bundles and piles of audiobooks as well as ebooks, so I've put that off until another week...

A Receipt Offender

Nov. 14th, 2025 10:00 pm
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My manager comes back a minute or so later and continues talking to the customer for a few minutes, until the shopping centre's security guys have arrived and walked up behind the customer.
Manager: *To the security guys.* "That's her."

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Dear Holly Poly Creator(s),

Nov. 14th, 2025 04:48 pm
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Just to note: this year's requests include Baldur's Gate, Black Ships by Jo Graham, Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Related Fandoms, Critical Role: Exandria, Doctor Who, Dragon Age, Gargoyles, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Mass Effect, and Star Wars.

My AO3 account is Settiai.


First of all, relax! I'm far from being picky, and I can pretty much guarantee that I'll love whatever you decide to write me. These are nothing but guidelines, for you to take to heart or ignore to your heart's content. Also, hey! You're creating a fanwork for me! About a poly relationship that I love! That's automatically a good reason for me to love you, no matter what. So, please, keep that in mind. Trust me, you can pretty much do no wrong. ♥

That said, I thought that I'd elaborate a bit on my requests and provide some general prompts in case, like me, you're the type of person who likes to have something to work with. If you're not that type of person, it's totally fine with me if you skip over anything/everything that I've included in this letter. Feel free to use and/or ignore as much of this as you want.

General Likes/Dislikes )

Baldur's Gate )

Black Ships - Jo Graham )

Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Related Fandoms )

Critical Role: Exandria )

Doctor Who )

Dragon Age )

Gargoyles )

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power )

Mass Effect )

Star Wars )

Department of Couldn't Make It Up

Nov. 14th, 2025 09:31 pm
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The House of Lords have been taking evidence on the Assisted Suicide Bill.

Disabled folk to Parliament: The possibility of being compelled into assisted suicide scares us

Pro-assisted suicide mob to Parliament: a few disabled people coerced into assisted suicide is still worth it.

Honestly couldn't make it up

 

Um what

Nov. 14th, 2025 01:36 pm
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Dear Miss Manners: What is the polite way to eat large sushi rolls? Sometimes they’re too big to comfortably eat whole without gagging!

Dissect them.

Miss Manners does not usually condone deconstructing food in public, but these are desperate times. Use your chopsticks to pull out the insides and eat them separately. Then either squish the remaining rice and seaweed together and eat it in two bites or use the side of the chopstick to cut it in half.

Perhaps the sight of their beautiful creations being desecrated will inspire the chefs to make more manageable bites. Or at least have them wonder why everyone is suddenly ordering them as takeout instead.

Please Keep Grief Brief

Nov. 14th, 2025 09:00 pm
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For complicated reasons, I find out that my dad is dying and has a matter of days left.
Me: "I need this weekend off."
Manager: "No, that's too last-minute."

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Well, that was sub-optimal

Nov. 14th, 2025 08:55 pm
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 After three days in a row of not getting to sleep until after the sun was up (and then being woken mid-morning), I've basically spent the entire day asleep, apart from answering several phone calls from my sister and then almost immediately falling asleep again*.

I answered those sitting cross-legged on the bed, and I fell asleep in that position and then slept that way for several hours. My hips are NOT happy with me.
 

* I was particularly impressed that I picked up the thread of a dream I'd been having before one call afterwards. Strange dream for me, unusually non-action movie style.

How About ‘Ha Ha You’re Dead’?

Nov. 14th, 2025 08:00 pm
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Coworker: "Hello, this is [Coworker's Name] calling from [Funeral Home]. I got your email about the music you'd like to be playing as your mother-in-law's casket is carried in."
Pause.
Coworker: "Well, you need to understand, we'd need to hear from both you and your wife to confirm you'd like that particular piece of music played."

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Tim Drake's 16th birthday(s) (313 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: DCU (Comics)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bernard Dowd/Tim Drake, Tim Drake/Dick Grayson, Stephanie Brown/Tim Drake
Characters: Tim Drake
Additional Tags: Limericks, Poetry, Limerick Cycle, Birthday, Sweet Sixteen
Summary:

Only the really lucky characters get to turn 16 more than once.

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Sergio Outdoors

These are all fascinating, and Sergio clearly knows his shit, but some of these helpful hacks are so amazingly specific that I am struggling to find an actual use case outside of Major and yet Very Arbitrary Apocalypse.

Like, when an I going to have a large amount of cordage, a knife, lighter, giant water jug and over large syringe and *not* just have a camp shower?

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