Alicia

"it is! It's the dale trail of tears! The dale of tears, if you will" #middleearthmarathon2025

Which is still in november

Lol oh noooo that sucks

It is at least cold up here. But if I get sent to whamhalla in November, I'm going to riot

The US gets a whole lot of things wrong, but it has Thanksgiving at the right time. You really need a holiday in November to keep the retail Christmas music creep in check to some extent.

Tasting notes for this wine I just tried: smells like a Barbie who has had a hairspray heavy makeover slowly warming up in the sun in a blueberry field. Tastes like licking a book with an open bottle of nail polish remover in the next room.

Fantasmic and hhn's Nightmare Fuel are the exact same show, just one is rated G and the other R.

I need someone to ride rise of the resistance in a frog suit with me

Not silksong making me dislocate my fucking jaw. This phantom fight is so good ❤️

I am one hour into silksong and fucking christ it is so good. The music is superb, the environment gorgeous, the difficulty not substantially different than hollow knight. I'm not sold on the weird religious overtones, but we'll see how that shakes out as the game progresses.

FML I am more excited that silksong finally got a release date than I've been about a game since twilight princess 😅 I found out from a vendor at dragoncon and nearly screamed

Overheard at dragoncon: I was radicalized into twilight 5 years agi

Cannot get over the ice cream truck in my neighborhood alternating between la cucaracha and do your ears hang low

I always remember "Christ is the Answer" Plastics and the sculpture formally known as Touchdown Jesus being way closer together than they actually are. I remember them both being in Dayton, but one is north of and one is south of. Also Ohio is 78 years long to drive through, ugh. #JustOhioThings

We alternate between emdr and ifs, essentially. I'm just untangling something really big right now, it's taking us multiple sessions to get through, and I have some external right now stressors as well, one of which is a trigger for what we're working on. It's just whole a lot all at once.

My therapist has said twice now "wow! Emdr really is the modality for you. You really sink in and start flying through revelations!" Which is great, and part of me is happy with being a "good patient" and pleasing them, but it still leaves me feeling absolutely shattered afterward.

The grocery store fire sauce isn't as good imo. They only allow me to order for delivery 2 sauces per item which really dampens the amount of fire sauce I can receive. I primarily order taco bell via Uber eats because I'm bougie white trash

My greatest hope in life right now is to live long enough to say "what a time to be alive" and have it actually be a positive statement.

Dearest taco bell: if I order one fire sauce packet, 6 hot sauces will not suffice. 10,000 hot sauces will not take the place of 1 fire sauce. Please stop attempting this substitution.

I do sorta wonder how adobe feels about the fact that "PDF file" means something totally different in censor-friendly newspeak. Honestly, serves them right for switching to a subscription model crammed full of AI horseshit.

Theoden's speech on the Pellenor reliably makes me misty. I usually chalk it up to the fact that I most often see it when tragically drunk as the sun is rising, but man, Bernard Hill is just giving it all. Best speech in all three films. Even when completely sober and desperately trying to not cry.

This was my first time watching the theatrical cut of ROTK in years. The way almost the entirety of Frodo and Sam's drudge through Mordor and the small emotional exchanges was cut really defangs the moment where the dynamic shifts after the ring is destroyed and Frodo is at peace while Sam suffers.

Did the Return of the King in concert today and was sat in front of a lady who I'm pretty sure it was her first time ever seeing this movie. She gasped at the head catapults and every time shelob was on screen. It was very wholesome

Still slowly working our way through the barad-dur lego set. "Orc" in French is sending me.

It's okay to be tired. Don't let anyone guilt you into not immediately being able to fight. Again. Still. Especially if you're in an affected group. It's easy to say "you have to keep fighting" if you're a cishet white ally and you should keep on, but some of us need to catch our breath for a bit.

Migraine life: hitting my fitness goal for the week by taking a bath so hot that my Fitbit thinks I'm working out

The trick was to stop fighting it and trying to make it behave. I had tragic hair in middle and high school. It grew like a triangle

My Friday began with my very queer therapist complimenting how wild and sculptural my hair is now that I've been trying plopping and ended with some asshole guy shouting "hey girl, nice hair" at me in the most sarcastic manner. Nice to know my ridiculous hair still scares straight men ✌️

John Oliver drinking a two liter of Baja blast with a straw isn't something I knew I needed in my life, but here we are.

I'm about 6 months out from an adult ADHD diagnosis and I am still trying to figure medicine out. Right now my options seem to be intermittent couch lock but with increased awareness that it's happening therefore increased depression, or mostly managed but raging insomnia and can't remember to eat.