Masnadies

You know, this is really a breakthrough for my thinking when you said "allowed him to watch and see". And everyone thinks so little of him that they WOULD allow that. Because they don't think of him as a threat. That does explain how he could know. Nice! Thanks for the clear thinking

I arrange my a03 and YT and other tabs for reasons very like that.

He started watching because he wanted to mock the history in the Aztecs and found it unexpectedly delightful and has been watching ever since.

Nobody but Crowley knew. When he found out, he tried mocking but Aziraphale made him watch (which ep/era?) and now they both watch together

Meet my HC

Sorry, rasy to do when you're overstressed and exhausted

Shh, don't tell, but in my heart I never changed my name at all. It was purely for the paperwork and kids (I may have already been pregnant)

The way I look at it, after 30+ years with a name, you can give up a name or add but they have to earn their place. Married name? Hasn't really

On a college tour. I feel like even in the US, that's quite a load-bearing E

I failed though. They wouldn't let me

🫂 Me too. Also we should have more money since we need to travel and see plays and such

I'm sorry. I don't know. I'd like one where I have lunch and evenings/weekends off. But I don't know

I don't know my legal middle name.

Some ID says one and some another.

I went in to change my name when married and add my maiden name to my middle and they said no, choose one, and I don't know which I chose and I lost all the paperwork.

So yeah. Easy

Your point that Crowley would know of the awful that the management is if he were a higher up is a good argument.

And you know I'm with you on the many important reasons the story would be less compelling

There is a city near me, but it is a smaller faded copy of Atlanta and almost everything is a chain or "family restaurant".

They would happily argue barbecue with you but have no interest in strange foreign food or unusual flavor combinations

Ooh! I live in a boring place with no weird flavors of anything now. I want to try!

Garlic was definitely strange

Well, I can't travel now so you're safe from my bringing challenge foods to a meetup

I've had garlic ice cream (from the Gilroy CA garlic festival). I would try it.

I miss doing stupid teenager things.

a common thing autistic people deal with is the "I don't care that 'everyone' does it this way, that way is bullshit and I'm not doing it"

And that applies just as much to gender as it does to operating systems

Is this 100% so that teens-- sorry, young adults-- can dare each other to see who will drink it and if they can keep it down?

Not that I 100% wouldn't have done that back in the day

Coming down now: Only Ever Yours, The Prize, Love to Hate You, Alpha Centauri

Probably coming down, but maybe not this time: Az in the Evenings, Shipping It, Romeo in Black Jeans, Any Foolish Thing, Reprise, The Boyfriend Experience

The rest of them are more or less safe. I'll update if it changes

Yes- there is little understanding and less sympathy or help

Plenty of mockery, and the feeling that if you are in perimenopause, you are past being worth paying attention to

Oh sorry, cynicism slipped out there, maybe I will sneak off and quietly read a fic if that's all built up in there. Ta ra!

I think I'd like that, too. Thanks for the recommendations!

I will have to hunt those ones down!

Which ones are you listening to?

I've heard and enjoyed some of the Doctor Who ones, but nothing else yet. It is fun listening to him be him and then Doctor Him and then Catherine Tate.

But always open to other options

?! Absolutely not!

I view it is if you write a chapter, I will read and enjoy it, and if you don't, I will chat with you on BlueSky.

And either way, I'd like you to have a nice week.

Look around! Soooo many more hateable people! There's just no way anyone could choose you.

a pink orange and red sunset can be seen through bare trees standing on spotty snow with a hazy foggy hanging in the air

hey. it's creepy and beautiful out.

I'm not sure if my middle child beat me to it, but am afraid to scar her back asking outright

Joke's on you daylight savings I'm totally fine with an hour less of this shitshow

I have no idea.

I hope I've raised mine relatively successfully (I quite like them and feel like they're decent sorts of people), but "comfortable" doesn't really happen often, even yet.

I didn't think that was the main goal?

I was aiming for kind, reasonably capable, as happy as possible.

Only they got it backwards because having these elements in the story would hurt nobody and help some, thus reducing therapy not increasing it?

I don't understand these parents. You shelter kids from worry and danger. You purposefully show them the wonderful complexity and variety of people.

Oh, I do too! There is a special quality to them.

However, I'm not 100% sure it would work the same for a speculative fic, if they ideas of what might have happened were the point and not the relationship.

Hmm. The other fic would help me process some issues but this is time-linked. I want both!

Yeah, that's the thing. If I'm doing something for my own pleasure, it's always last priority and I am not good at nagging myself about it

I'm going between thinking through something canon before canon changes (time-limited but ultimately probably pointless) or something related to this post in AU