Month: September 2011

We Are Magneton: scribbleboy replied to your post: Is… is Simon Pegg in this…

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wearemagneton:

scribbleboy replied to your post: Is… is Simon Pegg in this episode?

Simon Pegg IS in an episode of Doctor Who :) Being an editor I think. And before the fandom tells you (they get pissy about this apparently) it’s Doctor Who, not Dr. (people are weird o.O)

Actually, no…

I know! It’s such a novelty to figure out who someone is. Faceblindness means I’m stuck in hard mode when playing Guess the Actor. (This is a Thing in my family. Mom picks a character she recognises (she’s best) and Brother and I guess who they are.)

Also: I hear facial recognition ability is a bell curve spectrum. Which would presumably make borderline prosopagnosia a thing, or rather prosopagnosia an arbitrary cut-off point somewhere on the left slope.

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rosauradelagarza:

doctorwho:

The Fantastic Brilliant Cool and Ingenious Solutions of the Eleventh Doctor

How did I miss the bit where he tries to chew through handcuffs? What episode is that from?

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wearemagneton:

[Image is a picture—it looks like a painting—of Yggdrasil, with each of the nine realms in its roots; each is labeled in runes, and there’s some other stuff that I can’t read. End terrible description.]

searching4glamour:

quantumsufficit:

Yggdrasil, by fenix42

this is sweet

FUCK THIS TREE YOU GUYS

It is a lovely picture but OMG this tree I HATE IT FOREVER.
—PM

The stuff you can’t read is (to me) sort of readable in the original size and clearly readable in the zoomed-in version. They’re descriptions of the worlds in question.

Top row: world of fire, world of ice

Middle row: world of the frost giants, world of the Aesir, world of the light elves

Bottom row: world of the dead, world of the humans, world of the Vanir, world of the dark elves

Not being able to read runes or particularly familiar with Norse myth*, I can’t match all of the descriptions with the worlds’ names off the top of my head. I am given to understand that the world of the dead is called Hel and the world of the humans is called Midgard, and indeed they do have the right number of letters to be those.

*I think this is a non-offensive term, right? If not, I apologise.

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wearemagneton asked: You keep using the word “Changeling” and I keep not thinking of Star Trek. And so I get confused for a minute and then realize “oh wait right. Odo-changeling. Not fae-Changeling.” Anyway that was a Very Good Post thank you! C: –PM and Andy

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Thank you and you’re welcome!

It is a bit unfortunate that the writers went with “Changeling”, which could mean a zillion other things. (“Founder” is even worse, because a: even more meanings, and b: do I really want to compare myself to the people responsible for the Dominion?) Plus my actual species is a bit private, at least when talked about as being mine rather than a purely fictional creation. (That’s what I told a forum comprised mostly of writers when explaining my username there. Said username also contains my legal first name, which gives another reason not to say it.)

We Are Magneton: 1nvadergir: How does it tend to happen in singlets? The only…

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1nvadergir:

How does it tend to happen in singlets? The only explanation I currently understand from multiples is that anything can happen in-world, but I don’t have another world from which this seems possible. Could you give me an explanation? In my experience, I just feel more connected…

Depends on the person. I don’t have any phantom limbs myself (but then, neither do I have any limbs that could be phantom-ised).

My theory for how I personally became* this way? During the critical age for my development of species identity, I spent a fair bit of time around humans who acted very alien** to me. I figured that made me the alien. Add in Imagination (*SpongeBob rainbow*), the emotional detachment from my face that prosopagnosia had already given me, and significantly more force of habit than I’m comfortable admitting, and you get me in all my not-a-Changeling glory. (No, I’m not telling you what my species is actually called.)

(It’s possibly there’s some genetic predisposition: my dad’s a furry, though I didn’t know this at the time.)

I feel a bit jealous of the I-was-born-this-way otherkin sometimes. My identity seems so fragile. If I’d been told straight off about being autistic rather than my parents waiting until I was thirteen, I might be human today. Or maybe I wouldn’t. *shrug* I suppose in the end I am who/what I am, and the reasoning doesn’t need to be airtight.

*Some people are just born that way, but I don’t think I was.

**This probably had something to do with sub-cultural differences (they were in public school, I was homeschooled) and neurotype differences (they weren’t autistic).

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emilyisobsessed:

The Girl Who Waited 6.10 | The Stolen Earth 4.12

“Weird shit you noticed”? That makes it sounds like it’s strange you noticed; Mom and I noticed immediately. (It’s a nice touch.)

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We Are Magneton: Welp, got duct tape on my laptop.

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brin-bellway:

The cost is no CD-ROM drive, right? Hmm, half the price in exchange for needing to borrow Mom’s desktop for Age of Empires and no DVDs without first ripping* and transferring the file. Too late for this time, but maybe when this laptop inevitably breaks down** I’ll consider it.

*Which would itself require figuring out how to rip DVDs; I’ve never actually done that.

**Not for a long time, right ‘puter? *pets laptop*

And yeah, duct tape is awesome. One of my winter boots has a tear patched up with duct tape. It’s shiny pretty grey, plus I can tell at a glance which boot is which. (I’d better like it: in Ontario, even towards the south I still need boots nearly half the year.)

[Edited because I’m so accustomed to HTML-ing my Internet stuff that I forgot I couldn’t use em tags here.]

Yeah, there’s no CD/DVD drive, but I know you can buy external ones. Idk if it could actually run AoE though; my boyfriend’s got a netbook and he can’t play many games on it. (He uses my laptop to play Civ sometimes, ‘cause his can’t handle it.)
—PM

I must admit, I’ve been using this computer for over three weeks and I don’t think I’ve used the CD-ROM drive once. I’ve been in a Runescape mood instead of AoE and all of my TV-on-laptop has been from the Internet (ILU Daily Planet).

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We Are Magneton: Welp, got duct tape on my laptop.

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wearemagneton:

It’s holding my casing together. XD

Awesome.
—PM

My last laptop had problems with the right hinge. It was held on (but stuck open) with superglue and a C-clamp for nearly a year. It was stable for quite a while, but during the three weeks after I bought…

The cost is no CD-ROM drive, right? Hmm, half the price in exchange for needing to borrow Mom’s desktop for Age of Empires and no DVDs without first ripping* and transferring the file. Too late for this time, but maybe when this laptop inevitably breaks down** I’ll consider it.

*Which would itself require figuring out how to rip DVDs; I’ve never actually done that.

**Not for a long time, right ‘puter? *pets laptop*

And yeah, duct tape is awesome. One of my winter boots has a tear patched up with duct tape. It’s shiny pretty grey, plus I can tell at a glance which boot is which. (I’d better like it: in Ontario, even towards the south I still need boots nearly half the year.)

[Edited because I’m so accustomed to HTML-ing my Internet stuff that I forgot I couldn’t use em tags here.]

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Welp, got duct tape on my laptop.

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wearemagneton:

It’s holding my casing together. XD

Awesome.
—PM

My last laptop had problems with the right hinge. It was held on (but stuck open) with superglue and a C-clamp for nearly a year. It was stable for quite a while, but during the three weeks after I bought a new laptop but before Dad was finished fiddling with it*, it started to deteriorate rather quickly. (My theory is that it was having a tantrum over having its restful existence as a spare ‘puter delayed.)

By the end, the hinge had completely detached, broken beyond what glue and a C-clamp could fix. The monitor couldn’t hold its own weight, so it had to be leaned up against the arm of the couch. (But it still worked.)

It’s finally sitting, lid closed (now that the glue’s broken, it’s not stuck open anymore), on the spare parts shelf in the basement. It’s very strange having a laptop I can actually sit on my lap.

(This sort of stuff happens to me a lot. I can’t afford to buy new laptops, so instead I get a succession of $400 six-year-old computers that last a couple years apiece, and most of that time with at least one geriatric problem. This probably has something to do with the Vimes Boot Theory. My current laptop had been on for a lifetime total of six hours (Dad checked) when I bought it, so hopefully that means it’ll hold up better.)

*Since the old laptop was still functioning-if-fragile, he took his time. Worst part is, it still needs tweaking.

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