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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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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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.)

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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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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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We Are Magneton: Oh god(s), the Tumblr set-up CAPTCHA wants me to say I’m human.

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I hate when CAPTCHAs do that. Yeah, it’s such a small thing, but the smallness makes it easy to fix.

I don’t care if you’re human or not. I just want to make goddamn sure you’re not a sentient robot or something.

…you’re NOT are you?…

I did watch a lot of Voyager when I was younger, but ‘round about age thirteen (so maybe four years ago*) I started becoming more aware of plotholes and stuff. It’s still good fun if you don’t scrutinise it too much, but I don’t watch it as much as I used to.

I appear to be ace, at least for the moment. I don’t think DS9 and VOY have much different levels of aesthetic beauty in the cast**, but it’s not that big a deal for me anyway. (You want aesthetics, just skip Star Trek entirely and go watch some Tenth Doctor.)

I’ve never watched Enterprise. I remember seeing a commercial for it once and asking Mom why we didn’t watch it. I don’t remember how she phrased “Because it sucks”, but I think that was the gist.

*It seems like most of the Tumblr people I see (at least the ones with ages in their bios) are seventeen. Weird.

**Plus I can’t stare enviously at Odo with Voyager.

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Oh god(s), the Tumblr set-up CAPTCHA wants me to say I’m human.

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I hate when CAPTCHAs do that. Yeah, it’s such a small thing, but the smallness makes it easy to fix.

I don’t care if you’re human or not. I just want to make goddamn sure you’re not a sentient robot or something.

…you’re NOT are you? —Tabs

This is my sister. She watches too many sci-fi movies for her own good. —Tom

As long as I’m a sentient non-evil robot, I don’t see why you should have a problem with that.

(Really I’m neither species. I cannot draw, so this is the point where I link to a picture of a Changeling and say “kinda like that, but with less hair gel”. (I’m not actually a Changeling, I just happen to resemble them. Thank god(s) for Deep Space Nine, else I’d have no pictures. Which reminds me, it’s almost Deep-Space-Nine-watching time. *wanders off to fandom-land*))

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We Are Magneton: gzer0x replied to your post: Isn’t that a “how to enable comments on…

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gzer0x replied to your post: Isn’t that a “how to enable comments on your own blog”? Which is good, thanks, but what I wanted was how *I* can comment on *your* blog. I don’t see any relevant-looking buttons anywhere, and reblogging-with-added-commentary is apparently a…

Hang on, two weeks? I only just made a Tumblr account six days ago. Is that it?

No, that can’t be it. The option makes it sound like after two weeks, the reply button gets turned OFF. (Which is weird.) Anyway, it doesn’t matter, ‘cause I have both of those selected.

That’s… really weird. There’s not a reply button on the posts when you look at your dash?
—PM

I don’t see any reply button on the dashboard version. I found a screenshot during my (otherwise fruitless) attempt to use The Power of Google™, and the reply button was quite obvious in the picture. Unless they’ve changed the layout since then, but none of the other buttons I can find seem right either.

*looks at dash again, sees gzer0x’s post*

Ah, so it is because I’m new. Okay. I can wait eight days.

Da fuq tumblr that makes no sense. :/

UNTIL THEN shall we converse in reblogs? :D
—PM

I’ve heard Tumblr does a lot of non-sense-making things. At least now we understand the specific way in which this doesn’t make sense and can de-confuse any other newbies who come along.

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We Are Magneton: gzer0x replied to your post: Isn’t that a “how to enable comments on…

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wearemagneton:

gzer0x replied to your post: Isn’t that a “how to enable comments on your own blog”? Which is good, thanks, but what I wanted was how *I* can comment on *your* blog. I don’t see any relevant-looking buttons anywhere, and reblogging-with-added-commentary is apparently a…

Hang on, two weeks? I only just made a Tumblr account six days ago. Is that it?

No, that can’t be it. The option makes it sound like after two weeks, the reply button gets turned OFF. (Which is weird.) Anyway, it doesn’t matter, ‘cause I have both of those selected.

That’s… really weird. There’s not a reply button on the posts when you look at your dash?
—PM

I don’t see any reply button on the dashboard version. I found a screenshot during my (otherwise fruitless) attempt to use The Power of Google™, and the reply button was quite obvious in the picture. Unless they’ve changed the layout since then, but none of the other buttons I can find seem right either.

*looks at dash again, sees gzer0x’s post*

Ah, so it is because I’m new. Okay. I can wait eight days.

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