Rules: Tag 10 people you wanna know better.

I was tagged by @cakehorse

Favorite Fandom: I…actually haven’t been all that active in fandom lately. I guess I could go with Star Trek?

Languages I Speak: I speak English. I can read okay Packaging French, but don’t expect me to write it, let alone do anything with spoken French.

Favourite Film Of 2015: Not all that into movies. Especially not into watching in theatres, which are too loud and don’t let you pause and have sunk costs (since you pay by the movie, that places pressure on you not to leave partway through if it’s boring).

I will say The Force Awakens, on the grounds that it is a movie that I have watched and that I know to be from 2015. I watched it for cultural literacy reasons and do not really have an opinion on how good it was (”favourite” or otherwise), but it is definitely a film from 2015 (or so IMDB tells me, anyway).

Last Article I Read:  Um…*presses “undo close tab” repeatedly* *runs out of tab archive*

Oh, wait, “show all history” and then looking at the recent stuff would be better.

Right, it was “One Player’s Nine-Year Journey to Open a Locked, Secret Door”.

Shuffle Your Song Library And Put The First Three Titles:

“Moonlight (A Vampire’s Dream)” – Stevie Nicks

“Don’t Stop” – Fleetwood Mac

“Vienna” – Billy Joel

Last Thing I Bought Online: I bought a 64GB microSD card and a 4-pack of Aero chocolate bars from Amazon. Well, I say “I” bought them: my brother wanted them, but I had a lot of Amazon credit lying around and he didn’t, so I bought them and he paid me back. (He could have paid for them himself, but no sense leaving that money tied up in Amazon when it could be in my bank account*. I can always pay Amazon with bank money if I find something I want later.)

(Because the microSD card was just under the free shipping cut-off, it was actually cheaper to buy the chocolate bars than to not buy them, which is why he got them.)

*Well, in general. In that specific case, the money my brother gave me never saw my bank account: I used it to pay my exam invigilator.

Last Person I Dreamed Of: Does it have to be a real person? I dreamt of the Red Panda a couple days ago.

Any Recurring Dreams: Not by the strict definition: nothing identical or nearly-identical, no continuing storylines. As for recurring themes, I get a relatively large number of amnesia nightmares. (Occasionally they even go meta, with lucid nightmares where the horror comes from knowing your long-term memory compiler is turned off while you’re asleep.)

Phobias Or Fears: Food poisoning, death (and partial death, as above)

How Would My Friends Describe Me: Has an interesting perspective on things. (Interesting in the genuine and positive sense, not the “…interesting” one might use to describe something one doesn’t want to admit was dull or disturbing.)

How Would My Enemies Describe Me: Whatever their favourite euphemism is for “insubordinate”. A lot of negative descriptors for use on people boil down to “insubordinate”.

(I try to keep my insubordination to a minimum, but sometimes I slip up or misjudge exactly which hierarchy is in play.)

Would I Take A Bullet For Someone: Probably not. I guess if the bullet would be fatal to them and non-fatal to me, but that’s probably not what the question meant.

If I Had Money To Spare What Would I Buy First: (I assume this is after taking care of the usual windfall stuff, paying off household debts and charity and whatnot)

Maybe a car? Our minivan has terrible gas mileage, and we only make use of the superior storage space (for items or passengers) ~4 times/year. I’d keep the minivan around for those 4 times and buy a more efficient car for everyday use. (Mom’s afraid a non-minivan won’t have enough legroom, but surely there must be some car out there with both legroom and decent fuel efficiency.)

Tags (no obligation to do this, obviously!): @ilzolende (my newest follower), @ellaenchanting, @orbispelagium, @justice-turtle, @lizardywizard


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#I tweaked some of the questions #just for consistency in capitalisation and first- vs second-person #(yes I know I didn’t fix the shuffle one) #(couldn’t think of a way to do it that wouldn’t involve major restructuring) #(was not willing to do major restructuring) #meme #oh look an original post #(more or less)

wholmesianmisfit:

Who remembers

Motherfucking Scholastic

Scholastic Book Sales 1

Book

Scholastic Book Sales 2

Orders

Scholastic Book Sales 3

And then the magical traveling circus of scholastic would randomly show up

at the motherfucking BOOK FAIR

Scholastic Book Sales 4

 

ningcomepoop:

love

 

tessaviolet:

seriously the best ever.

 

italktosnakes:

This was actually my childhood. 

 

carolina-girl:

Wish they had these I high school

 

pinapplecuffs:

I planned very carefully so that I could manage to get my parents to say yes to letting me get something. Though, as good as the day walking through all the stuff was? Delivery day way so much better.

Do I remember these Scholastic sales? Not quite. Homeschoolers do it a little differently.

I looked forward to the Scholastic catalogues, arriving in our mailbox every month or three. Better still, though, were the warehouse sales. Twice a year (though most years we only went once), the Scholastic warehouses opened their doors to homeschoolers (also teachers and their families). As if that weren’t enough, most of the items were half price.

We drove for…I remember it as being a bit over an hour, but I also remember it as being located in Cinnaminson, and Google Maps says that’s only about 15 – 20 minutes away from my childhood home…anyway, we drove to the nearest warehouse and spent a couple of hours wandering the concrete aisles, looking at the books and occasional PC games on the warehouse shelves and some metal racks on wheels (like those shown above), spotting books to patch the holes in series we’d partially read (often out of order), buying things we’d never heard of because they looked interesting. (Every year there was always one book that turned out to be disappointing, but it was worth it to get all the ones that turned out well.)

The checkout line was almost always extremely long, but I didn’t mind, because I could read the books while I waited.


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#Scholastic #my childhood #nostalgia #(mixed with some pity) #(oh it was joyful at the time) #(but in hindsight it’s kind of sad that little-me’s access to reading material was so limited and luck-dependant relative to me now) #the more you know

Weird Sun Twitter

responsible-reanimation:

Sometimes, you find one of those things that’s so singularly weird and amazing that you kick yourself for not knowing about it earlier.

Weird Sun Twitter is one of those things for me.

It’s a network of Twitter accounts who all share the following qualities:

     Using some discolored/weird sun as a profile picture.

     Having a name in the format [X] of [Y].

     Tweeting puns, smartass wordplay, surreal humor, and noun phrases.

     Referencing/mocking This is Just to Say, this Neil DeGrasse Tyson tweet, and Ozymandias among a lot of other things.

The overall effect is this beautiful hybrid of dril, Welcome to Night Vale, and the Oracle at Delphi.

My personal favorites:

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Clone of Snow has a neat premise: combining every single meme with every single other meme. It’s a really neat mechanized form of ‘humor.’

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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog