Hot As Hell Tuesday
Jul. 29th, 2025 11:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickWe broke a record today, with the Official Actual Temp in RI being 96F, and the feel-like temperature being well in the 100s, bleeeh. >( I am very glad that I work in a place with decent air conditioning and that we now have three ACs at home to keep the house cool. That little bit of time I spent outside today was fairly brutal! And we've still got one more day of this to go before the rain sweeps in and the temperatures improve...this has been a truly brutal summer weather-wise, I swear. *shakehead* Anyway, here's how my day went:
Work – Very quiet day at work – the only two calls I got all day were from a parish secretary letting us know about a check she was sending our way (apparently it got lost in the postal system and was only just returned), and a telemarketer. The rest of the day was spent doing the usual morning reports, finishing off my obituaries, then keeping myself busy going through a particular last name and cleaning up a lot of deceased people who happened to share it while also doing what puzzles I could sneak out of the paper. *shrug* Boring day, but not horrible. We’ll see what happens tomorrow!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with “Oxventure D&D: Wyrdwood | Chapter 5: Ironclad!” Today’s chunklet featured:
A) Edmond leading the group back to Elmsteader, a large town built entirely in the branches of a GINORMOUS elm tree (bigger than a giant redwood!), and taking them to I presume his house, where he sat them down, offered them some water, and provided the following pertinent information:
I. The iron collars they all wore were gifts from some anti-magic pilgrims from Robin’s neck of the woods (he recognized the clothes Edmond described them wearing as being the “uniform” of the local inquisitors), who passed through the area and lectured them on how they were walking the path of damnation about five years ago. The community had sort of tossed them aside with some vague ideas of melting them down, but when magic went wonky, they went “actually wait these might be useful” and put ‘em on. *shrug* I mean, fair enough – if magic’s gone bad, then maybe you do want to start wearing magic suppressors! At least until someone’s figured out what’s going on.
II. Yes, the North Team had stopped at their settlement – and badly fucked things up for Elmsteader. You see, the community had told them what was going on in their neck of the woods, including that they seemed to be suffering from a drought of sorts – in addition to the strange, unseasonable heat, the river that fed this place and made it so lush had apparently lost its ability to nourish the plants. Which was a problem for the giant elm, because obviously a tree that size needs a FUCKTON of water, and while the citizenry were trying to keep the roots wet... Anyway, someone in the North Team offered to try and stabilize the tree with their magic, and went to enchant it –
Aaaand their hand exploded. Moments later, all the magic came roaring out of the tree in a giant swirling purple vortex of energy and shot off northwest. The tree promptly sickened even worse, and the angry citizenry chased the North Team out of town, even further north. Robin argued that he couldn’t believe anyone on the team had done that DELIBERATELY, and while Edmond allowed that, he was said that what was done was done, and as a result he didn’t want any of THEM getting near the tree, which the others allowed was fair. Also, they could only stay one night, and he’d be taking their weapons for said night – which rankled a little, but everyone turned their stuff over without much complaint. (Robin handed over his stale baguette, which Edmond just looked at briefly before handing it back. XD) Willowfine also got a timeline out of Edmond during this discussion – namely, that the disastrous visit by the North Team had happened roughly five or so days ago. Meaning that the villagers here were NOT responsible for whatever had happened to the North Team to split their copestone in two. Interesting…
B) The team discussing what to do once all their weapons were locked up and Edmond had headed off back on watch – Happen noted that there were a few mysteries in play here, namely what was going on with the river; what happened to North Team; and what happened with the purple magic that got yanked out of the tree. Robin was all for going after the magic and bringing it back to put in the tree to help the town (or just putting some of their own magic in the tree if necessary), but Willowfine pointed out that the town had made it pretty clear that they did not want their help. Happen was much more interested in figuring out what was going on with the river, figuring that if they sought that out, they might find North Team along the way – Willowfine agreed, saying that everything seemed pretty interconnected! Robin too was all for killing two birds with one stone (promptly apologizing for using such an idiom as he was still kinda stuck on the bird thing – Lug was like “how the HELL do YOU know the word idiom??” XD Turns out Robin attended one day of school and that was the day they learned idioms) and suggested they head out immediately, despite the others pointing out they didn’t have their weapons and could use a rest –
And then Happen realized “oh, right – Robin doesn’t want to rest because that would mean Morven coming out.” The others insisted they needed their sleep (especially Cressida), and said they could strike out first thing in the morning – Robin relented and said he’d just stick himself in the thigh with a fork to stay awake. As the others went to sleep, Johnny had Robin roll for sticking himself –
Aaand Robin promptly got a three, meaning he went to stab himself, completely missed his leg, and passed out. XD Thus both ensuring that Morven would be present for the latter half of this adventure, and answering a question of mine in the process – namely, do Robin/Morven ever actually SLEEP as they always swap consciousnesses when one goes unconscious? Turns out they do, good. I was getting worried about the shared meat shell for a bit there!
C) Everyone being woken up in the middle of the night by a massive CRACK from the tree, and seeing the damn thing starting to split and collapse in on itself, indicating the tree did NOT have long to last! The community promptly started rushing around in a panic, trying to get away from the tree before it either imploded or exploded. Happen sought out Edmond to tell him that they hoped to help and that they wanted to seek the river – however, it quickly became apparent even to No Social Skills Happen that Edmond was in no mood to chat, as he told them that they COULDN’T help, the river was north and two days away, did they want him to guide them or what?! Happen quickly apologized for bothering him and stopped Lug from asking the guy where the key to the chest with all their weapons was.
Morven, meanwhile, woke up and INSTANTLY felt the horrible, gaping void at the center of the tree where its magic should be and was like “the fuck?” The others quickly filled her in on the situation, and she was like “well, we HAVE to put some magic in this tree, I don’t care what the townspeople say, it’s already dying so we’re going to save them from themselves.” First, though, the gang had to retrieve their weapons, with Luke describing Happen trying to smack open the padlock with the butt of one of his shortswords –
Only for Andy, Mike, and Jane to be like, “Uh, Luke, the swords are weapons, and thus would be in the chest.” The look on Luke’s face as they explained this was hilarious. XD Morven ended up using a tiny Magic Missile on it instead, breaking it into four pieces and allowing everyone to get their stuff back. Happen promptly smacked the remains of the padlock with the butt of one of his shortswords, presumably because he was annoyed he couldn’t before. XD
D) And the gang, realizing there was no talking Morven out of her plan to pour magic into the tree, instead deciding to join her in sneaking past the panicking villagers to fire as much magic power into the dying tree as they could! Johnny had them all roll initiative (with both Andy and Ellen getting nat 20s – Ellen tried to get a high-five from Andy, who left her hanging until it was clarified she was doing so OOC XD), then explained that how this was going to work was that they didn’t need to specify what spells they were firing, but rather what level spell slot they were using for said spells, as that would determine how many D20s they could roll to see how many “magic points” they put into the tree – one D20 for a Level 1 spell slot, two for a Level 2, and so on. Johnny, meanwhile, would be checking to see if the villagers noticed what the group was doing on their turn, and if the tree exploded on ITS turn (and noting that they’d already got a crit 1 on the initiative roll for it...). The five promptly got to firing magic into the tree, with Morven, Cressida, and Willowfine each using up a Level 3 spell slot on their turns; Happen a Level 2 slot (as he’s a ranger and thus only a “half” caster who gets weaker spells); and Lug a pseudo-Level 1 slot (as he only has a TINY bit of magic from the “Magic Initiate” feat, which includes one level 1 spell he can cast once per long rest and a couple of cantrips). Their combined efforts poured 132 points of magic back into the tree, which was pretty damn solid! Johnny then rolled for the villagers noticing (getting a four, meaning they were much more concerned with stabilizing someone who’d previously fallen out of the tree when it initially started collapsing), and for the tree imploding, stating that if they got another crit 1, it was going boom –
And getting a two. XD Talk about avoiding disaster by the skin of their teeth… I left it with everyone preparing for round two of “pour magic into the tree,” with Johnny warning that if they rolled a 1 or a 2 this time, the tree would go boom. Eeep. O.o We’ll see what happens tomorrow! Hopefully it’s not a tree explosion!
2. Continue editing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – and today officially started The Worst Moment Of Alice’s Unlife! Because, right after she found the pile of ash that was Grout’s staked-and-chained-up corpse, the whole room shook with an absolutely massive BOOM. Causing Alice to rush out the door on the other side at Carpenter’s direction to see what the fuck that was –
Only to find herself overlooking A GIANT PIT OF FLAMES. Followed immediately by one Grünfeld Bach screaming at her to lay low and be cleansed. Alice proceeded to scream back at him that she wasn’t Grout and that she had no idea who he was, but he just told her that all people like her would be “washed from the earth,” and that this whole fiery display was a promise to everyone who served the “archfiend LaCroix” before running off. Leaving poor, panicking Alice trapped in the middle of the raging conflagration. D: I left off with the Queen of Hearts shoving her toward the balcony and pointing out a safe spot where she could drop down – tomorrow, Alice gets to relive the burning of her childhood home as she rushes through the flaming wreck of Grout’s mansion! Yaaaay...
3. Keep up with YouTube “Subs”: Check – and I actually did keep up with my Subs today, watching the latest from Josh Way – “Fun With Shorts: Crimes of Carelessness!” A fire safety short all about scaring people with statistics about how many people get killed and injured and how much property is lost from fires, before yelling at them for doing dumb things like extinguishing their cigarettes in the wastebasket beside their chair with the faux-wood cover (seriously), letting their kids play with matches, and using gasoline to get out stains while an open flame burns merrily on the stove nearby. It was over the top and ridiculous, and Josh got some in some good riffs against it (like accusing the narrator of being like J.J. Abrams – able to start a story but not finish it – when he kept talking about how fires start; commenting “wow, that sounds really nice” when the narrator talked about people going to sleep forever thanks to smoking in bed; and claiming at the end he was going to do his part to stop fires by REMOVING ALL THE OXYGEN FROM THE AIR, MWAHAHA). All in all, another quality bit of cinema from my current favorite riffer!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – I in fact was quite busy on tumblr this eve, as the below shall show –
Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler) – Over here, I both set up my queue and straight-up reblogged some stuff that intrigued me:
A) On the queue side, I got three things in for the next three days:
I. A reblog of that transparent png of the eye fish from A:MR by “roachpng” for Wednesday
II. A reblog of the behind-the-scenes Corpse Bride stuff featuring the bushy-eyebrowed Elder Gutknecht maquette by “atimburtonfan” for Thursday
III. And my latest set of Valicer In The Dark-related Not-Incorrect Quotes (featuring the gang’s pets) for Friday! Because the previous two reblogs were both tagged “#valicer in the dark au” thanks to me thinking the eye fish would be fun to add as a creepy real fish to the setting, and taking direct inspiration from the bushy-eyebrowed Elder Gutknecht for my ghostly one. :)
Now I just have to figure out a matching VITD-related Song Saturday, and I will be all set! :)
B) And on the “straight-up reblog” side, I reblogged onto my dash tonight:
I. A post by “prokopetz” talking about an idea for a “Backrooms”-inspired game where the local fire department has to go and rescue any pets or people that clip through reality into the titular backrooms, and this is just treated as a mundane part of the job (with “goodbyenorthernlights” adding his tag about being allowed to blast shadow monsters with the hose XD) – I reblogged this with a tag for my pal Satirical Demon (author of “Beneath A Broken Sky,” the Eldritch Hellworld Valice story) saying that this sounded like his jam (as he loves this kind of thing). Sure enough, he reblogged it from me saying he was scribbling down notes furiously XD
II. A post by “deadn0w” consisting simply of “your son is a pleasure to have on his knees for me” – this just IMMEDIATELY hit me as something Smiler or Alice would think while having to deal with Nell, and I tagged it as such (along with noting that Victor would either die of embarrassment or kill them if they ever said it out loud XD)
III. And a post from “firestormmaidenanddragon” talking about how Discord has implemented an age verification system for UK users in early compliance with a new bullshit “online safety” law that was recently passed, to prepare themselves for other sites doing this bullshit (including tumblr), and asking people to spread the word about a petition to get this stupid law repealed (with another user, “mankillercalledbunny,” noting that it would require you to upload your government ID to use these sites, and asking people who stood up to KOSA in the US to help with this) – I’m pretty sure all my own UK friends already know about this, but I figured I should signal boost it anyway, because fucking hell >(
*nods* Busy night over here, to be sure! But I am trying to be a little more generally active, so I guess that’s a good thing.
Valice Multiverse – And over here, I had three anon asks to slot into my queue for tomorrow:
A) One just singing the “Orange Orange Bo Borange” song – I had the Inevitable High School version of the Valicer trio respond, with Alice being bemused and asking if they were just making up words that rhyme with orange; Victor saying he’s sure he’s heard the “Banana Fanana” thing in another song; and Smiler trying to come up with another lyric, submitting “Kiwi Diwi Do Dorange” because it was the first thing that popped into my head XD
B) Another asserting that “There is an inanimate object which has a capacity to exasperate which no human being will ever attain: a piano” – Cuddlepile!Smiler and Victor answered that one, with Smiler asking Victor if he agreed with that, and Victor saying he didn’t know about using it to exasperate other people (he generally doesn’t play for crowds), but tuning one could be a pain sometimes :P
C) And a third asking “Do you think Pavlov ever got the urge to feed his dogs every time he heard a bell?” – I returned to the Inevitable High School kids for this one, with Alice going to answer, only to pause, close her mouth, and get really thoughtful instead, and Smiler saying “I don’t know but it would have been really funny” XD
Busy night over here too, as you can see! But at least I don’t have to worry about content for a change. :P
Yeah -- lot to do over here this eve! And now I should head to bed and try to get some sleep. Wish me luck with the heat again tomorrow! Night all!
Work – Very quiet day at work – the only two calls I got all day were from a parish secretary letting us know about a check she was sending our way (apparently it got lost in the postal system and was only just returned), and a telemarketer. The rest of the day was spent doing the usual morning reports, finishing off my obituaries, then keeping myself busy going through a particular last name and cleaning up a lot of deceased people who happened to share it while also doing what puzzles I could sneak out of the paper. *shrug* Boring day, but not horrible. We’ll see what happens tomorrow!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with “Oxventure D&D: Wyrdwood | Chapter 5: Ironclad!” Today’s chunklet featured:
A) Edmond leading the group back to Elmsteader, a large town built entirely in the branches of a GINORMOUS elm tree (bigger than a giant redwood!), and taking them to I presume his house, where he sat them down, offered them some water, and provided the following pertinent information:
I. The iron collars they all wore were gifts from some anti-magic pilgrims from Robin’s neck of the woods (he recognized the clothes Edmond described them wearing as being the “uniform” of the local inquisitors), who passed through the area and lectured them on how they were walking the path of damnation about five years ago. The community had sort of tossed them aside with some vague ideas of melting them down, but when magic went wonky, they went “actually wait these might be useful” and put ‘em on. *shrug* I mean, fair enough – if magic’s gone bad, then maybe you do want to start wearing magic suppressors! At least until someone’s figured out what’s going on.
II. Yes, the North Team had stopped at their settlement – and badly fucked things up for Elmsteader. You see, the community had told them what was going on in their neck of the woods, including that they seemed to be suffering from a drought of sorts – in addition to the strange, unseasonable heat, the river that fed this place and made it so lush had apparently lost its ability to nourish the plants. Which was a problem for the giant elm, because obviously a tree that size needs a FUCKTON of water, and while the citizenry were trying to keep the roots wet... Anyway, someone in the North Team offered to try and stabilize the tree with their magic, and went to enchant it –
Aaaand their hand exploded. Moments later, all the magic came roaring out of the tree in a giant swirling purple vortex of energy and shot off northwest. The tree promptly sickened even worse, and the angry citizenry chased the North Team out of town, even further north. Robin argued that he couldn’t believe anyone on the team had done that DELIBERATELY, and while Edmond allowed that, he was said that what was done was done, and as a result he didn’t want any of THEM getting near the tree, which the others allowed was fair. Also, they could only stay one night, and he’d be taking their weapons for said night – which rankled a little, but everyone turned their stuff over without much complaint. (Robin handed over his stale baguette, which Edmond just looked at briefly before handing it back. XD) Willowfine also got a timeline out of Edmond during this discussion – namely, that the disastrous visit by the North Team had happened roughly five or so days ago. Meaning that the villagers here were NOT responsible for whatever had happened to the North Team to split their copestone in two. Interesting…
B) The team discussing what to do once all their weapons were locked up and Edmond had headed off back on watch – Happen noted that there were a few mysteries in play here, namely what was going on with the river; what happened to North Team; and what happened with the purple magic that got yanked out of the tree. Robin was all for going after the magic and bringing it back to put in the tree to help the town (or just putting some of their own magic in the tree if necessary), but Willowfine pointed out that the town had made it pretty clear that they did not want their help. Happen was much more interested in figuring out what was going on with the river, figuring that if they sought that out, they might find North Team along the way – Willowfine agreed, saying that everything seemed pretty interconnected! Robin too was all for killing two birds with one stone (promptly apologizing for using such an idiom as he was still kinda stuck on the bird thing – Lug was like “how the HELL do YOU know the word idiom??” XD Turns out Robin attended one day of school and that was the day they learned idioms) and suggested they head out immediately, despite the others pointing out they didn’t have their weapons and could use a rest –
And then Happen realized “oh, right – Robin doesn’t want to rest because that would mean Morven coming out.” The others insisted they needed their sleep (especially Cressida), and said they could strike out first thing in the morning – Robin relented and said he’d just stick himself in the thigh with a fork to stay awake. As the others went to sleep, Johnny had Robin roll for sticking himself –
Aaand Robin promptly got a three, meaning he went to stab himself, completely missed his leg, and passed out. XD Thus both ensuring that Morven would be present for the latter half of this adventure, and answering a question of mine in the process – namely, do Robin/Morven ever actually SLEEP as they always swap consciousnesses when one goes unconscious? Turns out they do, good. I was getting worried about the shared meat shell for a bit there!
C) Everyone being woken up in the middle of the night by a massive CRACK from the tree, and seeing the damn thing starting to split and collapse in on itself, indicating the tree did NOT have long to last! The community promptly started rushing around in a panic, trying to get away from the tree before it either imploded or exploded. Happen sought out Edmond to tell him that they hoped to help and that they wanted to seek the river – however, it quickly became apparent even to No Social Skills Happen that Edmond was in no mood to chat, as he told them that they COULDN’T help, the river was north and two days away, did they want him to guide them or what?! Happen quickly apologized for bothering him and stopped Lug from asking the guy where the key to the chest with all their weapons was.
Morven, meanwhile, woke up and INSTANTLY felt the horrible, gaping void at the center of the tree where its magic should be and was like “the fuck?” The others quickly filled her in on the situation, and she was like “well, we HAVE to put some magic in this tree, I don’t care what the townspeople say, it’s already dying so we’re going to save them from themselves.” First, though, the gang had to retrieve their weapons, with Luke describing Happen trying to smack open the padlock with the butt of one of his shortswords –
Only for Andy, Mike, and Jane to be like, “Uh, Luke, the swords are weapons, and thus would be in the chest.” The look on Luke’s face as they explained this was hilarious. XD Morven ended up using a tiny Magic Missile on it instead, breaking it into four pieces and allowing everyone to get their stuff back. Happen promptly smacked the remains of the padlock with the butt of one of his shortswords, presumably because he was annoyed he couldn’t before. XD
D) And the gang, realizing there was no talking Morven out of her plan to pour magic into the tree, instead deciding to join her in sneaking past the panicking villagers to fire as much magic power into the dying tree as they could! Johnny had them all roll initiative (with both Andy and Ellen getting nat 20s – Ellen tried to get a high-five from Andy, who left her hanging until it was clarified she was doing so OOC XD), then explained that how this was going to work was that they didn’t need to specify what spells they were firing, but rather what level spell slot they were using for said spells, as that would determine how many D20s they could roll to see how many “magic points” they put into the tree – one D20 for a Level 1 spell slot, two for a Level 2, and so on. Johnny, meanwhile, would be checking to see if the villagers noticed what the group was doing on their turn, and if the tree exploded on ITS turn (and noting that they’d already got a crit 1 on the initiative roll for it...). The five promptly got to firing magic into the tree, with Morven, Cressida, and Willowfine each using up a Level 3 spell slot on their turns; Happen a Level 2 slot (as he’s a ranger and thus only a “half” caster who gets weaker spells); and Lug a pseudo-Level 1 slot (as he only has a TINY bit of magic from the “Magic Initiate” feat, which includes one level 1 spell he can cast once per long rest and a couple of cantrips). Their combined efforts poured 132 points of magic back into the tree, which was pretty damn solid! Johnny then rolled for the villagers noticing (getting a four, meaning they were much more concerned with stabilizing someone who’d previously fallen out of the tree when it initially started collapsing), and for the tree imploding, stating that if they got another crit 1, it was going boom –
And getting a two. XD Talk about avoiding disaster by the skin of their teeth… I left it with everyone preparing for round two of “pour magic into the tree,” with Johnny warning that if they rolled a 1 or a 2 this time, the tree would go boom. Eeep. O.o We’ll see what happens tomorrow! Hopefully it’s not a tree explosion!
2. Continue editing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – and today officially started The Worst Moment Of Alice’s Unlife! Because, right after she found the pile of ash that was Grout’s staked-and-chained-up corpse, the whole room shook with an absolutely massive BOOM. Causing Alice to rush out the door on the other side at Carpenter’s direction to see what the fuck that was –
Only to find herself overlooking A GIANT PIT OF FLAMES. Followed immediately by one Grünfeld Bach screaming at her to lay low and be cleansed. Alice proceeded to scream back at him that she wasn’t Grout and that she had no idea who he was, but he just told her that all people like her would be “washed from the earth,” and that this whole fiery display was a promise to everyone who served the “archfiend LaCroix” before running off. Leaving poor, panicking Alice trapped in the middle of the raging conflagration. D: I left off with the Queen of Hearts shoving her toward the balcony and pointing out a safe spot where she could drop down – tomorrow, Alice gets to relive the burning of her childhood home as she rushes through the flaming wreck of Grout’s mansion! Yaaaay...
3. Keep up with YouTube “Subs”: Check – and I actually did keep up with my Subs today, watching the latest from Josh Way – “Fun With Shorts: Crimes of Carelessness!” A fire safety short all about scaring people with statistics about how many people get killed and injured and how much property is lost from fires, before yelling at them for doing dumb things like extinguishing their cigarettes in the wastebasket beside their chair with the faux-wood cover (seriously), letting their kids play with matches, and using gasoline to get out stains while an open flame burns merrily on the stove nearby. It was over the top and ridiculous, and Josh got some in some good riffs against it (like accusing the narrator of being like J.J. Abrams – able to start a story but not finish it – when he kept talking about how fires start; commenting “wow, that sounds really nice” when the narrator talked about people going to sleep forever thanks to smoking in bed; and claiming at the end he was going to do his part to stop fires by REMOVING ALL THE OXYGEN FROM THE AIR, MWAHAHA). All in all, another quality bit of cinema from my current favorite riffer!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – I in fact was quite busy on tumblr this eve, as the below shall show –
Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler) – Over here, I both set up my queue and straight-up reblogged some stuff that intrigued me:
A) On the queue side, I got three things in for the next three days:
I. A reblog of that transparent png of the eye fish from A:MR by “roachpng” for Wednesday
II. A reblog of the behind-the-scenes Corpse Bride stuff featuring the bushy-eyebrowed Elder Gutknecht maquette by “atimburtonfan” for Thursday
III. And my latest set of Valicer In The Dark-related Not-Incorrect Quotes (featuring the gang’s pets) for Friday! Because the previous two reblogs were both tagged “#valicer in the dark au” thanks to me thinking the eye fish would be fun to add as a creepy real fish to the setting, and taking direct inspiration from the bushy-eyebrowed Elder Gutknecht for my ghostly one. :)
Now I just have to figure out a matching VITD-related Song Saturday, and I will be all set! :)
B) And on the “straight-up reblog” side, I reblogged onto my dash tonight:
I. A post by “prokopetz” talking about an idea for a “Backrooms”-inspired game where the local fire department has to go and rescue any pets or people that clip through reality into the titular backrooms, and this is just treated as a mundane part of the job (with “goodbyenorthernlights” adding his tag about being allowed to blast shadow monsters with the hose XD) – I reblogged this with a tag for my pal Satirical Demon (author of “Beneath A Broken Sky,” the Eldritch Hellworld Valice story) saying that this sounded like his jam (as he loves this kind of thing). Sure enough, he reblogged it from me saying he was scribbling down notes furiously XD
II. A post by “deadn0w” consisting simply of “your son is a pleasure to have on his knees for me” – this just IMMEDIATELY hit me as something Smiler or Alice would think while having to deal with Nell, and I tagged it as such (along with noting that Victor would either die of embarrassment or kill them if they ever said it out loud XD)
III. And a post from “firestormmaidenanddragon” talking about how Discord has implemented an age verification system for UK users in early compliance with a new bullshit “online safety” law that was recently passed, to prepare themselves for other sites doing this bullshit (including tumblr), and asking people to spread the word about a petition to get this stupid law repealed (with another user, “mankillercalledbunny,” noting that it would require you to upload your government ID to use these sites, and asking people who stood up to KOSA in the US to help with this) – I’m pretty sure all my own UK friends already know about this, but I figured I should signal boost it anyway, because fucking hell >(
*nods* Busy night over here, to be sure! But I am trying to be a little more generally active, so I guess that’s a good thing.
Valice Multiverse – And over here, I had three anon asks to slot into my queue for tomorrow:
A) One just singing the “Orange Orange Bo Borange” song – I had the Inevitable High School version of the Valicer trio respond, with Alice being bemused and asking if they were just making up words that rhyme with orange; Victor saying he’s sure he’s heard the “Banana Fanana” thing in another song; and Smiler trying to come up with another lyric, submitting “Kiwi Diwi Do Dorange” because it was the first thing that popped into my head XD
B) Another asserting that “There is an inanimate object which has a capacity to exasperate which no human being will ever attain: a piano” – Cuddlepile!Smiler and Victor answered that one, with Smiler asking Victor if he agreed with that, and Victor saying he didn’t know about using it to exasperate other people (he generally doesn’t play for crowds), but tuning one could be a pain sometimes :P
C) And a third asking “Do you think Pavlov ever got the urge to feed his dogs every time he heard a bell?” – I returned to the Inevitable High School kids for this one, with Alice going to answer, only to pause, close her mouth, and get really thoughtful instead, and Smiler saying “I don’t know but it would have been really funny” XD
Busy night over here too, as you can see! But at least I don’t have to worry about content for a change. :P
Yeah -- lot to do over here this eve! And now I should head to bed and try to get some sleep. Wish me luck with the heat again tomorrow! Night all!
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