#Father has a cold and I want to get him the lotr nerd book to read when I go to game day tomorrow >:(

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either three separate people or one person checked out the siliamlimaliriomriomim from three separate nearby libraries in december and have not given it back yet. who the shit just straight up stole Three siliamrialmirlmalirmalirlomns pull up I just want to talk

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22 questions now meme

I was tagged by two excellent folks for an 11 question ask meme. They both had different Qs and I’m having my normal nightly nervous streak, so here goes TWENTY-TWO ANSWERS

First off, @lunarymagic‘s questions:

1. Autumn or Spring?

I am DEFINITELY a Spring. It’s close to summer, which is the best time of year for me psychologically (sort of). Autumn is cold and I don’t like cold. It also is a super busy time at my job, so fuck that.

2. What sort of dreams do you typically have?

Boring dreams about doing regular tasks, OR dreams about living post-apocalypse, often with zombies. Literally only two flavors to my subconscious. 

3. Thirteen hungry dwarves have come uninvited to your house! Quick, what do you prepare for them?

This assumes I answer my door for anyone who isn’t carrying a package for me. 

4. Five songs or groups you’ve been into lately?

Depeche Mode. Stan Rogers. Um, that 80s retrowave stuff. Every single song that will be in Thor: Ragnarok. The Decemberists. 

5. Would you rather be saved by an Elven prince plagued by a terrible Oath or a Space Alien princess overcome by grief?

I’m gay and want to fuck aliens so the Space Alien princess sounds perfect. Hopefully she’ll cheer up after being subjected to my amazing sense of humor for weeks. 

6. This world is falling apart but a portal has opened up. Which fictional world would you like to live in for the rest of your life?

GOOD QUESTION. This is where my love of crapsack worlds comes to bite me. Star Trek, I guess? It’s boring to me but I’m anxious person who enjoys having rights, safety, and hates capitalism. 

7. The most hilarious mishap you’ve had or had witnessed?

So the wife and I were driving to work behind a guy in one of those little crotch-rocket motorcycles. We were at a stoplight on a city street in bumper to bumper, but this guy wanted to go FAST. He tried to weave around the car in front of him, except instead he so, so slowly hit the bumper, shattering the back light and spilling his motorcycle flat (couldn’t have been going more than ten miles per hour). We were right behind him so we saw him lying spreadeagled on the pavement, clearly too embarrassed to get up immediately. It was peak physical comedy because a) hilarious fall due to hubris b) no one was hurt. 

8. If you’re a fanfic writer: do you remember the first ever fic you ever wrote? Or if you write mainly original fic: first story? Artists: first art piece?  

The first ever fic I wrote is still up on AO3 and is the oldest thing up there. It’s not great. My first original fic was some absolutely terrible thing I wrote with a friend when I was 12 or so and thankfully there is no evidence it ever existed. 

9. What book or show or movie or game was dearest to your heart as a child?

The Lord of the Rings. I was... a huge Tolkien nerd, then and now. Thankfully my attitudes about women have changed a thousand fold since I was 8, but I do still love LOTR. 

10. Any book/movie/show/game rec for your followers?

DISHONORED PLAY DISHONORED BUT HONESTLY SKIP TO DISHONORED 2 BECAUSE THE PLOT MAKES SENSE WITHOUT THE FIRST GAME AND THERE’S FULL INCLUSION OF WOMEN AND POC AND EVEN A SMIDGE OF BI REP PLEASE O B S E S S OVER THESE GAMES WITH ME

And while you’re at it, read the Gentlemen Bastard sequence. THIEVERY!! LOYALTY KINK!!! 

/flings pseudo-Italian steampunk over everyone

11. Is the absence of evidence an evidence of absence?

Clever! But no, because absence is evidenced by being an able to document an absence where other things *should* be. Absence of evidence just means you don’t have dick. 

And now for @edgeoflight‘s Qs!

1. What place would you visit if money and time were no object?

Taiwan because I want to eat all the food and visit all the museums and enjoy the weather. However, if we want to take time more figuratively, I would go back in time to observe the first groups of humans, so I could slap evolutionary psych up the face with their bullshit he-man theories of innate savagery. 

2. What book have you read that influenced you the most?

I have to pull out LOTR again, just because it gave me such a lasting love of worlds in decline and the medieval setting in general. Asimov’s novels also predisposed me towards seeing robots as helpful and good and think that humans are going to get out ok, and technology isn’t something to be afraid of.

Thankfully, when I got to college, I finally started reading some women and getting over my internalized misogyny. I’d say that James Tiptree Jr./Alice Sheldon’s stories will always be the gold standard of what I want my writing to be - painful, insightful, and beautifully written. 

3. Tell me about a time when deciding something differently would’ve changed your whole life.

If I’d never played FFXII (an MMORPG) when I was still in high school, I would have never met my ex and endured years of hell that I was too depressed and abused by my family to escape from. :( 

4. What do you see as being the next big revolutionary technological innovation?

Search and YouTube algorithms which don’t allow neo-N*zis to recruit.

5. If you reached out with your left hand, what would you touch?

My wife’s butt!!

6. Which is the most important: truth, beauty, freedom, or love?

Love, because people lacking in the first 3 can sometimes still be decent people. If you pick someone with just one of the any other qualities though, y i k e. 

I also don’t give a fuck about truth if it’s not compassionate.  

7. What’s your relationship with your parents like?

My father’s dead and my mother is evil. I’m actually on better terms with her now that I’ve been living away from her for 12 years so I could a) understand that she gaslit, verbally abused, and emotionally abused me for 18 years, and b) be distant enough that I could pity her for still being stuck with my also evil, also abusive siblings. I’m sorry that my answers to these Qs are all coming out so dark!! Anyway, you can see that all my immediate family has suffered abuse from their parents, my mother included. I wonder how far back the family tree the abuse goes. 

8. If I gave you a million in your own currency but told you that you couldn’t spend it on yourself – you had to give it away – what would you do with it? You can divide it up as much as you like, but you can’t keep any of it.

Start a small LGBTQ+ youth shelter and school. 

9. Do you believe that patriotism is a good thing or a bad thing?

It’s always bad. 

10. How would you define romance?

Hmmm tricky question. I think that romance is culturally defined, but I personally see it as something where people love each in a way that spurs them to positive actions. 

11. Imagine you are very old and dying. What do you think you will regret, if anything?

Honestly, everything up until I was 26. And also the job I’ve held from 27-??. I regret living where I am for more than a year. YIKES SO MUCH REGRET