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kawaiidaigakusei wrote:lothar wrote:
It's crazy How this year is almost over. Like time is going faster. So much I wanna do but I have to spend my time doing crap I don't like
Hi Lothar,
Advice given to me when I was a high school freshman, twenty years ago—
1. Do what you Need to do.
2. Do what you Want.
3. Do nothing else.
legacy wrote:They're moved their comic to the Webtoon app, it's on their bio:
Not sure where else to put this… long-time lurker. Trying to figure out what happened to the Geminni comic/comic creator? Noticed that it was deleted a couple weeks ago and I didn't know if there was a reason or not.
Ozoneocean wrote:
Pretty shitty since they've been with us so long, especially to put it exclusively on a lame copycat site like Webtoons exclsively… but it's their work and they can do what they want with it.
Andreas_Helixfinger wrote:Thank you! She's fitting in very well. She's going to the vet tomorrow for vaccinations.
She's absolutely adorable<3 I'm sure she'll be a very happy dog in your household, Vickie.
Nice little tiny doggy :)
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My cat Mouse catches and eats a lot of big rats.
His sister Esk is physically smaller and more timid, she's always been terrible at hunting. In the last few nights though she's been coming in proudly bearing her prey:
Big fat squashed beetles.
A wriggling detached lizard tail.
And he other day a live and totally uninjured mouse!
And ACTUAL mouse. I was shocked. And so was her brother (called Mouse), who went to investigate.
Esk was of course going to let it go so it would run free in the house. She just doesn't know what she's doing. As soon as I realised this I ran over to them to take care of the situation. I saw the mouse lying on its side perfectly still with its eyes closed, so I told Mouse to take care of it…
But then I had a second thought and picked it up by its tail.
As I thought the stupid thing was playing dead. It had no injuries.
Playing dead will stop cats or dogs pouncing and playing but it won't stop them eating you unfortunately, and that was what was about to happen.
So instead I took it with me outside and down the street and let it go in the tall grass of a vacant lot.
One of our cats, Batman Fishcat (we let a 4-year old name him) once bought in a rabbit. Completely unharmed. He carried it in by the scruff of the neck like it was a kitten. It was rather large, about 2/3 his size, and he's a big cat. It was obviously (once) someone's pet rabbit, judging by the breed. I rang up one of our neighbours who has many animals of various kinds, and sure enough their rabbit had gone missing. He came over to collect it, but it wasn't their rabbit. Too big. He took it home anyway, and it stayed around an became their new pet. My kids have never forgiven me for giving away the rabbit, and I'm not sure Batman Fishcat has either.
Batman Fishcat is probably what a cat would call itself I think.
Has to be pretty strong to lug a live rabbit! I used to have various rabbits. One would always escape… A couple of times I had to climb back over the neighbour's fence carrying a big struggling, madly kicking bunny in one arm, using the other to pull myself up tree branches and over the high fence. Such a naughty rabbit.
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I'm trying a neeeew… DD Fashion Spotlight as the Friday newspost format.
I pick characters or a character from a webcomic on DD and talk about their fashion. We have soooo many comics and characters here it's inexhaustible! Plus it's a great way to promote comics without all the restrictions that a feature has: the comic doesn't need a good story, it doesn't need to have more that 15 pages, be recently updates and it can be adult rated.
Stupid Facebook interaction, Fashion related…
There was an image posted of a women in the mid 19th century having a giant crinoline hoop skirt put on her. I recognised it from a satirical series of photos that was designed to make fun of the trend for big dresses by exaggerating the size and the palaver involved in putting them on. I commented as much because most of the people commenting were ignorant of history and thought it depicted the real thing.
Letting misconceptions slip like that is toxic.
One person replied to me basically saying "nuh-uh! They were too that big, you're a MAN so you can't know"
I commented in a rather snooty way that her motivated reasoning and cognitive bias made her gullible to what she wanted to be true.
She commented back saying that I was "mansplaining" to her and that she is the director of costume and design for somewhere or other and then went on to post 3 photos of recreations of mid 18th century dresses with side panniers as proof.
I'm offended that is moron got a job as a director for costume and design when they can't tell the massive differences between styles separated by over 100 years!!!!
Her depth of abject ignorance to think that a gigantic oversized circular crinoline cage skirt from the mid 19th century is ANYTHING like the narrow side panniers of the 18th century is extremely sad and pathetic. Different look, only wide at the sides and not all the way around, extremely different construction, smaller dresses, and 100 years difference…
Forgiveable for a person who has the most basic, superficial idea of history, absolutely unforgivable for a person that claims to have authority on the subject and uses the term "mansplain". I'm embarrassed for her and whoever has to deal with her.
She's a costume director not an historian. Recreating period clothing is one little but of studying, let alone understanding a period. It's like having blinders on, so focused on the details of one thing in one time that miss the rest of the historic development of the clothing and it's context.
She knows only appearances not context. Like someone who knows all the uniforms of the SS but understands nothing of who they were and what they did. There was a Recent blow up on history Twitter over someone claiming that the Holocaust has no place in WW2 history while at the same time promoting a new history of one of the more Infamous SS panzer divisions that committed several massacres of civilians and prisoners of war.
lothar wrote:I think that's a bit of a myth… Because they would have all stopped wearing them if it was. Women DID die because they were flammable but mainly it seems the real truth was that because it was a super popular fad it had people who hated it and so exaggerated all the problems with it. Like corsets.
Those dresses were dangerous. I heard that "dress fire" was a major cause of death for the ladies of old.
Lol
I have worn both hoops and crinolines for work. In the heat of the summer, hoops are definitely more comfortable but make it impossible to sit on a normal chair or bench (a stool works okay). So, I would wear the hoop for outside events and the crinolines indoors – because aside from heat, they are more comfortable, softer, like wearing butt pillows.
My favorite myth is that wide doorways were designed for oversized hoop skirts – when they were actually designed for pallbearers.
Most 19th century garments we're flammable. So were floor coverings, furniture, buildings… Fire was particularly frightening, so I imagine many old-timey urban legends were fire-based.
There are a lot of enduring myths about undergarments because all fashion is ridiculous. XD (Modern and historical.)
It's always dark. Ugh. Seasonal Affective Disorder.
I had a dream years ago where the number 56 figured very prominently and it hinted at loss and death at that age. Racked my brain trying to figure out who it referred to.
Time's almost up if it's me. Time's past for loved ones, but not for me. Impending doom? Not any more than any other time. And I can handle nearly anything that comes along, but I really don't want to have to.
@bravo - I was reading recently that certain symptoms including thoughts
of doom/death are VERY common at a certain age range. A lot of the symptoms or particulars applied to me as well. I don't have seasonal affective disorder, but a friend of mine does and it just adds an extra roadblock, eh?
Anyway, I can relate to what you're saying. Hope you're doing all right.
Oh Em Gee!
I just had to do some mothereffin' epic level spam deletion on the test version of DD.
It was absoloutely infested! One particular account had so many spam posts on the site that I couldn't even scroll to the bottom of the admin page with the list of them. Even pressing "end" didn't take me to the bottom right away, I had to keep pressing it.
This bastard must have created their own bot that used a home made form so it could autospam, probably with over a million posts?
They were STILL posting even as I was fixing things… I killed easy access to the forums there now and I fnally managed to delete that account and all their posts but it took a lot of work…
Hopefully we'll have no more issues with spammers there… but I don't know.
I was into Warhammer 40K back in the early 90s. I liked it back then :)
I still appreciate it… I hate the whole grim-dark direction the universe went in though.
There was always a bit of that but it was off-set by an implicit humour that the whole thing was basically ridiculous- with hyper stylised weapons and armour, huge muscled space marines, fantasy "races" in space…
It was pretty much like a cross between Judge Dredd and Star Wars, but based on Dungeons and Dragons, with Tolkienian derived races.
-I think the game style was based on Napoleonic table top war gaming.
It became more and more serious and dark like a lot of stuff from the 1980s…
Wrestling, heavy metal, fantasy, SciFi. For some reason the 90's sucked the fun out of EVERYTHING.
I wouldn't have known cuz I was a wee kid back then. I might have gotten into it back then as well, if it was like as you say, and if I was a bit older back then:) But on top of that, these days, you also have Games Workshop acting like the GREEEEEEEDIEST company that has ever existed. Doing everything in its power to milk out the fanbase of every penny. Revising game rules every year and nerfing items so that the players of the wargame, or at the very least the competitive players, has to keep buying, buying, buying.
I've heard a new player can expect to spend at least 300 british pounds to assemble enough materials for a "proper" game. That's like the equivalent sum of over 3000 kronas in my country. I look at that and I'm like "Woooow, that's way too expensive of a hobby for me, thank you very much"^^
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