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  1. You all redecorated… Hope everyone is doing okay. x
    6 points
  2. So uh, manager got axed but she decided to deadman’s switch and nuke alot of other...enjoyers of group extracurricular activities by sending evidence to HQ directly…. And I knew none of this and walked straight into the aftermath of the hidenburg. There’s burning bridges… And then there’s nuking the thing. So the fallout has yet to be determined but on the other hand kinda have to respect going out on your own terms via nuclear fission.
    5 points
  3. SSL maintenance has been done on the archives. Still working on bug fixes, the day job has been a nightmare.
    5 points
  4. Wishing the very happiest of birthdays to my dear pippychick, with love and hugs!
    5 points
  5. I had a mini break alone last week. I had dinner at a fancy Italian restaurant. Everyone around me was eating fancy meals with glasses of wine and champagne that they were clinking together. I had pizza, mousse for dessert and a mug of hot chocolate. I’m a takeaway and fast food joint kind of guy. These are not my people.
    5 points
  6. Waiting for my new eyes to arrive. Have both site and forum updates / bug fixes to do but need to see clearly first.
    5 points
  7. How thoughtful that spammers are self-reporting themselves in the “Trolls/Flamers/Spammers” section of the forums… sigh. Can we hang/draw/quarter them?
    4 points
  8. pittwitch

    I’m ALIVE!

    I’m ALIVE!
    4 points
  9. There’s a lot of bad news out there these days. So I’ve decided that every day for the next week, I’ll post one piece of good news. To decrease summer heat and improve air quality, New York City’s city council has decided to up NYC’s tree canopy coverage from 22% to 30%. A lidar-based mapping system will be used to identify places where the new trees would do the most good. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/30/new-york-city-tree-planting-lidar-mapping
    4 points
  10. As the wheel turns and the veil thins, we honor those who came before. The blessings of Samhain to all! 🌖
    4 points
  11. “It’s a foolproof plan.”
    4 points
  12. While my husband fed the cats a moment ago, I squirted the younger one’s liquid medicine down his throat. Woozle, the little shit, let half the dose drip out of his mouth and roll down my shirt and shorts. I grumbled about it—because that medicine stains, turns into tar, and smells like rotten fish a roadkill—and what did Cold say? ”Well. Pussy likes to dribble.” I married this clown. I married him. (He’s not wrong, though.)
    4 points
  13. Finally can got to a point where I can think of my book again. I decided to pause in the rewrite and start the 2nd one. Since by being further down the road I know what happens and can foreshadow things in book 1 better. We’ll see if I went supercrazybonkers or that it works.
    4 points
  14. The procrastination station has returned. We have a chatbox zone again in the forums.
    4 points
  15. The happiest of birthdays to the amazing @Melrick! I’m still trying to find a way to ship you some of that Key Lime pie…
    4 points
  16. I may have found this website’s theme song….
    3 points
  17. well that was a fun birthday! NOT! damn 13 yr old nephew had to throw a fit cuz i wanted to go to a bar for my birthday! I spent the WHOLE DAY with him..ugh! im 39yrs old and im already tired.
    3 points
  18. When the mind's stumped, spontaneously add in a murder attempt to the story, that’ll spice things up.
    3 points
  19. I want to wish a happiest of birthdays, to our magnificent @BronxWench May the day be wonderful and full of delight. And here’s to another full circle around the sun. All gifts in the form of shimmering gold and very sparsely clothed pretties that we may have in our possession, especially of the impish and the elvish variety, will be happily accepted. Gold will be kept, but pretties will be returned, unscathed and very exhausted.
    3 points
  20. What I say: “Are any of you injured?” Amir asked. What my phone hears: “Are any of you injured? I'm your ass.”
    3 points
  21. Good news, day 6: A 2,100-year-old tomb with hundreds of relics was just unearthed in China. It is the oldest and largest archeological find in the Wulong District in Chongqing. https://themessenger.com/news/archaeologists-open-tomb-china-hidden-treasures-first-time
    3 points
  22. That moment when you keep hearing a soprano velociraptor playing one-sided Marco Polo out in the hallway and realize, oh, no, it’s just the Velcro cat wailing pitifully because you locked him out of the office. Woozle. Because of course, it’s Woozle. Never mind that I locked him out because I have cramps, a headache, and writer’s block, and I don’t feel up to fending off his usual shenanigans. By Shenanigans, I mean shaking slobber everywhere, whining, trying to insinuate his fat butt between the desk and my rack, and trying to scale Mount Mom’s-Desk and causing a landslide. Kid, Mama needs to work! Stay in your box!
    3 points
  23. Happy halloween blessed Samhain!
    3 points
  24. Spent a coupled days in Williams. Its touristy place celebrating route 66 but it feels like a small town pearled in time. The gateway to the grand canyon lol.
    3 points
  25. September 22 is the last day of summer. September 23 Is the first of Fall.
    3 points
  26. So apparently AO3 is suffering from a DOS attack at the moment. It was posted on FB in one of my writing groups. Just thought i would put this out there
    3 points
  27. It has been a LONG while since I’ve been active here! And I don’t know how many this will reach but here goes. About ten years ago, someone reached out and I’m guessing gave me a link to one of their stories, possibly for the purpose of me trying to be a beta? I’m not sure: I really suck at being a beta. As shown because I finally went through my files and found it. I’ve already asked my closest friends but it’s a no from them. IF ANY OF YOU HAS EVER SHARED A STORY WITH ME, PLEASE LET ME KNOW: this story is good and I would like to tell the author and apologize.
    3 points
  28. Six months to Christmas! (that’s all folks.)
    3 points
  29. The Naming of Cats T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965 The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter, It isn’t just one of your holiday games; You may think at first I’m as mad as a hatter When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES. First of all, there’s the name that the family use daily, Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo, or James, Such as Victor or Jonathan, George or Bill Bailey— All of them sensible everyday names. There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter, Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames: Such as Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter— But all of them sensible everyday names, But I tell you, a cat needs a name that’s particular, A name that’s peculiar, and more dignified, Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular, Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride? Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum, Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat, Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum— Names that never belong to more than one cat. But above and beyond there’s still one name left over, And that is the name that you never will guess; The name that no human research can discover— But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. When you notice a cat in profound meditation, The reason, I tell you, is always the same: His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name: His ineffable effable Effanineffable Deep and inscrutable singular name. From Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Copyright © 1939 by T. S. Eliot, renewed © 1967 by Esme Valerie Eliot.
    3 points
  30. The very happiest of birthdays to WillowDarkling, aka my Neko Wenchling. May this be a fabulous year, my darling!
    3 points
  31. Got about five months to work on a Halloween story.
    3 points
  32. My (remaining) cat turns 18 today, he’s old enough to vote!
    3 points
  33. Is it a sign that I’m getting old, or that the parental units are getting old, when the pair of them go down on their hands and knees to peer under the kitchen cabinets, and my first thought is, “Are they both going to be able to get up ok?”….?
    3 points
  34. InvidiaRed

    Love the dragon! ❤️

    Love the dragon! ❤️
    2 points
  35. Dunno why my mind came up with this quote, it was there when I woke up...still, be good starter for a story.
    2 points
  36. Never realized my writing skills would boil down to helping TinyDancer write fellowship applications ...
    2 points
  37. I hate having to write “storyline calendars” for fanfiction, especially when the original author could care less. But not writing the calendars is even worse. (Sigh.)
    2 points
  38. Good news, day 7: In the US Senate, a bipartisan bill has been introduced that would make the sellers of tickets to concerts and other live events give you the full price up front (ie, without hidden fees). https://variety.com/2023/music/news/senators-fans-first-bill-reform-ticketing-1235829396/
    2 points
  39. Good news, day 5: Lots of good news on the energy front: Oil and natural gas prices are falling, and America’s first offshore wind farm just went online.
    2 points
  40. Good news, day 3: Scientists have discovered a class of molecules that appear to regenerate tooth pulp. This could make root canals obsolete. https://www.newsweek.com/teeth-pulp-regeneration-replace-root-canal-dentist-1849164
    2 points
  41. Good news, day 2: Even though there’s a lot of talk about shoplifting these days, it’s less common now than it was before the pandemic. Is Shoplifting Really Surging?
    2 points
  42. Happy Turkey Day everybody (though I’m opting for pork loin this year). 🦃
    2 points
  43. Happy thanksgiving eve! also have a happy and safe thanksgiving!
    2 points
  44. Wishing a very Happy Birthday to our very own @DemonGoddess May it be a wonderful day, and an even better year!
    2 points
  45. Funny to be at that point where I now consider 3k in a day to be “slow”.
    2 points
  46. Y’all, I couldn’t make this shit up if I tried. I’m editing a new chapter of A New Lease on Life <500 words at a time with ProWritingAid, and the Readability checker gave me such a double take I heard my neck crack. I posted a screenshot on Tumblr because pics or it didn’t happen. An (admittedly wordy) paragraph got a hard to read flag. Everything is spelled correctly, but it has several big words regarding language and its various parts and traits. You know. Words like consonants, syllables, dialects, and pronunciation. Hard, however, seems excessive. Right above this paragraph is one marked easy to read. The entire thing is written in (intentionally) misspelled Scots and Scots-Gaelic that gave the spelling and grammar checker a stroke…and it’s easy to read… …what…the actual…fuck…
    2 points
  47. Woo! ever since I got inscription out I can write since my brain is de-cluttered lol!
    2 points
  48. Repeat after me. “Homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies should not be counted as breakfast.” No, doesn’t work… munch munch. 🍪 🍪
    2 points
  49. Hm… Fun fact if we go by timeline alone. The Destruction of Raccoon City ( Resident Evil 1998) And Judgement Day (Terminator August 26 1997 or 1995) Which means Harry Potter and the wizarding world witnesses the muggles destroy a city instantly or major chance the world ends during the events of order of the phoenix via Judgement Day and the rise of machines or the wizarding world witnesses the downfall of voldermort just in time to watch London vanish in nuclear fire.
    2 points
  50. Have you ever been hit with “chapter mitosis?” Well, I’ve been hit with it again. Chapter 36 is ‘skinny’ again, but should be fattened up enough to post before the end of the week. Chapter 37 is bigger, but has a ways to go before it’s ready. Oh, well… Just another ‘first world problem.’
    2 points
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