GeorgeGlass

You accidentally stroke a belly

“BAKA!” *four sets of claws sink in.

There's a few animes like that. One also has a grandiose swordswoman adorably scared of lightning that the protagonist always thought was a man. 

I LOVE this! 

This phone has learned well.

Your phone lives to make your life difficult, George, it’s time to face that fact, I think   :sobs with laughter too: 

Your phone’s predictive algorithm is hella shit

Some people find it cathartic to know worlds can be worse or else have characters strive to at least make it brighter if only by candlelight.

You could also successfully argue any utopia by definition is also dystopian by its very nature. Collectivism is currently in vogue. While the individual is to be abhorred,  Its all so very strange.

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I don’t really get dystopian scifi. Isn’t the real world bad enough? Or is the idea to make the real world look better by comparison?

It can be useful for critically examining a particular aspect of today’s society too, by making it the predominant theme of the dystopia.  For instance, my original fiction stories put evangelical Christianity on steroids, made the society a tad more conservative, and examine the possible results.  (ie, do we want to live in a society that puts the Christian Cross onto the USA’s flag?)

That’s a really good point, @Desiderius Price.

I literally clicked it for the billy goats and now I feel like I have been the victim of a troll!

So that’s actually worked out ok. But, honestly, the next user along will be bigger and meatier than me and make a much better…

Just be glad the Troll Trace guy wasn’t there for you.

As I was crouching under the bridge – where at least a little of the rain was still able to reach me – I thought, “If a billy goat comes along, I’m frickin’ eating it.”

God, the Parental Advisory sections would go on for pages...

Hopefully, It might mean the plague of remakes nobody wanted comes to an end.

Chrome simply recognized that all mainstream entertainment is pretty much the same these days and gave up trying to keep track of the supposed differences. At this point I think a lot of straight-laced people would be delighted to revel in the sex lives of their favorite fictional characters. Expect a lot of new hits on your fanfics.

I loved it! We're trying to go again very soon.

I can't speak to its authenticity, but if you like to eat meat in quantity, it's worth checking out.

And yes, leave it to me to put more emphasis on Fogo than worrying how your phone has been trained for porn XD

  Need more…..

Two from yesterday:

After “thoroughly,” the phone suggested “lubed.”

It tried to turn “steel-toed boots” into “steel-like hardness.”

Sounds Good! 

I like his “villain song,” too.

https://youtu.be/g00kEcGh4j8

as a disney trivia guy i’d like to point out some of the subtleties you may or may not have enjoyed. one, his costume is, naturally, evoking baron sameidei (which is an actual ritual element to evoke a connection with the loa in question) and his name comes from the french “facile” or easy. he is a man who makes things easy.

also, he honestly tells everybody exactly what they’ll get from him. the butler? is told that he’d be miserable married, but forced to marry anyway, and the prince is told he’ll be given all the green he needs to hop from place to place. buuuut….

also, did you notice this?

https://external-preview.redd.it/NMx5U2dM0avaIz6faxF_EiQWhVSZngdNzpW5pbU8dN4.jpg?auto=webp&s=f23dcbba6d2dbe271b60d995518323dc0d148592

Schweet. One more reason why they call him the Shadow Man, I guess.

Great!

I’m not surprised: You’re just that good.

*blushes*

I think your phone is a masochistic

@BronxWenchNobody’s getting this phone. It knows too much.

When it finally dies, I’m going to zap it with an EMP, then burn it, then bury the melted remains at a crossroads.

@InvidiaRedWell, one of us is.

Why curse innocent passers by? 

I sat there and was like okay but how though?

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I sat there and was like okay but how though?

Because “George” and “Glass” appear consecutively in the headline.

And google searches also have results based on past searches so naturally ‘bottom’ came up :p

I got 15 people this year. there was a kid dressed up as the ‘stay puft’ from ghostbusters! i froze my butt of but it was worth it

We had almost 200 trick-or-treaters. I attribute this to (a) Halloween falling on a Saturday, (b) excellent weather, and (c) lots of my neighbors devising clever ways to hand out candy safely. (For my part, I built a cardboard candy-slide and dispensed the treats from my porch.)

I’d meant to pick up some tongs, but instead handed stuff out with a ladle as I froze my butt off outside. (Though in fairness, the ladle was also good for smacking hands when people tried to reach into the bowl.) Though most kids on the side street stop before they get to our buildings… for various reasons.

Anyway, if 2021 continues like 2020 then next year the kids will be in camouflaged hazmat suits and combat gear when they come to your door demanding water, canned goods, and all the toilet paper they used on your house in years past.

Nobody trick-or-treated to my house (I’m too far off the beaten path)

@Desiderius Price you can’t count this anomalous year though the pandemic.

@InvidiaRed It’s not like it was unexpected.  Eleven Halloweens at this house, and ZERO trick-or-treaters in that time.

Sorry you have to miss it. Hope you can get back to it next year.

This is only the second time I’ve done it, and it’s every bit as intense as I remembered.

Oh Nano season is so exciting! Are you excited?! I’m excited for you! (Too much of a commitment phobe to do it myself so I like living vicariously.) 

I’m definitely excited. It’s tiring, though. I’m probably spending more than 2 hours a day just writing. (One wonders when I’ll get around to putting away those clean dishes that have been sitting in the dishwasher for the past day and a half.) But I’m glad I’m doing it.

I was beside myself as it all unfolded. And because I live in a more conservative region I know I’m going to go to work today and see people still unashamedly wearing their maga crap and I’m going to have to be polite and courteous to these people or I lose my job. The worst part is I’ve actually seen some people wearing QAnon shirts and the like. 

Fascists storm the capitol to try and keep their autocrat in charge and the next day are saying “no, it was the anti-fascists” Christ, the doublethink.

While I agree about the proximate cause of the attack that they need to be removed and punished, the truth is that Trump is merely the painful symptom of what's been destroying the U.S. for decades, not the cause. As Krystal Ball says, "The ugly truth is that Trump is as American as apple pie."

So why is half the country so angry that they're willing to believe terrible things and blindly follow an absurdly blatant liar and criminal? Many ordinary people are angry, and it's been festering for decades. From where they're sitting, the politicians and corporations have been steadily destroying their lives and the lives of their children just to make an extra buck. The spectacular failures of the pandemic response at every level of government does not help with that anger either. And sadly Trump and many other bad actors are very good at using that anger.

Meanwhile most news outlets have found it more profitable to keep people ignorant and polarized, ever fearful that either the bad brown man or the bad orange man is coming for us… while it's actually an entrenched corrupt system that’s slowly killing us from the inside.

Unless we fix the many underlying problems in America we'll only be seeing more and more of this violence all around the country.

(And the preppers are laughing their asses off right about now.)

At least it didn’t suggest “a pickup truck,” which would mean your phone thinks you use people. No, it sounds like your phone think’s you’re a nice guy and wants you to be happy.

or “friends with Phoebe, Ross, Rachel, Chandler, Joey and Monica” or it would mean your phone thinks you need to really over-specify 15 year ended sitcoms.

I turned out to be the weird one cause I didn’t know what that meant.

and I gave her best friend a hug. Cause apparently not everyone sleeps with their friends.

That. Is. Perfect!

M… Nah, I don’t even need to say it. (BTW, decent advice if the first one you try doesn’t work out; I figure by putting this here you won’t ever need it.)

Thanks, FS. I’m actually now hiring 2 people, and I hope to God they both turn out well, because I don’t want to go through another, “Sorry, this isn’t working out” scenario.

Something old timey based on her choice of swimwear. Either that or eighties era gym gear.

Oooh, I like both ideas. The 80s one would be a little harder to explain, but Star would look adorable in leg warmers.

Glad to help but yeah Star in leg warmers ala Flashback Pearl was something that popped in my head immediately.

I want your phone so badly right now…

If phones could talk… Well they can, evidently, but if they were sentient….

Sometimes I worry about what people would think if they ever saw my custom spell-check dictionary. Nothing good I’m afraid…

I thought you said stupid idea? Not awesome story prompt.

it wasn’t a story for me, but a poem… I wrote two poems when I was a teen that were scenes of candy and soda… as in “the dark Dr. Pepper night”, and marshmallow cars… Candy floss (cotton candy) clouds, etc. I think the idea came from thinking about Candy floss as clouds, and possibly imagining sneakers made of liquorice or something like that. 

Worst part was, they actually worked. Both of them! They weren’t even half bad, if I do say so myself. 

If that isn’t the stupidest idea ever, I don’t know what is. Even for a sixteen year old… 

I haven’t had an entire story idea that was like that, but I did have a scene recently where I was like “This is insane...and if I can pull it off it’s gonna be AWESOME!”

Thundercats only has the one category for all the series’ so it looks like there’s some precedent for sticking new series in with 80s series! I guess it’ll take a mod to give the decision

I suppose it would make sense to put it in the existing She-Ra category, as it’s just labeled “She-Ra” and doesn’t include the “Princess of Power” subtitle that would make it specific to the 80s series. 

I think sticking with the original She-Ra category is certainly the quickest solution.

Aw, delay due to standards of excellence?   

She’s with Comfort now? Geesh, that Joy really does get around! I mean, first she’s with Fear, then Anger…

Omigosh! She’s becoming a Sith!

Don’t worry, both Hate and Suffering won’t join Riley’s cast of emotions until she gets to high school.

Yikes! I hope you keep it locked, but if someone was looking over your shoulder you could just blame it on Facebook ads or something.

My problem is that while most people worry about their web history, I’m always terrified someone will get hold of my custom spelling dictionary. The horror!

I’m planning on borrowing George’s phone every chance I get.

Jeez, I’m lucky I don’t write on my phone. Just a lot of F bombs and the word Peen. They’ll probably just think this phone belongs to a 13 year old boy. 

1. Get invited to parlay with the wasp queen only to find yourself trapped as a breeding partner
2. Somehow escape possibly involving a fellow prisoner spider, called Dave.
3. Buy poison for wasps' nest on front door frame
4. etc

The good news: The wasps are dead. The front door is clean.

The bad news: The laundry is untouched. And Dave didn’t make it.

What am I going to tell his wife? She was planning to eat him tonight. I can’t just show up at her web with an apology and a Big Mac.

Dave! He so wanted to be eaten by his wife. That poor guy. If a big bac is no good, take her Little Mac. Dude’s boxing career is over anyway.

I’d have given you that one, as long as I get “fucknugget.”

Probably some kind of anti jargon or profanity filter at work.