That seems to be a recurring theme with you! I'll read a post where you're talking about a character you like, and then the very next paragraph you're saying how they died! It doesn't seem fair.


Oh, you've seen it? Was it as dark as it sounded?

If you post your stories and give me a link, I'll read them. I like having things to read while I eat.

Ooh, I want to watch Pan's Labyrinth. The guy with the eyes in his hands kind of reminds me of Krumm from Ahh! Real Monsters!

Sunlight wrote:If you post your stories and give me a link, I'll read them. I like having things to read while I eat.

Ooh, I want to watch Pan's Labyrinth. The guy with the eyes in his hands kind of reminds me of Krumm from Ahh! Real Monsters!

ha ha ha, that is so clever and hilarious! I love how his armpit hair kind of looks like the last vestiges of hair on a balding head, the ones near the ears, that's just perfect....


Moi you have some funny curses. Insta-spoilers, predicting death of characters by how much you like them.... you're giving me some ideas. I keep a list of random blessings and another of random curses (I think it started out as background reference for a story but then just became a Thing) and those are a whole new idea on what sort of thing could constitute curses. Most of the ones on there are just things like "May you not see the bird with the neat song no matter how much you look" and "may your shoelaces need double-tying". I didn't think about things like interactions with visual media at all! It opens up all sorts of possibilities ("May you get advertising jingles stuck in your head", "may you miss the first minute of your favorite show", etc....)

Aw, that's so sad.

Oh yeah, I know that feeling. I like to do crafts while having shows play in the background and I have to rewatch some parts when I have Switched at Birth playing because at some points they'll go to all-deaf cast and they'll be signing and I won't notice it until a few seconds in.

Interesting! I haven't written in ages, either. Though I do have some stories floating around in my head that I do want to eventually put down.

I never really got into that cartoon because it was on while I didn't speak much English. I couldn't understand it and it didn't have art that appealed to me, either. But it is very creative and I do wish I could make creatures like that.

Oh man. A character who's cursed so that everyone she loves dies shortly after she likes them. It's not an original idea or anything, but yeah.

Aw, you were a sweet kid, Moi.

You really do have a plethora of odd curses... (and I guess I'm evil, then? Although the Random Blessings list is quite a bit longer, so it seems more neutral?)



That's a story if Joe is actually entering the room because he is a corporate spy and wants to search the boss's desk and discover the corporation's plans for how to handle the recent report of contaminated soil under their factory, thinking to use it as leverage, but can't because Derek is there already in the boss's office, and Derek is pretending to be the boss's secretary but is really an undercover reporter who fell in love with the boss and is struggling to decide where his loyalties lie, and their "nonchalant small-talk" is all just cover.

(me being me, I hope Derek runs away with the boss and the secretly-evil VP is left to deal with the EPA finding out about the contaminated soil while Joe retires from corporate espionage to write a bestseller on security in a corporate setting, but likely as not it will turn out to be a thriller with a high body count and Derek will die, love unrequited, and the boss will turn out to be a member of some secret monopoly-pact and hire mercenaries to kill Joe -maybe Derek dies by mistake there- and in the end nothing will be done about the soil cleanup but there'll be a dramatic scene where a "villain" dies in an explosion and the last scene will be the "dead" villain arriving at some remote foreign location with no extradition treaty with a vigilante guerrilla-justice-type lying in wait for him.)

See? It could totally be a scene from a story!


Ugh, it's going to be a story full of bodies, though, isn't it? Sigh. I want some nice HEA....

Quick, turn it into something with dragons instead!


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I have COMPLETELY forgotten what I was going to say originally. This post kind of went off the rails somewhere....

Anime is a bit easier because it's close to Korean and I can pick up pieces of dialogue... but sign-language, I need my eyes.

lol yeah, aesthetics is very important to me.

Holy shit, I hope your eye didn't hurt too much. I'm assuming you didn't lose sight in one or anything.

I was walking behind this guy and he elbowed me in the face. Didn't even buy me a drink after.

Aw, you were a sweet kid.

lol Akili, you're so imaginative. That's so great.

Joe: -enters room-
Derek: What's up, Joe
Joe: Nothing much. You?
Derek: Same.
*beat*
Joe: Well, better go give the dragons their feed. We don't want them to burn down the stable again. *pick up feed from corner of room*
Derek: Oh, hey, want a hand with that?
Joe: What? Oh yeah. That'll be helpful. Just help me stack them in the cart and I'll take care of the rest.