Mental Expulsion (original) (raw)

I am sick of people getting righteous and jumping on others for using terms like "twat." Sorry but using the term does not automatically = sexism against women and misogyny.

Get the fuck over yourselves, militant feminists.

Current Mood: crappy crappy

Can we PLEASE stop using "that" and "than" interchanceably? BECAUSE THEY AREN'T INTERCHANGEABLE.

Also, in the context of "BDSM relationship where ___ is dominate and ___ is submissive" you require the word dominant. I realize this is a matter of the two words potentially sounding alike, but dammit, learn how to pronounce and spell them while you're at it.

Is grammar really that hard for people? It's always come easy to me. :/

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Scaring Friends for Lulz and Profit...

How do you do it?

Current Mood: cheerful

Could we please outlaw all use of the word "orbs" when describing eyes? I keep getting reminders of my Anatomy & Physiology class. It really throws me out of what I'm reading.

Thanks,

Tanathir

P.S. - Let's also outlaw "nub" for nipples and "strands" for hair. Find new descriptors, plzkthx.

Current Mood: annoyed annoyed

My previous ranty type post was because I was jumped on in a post at fanficrants

I was misunderstood. Again. I've been misinterpreted all my damn life. It's like I'm out of phase with the world or something. I'm tired of it.

"March to the beat of a different drummer"? I must have my own percussion section.

I am sick of people assuming what I mean, of attaching a type to me and putting me in a predefined box labeled "clueless, naive, offensive, not-getting-it, radical, conventional, disregard."

So thanks, fanficrants commenters, for being triggery for me.

Current Mood: cranky cranky

Fanfic readers. Can we stop jumping to conclusions and assuming that anytime someone even obliquely suggests a warning for slash, that it's necessary to ram righteousness down their throats? Let me put things in list form in the hopes of simplifying:

1. SLASH DOES NOT NEED A WARNING BECAUSE IT IS SLASH. However, I think ANY pairing deserves mention. If I go into a fic expecting gen and I get slapped with m/f, m/m, f/f, Flying Spaghetti Monster/Doctor Who, I get a mad.

2. JUST BECAUSE YOUR PAIRING IS SLASH, YOU DO NOT GET TO FOREGO MENTIONING IT IN ORDER TO BE POLITICALLY CORRECT. Warn for Bob/Tom the same way you would warn for Mary/Bob or Tom/Mary/Bob or Flying Spaghetti Monster/Tom/Mary/Bob/your aunt Myrtle.

3. STOP JUMPING ON PEOPLE. How dare I rant about my expectations of knowing whether it's het/slash/flying spaghetti monster before reading the fic! I must be SO BIGOTED. I must be SO HETERONORMATIVE.

4. GAH. If I am searching for House/Cuddy for example, I WANT TO KNOW. If I am searching for House/Wilson, I WANT TO KNOW. SLASH HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.

So yes. Warn for slash. Do not warn BECAUSE it is slash. Warn to indicate the pairing. Stop being so righteous and politically correct and concluding what other people are thinking who dare to ask for slash warnings. I love slash. I write tons of slash. I love het. I write tons of het. I want indications for both. Tolerance in this world is not going to happen if people keep bitching about "ohhh that's not cool, _____ doesn't require a warning."

This is beyond annoying.

Current Mood: aggravated

I'm considering getting a Tumblr. As if I don't spend enough time online...

Current Mood: bored bored

So I was futzing around on a Dragon Age kinkmeme I found, and this one fic just blew me away. Rare pairing, epic fic, just...dasgkjh;aev.

http://dragonage-kink.livejournal.com/3197.html?thread=6022013#t6022013

In All Things, Caution is the title, 38 chapters, adult of course, but with plot and good writing and thought and wow. I haven't felt this amazed by a fanfic since I found a Babylon 5 fic called Patterns...which I should find again. Anyway. This kinkmeme fic is f!mage!Hawke/Orsino of all pairings. A compelling AU, and I'm not kidding; I never would have dreamed up this pairing but it is beautiful.

OHAI I FOUND THE B5 FIC

http://www.crimsonquills.com/fic/babylon5/patterns.shtml

Marcus/Neroon, another uncommon pairing though there is a Yahoo group and a decent number of fics with this pairing. This fic is...I love the characterization, the way the author takes Neroon's thoughts and develops them instead of how most writers for the pairing handwaving over the way he changes. Sometimes when I re-read this fic, I get sappy romantic tears in my eyes.

Current Mood: bouncy bouncy

DA2 demo works fine for me. I checked a few technical bug/issues topics on the BioWare forum and it's looking more and more like I'm going to have to wait for a patch to come out. Certain people are getting game crashes like me in the prologue before the character customizer. Poop. Although it might be a good thing, I SUCK majorly at the battles. It's YouTube and other peoples' sharing for me at the moment.

LOL see what I mean about a flurry of posting?

In other news I played Sims for a long time last night. At least when that game crashes it's after I can play for a while.

It rained here all day so I just went out for some fuds then stuck around at home. Soft warm cat kept me company. :3

Current Mood: calm calm

Derp. I played Sims 2 for a long time last night, which was funtiems. Quick query: somehow I messed with my settings so Sims plays completely expanded to the screen, rather than fit with black bars around all sides. How can I restore the smaller game screen with the black bar surround? Fitting completely to my computer screen makes the game look less crisp and I think run a bit slower. Halp?!

Anyway. Resorting to Yow Tubby and fan fiction and discussion on BioWare forums, I have fallen into fangirdom for Fenris in Dragon Age 2, all without being able to play myself. :D Dat elf hits many many of my kinks. Tanathir likee!

Real life: I have a job lead but felt sick on Friday so couldn't pursue it then. I am going to try again Monday. Parents are pushing for me to get a job, and while I understand since they are supporting me right now, it is frustrating to hear them harp on me doing what THEY think is needed. I cannot get through to them that it is going to be impossible to work and do school when I go back. The workload is too much, and the end with clinicals/externship is going to be 40 hours a week for two months, which means I CANNOT WORK. ARGH. Am frustrated and stressed at what feels like dad trying to make me do HIS expectations instead of guiding me to form MY OWN expectations. I cannot do 12 hour says and keep from getting sick from the stress, no matter what he claims. I already got a cold sore from the stress of trying to explain to him. He shoots me down, says go to the doctor and see if you need medical help to get more energy. Just...argh.

Current Mood: cold cold

Still cannot get DA2 to work. Still VERY PISSED.

Current Mood: infuriated

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Four computers I have owned. All of them give me fucking problems. I am SICK and TIRED of fucking EVERYTHING I try to have stress free fun is BLOCKED by retarded FUCKING computer not cooperating.

This is a pattern now guys. It is not my paranoia. Computers will not fucking comply when I want them to.

FUCK. FUCK. FUCK.

Current Mood: irate irate

Um. Hi? I am fail at timely posting. LiveJournal use seems to go in waves for me; I can have a feverish posting spree or apparently go a long time without a peep

So. Uh...peep!

What are the happenings, guise?

Current Mood: busy busy

04 November 2010 @ 10:20 pm

I have been busy with real life lately. :[ But! I come with uploaded Sims! Here we go...
( Sims ahoy!Collapse )

That's it for now. There are others in my Mediafire account but I want to do better photoshoots of them and will probably get better pictures of these too. I plan to cross-post this to my Dreamwidth.

Technical stuff:

Use Clean Installer. I have all EPs except Apartment Life, and all SPs except Family Fun, Glamour, and Mansion & Garden. These Sims should come packaged with their custom content, unless I goofed with body shop. Please let me know if you noticed any content that I have forgotten TOU on and shouldn't be uploaded with Sims.

Do what you want with my Sims. Change their cc, aspirations, personality. I prefer you don't change those that were born in my game, but I can't control what you do with them in your game. It's common courtesy to not claim my Sims as your own. HOWEVER. DO NOT upload my Sims to any paysite or to the Exchange.

Thank you! I would love to see pictures of my Sims in your game!

Current Mood: cheerful

02 August 2010 @ 10:46 pm

Am updating this from my new Blackberry phone! Yes I be silly about new tech gadgets. Tomorrow am planning to finally set up a Facebook account. I have issues with it because it's so damn popular. I think it's overrated really. But anymore it's another essential thing to have. Not sure I'm going to like it though.

I am having fyn with the new non-dropping-calls phone though. :D

Current Mood: happy happy

They changed the design of My Little Ponies! What the fuck. Now the ponies look like anime, with huge eyes and tiny noses. DO NOT FUCKING WANT CHIBI MY LITTLE PONIES. Thanks for ruining one of my childhood favorites.

Current Mood: angry angry

Hi all. I'm around, just usually signed into my RP journal thus forget to check or update this one. I sowwie!

Things are good. I may make some Sims posts in the near future, since I've been having lots of fun playing and taking pictures.

Current Mood: awake awake

Film therapy

Are there any movies you watch when you're feeling anxious or depressed? If so, what are they, and what about them calms you down and/or lifts your spirits?

"Russian Doll" the one with Hugo Weaving and David Wenham in it, or "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert." My go-to movies for feeling better. Now if I could just find that damn power cord for the VCR I could watch them again...

Also, hai. I'm still around. Still usually signed into my RP account so pretty sporadic with updating here. I've been playing a lot of Sims and I want to post a new legacy but I'm holding off for a while yet. Just not in the mood for organizing pictures and writing captions.

School is going well. I'm on Spring Break until my next class starts on April 7. It's 2 days a week so it should go by fast. I like the way the course is set up: one class at a time, each class is one month. It makes for more focused studying.

My internet has been a bitch. I can't afford anything else, and my Cricket broadband modem is really crappy. The network connection randomly goes to Local only so I can't load pages. The only way to get it back to Local and Internet is to disconnect then reconnect. Sometimes the bitchy modem refuses to reconnect after tons of tries. Pisses me the hell off.

Skeezix is still a big fuzzy snuggly meowface. He's curled up snoozing beside me as I type this. Occasionally he will shift in his sleep and make this cute snuffling sound or start to snore. Kitty snoring is every bit as cute as it sounds!

Current Mood: awake awake

'Twas quite nice to open my email this afternoon and find this

He is so easy on the eyes, IDEK.

I was looking back over the stuff I'd written with the purpose of doing a Sims 2 story. Was pretty impressed with the plot and actual drabbles I'd written. So, I thought, why not go back to it?

ALAS.

THAT NEIGHBORHOOD WILL NOT LOAD. Grrrrr! The loading screen for Oddmint Plains gets to the final loading sequence, and just as the music is changing and the screen goes black before showing the 'hood...THE APPLICATION HAS CRASHED. THE APPLICATION WILL NOW TERMINATE. Or even worse, the whole game just shuts down with no error dialog box. WAY TO FAIL, GAME.

So I have all these great pics but no neighborhood to load in order to continue my little pixel peoples' lives. And did I mention, when I clone/extract Sims in SimPE they DO NOT SHOW UP IN MY CAS? Yeah. Also, BODYSHOP STILL REFUSES TO LOAD. Fuck you, Windows. You used to wait a period of time when the program went (Not Responding) now you just get super fucking proactive and shut it down right away. Fuck you.

I need a new computer. Tax refund may enable me to do that, but then it will be a huge job transferring all my pictures and neighborhood files and downloads. Am probably going to invest in a data transfer cable rather than make a billion trips with my meager USB flash data stick thingies. Stupid Sims game auxilliaries (spelling, what?). Just work, will ya?

Ahem. Moar Dmitri:

( mmmmmm, Dmitri Collapse )

Dmitri Hvorostovsky, MAN OF UNF.

I love that I found him for my PB RPing Ephram.

Moar Sims!

( hrmmm, Sims Collapse )

Current Mood: awake awake

28 February 2010 @ 03:37 pm

The following words are spelled thus:

SURPRISE

DEFINITELY

SCIENCE

AGGRAVATE

PHASER

VULCAN

Yes I know that "phaser" is a made up word for Star Trek, but that is how it is spelled!

If you know yourself to be a bad speller, PRACTICE these words! Learning doesn't shut off when you connect to the internet!

EDIT EDIT EDIT EDIT: people, the past tense of "sneak" is NOT "snuck." It is "sneaked." I know "snuck" is used most commonly and sounds right, but it is NOT RIGHT.

Current Mood: bored bored

17 February 2010 @ 04:31 am

Eep. So, um, hi. Am still around.

I recently committed to gong back to school. Been in class for a month, going for an Associate's in Occupational Therapy. It's going really well so far. Ask me again in a year when they're about to ask me to do 2 months of unpaid 40 hours a week clinicals/externship.

I'm already fucking unemployed and without money to feed myself, pay my electricity and heat, and majorly stressing about it because I also have no money for doctor to get the antidepressants I need. Fuck you, American health care system, I don't have 80fora15−30minutedoctorvisit,muchless80 for a 15-30 minute doctor visit, much less 80fora15−30minutedoctorvisit,muchless130+ for any bloodwork they may want, and I can't get an appointment anyway because the doctor says I owe them money from like 2 years ago. THANKS A BUNCH, AMERICAN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM. NO REALLY. MY DAILY CRYING SESSIONS AND NO ENERGY FROM LOW THYROID ARE JUST DANDY SINCE I CAN'T AFFORD MEDICAL TREATMENT. I'LL SUCK IT UP.

Ahem. I'm exploring options. I got an extension on my unemployment insurance benefits. I'm going to apply for food stamps and disability - didn't know it was possible to get benefits for disability because of depression. Going to call a couple of places about part time jobs. It just...I'm sick of banging my head against a metaphorical brick wall.

Kitty cat is still awesome. He's been dong this thing where he randomly bites my arm for no reason which pisses me off, though. I want him to be by me for snuggles, but it's just unpredictable when he's going to lunge at my arm and bite it. I've tried the cat-language of flicking his ear, tried the consequence of setting him off the bed, tried ignoring the behavior and giving him attention for other good behaviors, it's just not working. I don't want to use a squirt bottle because it might make him not want to come on the bed at all.

Sims stuff is still fun. I'd like to post another legacy and a recent asylum challenge I did...will have to see about a photo hosting site that allows uploading of OMG NAKED SIMS. Last site I used just up and died so I lost all my pictures.

In the meantime...

here's a picture of a graduate Sim smustling. XD

Current Mood: annoyed annoyed

05 January 2010 @ 03:08 am

Okay so. General Sims 2 related question, I'm asking on my personal journal just because.

I STILL cannot get Body Shop to load. It STILL goes through its usual phase of Not Responding, and Windows is STILL being SUPER HYPER PROACTIVE and shutting it down before it has time to go through and become responding again.

Note: BODY SHOP ALWAYS WENT NOT RESPONDING THEN AFTER A FEW MINUTES LOADED ~FINE~ BEFORE I HAD TO REPLACE MY HARD DRIVE. I AM STILL MAJORLY PISSED AT NOT BEING ABLE TO LOAD BODY SHOP.

Ahem.

In the meantime, is there a way to package my Sims without using Body Shop?

Fankoo in advance. ♥

Current Mood: annoyed annoyed

21 December 2009 @ 07:51 am

I've been doing a bit of research, comparing things such as PETA and ASPCA and my home state humane society.

The Idaho Humane Society:

http://www.idahohumanesociety.org

That's the kind of thing I want to see. I do NOT like PETA's extreme tactics. The Humane Society is affiliated with ASPCA instead. I was considering donating this holiday, and after seeing the site I'm a lot happier with it. I mean really, an organization (ASPCA) that actually has programs that do good, or an organization (PETA) that relies on scare tactics and propaganda?

My Skeezix is a shelter kitty. For $50 adoption fee he got a microchip, neutered, his first set of shots, and even his claws trimmed. He's grown into a wonderful 17-pound snugglecat.

SO.

I highly recommend donating to your local ASPCA-affiliated shelter. Stop listening to PETA, because really, aside from sensationalism shock-tactics, it doesn't look like they do an actual lot of good.

Comparison:

PETA - front page of website: O NOES HOOKS AND SHOCKSTICKS USED ON POOR BABBY ELEPHANTS
http://www.ringlingbeatsanimals.com/bound-babies.asp

ASPCA - How your dollars helped in 2009
http://www.aspca.org/news/national/12-18-09.html

So, yeah. I know what's more worthy of my very limited money.

Current Mood: cold cold

18 December 2009 @ 08:11 am

How intense do you celebrate?

CHRIST IS GOD! GOD GOD GOD!

8-foot tree, thousands in debt, threats of coal

Those first two options are rather cynical...

Menorah! Dreidel! Latkes!

I'm going to describe my practices in comments because you're not edumacated enough on them

The Sun requires naked dancing at midnight to ensure its return for longer days

What the hell, stereotypes??

Current Mood: cheerful

18 December 2009 @ 02:39 am

Ranting time.

I can't get my Sims 2 game to work the way it should. Something is making the female adult Sim Bin go not responding, and something is making the female adult clothes outfits crash the game when I try to click it. I was told to try an orphaned files search in Wardrobe Wrangler but that didn't do any good. It scanned my files then closed, and anytime I click on anything it gives me an error was thrown message box. Right now I'm stuck in an infinite clicking of the OK button but the error popup keeps appearing. I don't have the knowledge to properly use WW. I thought that just maybe technology would stop HATING me enough to have a simple solution, but it looks like I'm going to have to do the 50/50 method and take another 8000 days to find the issue, or start all over and download my clothing fresh again.

Seriously, the way my computer has been acting for me lately, I'm fairly convinced that I have a curse with technology. First it decides to randomly not load web pages, then the modem craps out on me, then my new modem randomly decides not to load pages, then the hard drive dies, now this. That's the bare bones of what it's been doing to me. I'm trying to teach myself more about computers, but unless someone sits down with me to talk me through it I don't know a whole lot about what I'm doing. I wouldn't be nearly so mad if problems didn't keep happening, and I wouldn't be so frustrated if I hadn't already tried a lot of stuff.

Any suggestions, those of you who are more knowledgeable about Sims 2 stuff? It looks like only the females are affected, whatever is in the female Sim Bin and the outfits category for adult female Sims. I'll do the 50/50 method if I have to, but right now I'm starting with simpler, less time-consuming stuff.

EDIT: I just ran the Hack Conflict Detection, and nothing notable came up. I also went into Clean Installer and deactivated duplicate files. For some reason Bodyshop is also not loading...it used to always go through a period of time of Not Responding before it would load, but now Windows just shuts it down.

Current Mood: cold cold