Shmoo & PP Take it Back Now Y'all

Mutuals for a year. 
Please see "Shmoo & PP Take it Back Now" for inbox backups. 
==November==
11/11/2015
shmoo92: this is the equivalent of a lick from a sick person. Congrats, I've infected you with messenger!
pickle-plum: Eeew. Thanks?
shmoo92: XD
11/14/2015
shmoo92: your pacific rim tag for "furnace" has a typo that, however, is appropriate in context XD
pickle-plum: whoops! i shall fix that!
pickle-plum: congrats on the graduation!
shmoo92: thank youuuuu!!!!! >attempts not to bawl for lack of tissues<
pickle-plum
isn't 'lack of tissues' why they give you those huge sleeves, aka 'giant handkerchiefs'? XD
shmoo92
examines sleeves* you may be on to something .... hmmm ... 
pickle-plum
This is but one of the secrets you learn after over a decade of employment in academia. XD
shmoo92
have you been stuck sitting on stage for many a grad ceremony?
pickle-plum
Only a one or two, as well as two from the graduate side and a bunch from the audience, too.
==January==
01/04/2016
pickle-plum sent a post "otp question meme" 
pickle-plum: Dame Eadith/Nguyen, #2
shmoo92: That ... shounds about right!
01/04/2016
shmoo92: Especially in the later years, as Nguyen's growing increasingly frustrated with the PPDC and ends up crashing at Chez Eadith, exhausted but comforted in her arms *u^
01/08/2016
pickle-plum sent a post "From your observations, is simultaneous knitting and kitty cuddling feasible?"
pickle-plum: Dear lord, I look forward to this fic
shmoo92: omg i am too
shmoo92: right now logan's jsut sitting on the couch with feng, knitting, and there's a cat beside him
shmoo92: and i'm like, doooo somethiiiing
pickle-plum: Feng's like, 'cats like yarn, right?' and starts teasing the cat with the end of another ball of Logan's yarn.
:Cat ignores Feng.
:Feng tries harder.
:Cat ignores Feng.
:Feng drops yarn ball into his drapes.
:Cat pursues.
:Limbs fly everywhere.
:Yarn goes everywhere.
:Logan is tangled in.
:Probably trying to help Feng remove the cat.
pickle-plum: Eventually, Feng and Logan are helplessly tangled.
pickle-plum: The cat sits smugly on Logan's head.
shmoo92: !!! The cat's playing with the working end of Logan's yarn 
:Feng attempts to help by teasing Cat with the other end
:cat ignores feng
:feng tries harder
:cat continues tugging at the working end
:feng takes drastic measures and hides yarn in drapes
:cat is intrigued
:mayhem ensures
pickle-plum: PERFECT.
shmoo92: don't you mean, 'purrfect'? XD
pickle-plum: >hangs head in shame<
shmoo92: XD
shmoo92: did you like the cult mechanicus post?
shmoo92: *'like'
pickle-plum: uh ... i don't think i've seen it yet ....
shmoo92: the thing that inspired the juliet & tsuki fic?
pickle-plum: oh. uh. i hope so?
shmoo92: if you're on your laptop and have chrome or firefox, there's an xkit extension that can search a person's likes
pickle-plum: cool! guess it's finally time for me to install xkit. XD
shmoo92: look for the new xkit
pickle-plum: okay. think i've got it. but can't seem to find this search likes thing.
pickle-plum: never mind. found it!
shmoo92: Yay!
shmoo92: It bogs down your computer a bit (sometimes a lot) but it's worth it
pickle-plum: aaaaand now I can't make the 'search likes' thing work. it either searches all of tumblr or doesn't do anything. >headdesk<
shmoo92: I've found it doesn't like to work if one types in url.tumblr.com/likes, but it you click the little dude and go to likes, you may have better results (admittedly, the first few times I tried it, especially on Firefox (but Firefox and Tumblr didn't mix for me), it didn't work)
pickle-plum: ah. the firefox thing is probably my problem. time for fun with chrome.
shmoo92: Sounds like a kids tv show! XD
01/09/2016
pickle-plum sent a post "So my grandmother just told me a joke …
pickle-plum: Why does this sound like a joke Bubbles or Juliet would tell to freak someone out?
pickle-plum: Also, got xkit running on chrome and I apparently DIDN'T like the post on the cult mechanicus. DX
shmoo92: TnT I'll run a search on mine >crosses fingers<
shmoo92: The underwear thing is a running joke throughout the lower ranks; whenever someone gets married or has children, they get a classy collection of floral underwear
shmoo92: Like at Andrea's baby shower, or when Nate took over SHO
shmoo92: (I say 'lower ranks' because Rangers ... omg, imagine the joke already being a thing before Fei yen's born and Xiong getting a pair (or three)!
shmoo92: *because Rangers don't often marry or have children)
pickle-plum: YES! YOU ARE GENIUS!
01/09/2016
pickle-plum: hopefully I'll have this bridging scene for "Dizzy" finished before too long, but i have to share this: Du Croz just referred to Pietr as 'Simba'.
shmoo92: SNORK
shmoo92: that's adorable
01/10/2016
pickle-plum sent a post "the bend and slap"
pickle-plum: 2 words: Indiana Darling
shmoo92: The original bend and snap! And she's wearing red (like Kirra's dress)! And he's wearing gold (like Jackson a la Drift)!
shmoo92: Okay, it's during "the joneses vs Hong Kong"; they're sparking at each other and then Jackson pulls rank so Kirra apologizes, bows deeply as per 'her station', Jackson smugs, and Kirra catches him with an uppercut (or some other strike)
shmoo92: Seti: I am so turned on right now 
:Min: >double takes< 
:[another nurse]: by her or by him?
:Seti: both >chin hands<
pickle-plum: i just terrified the cat.
shmoo92: I wonder, if I ever met your cat, would they somehow sense that is frequently my unspoken goal ....
pickle-plum: probably. she's surprisingly good at judging people.
shmoo92: This does not bode well for her and mine potential relationship. No matter, I will just foster that of mine and Kibbles'! (My aunt and uncle's cat which reminds me my sister still needs to send me those pictures ....)
01/10/2016
pickle-plum: Checking in: Does the "Small Talk" on AO3 look ready for publishing?
shmoo92: Hm. The change I (thought I made) does not appear to be on the wiki.
shmoo92: that would be because i never hit 'save' on my laptop, oops
shmoo92: it's now good to go!
pickle-plum: Woot! And I've updated it on AO3. Gonna push the button after dinner, if that's okay?
shmoo92: that sounds great!
01/12/2016
pickle-plum: any objections to posting 'fmly stuff' today or tomorrow?
shmoo92: Absolutely no objections!
pickle-plum: cool beans!
01/12/2016
pickle-plum sent a GIF ""I'm sorry, I dean't mean to--" "nope, gtfo.""
 
pickle-plum: I see this and my first reaction is: Hey! It's the Jones brothers! (Jackson's the flaily one.)
shmoo92: >snork< the one trying to pet Logan who eventually knocks him off?
shmoo92: Omg I see it XD
pickle-plum: Yup!
pickle-plum: And it's funny no matter who you sub in for Derek in the back: Andrea, Jamie, Chuck-the-Darling ....
shmoo92: Heh, Andrea: o, snap! (The ear twitch is what gets me)
01/14/2016
pickle-plum: Does "On Notice" on AO3 look ready to go? http://archiveofourown.org/works/5653612/chapters/13023109
01/14/2016
shmoo92: It does now! I described Chantell's 'peaceful place' as opposed to "schools her face to neutrality"--sounds less formal, methinks
pickle-plum: sounds good to me! thanks!
shmoo92: You're welcome!
pickle-plum: Nice touch with the leaves, BTW.
shmoo92: You noooooticed!!!!!
shmoo92: :D
shmoo92: I feels quite clever ^u^
pickle-plum: You /should feel clever!
01/16/2016
pickle-plum sent a GIF
 
BOOK. (or young Chuck-the-Darling)
shmoo92: I actually have it tagged as Book!
shmoo92: But the degree to which this could be either is hilarious
shmoo92: Also the kid's hair keeps making me giggle XD
pickle-plum: Because it's hilarious.
pickle-plum: I like parental unit's expression: knows full well what's about to happen and you just /know they're snickering just out of camera range.
01/16/2016
pickle-plum sent a post (lays back all sexy for u on the bed) (bangs my fuckign head on the headboard)
pickle-plum: Jackson or Jason? XD
shmoo92: i've seen Jackson pull this off twice; once in Turtles (in the first house)and once in ANSK (in the monkey house)
shmoo92: haven't seen Jason yet but i'm sure it won't be long
pickle-plum: Kinda what I figured, but, yea, it's kinda inevitable.
shmoo92: im picturing Jason being somewhat of a regular in medical due to, ahem, bedroom stuff
shmoo92: one time his knee seizes up so badly Lachlan and Andrea somewhat overreact and rush him there
pickle-plum: And so begins a standing bet in Medical: Why is Egan here? Max or sex?
shmoo92: >spit take<
shmoo92: another time he tries leaning back all sexy like, whacks his head, and gives himself a gusher of a head wound XD
shmoo92: WHY DO MESSAGES NEVER SHOW UP WHERE THEY SHOULD
pickle-plum: I don't know, but I can figure out what's going on. XD
pickle-plum: Ooo! There's also the sub-bet of whether it's because of actually attempting something sexy or making some sort of sexy comment in Logan's presence and paying the price.
shmoo92: good god the shatterdome really does bet on everything
pickle-plum: I wouldn't have my shatterdome be any other way. XD
shmoo92: me neither XD
01/18/2016
pickle-plum sent a photoset "Women Rejecting Marriage Proposals"
 
pickle-plum: at least half of the ones on the full post describe times Jackson tried to ask Wash on a date.
01/19/2016
shmoo92 sent a photo post "I got so excited with all of the whiteboard space in the second year studio I couldn’t control myself."
 
shmoo92: It appears there're in fact TWO god alpha ... cherzilla ... idk. But there're two of them! Why?
01/20/2016
shmoo92: I'm not saying Jackson convinces Charlie this is a good idea, but I may be saying that he finds an infant-sized helmet and /then convinces Charlie: 
01/20/2016
pickle-plum: Oh. My. God.
01/21/2016
pickle-plum: Lemme know when you're happy with the state of "Friendly Wager".
shmoo92: I'm happy with it! XD
pickle-plum: goin' live!
01/22/2016
shmoo92 sent a post Hey Legit! Do you perhaps have anything on figuring out if there are too many characters in my story?
>____<
01/23/2016
pickle-plum sent a post "Legit Tip #172"
pickle-plum: eeey, looks like we're already hitting on a lot of these w/r/t Chuck
pickle-plum: And that 'guilt' paragraph! Good lord, no /wonder the kid throws all of himself into everything: he's got to live up to dad /and mum.
shmoo92: O my
01/23/2016
pickle-plum sent a post "Odd Couple and #4, please!"
pickle-plum: I was as clever as I thought I was with the 'wish you were' bit! Teehee!
shmoo92: >standing ovation<
01/23/2016
shmoo92: https://www.facebook.com/georgehtakei/videos/1461000023929446/ but picture Jupiter and a youthful snicket
01/24/2016
shmoo92 sent a photo post "my sister told me that i should draw more serious stuff"
 
shmoo92: Newt owns a pair of Loch Ness slippers.
01/24/2016
pickle-plum: Yes! on both counts!
01/24/2016
pickle-plum: how does "Fine" look for posting this evening?
shmoo92: I think I'm gonna have Jackson haul Logan /and his knitting into the main room
Having him take a moment to snatch it away takes away some urgency
pickle-plum: Makes good sense. So the story ends with Logan shrugging and starting to knit?
shmoo92: Oo, good idea! Andrea watches Jackson go, exchange a worried look with Logan except he just goes back to knitting. Andrea rolls her eyes and leaves.
pickle-plum: Which is perfect because knitting is generally something Logan does when he's upset. So he's actually kinda agreeing with her without saying anything.
shmoo92: O! I hadn't even concluded that! (Like I know Logan being upset and him knitting have occurred often but I hadn't put two and two together)
pickle-plum: Riiiight ... you don't live in my head. Calming down is why Nanny taught him in the first place. She wanted him to have an outlet other than fighting or otherwise acting out. Generally, the more ambitious the project, the more worked up he is. It clearly only works some of the time, though.
pickle-plum: So ... he'll knit Jackson a sweater after Brisbane, but he'll flatten a Kiwi when he's worried about Feng.
01/24/2016
shmoo92 sent a video
 
shmoo92: This is Fenna and Maxlings.
pickle-plum: excuse me, I am goop.
shmoo92: Bravely pushing forward, nose first, for the great, soft under chin!
shmoo92: THIS IS SO CUTE
pickle-plum: I KNOW. IT'S PAINFULLY CUTE.
shmoo92: I love how the puppies (and, unrelated to this video, star nosed mole babies I /think) look like small old people
shmoo92: Why does that make them cuter? Resemblance to Yoda? No idea.
pickle-plum: Cuteness: a great, deep, abiding mystery.
pickle-plum: Am I supposed to be making those changes to "Fine" or were you on it? I'm a li'l slow.
shmoo92: I'm on it, I've just been moving slow
shmoo92: I'm finishing dinner (two hour time difference between us atm) and now that I'm feeling ALIIIIIVE I will boot up my computer and tweak it
pickle-plum: No, worries! Just confusing myself. And trying to make up for feeling unproductive today.
pickle-plum: Sorry for the harassment.
shmoo92: Wha? No harassment!
shmoo92: Excuse to talk to someone, yes!
shmoo92: CD
shmoo92: *XD
pickle-plum: >whew<
01/25/2016
shmoo92 sent a photoset "This is why I love tumblr"
 
shmoo92: Fourth from the bottom (with the newlyweds jumping on the bed): can you tell who's Juliet?
01/25/2016
shmoo92: there's a cat who does something like this for newcomers.
01/25/2016
shmoo92 sent a photo post Tubbs the snow-cat
 
shmoo92 sent a photo post via Suzanne Fors @ suzannes
 
shmoo92: I can't tell if they're all real or if they're stuffies but imagine Voslings and Maxlings (plushies)
01/26/2016
pickle-plum: Yea, that's Juliet all right. Juliet "Portmaster" Tam.
pickle-plum: (facebook link to cat hijinks doesn't work for me. DX )
pickle-plum: Lovin' the snow Tubbs. Heh.
pickle-plum: D'aawww on little stufflings.
pickle-plum: And how does "A Little Bird" look for posting?
01/26/2016
shmoo92: I broke up the last part because i thought it was too ... 'Jammed together' isn quite right but I can't remember the word (Stacker's discretely trying to give Herc a moment to collect himself; Ren isn't actually there)
pickle-plum: looks good!
pickle-plum: thanks!
shmoo92: Whoot! You're welcome!
shmoo92 sent a photoset Imam Opens Mosque’s Doors To Stray Cats To Keep Them Warm ()
shmoo92: The cat amidst all the people praying gets me
pickle-plum: Yeaaaa .... that's adorable. I like the cat sprawled out getting pets next to the person with the little book.
pickle-plum: I can't tell if the person's reading to the cat or trying to ignore it.
shmoo92: I wonder if person was reading like that and cat came over, o, well if you're going to do something at my level--*sprawls*--give me the pats!
pickle-plum: ... very, very good thought there.
shmoo92: Though I'm also tickled by the person grumping along and coming across the cat, well if you're going to make yourselves at home in here, and least let me bless you.
pickle-plum: >snork!<
shmoo92: ... It just occurred to me that there may be a small religious place in the basement
shmoo92: *of the Shatterdome
shmoo92: And I know exactly which one I will model it after!
pickle-plum: Yes! Which one?
shmoo92: 
shmoo92: I saw it on museum secrets and it is so colourful inside!!!
pickle-plum: Awe/some! You thinking of mimicking the floorplan, the decor ...?
shmoo92: Definitely the decore
shmoo92: *decor
shmoo92: Is there a floor plan?
shmoo92: I picked it because it's so colourful but also because Islam and Christianity coexist within!
shmoo92: In Islam, Jesus is an apostle, and one must respect apostles' families.
pickle-plum: There's both a floor plan and an elevation on the wikipedia page.
shmoo92: !!!!!!!!
pickle-plum: Coexistence is a beautiful thing. XD
shmoo92: I just checked to make sure it was the converted one
shmoo92: ('Church' + 'virgin Mary' + 'Jerusalem' = possibly lots of results)
pickle-plum: 
shmoo92: !!!!
shmoo92: Definitely gonna try the multiple levels part (they squeezed it in around existing Dome structures?)
pickle-plum: Sounds perfect!
shmoo92: Awesome!
shmoo92: So the story goes, when whichever Muslim army retook the city, they sacked most of the buildings (and churches) as conquering armies are wont to do
But when they came across this tomb, they left it untouched except for carving that niche
shmoo92: stories like that make me happy ^u^
01/26/2016
shmoo92: right! insipiration for you!
shmoo92: the other night when you were unproductive, i was going to mention 'but you're sick!'
shmoo92: now i will add to that thought that because you're feeling unproductive and guilty about it, it means you're on the mend
shmoo92: (i too was feeling unproductive and guilty about it until i remembered, 'o right, i can't breathe through my nose' and then i told myself to not do anything taxing and just play with pictures)
pickle-plum: yea, i /should cut myself a break because of the nigh-migraine i've had all day. >sigh<
pickle-plum: it's just. so. hard. >pouts<
shmoo92: i know >wraps in soft blanket<
shmoo92: I SHOULD LOAD THE CAT AU
pickle-plum: >cuddles up<
pickle-plum: YOU SHOULD.
shmoo92: it's up!
pickle-plum: yay!
01/27/2016
shmoo92: Your mission today, should you choose to accept it, is to wead and comment (if you have spoons). May the flu not be with you!
01/27/2016
shmoo92 sent a post Fic writer problems:...
Next bit of skeleton key?
shmoo92: Cast an eyeball over it; looks good!
pickle-plum: cool!
pickle-plum: i have to admit, i'm getting really discouraged with how SK's going over. it's starting to feel like only Gotham's reading it.
pickle-plum sent a photo post "Three women keep cool during a heat wave by moving a park bench into the water in Central Park, New York, 1961."
 
pickle-plum: Three words: Marshal Xiong's office.
shmoo92: OMG
shmoo92: that's PERFECT
shmoo92: but i know what you mean about skeleton key
shmoo92: (and isn't it funny there's some stuff in my queue about fanfiction and the lack of comments on AO3)
pickle-plum: yes! small victory for me!
pickle-plum: it's not just the lack of comments, it's the pathetic hit count, too.
shmoo92: >checks<
shmoo92: o
shmoo92: ow
pickle-plum: yeeeaaaa.
pickle-plum: maybe things will pick up once we get past the point we stopped last time?
shmoo92: i like this 'maybe'
pickle-plum: then it will be so!
01/28/2016
pickle-plum sent a GIF
 
Daemons!AU: The triplets vs James T
shmoo92: Yessss
01/28/2016
shmoo92 sent a photo post How I want to go. (via theone…
 
shmoo92: With cats: just another Tuesday in the Shatterdome
01/29/2016
shmoo92 sent a post “Apology Ears”
shmoo92: At some point we will have to use "apology ears"
01/29/2016
pickle-plum: >snork< Yup, just another Tuesday indeed. Every Tuesday a different staffer disappears.
pickle-plum: Yes, we need to use that phrase.
shmoo92: Cats, dogs, mice, people who can wiggle their ears/have yet to grow into their ears/people with big ears
Shmoo92: Possibly Kaiju, tho limited to Teeny Tiny Kaiju
pickle-plum: Can you imagine a full-size Kaiju with apology ears?
shmoo92: >snickering<
shmoo92: leatherback running into otachi by mistake XD
shmoo92: (I don't think otachi would make apology ears)
pickle-plum: Yea, Leatherback seems to have the face for it. (I don't think Otachi would, either.)
shmoo92 sent a video incoming cuteness
shmoo92: W/r/t leatherback: >jumps on cherno<
>cherno stumbled into otachi<
>otachi snarls at leatherback<
leatherback: >apology ears<
Cherno: >throws leatherback off<
01/30/2016
shmoo92: Did you know that Gotham's Yuri(?) and Aleksis were cousins? I'm trying to figure out a way of suggesting second cousins but question stands XD
01/31/2016
shmoo92 sent a photo post [http://pickle-plum.tumblr.com/post/138438125050
/metronomemark-have-a-good-rest-dream-and 
Have a good rest. Dream and…]
 
shmoo92: Omg that max is adorable
01/31/2016
pickle-plum: I'd missed that about Yuri and Aleksis. 2nd or more distant seems like a good idea.
pickle-plum: I KNOW. That artist has a whole bunch of Hansen adorableness should you need to be goop for a while.
01/31/2016
shmoo92 sent a post Whatever you do, do…
shmoo92: It was the "for a con or for a con?" bit that got me even tho I have yet to start watching XD
==February==
02/01/2016
shmoo92: sent a post "awright chuck it’s ti…"
shmoo92: XD
shmoo92: I'm sure I've reblogged a copy somewhere ...
pickle-plum: Yeeeeaaaa ... I can see that episode happening and it tickles me.
pickle-plum: aaaand the hansen one made me snork hard enough to worry the cat. nice find!
pickle-plum: Does "Hypothetical" look ready to go to you?
shmoo92: I see a couple of tiny things l want to tweak
shmoo92: In the meantime, check out "Dearling (ship)"!
02/01/2016
pickle-plum: Have you seen specific pictures that are so Tall-Grass-in-Sun and/or Silent-as-the-stars they sing?
shmoo92: http://movinga.blogspot.ca/2012/08/finding-your-daemon-power-animal.html?m=1 the top one I can see as Silent-as-the-stars
shmoo92: http://m.imgur.com/gallery/GgfMX6A this ones better
pickle-plum: ... I've never seen a green-eyed one before ... that's gorgeous.
shmoo92: It maaaay be photoshop but they're the right colour and while I've seen others with that colour, it's never been that clear
shmoo92: But yea, she's beautiful
pickle-plum: Well, she is a ghost so if she wants to constitute herself with green eyes, she most certainly can. XD
shmoo92: Snow leopards can have green--or blue-eyes, though, as you said, if she wants that colour she can have them!
shmoo92: http://distractify.com/old-school/2014/09/05/really-big-animals-really-big-hugs-1197778670
shmoo92: #3 is a bit small for Tall-grass-in-sun, but to put his size in perspective, it's handy
pickle-plum: So. Many. Daemons.
pickle-plum: Noted!
shmoo92: What's interesting with bigger cats is humans lose the ability to distinguish one from the other around 6 months of age
shmoo92: So as an infant, one can tell two monkeys apart, but as an adult, not even Jane Goodall could!
shmoo92: Re daemons: I have images for the ostrich
shmoo92: Granted, it's an emu and tilda, but images of her hugging a wittle Kirra ^u^
pickle-plum: Huh. That's kinda sad about recognition.
pickle-plum: Yay for images!
02/02/2016
pickle-plum: Does "New Job" look ready for posting?
shmoo92: As much as I like not naming Griet until the second line, I think we should name her in the first line because she's new
pickle-plum: So: 
:Griet's mobile buzzes twenty-one-thirty.
:She turns from preparing a shopping list to the laptop, taps her fingertips on the kitchen table.
shmoo92: Perfect!
pickle-plum: Woot!
pickle-plum: Ugh. Stuck for a chapter summary. Li'l help?
shmoo92: Chuck gets his first look at his copilot's family
shmoo92: Or something?
shmoo92: https://www.facebook.com/tehyaj/posts/10204571628884449
shmoo92: Hopefully you can see this one. Still have to find a replacement for that other Facebook link ...
02/03/2016
pickle-plum: Nope. That boinked, too. D:
pickle-plum: How does "Wakeup Call" look w/r/t/ posting?
shmoo92: Poop.
shmoo92: I have made a tweak to Wakeup call and an happy with it
pickle-plum: Awesome~!
pickle-plum: Thanks!
02/03/2016
pickle-plum: I do believe we now have images for all of the revised ficlets! Yeehaw!
shmoo92: >standing ovation!!!!<
shmoo92: You are powering through / This awful goddamn flu
shmoo92: >pats self on back<
shmoo92: How goes thy recovery?
pickle-plum: Thanks! Not sure it's the 'real' flu, though. Some weird sinus thing/infection seems more likely and I'm getting a little better every day.
shmoo92: I wonder if we have the same thing because I have a weird sinus thing too
shmoo92: like it started off as a cold but it's been two weeks and I still can't breathe through my nose
pickle-plum: Whoa. That's pretty much exactly what I had. Two weeks of awful and now some lingering nasty. I can at least breathe again, though.
02/03/2016
shmoo92 sent a photoset The Money Tubbs only comes around ....
pickle-plum: *snort*
pickle-plum: But why is Tubbs in the freezer? XD
pickle-plum: Oooo! The wife explained! HE ATE EVERYTHING INSIDE!
shmoo92: I was gonna say, 'that's where the food is!' XD
pickle-plum: Great minds!
02/04/2016
shmoo92: THIS NEW LINK SHOULD WORK 
pickle-plum: It did! OMG.
pickle-plum: How's "Ours" look for posting?
shmoo92: I will give it a look!
02/04/2016
pickle-plum: we just got some serious love on AO3!
shmoo92: EEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!
pickle-plum: My joy for writing has been restored!
shmoo92: EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!
02/06/2016
shmoo92 sent a video "brave explorer now conquers…"
shmoo92: Any daemon climbing over James T.
pickle-plum: Yup. That's about right.
02/07/2016
shmoo92: , 
shmoo92: These should work
02/09/2016
pickle-plum sent a video @peevestheturtle
pickle-plum: This is the soundtrack to that scrap about Logan, the hoodie, and the kittens.
shmoo92: O
shmoo92: It appears i is dead
shmoo92: ___(xux_)
shmoo92: (It's supposed to be a daed goopy person but it didn't quite work out)
pickle-plum: NOOOOOOOOOOOO!
shmoo92: \(*u*)/
shmoo92: I is resurrected!
shmoo92: :D
pickle-plum: YAAAAAAAY!
02/13/2016
pickle-plum sent a post Polyamory? Pf…
pickle-plum: Possible Jandreon ideas.
shmoo92: So many possible jandreon ideas
shmoo92: >rubs hands<
pickle-plum: I thought it might appeal. XD
shmoo92: >rubs pickle!brain<
shmoo92: !!! When laundry is in a mood (perhaps), Jason and Lachlan find their stuff in Andrea's room
pickle-plum: Almost certainly!
shmoo92: Now, a thought: do Jason and Lachlan ever apply for quarters closers to Team Vulcan's suite? As Fightmaster, can Lachlan have a room in a team's territory?
pickle-plum: Hmm ... I'm gonna say that only Team members can live in Team Territory.
pickle-plum: Folks who need to work with all teams, like LOCCENT personnel (Jason) and Fightmasters (Lachlan) have to live in the general area.
pickle-plum: There needs to be no appearance of preferential treatment for a given team.
pickle-plum: That said, of /course Jason and Lachlan have applied for an exception to the rule and had it denied.
shmoo92: That's what I was thinking, too
Maybe the compromise is that they live on the edge closest to team Vulcan territory
shmoo92: So if one of them realizes a piece of dress uniform is in Andrea's room, they aren't dashing halfway across the dome
pickle-plum: Excactly! That seems like the kind of compromise they would be offered and accept.
shmoo92: When do you think this would happen? Yet to come or Q2-Q3 2018?
pickle-plum: 2018, definitely. As soon as it was obvious Jason (at least) was going to more or less move in with Andrea no matter what quarters he was officially assigned.
shmoo92: That's a beautiful way to describe it
pickle-plum: I think the third time they caught him running across the 'Dome in his shorties because he forgot clean trousers in his room.
pickle-plum: was the last straw.
shmoo92: >snickers off couch<
shmoo92: Since they're still some distance apart, we must remember that a half dressed Lachlan and or Jason running through the halls is a possible background thing
pickle-plum: Yes, yes we must.
pickle-plum: And imagine the chaos in the Team Vulcan suite with the Movement Alert goes off at 2AM and Jason's over.
pickle-plum: Four not-quite-morning people flailing to battle stations in various states of grumpiness and dress.
shmoo92: Yesssss
shmoo92: And Andrea can't find her glasses~
pickle-plum: And that's why Andrea turned up at the mission briefing in a too-big LOCCENT uniform and Jason arrived in LOCCENT in a bright pink jumper.
pickle-plum: Jason also /somehow wound up with some really nice wool socks and then had a near-death experience when Jackson woke up all the way and noticed?
shmoo92: "I'm trying out a new style," says Jason, frantically searching for a way to contact laundry and return a Jones' socks
shmoo92: "I thought all this gender role crap was a thing of the past in the PPDC!"
:"Egan, no ones saying anything."
:"No one /has said anything since that time you showed up with Andrea's Valentine's Day present caught on your jumper."
pickle-plum: Dying. Very dying.
pickle-plum: Do I want to know what the present was?
shmoo92: Something that concealed very little but implied quite a lot
shmoo92: Ie, I don't know XD
shmoo92: I don't even know if it was Andrea -> Jason or Jason -> Andrea
02/14/2016
shmoo92: Fei Yen and a cat
shmoo92: (Obviously that isn't Fei yen but the concepts the same)
shmoo92: And I don't even want to think about the claw deployment of someone trying to do that to your cat
pickle-plum: Oh my god.
pickle-plum: We wouldn't even get to that point: cat would be out of my arms and hiding at the sight of the duffel.
shmoo92: Catorpedo!
pickle-plum: Indeed. And woe betide anyone between her and her hiding place.
02/14/2016
shmoo92 sent a photo post Matching abstract tattoo by… 
shmoo92: The possibilities.
pickle-plum: oh my. yes.
02/14/2016
shmoo92 sent a post (that's no longer available)
shmoo92: O look, it's your cat in hiding!
02/15/2016
shmoo92 sent a photoset Star Trek superfan Line Rainville
 
shmoo92: JACKSON, No
shmoo92: *JACKSON, NO
shmoo92 sent a photoset Husband and wife Bob Walke…
 
shmoo92: FENG, ... well, too late for 'no'
pickle-plum: SNORK.
02/15/2016
shmoo92 sent a photo post [http://vulcanology-geology.tumblr.com/post/138960759160/
dewlait-this-facebook-group-is-the-best-thing this facebook group is the be…]
shmoo92: JACKSON--FENG--LOGAN--ALL OF YOU, NO.
pickle-plum: OH MY GOD. NO. JUST NO.
shmoo92: Pickle ... http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/iljr
pickle-plum: Good lord no.
pickle-plum: Can you /imagine the /Lady Danger and /Striker versions?
shmoo92: Yes I can and I enjoy it immensely :D
shmoo92: Maybe that'll be my post exam reward: attempt to draw a Danger and/or Striker cat tree
shmoo92: Tell me if the picture of this kitten after his bath in the towel is not the most unimpressed thing ever 
pickle-plum: Dear god, yes. That should be next to 'unimpressed' in the dictionary.
shmoo92: XD
02/17/2016
shmoo92 sent a photoset he stretch
shmoo92: I think I found bb8
pickle-plum: niiiiiiiiiice.
02/17/2016
shmoo92 sent a GIF
shmoo92: This is Logan trying to get the remote from Blossom who tries snuggling and gets nowhere
shmoo92 sent a GIF
shmoo92: And this is Pietr in Hong Kong. The cat also acts as his ears, sitting across his shoulders and batting the side of his head when there's a thing (it took some trial and error)
shmoo92 sent a GIF
shmoo92: Max and someone XD I'm not sure who yet
02/18/2016
shmoo92 sent a photoset Skai wanted to show you all her str…
shmoo92: This isn't quite Jupiter being a goof but she's darn close
02/18/2016
shmoo92 sent a post Imagine your OT3 as…
shmoo92: Haaaang on a second, haven't we written this? XD
pickle-plum: Several times, I think. XD
pickle-plum: right now, it looks like a good description of the ANSK!Jandreon tale.
shmoo92: Ooo, good point!
shmoo92: >is amused by Andrea ('s attempt at) wielding a sword<
shmoo92: tho she's probably actually do a halfway good
shmoo92: *job
pickle-plum: sounds like we mentally assigned them the same descriptors.
pickle-plum: and give Andrea a claymore and start giggling all over.
shmoo92: I wonder if blossom and Andrea could figure out how to wield a claymore together ....
shmoo92: I have one last exam to write tomorrow morning, then I throw a suitcase together and head out Saturday so I hope at least one of those days I can keep my eyes open (unlike this afternoon and evening. Two naps! Two naps and I'm still falling asleep!)
shmoo92: goooooood niiiiiiiiiight~
02/19/2016
shmoo92 sent a link Cake
shmoo92: Before I reblog, *grand Ranger opera
pickle-plum: >headdesk<
shmoo92 sent a photoset ♡ sugar, spice, and everything nice
shmoo92: I'm just gonna leave this here
pickle-plum: You don't know how badly I've been wanting to commission our version of this, only with Bubbles hanging off Buttercup.
shmoo92: The pose or the roller derby?
pickle-plum: The pose. I was dumb and didn't click through at first.
shmoo92: To be fair, I do send you lots of links
shmoo92: /now I figure out how their arms work
pickle-plum: And I almost always click through. low-blood-sugar!pickle is in the house.
shmoo92: *u* to the first part, :C
shmoo92: * to the second part
shmoo92: Dinner soon, I hope!
pickle-plum: yea, hopefully. always forget how slowly the wife cooks.
shmoo92: Okay, okay, I have a completely unrelated joke for you:
pickle-plum: bring it.
shmoo92: If a hair product dispenser mocked one for being dirty, what would it be called?
pickle-plum: hmmm ... i don't know.
shmoo92: a SHAMEpoo dispenser!!!!!!!
pickle-plum: niiiiiiiiiiiice.
shmoo92: >cackling<
shmoo92: the datemate thought of it, shockingly, while washing his hair XD
pickle-plum: a highly appropriate time, methinks.
shmoo92: I quite agree! CD
shmoo92: * XD
shmoo92: How's Gotham's grand tour thing coming along? I'm really excited for Kanzan's first appearance XD
pickle-plum: She's only got the opening scene so far. Kanzan will hopefully be in the second.
pickle-plum: She asked me to beta and I tore it apart and just about left no choice /but to write a Kanzan scene.
shmoo92: Eeee!
pickle-plum: In other words, if she doesn't write it, I will.
shmoo92: And so my heart goes to flitter fluttery ^u^
shmoo92: (So, a scene is in the 'hey, you know what would work great here? >presents<' stage? (I should really go to bed))
02/20/2016
pickle-plum: More like the 'there's a blurry image of a scene that is absolutely necessary in my head and i'll tease it out if you don't produce something very similar to what i envision' stage. XD
pickle-plum sent a post Imagine Person…
pickle-plum: Imagine the difference in how this would play out with Jason+Andrea versus Logan+Feng.
shmoo92: I'm kinda gooping
shmoo92: Andrea goes pink, Logan sighs heavily
shmoo92: Andrea's talking with someone, Jason pulls her back a step and tucks her under his chin without her missing a word
shmoo92: Feng's mostly successful when Logan's not standing, tho perhaps they're somewhere and Feng offers Logan the corner of his shawl with the microfibre patch
02/20/2016
pickle-plum: just sent a ficlet via email 
shmoo92: Awesome~
shmoo92: >trying to come up with AUs<
shmoo92: >succeeding but for one element TnT<
shmoo92: complete topic change, did the USA -> Canada package have a tracking number?
pickle-plum: USA -> Canada package is still in my kitchen >_<
shmoo92: that means it wasn't snatched by customs/aliens and/or accidentally directed to Argentina! >flops in relief<
pickle-plum: RE: AUs, call it 'daemons!AU'?
shmoo92: Poooossibly
shmoo92: I hadn't actually considered that
shmoo92: My options were: 
shmoo92: - Pietr Rabbit; the school works with a wildlife preserve and Pietr's project is looking at whether big cats can be taught to sign as well as smaller cats (explains Kirra (and DriftSci) but not Chuck)
shmoo92: - ANSK; Kirra's poked into inviting Cecilia and Pietr insists they go on vacation to South Africa and visit a wild life preserve (doesn't explain why Pietr's trained the cats, nor does it explain snow leopards)
shmoo92: But a Daemon!AU ...
shmoo92: It's a tree full of cat-like daemons ...
shmoo92: *(big) cat-like daemons
shmoo92: And Pietr, being our most adorable, loveable harmless nerd as usual, befriends, like, all of them
pickle-plum: !!! Have an angle from the Pietr Rabbit idea!
shmoo92: !!!!
02/20/2016
pickle-plum: Before I reblog the armpit scrap, should that be *explosion in the last sentence?
shmoo92: Yes, yes it should
shmoo92: Thank you. Tis fixed.
shmoo92: >headdesk<
pickle-plum: Welcome~!
shmoo92 sent a post Today was the second day my cat woke me up licking my armpit
shmoo92: I made it better
02/21/2016
shmoo92 sent a [http://shmoo92.tumblr.com/post/139724575368/
gifsboom-phoenix-fennec-fox-play-time-with-the GIF]
 
shmoo92: If we happen to find two characters with appropriate daemons
pickle-plum: Oh my god!
pickle-plum: A question: do the cats only bother Logan or do the other people have similar experiences?
shmoo92: (Technically, the cats aren't allowed out of the basement. HOWEVER!)
shmoo92: The cats chiefly bother Logan because he smells like Feng. Cats who like people can generally be found in the Rec rooms and caf, and the very nicest cats hang out in Medical and the CDL
shmoo92: the latter will bother anyone who smells like small child
shmoo92: So Mr Xiong may go to put Fei Yen down for a nap and find there's already a cat (or three) in her crib
shmoo92: WHICH REMINDS ME
shmoo92: http://youtu.be/4wJJP_-tSS8 Fei yen does this to a cat when she's plder
shmoo92: *older
shmoo92: Possibly because she grows up with mr xiong going to put her in her baby swing only to find 
shmoo92: And 9 and 10 
shmoo92: FINALLY FOUND THE ONE I WAS LOOKING FOR 
02/21/2016
pickle-plum sent a link Aye, Aye, AGNIS
pickle-plum: Terrible, ey? I wear the label with pride!
shmoo92: As you well should!
pickle-plum: >bows<
02/26/2016
pickle-plum sent a photoset I LOVE YOU!!!’ IM YOUR BIG...
pickle-plum: I know what someone fictional's getting for christmas~!
shmoo92: Kirra says flatly, "we are not lugging that around the planet."
pickle-plum: Pietr bats his eyelashes.
shmoo92: Kirra's eye twitches; she rolls her eyes loudly and looks into transferring large objects between Shatterdomes.
shmoo92: Does Pietr care that snorlax takes up 1/4 of their already tiny living space? No he doesn't
shmoo92: And then Kirra figures out the form to give them bunk beds ... Unless upper bunks are standard for the extra storage space.
pickle-plum: (I would think bunks would be standard, but maybe the rules are different with mixed gender roomies?)
pickle-plum: Eventually, helper!cat claims Snorlax as its bed.
shmoo92: Helper!cat has the biggest cat bed /ever
pickle-plum: which helper!cat defends with hissing.
shmoo92: And, really, they have suites larger than a postage stamp everywhere but the last Lima
shmoo92: Pietr keeps it in his room, Kirra comes to wake him up, trips and lands on it because in his room it's taking up 1/3 of the floor space, possibly lands on helper!cat or sends helper!cat flying, helper!cat lands on Pietr claws first
pickle-plum: (Completely unrelated. How badly to I want to use this picture to illustrate Jackson's 'name day' story? 
pickle-plum: (very, very badly)
pickle-plum: >snork< And then they're all in Medical and the staff is absolutely beside themselves.
shmoo92: omg it doesn't look cute yet just like a gork! it's so perfect!
pickle-plum: sooo ... how does pietr get a picture of a cria?
shmoo92: Kirra, /duh. Who better to guard emus than guard llamas? who had babies?
pickle-plum: Aha! Perfect.
pickle-plum: Also perfect that Kirra's the one who has to caption 'Jackson's baby' picture.
shmoo92: Very, /very perfect
pickle-plum: Speaking of which, I just embedded the picture and it awaits Kirra's wit.
shmoo92: Wit is witted!
pickle-plum: PERFECT.
pickle-plum: PERFECT WIT IS PERFECT.
shmoo92: >bows<
shmoo92: I am soooo pleased with it :D
pickle-plum: SO MANY LAYERS OF PERFECT.
shmoo92: >soaks up the praise XD <
shmoo92: gawd, these moments of brilliance are worth all the moments of being stuck
pickle-plum: i know /that feeling.
shmoo92: >sigh<
shmoo92: however, I think we'll be chuckling about this for a good long while XD
pickle-plum: oh god yes.
shmoo92: !!! Someone says (after a particularly unflattering moment?), "he'll get cute." "Eventually."
pickle-plum: Siqi? XD
pickle-plum sent a photoset Doucet evening dress, Pari...
pickle-plum: (Jupiter's?)
shmoo92: !!!
shmoo92: Arts!
shmoo92: I had a nightgown soooorta similar when I was smaller!
pickle-plum: coooool.
shmoo92: If I could imagine her as an adult, I'd say this was her wedding her dress )or similar to)
pickle-plum: Kinda what I was picturing, as well.
02/27/2016
pickle-plum sent a photo post [The Shmoo 717 is now in service]!
pickle-plum: Congrats on 717!
shmoo92: Thank you!
02/27/2016
shmoo92 sent a link Well-born
shmoo92: In the summary, mention something about how "Vulcan Specter"'s right half is saved by his grandmother so on and so forth (ie, I can't remember more than that)
pickle-plum: "Vulcan Specter's right half is saved from lifelong embarrassment by his grandmother."
shmoo92: What was the original?
pickle-plum: Uh ... Jackson's grandmother rescues him from being branded a nerd, I think.
shmoo92: Hm
shmoo92: >shakes fist at referents<
pickle-plum: Yup. The very first version made it look like Nanny was doing the branding. >_<
02/28/2016
pickle-plum sent a photoset the appropriate response
pickle-plum: Bubbles makes Blossom and Logan do this with one of the inevitable dojo cats to placate Pang Xia.
pickle-plum: Not that it works. DX
shmoo92: >snickering<
shmoo92: bubbles makes Blossom take receptionist duty on Pang Xia's usual call days
pickle-plum sent a photoset Natascha Encinosa
pickle-plum: a possibility for one of our T-90 jockeying Latinx Rangers?
shmoo92: Yes.
shmoo92: >resumes being in awe<
pickle-plum: I KNOW. She's /spectacular.
02/28/2016
shmoo92 sent a photoset GLO photographer- Irene Rud…
shmoo92: I know this isn't our Mammoth Apostle pilot, but I can see this being a Ranger photoshoot
pickle-plum: Yes, yes I can, too.
02/29/2016
shmoo92: (I put shatterbucks words down on paper today)
Pickle-plum: Whooo!
==March==
03/05/2016
pickle-plum sent a GIF
pickle-plum: Prompt: Cats of Lin
shmoo92: yesssssss
shmoo92: hey, have you seen the photo set of mako's drift seqence in colour/
pickle-plum: No, no I haven't.
shmoo92: so i probably didn't stumble across it on your blog
pickle-plum: probably not.
shmoo92: i can rule you out then!
shmoo92: i coulda sworn i a) saw it recently and b) saved it
pickle-plum: Hmmm ... I hate when that happens.
shmoo92: i feel like i'm going insane often enough on a regular basis, i don't need myself and tumblr to add to it XD
pickle-plum: Argh, no kidding. XD
shmoo92: i found it
shmoo92: i need to cry now
shmoo92: 
shmoo92: mon dieu
pickle-plum: Yeaaaaaaaaa ....
pickle-plum sent a video This rabbit loves this dog so much...
pickle-plum: Bubbles!daemon and Snicket maybe?
shmoo92: oooo
shmoo92: that's quite perfect, i must say
pickle-plum: 'lopsy' there even has pigtails. XD
shmoo92: >giggle< good point XD
03/05/2016
shmoo92 sent a GIF
shmoo92: Fenna and Maxling
pickle-plum: DEFINITELY.
pickle-plum: Probably 'her' Maxling.
shmoo92 sent a photo post Brooke Ence is wondering if …
shmoo92: Headcast
pickle-plum: We need more Russian Rangers and can always use Fightmasters, too.
03/05/2016
pickle-plum sent a photoset I made Purrl a flower crown an...
pickle-plum: Okay ... who has the fine motor skills for this?
shmoo92: .... I almost want to say it's Chao, and twisting stuff together is just a thing he does when he's (sit-)meditating
pickle-plum: I ... can see this.
shmoo92: i know, eh? i didn't think he'd be the type but it just ... works
pickle-plum: Yea, exactly.
shmoo92 sent a link Sailing ships are back in vogue
shmoo92: As a bonus, sailing ships make no noise and could probably keep zipping along during an Event
pickle-plum: And if Kaiju track pollution, they wouldn't leave mild fuel slicks like conventional powered ships tend to.
shmoo92: oo, double the reasons!
pickle-plum: Aaaand, since I don't think they can build them as big as modern container ships, there would need to be more of 'em, therefore more people could be employed sailing and maintaining 'em.
03/06/2016
GIF
pickle-plum: Prompt: someone sets up the caption quip for Pietr or another Vos.
shmoo92: 
: Someone: >has to calculate some insane product<
: Pietr: >does it in his head in five seconds flat<
: Someone: whooooa
: Pietr: >shrugs< ::We Vosses are good at multiply!::
shmoo92: *multiplying
shmoo92 sent a photoset Giant Snorlax Cushion is the…
shmoo92: MOAR PICTURES
pickle-plum: iwillnotorderoneiwillnotorderoneiwillnotorderone
pickle-plum: Also: MOAR PICTURES
pickle-plum: http://p-bandai.jp/item/item-1000102956/
shmoo92: They say it weighs 880 lbs (on the my modern article) but j think someone picked the wrong number or converted something wrong
shmoo92: Also it's 430$
shmoo92: So it's an expensive convenient place to put cat, cat toys, and stuffies
shmoo92: XD
pickle-plum: That might be the weight of an 'actual' Snorlax.
shmoo92: Yeaaaa
shmoo92: (Is what I tried to convey with "picked the wrong number" >_<)
pickle-plum: Aaaah. Gotcha.
pickle-plum: And $430 is about the cost of a couch from Ikea. XD
shmoo92: And considering two people (one and a half?) people can fit on it ....
pickle-plum: Uh huh ....
shmoo92: Is Mrs Mrs Pickleplum at all interested in redecorating? A new sofa?
Perhaps a comfy seat in the sleeping quarters?
shmoo92: (My parents have a couch in their room as well as their bed. Their room is also a very odd shape.)
pickle-plum: We are decorating our basement/den with a 'video game japan' theme. XD
We also desperately need a couch. Hence why I know the price of Ikea furniture. :D
shmoo92: O reaaaalllly
(Would you believe that knowing the price of miscellaneous furniture off the top of your head was not something I questioned?)
shmoo92: The only issue with snorlax!couch is the lack of back support, and putting it against the wall may involve it sliding away
03/06/2016
pickle-plum sent a photo post
pickle-plum: Prompt: As a punishment for something /especially egregious, AGNIS blocks Jackson's access to sweater!porn like this.
shmoo92: >gleeful hand rubbing<
shmoo92: 
shmoo92: i thought that picture was the same as this comic but they're not, just very close
pickle-plum: Aaaah ... gotcha. Still sweater!porn. XD
shmoo92: XD
03/07/2016
shmoo92 sent a link Groot
shmoo92: Do you mean, 'on the positive side, a Guardians of the Galaxy plushie'?
pickle-plum: *sigh* Yes. Going to fix it now.
shmoo92: >Pats head<
03/07/2016
shmoo92 sent a photo post Unagi Travel is a Japanese tr…
shmoo92: I don't care what we have to do, we're writing this in somehow--oo! Fundraising the apocalypse! One's buddy gets a tour inside the 'Dome (for cheaper and with less paperwork than a hooman!)
03/08/2016
pickle-plum: !!! Pietr gets drafted as tourguide.
03/08/2016
pickle-plum sent a photo post good night
pickle-plum: I keep looking at this and seeing Sean, (too-tall) Button, and Snicket.
shmoo92: How much taller than button is Sean?
pickle-plum: 3-4 inches when they're both fully grown.
shmoo92: Hmmmmmmmmm
03/09/2016
pickle-plum: Argh. I'm looking over a draft from Gotham in which Raleigh is officially diagnosed with Asperger's and part of it is making me twitch and I can't think of how to explain the problem to Gotham.
shmoo92: Would you like me to try to formulate a conclusion? I don't mind casting an eye over it
shmoo92: It may be that too many people have articulate monologues
pickle-plum: that's in here, too, but I can explain that bit. XD
pickle-plum: the tl;dr version is that Raleigh's mom says, 'yeah, you're going to have panic attacks and meltdowns the rest of your life, but, hey, it also makes you a genius!'
shmoo92: (That's something I would like to work on with them when I remember and that I'm going to try and articulate in the AGNIS and AIs email)
shmoo92: ... that ... yea
pickle-plum: yea ....
shmoo92: Someone criticized the show Scorpion for promoting the idea that people with autism (or any disability) only have worth/value if they're useful
shmoo92: It's similar to the trope of the town leper being excluded until they're proven useful at which point they're loved and included (Rudolph the red nosed reindeer)
pickle-plum: ah ... rudolph's a GREAT metaphor for this.
pickle-plum: so you can see the exact thing in question, i'm sending an email in a moment
shmoo92: Awesome!
shmoo92: It's something that makes me happy about the Tang rugrats; anyone with any kind of less-ableing thing /must have use to be a PPDC character; in the sense of having a goal, it's a capitalist organization
pickle-plum: good point.
pickle-plum: and, on top of it, the Rangers have to be exceptional by definition, and all are in different ways.
shmoo92: So we will be promoting that idea just because of the environment we're writing (maybe there's a way to work around it but Im not sure how) but we have ways of balancing it out (which are admittedly less obvious but they are there)
shmoo92: Back to the tang babies, I can stick whatever demographic on them as I want because they're in a ... socialist? idealist communist? environment, and I can show, for instance, Fishy (the two year old non verbal autistic fluffle) doesn't have to be useful to have value--his only job is to be loved by his relatives
pickle-plum: Which is an awesome opportunity you have there.
shmoo92: I knooooow ^u^
shmoo92: or '>bows<', I'm not sure which XD
pickle-plum: And, to contrast, we have Pietr who /feels useless even though his family loves him, and Logan, who doesn't care if other people think he's useless and a sizable part of his family actively dislikes him.
shmoo92: Ooooo, good catch there!
shmoo92: I think it's safe to say that we have a good start on having a representative sample such that no one character ends up standing 'For What the Author Believes is Correct' or however that Avengers:AoU vs Mad Max FR went
pickle-plum: Yes, yes I believe we have.
pickle-plum sent a photo post I fits / via
pickle-plum: Cat. Of. Lin.
shmoo92: >spits juice from nose<
pickle-plum: VICTORY IS FLUFFY, SAYETH I!
shmoo92 sent a photo post I fits / via
pickle-plum: you ... you are a genius!
shmoo92: >flamboyant bow<
pickle-plum: The first is the perfect marriage of cats, morning!Logan, and Chao.
shmoo92: Thank you!
shmoo92: Gawd this was fun to write XD
pickle-plum: Any change we'll get to see Feng reacting to Logan's claim the fridge ate a cat?
pickle-plum: *chance?
shmoo92: I sure hope so!
03/10/2016
shmoo92 sent a photoset I intend on cosplaying Kuzco this year ...
shmoo92: Oooooo the possibilities
03/11/2016
pickle-plum: Oh dear. Get enough of them together and you could have a llama drama.
pickle-plum: though they'd probably have trouble remembering their lines.
shmoo92: Possibly enunciating them too XD
pickle-plum: Hmm ... maybe they can just be assigned to grunt and spit.
pickle-plum: It can be a play about baseball.
shmoo92: LOL
03/12/2016
pickle-plum sent a photo post I was thinkin about what Domhnall
pickle-plum: TOTALLY sean.
03/12/2016
pickle-plum sent a post my giant kitten’s name is Sophie Howl
pickle-plum: *squints*
pickle-plum: Did ... did Logan just say 'as you wish'?
shmoo92: :D
pickle-plum: So it /was intentional!
shmoo92: Yes, yes it was
shmoo92: It doesn't compleeeeeeetely fit, but I was suddenly struck by the image of Wesley handing buttercup the jug that was 'too high' and needed to act on t
pickle-plum: Dude, Logan shares a brain with Andrea and /Jackson. There's this niggle in the back of his head that /made him say it.
shmoo92: >snickering<
03/15/2016
shmoo92 sent a photo post [http://thelouringlady.tumblr.com/post/141035721804/oitnbhelps-
making-graphics-aesthetics-etc-is Making graphics, aesthetics, etc]
shmoo92: Ooooooooo
03/15/2016
shmoo92 sent a video [http://unexpectedchair.tumblr.com/post/141051240281/
gorlsgeneration-37q-lookskindadeadinside Strong Woman Uses Her Friend As Weight]
shmoo92: Bored!Rangers
pickle-plum: 100% yup.
pickle-plum: The day Tall Sasha did this with Taller Sasha was the last day anyone gave her shit.
pickle-plum: Currently cracking up over the way the the vast majority of pictures of Mt Isa on Flickr are 1) taken at night or 2) of bare, dusty ground or 3) of factory smokestacks.
Meanwhile, all the pictures of Port Macquarie are 1) of the beach or 2) of the lighthouse or 3) of koalas.
pickle-plum: The Isa's dominant photo colors are yellow and orange.
pickle-plum: Port's are blue and green
shmoo92: Blue and orange are complementary!
shmoo92: (Are you cracking up over the similarities or the differences?)
pickle-plum: I did /not know that.
pickle-plum: (Differences. One is Earth, one is Water etc etc)
shmoo92: (Ooooo, that hadn't even occurred to me!)
shmoo92: (>ponders about mappjng this onto characters<)
shmoo92: So you've got your colour wheel--red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple
shmoo92: The colours that face each other--red and green, orange and blue, yellow and purple--are complementary, and when mixed they make black
shmoo92: red, yellow, and blue are primary colours--they can't be made by mixing (unless you're working with white and black paint for a cardboard castle that's supposed to be grey, then you can get blue by mixing white and black together. still have no idea how that happened.)
shmoo92: orange, green, and purple, are secondary colours, meaning they can be created by mixing together primary colours
shmoo92: (you may remember some of this from elementary school art class)
pickle-plum: That does ring a few bells.
shmoo92: whoot!
shmoo92: what other things do you think would be happening late in the day of "Bet/Deploy Nate/Frozen-ish?"
pickle-plum: Lessee ... Pietr would have his call with his family, Jandreon is /clearly hanging out together, Derek would be having a nigh-anxiety attack about starting work the next morning (possibly talking to Nanny trying to calm down), Nguyen and Chantell would be bracing for the inevitable fallout of Derek's arrival.
shmoo92: Btw, does Nguyen have any grey hair?
pickle-plum: Yes, he would. He's still more pepper than salt, though.
pickle-plum: Saturday night might also be a good time for the local Cult Mechanicus to meet in one of the Recs.
shmoo92: Oooooo
shmoo92: (Goddamnit I wish I could find the original post TnT)
shmoo92: 
: "I'm getting old!" 
: "Dad, you /are old. Your best friends are old. Your best friends also have grey hair. Not the end of the world." Smirks. "Well, not for a few years." 
: "Cute, Telly." 
: Grins. "Can I still have the car when you kick it?"
: "We don't own a car."
: "Damnit."
: "Language, officer."
pickle-plum: *SNORT*
shmoo92: :D
pickle-plum: One more possibility: Someone checking in with Herc about it being nigh-official Chuck and Pietr are gonna be Rangers, since a Squire's apparently been assigned to them.
shmoo92: Hmmmmmm
pickle-plum: (Also, screwed up the dating, Derek's probably still panicking, but he has a whole day to recover before starting work, so he probably just worries until he passes out.)
shmoo92: 
: ""Derek?""
: "Yea--what's up?"
: ""I can hear you thinking from out here. You can worry more in the morning. Sleeeeeep.""
pickle-plum: Preeeeeetty much.
03/16/2016
pickle-plum sent a photo post here are two bunnies using a third as a couch
pickle-plum: Bubbles, Blossom, and Logan.
shmoo92: What did Bubbles do this time? XD
03/16/2016
pickle-plum sent a GIF
pickle-plum: "Let's go fishing!"
shmoo92: teehee!
shmoo92: Perfect caption is perfect, too!
pickle-plum: >bows<
shmoo92: How be thee today?
pickle-plum: pretty good. working from my home office and enjoying the weather.
you?
shmoo92: Not enjoying the weather! XD It's been drizzling for the last couple days
shmoo92: The immersion program has a trip to Quebec in about a month; tomorrow's the silent auction and everyone's kinda in a tizzy over t
pickle-plum: Ah. The drizzle was two weeks ago here. Now we've got all the spring flowers and sunshine.
shmoo92: How lovely!
shmoo92: Do you guys set up bird feeders or the like?
pickle-plum: We seem to get a horde of birds without them. Lots of Eastern bluebirds, mockingbirds, assorted sparrows, various woodpeckers, a few cardinals ....
shmoo92: Wow!
pickle-plum: Aaaaand we generally have three or four white-tail deer eating our lawn every night.
pickle-plum: And there's an owl the size of a Volkswagen around here somewhere.
shmoo92: Free lawnmowing? XD
shmoo92: Holy smokes!
pickle-plum: If we could only convince them to do an even job of it. DX
shmoo92: Can you tell what kind?
pickle-plum: Haven't got a good enough look at the owl. Just enough to know it's a definite threat should the cat ever get out.
shmoo92: Not as useful as goats to have around, then. Noted. XD
shmoo92: O boi
pickle-plum: Nope, not as useful as goats. Kinda wish someone around here had a rent-a-herd-of-goats for an afternoon business. I know they exist in other places.
shmoo92: I've heard talk of one in/around Ottawa, which is, like, totally not helpful XD
pickle-plum: Nooooot really. The one I saw the most recently was in California, 2200miles away, so Ottawa's better? XD
shmoo92: >considers mental map< >squishes USA back to proper height< In a 'drop in the bucket' kinda way which I just realized means 'a drop of water in a bucket' as opposed to a bucket in a well being dropped slightly
pickle-plum: Time for fun with Google maps: ~2200mi due west to CA city where i saw the goats; ~1100mi northeast to Ottawa. That's quite an improvement!
shmoo92: >gets map of USA into a ... lock of some kind and squishes it<
shmoo92: or maybe I just don't know where Ohio is (I think you're in Ohio?)
pickle-plum: Close. Illinois. The very southern bit.
pickle-plum: New toy! Find out what the weather was like in/near a given place at a point in the past. This is my local station: https://weatherspark.com/#!dashboard;ws=30844
shmoo92: This will be fun!!
shmoo92: Illinois is a lot less central than I thought.
shmoo92: And the country trickles to the east more than I realized.
shmoo92: Should probably have consulted a proper map before making one out of American quarters Xd
shmoo92: *XD
pickle-plum: *snort*
pickle-plum: I always forget how far east Illinois is, too. There's a whole lotta 'west' from here.
shmoo92: At least 2200 miles of it!
shmoo92: And it's in the NHL's 'central division', too, but maybe Detroit is too so maybe 'central' means 'not any of the others'
pickle-plum: Yay for sunshine!
pickle-plum: That's generally what 'central' means in the USA.
shmoo92: (I think Detroit is. There's a team in that division that seems really out of place.)
shmoo92: LOL
shmoo92: On the subject of places and distances, if winter gift doesnt have a meeting with the post office before April (which is totally fine, this is an FYI), please have it directed in an Ottawa-ward direction as I leave Ste Anne's on April 15
pickle-plum: Thank you! I've been meaning to ask, but too embarrassed by my apparently allergy to actually, you know, mailing things.
shmoo92: I've been meaning to bring it up, too! just wasn't sure how not to call you on that allergy XD
pickle-plum: You did a brilliant job of it, I must say. XD
shmoo92: I saw an opportunity and glomped it!
shmoo92: >bows with a flourish<
shmoo92: the other thing i'm navigating is suggesting to people with OCs (3fluffies, patrickwsawyer, etc) a kind of reading circle where each [interval] everyone reads and reviews a chapter of someone's work
shmoo92: the only issue with that is a) time (which i, suggester of this idea and thus the person who takes it upon themselves to organize and follow through) won't have until June at the earliest), b) chaleigh, and c) editor-before-writer and everyone but you and I and mostly Rory never got the 'writers write people talking how they imagine people to talk, not actually how people talk' (i thank my grade nine teacher to this day)
shmoo92: *issues
03/16/2016
pickle-plum sent a GIF
A Chinese Ranger perhaps?
shmoo92
Want
shmoo92
Badly
pickle-plum
Well, H1B needs a female faceclaim and H3B needs a pair of pilots.
pickle-plum
!!! or Nang.
shmoo92
She's a bit too classy for Nang but she's definitely some sort of leadership role (not Xiong, tho, obviously)
03/19/2016
shmoo92 sent a photoset
>rubs hands<
03/19/2016
pickle-plum
O.M.G.
shmoo92
two options:
1) Every other day, Laundry goes on an expedition to Team Shaolin Rogue territory
OR
shmoo92
2) "In the event of lost undergarments, please see Ranger Lin Feng before bringing the matter to Laundry"
pickle-plum
I'm thinking option 2. I'm gonna guess the Laundry folks won't want to run the cat gantlet to reclaim the undies.
shmoo92
"cat gauntlet" lol
pickle-plum
No gauntlets, but: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fiatlux/14238524323/in/photolist-nGdadF-sfHB5L-6JrRC2-63Lm8m-sfGByw-sfGvBG-sfHwuU-Dhk7gP-8feKMa-4JC3tD-LNfsA-7VL4m3-pgrkwC-7XtsnS-7Xq1wM-9jYvCS-nmof8L-b13Ygv-7Xq3ce-biQBj4-cifffG-r7XS2P-ew25f-6dHpPS-cU18as-coAarb-62ogtV-mTUuP-62P1JP-7FdyXF-7XtqqA-7Xtd41-7VGSrp-6HTrzS-pScbKN-7VL6do-8g9pPq-dnk8gR-ad2uNF-p1Yd8a-675pDB-JQYoY-38zWfP-fmMKY6-64w5RX-8P3P9o-7Pva1h-bnWwPC-9ghitL-7mBC1f
shmoo92
i am in awe of your research skillz
pickle-plum
(favorite image search engine + "cat armor")
shmoo92
>applause<
03/21/2016
pickle-plum sent a photo post this is the laziest fucking gan...
and here I thought I was looking at an obscure corner of The Madhouse.
shmoo92
i find it hilarious that both you and rory sent me this picture within a minute of each other
shmoo92
and i am so tagging that picture as 'an obscure corner of the madhouse'
pickle-plum
we know you well, apparently.
shmoo92
O_o
YAY FRIENDS!!!
>skips off into the snowstorm<
pickle-plum sent a photoset The words on her tank: Боев...
Tall Sasha is either really related to this woman or her fake ID claims she's related to this woman.
She also proudly owns a 'fighting girlfriend' tee.
shmoo92
Tall Sasha shows up wearing such a tshirt one day
Soon all GIRL crew own theirs
shmoo92
(the bravest are autographed)
pickle-plum
YEEEEEESSSSSS.
shmoo92
Taller Sasha's just says 'I'm the tank'
shmoo92
No--CHERNO has a banner that says "I'm the tank"
I suppose buying a tank is more relevant to Cherno Alpha than the Soviet night witches
shmoo92
(There're just so many badass Soviet-area ladies--I want her to be related to all of the famous ones and none of them because there're badasses we don't know about!)
pickle-plum
Taller Sasha's says 'she's my girlfriend'
pickle-plum
(No kidding. Maybe, depending on the day, she hints that she is or isn't related to a given badass and no one knows which if any she really is.)
shmoo92
(ooooooooooooooo. very Kaidanovsky!!)
03/23/2016
pickle-plum
guess what's in the mail~!
shmoo92
EEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
pickle-plum
The post office said 6-10 days for it to arrive.
shmoo92
that probably doesn't include sundays, eh?
pickle-plum
Not 100% sure.
shmoo92
>thumbs up<
(we leave for our trial-by-fire Quebec trip on the 3rd and we get back late on the 8th
like i'm not leaving Ste-Anne's permenatly, is what i'm trying to get at
pickle-plum
well, at worst, it'll be waiting for you as a 'yay! you survived quebec!' present, ay?
shmoo92
ooo, i liek that!
pickle-plum
yay!
03/23/2016
pickle-plum sent a photoset Thermochromic table by Jay...
I see that Drift tag ... >narrows eyes<
If you're thinking of doing this to someone who's lost a partner .....
shmoo92
>whistling<
pickle-plum
>quietly adds tissues to shopping list<
shmoo92
:D
shmoo92
A propos of absolutely nothing, nothing at all, who woulda thunk it a Brazilian race car driver would be popular in Japan
pickle-plum
Huh. Wouldn'ta thought that, yea.
No accounting for taste. XD
shmoo92
It might be that it's a particular driver popular in Japan and not *all* drivers, but still, how big is F1 in Japan? Would mako be into it? Would a government 'please keep making swords' perk be the Moris are invited to a recr?
shmoo92
*race
pickle-plum
True.
Well, Japan hosts one of the last and biggest races of teh F1 season: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Grand_Prix
Which implies at least /some popularity.
shmoo92
it's often where the championship's decided, and being witness to people becoming victors always kindles popularity
pickle-plum
Yup!
pickle-plum
goats or guinea pigs?
shmoo92
Guinea pigs
03/23/2016
shmoo92 sent a photo post
smashing!!!
03/24/2016
pickle-plum
o.m.g.
pickle-plum sent a photoset australian mutuals what are t...
Uh oh. They're spreading.
pickle-plum
And how long d'ye figure it took a Turtles-esque Logan to work out how to break into one for free pizza?
shmoo92
>jaws theme plays<
On the longer end of things, I think, because he would have to get his hands on one
*long enough to figure it out, not unlike ANSK!Logan and the combination wheel locks in Hong Kong
pickle-plum
very good points.
But! I betcha Vee or another AI could hijack one and provide free pizza later on, depending on how flexible their morality is.
03/24/2016
pickle-plum
Say, what places/settings from ANSK would you like to see photosets of?
03/24/2016
shmoo92
Definitely Hong Kong--ooo, maybe someone on one of the Guam getaway carriers takes a picture!
03/24/2016
pickle-plum sent a GIF
Cat. Of. Lin.
shmoo92 sent a GIF
Cat of Lin.
pickle-plum
Did we ... just send each other the same post?
DX
replied before I saw the mini-fic.
shmoo92
Yes, but mine's from my blog with a story snippet attached :D
XD
shmoo92 sent a photoset O Canada!: Peace Tower, Pouti...
Was that middle picture taken at Camp Fortune?
pickle-plum
All the second photo's page on Flickr says is it was taken in Monstreal.
*Montreal
Absolutely no location given for the third one.
shmoo92
Well, all sugar bushes look the same so no one'll be any the wiser XD
pickle-plum
That's pretty much what I was counting on. XD
03/26/2016
shmoo92 sent a GIF
Powerpuffs: Logan squirming, bubbles kissing, blossom staying faaaar away
03/26/2016
pickle-plum
Yeaaaaaaa ....
03/26/2016
pickle-plum sent a photoset I saw this step-by step tutorial...
I wanna see Kirra at some function very methodically doing this before kicking someone's ass.
03/26/2016
shmoo92
Yesssssssss
pickle-plum
And if it's post-Indiana Darling, she hands Jackson her drink and the flower from her hair first.
shmoo92
>spit take<
pickle-plum
Jackson can't decide if he should avert his eyes or admire the view.
shmoo92
"Jones," says Chuck. "Hold my flower." 
Jackson pokes it behind his ear, plucks Chuck's glass from her hand. 
Chuck hoists the front of her dress past her knees, gathers all the fabric in front--
"Your butt looks really great."
"Can it."
--folds it back between her legs, twists out two sections, and ties a bow around her waist. 
Jackson offers a steak knife. 
Chuck plucks it from his hand, steps from her shoes, strides to the first guy, yanks them away and around and puts the knife through their hand into the table, ducks around their flailing, decks the second guy--
Second guy crashes into a champagne fountain. 
--hamstrings the third guy and grabs their gun as they go down, and aim it point blank at the fourth guy. 
Fourth guy drops their knife. 
Jackson quickly sips Chuck's drink to keep from applauding.
pickle-plum
PERFECT.
shmoo92
Chuck saunters over.
shmoo92
Jackson quickly offers her flower still drinking her champagne, damnit-- 
"Looks better on you." Saunters away. 
"No, it doesn't, it looks better on you because everything looks better on you including my stuff because you're gorgeous!"
"I'm getting a new drink!"
pickle-plum
you owe me another laptop screen.
shmoo92
YOSH!
my favourite thing to owe!
pickle-plum
evil~.
I humbly suggest this be titled "Gird Her Loins".
shmoo92
ooo, how about "to gird one's loins"?
and the summary's like, "is to be prepared for battle"
pickle-plum
YES.
03/27/2016
pickle-plum sent a photoset Wildlife photographer Richard...
Pietr: LEGENDARY POKEMON OMG!
pickle-plum
Kirra: DON'T
Pietr: $#^$@#$
03/27/2016
pickle-plum sent a GIF
Off'ser Pietr at CDL naptime.
shmoo92
>chokes on apple juice<
(What was Pietr's last line in the legendary Pokemon exchange?)
pickle-plum
the wordless mental equivalent of 'dammit'.
pickle-plum
although, on review, it would probably be funnier if it was something like 'Gotcha!'
followed by wiggling and 'li'l help?'
shmoo92
I was gonna say, omg, Pietr took Kirra's advice for once? XD
pickle-plum
hey! he listens sometimes!
just not when pokemon are involved.
shmoo92
Kirra eases the fox free, helps Pietr to his feet--
Pietr flinches, wiggles--::I have snow in my underwear::
pickle-plum
>chokes on coffee<
shmoo92
Win! XD
03/27/2016
shmoo92 sent a GIF
One of the posts I sent from Facebook that didn't work was this gif but the caption described the cat giving a blessing.
pickle-plum
>snort< since when do blessings begin and end with sharp smack?
shmoo92
I thought it seemed more like a tap, though maybe it's something out of Monty Python XD
pickle-plum
It is, technically, a tap, but saying 'sharp smack' is more fun. XD
shmoo92
gotta love alliterations XD
pickle-plum
they are one of my greatest joys in life.
03/27/2016
shmoo92 sent a photoset THIS is how you flirt.
This happens. Probably in Hong Kong near a shatterbucks; other than that, all I know is it happens.
pickle-plum
Yes. Definitely.
03/28/2016
pickle-plum sent a GIF
Feng and Pietr's first choice for a helper!cat didn't quite pan out.
shmoo92
Cue Pietr and Feng dashing through the 'Dome as helper!cat makes a break for it
pickle-plum
*snort*
Other 'Dome staff don't bat an eye as the strange little parade tears past.
shmoo92
""MIAAAAAU!!!!!!"
"">scuff scuff scuff<""
""COME BAAAACK!!!""
worker 1: Feng's at it again?
worker 2: yep
03/30/2016
shmoo92 sent a video He really hates car rides
Not as dramatic as Jackson, but still! I whiny llama
==April==
04/01/2016
shmoo92
NEWTON.
shmoo92 sent a video This dog sucks at fetch
 
04/02/2016
shmoo92 sent a photo post My take on the POWER PUF...
 
An AU of some sort
shmoo92 sent a photo post I DID THE POWERPUFF THIN...
 
Do iiiiit
04/02/2016
pickle-plum
Petition to use 'upset alpaca noise' in a future ficlet.
pickle-plum
that is one /ridiculously unamused owl.
pickle-plum
the PPG art makes me wonder what superpowers our assorted OCs would have if they had superpowers ....
pickle-plum sent a GIF
 
Cats of Lin.
shmoo92
Is it just me or is priest trying not to smile?
pickle-plum
I /think so. He could just be squinting against the cold, but he does seem to be enjoying the spectacle.
Best guess at the age of this bean? https://www.flickr.com/photos/thepitts/3796142338/
shmoo92
I thought two-three; a bit of digging suggests fluffle is no older than two, possibly 1 3/4
shmoo92
*2 1/2, sorry
shmoo92
Fluffle was born 2008 February, that picture is 2009 August
pickle-plum
Cool.
Does it really look that young?
I did that math, too, and didn't believe it. But I suck at aging babies.
shmoo92
As young as 2 1/2?
pickle-plum
>squints<
Okay, I can see it.
I suck so /bad at aging babies.
shmoo92
It's the knees/legs that are most telling
I can't find a good video of a kid running, but I saw a young child running in the park last year and they pick up their knees a lot more than adults do
shmoo92
*becaise their legs are so short
pickle-plum
aaah.
04/02/2016
shmoo92
(somewhat nsfw) this doesn't really give a break down of ages, but it gives a good idea of how children's bodies differ from adults
http://www.idrawdigital.com/2009/01/drawing-tutorial-adult-child-proportions/
shmoo92
so yea, i look at their legs, also how their clothes hang (baby clothes tend to fit better than toddlers), and the size of their heads (the younger a kid, the bigger their head relative to the rest of them)
04/06/2016
shmoo92 sent a photo post Mm mmmmmm mmm mmm...
 
Tire d'erable XD
pickle-plum
I SAW YOU LUCKY THING YOU!
shmoo92
Just wanted to make sure the French translation was au courrant~
(Tell me I'm lucky when I find a sink XD )
pickle-plum
A mite sticky, are you?
shmoo92
Just a mite, she says, typing with only her pinky
XD
pickle-plum
niiiiiiice.
(i'm applying all 8 and both thumbs to 'clone')
*8 fingers
shmoo92
>dreams of clean fingers and full sized key boards<
pickle-plum
that is such a wonderful dream ....
04/07/2016
pickle-plum sent a link Sailing ships are back in vogue as a...
 
DUUUUUUUUDE ....
shmoo92
ooooooooo
04/08/2016
pickle-plum sent a GIF
 
All I can see is Pietr and Chuckles ... (Lightcap threw the key)
shmoo92
ohmigosh I love it!!
shmoo92
There's some symbolism too beyond Pietr and keys ....
shmoo92
Have you any pasta for this smooshy shmoo?
pickle-plum
be thou still in need of pasta?
shmoo92
Yep--2 hours down, 14 to go >__<
pickle-plum
ugh. lemme see what I can find.
prompts I have a-plenty, as well.
shmoo92
Sure!
pickle-plum
#1 - at the Academy, the Joneses and Lins find out they're going to have to live together on Day One of Life with Novices.
shmoo92
oooooo
pickle-plum
where would you like me to deposit the pasta i find?
shmoo92
Email, please!
pickle-plum
aye aye!
pickle-plum
some pasta away!
shmoo92
YAY!!!
04/08/2016
pickle-plum sent a photoset One of the things that makes...
 
One of the Cats of Lin commutes from the city ....
shmoo92
"ID, please."
""Meow.""
"Thank you, Lexy."
*At the Shatterdome,
pickle-plum
snort. yep.
shmoo92
There's an official unofficial cart!cat, too, and can frequently be seen in the passenger seat of carts
pickle-plum
someone gets it a little hi-vis vest.
it refuses to wear the hard hat, though.
shmoo92
Or the steel mesh slippers
Does /not appreciate the slippers
Cart!Cat grudgingly agreed to transportation in a snuggy, though shoulders are preferred
pickle-plum
no. no, definitely not. there was silly walking and then gnawing.
pickle-plum
i love the visual of cats in snuggys.
shmoo92
It's the legs that're getting me in mine XD
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/train-station-cat-controls-pests-111653940.html high vis vest
pickle-plum
yuuuup.
shmoo92
XD
shmoo92
Xiong's like, "who ever would have thought giant aliens would mean employing a pest control division staffed by felines." Pause. "I have cats on payroll. I am paying a salary to cats."
pickle-plum
Add that to the list of weirdness she has to deal with.
"Do cats have to pay taxes? Who do we ask if cats have to pay taxes?"
"Can they unionize?"
"What's the standard for parental leave?"
pickle-plum
"I have to go pet a cat to calm down now."
shmoo92
"Nang?" 
Nang attends mid-coffee. 
"Can the pest control department unionize?"
"Uh, what?"
"Can the army of cats preventing an infestation of mice band together with a common goal and demand benefits?" 
Nang blinks. 
Nang blinks again. 
"Why am I not more weirded out that this is a serious conversation?" 
"We did have to formally apologize to Minnie Mouse last week."
And then Cherno shows up squawking about directions and Xiong realizes having cats on payroll really isn't the weirdest thing she deals with, and then she discovers that she's not terribly perturbed by that
pickle-plum
>spittake<
shmoo92
On an original draft, yes, that was Nang's reaction
XD
pickle-plum
nice to know i have something in common with the fabulous Nang.
pickle-plum
(i have sent a small mound of pasta to your email. it has hopefully arrived mostly unscathed.)
shmoo92
If the latest involves Ramos, soulmates, and other things, they are indeed unscathed!
I found myself with some helper!cat words~
pickle-plum
yup! yay for helper!cat!
be you desirous of more pasta or is there enough on your plate?
shmoo92
I am always desirous of more pasta
pickle-plum
'kay then. if I turn up more, I will pass it along!
shmoo92
... I don't know how much time we've been driving, only that we get back to Ste Anne at 1~ in the morning
pickle-plum
so ... a while from now. XD
shmoo92
Yeaaaaa
shmoo92
There're too many of us for the wittle bus, so four people are in the "little car" and that thing has so many kilometres on it it needs has every couple/few hours
pickle-plum
poor wittle car, trying so hard.
shmoo92
So that's nice, 'scheduled' breaks. There were more this morning and I'm finding this afternoon is ... tedious. It may be that my patience was shot by a snoozing person's phone notifying them of a text every five minutes with a song clip ringtone
shmoo92
And hen I remembered I had my DS and headphones and it didn't matter if I had music or not!
pickle-plum
yay!
i live in headphones at work and at home, too, mostly, for reasons like that.
shmoo92
The advantages are certainly coming out ahead of the disadvantage (icky earbuds because of wax)
Do you prefer white noise or music?
pickle-plum
music or documentaries on netflix or youtube.
but i pay so little attention to the words, they're basically white noise.
shmoo92
(Internet's getting patchy)
Well, asking if you've seen "inside CERN" is kinda moot XD
04/08/2016
pickle-plum
I have not seen that. Shall I add it to my list?
shmoo92
Yes! Tis smart (sooo many happy scientists!), funny ("I have two doctorates in physics. >pause< I think I just missed my exit." or "we have five degrees between the two of us. >looks at art< wtf is this. do you know what this is? are there instructions?")
And the editing near the end is beautiful
pickle-plum
exxxxxcellent. i will check that out!
shmoo92
(and I know having lots of fancy degrees doesn't necessarily mean they're good at reading maps or interpreting art, but the juxtaposition is still hilarious.)
pickle-plum
(of course!)
shmoo92
Also, the Martian is amazing (though I recommend watching Contact first because they were veeeery clever)
pickle-plum
Wow. I haven't seen Contact in /forever. Have to refresh that one.
shmoo92
Ooo, I thought you hadn't seen it. Still, watch--GALAXY QUEST
pickle-plum
It's been /years for Contact.
And yes, yes, I do need to watch that.
shmoo92
"Intelligence is knowing Galaxy Quest is not a Star Trek movie. Wisdom is knowing Galaxy Quest is the best Star Trek movie"
Loooove that Tumblr post
pickle-plum
Yup.
shmoo92
Welp, I can't find the post, and I know I've waxed on about it, I'm just continually ticked by someone taking this deep, solemn ... thing and thinking, 'Galaxy quest!'
I think my brain's gone to mush
pickle-plum
heh. Don't worry about it. And I've definitely seen the post you're talking about before.
04/09/2016
pickle-plum sent a photo post i dub this kitty “waffle ass”
 
Cat of Lin.
shmoo92
>snork<
Is that fabric?
pickle-plum
I think that's a cat butt that's been pressed against the screen currently behind the cat.
shmoo92
Ooooooooo
I was like, but that screen is too big for bugs!
Then I thought, what if it's for birds and cats?
pickle-plum
That ... that seems likely. Though it wouldn't be much protection against smol birbs.
shmoo92
fooooooom!
(Sound of a bird tucking in its wings into bullet form and squeaking through a hole)
pickle-plum sent a post Happy OC Fam...
I'm tempted ... sorely tempted ....
Exactly! Birb bullet!
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You didn't know about OC family day? I coulda sworn you reblogged the info post ....
pickle-plum
And then a Cat of Lin bonking off the screen.
I did not know there was a /day. TnT
shmoo92
charging towards the window on a different occasion?
shmoo92 sent a post we should start an in...
pickle-plum
Cat of Lin was chasing the birb bullet.
shmoo92
Noooow I have the image straightened out; I thought xat was still inside leaning against the screen XD
pickle-plum
I SOMEHOW MISSED THE NOTICE OF OC FAMILY DAY! TnT
shmoo92
(Protection of birds and cats was birds coming in and cats getting out, tho cat is out in that picture ... >__< )
pickle-plum
Cat could be in an interior courtyard. XD
shmoo92
Could also cat stays inside during rush hour
pickle-plum
True!
shmoo92
The RPG character creator I mentioned the other day? I'm gonna try finishing a Kirra pixel person
pickle-plum
Whoohoo!
(about Kirra)
Which family should I do?
shmoo92
Vosses? You have lots of face claims for them!
(I'm terrible with colourizing so I'm changing the colours by hand but I don't know how to make sure the values for the shadows/highlights match)
pickle-plum
True. Also have a lot of Team Vulcan and MojoDojo (and Hansens).
shmoo92
No reason you can't do lots!
pickle-plum
(I swear there's a palette generator/finder that helps identify the proper hex codes out there, but damn if I can find it right now)
True!
shmoo92
*u* I'm going on a hunt today~
pickle-plum
Yay for hunting!
shmoo92
Ye know, I wonder if encycolorpedia's 25% light/dark would do the trick ...0
pickle-plum
It's worth a shot.
pickle-plum
Don't suppose you have a faceclaim for Juliet?
If not, a basic description so I can hunt for potentials for your approval?
shmoo92
I do not!
She's heavier/curvier, with just longer than shoulder length hair
shmoo92
I think she dyes it--I've seen dark brown, black/faded red (I think)
pickle-plum
>scribbles notes<
shmoo92
And blue-black
pickle-plum
skin color-ish?
shmoo92
She maaaay be East Asian/white
She's very pale, but a character from another tale may be rubbing off on her
pickle-plum
>notes<
shmoo92
(That character is almost monochromatic)
(Well, white, black, and blue)
pickle-plum
(sounds interesting!)
shmoo92
She has a body type similar to a friend of mine and I maaaay be able to find a picture
shmoo92
She also frequently wears her in a short pony or feathery bun
pickle-plum
It's a 3D-PRINTED glow-in-the-dark hippo.
shmoo92
YOU JEST
omigod it is so Jackson
shmoo92
Wow ... I mean it makes sense 3D ... ink? plastic? would come in glow-in-the-dark
This is so awesome
AND SO CUTE OMG THE ALPACAS!!!!
pickle-plum
Yup. Totally comes in assorted colors AND glow-in-the-dark. My library has a printer and the glowy filament.
Here's the pattern is was printed from, by way of proof: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:232228
pickle-plum
XD
Glad you like the fluffies~!
shmoo92
I loooove them!!!
shmoo92
It's interesting, the cause-and-effect with the hippo, because with the advent of the printer, someone had to think "safari animals!" or they (or someone else) already had the models from an animation project and thought to convert them
Such interesting.
pickle-plum
indeed!
pickle-plum
does Andrea have a middle name?
shmoo92
She does, and I think it's 'Valentine'
(I'm pretty sure she keeps that knowledge quiet)
pickle-plum
I can kinda see why. XD
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'course, it's something for her and Pietr's dad to bond over.
shmoo92
Very true XD
It seems to be in part her mother's name (Valencia) and part when she was adopted (end of February)
pickle-plum
Cool!
And Val's is from his birthday.
shmoo92
He's born February 14? Cool!
pickle-plum
Yup!
I think his parents were running out of names and went, 'why not?'
shmoo92
"Happy February 14th, dear, have a Valentine."
pickle-plum
you owe me a laptop screen.
shmoo92
:D
pickle-plum
Lena Dunham, here, is almost a perfect match for my mental Juliet: http://cdn.trendhunterstatic.com/phpthumbnails/178/178405/178405_1_800.jpeg
and a wider selection: https://www.google.com/search?safe=active&site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=922&bih=605&q=curvy+brunette+actress&oq=curvy+brunette+actress&gs_l=img.3...929.8063.0.9163.26.9.0.17.0.0.106.776.8j1.9.0....0...1ac.1.64.img..0.8.701.OZcqbC2eGXs#safe=active&tbm=isch&q=lena+dunham
shmoo92
I shall ponder this as I scrub
Be back soon!
04/09/2016
shmoo92
Ms Dunham's eyes are very close, but i think she's a little old
but those were pretty much Juliet's eyes in the first picture
http://paletton.com/#uid=1000u0kllllaFw0g0qFqFg0w0aF is the the hex code generator that you were thinking of?
pickle-plum
>noted about Juliet<
YES.
04/09/2016
shmoo92
did chuck ever have a sneer of raleigh's to the effect of him hiding at the Wall?
pickle-plum
Having trouble parsing that, but the closest I can think of is the exchange at the mess table about Raleigh having worked in 'construction' while he was missing.
pickle-plum
I'm not sure if there's something more explicit in the novelization.
shmoo92
i'm basically looking for a tag that describes Raleigh hiding at the wall, and i feel like chuck said something but i don't remember
pickle-plum
This is the exchange I remember:
Chuck Hansen: What have you been doing for five years? Something pretty important I reckon.
Raleigh Becket: I was in construction.
Chuck Hansen: Oh, that’s great. I mean, that’s really useful. You know, we get into a fight you can build our way out of there, hey, Ray?
Raleigh Becket: It’s Raleigh.
shmoo92
hm, well, that involves a distinct lack of 'wall' like words
shmoo92
ohmigod the novelizatio has pentecost getting changed into his drivesuit sithout help in two seconds flat
pickle-plum
Welcome to why I don't put much stock in the novelization. DX
pickle-plum
Yea ... it does. Chuck's almost certainly figured out that's what 'construction' means having given Raleigh's PPP-issue coat the evil eye during the hangar scene, but ... yea.
shmoo92
Nothing from Pentecost, either, at the beginning or in "Fixed Point" except "you can go back to the wall" ro something
so "raleigh hides out at the wall" it is!
pickle-plum
"--wall I found you crawling on--" if memory serves.
It is so!
shmoo92
with the crawling it sure shounds belittling enough
pickle-plum
Yup. Pretty damn harsh.
04/12/2016
shmoo92
sho, i'm going through the ficlet dumps in scrinever with a fine tooth comb, ensuring that everything is in fact uploaded to the wiki and of the ficlets i sent for the original omnibus, in addition to some i missed and noticed due to going, 'wait a sec, didn't i write a sequel to this?', i have 136 scraps and metascraps
pickle-plum
good freaking lord.
'course, my WIPs folders in Scrivener probably have at least that many, too.
shmoo92
so much wonderful ^u^
pickle-plum
INDEED.
I have a horrible The Patron prompt for you, should you desire one.
shmoo92
yessssssssss
shmoo92
>grabby hands in case the last message didn't make it properly<
pickle-plum
(it did, I'm just trying to figure out how to phrase it in an understandable way.)
shmoo92
(aaaaaaaaah)
pickle-plum
The Patron's henchpeople make another winged baby (wings colored like this, maybe: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mdpettitt/4923537875/in/photostream/) using Pietr's DNA as a base. Kirra sees a video/picture.
shmoo92
ohmigosh and actual angel baby
pickle-plum
BINGO!
shmoo92
at first she's like, "picture of baby Pietr?" then "how'd they get a picture of pietr (recently)?"
shmoo92
but then! "the wings aren't right" and she makes herself think of it as just a photoshop but something about it is just. so. wrong.
"picture of baby Pietr--he didn't have wings then"
pickle-plum
does she call Jackson or a graphically inclined student (or an AI, even) to see if it's a photoshop?
shmoo92
im not sure
shmoo92
like, she doesn't want to inflict it upon someone else, but she may also want to keep it to herself because she's still kinda possessive about Pietr, but she may need closure
pickle-plum
True. Good points.
shmoo92
"Oi, Jones!" 
"Yes, your Highness?"
"Come tell me if this is photoshopped or not."
Jackson comes over, leans over her shoulder. 
Chuck remains still. 
"It's a heckuva good costume."
Chuck grunts, rolls her shoulder. 
Jackson departs. 
Chuck closes the window.
04/13/2016
shmoo92
turns out not everything in "Fireflies" made it into the omnibus either
04/13/2016
pickle-plum
More riches!
pickle-plum
I'm still getting over the fact we wrote the start of a Blacklist episode for giggles today.
shmoo92
gawd, it really reads like one, doesn't it?
pickle-plum
Yes. Yes it does.
shmoo92
i ... i find myself almost tempted to put a work on AO3 with these fusions
pickle-plum
I feel the same temptation.
I do, however, want to arrange a few more words for "Angelique" first.
shmoo92
i like this plan!
pickle-plum
I'm pretty sure we (I) can use the 'Red greets Liu' fragment from the fusion page in it.
shmoo92
OuO
be calm, my heart
pickle-plum
I have some ideas for more feels, but the violence and drama are severely lacking at this point.
shmoo92
i would like to avoid hitting Keen on the head as much, personally
XD
(That was one of our 'Blacklist' bingo squares: 'Keen gets hit on the head'. Also, 'Someone shoots out a windshield')
pickle-plum
No worries, I generally default to beating up the Good-looking White Guy.
(Niiiiiiice)
Have you any idea where Liu might be stashing the little angel posse?
shmoo92
probably in the tang clan compound, but in a separate wing
>snork<
pickle-plum
Has the rough locale of the compound been discovered.
shmoo92
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong
shmoo92
it's not as far inland as i thought it would be, but maybe it is actually far inland
pickle-plum
Thank you~!
You can get a pretty good distance from the coast and stay in the province ....
shmoo92
and google satallite shows that a lot of the province is foresty, which lends itself to the compound being isolated ...
(i picture it being kinda away from everything)
pickle-plum
makes good sense and seems like the sort of place Liu would look for.
shmoo92
like, on the one hand, it is entirely possibly that the tang clan patriarch bought up an apartment complex waaaay in the interior
and then order everyone to move
pickle-plum
good point.
shmoo92
but on the other hand, i'm not sure how many of them would be willing to leave their ancestral home
shmoo92
which would be in guangdon province
pickle-plum
it would be tough convincing them, but i'm sure enough violence would do the trick. >shudder<
shmoo92
well, it's either in guangdon province or very-very interior china
shmoo92
very-very interior china would be Golong Province, and it would be where the forests/green starts to mingle with the moutnains/brown
shmoo92
(If Hong Kong were 'low altitutde', Middle Earth restaurant would be 'mid altitutde' and the compound is mid-mid-high')
https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Golog,+Qinghai,+China/@34.8377891,99.4317541,408090m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x3700a8b01c818f9b:0x90f406cf9641ab7e
shmoo92
!!!!!!!!!!
the compound in in Golog, their walled village is in Guangdong
pickle-plum
Aha!
shmoo92
Liu maintains it as a headquarters of sorts
shmoo92
*the headquarters
shmoo92
*the village
blar
pickle-plum
heh. gotcha. i'm feeling blar, too.
04/13/2016
shmoo92
When're you thinking the Angelique words take place?
04/14/2016
pickle-plum
She's five-ish, so her words require your magic touch. *u*
shmoo92
roger!
shmoo92
o yea, and bless my immune system's sweet little heart, i have pink eye on top of my cold
pickle-plum
ugh. pink eye /sucks.
shmoo92
and it's in the eye i can actually see out of, which is like, what did i do to deserve this?
shmoo92
(both my eyes see fine, however my right eye was lazy and caused double vision so my brain gave the neurons to something else, leaving only peripheral. it's really neat (most of the time) because we read about a study with a similar effect in one of my classes except it was with mice and their eyes were permanently closed)
pickle-plum
ah. that's pretty cool and pink eye /still sucks.
shmoo92
>waves white flag to germs< XD
pickle-plum
Right! That's what I wanted to ask!
Mind if Red and co. make a stopover in the USA before meeting with Liu? Stash Angelique somewhere while they go after the rest of the fluffles?
shmoo92
i want to see how your idea plays out
shmoo92
but what i was thinking was they would drop off Angelique with Liu, go after the other fluffles and end up taking down Camille, and when they go to recover the children, they're gone. so they don't go back to china and find liu with a small parliament of owlels
awgels?
pickle-plum
Ah ... I spotted an opportunity for a couple of cameos that would require a stopover (because the cameo-ers have /zero reason to be in China) ... but your idea makes more sense, really.
shmoo92
write the cameo as a 'deleted scene'?
pickle-plum
YOU'RE A GENIUS!
shmoo92
>bows with a flourish<
pickle-plum
>pats shmoo!brain<
shmoo92
>shmoo!brain purrs<
04/14/2016
shmoo92
is 'athene gallery' still a thing?
pickle-plum
It hasn't been updated in forever, but it will probably be active again some day.
shmoo92
i coulda sworn i uploaded the 'newt gets chased by kiwi' picture, but my search history (i found the link to the gallery~) says I never visited the page, so
pickle-plum
huh.
04/15/2016
pickle-plum sent a photoset
 
Feng or Chao? XD
shmoo92
Believe it or not, I think it's Chao
shmoo92
Like it's a funny (or just unexpected) line and it's not a joke to the kid, it is fact
pickle-plum
I was leaning that way as well, believe it or not. for the very reasons you stated.
shmoo92
Go hivemind!
pickle-plum
Indeed.
shmoo92
Unrelated, One of the cafeteria ladies said, "oh, your eye's all bloody. Working a little hard?"
"Let's just go with that!"
pickle-plum
yeeeaaaaaaa ... let's. XD
04/16/2016
pickle-plum
hey, french-speaker, what's the nearest French equivalent to "a snack / something small upon which to nosh"?
shmoo92
"Collation"
(so ... close ... to being ... packed ....)
pickle-plum
Thanks!
(You ... can ... do ... it! You will prevail!)
shmoo92
You're welcome!
(>burst of confidence!<)
04/17/2016
shmoo92
The other thing about keeping Danny, at least, alive, is that it puts another degree of separation between Pietr and being dead
(I think)
pickle-plum
True ... I have an idea!
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And because it's adorable
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This is Logan and snicket
pickle-plum
Yay!
Yup!
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Also funny
pickle-plum
And yuuuuuup.
Yes, that owl is.
shmoo92
360o disapproving look!
(or something)
pickle-plum
Something like that. Yet more evidence that Tumblr is right when it refers to owls as 'pillows full of rage'.
shmoo92
I love that description
Absolutely love it
pickle-plum
Me, too.
shmoo92
Now I must resume re-packing. I have three suitcases under the weight limit and one 10lbs over. Two of the suitcases are either completely full or are almost at the weight limit, which leaves the hard shell suitcase with the PS4 and my comforter
>cracks knuckles<
Time to get creative!
pickle-plum
good luck!
shmoo92
Thank you!!
04/18/2016
shmoo92
Any plotty questions before the plane leaves the realm of data?
04/19/2016
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==May==
 
05/02/2016
pickle-plum
Noooooooooo!
pickle-plum
Question: Hanya or Elanora?
shmoo92
Elanora!
pickle-plum
Thank you!
pickle-plum
One more: Painful or /really painful?
shmoo92
As painful as possible without overdoing it!
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Roger dodger!
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Other gems
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(I think this ones just for "dodge" the car)
I love gifs ^u^
pickle-plum
Oh my god. Those are all absolute winners.
shmoo92
YOSH.
shmoo92
btw, was the 'nooooooooo!' w/r/t the cat in the water, the cat falling, or (re)writing Andrea's scene?
shmoo92
(It could be the last one just because it's already cute)
pickle-plum
'Noooo' was about the cat falling into the water.
05/02/2016
shmoo92
I do feel quite bad for the cat
Not as bad as I would feel if cat got its head wet, tho, or looked anything other than 'I am in the water'.
It seems remarkably calm, in my mind
Also there were stone angel statues in my game
I wanted to destroy them but not even my legged potato could
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I looked for a gif of the potato but before I even searched I found these
05/07/2016
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05/15/2016
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05/23/2016
pickle-plum sent a post cute date idea:
 Sure, Indiana Darling, but Kirra keeps correcting Jackson's mispronunciations and identifications until he's finally just shtumping along after her, doesn't she? XD
shmoo92
Jackson: oooo, pretty! 
Kirra: >common name, scientific name<
Jackson: >attempts to pronounce< >fails<
Kirra: >pained< >offers its meaning which is inevitably something awkward/awful< 
Jackson: not so pretty. new favourite ... that one!
pickle-plum
>wash, rinse, repeat<
>snicker<
I have a Cats of Lin prompt for you!
Shall I share it here or on wikia?
shmoo92
In an attempt to ease the shtumping, Kirra starts offering alternatives--no, that ones awful, that one--not that one either, uh ... etc
Wiki please!
pickle-plum
"Roses? Roses are pretty?"
It'll be there shortly!
shmoo92
Eeeee!
Eere
blat
05/26/2016
pickle-plum
okay. i need a shove to post something that's finished. suggestions of a ficlet that's ready-ish for prime time?
shmoo92
How far along is Forging of a Skeleton Key
shmoo92
I'm still hmming over a couple of things in Nutrition Override that I'm hoping on Getting to tomorrow (so ... tired ....)
pickle-plum
There're a bunch still missing from AO3 (thorns, king of the hill, try, coming, etc) and there are all the re-writes of the Hermann prequels and a buncha Logan and other Jones stuff.
shmoo92
May I recommend rewrites of the Hermann prequels? Might get a bit more attention
05/27/2016
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Oh. No.
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Turtles!Jackson is suddenly interested in joining Charlie on her excursions. 
"Are you nuts?" 
"It's a shuttle craft!"
Charlie just climbs a tree. 
Jackson spends the night chasing out snakes and spiders.
pickle-plum
Jackson's next camping trip is to the playroom. XD
shmoo92
In ANSK, the grad students pool their earnings and set it up in the lab. 
""We're testing out one of the Bridge lifts."" 
Jackson ... "Can I test with you?"
omgoodness he's suddenly first to sign up for sticky toddler duty
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*SNORK*
Grad students: "Only if we can share a sleeping bag~."
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Jackson ... "Is it StarFleet standard issue?"
"Yep!" 
Jackson: >puts aside dignity for a few minutes<
Aside, guess who has tickets to StarFleet Academy at the Canadian Aviation Museum~
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Ah ... the ongoing adventures of Jackson's dignity.
WHOOHOO!
STARFLEET ACADEMY!
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!!! Sometimes, when Jackson's having a /really bad day, Logan and Kirra set it up on The Bridge, put the display on 'random', and join Jackson on 'away team' missions.
05/27/2016
pickle-plum
Just occurred to me: Would it make sense to run all the Hermann pre-quels together into something like Forging a Skeleton Key?
shmoo92
It would!
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Whoo! That will make my life soooo much easier! Now, to think of a title!
shmoo92
Doing a series would make it easier to coordinate 'inspired bys' but the same can be accomplished with the entire fic and a note at the end of each
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Hmm ... very good point there.
shmoo92
But yea, a title >_<
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Plllllentyyyyy of time.
shmoo92
On the other hand, having one fic wouldn't clog the entire series with many bb!Hermann ficlets
Though using that 'collection' feature instead of just a series may ... make that problem a non issue
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Hmm ... will keep thinking in between hacking away at "Hatchling".
shmoo92
>salutes<
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I was pondering "Down" or something baby feather relatdd
Or maybe Wikipedia has a word for growing feathers
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Fledging: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/fledging
shmoo92
Ooo another option--the study of wings/birds!
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The study of young birds: http://onelook.com/?loc=rescb&refclue=study%20of%20birds&w=neossology
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Plumology: study of feathers
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Ornithology: study of birds
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Of all those words, I think Fledging and Ornithology have the most 'ness'. Neossology falls flat imo, and plumology sounds kinda lame (not epic enough? not sure.)
What do you think?
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Fledging is by far my favorite. Ornithology is too much of a tongue-twister for me and the other two are pretty flat, lacking the 'pop' I like in my words.
shmoo92
Fledging it is!
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Whoot!
Posting the first of the revised "Hatchling" scenes to the wiki right now.
05/28/2016
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Cats. Of. Lin.
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A mechanic falls asleep while working inside a car. This is what they wake up to.
Or pupils at the mojo dojo are greeted by
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Is it the result of mischief by humans (tasty broth on the glass, perhaps) or just cats being cats?
shmoo92
Possibly both ...
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>snort< Of course.
shmoo92
The mechanic could be doing regular (late night) maitence
Or they could be doing a full diagnostic because of a kitchen accident gone wrong (this vehicle being of the delivery sort)
With MojoDojo, either cats are being cats or Feng was serving dinner and things went terribly wrong
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Oh my god.
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:D
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The combination of Feng and boiling liquids sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.
Then again, so does the idea of Feng being relegated to giving Logan directions to cook because Feng's no longer allowed to touch anything hot after the Alphabet Soup Incident.
shmoo92
Logan is surprisingly good at taking directions so long as they come from Feng but Feng is not very good at giving them
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He's a shower not a teller >_<
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Exactly! I'm picturing lots of Feng being all 'Just let me do it!' and Logan holding assorted cooking gear out of Feng's reach.
And then Feng trips into Logan and oh look the pancakes are stuck to the ceiling. Again.
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*show-er
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SNORK
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"How ...?" wonders Blossom. 
Feng points to Logan with a completely straight face.
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Blossom rolls her eyes. Logan contemplates whacking Feng in the head with the pan. Again.
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This one time when I was ... Four? Five? Mom was making Lea (2-3) yoghurt with banana
Mom had also washed the floor that say. Mom did not notice the wet spot. Mom slips on the wet spot.
Bowl goes up, Mom goes down
Yoghurt:
On the cupboards
On the ceiling
On the fridge
Surprisingly not on mom
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I'm at the kitchen table with chicken noodle soup and I laugh so hard soup legit came out my nose
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SNORK
pickle-plum
That had to be a unique sensation.
The most exciting thing I've ever laughed out my nose was Coca-cola. That shit HURTS if it gets to your sinuses. No lie.
shmoo92
I think fizzy drinks in general
Cause Sprite isn't pleasant either
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True enough.
It's the fizz what gets you.
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I don't recall the soup hurting, but I do recall thinking, well, thoughts five year olds think XD
OMG I just remembered my dad once flipped a pancake onto the ceiling once
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I THOUGHT THAT WAS MERELY URBAN LEGEND. It actually happens?!
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He was being creative XD It fell to the ground shortly and my sister and I gobbled it up
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Niiiiice.
shmoo92
I remember being in the corner of the kitchen with this half cooked pancake and looking up at my dad, pan in hand, looking up at the ceiling and wondering how to get the batter off the lights
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Heh. Beautiful.
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I will need to ask him if he remembers (he'll probably say he's banished it from his memory XD )
Back to Feng and Logan's pancakes, does Button lean from on top of the fridge in an effort to get the chocolate chips?
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Yes, yes he does.
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Does he succeed?
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I believe he he gets a couple before the pancake tears loose, flops on the floor, and the cats declare a feeding frenzy.
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More cats than they know they had shoot from all corners of the hosue
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Exactly. The pancake is gone before Button can get down from the fridge and join the fun.
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"Well, at least we don't have anything to clean up."
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"Except the ceiling."
"As he's the tallest, I nominate Logan."
"I'll help!"
Which is how Button comes to be sitting on Logan's shoulders, scrubbing at the lights with a damp rag.
shmoo92
>snickering<
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Which is /also how Logan winds up with melted chocolate in his hair.
shmoo92
Is it better or worse that they have actual lights rather than a ceiling made of translucent panels with tube lighting behind it? (That's what we had in our kitchen pre renovations. The panels tended to randomly shatter on occasion)
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LOL
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I would think worse for cleaning because there are more nooks and crannies in actual lights than on those panels.
"Who's baking?"
"It's just the lights."
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This, unfortunately, leads to Button attempting a variety of melted chocolate experiments on lamps
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Oh my god.
Well, that's better than Wife's brother who used to love sticking pennies in electric outlets to admire the pretty sparks.
Aluminum foil, too.
Their dad tells the story of taking the cover off the outlet in Brother's room to find it half-full of teensy ball of foil Brother'd stuffed inside for the light show.
*balls
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o dear god
How is Brother still alive?
pickle-plum
I'm not completely sure, but he is. He seems to thrive on dangerous fun.
shmoo92
Is he also the one who tested a staple gun on his hand?
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Nope. Staple-gun man would be my sister's husband and the father of her children.
Brother-in-law doesn't thrive on dangerous fun, he gets hurt by it. Often.
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those poor children
XD
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Tell me about it.
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"Where's your father, dear?"
"Emergency room. Again."
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Could even be something out of MojoDojo!
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Pretty much.
HIIIIIIVEMIND! I was just thinking how well that would apply to the men of MojoDojo.
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snork!
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Now it's time for me Moogle!
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D'aaaawww!
Moogle away!
05/28/2016
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Shatterdome hijinks: http://pillowfightday.com/
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They could probably set a world record!
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Yup!
Imagine the /Jaegers going at it.
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FOAM BOARDS!
*would be big enough
Possibly
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Possibly. I'm sure the triplets would work something out.
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yes, yes they will XD
Did you change your icon? It's different in messenger than on your Tumblr (but I may need to clear my cache)
Aaaaand it changed back
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Okay. That's weird.
shmoo92
It's not even anyone else's picture?
Like no one on my activity feed or messages uses it
It does look final fantasy ish tho
And I was about to printscreen when it changed TnT
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razzle-frackin' icons.
05/29/2016
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cat vs team puma real
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Yup. That about covers it. I love the little self-comforting leg grooming in the middle.
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"O, this is a mite distressing >liiiick--< I MADE IT WORSE"
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exactly!
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Aaaaand the whole thing actually loads
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Was Cat climbing the curtain or did someone play a joke?
*dyou think?
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Hmm ... I'm gonna go with self-inflicted. This based on my experience with cats, in which they wouldn't sit still through the process necessary and /then start trying to escape.
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What process?
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attaching something to them or wrapping them in something for my own amusement.
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lolol
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The cats regularly experiment on me (staring into space, appearing in random places, running as fast as they can in attempts to trip or scare me), so I figure they're fair game.
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100% agreement XD
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Also, they deserve it for biting me when I try to be nice sometimes. Little monsters. XD
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You're hair so delicious!
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Unfortunately.
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OMG: https://www.flickr.com/photos/danielpink/5626690258/
05/29/2016
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GOOP
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I KNOW. That's one of the cutest things I've found on my Flickr rambles.
05/29/2016
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How I hope you have a ficlet/plot bunny in mind for it!! (I also have a picture of my dog doing something similar somewhere)
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Only the vaguest of ideas so far, but I'll certainly keep the image in my 'inspiration' file.
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(Since I'm no longer sure, did you recognize the bunny as a plush Peter Rabbit?)
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It wasn't my first thought; j think it was my second
(The jacket and blanket both being blue threw me off I think)
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Ah. Kewl.
05/29/2016
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The panel I waited in line for 1h15min is a total dud
siiiiiiiigh
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Ugh. That sucks.
Hopefully the line was fun?
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I got lots of Streetpasses and that picture of the PowerPuff Girls!
pickle-plum sent a post Submitted AU...
Picture Logan doing this on the flight to Hong Kong while Jackson's grumping about Kirra.
Whoo! That's awesome, right?
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YOSH
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Very awesome!
and ohmigosh when I get on wifi I /must post the pictures of Madoka-kami
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awesome!
whooooooa. That wing thing is /amazing.
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She wore that /all /weekend
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good /lord.
05/29/2016
pickle-plum
What do you think of "Art" as the first of the revised bby!Herms fics, even though it's not chronologically the first (that would be "Mad"): http://athene-noctua.wikia.com/wiki/Art
shmoo92
I don't think it introduces Hermann and Bastien quickly enough
Unrelated, "plottasatically" is an awesome word
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That /is an awesome word.
shmoo92
I was having fun in my "hooman" tag and found it. It is now a card carrying member of my vocabulary
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Niiiiice.
shmoo92
Back to "Fledging" (is that its name, ye think?), I think we should go with ... Karla and 'Deedee are introduced for the first time' as the first one; it introduces everyone quickly as well as some plot/conflict!
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So: http://athene-noctua.wikia.com/wiki/Hatchling_scenes#A_Little_Brother.3F
?
shmoo92
Yea!
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Kewl! Does that one look ready enough?
shmoo92
„Karla, Dietrich. Come with me. /Quietly.“ should be in double quotes (Dietrich is working on his picture when Lars entries)
pickle-plum
Gotcha.
pickle-plum
And, just to be certain, this one lists me as author, you as beta?
shmoo92
Yep!
I have the window open fyi
pickle-plum
Cool, cool.
Okay. I don't. I'm just putting the meta in AO3.
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Phew!
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I must toss myself in the shower but I shall return shoon!
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Cool beans!
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>sparkles<
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>puts on sunglasses<
05/29/2016
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i would 'lol' but there were so many sequins and so much harsh sunlight that people were in all honesty blinding
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>snort<
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also there was a roboPikachu
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oh my.
which reminds me! i found this yesterday: https://www.flickr.com/photos/istolethetv/6887636406/
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OMG
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AND THEY'RE GOING TO A PILLOW FIGHT!
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They're the Pikachu team for the annual Shatterdome pillow fight (as opposed to the Pokemon team or the Starter team (among others))
they are just too perfect
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PERFECT. ABSOLUTELY PERFECT. THEY'RE EVEN FROM HONG KONG.
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RE: Robo!Pikachu, Pietr lobbies to have /Striker's armour reconfigured like that.
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Failing that, he'd settle for restyling a Horizon Brave. XD
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>falls off chair laughing<
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Typhoon gets wind of his pleading and one ups any potential Strikers with a Groudon motif
(i do love that gif XD )
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but not
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pickle-plum
Okay. Now I wanna hear about the time /Typhoon did The Worm.
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this one's just cool
hmmm
they cartwheel a lot ...
>ponders<
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the roommate is making noises about sleeping so i must be off; sleep well!
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you, too!
pickle-plum sent a photoset Aliens (1986) promo shoot Ri...
 
I read 'Ripley and Jones' but all I see is 'Bubbles and Logan'
Which! Imagine an AU where Feng runs a cat sanctuary and Logan is the cat who hates everyone but him.
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Which, come to think of it, isn't all that different from their ANSK relationship ....
05/30/2016
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Yea, it kinda does XD
05/30/2016
shmoo92 sent a post Please, tumblr artist...
Commission budget is spent for the month/quarter?
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Also, can't decide what to commission exactly or from who .... #firstworldproblems
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I helps? >bats eyelashes<
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Feel free!
shmoo92
Where will I find your artist and idea list?
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in my head? DX
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>___<
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I will try to get at least some of it down on pixels today.
shmoo92
There's a very outdated list in an email somewhere
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that ... sounds familiar.
probably better to start from scratch though, since that's soooo out of date.
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Possibly worth as a reference? Maybe, anyway XD
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true. i'll see if i can find it this afternoon.
05/30/2016
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Found them XD Just wanted to wait until I had the wifis
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WHOOT! Thanks!
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You're welcome!
05/30/2016
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So Sean it hurts.
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>snork<
Quick facts: doesn't know what to do win his hands
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done. XD
05/30/2016
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thisshmoowhines: there's a baby with a cold who, logically, keeps crying; the seats have barely any padding, I'm too small for the darn things, and I really really really want not to have to pack or look at a suitcase for a couple days
And I want to be off this train.
pickle-plum
Sounds like a perfect storm of 'meh' you've got there.
shmoo92
'A perfect storm of 'meh''. I like that. Very good way to put it.
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>bows<
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How is you?
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Not too bad. Writing, eating blueberries, listening to the cat snore, watching the sunset start ....
shmoo92
Oooo, how lovely!
Are you off work already or are you on vacation?
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It totally is.
I'm on vacation (though I wouldn't have to work today anyway, seeing as it's a holiday), but I would've been home from work most days by now, too.
I'm on vacation ALL WEEK.
Fear me, keyboard, for I shall be abusing you mercilessly!
shmoo92
Niiiiiiiice!!!
pickle-plum
I'm certainly looking forward to it!
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Is Cat happy with the company? (That was a joke, haha, fat chance. -- "Still Alive", Portal soundtrack)
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Cat seems more worried about what's happened to her other monkey (the Wife) than happy with me.
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When does the spousal unit return?
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Sometime tonight.
She's somewhere on the road back right now.
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(Apologies for any double messages--the woes of switching wifis mid conversation)
Where did the winds take her?
pickle-plum
No worries.
To Dayton, Ohio, to visit her cousin.
I kindly volunteered to stay behind and mind her prized tomato plants. XD
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Such a nice wifey! XD
shmoo92
>google maps< WHAT DO YOU MEAN OHIO IS EAST OF ILLINOIS
Isn't Ohio in the Midwest? With banjos and cornfields???
pickle-plum
Yes, Ohio is generally considered part of the Midwest, the eastern edge of it.
And, yes, it does have banjos and cornfields.
Also, the highest rate of road-kill of any state I've ever seen.
shmoo92
Ewwww
A low moose population, I hope
pickle-plum
I believe all the meese in the state are safely contained in zoos.
shmoo92
PHEW
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It's mostly skunks, raccoons, and opossums.
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The occasional white-tailed deer for destructive power.
shmoo92
The skunks must make that quite the aromatic stretch of interstate. (This is the correct context for 'interstate' instead of 'highway', yes?)
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The interstates (it's an official designation for a given road, not a general class of road in this fine country; there's nothing physically or route-ly to differentiate them from some road which /aren't interstates) are generally pretty roadkill-free. The highways, though ... /very aromatic.
shmoo92
Interstates are highways but highways aren't always interstates?
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Bingo.
shmoo92
So what constitutes "the south" in the USA?
The handwavey description in "Underground Railroad" from Grade 6 is apparently ... well, I'm still getting over the fact Ohio isn't around Texas.
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(Also, since when is Georgia that far south? That plane ride wasn't that long!)
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The South includes the states east of the Mississippi River and south of Kentucky and Virginia (including those two), plus Louisiana (according to everyone) and minus Florida (according to a lot of people).
pickle-plum
Georgia contains some of the South-iest South.
05/30/2016
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Button and Logan.
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And I bet Logan had tooth mark ornamentation while Button was teething XD
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Undoubtedly. It was fun trying to explain the one on his nose.
shmoo92
"Ran into a doorknob."
"Uh huuh."
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"How big was this door?"
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"Why did it have a something resembling a jaw pattern?"
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"Novelty door."
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Sweet cheetos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/77413176@N08/16473669643/
*jesus
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I'm slightly alarmed
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of baby being smothered? or eaten?
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THERES A BABY IN THERE???
>squints<
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yup. six Pinky Pies and one bean.
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less alarmed now the picture isn't a bedspread with someone's specific my little pony collection
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nope, it's a pack of ponies moving in for the kill.
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nuhnuhNaNuuuuuuuuh
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"Wei triplets go through a few trials to find the perfect nesting material"
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>snort<
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*please note ponies were removed from the contest due to giving Annj nightmares.
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Although the incident is forgotten, Anni forever has to leave the room during the 'horse of a different colour' scene in The Wizard of Oz.
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yeeeeessss
05/31/2016
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Is that bottom one helper!cat?
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Kitten is unfortunately too dark-colored to be helper!cat.
==June==
06/01/2016
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Darn!
06/02/2016
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bb!Hermann attempting adult owl behaviours
06/02/2016
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oh. oh dear.
shmoo92 sent a post What is that bird, yo...
LOOKIT THE GRUMPY RICEBALL
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don't wanna find that in my bento. XD
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OMG THEY ARE SO TINY
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Yup. Hard to believe all the bits they need to birb fit in there.
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bento wouldn't be much of a bento when riceball scarfs it all down
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... point.
kid arrives at school and all they have is an extra-large, poofy, angry rice ball for lunch.
sad times.
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an extra large, extra loud, angry riceball
riceball proceeds to eat the other riceballs
It coughs back up the fishy insides, much to the 'ewww' of the children
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and go toddling along the tabletop while the rest of the class watches in stunned silence.
eww.
shmoo92
but effective for making a distinction between metaphorical riceballs and actual riceballs
instead of metaphorical riceballs eating metaphorical riceballs which is sad
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definitely.
shmoo92
Looooving the image of grumpy, toddling riceball
pickle-plum
very, very true. i prefer all of my metaphorical alive.
pickle-plum
i want to work this into a fic, but I'm not sure how to do it.
shmoo92
same
Cause kittens when they uncurl have distinct legs, whereas (baby) frogmouths don't
pickle-plum
Feng eating lunch at a bird sanctuary?
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And unless it's a kitten I don't know how the scenario can work out given our universe
NOW YOURE TALKING
oooo, tahnee and Dana with fei yen at the zoo!!!
and they're like, oh, I guess we packed riceballs for lunch O GOD IT MOVED
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EVEN BETTER!
Feiby tries to nom one.
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"Fei--no, Fei Yen, that's not--put the birddy down--Fei Yen--DONT EAT THE EXHIBIT eeeeew Now see if you put something with feathers in your mouth you're going to get feathers in your mouth."
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Fei Yen: 'mlem mlem mlem'
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Riceball: >takes the opportunity to escape<
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someone goes in pursuit, discovers angry momma frogmouth.
shmoo92
Someone makes a hasty retreat, angry momma frogmouth shrieking and hopping on their heels
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yuuuuuup.
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"Stop pecking me, you crazy eldritch horror, I just wanted to make sure your baby was okay!"
pickle-plum
heh. 'eldritch horror'.
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:D
06/02/2016
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IT'S REAL
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https://www.facebook.com/medillreportschicago/videos/1711239132491389/?autoplay_reason=all_page_organic_allowed&video_container_type=0&video_creator_product_type=2&app_id=2392950137
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duuuuuuuuuude.
06/03/2016
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Right! I've been meaning to take you up on your offer of alpaca names; one of them hints they might be a 'lucy' but the other remains aloof as to a moniker
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'Indiana' and 'Darling'
06/03/2016
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The Kiwibots tire of waiting for the boat from the mainland.
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>gasp of delight<
06/03/2016
shmoo92 sent a post brain: weghggghghhh...
First I snorked, then I thought of you and snorked again, and then I imagined you (cartoon Hermann) tapping away at your laptop while this cartoon brain is distracting beside you, and without looking, you spray it with a spraybottle. Then I imagined Cat (Orange tabby) looking at brain like its, well, a disembodied cartoon brain.
06/04/2016
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Who has one?
06/04/2016
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*snort* i WISH i could zap my brain with a spray bottle sometimes.
Jackson /obviously owns one.
He offers to buy one for Kirra, but she gives him the DEATH GLARE and he lets it go.
06/04/2016
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!!!
One night when they're going to bed in Jacksons room, Kirra goes to get her PJs and Jackson's like, suggestion!
she rolls her eyes, pulls it on, and shoves him under a pillow
pickle-plum
yeaaa ... sounds about right.
pickle-plum
although, she's not gonna ask why he has a nightgown in his closet?
shmoo92
The next morning, "why dyou have a star trek nightgown in your closet?"
"They didn't sell anything for guys." 
Kirra thinks, Why does that make sense? and says, "You are irredeemably a nerd." 
"Yeeeep." Offers a the teapot. "Tea in licensed star trek mugs?"
shmoo92
Kirra wonders if her cereal actually looks like delta insignias or if it's her imagination
pickle-plum
SNORK.
06/04/2016
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Jackson totally does this.
shmoo92
Yes, yes he does.
06/05/2016
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Cat liking inappropriate things (p1)
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06/05/2016
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THE PLAYSTATION?!?!?!?!
pickle-plum
WTF, KITTY?!
06/05/2016
shmoo92
Logan's playing video games. 
Cat jumps up to watch. 
Logan plays video games. 
Cat jumps onto the wall unit for a better look. 
Logan plays video games. 
Cat investigates the game console. 
Logan plays video games. 
Cat sniffs the game console. 
Logan plays. 
Cat noses the game console. 
Logan plays. 
Cat ....
Logan plays. 
Cat liiiiiiiiiiiii--
Logan ....
--ccccccccks--
Logan ....
--the game console. 
Logan pauses the game, shoving to his feet, picks up the cat by the scruff of its neck, strides to Jack's room, slides open the door, tosses the cat on the bed--
"What the--"
--slides the door shut, returns to the couch, resumes his game.
06/05/2016
pickle-plum
SNORK!
I love love love the sheer inexplicableness of both the cat AND Logan.
shmoo92
:D
06/05/2016
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Jackson buys a bee for Kirra.
06/06/2016
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>low!pickle slinks past<
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(I really just wanted to save the first one. The second is the one I actually wanted to send)
pickle-plum
D'awww. Thanks.
(Gotcha. It's adorable, too.)
shmoo92
Oh yea! Think I thought of last night or the night before!
Xiong's buddy who mentors stacker in his marshalship steals her (mother's) spray bottle
It's not a punishment-reward kinda thing; rather her buddy will randomly say "think fast"
"Eh?"
">squirt<"
pickle-plum
Niiiiiiice.
shmoo92
and dissolve into giggles at stacker's expense
pickle-plum
I'm reminded of the gifset of Charlie Hunnam describing the filming of the last Conn-pod scenes, with the water leaking into 'Striker'.
*video (oops)
shmoo92
"No water this time?"
"No water this time."
">actors clamber into conn pods<"
"Ready the water!"
"Fuuuuck--gloo gloo gloo"
(Possibly not the correct video)
pickle-plum
Same net effect as the one I'm thinking of. This was Elba telling Del Toro not to use so much water, Del Toro saying 'don't worry, we'll go easy this time', then turning around and instructing the crew to turn on all the jets.
shmoo92
Oh yea!
"I have invented a torture machine. >gleeful smile<"
pickle-plum
yup.
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Kirra when she was little (and had parents)
pickle-plum
oh my god.
since I have you here (and I'm thinking about it again), what sayest thou to the following:
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Among our surviving pilots in ANSK, there are no Mark II Rangers among the living, while there is at least one for every other series. We have also successfully killed every lesbian Ranger. So, we save Dana and Cato so there're two of each.
shmoo92
I'm a terrible person
Ahem
SAVE THE LESBIANS!!!!!!!!
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I'm suggesting this partly so /I feel less like a terrible person.
'course, this'll mean they each lose a twin, which will still make their lives suck a bit ....
shmoo92
I am all for both those goals
We could save all four of them if we really wanted
Course that's basically a death sentence for our VA girls and the Costas
pickle-plum
we definitely could, but I wanted to make sure we were on the same page about the LESBIANS.
shmoo92
We are very much on the same page about the lesbians
pickle-plum
I've already come to total peace with the Mogodis and Costas dying.
shmoo92
And j feel like a terrible person because SAVE THE LESBIANS keeps cracking me up
pickle-plum
that's because SAVE THE LESBIANS just /is funny.
shmoo92
And it's like "goal: actors' backgrounds = characters", "less white dudes the better", "SAVE THE LESBIANS"
pickle-plum
heh. yep. that's, like, three of our major aims in a nutshell.
pickle-plum
we should probably tell rory about their bbys survival.
shmoo92
I shall ask if an email discussion is kewl so we can all chime in
pickle-plum
sounds good.
06/06/2016
shmoo92
Btw, do I have your permission to share your email with Rory?
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Chuck goes dog sledding
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Fei Yen
06/07/2016
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I have now filled horizon brave's cryocannon charge up with soap
06/07/2016
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06/07/2016
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yes, go ahead and share my email with rory (sorry for the delay)
shmoo92
That's cool!
pickle-plum
Yea, that's probably how Chuck handles a dog-sled.
Aaaand now I'm picturing a dog-sled towed by a team of rather rotund bulldogs and having a giggle.
shmoo92
Riding a dogsled? Great! Steering? Not so much XD
Have you ever seen the claymation Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer?
pickle-plum
I've seen that soooo many times, but not for a while now.
shmoo92
Remember Yukon Cornelius' dogsled? They're not Bulldogs, but they're close! XD
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*snorking at small child and bulldogs*
*looks up Yukon Cornelius on image search, finishes falling off chair*
shmoo92
\o/
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Re: HB and soap: BIGGEST BUBBLE CANNON EVER!
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RE: pet bee. Dear god, she even LOOKS like a little Kirra, sorta.
shmoo92
I KNOW
HB and soap: cleaning the hangar must be a /breeze!
AND IMAGINE THE SIZE OF THE BUBBLES!!!
pickle-plum
Figure she's dreamed that at least once?
HB has to stop with the bubbles when a small dog is carried away.
shmoo92
>spit take<
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And if Team Alpha is there with the turbines, even faster!
shmoo92
there was an Animorphs story where one of the characters' morphing was out of control and she turned from a dolphin into an ant and freaked out about drowning for three seconds before she realized she was standing, breathing, not wet, and racing towards the surface, and discovered she had somehow wound up inside a bubble
I want to look up what the bee population's like around mount USA
shmoo92
*isa
pickle-plum
Whoa. That's quite a story.
I can guarantee you Mt Isa has bees. XD
shmoo92
YOSH.
Animorphs did a lot of cool things, gotta say.
shmoo92
Honey bees are a go in Mt Isa. So the darling station has a hive or two and Kirra definitely has dreams of having a giant bee
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Woot!
06/07/2016
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Mention crowtoed!
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Thanks! Done!
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Cape Town, South Africa. Could be inspirational!
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cool! thanks!
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"If your dad's James Bond, where's your license to kill?"
"O, I don't have one--I'm still working on my learners permit. But when he gets here~!"
06/08/2016
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I think we now need to cast Lin Manuel Miranda in something.
pickle-plum
I've been trying to find a place for him for weeks!
The best I've come up with is one of the Hispanic marshals.
shmoo92
OOOOOO
pickle-plum
Or, given his response, he could be the J-Tech chief for one of the Jaegers.
pickle-plum
He COULD be a nice Arriola from Panama City, make him deal with the Costas ....
shmoo92
Considering he's running around with that cravat night after night ....
pickle-plum
*snork*
He makes one offhand remark about enjoying reading about that period of history and the Costas reproduce the entire /Hamilton wardrobe for him and his family.
shmoo92
"You look at lot like that guy from that musical--"
"--so we made you an outfit to match!"
"Artistic liberties taken with the lace--"
"--of course."
I LIKE YOURS BETTER
pickle-plum
BAHAHAHAHA.
thenk yew!
Jaws are dropped at the next fancy dress event, let me tell you.
shmoo92
good lord yes
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I'm just imagining the snark from the other marshals and him just /owning the cravat.
shmoo92
yeeeesssss
""Marshal, just /what are you wearing?""
"It's a cravat, Marshal. They look best on those with a certain amount of style."
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YES.
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we should take a moment and write this into a scenelet and post it, shouldn't we.
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yes, yes we should
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of course, this opportunity presents itself the day I'm suffering from absolutely /crippling self-doubt.
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(im currently looking for a 'comfort' gif (no luck so far) but i want to save this)
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Ooo! preeeeeetty.
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i knoooow!!!
dangit i already used the dog petting the cat
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why is this tagged 'comfort'
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the fire's nice and cozy?
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youre on to something, there
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'reassure'!
pickle-plum
aaah. that helps a bit.
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\o/
pickle-plum
a first draft of a scene for lin-manuel miranda is on the wiki.
shmoo92
>deshes over<
*>dashes over<
06/08/2016
pickle-plum
guess who just found a picture of mr miranda in full /hamilton regalia with the right kind of copyright restrictions~!
shmoo92
!!!!!!!
Last Thursday at 8:07 PM
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Okay. it's up on AO3 for your final run through, comments, and a summary because I'm stuck for one: http://archiveofourown.org/works/7151111
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nom nom nom
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the two kittens!!!!
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the cute!!!!
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THE CUTE!!!!
Last Friday at 9:27 AM
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You came up with a blurb!!!
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Uh, I just tried to riff on yours?
Last Friday at 11:26 AM
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Then we are awesome. And I may need more sleep.
pickle-plum
I feel you. I /definitely do.
Last Friday at 12:28 PM
shmoo92
I feel the same as I've been feeling since I got back from Halifax/Boston/Italy/Toronto/Kingston which is 'fine-ish' (possibly a bit more 'go to beeeed' today) but I know I'm probably a lot more tired than I feel--both logically and I had one day where, for two hours, I realized I felt like a human again and it was amazing
shmoo92
Alas, I haven't been sleeping well in the last week so I'm guessing all this will catch up with me /hard
pickle-plum
Yea ... that's kinda the boat I'm in. Too much excitement and weirdness, not enough sleep. I'm hoping to sleep deep and late tomorrow to make up for it.
shmoo92
Liking the sounds of that!
shmoo92
Sent another tweet >nervous<
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I found Jackson's Tumblr
pickle-plum
oh dear god.
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I can't decide of someone gives a shirt with one of those on it to Jackson and he's all 'uhh ....' or if he gives one to someone and laughs his ass off.
shmoo92
Maybe "you shall die slowly and with great pain" is what he has put on the notebooks he gives to Charlie in Turtles
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Oooo ... i LIKE this.
I kinda wanna see Feng in the 'red panda' version since that's he daemon ....
shmoo92
*u*
It's metallic gold on black
Logan gets it for him for his birthday
pickle-plum
Perfect.
shmoo92
I want it to be the one he wears in ... the one where Chuck runs off his mouth and Logan hangs him upside down off a catwalk
But I also think that's achrono ... that word
pickle-plum
Anachronistic?
shmoo92
I think that's the one! (It's not 'anarchy' or 'arcanist' and those are the only three 'ana-something words I can think of)
(You may notice 'archanist' isn't an 'Ana-something' word however I get t mixed up with anarchist all. the. time.)
shmoo92
(So my character in FFXIV is an archanist, but I didn't realize that until I actually tracked down the guild and started quests, and I said "I don't want to be an anarchist!" and my datemate was. 'You're not ...?')
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I don't think it would be. The story of Chuck's near plummet is currently in March 2017, so Logan would've known Feng about a year and Feng would've had a birthday at which to receive it.
*snort*
but anarchy is so much fun!
shmoo92
All I can say is I'm glad it's in character for me to have problems with words XD
shmoo92
But what about maintaining the sewer systems? Or garbage disposal?
Anaphor's another one! But I don't get that one mixed up, possibly because I've only ever seen it in linguistics.
Said tshirt would fit well with Vulcan Specter's clothing line, too
pickle-plum
anarchy may not be perfect, but it's fun until one needs to flush?
that is not a word i've seen before.
Yes, that would make a good shirt for the line, although the 'slow and painful death' is perhaps even /more fitting, given Vulcan's fighting style.
shmoo92
Eeeeey, good point!
And that is a perfect slogan for anarchy
pickle-plum
So, 'painful death' is the the limited edition and the 'red pandas' is a one-off for Feng and he wears it with pride.
shmoo92
>twitchy for words<
pickle-plum
oh! I'm working on the day Feng gets the shirt words.
shmoo92
omg awesome!!!!
shmoo92
For Logan getting the shirt in the first place, I've got images of Logan sauntering down to Wardrobe, easing by the laser cutter and a wicked thing with, like, nine sewing machine needles
As for how he conveys that he's looking for a custom shirt, I'm not sure
pickle-plum
I've got him abusing the internet.
shmoo92
Niiiiice
Last Saturday at 5:30 PM
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FENG.
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"Where're you going?"
"Time to check on my traps."
"O_o"
>a few minutes later<
"\(^u^)/"
"omg"
On a sunny patch of concrete outside the 'Dome, twenty cats sprawl.
pickle-plum
Yup. And that's very nearly poetry.
shmoo92
>flamboyant bow!<
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I now kinda wanna make Loser the plant a catnip.
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Yesssssssss
Last Sunday at 11:32 AM
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I seem to recall these are a key aspect of your speech (from a very old conversation)
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yes, yes they are. i major in malaphors.
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and i had no idea they had a name.
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Back to our regularly scheduled programming
pickle-plum
Those are all pretty brilliant.
shmoo92
I love gif search ^u^
I have come to the conclusion that, considering there's a word for for being thrown from a window (defenestration), there's a word for just about everything
for instance, the holes in a person's hands and feet from being crucified are "the stigmata" which is not a "stigma" nor a "stigmatism"
pickle-plum
true enough. one just needs to search out these special words.
shmoo92
/that is the hard part TnT
How many hours did I spend on Wikipedia looking for hypernyms for my thesis? Many.
pickle-plum
heh. fun fun fun.
shmoo92
That it was ^u^
Last Sunday at 8:35 PM
pickle-plum
okay. i need a pep talk to post something on AO3.
shmoo92
Hamilton's up for, like, nine Tony awards, so he's probably insanely busy and won't see a tweet until next week which is also my birthday
*so Lin-Manuel Miranda's probably insanely busy
pickle-plum
yea, he probably is. here's hoping the show wins 'em all.
birthday! happy birthday!
shmoo92
Thank you!!!!
I believe it's impossible for Hamilton to win them all as I think a couple of them are nominated in the same category
But hey! They broke a world record for Tony nominations!
pickle-plum
darn.
whoo!
shmoo92
(I really need to remember what the founder's full name is so I can refer to them properly. They were formerly "Antonia something award for performance in theatre" -> "Antonia something award" -> "Tony award" and then I think in the last couple decades they took the compact and makeup brushes off the statue. Which is depressing.)
pickle-plum
That /is depressing.
shmoo92
Okay, brain, decent pep talk time!
!
pickle-plum
?
shmoo92
Posting this latest Fledging chapter will give you a new opportunity to message feriowind or iraya that winged!Hermann has been resurrected!
pickle-plum
good point!
shmoo92
Aaaaand, according to hauntedfalcon, Hamilton's won two awards
pickle-plum
wooo!
shmoo92
They're up to four now!
pickle-plum
yeehaw!
Today at 12:10 PM
pickle-plum sent a photoset What do you mean fail these...
 
Some of these are /definitely prompts for one of more of our couples.
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Gawd that picture
pickle-plum
brilliant, ay?
shmoo92
It managed to capture that instant between 'a person slipped/is falling' and the brain firing 'be surprised!'
so yes, brilliant
And so prompt-y!
pickle-plum
yup!
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pickle-plum
I'm having a Jackson moment here.
shmoo92
ohmigoodness
pickle-plum
I KNOW.
shmoo92: !!! Jackson finds such a cat toy in such a sunbeam, has to take a moment to corral the urge to bless it in Vulcan.
pickle-plum
But he can't quite resist and Kirra (if at Monkey House) or Logan (if in a Shatterdome) catch him.
shmoo92: "Did you just bless that cat toy?"
Jackson rolls his eyes and waves, 'well, /duh' at the sunbeam. "When you see a tribble like this, it's kinda hard to resist."
"In /Vulcan?" 
"Chuck and I've been watching StarTerk."
"And you just happen to remember a blessing in Vulcan."
"Took a couple linguistics classes in university. Vulcan came up a lot by virtue of being a successful artificial language." 
"Suuuuure."
pickle-plum
*snort*
pickle-plum
"Well, /you knew it was a Vulcan blessing, too!"
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"Not by choice!"
"You could forget!"
"You're /both nerds. Get over it."
They huff.
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Feng proposes these for all the hangar cats.
shmoo92: The hard hats don't work out as well XD
pickle-plum
dear god.
or the steel-toed kitten mittens.
shmoo92: >giggling<
shmoo92: waaaaay back in April we had a similar discussion that also involved Xiong wondering if the cats would unionize, and then wonder what her life has become that she isn't surprised to be thinking such a thing
I will have to back up this chat today.
pickle-plum: yes. very very good idea.
shmoo92: >cracks knuckles< Here we go!
pickle-plum: whoo!
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