Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.

Buffy ,'Sleeper'


Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Jessica - Aug 24, 2021 7:13:35 am PDT #8690 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Also, that personality quiz informs me I am 84% Willow Rosenberg, Tina Belcher and Will Byers and 83% Charlie from Perks, which is all quite nice, but also 81% Bran from GoT and 76% Georgiana Fucking Darcy and Buster Bluth, which HOW DARE. Also only 71% Radar O'Reilly or Chidi Anagonye, which I question. But at least only 24% Mister Wickham and 19% Gaston, so that's a relief.

I had to scroll down pretty far to get to a character/show I actually knew, but once I did I got 81% for Ben Wyatt AND Twilight Sparkle, which, honestly, I find incredibly flattering!


JenP - Aug 24, 2021 8:15:57 am PDT #8691 of 30000

Awesome, Scola. Also, awesome Scola.

Lisah, sending love and healing vibes your and your dad and family's way. That is a very scary and apt description. I'm so sorry this is happening.

Also on the JZ love train.

Meara, I hope it's a no news is good news scenario... though I understand the worry.

How's new home, Scrappy?


DebetEsse - Aug 24, 2021 8:49:28 am PDT #8692 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.

Scola, that makes sense. And thanks, though I'm planning on waiting till things firm up a bit before talking about it because everything is stressful omg and I just cannot even with dealing with all the people.

lisah, I hope that he can get out of his loop.

I got 93% Ender Wiggin, 92% Ariadne from Inception (whose character traits I basically remember not at all), 91% Michale Scofield (Prison Break) (???), and then my 90%s: Hermione, Gandalf, Daniel Jackson (Sam Carter comes in at 89. Are they basically the same character?), and Jemma Simmons. I am also equally Remus Lupin and Elizabeth Bennet (87%) and just slightly more Jean-Luc Picard (88%). So, there's that. I would take it again to see about how the questions they sample influence the results, but that is a rabbit hole I do not need.


sj - Aug 24, 2021 9:35:24 am PDT #8693 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I don’t think I can accurately assess myself to do that quiz.

lisah, ~ma for your father.


Laura - Aug 24, 2021 9:40:02 am PDT #8694 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

Lisah, sending positive vibes for a resolution soon for your dad. How scary and frustrating. Good that there was no stroke!

Tom. I hope it is a positive experience for you. Good job taking that step!


-t - Aug 24, 2021 9:40:23 am PDT #8695 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I found that pretty challenging, sj, and doubt I did a good job of it. But my results seem reasonable anyhow.


Laura - Aug 24, 2021 9:41:26 am PDT #8696 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

I used pretty random percentages, but the results made sense.


DebetEsse - Aug 24, 2021 9:44:08 am PDT #8697 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.

Weirdly, I found the slider to be less fraught than the binary choices. Yes, you can/have to be more precise, but being able to answer "mostly" and "kinda" (only with numbers) was nice.


sumi - Aug 24, 2021 10:26:51 am PDT #8698 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!

I tried the quiz: it asked me questions about er. I haven’t seen that show since it went off the air. My top match was Raj from The Big Bang Theory plus lots of TVs characters I didn’t recognize.

Gus - your daughter & new son-in-law make an adorable couple & seem so happy.


EpicTangent - Aug 24, 2021 10:30:01 am PDT #8699 of 30000
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

So much ~ma for your dad, lisah.

I don't know who Twilight Sparkle is; rather than google it, I choose to believe Jessica is bragging about being 81% My little Pony.

I haven't tried this quiz. Clearly, I need to go back for the link and give it a go.

I'm glad you signed up for the class, Tom. I hope you get so much out of it!

ION: In addition to the guy named Tino that we hired a couple of months ago, we've got vendors on site and one of them is named Tino as well - send help!