unquinnish.bsky.social
multimedia wordsmith. queer disabled conjurer of wonder. not much of a trickster, actually. ADHD, very tired.
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I just really miss livejournal
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I got a booster in 2020, bc my antibodies were tested & found to be nonexistent. In my case the dr office tested them when also testing my varicella antibodies (I told them I hadn't had varicella vaccine nor illness; they tested to confirm) & then just gave me the booster. I think CVS just lets you?
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...are pots & migraine frequent comorbidities?
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Ooh, good reminder thanks!
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Being Gandalf must be really hard sometimes. Mostly while riding herd on hobbits.
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Ah, wonderful! I definitely didn't remember that bit at all.
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Cool, thanks! That's what I get for not checking dates. I think I've assumed he wasn't being much use to anyone until he had met back up with folks in Fangorn, based on how vague he seems initially there.
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Maybe you've covered this and I missed it, but: IS Gandalf making transmissions at that point? Isn't he busy passing through fire under a mountain?
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Is that purely a matter of judge's preference? Or is it more local court culture?
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Oh my God, I've got burnout older than this petitioner
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Oh heck yeah!!!
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Have you figured out a way to get good, effective results on Duck Duck Go? I'm generally finding 1-2 pages worth of the most search engine optimized slop, & none of the kind of real websites (or forum) results google of even 2 years ago would have gotten me
I want to love DDG, but it is a struggle
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**more than awareness, really.
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Though I suppose that was about interest as much as awareness. Which isn't quite what you asked, but does seek relevant to what your broader question about whether activities at traditional SFF cons were targeted at younger people: in my 20s, I expected them to be not for me.
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Otoh, I'd been to fanfic-related cons & knew of fanvidding cons, which are a different thing culturally & were very much about meeting up with people I already knew, irl or online, & friends-of-friends
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Prior to 2020 when many went online, I had been to one single traditional SFF con when a friend invited me, & was vaguely aware of the existence of others but honestly could only have named maybe a couple, not local to me
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I have no idea the percentage, but I would guess vast
Anecdotally:
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I just saw someone post on reddit asking why she looks in her 30s when she's 22, & it was a definite case of "Honestly by 30 you'll probably have learned how to do your eyebrows & hair" so...yeah, no, I don't buy it
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Oof, yeah.
They make me horrendously nauseated, and at this point I would expect them to trigger migraines. And they're physically uncomfortable and exhausting!
Blarg.
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I sure do!!
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I honestly don't even consider buses a viable option 99% of the time. They just aren't.
And I used to really like the bus... on the lines which were actually kept up, etc etc etc
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And that's WITH seating available most of the time!!
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The new cars starting ~10 yrs ago had migraine-inducing lighting, & they changed the way braking is done going into stations to be much more jerky
I understand why they made that choice (automation vs human-controlled, related to, uh, Incidents), but it really knocked it out of my available options
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Oh, DEFINITELY. I used to take the metro everywhere all the time in DC, until it became something I needed to allocate as much energy to as I would for wherever I was going & the math stopped working.
Some of that was about me & my health, but a huge amount was changes they made.
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👀 I'm in danger [dot] meme
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You're extremely correct & should say so
Honestly that would improve Hallmark movies so much, but it's not the conservative fantasy they're shilling
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Honestly that's the most baffling thing for me about Hallmark Christmas movies: where is the meth? Where are the pills? Come on, y'all!
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Yeah. That's... probably meant well, with no awareness that it could also read as a opsec concern.
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I just read a whole thread of people loving on Costco, which was surprisingly life-affirming. Might go well with the potatoes?
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Ooh! I badly need a new mattress but have been overwhelmed by the possibility of picking the wrong one & not being able to fix it so being trapped in daily pain flares for the indefinite future. This might be the solution!! Thanks for the heads up!
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I didn't know momento mori was among the many services Costco offers!
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that's fair. I just always jump straight to No Children (I guess & Southwood Plantation Road)
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honestly Mountain Goats is fantastic for disses
& for the kind of messy in Fairytale of New York, for that matter
which reminds me of Carrie Fisher recommending having Paul Simon write a breakup song about you
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MorRISSey, help I cannot-- 😆
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My household adaption of the lyrics is "you discount Bob Saget" and it makes me laugh every time
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Hmm, I guess possibly Fairytale of New York is too being being weird about it to be a diss track
But it goes so hard