#ordere New Year Gift

[coridallasmultipass]

Holy shit, I found my snake on a cup!! Pink baby, just like mine!! It's so cute, so I had to get it!! Snakes are so freaking cute!! It's so rare to find snake things outside of October, and especially rare to find cute snakes! Happy early Lunar New Year (on January 29).

[stromer]

i cant speak on the speculation regarding pete buying brock a build-a-bear christmas gift with voice notes of the team… please i can’t even begin to think about the implications of this

[guinevereslancelot]

i love christmas yet i'm dreading it bc i can never stop spending soo much money i do not have on little gifts for my friends and family 🥲

[buglaur]

nollaig shona daoibh a chairde 🫶

[yatiso]

im sorry digital world analog devices no matter how finicky or straight up entirely more liable to be defective or time/money consuming will always have the top shelf in my heart

[ittybittybumblebee]

unspoken dispute to settle

[spilling-blood]

Oh fuck. I am about to cease to exist. Civ 7 comes out February 11th. I got paid today do I pre order...do I get the collectors edition that clock is so pretty I want it on my desk...the scout figurine...ohhhhhhh.

[dragons-and-yellow-roses]

Tell me more about this book blanket? I'm Fascinated

Omg yay!! Okay so I'm knitting two rows per book that I finish in 2024, and each book rows will be a different color based on the genre it is

So here are the books I've read so far. Everything that's in bold is what I've knitted, and the last book on the list is what I'm currently reading but haven't finished yet. So I've knitted everything before Fifty Feet Down, and read everything up to Annie on My Mind, but I'm currently like thirty percent through it.

I'm choosing colors as I finish genres, and I'm trying to do it only with yarn I have (cuz yarn is expensive and I have a lot of yarn. The reason I have a lot of yarn suitable for a blanket is because I took all of this yarn from a blanket I started knitting four years ago and never finished. Like I finished frogging that blanket yesterday and made it into cakes on my new yarn winder!!) I didn't really try to make the colors fit the genres. I just own a lot of navy yarn and knew I'd read a lot of LGBTQ books, and I own a lot of black and know I'll read a lot of horror books. Then for dystopian I just chose a yarn color that I had available, same with mystery.

Here's how it's going so far! You can see the four navy rows for the two LGBTQ books i read, the two purple for the one dystopian book (which is also very good, I highly recommend Debate Kids at the End of the World and that author in general, Alex Nonymous) and then a chunk of black because I read four I. S. Belle books in a row (you can also see all of the ends I didn't weave in, which I'm going to hate myself for when I finish the blanket)

"But Austyn, what if the book is more than one genre?" I'm so glad you asked! Most of these books could be considered more than one genre. Fifty Feet Down is a mystery, but also a romance. So I just consider what genre I believe is more integral to the story, if that makes sense. Fifty Feet Down could be relatively the same if the main characters were just friends, but the story would be vastly different if it wasn't a mystery. Therefore, it gets the mystery color instead of romance. Same with all of the I. S. Belle books. There's romance in them, but if you took out the romance it would still be pretty similar, but if you took out the horror it would be an incredibly different story.

So that's my 2024 book blanket!

[you-have-made-a-fatal-error]

9, 32, or 37 for the ask game!

ooh, thanks!!

9. Something you find scary in an ND game that people don’t talk about

the endgame sequence in secret of the scarlet hand scared me half to death when I played it as a kid. you're trapped with a dead thing and to get out you have to open it's mouth? i didn't even want to look at it! but then, i was an easily scared kid.

now i think i'm most frightened by the apparent lack of ventilation/sanitation in the secret/hidden baths in shadow at the water's edge? there must be so much mildew in there! i get that it's the site of the shimizus' tragic loss, but you can't brick up a natural hotspring in the middle of your hotel. that would result in so much mold- not to mention the smell. there's no way you can't smell that all over the ryoken. /shudders/.

32. If you had to get rid of one game and instead combine it with another one, which games would you combine and why?

hmm. might be interesting to combine the haunted carousel and the final scene. imo they're probably the weakest out of the early games - FIN has always felt to me like it's a step back in quality/tone after MHM and TRT, and CAR doesn't really have a lot going on.

consider something like this: it's still the final show at the royal palladium, controversial demolition scheduled, activists/historical society trying to save it - but there are also reports of lights/the projector/sound systems turning on and off on their own, could it be the spirit of JJ Thompson disturbed by the upcoming demo? or could someone be faking a haunting to gin up publicity to stop the demolition? maya and nancy arrive to interview brady armstrong, maya is kidnapped from the dressing room, the case begins.

brady, simone and joseph stay basically the same. harlan can still be a security guard. joy could work as a manager or something at the royal palladium, have her backstory involve going to the movies with her mom, now she works at the theatre but hates movies. she can still have a little b-plot, but make it less annoying than the one that eats everything else in CAR. i think you could combine elliot and nick into a single character, just make the HAD-IT activist an artist. ingrid... okay, i'm not sure how you fit ingrid in. it would be a shame to lose her, but i'm working entirely off the cuff here. ingrid... tbd. sorry ingrid.

oh, and i would add a day/night dynamic that lets you snoop around the theatre at night, and maybe witness some of the 'hauntings' (spoilers: they don't turn out to be real hauntings) firsthand.

yeah. maybe something like that?

37. Most disappointing ending

I'll go with the captive curse, because the culprit being the most likeable character in the game is deeply annoying. and 'bitches be crazy' is a shit motive especially when they could have gone with 'rich guy disregards safety to maximize profit'.

cap was already a flawed game and the ending just. does not help at all.

send me a number

[talesfromthebandgeekmafia]

Y’all check out this gorgeous cast iron teapot my mom gave me <3

Merry Christmas y’all 🎄💜

[crenna]

i ordered so many things from flowerknows and they’re so pretty and i’m so excited!!! i’ve been dreaming of them for over a year now

[naomiknight-17]

One of my fave clothing stores was having a huge sale so I just ordered myself a birthday gift of a couple new bras and some fits for summer

I ordered shorts. I haven't worn shorts in like a decade. I am trying to be brave

[oysterie]

Christmas gifts for my family are going to be cutting it close 🤪😐

[entropys]

:-) things are getting better september truly is a month of new beginnings

[tsarinajissa]

Anyone have a good method of helping your computer pretend it's in Japan? None of the onion's Japanese relays are working as exits, which would be my go to.

Asking for a friend

[racke7]

Purchases that I (as an adult) am very happy with

Title says it all, let's go:

A silent vacuum-cleaner

An extra-thick exercise-mat

A big table-fan

A shower-brush

A computer-mouse with two extra-buttons

Ball-point pen

Needle-and-thread

An external harddrive

A dedicated mp3-player

An electric shaver

Gameboy Color

Bicycle-oil