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7 years ago @ Clever Manka - Tuesday Tumblr Collection · 0 replies · +1 points

Manka <3
I am still around! I'm just bad at the life managing right now.
RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE FOOOOOOREEEEEEEEEEEEVER!!!!!!!

(ahem)

7 years ago @ Clever Manka - Friday Open Thread · 1 reply · +1 points

DUE SOUTH YELLING! - I will drop you an e-mail at the next possible point so we can arrange something.
I could also contribute a lengthy thinkpiece if that would fit the website better. :D

7 years ago @ Clever Manka - Friday Open Thread · 8 replies · +13 points

First post in an Open Thread here! *waves*
I am at my parents' place and I have awesome plans of doing basically nothing for three days and maybe taking advantage of having an oven. I will hunt for recipes later, wheee. If anyone has tasty, not-too-difficult, summer- and one-person-appropriate ideas for cooking with oven and proper kitchen space, I'd be really happy?

As for poor life choices? Hm, apart from working too much and drinking slightly too much coffee and/or beer, nothing I can think of right now. Maybe I'll remember later.

7 years ago @ The Toast - An Open Thread, and Se... · 0 replies · +5 points

I would give a nineth of my soul to go to a LMM#1 conference. Can someone please time travel and make her write some cyborgs into some of her books so I'd have an excuse to go and also maybe get funding?

7 years ago @ The Toast - An Open Thread, and Se... · 0 replies · +21 points

Please forgive my sentimentality. So this is goodbye and I feel ... sad, so very, very sad, but also hopeful and very much alive.

The Toast showed me that there are people out there who are with me in that strange liminal space between art history and doge speak. I have loved you, toastatrons and toasticles!

Maybe one thing I have learned: Since I am aware now of the glories of facial expressions in old art, I have overcome my fear of churches. I used to be scared of the suffering, violence and despair depicted in religious art, I was anxious in the huge dark halls of the churches I visited with my parents or later with school. I got panic attacks. I usually left as soon as I could.

Last week I went to two churches, and enjoyed myself. It was not scary. I did not panic. I had a good time.

Thank you, Toast, for giving me a way to enjoy something I have been afraid of as long as I can remember.

I will spare you that last overquoted line of a German poem about Endings and Beginnings that I now finally get but is waayyy to kitchy.

Thank you, Nicoles and Mallory, and Toastonians, for being such a huge part of my life.

See you in the slack!

7 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 0 replies · +8 points

Update: Some elderly mouthbreather just sat down near my space in the library. I think it's time to stop pretending.
Thank you for all your advice. I've managed to produce at least a bunch of semi-coherent notes detailing my outline. :)

7 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 4 replies · +30 points

I start dreaming before I'm properly asleep and sometimes I have entire conversations in that fuzzy state. I can vaguely remember a conversation with my +1 in which I accused him of being a dwarf in a café, and that he had to carry my bags in an ancient dwarven ritual. He was very conf- and amused.

7 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 1 reply · +3 points

I played Age of Empires all the time! I also cheated a lot and kept killing my bronze age opponents with laser guns, because I was more interested in building and collecting stuff than in those pesky enemies who for some reason never let me alone. :D

7 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 0 replies · +2 points

My Dad used to play Commander Keen when my sister and I were still to small to play. I only remember a teleportation device one had to use somewhere on the level map thingy.

7 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 11 replies · +22 points

Writer's block. It is Not Nice.
In this case it's a potent mixture of "I'm never going to make that deadline anyway" and impostor's syndrome ("All my ideas are stupid and noone will ever want to publish them so why even try..." + "My academic English is not good enough" = not very productive)

Any magic tricks? I've got a decent, if slightly chaotic argumentative structure in doge-speak (involving subparagraph 5.1. SUCH TURING TEST, VERY ROBOT, MUCH SELF-AWARE; don't ask, or well, maybe do...), but every time I try to write proper sentences, I panic...

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