Depending on how your cat handles stress, you could probably just take it out with you to go wherever. But especially no one will blink if you spend all day in an airport with your buddy in their crate.

I left home at 18 for a job and it was like I ceased to exist to anyone that I’d loved before then. My old friends and my family completely seemed to forget about me.

So ten years on, I finally have had enough of this loneliness and boredom, so I searched through a reddit LFG for DnD5e online through Roll20 since I’d played it for a little while with coworkers and understood it well enough. Joined a group with a rigorous entry questionnaire and met a bunch of others that have been through thick and thin together now.

But in that group, one of the people was somewhat outward with their own troubled past that matched mine in a lot of ways. From there we got talking, and we started to become friends. And through a few games and a now a handful of years, they are one of the - if not the - most important people in my life.

They help validate my struggles and offer solutions when I want them, and they come to me when they need the same. I moved across the country to be closer to them and a few others from the DnD group and it’s just really been life changing for me in no small words. I started therapy, I stopped being suicidal, I’ve grown so so much, and I’ve learned depths of love that I’ve never encountered before. I do have a crush on my friend and they know, but we’re entirely platonic and as close as we can be (I think I’m just Demi sexual?? I just fall in love with people close to me even if it’s not romantic).

From how they describe their end, they’ve experienced a lot of the same things and a lot of the same personal growth. Neither of us would be who we are today without one another.

Humans have stripes that are invisible to us. However, cats can see our stripes.

Wait. Please explain. How is DNA inside me, a verifiable human, not human?

Gosh, the micromoments of shame really really hits home

Lord Almighty, I am not lazy.

While yes, it looks like I’m sitting there on my phone, my functional part is screaming at me. Get up. Go do the thing. Do your work. You wanna get fired? Get up. Get the fuck up… As I click on another meme or post or video.

I feel like the whole danger noodle and whole puppy face love for pythons in the last tenish years has really changed a lot of opinions. Snek adorbs, as they say.

And spiders have also been getting better light with at least a lot of people finding jumping spiders adorable.

Earth Science!

Cmere class, look at these clouds! They’re really really cool!! Okay, now here’s a five gallon bucket of water, try to lift it. Heavy, right? Now imagine six hundred of these and look at that cloud again. That’s how much that sucker holds. Crazy, right?!

Now hold this rock. Pretty heavy. Throw it, it falls. Then what about hailstones that are that size or larger. How can they keep something like that, along with five hundred tons of water alllll up in the sky?

Today we gon learn

Sorry, but is a loonie store the equivalent of a dollar store?

This drives me insane. The 5 gal jugs are so cheap to refill and keep using. I used one of those with a hand pump and a thin 1.5 gal jugs for my fridge for constant cold water when I lived where tap water wasn’t doable. It was like 10¢ a gallon to refill the jugs and I always had delicious cold water at the ready. There is absolutely no need to create so much waste

As someone with a progressive disease: healing magic. I would pay all the bullion and cattle and sacks of wheat necessary to heal, or at least regress this stupid thing.

Test

Ed, Edd, and Eddie

Courage the Cowardly Dog

This is all spoilers, spoiler tagging doesn’t really work so proceed with caution

Several from the Misborn series really hurt. I think Vin’s death most affected me, but Kelsier was a hard one to swallow as well.

I think the biggest impact though is probably from Swan Song? Sister Creep hit me so hard. I read the book young and I’d never read anything so bittersweet and hopeful but so painful. It really stamped some new emotions in me I think.

Or, gosh, almost anyone in Bly Manor, but especially Dani.

Oh yes yes yes. I am absolutely going to do that

Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

The whole album Days of Future’s Past by the Moody Blues (with the London orchestra)

I’ve been trying to do a replay recently but I can’t seem to get it to run on my modern day machine, haha. How were you able to play it?

Also, it’s great that you think it’s still 10/10. It has always been held near and dear to my heart.

Not DnD per se, but Pathfinder. I have several ideas in my back pocket haha.

• Granny cloistered cleric, war priest, or life witch. She’s an absolute mama bear who lost her son who was also an adventurer, and decided that no other parent should go through that. So she falls in with a little group and makes it her duty to keep them safe.

• Pixie runic barbarian. I haven’t totally looked into this, but I think that would allow the pixie to use a runic weapon that’s a normal size so potentially the pixie wouldn’t have to be in the same place or not be able to flank.

• Oread kineticist focusing only on Earth.

• Starlit span magus

Hmmm that’s difficult.

FEAR, probably. It was a 10/10 for my childhood for sure, but it’s probably a 7/10 total ?

Ah you’re right. I figured the US overall would kinda answer the question. But I guess NW Washington state is where I’m looking.