Just My Cup of Tea

Well-to-do finance manager with tidy shoes: "Why hello, sweetheart. Can you say 'hi'? Aren't you cute. Are you on a trip with your mom?"

So one thing I notice watching Buffy is that a Vampire’s toughness and overall threat level are proportional to their fashion sense. So if they’re dressed in a hoodie or the clothes they were buried in, they’ll probably be dead before the end of the scene, but if they’re wearing a leather jacket, or a Victorian gown, or a dominatrix costume, they’re probably a major villain.

REMEMBER SKIP-IT FROM THE 90’S

Distance weapon: those sky dancer propeller toys.

I have but two words:

Party walks into the inn to rest and the pub looks like

I ride into battle on one of these

Warlock Patrons

This is so weird bc being born in 1997 I saw all these toys… old, dirty, and faded by the sun

Dungeon:

Go to the inaugurations of littlely known artists’ exhibitions.

Don’t mind if I do!

one time a pal of my pals was having a tough time selling their work in an art exhibit and called us up on the last day, ‘us’ being about 8 students who were Very hungry and also bored. We put on the nicest/artsiest clothes we had available (one dude had a legit fancy suit and put on some shades which were Bright Pink he looked like a movie star I swear) and rolled up to the show in pairs, separately. Fine Art Pal has some nice paintings! but nobody is really paying attention to them, so after getting some fancy cheese cubes in a manner that did not betray that we were actually a ravenous pack of starving students we casually wander around the show and then, fairly individually, drift to a stop by their work. Some of us even walked away, then came back a bit later ‘captivated’ by the art (it was actually really nice but recall we were all poor as shit and this was a help hustle). Our group’s interest naturally caught other folks, and eventually there was a small clump of about 15 people musing over this art, and within ten minutes the biggest piece had been snatched up by a shrewd investor. by the end of the exhibit every single piece was sold. It helped pay off the artist’s student debt and on that success they got into another exhibit! They’ve been doing well ever since.

You ever think about how old people have no idea what “survivor bias” is, and take full credit for being excellent out of things where they lucked out?

“When we were kids nobody whined about car seats or bike helmets. We didn’t use them, and we all survived!”

Huh. That actually makes me wonder how much the "oh cats are such picky eaters" thing is from offering cats food that has something actually wrong with it that's perceptible to cats but not humans. Although even if the food is fine and they just don't like it, that seems... worth respecting and not treating like they're being dumb and annoying? Like, we don't make OURSELVES eat food we don't like all the time if we have a choice, we know it's unpleasant... why inflict that on a little creature who loves you and depends on you...

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

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