starweaver

caleb/essek

beau/jes

cad/fjord

veth/her fucking husband

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGZTtLppr_o

This man is a museum curator in etymology and a trained and licensed purveyor of moth cocoons.  His Youtube vid is very serious and open about:

how and why he has so many moths

the lives of these moths

what he’s going to do to care for this unexpected glut of moths

the importance of being kind to all animals

FRIED EGG JELLYFISH

egg? egg? egg? egg? 

egg? egg? egg?

So with everybody trapped inside and looking for reasons not to strangle their loved ones in their sleep, I thought I’d share a game my gf and I made up. All you need to play is a way of generating a random number between 1 and 100. This generator will do it. We play Call of Cthulhu, so we have percentile dice lying around the house.

We call the game “Spectrum.” This is a game that is best played with someone you know really, really well. 

You only need 2 players: the clue-giver, and the guesser.

The guesser names a spectrum: meaning, any 2 things that could be mapped onto a range. For example:

- Sexy to unsexy

- Round to pointy

- Underrated to overrated

- Sandwich to not a sandwich

- Guilty pleasure to respectable source of fun

- normal thing to say to someone at the office to weird thing to say to someone at the office

And so on. For this example, let’s say the spectrum is polite to rude.

The clue-giver then rolls 1-100, and hides the result from the guesser. Let’s say they roll a 66. The clue-giver now needs to think of an example of something that is exactly 66% of the way into the Polite to Rude spectrum.

They then give that example to the guesser. Let’s say they decide their clue would be: “Going to a friend’s dinner party and bringing a nice dessert, serving the dessert on your friend’s dish, then taking the dish home with the leftover dessert and never returning the dish.”

It is now the guesser’s job to guess what number they rolled.

My gf and I have known each other for ten years, so we can regularly guess within 3 of the number! In the example above, she picked that clue for 66% on a polite-to-rude spectrum, and I got it exactly right. 

I guessed 99%. the answer was 100%.

little girl: I like silver because of Artemis, the goddess of the moon and the hunt and also she’s a warrior and she never got married.

REALLY? Really?

It’s that fucking difficult to believe “a child who was interested in Greek Mythology talked about it enthusiastically with an adult who was paying attention to her”? And then the parent appreciated that the other adult was nice to his kid?

THAT’S your cut-off for unbelievable?

But also, like, interacting with adults who are not predatory and creepy is how kids learn the difference between normal interactions and actually dangerous red flag interactions. There is a difference between the person in line ahead of you at the grocery store listening to a kid talk about their favorite Disney Princess, and the person trying to lure a child into a van with candy and missing puppies. Adults should know that. Kids should know that. 

“Huh,” said Dad very casually. “Did you get charged for it?” 

I spent the next five minutes checking my bank account and came back into the living room to announce, “No, I didn’t. Do you think it’s a mistake? But it has my name on it! what does this mean”

It was around the time that I started to sound panicked that Dad confessed to buying it for me (“I didn’t realize the mystery of it would be so terrifying”). Which was very, very sweet and slightly unfortunate because yesterday I purchased a replacement kindle for myself. 

“But who would do this?” she said to my father who said he was sure he had no idea. “A student? A stranger? Someone who broke into my car to steal it but felt bad about how dirty it was? WHO??”

Eventually Dad was like, “Honey. It was clearly me.”