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Blasphemy roulette sounds like something we would have played at my high school.

They did not look to be long out of high school themselves, I have to say. I was mostly watching this all in delight but one portion of me felt very old and another was like ‘Eyy, the kids are all right.” 

koramberlynne replied to your photo “Hirshhorn Museum! The Duchamp exhibit was slightly underwhelming but I...”

Looks like tetherball. *Dangerous* tetherball.

Especially since when you walk out onto the field to try and play the tetherball, security will come and get mad at you for “climbing on the art” :D

goldenmeme replied to your photo “Hirshhorn Museum! The Duchamp exhibit was slightly underwhelming but I...”

Sam how could you not mention that the rock has grotesque eyes and a mouth?

Look, I had to discover that for myself as I walked around it and if I had to, everyone else should as well. 

prairie-grass replied to your photo “Checked in on the Cryptids and caught Dearborn practicing her yelling....”

She's summoning SOMETHING

Probably Polk. :D 

rsfcommonplace replied to your photo “Hirshhorn Museum! The Duchamp exhibit was slightly underwhelming but I...”

Car Being Driven By Disappointed Rock is my favorite.

I will say the discovery that the rock has a face totally altered my interpretation of the piece, so well done artist I guess...

tehnakki replied to your post “A brief overview of my day: I did the tour of the Bureau of Engraving...”

That museum frybread is some GOOD SHIT.

Right? I was a little sad not to get some, but I really wanted some french fries. And I’ve had it before, so at least I know of its goodness :D 

arsenicjade replied to your post “A brief overview of my day: I did the tour of the Bureau of Engraving...”

I love the engraving tour, it's so fucking arcane

What struck me as super interesting about seeing the presses going is that it’s like, there’s layers and layers of security, no photography allowed, very strict rules, but the guys running the presses are like...every dude in every machine/wood shop I’ve ever met. Big burly working-class union guys who are using a spare 2x4 to prop up the part that never quite sits where it’s supposed to in the machine and wash their tupperware in the dump sink. 

kitsparrow replied to your post “oh my gosh, tell me more about this much ado about nothing timeline of...”

Sam, I am OBSESSED with this idea. What would you need to be bribed with to at least write it?

I’m not sure it could be written, is the thing. Like you could write it in the sense of novelizing the play, or you could write it into the play with a shitload of stage directions, but I don’t think either would be truly satisfying. I might do some kind of larger treatment of it, though, somehow. 

katestamps replied to your post “bibliofran replied to your post “Hi Sam! I was curious, and hope...”

Rescues will take old sheets and towels, if you’re replacing yours! They won’t care if they have holes.

Oh, good to know! Usually I reuse them -- I never lack for uses for fabric -- but that’s the kind of info it’s good to pass on. 

spadesandaces replied to your post “bibliofran replied to your post “Hi Sam! I was curious, and hope...”

When you buy new sheets, please review them! I need new ones but I’m afraid I won’t like whichever ones I buy

Which is one reason I haven’t bought yet -- sheets are kind of pricey, and often cheaper online, but I don’t want to buy sheets I can’t touch-test ahead of time. Especially since I’m shopping for lightweight summer sheets and all the ones I like the look of turn out on closer inspection to be flannel :P 

figtreeandvine replied to your photo “LOL, that’s like, half a mile from where I live! The perils of naming...”

If I were the sort of person who stole road signs I would send you the "Welcome to Polk County" sign I pass every time we go to the beach. Sometimes it sucks being a good citizen. ��

I have oft considered stealing the “Dearborn and Polk” corner street sign, but it just seems like so much work :D Thwarted by my own laziness, that’s me. 

thedarkbunny replied to your post “bibliofran replied to your post “Hi Sam! I was curious, and hope...”

Have you looked into dissipative gloves? They're not quite on par with a grounding bracelet, but they're pretty good at dampening shocks.

I’d never heard of them! But I looked them up and....they have a real supervillain look about them :D Not sure the cats would enjoy them either. 

nogling replied to your post “bibliofran replied to your post “Hi Sam! I was curious, and hope...”

You should probably invest in a decent humidifier, to help with the static. Also with your sinuses. Chicago is pretty dry, anyway, but it’s so much worse in the winter.

Yeah, no, I have absolutely been writing on company time, and I feel no shame. I’m salary, so as long as my work gets done, they don’t really care how I spend my time.

I started following you for your MCU fic, stayed for a bunch of Dragon Age fic, and was SO EXCITED when you started in on the Witcher. I have read your work gleefully, and am always glad for more, but I hope it never feels like a chore. I love seeing updates from you, but I never want anyone to feel pressured to produce, or to keep up with anyone else.

  COME VISIT FANCY’S FUNDRAISER! Latest update is...

@naamahdarling Amazon wishlists are the best thing ever. I had some Hilton points to spend, so you guys should be getting some packages soon. :-)

fabledshadow replied to your post“ok either tumblr’s glitching or y’all are just reblogging all the same...”

When I like these posts I am sending good vibes and positive thoughts your way ❤️❤️❤️

Thank you, dear. <3

astroloquaciousreplied to your post“mutton chops”

Nooo if you're going to change Geralt's hair, he should at least get to wear the Designated Queer Undercut! (Made famous in my household during my partner's play-through because they started a later quest where you have to talk to several of Dandelion's girlfriends, and stopped in the middle SPECIFICALLY TO GO GET THE UNDERCUT because, and I quote, "I need them [the NPCs] to know I can't take this much heterosexual nonsense seriously.")

HA I absolutely think this is right and true.

UNFORCH, Dr. Friend is A STRAIGHT MAN. This is inescapable. He’s the kind of straight man who finds it enjoyable to flirt with other men, and is so great at parties he often gets invites to events where he winds up being the only straight guy (there’s a running joke that one of the anaesthesia nurses, a gay man, is his Emotional Support Nurse, and they’re super tight, so I’m not just saying that DF is Cool With The Gays in a general Some Of My Best Friends Etc kind of way, I literally mean that he is actually specifically Cool With A Bunch Of Specific Gays and has consistently been so over the decades I’ve known him), but despite all that, he is a straight man, and sometimes, boy can you tell. 

 bittylildragon replied to your post“mutton chops”

Oh my GOD that hair and beard combo, I wasn't even aware he COULD look that bad. Geralt baby, what have they done to you

RIGHT

I mean, DF is just trolling, but. Still. 

 mikkeneko replied to your post“mutton chops”

i had NO IDEA you could change geralt's hairstyle i thought he just LOOKED LIKE THAT

No! it turns out there’s One Good Look, and then the default look is Okayish and you see that one sometimes, and then for some reason they offer other options and they’re All Super Bad and why do they offer them?? I don’t know!!! So that terrible trolls like DF can troll us all!!

akilah12902 replied to your post “mutton chops”

you CAN get stuff repaired, at any armorer or blacksmith, or via repair kits. just. it's an option!

Oh yes, we’re aware-- he actually had opted to repair it right before accidentally dying one time, and on the reload was like no, fuck this gambeson, I am not wasting a repair kit on this piece of shit, I’m just going to equip something else as soon as I can because it sucks.

grrlcookery replied to your post“ok either tumblr’s glitching or y’all are just reblogging all the same...”

Oh man I hate when my emotional bruises and my friends' emotional bruises step on each other

I would like to be a more patient person than I am but I am only one person and I only do so well. It’s okay and I’m over it, I’m just maybe taking a lil Tumblr break and opting to believe it was just a glitch, and talking myself down from unfollowing half my mutuals because I can’t deal. This is not a productive impulse and probably won’t help at all.

 bittylildragon replied to your post“Princess the Goat”

There IS actually hidden treasure in the Riordan Manor, she is not scamming you, but it's SUPER well-hidden. Also, I see you chose to have Geralt say he killed Letho in the previous games. That's a pity, Letho in this game is Grade A Witcher Beef and is a great character.

We found the Riordan Manor treasure eventually! Yes thank you.

We did not make any choices about the game, we just declined to load a saved state, and so they decide whatever for us. Alas, no Letho, but as we didn’t know who the fuck he was to start with, we had no idea how to choose whether to manifest him or not. It is weird, what they automatically decide for you though if you don’t tell them otherwise. Like... why.

nogling replied to your post“mutton chops”

Terribly Unfashionable Dad Flings Himself from Highest Point of City in Order to End His Hair Suffering.

astroloquacious replied to your post “Re-Equip The Swords First”

I actually had the gall to tell Kiera I was in love with someone else during that convo tree and she literally laughed in my face and was like "bitch I want your dick not your emotional baggage" but like. Even if Geralt wouldn't have turned her down for some fun, we ALL know he's a disillusioned romantic & a rusted-over idealist and part of him would have thought it before his pragmatic side was like "shut up and take the free human contact."

"Geralt Roger Eric du Haute-Bellegarde" more like "my prized possession as a bby witcher was a collection of badly copied courtly romance poems about knights and a stack of suspiciously sticky bodice-rippers."

oh no

oh no Geralt was horribly tragically Romantic as an awkward teen oh no

I can’t write that, I secondhand embarrass too easy to contemplate it, but. He was. he really was. 

mikkeneko replied to your post “Re-Equip The Swords First”

I do dearly like DF's idea of what is 'in character' for Geralt

He’s got some specific ideas, and they’re mostly pretty great. They don’t all line up with mine, but like. I have like 100k of fanfic or more now (i hesitate to check) to explore mine so that’s fine.

nogling replied to your post “Re-Equip The Swords First”

Game!Geralt alternates between "kinda smooth" and "horrifyingly awkward". Keira was actually on the "kinda smooth" end of the spectrum, sadly.

oh no because that was not smooth. i mean, he was doing okay because clearly that was what she was after, but it was not smooth.

themardbard replied to your post “Re-Equip The Swords First”

Kiera and Geralt's relationship, for me, is this very close, niche "sarcasm bros" thing. Like what they have is very special to me and I love them. But I'm so relieved my actions didn't bring them to sex bc they aren't like that at all for me. ALSO YEAH GERALT IS A DAD AND WATCHING SEX SCENES WITH HIM IS A REALLY WEIRD EXPERIENCE EUGH

I didn’t get a good “bro” reading off them really, but I do feel like they had potential for bro chemistry. That just wasn’t what Kiera wanted, and Geralt, well-- I mean, I think he was too wary of her to want to be friends, particularly, even though he’s clearly lonely as fuck. 

And re: Dad stuff-- I mean! Somebody’s gotta fuck dads! I understand that! Clearly people find that appealing because so many dads are multi-time dads!!  a lot of people are out here fucking dads!! but I just. I like Geralt, I like him a great deal, but he is so dorky, and I think since I knew she was going to try to hurt him I was just like, I cannot enjoy this.

Also I was sprawled on the carpet of my best friends’ house surrounded by children’s toys watching this unfold and it was sort of an awkward setting for erotica? But also it was Not Sexy, in a lot of ways, so. 

beyoursledgehammer replied to your post “Re-Equip The Swords First”

Kiera and Lambert is the cutest thing T_T

I haven’t encountered them in any canon source, not even spoilers or playthroughs, so I can’t really imagine, but. 

I did plotbunny myself pretty hard with how that would go down in my ‘verse. Lambert’s like, wait, you fucked Geralt? and Kiera’s like ah fuck, men, gods, will you fuck off, and he’s like no no no hang on, and gets out his fucking bullet journal, and she’s like

what

and he’s like okay so I need details

and she’s like fucking what

and he’s like listen Yen won’t talk to me at all and Eskel gives some details but he won’t tell me how big Geralt’s dick is, you have to help me out, my data’s incomplete

and she has to do some mental calculus. Like, this is weird as shit, but, it is not the horrible territorial stupid man thing she had expected, and she also doesn’t have a ton of options right now, and honestly this is ripe for trolling, and honestly this could kind of be hot if you go about it right, soooooooooooo

I’m just saying that could be a really entertaining story, but I’m not writing it, because I’m nowhere near this timeline and also I wasn’t planning to actually kill off Aiden or even acknowledge that timeline in any way at all.

(You could even have a shockingly sweet denouement to the whole thing where after some really entertaining rounds of well he made me come four times so try harder she’s like actually, listen Lambert, I’m like way more into you than I was into him so I don’t want to be a buzzkill for you here but actually I’m kind of over it, can we just be you and me for a bit? and Lambert’s entire brain short-circuits probably.)

bittylildragon replied to your post “quen up and face the water hag”

I really enjoy the Pesta quest, but you are so right that the game just DOES NOT give you adequate clues about how to make the right decision.

stele3 replied to your post “just a dude swimming in the canal with a bunch of swords on”

I’ve never managed to get Geralt to full Witcher-black eyes before. Some day I’ll down a bunch of potions and just go for it.

  I feel like you’d die before you hit that. maybe certain potions do it faster. in this cutscene, his eyes were more or less normal, inasmuch as they ever are...

librarychick94 replied to your post “i’m not even supposed to be here today”

My experience with the Witcher is the series and your game posts. I love reading them. They are delightful and amuse me greatly. :)

I’m glad these playthrus have some kind of utility besides just being a way for me to mark basically the only thing I do in a day that’s remotely interesting. I had been wondering who ever found them worth reading, and feeling sort of guilty for how much time I spend on them, but--

I’m home this weekend, back in Buffalo visiting with my dude, and while we’ve found plenty to talk about, most of my most amusing stories are in-game Witcher stories. Which, to be fair, in my case, the game as I’m experiencing it is very much me watching this game with two of my very closest friends, and so there’s a healthy element of You Will Not Believe What DF Did, which my dude can appreciate on those merits too, but-- the upshot of it is that he’s now invested in a remote-playthrough of a game he’s neither playing nor even watching, just because it’s something for us to talk about. 

nogling replied to your post “i’m not even supposed to be here today”

*cackles* Suddenly I want a Clerks AU, where Geralt is Dante, Jaskier is Randal, Yen is Veronica, and Valdo Marx is Olaf and all he does is sing Berserker.

<3 it sucks to psych yourself up for something and then have the choice taken away from you! But I'm glad you're keeping yourself safer, honestly. We're all going to have the CLEANEST HOUSES.

I will settle for having a house clean enough that i could have a visitor enter it and not get stuck in the doorway.

nogling replied to your post “singelisilverslippers replied to your post “productivity~” ...”

oh god the apron makes it even better, in my head. I feel you - entirely. My house has suffered the effects of a three-month downswing, and I am sort of just now coming out of it and realizing that oh, god, the house is....really bad, because I'm the only one who cleans, and I've been depressed and haven't been doing it. It's my mess, and it's bad, and it freaks me out to have to clean it, but I have learned that I will feel much, much better once it's done.

Ha. Well, I had a horrible depressive episode like... a decade ago, and the house has not been cleaned since then really, so. it’s like. It’s worse than that. However bad you think it is, it’s worse than that. So this is BADLY needed. It’s all compounded as well by as I regained mental function, I started being absent from the house for weeks/months at a time, and my dude doesn’t apparently know what a broom is. (Recently he asked me if I knew where one was, when they’ve been kept in the same place since we moved here in 2005, so. Like.)

gnomeicecream replied to your post “productivity~”

-gif of I dont get no sleep cause of y'all- I don't get no respect for my space cause of y'all, you don't get no respect for your space cause of me

mikkeneko replied to your post “hm”

Best of luck with the cleaning.

^^ thanks guys, LOL.

For real though. I was already trying to clear out my house because 1) we need all new appliances and a new furnace, and 2) my parents were going to visit at the end of May and I was FREAKING OUT about that, but now their cruise around the Great Lakes (my parents have weird ideas of fun) is cancelled so I don’t have that May 30 deadline, but I also actually have a chance to really clean my house? so? 

Annoyingly, Dude said he was pretty sure his job was going to go through a quiet phase and he’d have time to help, and then he cleared out one single mess (under the kitchen counter, so it was significant at least) and then hasn’t even had a moment to speak to me between 7am and 5pm any week day since, so I guess it’s good that he’s so motivated to do work but it’s not helping me stay motivated to work on the house, especially when I actually do need his feedback on like, what to prioritize and such. (He’s been spectacularly unhelpful so far-- I said should I clean out the attic, or the basement, can’t be both, and he was like let’s start with both, and i’m like why did I say anything?????) (let’s be real when he said ‘let’s’ he meant ‘you’ anyway, so fuck it.) 

Ughhhh my neck and shoulders are all fucked up today. bummer. time to come up with some sort of schedule so i don’t spend the entire day refreshing tumblr and being like “ohhhh i should do Thing I Hate next” and then not doing it because i hate it.