#seramarias

Hm. I've lived in rural/forested areas most of my life, did a fair bit of wandering and hiking, and I think I've just come across caves that I wasn't specifically looking for maybe three times. Some areas have them pretty commonly, others really just don't seem to.

I do not doubt it!  And yet, like many tropes, I think cave ubiquity might be slightly exaggerated in (fan)fiction ;D

I love that you bought them. (I am not surprised they are not good.)

I had to! They were $2 at Target. And they’re limited edition.

phosphorescent-naidheachd replied to your photo “What kinds of MONSTERS”

I mean, in theory it's not a terrible idea. The sweet + salty flavor combination and all that.

See, I think at heart that’s the problem of why they’re not good, because they don’t have enough of either. The chocolate is basically flavorless and the crackers aren’t salty enough to add tang. 

seramarias replied to your photo “What kinds of MONSTERS”

Now see, I think there's a lot of prank potential if you know someone who's a Thin Mint junkie.

Oh man, that’s brilliant. They are almost exactly as if you surgically removed all the flavor from a thin mint. 

jessenigma replied to your photo “What kinds of MONSTERS”

This reminds me of the chocolate-covered potato chips one company (Lays?) sold a couple Christmases ago. They were ridiculous and I loved them. Not sure a cracker would have the same appeal though

Yeah, see, I didn’t immediately judge them because I was like “Well, but I liked chocolate covered potato chips.” But they.......are not that. 

junker5 replied to your photo “What kinds of MONSTERS”

Maybe if you spread almond butter between them???

I just pictured biting into two of them at once and shuddered, but I will try topping one with almond butter at some point! 

rsfcommonplace replied to your post “kimmiesue13 replied to your photo “STAND TALL, MY DAUGHTER!  I don’t...”

Dearborn was probably looking at Ghost. Cats do that.

spiderine replied to your photo “STAND TALL, MY DAUGHTER!  I don’t know what she saw over the back of...”

It's Ghost!

I love that we’re basically proving Ghost came with me because my cats are a little bonkers. 

mythologist replied to your photo “STAND TALL, MY DAUGHTER!  I don’t know what she saw over the back of...”

Saaaam this sounds/looks like the first scenes of a Miyazaki film after several shots of the greenage and sweeping landscapes

Oh man I don’t want to be the quirky hero of a Miyazaki film! (On the other hand what if I’m just a BACKGROUND CHARACTER, that would be worse!) 

Oh, that's lovely. Floral contact paper?

Nope, I spent FOREVER cutting out individual flowers and decoupaging them on. 

It’s all good. Truly. I like your work, but IRL stuff comes first, right?

I’d bet you’ve already found this trick, but just in case, have you considered putting icewater or cold water in a tub or footbath? Just soaking your feet in cold water can do a startlingly good job of cooling you off overall.

Thanks for the reminder. I’ve done this a few times in the past but it isn’t always easy since my freezer space is limited.

tienriu said: um. That’s…  Usually a sign of something not being right?  I know my gyno was very worried about me and I want soaking through a pad as fast as you are.   

Well, it’s actually two-thirds soaked of a slim and ultraslim overnight since my 3.30pm shower (it’s 10pm now and I haven’t changed my third one yet) because I prefer to hedge my chances and not go for bloodstained cargo trousers.

But it’s really a culmination of utter work stress, seeing as it was a reluctant flow for the past few months and Feb 1 is when the new sub editor started (we need one more) so maybe some relaxation happened?

My flow for a decade was gushing first 2 days before a slow taper for 5 days. AND THEN WORK HAPPENED AND I TURNED 25.

I suspected this was going to be a bad month already considering I broke out into an unprecedented 6 pimples instead of the usual 1.       

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“In the back of my mind I’m sort of bracing for The Last Jedi to just...”

I will read this stuff even if TLJ insists that Poe was immaculately conceived by goddamn porgs. Actually, wait, of COURSE an AU would sound good next to that. Take two. What I mean is that the only thing that would stop me from reading this universe is physically being struck blind with no text-to-speech options.

seramarias

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“In the back of my mind I’m sort of bracing for The Last Jedi to just...”

I am completely down for non-canonical/AU stories. Your material has always been good, to me, and I'll read anything you feel like putting out there.

torrilin reblogged your post and added:

I’ll happily read weird au shit. That’s basically what Buffy fandom is these days.

Oh-- I didn’t mean that I was going to have to veer off wildly into non-canon, or that, uh, I may not actually be awake enough to finish this sentence, I just got up and was confident I was awake but I’m kind of groggy. Uh, what was I trying to say here? 

I mean, thanks, guys, I’m touched! I just mean-- it’s like, when a canon gets Jossed, you know, it can take the wind out of the sails. There are whole swathes of fic I’ve read and loved where you can absolutely pinpoint where the released canon was when the author wrote it. And it’s still fine fic and you still read it, but there’s kind of a-- I don’t know, sort of quaint cast to it? like ha ha ha this person wrote this story before we had a canon first name for this character so she’s using the fanon one, aww. [I’m thinking of SG:A’s Major Lorne but this works for H*x too.] 

I also know as an author that it tends to take the wind out of my sails a bit. I have these enormous epics, and they build, and then the canon they started from changes in a different direction, and I just sort of... it takes some support away, you know?

And actually I just sat down last night and was reading the opening of Home in the Wind and... oh... gosh. There are a ton of little details that I’ve since changed my mind on, some explicitly and in writing and within the text of the story, so, uh. (Norasol, in that opening chapter; I mention a husband, I imply that Kes’s father had been around, I totally friendzone her with Lita-- it gets worse, I hadn’t realized I’d said so much stuff right out, that I later solidified in my head a different direction.) What I ought to do is edit the whole story, but what I’m going to do is just write an author’s note, I think. 

Because, again, when TLJ comes out, the whole series will get sort of fossilized in the genre of “post-TFA, pre-TLJ” fic, and it’s not that it won’t attract any new readers ever, but it will be sort of fly-in-amber-like, you know? As soon as the trailer came out with Finn in that pod gasping and waking up I was like-- yeah all of us with Finn Wakes Up stories are Jossed now. [And that looks like a great moment and I’m pumped. Of course Movie!Finn is going to be a lot more driven and urgent than EpicFanfiction!Finn.]

So, anyway-- at least for my own satisfaction, I want to wind this up before TLJ comes out. Either I won’t be caught by it at all, in which case I’ll be glad to be disentangled from an epic anyway because the fandom will be moving in new directions, or I will and I’ll want to write something compatible, and either way, I need this ‘verse to be done. And i have a few thousand more words of material it’d be a shame not to ever get to publish in anything.

But, again, thanks y’all for being supportive. And holy heck, thanks for reading that whole epic, inconsistencies and all, I’ve been publishing that thing for over a year!

reydiation replied to your post “In the back of my mind I’m sort of bracing for The Last Jedi to just...”

WE CAN RHYME AMAZING

Valerian root capsules make for a pretty safe, but still fairly effective sleep aid that also helps anxiety and muscle tension. And I second the suggestion of using scent and/or lighting cues to try and tell your brain that you’re in a safer place now.