The Good News Thread: I'm So Excited! And I Just Can't Hide It!

[Straw he/him]

What I got:

-A boxed set of The Gentleman Bastards series

-F for Effort and F in Exams two collections of funny wrong answers

-The official Shakespeare insult generator

-A Grumpy Cat pen, bookmark, and calendar

-Quite a few Barns and Noble gift cards

[The Honor Spren she/her]

Stuff I got:

• Assorted drawing supplies
• A real jewelry box (my necklaces should get significantly less tangled now)
• Fuzzy slippers and socks 
• Russian candy from my aunt Sveta
• A Waddles plush
• A Wacom drawing pad (squee!)

Edited December 26, 2016 by The Honor Spren

[Clockwork he/him]

Ah, my small loot:

• 2 tee-shirts
• Socks with sharks that are eating peanut butter sandwiches
• Arcanum Unbounded
• Settlers of Catan
• 2 posters (Vin Poster and Allomancy Chart)
• At least one thing that has yet to arrive (My sister won't tell me what it is... )

[Sunbird she/her]

9 minutes ago, Chasmfiend said:

Ah, my small loot:

• 2 tee-shirts
• Socks with sharks that are eating peanut butter sandwiches
• Arcanum Unbounded
• Settlers of Catan
• 2 posters (Vin Poster and Allomancy Chart)
• At least one thing that has yet to arrive (My sister won't tell me what it is... )

I'm jealous of your awesome socks! I love silly socks.

[manukos he/him]

I JUST DYED MY HAIR BLUE!!!!

AND IT IS AWESOME

 

[Jondesu he/him]

3 minutes ago, harambe said:

I JUST DYED MY HAIR BLUE!!!!

AND IT IS AWESOME

 

Bright blue, or a deep blue? Also, are you a girl/guy, and is it long or short hair? My sisters have died their hair many different colors, so I'm curious how it looks. (I would consider it, but that's not really my personality and I like to sing with the worship team at church, who wouldn't kick me out or anything, but I would feel self-conscious).

[manukos he/him]

Can i post my photo here or is it against site regulations or smt?

 

Edited December 27, 2016 by harambe

[Orlion Blight he/him]

2 minutes ago, harambe said:

Can i post my photo here or is it against site regulations or smt?

 

Should be fine. There's even a "What do you look like?" thread if you are concerned about the "proper" place.

[manukos he/him]

fine then here you go , me in all my magesty : 

 

 i know i have a sour expession but this one highlights my hair the best

Edited December 27, 2016 by harambe

[Kaymyth she/her]

7 minutes ago, harambe said:

Can i post my photo here or is it against site regulations or smt?

 

No regulations.  Some people don't like sharing photos of themselves on the internet, but there are no rules against it here.  (I mean, I spammed the What Do You Look Like thread with my nerdy wedding photos, so...)

[manukos he/him]

Just now, Kaymyth said:

No regulations.  Some people don't like sharing photos of themselves on the internet, but there are no rules against it here.  (I mean, I spammed the What Do You Look Like thread with my nerdy wedding photos, so...)

i am going to check them out immediately 

prepare for a flood of upvotes

 

[Kaymyth she/her]

10 minutes ago, harambe said:

i am going to check them out immediately 

prepare for a flood of upvotes

 

Hee.  You may have to dig around the thread to find them.  I was, at least, kind enough to put them all in one post and under a spoiler cut.  But IIRC, there are quite a few pictures in there.

I will also neither confirm nor deny whether there are pictures of me in my Cosplay thread. 

 

ETA:  Wait, did I really only put one picture of that up in there? 

WAIT!

I REMEMBER

The picspam is on the Relationships thread!

[manukos he/him]

i only found one

10 minutes ago, Kaymyth said:

Hee.  You may have to dig around the thread to find them.  I was, at least, kind enough to put them all in one post and under a spoiler cut.  But IIRC, there are quite a few pictures in there.

I will also neither confirm nor deny whether there are pictures of me in my Cosplay thread. 

on to the cosplay thread!

 

Edited December 27, 2016 by harambe

[Kaymyth she/her]

Just now, harambe said:

i only found one

 

See my edit.

In my defense, it's been a while since I posted those pictures.

[marsoupial they/them]

My guitar strings broke but I got new boots.

[Jondesu he/him]

1 hour ago, harambe said:

fine then here you go , me in all my magesty : 

 

 i know i have a sour expession but this one highlights my hair the best

Nice! Looks good.

[Oversleep]

I got loudspeakers (quite a good ones if I were to believe my dad and I do cause he knows stuff), Promise of Blood by McClellan (read it! Like seriously, go read it), Deadpool (film), Blade Runner (book) and some cash.

There's a story or two there: My mother usually steals books from me. So I feed her the good stuff (like cosmere). Anyway, my parents kept bugging me about my list of presents for weeks and when I told them I'd want some of the Dresden Files or the Manuscript found in dragon's cave (it's a fantasy encyclopedic compendium by Sapkowski, author of the Witcher) they told me it's pathetic (it was not serious, we joke like that). In return I told them that their lists are also pathetic; like, dad, seriously, two music albums? we always buy you music. Mom's was worse, like "good book, you know what I like" or a good music or a handbag (which we keep giving her for Christmas).

So I went and started thinking hard and added Superhot to the list and first volume of Sandman. Meanwhile I did some research and proposed to buy mom Promise of Blood. Did not work out but then it turned out that my aunt could not get Wise Man's Fear... so I said Promise of Blood would be fine. So I ended up with something I wanted to buy for mom.

And now, for the punchline: my parents have already bought me loudspeakers even before they started nagging me for my list. They kept bugging me just for sport, all that time. Nobody in my family is normal

[Mestiv he/him]

I got a beautiful, illustrated edition of Game of Thrones, new headphones to replace the ones my cats destroyed by chewing on the cable I also got a WiFi adapter, because my current one is acting strange and disconnecting me from time to time. 

I also got a pair of leather slippers and a pair of slippers that look more or less like those:

Spoiler

And I also got two parts of "Slavic Bestiary" with beautiful illustrations ^^ 

[Kestrel she/her]

We had a pizza party today for a family who won a silent auction. They got to eat with the birds. We called it Pizza with Pippin (one of the ed birds).

Pippin was the host and sat near the table. He was served with the guests, his mice on a plate and napkin. He was weary of the plate.

Once dinner began, though, me and a few other volunteers rotated birds around. I had Sweetpea, Rusty, and Willie. Sweets did okay, considering that her and I don't like each other. Willie was a different story. I had never worked with her before and she isn't flighted. She ended up hopping off the fist and couldn't get back up and I couldn't swing her back because I had no idea how the center coordiator wanted me to do it compared to my falconry sponsor (which is also done with a flighted bird).

I also didn't know Rusty liked to play dead in his travel box and that was an adventure. 

(Edit: oops. Wrong (ish) thread. Still good thing tho)

Edited December 28, 2016 by Kestrel

[Erunion he/him]

I realized that this happened a little while ago, but I hadn't posted it here (what a terrible oversight!)

In my degree program, the last 8 months of courses before you graduate are spent working on a huge ending project (known as a Capstone project). 
A month or two ago my team and I went to talk to a prof, and we got accepted to work on his project. 

His project is a lower-limb exoskeleton. 

Yes. That means I'm gonna spend Jan-Aug 2017 building Iron Man's pants. 
I am so excited about this  

[Delightful]

Erin Purr is back! and having fun with an interestingly textured carpet....

[Zathoth]

I finished the first draft of a thing! It's a little over 2000 words, third person, past tense. It needs an edit, but I am proud of it.

Un, it is pretty much what would have happened if Clive Barker had decided to rewrite Little Red Riding Hood... in fact my pitch to myself was "New Murders in the Rue Morgue+Little Red Riding Hood"... It gets weeeeeeird, but i like it.

[Sunbird she/her]

@Zathoth Knowing that you wrote it, I'd be shocked if it DIDN'T get weird.

[mattig89ch he/him]

3 hours ago, Zathoth said:

I finished the first draft of a thing! It's a little over 2000 words, third person, past tense. It needs an edit, but I am proud of it.

Un, it is pretty much what would have happened if Clive Barker had decided to rewrite Little Red Riding Hood... in fact my pitch to myself was "New Murders in the Rue Morgue+Little Red Riding Hood"... It gets weeeeeeird, but i like it.

You should be proud, I wish I had that creative spark I see alot of others with.

Have a rep!

[Zathoth]

7 hours ago, Sunbird said:

@Zathoth Knowing that you wrote it, I'd be shocked if it DIDN'T get weird.

You don't understand, while writing the ending I was seriously questioning my life choices.