TwiLyghtSansSparkles

If I knew it was Lucentia, I'd exhaust my downvote quota every day on her alone.

I saw that the user Arsenal had posted in Random Stuff. I knew it was Mat. Yet I still expected a grouchy rant about how the advice I was getting about living on my own would drain the town's resources. This RP is in my head and it's not leaving.

I vote for the Go Home Evolution shirt. I'm definitely going to get a pet. If my parents don't get me a pug puppy as a moving out gift, I'm buying one myself.

If I ever have the opportunity, you'll be at the top of the guest list for fettuccine night. No cake by myself. Got it.

Thank you! Keep the suggestions coming; I seriously have a notepad where I'm jotting them down. And then, when Kobold has eaten all if the fettuccine, Twi can run to the store and buy herself a nice baguette with some herbed olive oil.

Sorry. Didn't mean to pour lemon juice on a paper cut there.

Pretty much. She's been known to throw a fit when she wants to make fettuccine Alfredo for dinner and someone asks if we can please have something else because we've had fettuccine three times in the past week. That explains a lot, actually.... Anything major I'll need to know before moving out on my own? I know about budgeting and grocery shopping and other basic stuff, but is there anything weird you don't think of until it's staring you in the face?

Topeka. Another city I can apply for. Seriously, the first thing my mom said when she told me the news was "Have you applied for any jobs there?" I think she's convinced herself I want to move back to Spokane as much as she does.

That was amazing. I'm still not entirely sure what it was about, but it was amazing.

I asked my parents for the address of one of the pastors at our old church, who supervised while I was volunteering. They were excited to help me apply for a job. My dad eagerly grabbed my resume to give me suggestions for improvement. Then I told them it was in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Not Spokane or Coeur d'Alene. They lost interest and wandered off.

I wish. Unless they look at some library job sites themselves, I'm just going to keep telling them that there aren't any jobs open in Spokane or nearby Coeur d'Alene. And that's not really a lie—last I checked (two weeks ago ) the only positions open in Spokane were for a page or a branch director. I'm overqualified for the first and underqualified for the second.

Just took a look at the Steelheart article. I'll make an account soon. Um….that's a tough one. Let's see if I can narrow it down a bit…. Books: ERROR: Unable to decide between Luna Lovegood, Remus Lupin and Ron Weasley (Harry Potter), Brother Francis (A Canticle for Liebowitz), and Liesel, Rudy, Hans, Rosa, and Max (The Book Thief). Please try your request when Twi's brain has recovered from this impossible decision. TV: Donna Noble. Famous for being the Doctor's "best friend" companion, there is nothing terribly special about her. And that is what makes her so extraordinary. Donna isn't a hero. She doesn't push the Doctor to save entire planets, or set out with him to try and convince him to retcon major world events so the death toll becomes zero. She travels with the Doctor because she wants to see the stars. When they land on a hostile planet offering tours in Midnight, she spends the day in a spa. She longs to escape her mother's nagging, brings along mountains and mountains of suitcases, and speaks Latin to a Pompeiian vendor just to see how the TARDIS' translation matrix will handle it. Like the Doctor, she has no real motive besides having fun and forgetting her troubles. Yet she expresses more empathy than many TV characters. When the Doctor, at her request, allows her to hear the Ood's song of mourning, she begs him to take it away after only a few seconds, because it affects her so deeply. In Pompeii, when the Doctor is about to leave the city to be destroyed, she begs him to save one family. "You don't have to save them all, just save someone!" Donna doesn't focus on the big picture, because to her, individuals are the big picture. She pushes the Doctor to ordinary acts of heroism, and this is what makes her so beautifully human. Movies: Steve Rodgers, aka Captain America. In the movies, "being nice" may as well be his primary power. When still scrawny and sickly, he takes on a group of men jeering at a wartime newsreel because it is disrespectful to the men sacrificing their lives. He throws himself on a dummy grenade, thinking it's real, even though his fellow recruits have treated him with nothing but scorn. He treats everyone around him with genuine respect. There are some characters you like to watch, some you love to hate, and others you would love to have a cup of coffee with. Rodgers is at the top of the latter list. Radio: Eugene Meltsner, from a radio show called Adventures in Odyssey. Eugene is a genius. He graduated high school at the age of twelve, uses big words, and never uses turns of phrase without adding "proverbially speaking" or "to borrow the old colloquialism." Yet unlike most portrayals of intelligence, these mannerisms seem natural to Eugene. I've read some books where the requisite "smart" character uses big words in an attempt to showcase his intelligence, and it only makes it sound like he swallowed a thesaurus. The Odyssey writers gave Eugene other indicators of his intelligence: He is utterly devoted to logic. He takes many common phrases literally. He reaches conclusions far more quickly than other characters. And he isn't arrogant about his learning. He simply knows a lot and learns faster than most, and that is how he is. When I was a little girl, I loved sparkles. I still hold this love of sparkles, as evidenced by Doctor Funtimes' habit of putting them in her hair. Yet when I became a teenager, the rest of the world had fallen in love with Twilight, where the "vampires" held all the sparkles and sparkling gave you the skin of a killer. So, to put off suspicion that I too loved the sparkly vampires, I added "SansSparkles" to my username of "TwiLyght." Of course, I would probably be safe in making myself "TwiLyghtPlusSparkles," now that Twilight Sparkle has reclaimed sparkles for the side of rightness, but everyone knows me as the one without sparkles, so I might as well continue. All that is to say, yes. I do want sparkles. Very much.

My family is moving back to Spokane. But I'm not. I'm not even going to look at jobs there. mahahahahaha

Conversely, the word "slut" was once a term of endearment for a young girl. Multiple medieval texts have men referring to their daughters or granddaughters as "good little sluts." This, according to some scholars, exemplifies the way that words used in reference to women often take on negative meanings over time.

Well. I think this explains a lot about Nighthound. He just left his meds back in Astoria.

How could Calamity have made him into an Epic at all, if he didn't gain that fear until after he'd become an Epic? Remember, Calamity latches onto existing fears and uses them to grant powers.

A quick word of warning: Upvotes will not be given to a theory that Calamity is actually a pug. ...unless you include pictures.

You're a good person.

I don't want to know his answer to that question. True, but seriously? THIS is the argument he's playing devil's advocate for?

Kroen, have you read Firefight yet? Calamity may act like a Shard, but that doesn't mean it is one. And no offense, but I think there are more productive arguments to play devil's advocate for.

Deathwish: "At least she's hot, right?" Uuuuugggghhhhhh, no I didn't. Is there a WoB we can show him, or is he arguing against those too?

I think we need a gentler fact! Pugs purr. Because of their smushy faces, their air passages are somewhat constricted, causing them to make many snorting sounds. Being the adorable creatures they are, pugs have turned their snorting into a language, where it is possible to tell a pug's mood from the volume and duration of their snort. When happy and relaxed, many pugs will emit a long, low snort that sounds like purring.

Were you involved in any clubs or activities in school that meant dealing with people? What sort of language skills did your classes teach you? I've hunted for jobs like that before, and it's all about how you spin prior experience. You don't necessarily need experience answering the phone or a class where you did that, but if you can make it look like your degree taught you the skills you'll need in th job you're applying for, you might have an advantage.

No, no, no, his weakness isn't chunky salsa. It's eclairs with too little filling, duh. I think it'll have something to do with all the clues that were mentioned, yet is still completely unpredicted. And what we know about him now doesn't give us any idea of what he was before Calamity. So there's no way to know what kind of a person he was before that, giving us no way to infer what would've been traumatic for a person with his temperament. Yes, Vondra has the sunglasses. Later tonight he will find them, put them on, and realize his entire life has been missing something…..

I'm sure that when his weakness is revealed, every single reader will facepalm and ask themselves why they didn't see it in his first onscreen appearance. But right now, I'm ready to say we have no idea what his weakness is and we might as well just wait for Calamity to reveal it, because Brandon has hidden it too well and the more we try to guess, the further we probably get from the truth. There have been some pretty interesting guesses, though. Oh, she got her own colored sunglasses? Nice. Did she give the pink ones back to Backtrack, or did Shiny Sparkle give them to her next crush?