TwiLyghtSansSparkles

Nah, I'll just go eat some raw cookie dough and stick my tongue out at the FDA. Gluten intolerant? Sad. I've tried some gluten-free options available where I live, and most of them are pretty good. Of course, there's the added bonus that most gluten-free options tend to be additive-free as well, which cuts out most of my allergens, but it's nice to know that you can get decent packaged cookies without gluten.

Update: After putting four lumps of cookie dough on a sheet of tinfoil, turning the grill heat down fairly low, placing the tinfoil on the top rack in hopes indirect heat would bake the cookies the way an oven would, and leaving the cookies on the grill for five minutes, I have come to a disheartening conclusion.

I just made cookie dough because I wanted cookie dough. And now that it's too hot outside to turn the oven on without heating the entire house….I've decided to see if it's possible to bake cookies on the grill.

I don't play any instruments, sadly. I once tried to learn piano, but I couldn't make my fingers move the way they should. Since I have a pretty fast typing speed, I don't know if that's odd or not, but I couldn't make myself learn it. If I could choose one instrument to play perfectly….hmmm….I think it'd be a tie between guitar and drums.

I love Owl City. Some of his songs are a bit too bubblegum for my tastes, but there are others I absolutely adore. "Galaxies," "Hello Seattle," "Hot Air Balloon" and "The Saltwater Room" are some of my favorites. Not only do I love the catchiness of those songs, but I love their sense of innocence.

NO ONE WILL MURDER PUGS ON MY WATCH— Oh. You're being facetious. Okay. No, that's not my pug, though Mollie has done similar things when she wanted to be let into a room.

There's another way to announce things? So far, I'd name John Simm as my favorite. You know how they say you never forget your first Doctor? Well, I think the same holds true for the Master. He was my introduction to the character, and his spontaneous brand of evil has never left my psyche. I'm tempted to call it "madness with a method," but in some cases, I think that for Simm's Master, madness was the method. I'm still not entirely convinced he didn't decide on something crazily evil to do and then come up with a reason for it, rather than the other way around. That, more than anything, is what made an impression on me: Simm's Master is wild and carefree about his evil schemes, the way the Doctor is wild and carefree with his fun. He does evil for the thrill of it, and in some ways, I got the idea that taking over the world was just a bonus. So much of what he did was almost cool, his humor almost funny rather than just sadistic. Simm's Master could've been another Doctor-like Time Lord, and his choice to be evil was what made him so terrifying. He was the perfect foil for Ten, and although he was long gone by the time Tennant's Doctor regenerated, he would've been a chilling foil for Eleven as well. (And yes, I'm still mad about the BBC not releasing the scene of Simm's Master pushing Ten around in a wheelchair singing "I Can't Decide" on Netflix. ) If Doctor Funtimes met Susan Gillespie, Susan would dedicate more effort than usual to charting out her potential futures. Not only would they usually change rather quickly, but nearly all of them would mark her as dangerous, so Susan would do everything within her power to keep Funtimes occupied. One of those things would almost certainly be befriending Funtimes, which Susan would do, trying not to make weird faces at the futures where Funtimes turned jelly beans into earrings or challenged people to a ketchup-drinking contest. Why are pugs adorable? Uh…sorry. Got distracted there for a second. Having owned pugs, I can tell you that they have the most personality of any dog breed I've yet encountered, and every personality is wildly different. Bruno, for example, sees himself as our house's safety commissioner, and will walk around performing "safety inspections." When we get in the pool, he'll stand at the edge and bark at us until we get out, because he sees the pool as dangerous. Mollie, on the other hand, sees me and my family as the wisest beings ever, and will sit on the floor or on the stairs studying us. (She also likes to shred napkins, but we don't talk about that. ) Both of them love wearing clothes—Mollie likes ribbons, Bruno likes scarves, and they both love the winged harnesses we got them for Halloween. (Bruno is Batpug, and Mollie is a puggerfly.) Basically, it's easier to list the things pugs do that aren't adorable. Ummm…..I think I'd choose writing. Though overall, I find the Vorin religion too restrictive (and not just because I don't like covering my safehand. ). I know we're not at a point in the Stormlight series where we've seen in-depth looks at religions other than Vorinism, but if I were on Roshar, I'd either choose a faith that allowed more freedoms to its adherents, or attempt to reform Vorinism, as it appears things were less restrictive in the past. Probably Park City. My parents always talk about the snow and the trees when they go, so I'd probably pick Park City because of that. (Yes I'm horribly shallow don't judge me. )

That is so not okay.

It would probably be better to wait until we get closer to the climax for the Ballooner to unleash his inner Michael Bay. Right now, the chances of him getting past the Museum's Epics to blow it up are pretty slim.

Fine. "Just add an alarm to it, will you? A police pickup truck would be the most humiliating way to cart Deathwish around. Well, second most humiliating, but surely you don't want a pink fire truck associated with this town."

Like Arsenal's?????? Alternatively, what if he was somehow convinced that Khione loves pickup trucks (only a small exaggeration there—she doesn't love them, but she does like them) and the nicer the date truck is, the more likely she is to want to find its creator?

So long as you stay away from Central Washington. Western Washington—around Seattle, Olympia, Snohomish—is where you'll see a lot of rain, and Eastern Washington—Spokane and Cheney—gets a good amount of rain, a lot of snow, and all four seasons—but Central Washington is just a desert. Hot summers, cold winters, not a lot of precipitation….there's a maximum-security prison there because any escapees are going to have a very terrible time trying to find water. Um….if you could visit any one city for a week, where would you go?

The scrubby little plants that reminded me of a Washington town I was grateful to escape? The heat? The confusing roadways? I don't know; I guess most of Utah and Arizona just aren't for me. If I have, I was too young to really remember it. Either that, or it didn't leave much of an impression; I remember the trip my family and I made to Yellowstone National Park when I was four pretty well.

He'd have whatever the limit was—one minute, correct?—which would be just enough time to note something of import and leave it without being disturbed. This would preclude him from adding poison to someone's drink, or stealing things, or planting false information within that time limit. It'd probably work better if he stayed in the same location when the time limit was up, although he'd have time to figure out the best way to dodge an attack.

Provo? Blaaaarrrrrghhhhh. We stayed there for an afternoon and a night while moving to Arizona, and I was not impressed. Maybe one visit (and a visit passing through at that) wasn't enough to gain an impression, but I was not a fan.

Speaking of Oregon characters, I haven't been able to listen to the song in the spoiler without thinking of a counselor and a certain gifter.

What does she like?

Have you ever been to Park City, and if so, does it deserve to be anyone's favorite city in the world? (My parents love Park City, but I've never been, and I'm curious as to why they love it so much.)

What is your opinion of this video….. ….and what do you think it means for the animal kingdom at large?

If he could manipulate objects in his rewound state, but they automatically reset themselves to the way they were before he rewound them, he could actually find quite a bit on the information front.

Well, if he could do anything within that one minute, so long as he didn't affect anything else—if he could study his opponent and surroundings from every angle, or if he could touch and manipulate objects so long as they were automatically reset to their pre-rewound state—he could actually do quite a bit as a spy.

Precisely. He'd see everything that happened within that time period, though the inability to reset anyone or anything else would mean no problems with retconning.

How about just himself, like Timeport?

If we do this, I propose making it so Flashback is in the exact same place he was before the rewinding, so as not to make previous posts moot. He'd be able to see the best way to dodge or where to run while rewinding.