Kaymyth

Heh, sorry. I've never gotten used to sharing my name with an edible plant. It's disconcerting whenever I hear people talking about cooking with me. The Pern stuff defined my teenaged years in a lot of way. Though Anne's writing did get a little shaky near the end, and her son's books are just frankly terrible. The last-published Pern book that was good, IMNSHO, was Masterharper of Pern. I did Pern MUSHes back in the day. I did a lot of MUSH roleplaying, actually. I was just thinking about it the other day, and how that's probably why I write as well as I do now. Edit to Add: we are hijacking the heck out of poor Kobold King's thread.

I...might want to toy around with the music idea. Were you thinking of each world having its own musical "feel" to it? (Note to self: pester ThirdGen about possible collaboration.)

Well, you know, if you take the idea of the Infinite Multiverse theory and stretch it a bit, you could take it to mean that everything in every story every written that has any chance of happening has happened, in some alternate universe. So maybe Mistborn ARE real, somewhere. Just....so long as nobody gets the rosemary mixed up with Rosemary. I do not want to be an herb! (Heck if I know. I grew up on Pern dragons.)

Yes, absolutely! For example, while everyone else is running in panic from the sudden reappearance of dragons in the world, we'll be busy designing saddles and harnesses for them! (Dragons are just like big, rideable, firebreathing lizard-kittens, right?)

Ahh, taking the realistic approach. I believe in all three. Mostly because I hate the idea of a universe where they don't exist. I'm a credulous sort of person, and don't have much trouble imagining ways that impossible things could theoretically exist. The upshot of this is that if anything really, really weird ever does happen, I'm likely to just go, "Huh. That's new. Neat!" while everybody is busy freaking out about the impossible thing.

Why is there a blue glowy Tron owl in your userpic?

I saw that one coming. Do you believe in dragons, faeries, and/or unicorns?

Yep. That question broke him. It happens on occasion; he needs a snack and his clockwork rewound, and then he'll be good as new.

Doctor Whooves. Hands-down. But Vin!Pony comes in a close second. ERROR ON LINE 55 - INFINITE FEEDBACK LOOP Favorite book? Seriously? I can't even narrow down a single favorite author, and you want me to pick a single favorite tome out of my entire glorious library? I'm sorry, it...just can't be done.

Oh. This should be good.

I managed to find a pest control guy who was willing to rehome my bumblebees! The nest has been removed with minimal casualties (and no stings), and they are off to a new home in a more rural area!

I do not have children, but I have an elementary education degree. Unfortunately, I moved to KC about the time the bottom dropped out of the economy and severe cuts got made to local schools, so I never did secure a teaching job. So I work for Major Financial Institution instead, and practice my teachers' patience on clients. On a tangent, probably the most terrifying thing I've ever done was substitute for kindergarten. I mean, they're cute at that age, but they bounce around like tiny hyperactive electrons. I'm a lot better with kids who are able to hold a decent conversation. My nieces and nephews are one by one starting to reach the age where they get interesting to talk to (and start corrupting to the Geek Side). It's unlikely at this point that I'm going to have kids of my own, so I gotta geekify the niecelings and nephewlors.

Probably to make sure family and friends were all notified and had a chance to mourn before it went public.

"Tin" foil is actually aluminum these days. Originally, I think it actually was tin (hence the name), but then Hall-Heroult was cracked and aluminum got cheap.

Yup. I remember Arizona summers. My dad used to live in Phoenix when I was a kid.

You'd probably have better luck on the dashboard of a car in Arizona summer. It's a slow bake, but less likely to burn that way.

Eh, we've got our share of bad apples, same as the rest of 'em. In any group, you're always going to get a few outliers who think they know better than everybody else. Mostly I roll my eyes and move on. But I do think that a lot of us will sometimes come across as too fierce. There is a fairly sizeable subset of people on one neopagan path or another who turned that way because they were hurt in some way by the tradition they were raised in. As I said, every group has their share of awful people using the religion to justify hurting others, and some of the ones hurt react so strongly that the run as far and as fast as they can the other direction. So if any of you ever do come across someone on a pagan path who has a strongly negative reaction to whatever religion you might be, please bear in mind that it most likely is borne from the pain of their own wounds, and nothing that you yourself (or even anyone who you would be willing to claim) did.

We're going to go into UPG territory here. I have a variety of meditation exercises that I do to turn on the godphone, so to speak. The impression that I get is that they're more or less happy about it because it means that more people are paying attention to them again. They like attention. They like to be remembered. And even if the comics are inaccurate, it means that people are at least thinking about them, which gives them a better shot at gaining followers again. Unlike a lot of the religious traditions Western culture is familiar with, the Egyptian gods are not all-knowing and all-powerful. Sure, they know more than we do, and they're more powerful than we are, but they have limits and they couldn't stop the historical changes that caused them to fall into obscurity. Most of them have spent the last couple millennia with nobody but each other (and occasionally bored members of other pantheons) for company. They've been lonely. So, the short version: if they're not offended, then I'm not offended. And I think that the sorts of things people might expect them to be offended by most of them actually find hilarious. You don't hang around humans for 6,000 years without developing a sense of humor. No apologies necessary. I think I can be a little less circumspect in this thread than the general Religions thread, since I think I can run on the assumption that people deliberately reading a thread started by me might have a slightly higher tolerance for Weird than the general masses. Still, if I start getting oblique about something, it's because the answer is likely to make a majority of people think I'm A ) crazy or B ) trolling. I am up to my eyeballs in Weird Crap. And I think that in a lot of cases, the deities were shaped by peoples' expectations of them. I believe that they are pieces of the Universe that broke off and were formed by a combination of its intent and our imaginations. And people can imagine some really scary things. But I like to think that the general goodness of the Universe overcomes a lot of those darker impulses, so you wind up with some terrifying-looking gods looking down at their followers' sacrifices and sighing, "Oh, not this again. Um, High Priest Bob? Could you not....oh. Eeugh."

That had better have been one very shiny rock.

Amusingly enough, the newest guy *is* the one who's been checking in returned devices. Fortunately, this was one of the obsolete models, so he just hermetically sealed it back up with packing tape and took it down to the dumpster. Then, I assume he disinfected himself. Judging by how the cobwebs were entwined in the cords, I do think that this was not malicious, but just a case of being lazy and filthy people. Still, no, it is not okay. It is not even in the same ZIP code as okay.

What? Just...but...NO! A merchant returned some of our old equipment today. Included in the box were large amounts of cobwebs sprinkled with rodent poop clinging to the cords. I.. I just.. Why? Why would you DO that?! ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew

What? All the cool kids are doing it! And no, I wouldn't jump off a bridge if everyone else were doing so because I am freakin' terrified of heights. Doing this could actually be a really terrible idea. Fantastic!

I...I thought my prize was just getting to put "Forum Mom" in my member title and actually have justification for it...

Maaaaybe. *puts on mob voice* I would do this beta reading favor for you, and perhaps one day, you will do a beta reading favor for me.

This idea entertains me. I still think it's more likely that they'd decide that palm trees are an aphrodisiac than wonder, "Am I attracted to palm trees on a personal basis?" But it's funny.