Kaymyth

Muh-huh. And this is why my instinctive reaction to the existence of this thread is: "Lies! Lies and misdirection! I DISBELIEVE THE ILLUSION!" (And seriously, y'all, if you knew where I worked, all my cool points would just be down the drain from the sheer boringness of it all.)

I think this should be called The Liars' Club, 'cause there's no way you guys are uninteresting. You're just keeping all your awesome on the down-low* right now. *or ARE you?!

You get answers! The rest of the Shard demands that you share them. *inserts a tiny crocheted Yoda*

Aha! Finally a difference between us! I detest beer. Trump is a narcissist who has hit upon a magic word salad that appeals to a certain subset of disillusioned conservatives. There's also the ever-looming possibility that he could win the majority of primary delegates and the Republican party rebels against the electorate and nominates somebody else. Then he'd almost certainly run as an independent in his fury.

We're...odd. I'm part of a Unitarian Universalist congregation whose function and format is designed as pagan. And since we're UU, we have a bunch of different religious traditions represented. Our rituals tend to vary wildly in content depending on who's facilitating that day (instead of a minister, we have a Ritual Teams group that any member can join after taking a class offered yearly). Most of the more traditional local pagan groups can't quite get a bead on us because we pull from so many different sources. The Unitarian Universalist Association is completely baffled by us because we operate so differently from the way almost every other UU church does. In short, we're kind of unique. I've heard of a couple of other groups in the U.S. who have tried to pattern themselves on our structure, though I don't know if either of them are still operating.

Pfft. As High Priestess of the Church of Wayne, my descent into alcoholism is never premature. (Though seriously, it takes me one drink to get tipsy, 2 1/2 to get smashed. We don't go through the stuff too quickly in my house.)

Yes. It was meant to be pudding shooters, but the recipe I found told me to use twice as much cool-whip as I should have. Still, it was delicious over fruit. Mead is amazing. Wine made out of honey! I have a few friends who make it at home, so I tend to pick up small bottles of weird brew mixes now and then. I've also had dandelion wine. Ye gods, that stuff has so much more alcohol to it than you can taste.

I've got some high-powered moonshine that tastes just like apple pie. And I make a mean alcoholic cool-whip. ETA: Also, there's mead. There's always mead. Mead is the best.

Welcome to the left side of the political aisle. Now kick back with me and grab a daiquiri. If Trump keeps winning primaries, we're gonna need all the alcohol we can get.

You keep surprising yourself with this whole not-being-a-conservative thing, don't you?

If you do tell her, promise me you'll film it.

Duh. I coulda told you that. Because I'm all for that candidate and you and I share a brain.

Wha...how...how did it take me a week to find this glorious madness? Classic. We are the aged and sagely and wise. We remember the time before the internet. It was a bleak time indeed. I've sung that before. In public. ...at church. (This is, in fact, perfectly normal for pagan UUs.) Oh, the legacy you have wrought! And in more ways than one. I'm seriously considering borrowing your "Let's make a pony comic strip!" schtick for my acknowledgements on Swift as Steel.

The way I did it with organizing Swift as Steel, I jotted down a brief scene description on each note and color-coded them by main plot, character building, etc. I did this after I wrote my first draft, so I took them and arranged them in order and noted where I had things that didn't work, etc. If there were too many non-plot scenes in between major plot points, I'd cut and combine other scenes. This helped me streamline things between the first and second drafts. Really, I just like sticky notes. They're so useful!

Well, in that case, just sit back and enjoy the ride?

I think you should ask him.

We have a WoB out there that states that mistwraiths are basically people, but with a "cognitive block" that keeps them from gaining sentience - basically, there's something that's keeping them from reaching their full cognitive abilities. It's reasonable to extrapolate from this that the Blessings somehow use Hemalurgy to bridge the gap between Physical and Cognitive Realms within the soul itself. Mistwraiths have souls, they just have something stuck in there that short-circuits them, so to speak. The spikes somehow fix that circuit and put everything running back correctly again.

Oh, they have you well-trained, don't they?

Nobody owns a cat. Cats own people. Oh, dear. Now you have me wondering if I've inspired anything.

Hey, in this particular situation, I was a lot less interesting than Hurricane. (For the record, most of these concerts were in churches. And even shooting blanks leaves gunpowder smoke all over the place.)

Just wait till college; that's when things get really nuts. (Says the woman who spent one spring break on band tour playing the 1812 Overture 3 times a day with a percussionist nicknamed "Hurricane" shooting blanks out of a rifle for the cannon fire.)

They're not genderless. Really, one of the big dividing lines between kandra and koloss is that kandra are spiked mistwraiths, while koloss come from straight human stock. So the kandra were actually mucked with on a genetic level before they ever gained sentience via hemalurgy.

I'm starting to think that I just need to invite you over to my house for the holidays. Because clearly we're related somehow. Pork and chicken should definitely be cooked all the way through. There are too many health risks for not doing so. Fish, on the other hand, can be cooked or not cooked. I eats it all. You know, ThirdGen wandered over to my cube an hour or so ago and started relating the Great Cauliflower Debate to me before I had a chance to read it. This is exactly what I said to him.

Not quite. I do prefer that my meat not actually talk to me. But yeah, I like it rare. Pink in the middle is overcooked.

I'm sure I probably will do something similar, but not exactly alike. Eventually. ...actually. Oh, man. I got an idea. I almost think that raw would be better. But then, I'm one of those people who prefers my red meat really rare.