Good mornthing!
13/1/19 10:17![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blissmorganIt's odd how going to sleep at midnight and waking up shortly after 8 somehow doesn't feel like a full night of rest, even though clearly I was or I'd have not awakened and stayed awake. Perhaps it is because I spent so much of my sleeptime dreaming, and therefore my mind was quite active during its rest period.
Without getting too deeply into it, I dreamt of lions, and of a demon with a nickname, and of sex that some people might consider problematic because it involved explicit preemptive consent rather than in-the-moment consent. That is, perhaps, something worth setting up a private filter for. Sex and sexuality, the nitty-gritty sexy-wexy that lead to the erotica I write, the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of non-het non-mono relationship lifestyling: let me know if you're interested in being in on that filter.
....I've had this post sitting open for almost two hours because when SALM finished cooking breakfast he sat down and we proceeded to have a long conversation about the dangers of sharing personal information on the internet, my long personal and third-party familiarity with those dangers, the way they have morphed over time and differing services (I've outlived several online journaling services; I was on OpenDiary back when it was free. And existed.), and how nowadays one must not only be concerned with individual manipulators using one's own information against you but also corporate and political movers attempting to do so as well. It surprised him how much time and thought I've actually put into all of it; it's not something we've ever really discussed in depth before. Topics ranged from the Livejournal Strikethrough to the Koch brothers, from Ayn Rand to G.G. Allin to Nationalism, Antifa, and Communism.
It was a long more thinkythoughts than I was expecting this morning, and there are parts where I fucking floundered due to lack of knowledge/information, but it was also damned wonderful. At one point, too, he strongly urged me to look into getting an MS in Library Information Science, because a strong swath of the needs of the positions making use of such a degree include a strong leaning into Information Literacy, something which is of definite interest at large these days and which he sees me having an affinity for. We'll see; for now, I've lodged that as a thing to consider.
Last night I went and played D&D for the first time in quite a while. My DM lives north of the city, so it is a bit of A Drive getting there and back, but it is so worth it. Apparently two of the other players have been clamoring for me to come play, because I was in a game with them that he ran a couple years ago and was so much fun. Then, I was a halfling fighter whose exploits included jamming a bomb inside a severed monster head to use as a frag grenade against a crowd of evil dwarves, and stealing not one but TWO airships. I was an excellent admiral, y'all. This time around, I am a half-orc granny rogue whose weapons of choice are a demeanour of being aged and infirm until the fighting starts, as well as the actual weapons which are a pair of knitting needles (daggers) and an oversized pair of scissors that can be yanked apart to use as a pair of shortswords.
My DM loves me and lets me get away with shit because we are both writers and I pull shenanigans that are as entertaining as hell, even if I do have a knack for completely derailing his adventures. Heheheheheh.
Today will involve a bunch of driving around. We are going to hit IKEA to pick up a corner shelving unit for my bathroom upstairs, so I no longer have my stuff in sort of just a piled drift in that particular corner. I'm also going to get a pine 5-drawer unit and some green stain for the Youngest Spawn. Well, the stain is for the chest of drawers which, in turn, is for the Spawn. He's been handling using soft hanging units in his closet for his clothing, but he is getting big enough and his clothing collection big enough that they don't fit handily into the hanging units any more, and have a tumbling-out tendency.
The driving around is also going to involve playing Ingress. I started playing it a month or two ago, bopping over into it sometimes while we were already out playing Pokemon Go, and my interest in it intrigued SALM enough that he started playing it over a long weekend when he was away visiting family. He went up 5 levels in as many days, and we have been having a grand time going for drives together and building up portals, links, and fields.
This evening I have some picking up to do in the living room, and I may very well set the children to the task of de-decorating the tree. It's time. I want it out.
I also have writing to do, so there will be some introspection today. It may involve lions.
Hello, Blisstopia. <3
Without getting too deeply into it, I dreamt of lions, and of a demon with a nickname, and of sex that some people might consider problematic because it involved explicit preemptive consent rather than in-the-moment consent. That is, perhaps, something worth setting up a private filter for. Sex and sexuality, the nitty-gritty sexy-wexy that lead to the erotica I write, the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of non-het non-mono relationship lifestyling: let me know if you're interested in being in on that filter.
....I've had this post sitting open for almost two hours because when SALM finished cooking breakfast he sat down and we proceeded to have a long conversation about the dangers of sharing personal information on the internet, my long personal and third-party familiarity with those dangers, the way they have morphed over time and differing services (I've outlived several online journaling services; I was on OpenDiary back when it was free. And existed.), and how nowadays one must not only be concerned with individual manipulators using one's own information against you but also corporate and political movers attempting to do so as well. It surprised him how much time and thought I've actually put into all of it; it's not something we've ever really discussed in depth before. Topics ranged from the Livejournal Strikethrough to the Koch brothers, from Ayn Rand to G.G. Allin to Nationalism, Antifa, and Communism.
It was a long more thinkythoughts than I was expecting this morning, and there are parts where I fucking floundered due to lack of knowledge/information, but it was also damned wonderful. At one point, too, he strongly urged me to look into getting an MS in Library Information Science, because a strong swath of the needs of the positions making use of such a degree include a strong leaning into Information Literacy, something which is of definite interest at large these days and which he sees me having an affinity for. We'll see; for now, I've lodged that as a thing to consider.
Last night I went and played D&D for the first time in quite a while. My DM lives north of the city, so it is a bit of A Drive getting there and back, but it is so worth it. Apparently two of the other players have been clamoring for me to come play, because I was in a game with them that he ran a couple years ago and was so much fun. Then, I was a halfling fighter whose exploits included jamming a bomb inside a severed monster head to use as a frag grenade against a crowd of evil dwarves, and stealing not one but TWO airships. I was an excellent admiral, y'all. This time around, I am a half-orc granny rogue whose weapons of choice are a demeanour of being aged and infirm until the fighting starts, as well as the actual weapons which are a pair of knitting needles (daggers) and an oversized pair of scissors that can be yanked apart to use as a pair of shortswords.
My DM loves me and lets me get away with shit because we are both writers and I pull shenanigans that are as entertaining as hell, even if I do have a knack for completely derailing his adventures. Heheheheheh.
Today will involve a bunch of driving around. We are going to hit IKEA to pick up a corner shelving unit for my bathroom upstairs, so I no longer have my stuff in sort of just a piled drift in that particular corner. I'm also going to get a pine 5-drawer unit and some green stain for the Youngest Spawn. Well, the stain is for the chest of drawers which, in turn, is for the Spawn. He's been handling using soft hanging units in his closet for his clothing, but he is getting big enough and his clothing collection big enough that they don't fit handily into the hanging units any more, and have a tumbling-out tendency.
The driving around is also going to involve playing Ingress. I started playing it a month or two ago, bopping over into it sometimes while we were already out playing Pokemon Go, and my interest in it intrigued SALM enough that he started playing it over a long weekend when he was away visiting family. He went up 5 levels in as many days, and we have been having a grand time going for drives together and building up portals, links, and fields.
This evening I have some picking up to do in the living room, and I may very well set the children to the task of de-decorating the tree. It's time. I want it out.
I also have writing to do, so there will be some introspection today. It may involve lions.
Hello, Blisstopia. <3
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13/1/19 18:01 (UTC)Please include me in your filter because I like to hear adult things, being an adult and all. FWIW you are in my [cobwebby] adult filter as well.
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13/1/19 18:02 (UTC)Hope your day is great.
Oh yes, include me in filter please.
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13/1/19 19:02 (UTC)Re sleep, I’ve always been a night owl. My personal (made up) theory is that the only sleep that counts is that after 6am. 😆
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13/1/19 21:07 (UTC)I am very happy also to hear about adults relating to each other quite well in real life. While I don't know all the details (and don't need to), the fact that it is occurring and positive helps me feel better for my friend.
I had a good friend in college who I rediscovered via FB. She was always a creative thinking and she had acquired a MS in Library Sciences. She ended up doing Independent research for folks as a career. She succumbed to cancer before we could meet again in person, but she was very happy with her library work. You do seem, from my perspective, to be someone who would enjoy the combination of organizing and creative thinking that seems to be what it takes to make that degree work so that might be a future path for you?
Happy Sunday!
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14/1/19 16:47 (UTC)(no subject)
14/1/19 19:18 (UTC)Should you choose to get a Library Science Degree. I will be happy to help you with your class work.
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15/1/19 04:29 (UTC)(no subject)
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15/1/19 11:29 (UTC)And, should I pursue that degree, I will definitely take you up on that offer. When I was pursuing my MA I found the advice and experience of folks who had already trod that path to be invaluable.
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15/1/19 11:29 (UTC)(no subject)
15/1/19 11:44 (UTC)The details on that sort of thing will be behind the filter.
Independent research at first blush sounds like it would be a lot of fun, because getting paid to go learn/interpret things would rock. But then I think about me doing it and am not sure I would be effective, because my brain would be constantly latching into things I discover to create my own work from.
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15/1/19 11:45 (UTC)I will put you in the filter.
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15/1/19 11:47 (UTC)My day was very quiet, but I got to do Officially Sanctioned Art at work, and taught someone what the word “phallus” means.
I will put you in the filter!
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15/1/19 13:07 (UTC)Also, knitting rogues for all the win. (I've been on this round earth to know not to fuck with anyone with a knitting basket. I've seen what happens when sewing shears are used on paper. Blood is spilled.)
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15/1/19 13:12 (UTC)(no subject)
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15/1/19 23:48 (UTC)I will include you in the filter!
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15/1/19 23:54 (UTC)Oh! And in the process of doing so I discovered that I followed that other Slipjig at some point having assumed that it was you. Time to bump them right the heck out of my circles.
My favorite things about my Knitting Rogue so far (her name is Racne) is that she definitely has combined the acquisitive natures of both post-apocalyptic hunter/gatherers and of fiber artists, which means that while going down a tunnel with caterpillars on the walls she's plucking them off and lancing them with sewing needles to humanely kill them and putting them in her backpack for bonus protein rations, and when the group finishes fighting a massive swarm of iridescent beetles she starts harvesting their carapaces for the sake of the beautiful glitter they could make.
And that goblin finger? Bone buttons, bitches!
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18/1/19 00:10 (UTC)I've had thinky thoughts on my own sexuality lately and "hearing" others discuss it might make me more comfortable talking about it.
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