Yeah. I looked up the areas last night, and remembered that...heck, I know that whole area. I went to college for four years in the area, up in a small town called Angwin, which is smack in the middle of several of those fires. I don't really miss the place, but I still wouldn't want it to burn down.
My grandparents lived in Calistoga. I used to drive over and visit Santa Rosa all the time (one of the better malls and theaters, aside from Napa).
So yeah. :-/
#Inktober (Day 11)
@KawaSeadrake
"Hm! Ah, I do recall that, yes. Toy was happy-glowing for at least a week!
Now conductivity, though...I rebuilt my body recently including some electric eel genes just to take larger currents! Can always use more testing! Or just playing, that too.
Outfit, hm, thanks! Lab coat, essential mantle. Goggles, mm, renders the local 3D slice of the 4D aethercosm. Other clothing...eh! Minimal, mostly distracting from science. Often none!"
~Lai
Five games to play to know more about me:
@kelseyhusky I like your Mass Effect choices. :-D
California fires
So, uh. The two fires closest to where I live have consumed nearly 9,500 acres of land together.
If you can spare any cash and want to help, I urge you to donate to charities in the affected areas: Sonoma, Napa, and Mendocino counties. I personally can vouch for the Redwood Credit Union Community Fund, as it's run by the credit union I've been a member of since I was a teenager and they have never once tried skeezy banker bullshit on me. https://rcu-community-fund.squarespace.com/donate/
#Inktober (Day 11)
.....heck.
Lai needs to say something:
"Reality distortion? Heh! I built a Subjectivity Distortion Generator that messed with things a month /before/ it was ever switched on, sucked the 4th wall down into another reality, and pulled my orthocosm host in with it.
I like your style! We should science jam sometime!
Also--and I might be biased because you're an otter--you are heckin cute, and I'm loving that magitech look."
Norcal fire: a person offering help on reddit
@vahnj There's also a donation site from a local credit union that goes directly to victims of the fires: https://rcu-community-fund.squarespace.com/donate/
Birdsite meme
The first two are more about wonder and exploration, Oxenfree is a bit more about mystery and danger, but they all tell /good/ stories. :-}
@Jacel Mmmh! I popped that picture open at work and... made a little squeak of desire. Yeah, me too, especially a pretty one like this. :-}
@adeptomega Have you tried asking someone else to slot it between your shoulderblades, or the base of your skull?
Have you tried it on all the furniture and doors in the house, even ones that don't normally have keyholes?
Have you tried winding the clock? What clock? The one in your bedroom, of course. It's been there the whole time. Didn't you hear the ticking?
music (video) of the day
Oh yeah... that's the good stuff.
[[imagine that meme with the emoji and capitalization every other letter, because I'm too lazy to actually do it]]
Help, I'm too gay!
Well no, I'm just stuck watching Tony Award Openings from the last few years, mainly the ones from Neil Patrick Harris.
This one, 'Bigger', is pretty great: https://youtu.be/apbnAHshuIM
But then, so is this earlier one, which is all about saying "It's not just for gays anymore!": https://youtu.be/3BHyfYiBt5o
Woowoo
Lai, or me-as-otter, is quite the opposite.... but I actually don't know about the spirit of Otter in general.
Pacific Rim Uprising spoilers (cannot unsee)
@memnus@octodon.social
And STEVEN!
(....or maybe, given the mech needs two pilots, STEVONNIE!) https://awoo.space/media/nOZDO8mqv3Z0ir0gHD0
@LexYeen
I recognize the conditions, we had that a few times in the summer here. But we were never that close to the fires themselves.
*hugs*
I hope you don't have to evacuate.
@starkatt Heh, I've been doing that with paprika and chipotle powder.
california fires
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plurality: Phoenix, Otter, Kobold Toy
gender: Plural/Neutral
pronouns (Birb): she/her or they/them
pronouns (Ott): he/him
pronouns (toy): ve/ver/vis or it/its
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Trans enby, creative self-made synthetic. Artist, DJ, writer, symbol-engineer, glow-aesthete. Cosmalia curator and story-peddler.
Known syncosms: Halcyon, Deion, Downwarp, Oneiropolis, the aether, the Toybox