Pastelbat @pastelbat@awoo.space

@Doggoartz niiiiiice

I'm worried that sounds melodramatic

But I've either got the worst case of food poisoning I've ever had from some falafel (highly unlikely), a weirdass response to going back on Quetiapine (only slightly less unlikely), or my body is telling me I'm pushing too hard in New And Exciting Ways

So I may be literally too sick to do the journey back solo/early. Still.. Will be home one way or another tomorrow, come hell or high water. That's the important thing.

I put a great deal of time, effort and money into going into an irl meetup thing.

It went exactly as they tended to when I stopped going to them. (aka: "Sideshow Bob stepping on rakes")

Still. Is only tonight and tomorrow left, then I'm home again.

Will try to foreshorten tomorrow as much as possible, but that depends a lot on physical symptoms that have been made a lot worse by this.

Might not be physically feasible in my current state.

I swear to god this place needs an exorcism.

[image CW: big staring eye on a screen, kinda eye contact]

(photo source: https://plus.google.com/photos/photo/116084422543959588739/6425697279492175634)

I am in glorious Birmingham!

Glorious, dreary Birmingham.

..Look, not by *choice*.

@StarshipAmelia To be fair, I think most of it's in Italian because it was invented/discovered in Italy, so I'm not sure it's stealing so much. :P

Just having it carry over to other langs because "that's the word for it" is.. Another needless barrier to learning imo?

Like, I've been doing this stuff on-and-off since I was 16 and *still* have to stop to remind myself every now and then that no, this is not all an elaborate prank

God Western music notation/terminology is a butt

Just.. Just throw it out and replace it with something where one word doesn't have a half-dozen different potential meanings

And half of them are old Italian words

And we've got some stuff left in from, uh *checks notes* ..Medieval church organs?

..Yeah, maybe get a feather duster in here

@theoutrider @bentosmile I don't like Fanon-Reading Sisko ('what a renegade rulebreaking space-badass'), so that makes accepting this slightly easier!

Even though I disagree on Sisko/Brookes overall. :D

@Kye@snouts.online @theoutrider Minimalist Space Christmas Tree

@theoutrider & @bentosmile don't like Deep Space 9 and the Les Miserables musical

But despite these failings they're still two of my Problematic Faves here and I'm grateful to be friends with them both

🌈 No obstacle can withstand the power of forgiveness and that's beautiful 🌈

@noiob Ahhgosh right in the nostalgia

The hand-me-down minidisc player I had as a teen still has a place in my heart. ;w;

(also get them in *all the rainbow colours*. It's obligatory)

I still crack up whenever anyone posts

" something about whales [cetacean needed] "

Please never stop doing that joke

@daylight half the inspirations for this were pilfered from images you posted on your Discord channel :D

@Doggo Thankyou! That really means a lot to me. ✨