i desperately wish gw2 had more food-centric lore. i think about asura food more than is probably particularly reasonable. they're sort of implied to like molecular gastronomy in the lvl500 chef quests which is fitting and makes sense, but surely not every asura is eating bespoke Pea Spheres day in and day out right? i think my favorite angle on them is a sort of 50s-80s american-esque food style where there's a huge emphasis on things being Convenient and Scientific, so you'd get a lot of absolute slop tv dinners and canned items that have labels boasting how they were nutritionally fortified and contained your day's complete vitamin intakes and so on. a lot of jellied things. i do also fully believe they would have + eat soylent.
i think i can speak for a lot of people who live in areas that see regular flooding and severe weather—please, let what’s happening in imola right now be a reminder that f1 is just a traveling circus and that local conditions are more than part of some Narrative. think for just a moment about how stressful evacuation is and how difficult it is to cope with damage to your home and belongings, and try to temper your social media interactions with this in mind.*
also, my inner meteorologist needs to say: when you get a weather alert for your region, please read/listen to it carefully and take any actions being recommended!
*usual caveat: this isn’t a callout to anybody in particular and i’m not calling for a halt on all memes or discourse
I understand the phrases about favourite characters like 'i want to put them in a petri dish and study him' or 'i need them to get in a cardboard box so i can shake it really hard' and i've applied it in the past here and there about my faves. but somehow when i say it about the fear and hunger guys its different. its like im only really feeling it now. also i need to shake this box harder
I have convinced Kevin to keep an open mind about moving back to Miami (we’d have to rent for at least a year and he’s not keen on the idea).
I just don’t want to experience pregnancy + PP so far away from my family again. I have a strong feeling that after my allergy test, we’re going to start trying. However the results come out. Sky will be 3 next month and I’d really like her and baby to not be more than 4/5 years apart. This may be her only sibling and I don’t want such a big age gap.
If Kevin and I are WFH, Sky can go to my Mimi’s sometimes or obviously, be in daycare or school of some kind. If we could live anywhere, it would probably be Barcelona at this point. But I can’t do that to my Mimi. Or to myself. I won’t be isolated again from my family for my whole pregnancy / birth / PP.
Do they drive me nuts? Yup. But they’re mine. I need them in this part of my life.
Whew. We’d be looking to move in October if we end up going through with this. I wonder what we will decide 😅
okay Citizen Sleeper is a lot but I do really like it
ALSO
I feel very called about, after finishing In Other Waters and checking the other games by that dev, seeing Emphis in the promos and going “You. Husband.“
And then THE VERY FIRST QUEST that you get when you meet Emphis is “Get Closer To Emphis“