#bootsandbosons

[blackkatmagic]

Every time I see your sunshine son tag for Naruto I think of golden retrievers, which I feel is a little accurate. A little dumb, full of love and sunshine, want to be friends with EVERYTHING even when they REALLY SHOULDN’T (nO the ANGRY COW does NOT want to be our friend PLEASE STOP TRYING TO PLAY WITH IT.)

The MOST fitting comparison lbr. 

[fishfingersandscarves]

Yo, have you read Of Queens, Knights, and Pawns by chancecraz? The best damn time-travel Star Wars fic I’ve ever read.

OOOO i have not! i have read Old Man Luke by mithen which is Very Good tho!

i will check it out!! thank you!!1

[copperbadge]

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dignitywhatdignity replied to your post “Fellow Chicagoan who would love a head and feet massage from a...”

Can you publicize how you found the place? I'm in New York, so there must be options for sinus massage, but Google only turns up suuuuuuper fancy spas or probably-brothels (and not the kind I'd like to see legalized, let's just say).

It was local, so that’s not much help, I just kind of saw it and looked it up on Yelp. :D 

A few suggestions -- search for reflexology or trigger-point massage rather than general massage, or search for massage therapy (therapy is a key word that helps to distinguish trained massage therapists). Check out what people say about them on Yelp. Look on Groupon -- the more legit places often offer Groupons (mine does). 

And be aware that places that look a bit fly-by-night may be more legit than they appear. The place I go is not fancy; you don’t like, do a consultation with your massage therapist first or even talk much with them, you just follow them and do what they say. 

Another option is to find out where the massage schools in your area are, and see which ones do cut-rate student massages. I go to Cortiva once a month and get a $30 one-hour massage from a massage therapy student, and they will do specific focus if you ask them, like, students at Cortiva DO consult with you and if you say “my sinuses are insane, can you focus on face, head, and neck” they’ll usually agree. 

bethanythemartian replied to your link “Do Lays A Flavor”

I went with the Controversial PIzza, ham and pineapple pizza.

Oooooh good call! 

bootsandbosons replied to your photo “You guys I just had a moment where I think I might have temporarily...”

I was sort of hoping for your friend just slipping a copy sock into your home over and over again. Would be a great prank.

Oh man that WOULD be a great prank, just hiding the same sock everywhere.

spiderine replied to your post “Today in Sam Plays the Ukulele”

Anyway, here's "Wonderwall."

Hilariously, as soon as you said this I went and looked up Wonderwall because I was like yeah, I should get in on this joke. And the first tabs I found for Wonderwall on the uke were actually pretty difficult, because they depended heavily on the B and E chords, both of which are a tremendous pain in the ass on the ukulele. 

I found one that’s easier, chordwise, but it’s still such a varied chord pattern that I’m not confident I’ll be able to play it without the tabs in front of me :D 

danceswchopstck replied to your post “Sam Explains It All”

I am curious about the first two--are you willing to say more?

They’re not as interesting as they sound :D “Travel: Don’t Fuck It Up” is just a guide for how to use our corporate account while traveling, because we’re transitioning me away from handling most of the travel except for our one big group trip, and people who don’t know about stuff like hotel credit card clearance forms (if you check in using someone else’s card, the hotel needs prior documentation that you didn’t steal it) need to be made aware, so that at least if they still screw it up, I can say “Look, I told you this, you needed to pay attention, so that next time I don’t have to fix it for you”. There’s a sliiiiight tendency among certain members of our team to decide something isn’t relevant if it’s not interesting, and I’d like to correct that.

“Safer News Reading” is really about being more efficient with the daily news reading we do -- it’s a primer in how to set up feeds of news websites so that you don’t have to go to the site and comb it for new reading every day. It’s kind of a tie-in with a revision of the way we do news reading, which one of my colleagues is trying to push through and getting some pushback on (it’s related to the above “if it’s not interesting I don’t really have to do it, right?” stuff.)

[blackkatmagic]

Growing up in deserts, my aesthetic is desert characters (like Gaara) going to places with water. Desert child freaking out about "do we have enough water?" and always carrying some on them even if there are streams nearby. Always shoving water bottles at friends and forcing them to drink water so they don't get dehydrated. Continuously amazed at any water feature, even if it's a trickle. Very respectful of storms because monsoons and flash floods will fuck you up.

I always enjoy stories where characters end up in places with alien (to them) environments, so I fully support this. 

[blackkatmagic]

How do you write such well-rounded characters? I'm so afraid of writing my fic's main character as boring or a Mary Sue, especially when they barely have any screentime/we barely know anything about them.

Mostly I try to think of them as people, not just characters. Given the information in canon, how would they react in a certain situation? And then you take that reaction and extrapolate. They reacted this way, so why? What if you changed the circumstance s a little? What’s their motivation, their drive, their purpose? What do they want?

(I believe it was Neil Gaiman who gave just about my favorite advice for writing a character: Make them want something. Anything. Even if it’s just a glass of water. Give them a want and build on it. That’s what motivates people in the end.)

It’s not so much that interesting characters are well-rounded, or vice versa; it’s just that they have the potential to be. You get hints of other things beneath the surface and that makes them multifaceted. There are very, very few people, if any, who show everything they think or feel. People are complicated, even if they look simple, and any hints at that will help make your character more three-dimensional. 

[blackkatmagic]

I didn't realize Iruka was that young and now I'm having even more Iruka&Naruto feels because Iruka is barely an adult and still tries to watch over this little fucker because the legit adults are being morons and I have all of the feelings now.

Right? There’s only 12 years between them. Iruka started teaching at 16, and within a handful of years had overcome an extremely reasonable and deep-seated fear to become a surrogate brother to Naruto. I might not love how he’s written in fics for the most part, but Iruka himself is pretty damn impressive. 

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  bootsandbosons: Yo, anybody wanna chat Voltron...

Damn. :P

It’s on my list. Want me to watch it with you when i get around to it?

[nimblermortal]

unfavorableinstigation replied to your post “I need to make food, but by all the gods, I don’t want to I should at...”

Go default! Even if you've been sitting for hours since you posted this, you should get up and get something.

bootsandbosons replied to your post “I need to make food, but by all the gods, I don’t want to I should at...”

Tacos are always an answer. Also stir fry which usually doesn't take long and is pretty easy.

Thanks, folks!

I made djiao tz filling and will be mildly sad today. Maybe heat up some rice to have with it. Maybe invite somebody over to help fold this evening.