#chimericaloutlier

[randomdeinonychus]

2025 can go straight to hell.

Last night, we had to say goodbye to River. She was a great cat and she turned me into a cat person, along with her sister Rose--whom we had to say goodbye to back in March.

We're all still a wreck today, though we're slowly recovering. Poor Ian has not really known life without River, since @chimericaloutlier got Rose and River before she ever met me and we moved in together when Ian was only 2.

Here he is cuddling and watching Godzilla movies with her.

The kittens loved her, too, especially Spock--though he was always too rough with her and she didn't want to play with him. I think Toothless was her favorite.

Here River is cuddling with Tutu (what we call Toothless) only a day or two ago.

At least we can take some small comfort in the fact that she is with her sister again.

Goodbye, River Song. We miss you and Rose Tyler so, so very much. You were the best cats I have ever known.

[faejilly]

@chimericaloutlier replied to your post “Be a duster, don't even have a name really, not as...”:

Her whole life is the John Mulaney "This might as well happen" meme

​EXACTLY

It's especially hilarious to me, because Ingva was all heart-eyes at Duncan and Alistair, like, you got me out of Dust Town, I'm helping save the world, this is AMAZING! (Also, yk, Alistair made her laugh, which isn't a thing that had happened much in her life, so. Heart-eyes.)

And Finna is just: What the Fuck Is Wrong with every single person on the Surface? Don't get her wrong, she's not actually complaining or anything, yay, she's still alive, she's all for fighting Darkspawn, every one she kills is one less that might go back to the Deep Roads and add to Orzammar's problems, which is good for Rica and all, but still. STILL. How do these people ever get anything done? (No wonder Orzammar's been besieged for a thousand years, Surfacers make everything so damn complicated and then act like it's normal. None of this is normal. WTF people.)

[boomvagynamite]

chimericaloutlier replied to your post “HELLO I feel like I haven’t done anything productive in like, at least...”

If you can talk to your doctor about it, I recommend doing so!! The body is a complex mechanism, especially as it relates to the brain. It is not a failure of will, even if it feels that way, to feel scattered and unable to focus when you're constantly being bombarded with pain signals. Give yourself credit that you're doing your best.

Thank you! I don’t really feel that I am doing my best, but I also don’t know how I would get to the point where I am. Like I don’t know how I’d go about doing my best. I’m giving it another 2 months to see if things level out. My parents and my dude are pretty unimpressed that I’m still getting pain, but these things take time I think, especially since there’s so little research. Thank you for your reply :)

fursasaida replied to your post“HELLO I feel like I haven’t done anything productive in like, at least...”

maybe see a doctor to rule some things out like ADD? i wasn't diagnosed till i was 26

I always thought ADD was like nutso teen boys, but I had a google and apparently I am wrong and also it often presents differently in women? So, sorry for thinking that! (You probably get that all the time - sorry everyone is so misinformed.) A lot of the descriptions sound like me, but I’m wary of reading myself into things. I know it’s common to over-identify with the things you read. Having said that, it took me a really long time to go and talk to someone about my suspected endo - my dude basically wouldn’t take no for an answer anymore, and made me go see my GP.  But that’s also because when I went to my old GP about being in lots of pain they said it was normal and just gave me a prescription for slightly suped up painkillers. Which brings me to: I wouldn’t know how to go about talking to a doctor about this to rule it out?

[thelightofthingshopedfor]

chimericaloutlier replied to your post: “I’ve been tentatively planning to do the March for Science tomorrow...”:

I don't want to be one of Those People, so this advice is given freely and feel no need to heed it. I often have a lot of neck pain that culminates in tension headaches; the way I'm constantly having to look down to do my job doesn't help much either. My massage therapist told me to start doing 6 point neck stretches, and it's helped immensely with my neck pain and tension headaches, by loosening the tendons in my neck and shoulders.

I have that general problem too, compounded by the fact that I also have moderate kyphosis (forward spine curvature), further compounded by the IBS that means I often feel nauseated or otherwise not great in such a way that my body’s kind of trained me to avoid using my core muscles the way I should. so it’s like...issues all the way down, some of which are hard to correct. my physical therapist has given me a number of stretches and exercises that I’m not as consistent with doing as I should be, although also I have yet to find one that actually seems to help when I’m already hurting, which makes it hard to know whether any of it does any good. for that matter nothing except ibuprofen consistently helps when I have bad head and/or neck pain. so I don’t really know if it’s...just kind of an inevitable chronic thing because of various issues and I can’t do anything about it except regular stretches/exercises and visiting a PT/chiropractor, or if there’s something specific that can actually be fixed but hasn’t been found yet.

[randomdeinonychus]

Took @chimericaloutlier to a Rage Room as a birthday gift, and a great time was had by all. Lots of smashy-smashy and even time for cool poses.

[randomdeinonychus]

Had to inflict this Gollum mask on @chimericaloutlier since Amazon showed it as a "Women's costume" idea.

[randomdeinonychus]

In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Pacific Rim, a fun reminder of the impact it has had on my life:

When @chimericaloutlier and I first messaged each other on a dating app, she had noticed I love Godzilla and she asked me how I felt about Pacific Rim. (Which was less than a year old at that point) When I said that I loved it, she was elated because she also adored the film.

I took that to be a very good sign, and I was right!

Four years later, our wedding cake toppers were Knifehead and Cherno Alpha with the words "Drift Compatible." Obviously, the idea was that we were both piloting Cherno Alpha.

Amusingly, we also got married the very same weekend that Pacific Rim Uprising hit theaters.

[randomdeinonychus]

I don't think I realized when I was younger that love would some day involve torturing my significant other with terrible, terrible jokes.

Like when I saw that Hallmark has a rather terrifying Gollum ornament this year:

So, naturally, I texted it to @chimericaloutlier so I would not be burdened with this knowledge on my own (and since we were in polite company this was better than merely showing her). She responded by wondering what was under his loin cloth.

Naturally, I replied, "That's where you hide the Christmas pickle." She replied with a vomit emoji.

Then it hit me: "She Gollum on My Precious until I taters."

She replied with a laughing emoji, but I didn't think the joke was all the way there yet.

Then, last night as I was brushing my teeth before bed, out of nowhere the perfect phrasing hit me.

So, right as my poor tired spouse was literally closing her eyes to go to bed, a good five days after I had made the initial joke, I rushed into the bedroom to triumphantly declare:

"She Gollum on My Precious till I Smeagol!"

Whereupon my beloved wife loudly groaned and with determined finality yelled, "GOOD NIGHT!"