Mun-Li joined the Dragoons! I'm so happy. It means we can deploy together. Or if we're apart at least I know we'll be working together? Kind of? I asked her about training as a jumpmaster but she said no. I didn't think she'd say yes. But I had to try.
I also saw an engagement on Thursday. Trist and Maella played music for it. It's scary to think about. It's scary to think that could be me (us?) one day. I don't want to think about that now.
And then I almost blew my hand off.
Alex told me thinks tinkering is interesting, and I know Mere likes weapons. So I was originally working on a pair of flare guns for me and Mun-Li. Then when I was Mun-Li's plus one for Alex and Mere's wedding I decided I'd turn them into presents. Then Alex gave me an invitation and I really had to get them done in time. I rushed. I didn't test the capacitors before I installed them. One gun worked fine. The other one's capacitor blew up in my hand. Writing hurts but I'm trying it to make sure my fingers work. So now my present's going to be late and I'm mad about it. The hand's fine but the present was supposed to be perfect! ARGH!
There was a lot of crying at the wedding. Mun-Li calls them big feelings. Mun-Li's happy cried with me before but that was about us not other people. I don't get it. I mean, I was happy! Really happy! I like Alex. I want her to be happy. And Mere is important to Alex, and Alex being happy is important to me, so I want Mere to be happy too. It was really nice to watch and Alex's vows kind of made me think about how Mun-Li calms me down. She called Mere the moon to her sun. I liked that a lot.
Then Mere's vows made me think about how I'd always need more mead when I saw Mun-Li so that we would have to walk to the office to get more. And how Mun-Li told me she'd wait by the mage district and leave her mead behind at the office so we'd have to walk all the way back and -
Okay. I understand why people were happy crying. I'm going to go kiss my girlfriend now.
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merellia replied to your post:msdistress replied to your post:...
I keep feeling surprised when a next season of TW is mentioned. Which dead person/former villain are they going to bring back next? Gerard? Deucalion? Talia or Laura Hale? Actually, the last two would be cool.
oh look the former villains are white dudes who aren't dead and the dead people are lady werewolves
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I really can't believe Gerard is still around. I MEAN REALLY. REALLY????? the fuckshitfest that was 2.12 and his wrinkly ass isn't even dead? ARGH why did I not see that as the harbinger of all the shit that was to come, why.
merellia replied to your post: My cat is napping in the sun so I flop...
I’m fostering a rescue cat that I’m trying to get more accustomed to being petted. Sometimes, she takes both paws and pushes my hand away: stop, stop, enough for now! She sends her sympathies to Lady Sansa.
LOL so far I've learned that the main difference between cats and dogs isn't that cats are LESS affectionate, but that they have limits on their need for attention. Like, they can be purring in your face and showing their bellies and squeezing their eyes shut in happiness but then suddenly it's like WELL THAT'S ENOUGH FOR ME, GOOD CUDDLES BIG ROOMMATE, QUITE WELL DONE. I NEED VERY MUCH TO GO STARE OUT THAT WINDOW FOR AN HOUR NOW. SEE YOU AT DINNERTIME. IF I AM NOT BUSY. LOVE YOU.
merellia replied to your post:themarchrabbit replied to your post:Unpopular...
We (in the US specifically, and the West more generally) sexualize violence all the time in ways that, I think, make it easier and more likely for us to find violence in fics appealing than fics that challenge the taboo of parent/child relationships.
oh, definitely! we're more accepting of anything on the violence end of the scale than sexuality in general, I think. even heterosexuality! consensual heterosexuality, for fucks sake! Sucker Punch and Blue Valentine and probably hundreds of other films and books and televisions shows are perfect proof of how we can throw blood and guts around and blink nary an eye, but oftentimes sexuality? of any kind? or anything outside the very rigid box they've set for themselves? will send people over the edge.
also now I'm having thoughts about "acceptable" female sexuality and its making me angry NO AMANDA JUST GO TO BED
