#sopranopixie

[dani-ellie03]

sopranopixie replied to your post “Prompt: On Emma's first birthday she spends with Snow and Charming...”

So this is really cute. From what I know, the little smash cakes are made by the mother or grandmother of the child while the main cake served to the cake is the fancy bakery made one. I can easily picture Snow spending an entire afternoon perfecting a mini cake that she baked and frosted.

Awww, yes! Thank you for the lovely visual!

[justanoutlawfic]

sopranopixie replied to your post “Con etiquette: if you purchase something at a CHARITY auction,...”

Wait, people bid on stuff at an auction but couldn't pay for the item??

Last year, someone bid $12,000 on a prop and never paid them for it. Which to me, is pretty shitty. 12k is a lot, but you knew what you were doing when you keep bidding...

[dani-ellie03]

sopranopixie replied to your post:

(Re)Discovery of the day: shopping for pants when...

Kids sizes are a godsend. I’m 4'11" and I regularly look in the girls 14/16 for stuff.

Kids sizes are indeed the best! My hips and chest are too big for clothes but you can bet your sweet bippy that I buy my sneakers and/or shoes in the kids’ section whenever I can!

[dani-ellie03]

brighterthansunshine28 replied to your post “For anyone who may be traveling anywhere and who, like me, is a...”

I just pop a Xanax but this might be practical for shorter flights.

I always wind up groggy if I try something like that (and then I don’t enjoy the beginning of the vacation) so I load up with distractions instead. I have a couple TV episodes along with the music on my iPod, I’ll have my phone (and obviously the games on it), my computer (with the solitaire and mah jong suites), a couple books, and a crossword puzzle book. I’ll probably switch activities every half hour, because like I said, when I’m nervous, I have no attention span. ;)

sopranopixie replied to your post “For anyone who may be traveling anywhere and who, like me, is a...”

 I played that for a bit. Yes, it's tedious but use a stylus to make it easier. Sometimes I went for all the same color at the same time or went by segment  by segment  of enlarged  squares.

Thank you for the tip on the stylus! I was doing segment by segment last night, which seemed to work well for me. :)

[dani-ellie03]

sopranopixie replied to your post:New headcanon: Snow, Charming, and baby Neal come...

More like, “Less work for me AND free food. Can’t complain.” She’d be crazy to pass that up.

Exactly! Personally, I would not at all complain if someone came over every day to cook me food. ;)

[dani-ellie03]

sopranopixie replied to your post “Fic: The Needle in the Granite Haystack (1/1)”

Thanks for writing this up! I loved Ingrid and her storyline in the show. I felt so sad that she had to go to such extremes to feel accepted.

You’re very welcome!

I honestly think that Ingrid is the most sympathetic villain this show has ever done. It doesn’t at all excuse what she did to Emma, Elsa, and Anna, of course, but I can understand how accidentally killing her sister with the powers she’d tried so hard to hide and control so she wouldn’t accidentally hurt her family would send her down the path she went down. (The scene with her killing Helga is utterly heartbreaking, and I truly felt for her.) I loved that in the end, she accepted that her path was her own: “I am a monster, not because of my powers but because of what I let them turn me into.” And I loved that in the end, she expressed happiness that Emma, Elsa, and Anna had found their families, even if those families didn’t include her.

I just really ended up enjoying the Frozen/Snow Queen story far more than I anticipated and I think it’s due in no small part to how it was just so tragic. There was no scheming or nefarious purposes that set all this into motion; it was a magical accident that spiraled out of control.

[dani-ellie03]

tomeandflickcorner replied to your post “All right, any of my followers who have been in a car accident: when...”

I'm afraid I can't be much help in this regard. The only accident I've been in at present was roughly a year ago, when I got hit by a deer. (I can't emphasize that enough- the deer was the one who hit me.) Although, that was odd in itself, as this happened in the middle of the day. Deer generally tend to only be active at dawn or dusk, not around high noon.

Eep! I can’t even imagine how scary that was. I hate it when a squirrel runs out into the road in front of me, never mind a deer!

Prior to this, I was only in one other accident, which was also not our fault. (The other car ran a red light.) We didn’t really frequent the intersection where the accident happened very often but I do remember my mom slowing down as she approached intersections, regardless of the color of the light, for a while after.

sopranopixie replied to your post “All right, any of my followers who have been in a car accident: when...”

 I've avoided the road I fender bended on for quite sometime. Eventually, like a few months later, I had to take it and was VERY careful with the area I had my accident on.

I unfortunately can’t avoid the intersection because it’s legit right outside my complex so the day after getting hit, I had no choice but to get back on that road again. I am so ridiculously careful now ... probably too careful. And when I stop to take that left, my heart kinda pauses until the car behind me goes around me. Then the longer I have to sit there to wait for the break in the traffic so I can make the turn, the more anxious I get.

brighterthansunshine28 replied to your post “All right, any of my followers who have been in a car accident: when...”

 I'm 4 months out from my car being totaled by an idiot who didn't understand how to merge onto the roadway. And I am still quite anxious about being next to people on the road, merges, and rarely go past where I was in the accident.

What the hell is with people?! I hope you were okay! (I mean, obviously you were but you know what I mean. :)) My sister was in an accident last week where a lady blew through a stop sign coming out of a side street and collided with my sister as she was driving down the main road. (My sister’s got a broken hand but is otherwise fine, but her car’s totaled.) I swear, people have gotten complacent and forget that they’re basically piloting metal death machines down the street every day.

I didn’t really like driving to begin with (hi, anxiety!) but now I feel like it’s a constant stream of, “Please don’t hit me, please don’t hit me, please don’t hit me ...”

[dani-ellie03]

Wait, people are saying Emma is weak for crying over Killian's death? I don't get this. If any of their own boyfriends/girlfriends were laying bleeding lifelessly at their feet, they be boo frickin hooting too.

Oh, it’s the usual suspects. You know the ones. The ones who cry “I want season 1 Emma back.” Or the ones who cry “Season 1 Emma would never have gotten that upset over a man.”

The ones who can’t see that season 1 Emma was deeply, deeply lonely and kept to herself out of pain and necessity. The ones who refuse to admit that Emma having people in her life whom she loves and who love her is better for her than walling her heart off from love.

And as far as I can tell, it’s all because the love interest the story has given her is not the one they would have chosen for her. But rather than admit that, they take it out on the character, calling her weak and calling her OOC and calling her characterization sacrificed for the sake of being with Killian.

And I probably should just ignore it but I can’t because I’m so very tired of the hypocrisy. Any other character -- any other person -- would have been just as inconsolable if they’d had to do what Emma did. And you can sure as hell bet that if the story had been told with these fans’ choice of love interest, they would not at all be calling for a return to season 1 Emma.