
When they make that face.
Do you make friends IRL easily?

So many bad ones… Remothered comes to mind as a recent purchase. Convoluted plot, annoying game mechanics, wasn’t scary, like a shitty hide and seek game. I could see the head writer smelling his own farts with every overwrought line of dialogue.
Ever play any visual novel / otome (dating sim) games?
My partner never gets drunk. Both functionally (super high tolerance) and just doesn’t really enjoy it. So we went to this local theater awards show and she’s also preparing for the lead role in Gingerbread Lady, a Neil Simon play. She’s playing the titular character who is a recovering alcoholic who slips back into her old ways. She realizes that to understand Evie (the character) she needs to experience being hammered. So she asks me, “how many of these shots do you think it would take for me to climb that moosehead on the wall?” I answer probably 16…
16 shots later she is dancing, hugging everyone, stumbling all around. She still seems in control but definitely roaring drunk. Having a blast, hanging out with some drag queens, just a really fun night. Time to leave and I start driving her home. And then she tells me (in a very collected manner) “why do people do this? Your stomach gets weird.” Then she vomited down the center of the car, between the seats. Filling the cup holders, down the sides, whole shabang.
Pull over, let her work out the rest. Slowly finish the trip home. Get her inside, bathe her. It’s like 4am and I go and clean the car to the best my ability. Hit a all night gas station for anything to cover up the smell. I get back, she’s giggling and having a fun time still, as about as relaxed as I’ve ever seen her. Apologizes like 100 times for the vomit while I get myself cleaned up.
I think I’ll just put her to bed, then she pulls me close and kisses me. Obviously really wanting to do more. I am very hesitant, not sure if it’s consent and all. We’ve been together for a decade at this point so we’re pretty comfortable. And she assures me that with sound mind this is what she wants. She looked so beautiful all evening, all done up for the party. Now she was just naked in bed. Took things very slow, nothing fancy. It was just very, very nice sex. One of my favorite nights even with the vomit cleaning. I checked with her in the morning and she reassured me she remembered everything and I didn’t do anything wrong which made the last hang ups I had melt away.
Have you ever had to be convinced someone was giving you consent?
France, pre-revolution. Early 1700’s. Working on a longer piece that’s for someone special. She notices things in stories like inaccurate clothing or using tech that wasn’t invented yet. Also doing a bit of tying to actual historic events.
Do you do a lot of research for stories or do you just roll ahead with what you know?
Learned to sew. Not amazingly crazy but it’s a skill that took a long time to get really good at. I now find it relaxing a bit but originally I was just stressed I was going to ruin what I was making with every stitch and cut. Regularly make her clothes, blankets, curtains… ect.
Well, that and the virtual love poem I sent her character from my character in Warcraft. Like a 4 page sonnet from a troll shaman to an orc hunter.
What do you and your partner do together for fun?
House. Mostly I’m just tired of paying a rich person’s rent because I could never get a nest egg going because I was paying a rich person’s rent because I could never get a nest egg going because….
Anyway is the concept of 20% house down payments just a tool to keep the lower class from building wealth?
Sort of a scene… it was on jackass. They hired a dominatrix to beat up one of the fellas(like flog and slap). They told him the safe word was something like ‘Texas’. They told her that when he says Texas he means ‘harder’. You can imagine the escalation…
Weirdest tattoo you’ve ever seen/heard about?