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  1. Comment on Good Omens: Season 2 | Official trailer in ~tv

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    I've got my fingers crossed that this is good. I thought S1 was pretty much the perfect adaptation; I don't remember any quibbles I had about any changes or anything, perfect casting, earwormy...

    I've got my fingers crossed that this is good. I thought S1 was pretty much the perfect adaptation; I don't remember any quibbles I had about any changes or anything, perfect casting, earwormy theme song, everything.

    That said, I'm definitely more a fan of GNU Pratchett than Gaiman (not that I dislike him, just not as for me), so knowing that the new season must have more of his influence than Pratchett's, I'm hoping that it lives up to it.

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  2. Comment on Why did you select your username for Tildes? in ~tildes

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    I have insomnia (so I'm always Sleepy), my IRL name means ewe (hence Sheepy), and rhyming is cute!

    I have insomnia (so I'm always Sleepy), my IRL name means ewe (hence Sheepy), and rhyming is cute!

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  3. Comment on What's something you want to understand the appeal of? in ~talk

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    Not to be too glib, but I like beautiful stuff because it's beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful things (and I'm using "beautiful" for convenience here, but I'm including beautiful, ugly,...

    Not to be too glib, but I like beautiful stuff because it's beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful things (and I'm using "beautiful" for convenience here, but I'm including beautiful, ugly, disgusting, etc) and I enjoy when something I'm looking at makes me feel the sublime or sad or hopeful or whatever. And as an artist myself, I enjoy the craftsmanship in solid work, thinking about the choices that went into the composition, etc.

    Do you enjoy looking at a beautiful sunrise or a treeline at the golden hour or a misty mountain range, or whatever type of natural environment appeals to you? That gives me nearly the same sensation as looking at, whatever, Klimt's The Kiss or Canova's Cupid and Psyche. If it's a really beautiful thing, it gives me goosebumps the same way that other people get goosebumps listening to music.

    But honestly, I think I might be your opposite. I like music well enough, but hearing beauty almost never moves me the way that seeing beauty does. I don't think anyone can talk me into enjoying music on their level, so it might just be that some people aren't wired to enjoy X medium.

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  4. Comment on Berkeley professor Judith Butler explains gender theory in ~humanities

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    Thank you for sharing this; it was very interesting, and I think it puts into words some thoughts on gender that I'm too dumb to say coherently myself. I'm going to have to see if my library has...

    Thank you for sharing this; it was very interesting, and I think it puts into words some thoughts on gender that I'm too dumb to say coherently myself. I'm going to have to see if my library has any of their books in stock next time I'm there.

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  5. Comment on Hello fellow women in ~life.women

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    Happy birthday! I hope 38 is an excellent year for you :) I turned 30 this year and am kind of struggling with it, to be honest. This year started out poorly, with my six-year-long relationship...

    Happy birthday! I hope 38 is an excellent year for you :)

    I turned 30 this year and am kind of struggling with it, to be honest. This year started out poorly, with my six-year-long relationship breaking up around my birthday and my job currently being in jeopardy due to company-wide issues.

    I think I'm also having my mid-life crisis now and realizing I'm really not living the life I want to be living. I'm getting my health under control, but fixing my career (or lack thereof) and finances and everything else seems so massive. I keep telling myself that my 30s are going to be My Decade and that when I'm 40 I'm going to be thinking how awesome life is, but that feels like a long way away right now, but somehow also coming way too quickly at the same time.

    Plus, with my relationship ending, I feel like I wasted my best dating years on my ex, even though I don't feel like the relationship was a waste, if that makes sense. I don't even know right now if I ever want to date again or if I'm just someone not suited for relationships, if I couldn't make that one work.

    It doesn't help that most of the women in my extended family married their high school sweethearts and do not divorce, so every time a new aunt or cousin or sister hears about the breakup the reaction is always "Oh, that's so sad, and plus you're 30... but you still have time left... if you hurry..." It feels like I'm already way too late, especially if I need time to get my life straightened out before I try dating again.

    Mostly it's just a time of a lot of change for me that's unfortunately paired with a milestone birthday lol. Not loving it, but things have to get better.

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  6. Comment on Let's talk nostalgia in ~talk

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    Man, what was with the beige computer color back then? In hindsight it was pretty ugly. The strongest feelings of nostalgia that I get are related to one particular summer vacation in elementary...

    Man, what was with the beige computer color back then? In hindsight it was pretty ugly.

    The strongest feelings of nostalgia that I get are related to one particular summer vacation in elementary school. I spent most nights staying up until 1 or 2 in the morning with my sister in her room, where we'd switch off every half hour taking turns on our desktop computer playing Neopets. The person not on the computer would be on the bed reading whatever book we were sharing that night, listening to cheesy early '00s music on our portable CD player. Then during the days we'd play in the creek in front of our house and spend custody weekends with our dad running around his land.

    So the things that trigger a strong sense of nostalgia for me most commonly are:

    • Neopets art from that era, especially the art of the fairies
    • Turn-of-the-century, Blingee-style pixel art and webring buttons
    • Those pixel art doll dress-up games, plus MS Paint's UI from that era
    • Lisa Frank art (from the folders where we'd keep the fanfic we wrote, handwritten because we couldn't waste computer time not grinding Meerca Chase for sweet, sweet Neopoints)
    • The taste of mulberries
    • The smell of tomato plants (from falling asleep in the shade between the rows of tomatoes in my dad's garden in the afternoons)
    • Wire headbands with the painful little teeth (I was growing out my bangs that summer)

    And unrelated to that, sometimes I'll remember the Laffy Taffy watermelon flavor with the seeds and I'm immediately transported back to being five or six years old and at our public swimming pool, which had a vending machine with those in it.

    Oh, and the smell of the Scholastic Book Fair catalogues! I think they had a really distinct smell, didn't they? Sometimes junk mail flyers will smell like it, and it takes me back.

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  7. Comment on Courgette/zucchini recipes in ~food

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    Zucchini is one of my favorite veggies! So looking forward to them being in season. This is what I'll do with them most often: Fried zucchini Crunch up saltine crackers and mix with flour, salt...

    Zucchini is one of my favorite veggies! So looking forward to them being in season. This is what I'll do with them most often:

    • Fried zucchini

      • Crunch up saltine crackers and mix with flour, salt (if desired), and pepper. Cut the zucchini into thin disks. Whisk eggs. Dip the zucchini into the eggs, then into the cracker/flour mixture, and fry :9 must eat immediately. Good with any dipping sauce, but I'll normally eat them alone

    • Korean Zucchini Pancakes

    • Gochujang Jigae

    • Tteokbokki

      • I don't think this is authentic at all, but I'll toss zucchini slices in this, too, so I can pretend it's healthy-ish

    • Okonomiyaki

      • This also probably isn't authentic, but whatever, "as you like it" lol. Anyway, I just replace maybe 1/3 of the cabbage (this recipe with thin sticks of zucchini.

    • Grilled as thick slices or made into shish kabobs with other veg

    • Zoodles (I see others have given actual recipes; I'll just add that they're also good under your regular spaghetti/tomato sauce recipe in place of real noodles. I've done them under Thai curries before, too, instead of rice, and it was lovely)

    • Zucchini bread (I don't have a recipe because my grandma bakes loaves for me all season ♥)

    • Veggie soups, curries

      • I'll just slice and quarter zucchini into fat chunks and toss them into whatever veggie soup or any curry I'm making, honestly. Just time when you add them so they don't over cook

    Or if I've got some about to go bad, honestly I'll just saute chunks of zucchini with olive oil, salt, and pepper and serve as a side dish. Or if it's just me eating, saute even more of them and eat it as my whole dinner :9

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  8. Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books

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    The fiction book I'm reading right now is Foreigner by C.J. Cherryh. I bought the first three books in the series on an impulse at a library book sale, but it's been sitting on my unread shelf for...

    The fiction book I'm reading right now is Foreigner by C.J. Cherryh. I bought the first three books in the series on an impulse at a library book sale, but it's been sitting on my unread shelf for a couple of years. I'd previously read and disliked another of her books, so I wasn't really excited to start this. Even with Foreigner, it took me until a quarter way through to really get into the main story (though I liked both of the prologues a lot more). Now that I'm really into the meat of the book, though, it's really scratching the "90s sci-fi" and "dense prose" cravings I've been having, and I've got a huge weakness for sci-fi about diplomacy and navigating first contact. (Although the main story is a few hundred years after first contact, most of the conflict so far has been rooted in the continued lack of understanding between the two intelligent species, so it's close enough lol)

    The nonfiction I'm reading right now is Desert Exile by Yoshiko Uchida, a memoir of Japanese-American incarceration during WWII from a woman who was in the camps along with her family. It's a part of American history I didn't learn much about in school, and I'm enjoying it so far, although I've only just started it.

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  9. Comment on The Website Obesity Crisis in ~comp

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    I can't stand that, either. I don't know why it took me a long time to start using Firefox's reader view mode, but now that I'm using it I won't read anything long without it. I've turned the font...

    I can't stand that, either. I don't know why it took me a long time to start using Firefox's reader view mode, but now that I'm using it I won't read anything long without it. I've turned the font size down and made the line length reasonable, and now every article is perfectly formatted for my tastes, and with the benefit of no sidebars full of unrelated, clickbait-y articles, no annoying videos, and just generally no website UI elements lol. Honestly, sometimes I'll back out of an article altogether if reader view isn't an option for it.

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  10. Comment on Do you know any games with excellent gameplay but horrible graphics? in ~games

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    I replay DA:O every few years, and every time I start a new save I'm briefly startled by how the game looks. It looks so much better in my memories, but then the actual game is just all shades of...

    I replay DA:O every few years, and every time I start a new save I'm briefly startled by how the game looks. It looks so much better in my memories, but then the actual game is just all shades of brown and blurry textures. But the gameplay (and for me, the story) is just so much fun.

    I know Inquisition was a huge upgrade in graphics, but personally, I don't really love the art direction. I'm excited to see what Dread Wolf is going to look like whenever it comes out.

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  11. Comment on What are your favorite webcomics? in ~comics

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    I still read Kevin & Kell, which is a newspaper-strip-style comic that's been running daily since the early '90s. It's about the marriage of a wolf and a rabbit in a world that is initially...

    I still read Kevin & Kell, which is a newspaper-strip-style comic that's been running daily since the early '90s. It's about the marriage of a wolf and a rabbit in a world that is initially prejudiced against inter-species couples as a thinly-veiled analog to interracial couples. It focuses on their blended family (each has a kid from a previous marriage, plus their half-bunny/half-wolf toddler), with a backdrop of technology, the internet, and other nerd-adjacent things. Since it's been running so long, reading it from the beginning is like ... I don't know, getting a montage of technology from the past 30 years. The tech in the early comics is almost painfully nostalgic lol.

    And then I also read Oglaf, always NSFW, which is just a funny smutty comic about smut with lovely art.

    I've been wanting to read more comics, but I never know where to find newer ones since I can't personally stand the Webtoons/Tapas vertical scrolling format, so I'll be happily browsing the suggestions here :)

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  12. Comment on What are the summer activities you are looking forward to? in ~health

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    Okay, y'all are way more active than I am during summer, but I'm looking forward to some kayak float trips, plus swimming along the way. Paddling down stream is at least a little active, right? I...

    Okay, y'all are way more active than I am during summer, but I'm looking forward to some kayak float trips, plus swimming along the way. Paddling down stream is at least a little active, right? I didn't get to go at all last year, and I really missed it.

    But I don't handle the heat well, so the only outdoor activities I plan to do will be in a river; otherwise, I'm going to be an amorphous blob in front of a fan until fall.

  13. Comment on Recommendations with Japanese lyrics, or where to find it? in ~music

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    I love Capsule, too! All their songs I could think of off the top of my head last night were in English, though. The "World of Fantasy" and "More! More! More!" albums have been in regular rotation...

    I love Capsule, too! All their songs I could think of off the top of my head last night were in English, though. The "World of Fantasy" and "More! More! More!" albums have been in regular rotation for me for I guess more than a decade lol.

    But honestly, no, I don't know anything that isn't a Nakata act that sounds like Perfume. FEMM is sometimes kind of adjacent (although again, English), but the quality of their music varies a lot IMO. Snail's House kind of scratches the same itch for me, but they're definitely leaning into the "kawaii" sound in a way Perfume doesn't. I'll be excited to see if anyone else answers you with more suggestions that sound like them!

    Edit: and I'm loving what I'm hearing of Aira Mitsuki so far!

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  14. Comment on Recommendations with Japanese lyrics, or where to find it? in ~music

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    Babymetal - Monochrome; metal, with their earlier stuff being much more on the cute side than their recent releases. see also their performance on Colbert a billion years ago Buck-Tick -...

    Not knowing what other music you or they like, this list is sort of all over the place. I've tried to avoid the sort of Japanese pop music that Spotify, etc. seems to recommend a lot (at least that it recommends me), but I have included a few just straight pop-pop artists, which I've labeled if you'd like to skip it :) A few artists have already been recommended up-thread, but I think I've linked different songs so you can see more of what those artists offer.

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  15. Comment on What were your gardening adventures this weekend? in ~hobbies

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    My mint is in a pot all the way up on a fourth-floor balcony, and it's still trying to send a runner out, even with nothing around it but the wood floor of the balcony. I totally get how it can...

    My mint is in a pot all the way up on a fourth-floor balcony, and it's still trying to send a runner out, even with nothing around it but the wood floor of the balcony. I totally get how it can take over yards; it's definitely determined to spread. I'm tempted to let the runner just go all season and see how far it ends up from the pot.

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  16. Comment on The tail end in ~life

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    Thank you for sharing this article. I was looking for a figure on books and was happy to see it included. A few years ago some friends and I were talking about just that, how many books we were...

    Thank you for sharing this article. I was looking for a figure on books and was happy to see it included. A few years ago some friends and I were talking about just that, how many books we were likely to read in the rest of our lives (maybe springing off of this very article? I don't remember). After doing the math, I had more books on my "to read" shelf on Goodreads than I had left to read in my life.

    That figure made me so uncomfortable that I still honestly don't like remembering it. I feel like I'm generally pretty accepting of my mortality, but at the same time it's so hard to really accept the fact that I don't have an infinite amount of time to read. I've become a lot more willing to drop books that I'm not enjoying since then.

    It's also hard remembering I'll probably only own four-ish more cats in my lifetime, assuming two at a time and that they each live 15 years after adoption. Shouldn't there be more time for more cats?

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  17. Comment on I'm about to move away from my family. What should I know about living alone that no one told you before you started? in ~life

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    I don't know if this is the kind of thing you mean because it's a very a small thing, but it's one that I didn't think about until after it happened to me: make sure you have "sick day" supplies...

    I don't know if this is the kind of thing you mean because it's a very a small thing, but it's one that I didn't think about until after it happened to me: make sure you have "sick day" supplies handy ahead of time, like your favorite canned soup, crackers, electrolyte drink, ginger ale/ginger tea, cold meds, whatever. Not to be too gross about it, but when you're stuck in the bathroom you don't want to have to worry about getting those things delivered or going to the store for them yourself. I went from my mom's house to living with a boyfriend before living alone, and I was totally unprepared the first time I was really sick and didn't have someone to take care of me.

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  18. Comment on What are some of your favorite "easy reads"? in ~books

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    That's what I was going to suggest. Whenever I'm tired of my usual books or just haven't felt like reading in a while, I'll check out a handful of Animorphs or Nancy Drew books, or even some...

    I'm honestly finding that children's / young adult's books are nice comfortable easy reads.

    That's what I was going to suggest. Whenever I'm tired of my usual books or just haven't felt like reading in a while, I'll check out a handful of Animorphs or Nancy Drew books, or even some Tamora Pierce if I want something aimed a little older. Those kinds of middle school chapter books are fast reads, and if they're a person's childhood favorites, then they might re-ignite a love of reading that's burning low. At least, that's how it works for me.

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  19. Comment on Introductions | June 2023, part 2 in ~talk

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    Hello, everyone :) Like most other folks introducing themselves here, I'm joining Tildes after leaving Reddit, although I was only there around six years. I'm sad to quit it, but I'm looking...

    Hello, everyone :) Like most other folks introducing themselves here, I'm joining Tildes after leaving Reddit, although I was only there around six years. I'm sad to quit it, but I'm looking forward to not compulsively endlessly scrolling nonsense anymore.

    I'm 30 years old, live in a small city in the Midwestern US, and own the two best cats in the world (although all other cats are very nearly the best). My main hobbies are reading, crocheting, drawing, writing, and learning languages. I like gardening, but I live in an apartment right now, so all I'm growing is a few potted plants.

    The vibe that I've seen on Tildes reminds me of the forums that I wasted my youth on grew up on, and I'm happy to come back to something like this. I tend to lurk places for a few months to make sure I've understood the atmosphere, so this might be my only comment for a while :) I'm very happy to meet everyone, though.

    Oh, and my username is because I have insomnia so I'm always sleepy, and my IRL name means "ewe", and sheep are cute and rhyme with sleep, so... lol. I've been using the name for 5-10 years now and it seems to have stuck.

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