Old Business, vol. 3
It's amazing, the amount of vitally important memes that can pile up in just a few short weeks.
i • d • i • o • syn • cra • sy
1. A structural or behavioral characteristic peculiar to an individual or group.
2. A physiological or temperamental peculiarity.
3. An unusual individual reaction to food or a drug.
* I insist on wearing a Hawaiian shirt on every occasion when I can feasibly get away with it. I own almost 60 currently and I HAVE owned over 100. I wear them to work. I wear them on the weekends. I wear them to the beach. I wear them under sweatshirts and coats. I wear them to state funerals and Goth clubs and as part of Halloween costumes and on Christmas morning and when I'm sitting at the sandaled feet of wizened men in saffron robes on mountaintops. I don't know why, really. I mean, I like the bright colors and the imbedded chaos of the patterns and I like how practical they are. But I don't have a really GOOD explanation. I'm not Hawaiian. I wasn't saved from rabid wolves by Don Ho. I didn't worship at a primitive cardboard altar dedicated to Magnum P.I. It's just ... an idiosyncrasy.
* I hate being near dark windows. Windows in the daytime even creep me out a little when I'm alone, but I get shivery when I'm next to a dark window. I spend a lot of time dropping blinds and drawing curtains. I'm always imagining things suddenly leaping out of the dark and hitting the window with ichorous splats or flat clawed cracks. I have a good imagination. I can feel pennybright dead eyes and hot red gazes on the back of my neck. I really like this basement room because there's one window, with heavy Venetian blinds.
* I read in the shower. I read in cars, and while walking, and in restaurants, and at work, and in bed, like many other people; but reading in the shower strikes some as strange. I don't know why. It seemed natural enough to me when I stopped taking baths and started in on showers that I not lose my precious reading time. The trick is to essentially use a shaka grip, propping up the book with three fingers and holding the pages with the thumb and pinky. I can comfortably one-handedly read anything up to a Webster's desk edition. Not that I have much call to read a dictionary in the shower, but when the need arises you'll find yourself most grateful.
* I spend a lot of time watching girls, particularly on mass transit. This is a hobby indulged in by almost all carmine-plasmaic American males, and hardly qualifies as an idiosyncrasy, save for the excruciatingly excoriating nature of my perusal. I appreciate them as fine portraits in the gallery of mass culture. I weigh them on my twisty golden scales against the feather of pop. I decide whether they look eccentric or clever enough to capture my interest for more than five minutes of conversation. I eventually decide that, flashing LED belt buckles or purple cat-eye glasses or cascades of bright blue ringlets or Wicked shirts or well-worn copies of The Filth aside, almost none of them are. This is how I protect myself against the potentially inevitable rejection.
* I tend to communicate with my close friends through acts of violence. There's probably a wishy-washy psychological explanation for this that would embrace all sorts of bullshit Freud and partly-assed Jung and smug le Bon and untranslatable Durkheim, but I'm just going to go with the explanation that I contain so much awesomeness that it can only be expressed kinetically.
- derived from the_crowchan and sagan_fox
Arcane Trickster
48% Combativeness, 73% Sneakiness, 82% Intellect, 44% Spirituality
Brilliant and sneaky: You are an Arcane Trickster!
Score! You have a prestige class. A prestige class can only be taken
after you've fulfilled certain requirements. This may mean that you're
an exceptionally talented person, but it probably doesn't.
Arcane Tricksters combine arcane magic with rogue skills and
sensibilities. They use their magic to confuse their opponents or to
augment their more mundane, roguish skills. If you thought it was
annoying keeping an eye that that rogue, the Arcane Trickster is
probably picking your pocket from the other side of the room.
Both smart and sneaky, you're probably the type of person that
loves planning practical jokes... either that or knocking over banks.
My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
You scored higher than 33% on Combativeness
You scored higher than 96% on Sneakiness
You scored higher than 75% on Intellect
You scored higher than 48% on Spirituality
Link: The RPG Class Test written by MFlowers on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test
Damn right, y'bastards. Live in fear of my uncanny nature, cunning third-eye, and otherworldly japes.
- slipped unseen from the pocket of kerrickadrian
Ten Things That Make Me Happy
1. A rocketbusting barnburner of a wrestling match.
2. Pizza without olives on it.
3. Witty banter.
4. Faires, festivals, markets, fests, 'Days, and carnivals and other comic affairs that lead people to walk around outside in the sunshine with fried pastry scenting the air and fifteen kinds of music playing.
5. Golden apples.
6. Quotable comedy.
7. The two weeks from October 17th to October 31st.
8. Being in a really posh movie theatre for a show I've been waiting to see with a hot bucket of buttered popcorn in my lap and an ice-cold lemon-lime soda melting comfortably in the squeaky holder.
9. Talking with fake accents in nice restaurants.
10. Being seized by an idea so good that it forces my fingers into a blur across the keyboard like anemones in a blender.
- extracted from living brain of snarkish
Your
Ultimate Roleplaying Purity Score
CategoryYour ScoreAverageHacklust26.42%
Has conversations in between massacres53.5% Sensitive Roleplaying41.77%
"But what's my motivation for this scene?" 54.6%GM Experience40.58%
Puts the players through the wringer 69.4% Systems Knowledge72.12%
Owns a card for the Library of Alexandria 90.4% Livin' La Vida Dorka39.08%
Carries dice in pocket 'just in case'63.3% You are 32.14% pure
Average Score: 68.8%
Take The Ultimate Roleplaying Purity Test
and see how you match up!
Seems like a reasonable enough estimation, although it's kind of hard to say for certain since it's been an eternity and a half and another third of an eternity since I've rolled any dice with characteristic intent.
- courtesy of pairodox and kerrickadrian
You have the power to freeze time. You can stop
time all over the entire universe. It is a
cursed power though. When you stop time you
age faster; not your body or mind, but your
heart. Your heart grows weaker every time you
freeze time. You can not take this power for
granted, although it is your strongest battle
technique. There is an elixir that heals your
heart, but it's a scarce source, and you can't
find it on Earth. If you don't find the elixir
in time your life will soon come to an end.
What curse do you possess?
brought to you by Quizilla
I can live with that. That's a good 30 years of frozen time I have to spend. I'd bet with 30 years and no one to stop me I could make this world a place worth living in.
- once again from pairodox
you are lavenderblush
#FFF0F5
Your dominant hues are red and magenta. You love doing your own thing and going on your own adventures, but there are close friends you know you just can't leave behind. You can influence others on days when you're patient, but most times you just want to go out, have fun, and do your own thing.
Your saturation level is very low - you have better things to do than jump headfirst into every little project. You make sure your actions are going to really accomplish something before you start because you hate wasting energy making everyone else think you're working.
Your outlook on life is very bright. You are sunny and optimistic about life and others find it very encouraging, but remember to tone it down if you sense irritation.
the spacefem.com html color quiz
That's actually a surprisingly good point about the time thing. Except it always feels like I'm a perpetual almost-dabbler, making clever plans but never taking action because I'm never absolutely certain that it'd be worth my apparently valuable whiles.
- ripped without mercy from canopy_maestro and pairodox
Your Pimp Name Is...
Macktastic Trickz
What's Your Pimp Name?
This is fucking stupid.
- and I'm sure patient_0 and wsasianboy would agree.
i • d • i • o • syn • cra • sy
1. A structural or behavioral characteristic peculiar to an individual or group.
2. A physiological or temperamental peculiarity.
3. An unusual individual reaction to food or a drug.
* I insist on wearing a Hawaiian shirt on every occasion when I can feasibly get away with it. I own almost 60 currently and I HAVE owned over 100. I wear them to work. I wear them on the weekends. I wear them to the beach. I wear them under sweatshirts and coats. I wear them to state funerals and Goth clubs and as part of Halloween costumes and on Christmas morning and when I'm sitting at the sandaled feet of wizened men in saffron robes on mountaintops. I don't know why, really. I mean, I like the bright colors and the imbedded chaos of the patterns and I like how practical they are. But I don't have a really GOOD explanation. I'm not Hawaiian. I wasn't saved from rabid wolves by Don Ho. I didn't worship at a primitive cardboard altar dedicated to Magnum P.I. It's just ... an idiosyncrasy.
* I hate being near dark windows. Windows in the daytime even creep me out a little when I'm alone, but I get shivery when I'm next to a dark window. I spend a lot of time dropping blinds and drawing curtains. I'm always imagining things suddenly leaping out of the dark and hitting the window with ichorous splats or flat clawed cracks. I have a good imagination. I can feel pennybright dead eyes and hot red gazes on the back of my neck. I really like this basement room because there's one window, with heavy Venetian blinds.
* I read in the shower. I read in cars, and while walking, and in restaurants, and at work, and in bed, like many other people; but reading in the shower strikes some as strange. I don't know why. It seemed natural enough to me when I stopped taking baths and started in on showers that I not lose my precious reading time. The trick is to essentially use a shaka grip, propping up the book with three fingers and holding the pages with the thumb and pinky. I can comfortably one-handedly read anything up to a Webster's desk edition. Not that I have much call to read a dictionary in the shower, but when the need arises you'll find yourself most grateful.
* I spend a lot of time watching girls, particularly on mass transit. This is a hobby indulged in by almost all carmine-plasmaic American males, and hardly qualifies as an idiosyncrasy, save for the excruciatingly excoriating nature of my perusal. I appreciate them as fine portraits in the gallery of mass culture. I weigh them on my twisty golden scales against the feather of pop. I decide whether they look eccentric or clever enough to capture my interest for more than five minutes of conversation. I eventually decide that, flashing LED belt buckles or purple cat-eye glasses or cascades of bright blue ringlets or Wicked shirts or well-worn copies of The Filth aside, almost none of them are. This is how I protect myself against the potentially inevitable rejection.
* I tend to communicate with my close friends through acts of violence. There's probably a wishy-washy psychological explanation for this that would embrace all sorts of bullshit Freud and partly-assed Jung and smug le Bon and untranslatable Durkheim, but I'm just going to go with the explanation that I contain so much awesomeness that it can only be expressed kinetically.
- derived from the_crowchan and sagan_fox
Arcane Trickster
48% Combativeness, 73% Sneakiness, 82% Intellect, 44% Spirituality
Brilliant and sneaky: You are an Arcane Trickster!
Score! You have a prestige class. A prestige class can only be taken
after you've fulfilled certain requirements. This may mean that you're
an exceptionally talented person, but it probably doesn't.
Arcane Tricksters combine arcane magic with rogue skills and
sensibilities. They use their magic to confuse their opponents or to
augment their more mundane, roguish skills. If you thought it was
annoying keeping an eye that that rogue, the Arcane Trickster is
probably picking your pocket from the other side of the room.
Both smart and sneaky, you're probably the type of person that
loves planning practical jokes... either that or knocking over banks.
My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
You scored higher than 33% on Combativeness
You scored higher than 96% on Sneakiness
You scored higher than 75% on Intellect
You scored higher than 48% on Spirituality
Link: The RPG Class Test written by MFlowers on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test
Damn right, y'bastards. Live in fear of my uncanny nature, cunning third-eye, and otherworldly japes.
- slipped unseen from the pocket of kerrickadrian
Ten Things That Make Me Happy
1. A rocketbusting barnburner of a wrestling match.
2. Pizza without olives on it.
3. Witty banter.
4. Faires, festivals, markets, fests, 'Days, and carnivals and other comic affairs that lead people to walk around outside in the sunshine with fried pastry scenting the air and fifteen kinds of music playing.
5. Golden apples.
6. Quotable comedy.
7. The two weeks from October 17th to October 31st.
8. Being in a really posh movie theatre for a show I've been waiting to see with a hot bucket of buttered popcorn in my lap and an ice-cold lemon-lime soda melting comfortably in the squeaky holder.
9. Talking with fake accents in nice restaurants.
10. Being seized by an idea so good that it forces my fingers into a blur across the keyboard like anemones in a blender.
- extracted from living brain of snarkish
Your
Ultimate Roleplaying Purity Score
CategoryYour ScoreAverageHacklust26.42%
Has conversations in between massacres53.5% Sensitive Roleplaying41.77%
"But what's my motivation for this scene?" 54.6%GM Experience40.58%
Puts the players through the wringer 69.4% Systems Knowledge72.12%
Owns a card for the Library of Alexandria 90.4% Livin' La Vida Dorka39.08%
Carries dice in pocket 'just in case'63.3% You are 32.14% pure
Average Score: 68.8%
Take The Ultimate Roleplaying Purity Test
and see how you match up!
Seems like a reasonable enough estimation, although it's kind of hard to say for certain since it's been an eternity and a half and another third of an eternity since I've rolled any dice with characteristic intent.
- courtesy of pairodox and kerrickadrian
You have the power to freeze time. You can stop
time all over the entire universe. It is a
cursed power though. When you stop time you
age faster; not your body or mind, but your
heart. Your heart grows weaker every time you
freeze time. You can not take this power for
granted, although it is your strongest battle
technique. There is an elixir that heals your
heart, but it's a scarce source, and you can't
find it on Earth. If you don't find the elixir
in time your life will soon come to an end.
What curse do you possess?
brought to you by Quizilla
I can live with that. That's a good 30 years of frozen time I have to spend. I'd bet with 30 years and no one to stop me I could make this world a place worth living in.
- once again from pairodox
you are lavenderblush
#FFF0F5
Your dominant hues are red and magenta. You love doing your own thing and going on your own adventures, but there are close friends you know you just can't leave behind. You can influence others on days when you're patient, but most times you just want to go out, have fun, and do your own thing.
Your saturation level is very low - you have better things to do than jump headfirst into every little project. You make sure your actions are going to really accomplish something before you start because you hate wasting energy making everyone else think you're working.
Your outlook on life is very bright. You are sunny and optimistic about life and others find it very encouraging, but remember to tone it down if you sense irritation.
the spacefem.com html color quiz
That's actually a surprisingly good point about the time thing. Except it always feels like I'm a perpetual almost-dabbler, making clever plans but never taking action because I'm never absolutely certain that it'd be worth my apparently valuable whiles.
- ripped without mercy from canopy_maestro and pairodox
Your Pimp Name Is...
Macktastic Trickz
What's Your Pimp Name?
This is fucking stupid.
- and I'm sure patient_0 and wsasianboy would agree.