The Mad Hatter

Jim Webb thread

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As a Brit in general, I don't like America

@Mr_pink

As a Dane, I don't like any other nation.

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Watch this. Just do it.

Reporter goes to investigate a rare bird, but no one expected this!

Glad I could (possibly) brighten your day a little.

Oh well. I'm all right with that. It's a cute bird, though.

Also, I want to applaud you for your signature. Have a

Reporter goes to investigate a rare bird, but no one expected this!

It's a year old, but I've been living in a baby bubble for the past year.

On a different, but similar to my comment, note; my daughter turned 1 today, so I feel old.

gonna watch how to train your dragon in the bathtub tonight with wine and tears because adulthood

sounds...... vanilla.

@Taaj

What'd you expect? Hanging suspended from the ceiling by hooks through my skin?

Vanilla is the best flavour.

@The Nexerus

Vanilla is awesome. But I like spicy stuff, too. Just not curry. Curry is disgusting.

If you've ever tasted vanilla extract straight out of the bottle, you wouldn't think of it as bland and ordinary anymore.

@Vilageidiotx

We used to have some challenges back when I was a culinary student. One of them was to drink a "shot" of vanilla extract. People puked. It was awesome.
Another was to eat a spoonful of cinnamon. Everyone knows how that goes, but our teacher did it like he did it like it was all he ever did, just gobbling it down like a cheap prostitute.

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Wait what

@Doivid

What did you dream last night? (Share your dreams!)

My dream was actually interesting, for once. I usually dream of random and weird stuff, so having a somewhat lucid dream that is not a goddamn nightmare is nice. I dreamed I peed on pregnancy test stick-thingy and two lines appeared, so my body might be trying to tell me something; either that I am pregnant (which I doubt) or that I want another baby, which I already knew.

I have several reoccurring nightmares, which I've been told are all fairly typical and has some hidden meaning if you believe in that sort of stuff.
One is me running up a spiral staircase and something chasing behind me. I never know what it is that is chasing me, but I know that I have this panicky and urgent need to get the hell away. Then I get to the top of the stairs and it's like I'm at the top of a tower, with a cylindrical drop in front of me, with chains and vines and shit on the walls. Because I have this urgent need to get away from that whatever-it-is, I jump (I am terrified of heights, so...). I fall for what feels like an eternity, grasping for those chains and vines on the walls, but it's like the walls bend away from me whenever I do. Finally, I get to the bottom, where I fall through the "ground" and I'm underwater and can't get up. It's like the surface is made of rubber and I can push at it and it bends, but I can't break through.
I usually wake up bathed in sweat and panting like I've just run a marathon.

gonna watch how to train your dragon in the bathtub tonight with wine and tears because adulthood

My Friday night was spent on my hands and knees.
My Saturday night will be more of the same.
My Sunday night will likely be spent on my back.
Variation is key.

The Tavern, a roleplay designed to practice interaction

Would all "levels" of roleplayers be acceptable here? What I mean is; can an Advanced roleplayer pop in and "test their character out" even though it's in Free? Wouldn't three "Free" players be annoyed by having to read the generally-longer Advanced posts? And wouldn't they, because of that, try and avoid those characters for interaction?

And the other way around, I suppose.

Wanna give my character some tough love

I suffer from Lepidopterophobia.
It's a real thing.
I'm terrified of butterflies.

Weird?
Yes. Very.

I wasn't always, though.
I loved them as a kid.
I have no idea what happened.

Character Descriptions

Forgot about this thread... I should probably answer it >.>

For the height/weight issue, I really didn't mean for it to sound like I want people to write "John is 6'4" and weigh 140 pounds" sort of stuff, even though I do realize in hindsight that that was how it came off... The point I was trying to make was that it differs what height is considered short/normal/tall and/or skinny/lean/normal/chubby/fat depending on your social circle, nationality and general perception of the world. I, myself, tend to use very colorful descriptions, I suppose. I'll write stuff like;
"Although her meager height was barely enough for anyone to consider her an adult at first glance, the bulging masses of muscle moving beneath Jane's fair skin certainly did get the point across."
Or
"Even without the effect of his heels, John still towered about a head over most of his peers and his long, slender limbs did nothing to make him seem any shorter, but instead made him seem somewhat malnourished."
I know that my way of writing it is also up for interpretation and so on.

And with describing facial features, I don't mean for people to go down and explain every little blemish or pimple or whatever, but that most people don't describe facial features at all and if they do, it's usually either with words like "John had sharp facial features", "Jack had a strong jaw" or "Jane had soft, warm features". I would at least like to know a little bit more than that, I guess.
I write stuff like;
"With almond-shaped eyes like Lily's, it was easy to see that she at least had some orient ancestry, even if the sky blue of her iris was from other genes. One would barely be able to tell that her eyelashes were as fair a shade as they were, due to the thin-rimmed glasses sitting on the narrow bridge of her button nose. It would be hard to ever catch her without a glimmer of warmth in her eyes and a smile playing on her thin lips, even on her bad days."
This as just written quickly and I realize that I could have transitioned better between various features, but I guess it does get the point across well enough...