From Tumblr: Australian celebrity: I said those shockingly racist things because I was on painkiller

Posted in full at: http://ift.tt/29L0GqL at July 20, 2016 at 04:37PM

Australian celebrity: I said those shockingly racist things because I was on painkillers.
Me: Pssh, I've been on strong painkillers for weeks, and I'm yet to say anything racist.
Also me: WHAT IF I HAVE AND NO ONE TOLD ME?!?!?
Still me: No, no, my friends would be the first people to call me out. I hope.
Me again: Also, maybe I should go to the doctor about this pain?
And ... me: Don't be ridiculous.

Tags:and dreamwidth, lolstralia, chronic illness

From Tumblr: I went home for the weekend, and found out that my mother had not seen TFA

Posted in full at: http://ift.tt/29MuCPM at July 17, 2016 at 05:36PM

She was also completely unspoiled.

Her main reason for not bothering was her hatred of Harrison Ford, and her feeling that the only way she could enjoy a Star Wars movie was (a) if it was funny, and (b) if Han Solo died. 

My brother lent her the DVD.

She just sent me a text to tell me that Kylo Ren is a much better villain than Darth Vader, and she enjoyed TFA very much.

Tags:star wars, and dreamwidth

Apparently, Tumblr's long-term future is in doubt

Which should come as a surprise to no one whatsoever, given its dysfunctional code, obnoxious advertising and -- most importantly -- the fact that it's owned by Yahoo. It's not going to disappear overnight, obviously, but like a lot of people, I'm suddenly thinking about the need for back-ups.

A lot of the stuff I post there is ephemeral, but some of it might be worth keeping ... or at least, I might look back at it one day and smile. So I'm going to go through my archives and reblog stuff with my "and dreamwidth" tag, that triggers the IFTT crossposting recipe.

Accordingly, people on Tumblr are going to see a lot of old stuff from me, and should blacklist "and dreamwidth" if that's going to be tedious. And people on DW and LJ ... well, I'll go in and add cut tags to longer posts.

I'm not sure of the etiquette of crossposting reblogs, whether text or other people's fan art. Thoughts?

From Tumblr: Notes from my current Mass Effect (whole trilogy) playthrough

Posted in full at: http://ift.tt/29WgntR at July 21, 2016 at 06:40AM
liz-squids:

• Why haven’t I been playing as an Engineer all along?
• …okay, I hardly use any power other than Incinerate, BUT I CAN BLOW THINGS UP and also hack geth, that’s quite awesome.
• My engineer!Shepard is named Yoshimi. She has a blackbelt in karate.
• I’m running ME on the Bootcamp install of Windows on my MacBook. This creates some fun bugs, like how, throughout ME2, I was continually getting stuck in high places, unable to move or even change weapons until I was finally killed (or survived to the next cut scene).
• And that is how I killed a thresher maw with nothing but a handgun and my powers.
• I wish there was a mod to give Miranda and Jack proper clothes. 
• Also, I think my Shepard is a lot thinner in ME3, and it’s kind of weirding me out, like, she’s meant to be a space marine, and she can throw James Vega over her shoulder, but she has no musculature whatsoever.
• I think there’s a mod for a buff Shepard, but honestly, I feel like I’m already pushing it with the Bootcamp thing.
• Jacob is hella boring, but he looks like Kanye West, and that is the entire reason I romanced him.
• I’m slightly bitter that I can’t romance Anderson or Hackett, stop judging me. 
• The second half of ME2 was really slowed down by my need to stop and sing “Dear Theodosia” to Grunt every time he turned up.
• I hate Cerberus so much.
• Even before the Illusive Man endorsed Trump, I hated them. 
• I’m up to the Grissom Academy mission in ME3, but it’s so hard to play, because it’s basically TERRORISTS ATTACK A BOARDING SCHOOL IN SPACE, and that needs to be a YA novel, like, now.

Tags:and dreamwidth, mass effect