That Moment...

Right, time to start World War III. Horror such as this should not be allowed to exist.

TMW you're mad at Cave Troll for this.

 

I didn't invent the Wiggles or their puppet Hell Spawn.

 

^ "I didn't invent the knife"—Jack the Ripper

 

TMW you're beginning to become a covid cat lady, courtesy of strays that are flouting social distancing.

 

TMW the new background image on your bank's login page looks suspiciously like a shipwreck.

 

TMW...walking with a friend. He's walking his big German shepherd and this lady sees us. She stops dead in her small steps then asks: "Why don't you have a mask on that dog!?"

Laughter. But only on our side. The woman continues to stare with a horrified expression.

"Your dog is a spreader!" She yells, "Put a mask on him or I'm calling the police!"

Cue other civilians laughing at her. Cue two ticket officers walking by, laughing at her.

Fucking smooth-brain.

 

Clearly she has never tried to put a mask on a dog.

 

TMW: You forget your own goddamn lore.

Writing Tip 101:

Please remember your own lore. I just skimmed back over Chapter One of ’Witch of Oscaria’ and found that I had a Necri (think necromancers) perform magic to save the main character from slavers. The issue? She has runes on her eyes.


According to my lore, Necri with runes on their eyes are incapable of doing magic. In other words, by doing magic, the titular Witch of Oscaria completely defied the lore and thus rendered everything pointless.

 

That moment when your brain lacks something it needs to work well and... You congratulate a fresh mother about her baby. And then you notice you are in the beginning of the thread and it's dated 2016.

Well... better late than never.

 

Well, I hope that mother and her now four-year-old child are doing wonderful

 

Yeah, but that show started in 1999, so she's 26. When my mom was that age her career as a teacher had already ended and she was, well, my mom. Ten years-ish later and the divorce proceedings were underway.

 

... you get an email from Sony PlayStation thanking your for your purchase - said purchase being the renewal of your PlayStation Plus subscription - when you know for a fact you disabled automatic renewal many moons ago and it’s either an error or more likely PlayStation took it upon themselves to turn it back on for you so you don’t have a leg to stand on should you dispute the transaction.

 

TMW you find yourself doing so much outdoor work that you find that you enjoy it and wonder why you hadn't done it earlier.

 

TMW when you realize living alone and not speaking to anyone for weeks at a time causes you to literally forget how to speak properly.

 

To avoid this problem, I occasionally talk to the local till person...
And CT, obviously.

 

This would require going outside

 

CT doesn't live that close to either of us.

 

It's actually true. If you go for too long without speaking you lose some of your edge, both the physical verbal apparatus and the mental fluidity of speech. They must be maintained or will erode somewhat. I believe this is why people talk to their pets or themselves if they live alone and don't see others often. It isn't actually the first sign of mental illness, but merely verbal maintenance.

 

I talk to the monster under my bed frequently.

 

Not speaking actually has the opposite effect on me. I work with the public. During the first few weeks of quarantine, my fluency had been superb! I was not talking constantly to coworkers, or to the public, or on the phone. If go the whole day without talking (occasionally to my dog and ferret). It felt amazing!
When the virtual meeting started up, i noticed i stuttered less frequently and certain sounds were easier to get out.

It was a great break for my vocal chords/muscles, and being fluent felt even better!

 

Yes, a day is a break. Try months, or better yet live on a island with nothing but a volleyball...