Sonara/Zel/Annallee/etc.

Every FF8 character has had their name misspelled at least once, but this one seems to happen most. That said...

SIGH.

Rinoa. Okay? R-I-N-O-A. Not "Riona".

I can understand a typo here and there; the "N" and "O" are easy to mix up if you're typing too fast. And it's not by any stretch of the imagination a common name ("Riona" is a real name though, I believe, but still >:|), so spellcheck isn't going to pick it up. But doing it consistently like it's really her name? plz gtfo. :(

This also applies to her last name. It's Heartilly, not Heartily. Yes, the developers made her surname similar to the word "heartily" because it reflects her personality, but it's not her last name.

Okay, I'm probably one of five people in the world who even cares about this, but.

A few notes on Blueno:

1) Not stupid. Plays stupid on missions, but really is actually not. Even if you completely ignore everything about his actual characterization (of which there isn't much, I admit it), he's in Cipher Pol 9. He's an elite government-hired assassin. You have to be smart for that shit.

2) Probably not interested in fucking fourteen-year-old boys. You could make a case for it, I guess, but...just like, randomly wanting to screw a little boy? I don't buy it.

3) At no point would he have thought Lucci was "too scrawny" to be a CP9 agent. This is a kid who busted up five hundred trained soldiers and an unspecified but great amount of heavily armed pirates at age thirteen. If your story is taking place after this, and the one I'm talking about does...see 1. Blueno fucking knows better.

Also, Lucci doesn't blush.

Okay, I just had to say that.

ETA: Oh, and for the record, just because you have sex with a person a lot doesn't mean you automatically start to care for them. Maybe if you also, you know, actually get to know them, but if it's just the sex...there's no reason for you to just randomly fall in love with them.

From a just-posted review to one of my fics: Note:
Teen Titan's 'Robin' is Richard Grayson not Timothy Drake. This is in accordance to the continuity of the commic books, the show, and the general consensus of fans.

Um... Note: Teen Titans Robin has been Timothy Drake since 2003 according to comics continuity. And, if you look at ff.net, you will find that I placed my story (gasp!) in the comics section. You see, dear reviewer, besides "Teen Titans Go!" there is another TT comic with a somewhat different team.

Nice to know you polled enough fans to get a general consensus, though. Jerk.

So for the 4th my boyfriend and I decided to go down to the riverfront fireworks display, understanding it would be packed and kinda horrible. I was just floored by how many fucking rude people parents were there. So, I give you, things not to do with your stroller:

1. When carrying it down stairs, do not, HIT A MAN (disabled veteran to boot) in the head, catch his headscarf, yank on it, then continue on your way without even an apology...

2. Park it in the middle of a hallway ( the only way to the bathrooms/food and drinks) and block everyone from getting threw so you can mess around with crap in the stroller/your baby

3. Take up seating with it, when your baby is not inside the stroller at the time. Those things fold up. I know they do. All of them, so you can get them into cars. If you take the 2-3 year old out, let it run around and destroy shit, and just spread the stroller and everything you own over 4-5 seats, that's really rude, especially when there are about 10,000 people standing/looking for a seat.

I know that some of this is standard, but i just needed to vent.

Because my mom is so happy she got her Sim abducted after a year of trying and has to know:

Can a child of an abductee get abducted themselves? Also, can an alien or alien-hybrid who is abducted get impregnated by aliens?

LOL, way too many "aliens" in this post.

I'm looking for matching kitchen counterss and a table that would be seamless when placed together. Preferable with a 1/4 circular table that can be used as a corner counter piece or to make one huge table. (I saw a kitchen like this in a magazine that I'm dying to duplicate).

Kinda like this:

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I think I've seen seamless table/counter objects before but have no clue where.

Hey!

I was just curious is anyone ever considered gaining weight because they were told they "needed" to?

People spend a decent amount of time commenting on how "i need a lil fat on me" which is infuriating to say the least. Though a doctor told me I needed to be 105-10 (since I've been hovering in the 90s since high school) because of my height (5'2") but I have no real interest in gaining weight. I don't necessarily like being thin, but I hate people who I don't or barely know telling me I need to gain weight because of my size. I'm unhealthy because I have poor eating habits and I hate working out, not because I'm 90-something pounds. >.<

So I was wondering if anyone else had similar experiences/feelings?

My name is Fia and I love mpreg.

Okay, a clause to that statement. I love mpreg in fandoms that can accommodate it, through use of magic, alien technologies, unique species quirks or wacky matriarchal parallel universes.

But when you're writing an otherwise 'normal' human pregnancy, notable only in that it is taking place in a male body due to one of the previous kinds of meddling (or something else I haven't listed that can be believed in the context of the fandom) please do a little research into what is 'normal' development in a human pregnancy.

I found out fairly easily, by asking my pregnant best friend, that a normal human fetus first shows signs of movement at 16-25 weeks, which is admittedly quite a wide range. If you don't have one of those at your disposal, you could also check with Wiki or possibly Google "stages of human fetal development" or similar. I'm just saying that your guy's baby probably isn't going to be flailing fit to freak out the physician at three months, is all.

It was a cute fic, for the most part, despite the author retconning some fairly important (I felt) character development (though it's possible the author has not seen the episode in question, which I doubt because they included spoilers for it in the story, complete with very specific spoiler warning.) It's not unusual; sadly most writers in this fandom tend to favor character stagnation over emotional growth in regards to this particular character. Also, I'm still trying to wrap my head around the phrase "more than harmless," meaning -- in context -- "potentially healthful."

In summation, another fairly good story by a good writer, which could have been great. Disappointing. (Also makes me wonder if I'm some kind of a freak for looking things up and asking questions when I'm not an expert -- which is most of the time -- and striving for accuracy whenever possible. I'm actually pretty easy; I would even have accepted a reason -- perhaps something hormonal -- why the baby was roughly a month ahead of itself developmentally.)

-Folks, unless we have discussed beforehand and I am being paid the $9 per hour that I normally charge for the service, I AM NOT YOUR BABYSITTER. I'm a complete bloody stranger! Why on Earth would you suddenly draft me to watch your two-year-old while you head into the fitting room with that mountain of clothing? Couldn't you take the kid with you? My mum used to do that when I was that small.

Yes, I know I'm sitting on the bench quietly and nibbling at my giganto-pretzel and orange pop, and don't look like I'm gonna do much for a few minutes. That doesn't mean I'm the Mall-wide Babysitter. Please don't assume that total strangers will watch and keep your children safe. Leaving your child next to me and saying "Now, listen to this nice lady while I go and try on these clothes!" was just... ugh. I should have notified the mall cops, if I had found them.

-SUV STROLLERS. BURN THEM. What's wrong with those neat little umbrella strollers? They're small and practical--they allow you to roll your baby around, they keep a little shade over the kid, and they often have small netting things to carry a few of your kid's bottles, a few diapers, and shit. There's no reason you should have an SUV that's more pimped-out than the car you drove here in. Kid doesn't need that much space. Nor does he need XM baby radios, a dozen large and noisy toys to play with, an entire church-picnic-sized stash of formula and applesauce, gas-powered motors, bass thumping, neons on the undercarriage, and enough space to take up the entire freaking aisle of the store so that I can't squeeze by to grab a box of cereal. I could understand if there was a zombie invasion and you were gonna ram some zombies with it, but otherwise, you CAN do with just a small stroller.

-On what planet is it okay to walk up to the fat chick and go "OH, WHEN ARE YOU DUE?"

Someone once said, "You should never ask whether a woman is pregnant unless you can actually see a baby coming out of her at that very second." It's probably good advice to go by.

Yes, I know I'm a rather large woman. I KNOW. But it doesn't mean I'm pregnant. I'm just kind of fat. Too much ramen and pop in the past few years (I've been working on it! I've lost 70lbs in the past year--I'm down to 200lbs now, and I'm proud I've been able to work hard on that.)

-Also, on what planet is it okay to touch someone else's--a total stranger's--stomach, whether pregnant or not? I don't like it when strangers touch me! Keep your grubby baby-rabid mitts off of my Venus of Willendorf stomach! I'm sure it's just as bad for ladies who are actually pregnant. I've known a few pregnant women in my time, and they've all hated that "ZOMG MUCH TOUCH PREGNANT STOMACH!" shit.

Thought some of ya'll would appreciate this!
http://forsakewolf.deviantart.com/art/Children-Inspiration-89579441

I'm having a problem with one of my sims. I had him go repair the tv and I completely forgot he was doing that when I had them all go off lot to downtown. He didn't have the sparks(see photo behind cut) all over him downtown, but when they returned he had them all over. I thought they'd just go away. They have been there for two sim days now. How do I get rid of them?
( Photo to help explain my problem! )

 

Dear Author, 

Cornelius Fudge has many failings as a person.

( Here are a few of them. )

However, even with these character flaws it stretches the imagination pantyhose-thin to accept that Cornelius Fudge would connive with Vernon Dursley to enslave, exploit, and sexually abuse Harry Potter for eleven years while keeping up the pretense that he froze on the doorstep of Number 4 Privet Drive on the night Dumbledore left him there.

( And that is only PART of the reason why I want to douse your fic with kerosene! )

ETA: Through all the other awful, I completely forgot to mention that it is a Winnie the Pooh cross-over.

Yes. I know.

I share your pain.

Helloo~!

I created a family last night, and with the magic of the quads trips hack, the lady gave birth to four children.  The only problem is, they disappeared.  She gave birth to all four of them, they all show up on my sidepanel, and they're all there on the family-screen when you're on the neighborhood, but when actually in their househould, only one of them exists.  I've checked the entire lot, no babies to be found anywhere.  I wasn't that far in to the family, so I figure I'll just recreate and start over, but I was curious if anyone has had this happen before, and if there is  any way to get them back?

I have every EP and SP, and all the hacks are updated from the last EP, and never had this problem before with other families.

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Warnings - language

Last post: June 28

It's been years since I've posted here, though I lurk sporadically. Need you guys right now, though.

A week ago a met a really incredibly amazing guy. I have never, in my 30+ years of life, been so taken with someone so immediately. We clicked instantly -- strangers even asked me how many years we'd been together. We have tons in common, the chemistry between us is indescribable. We've been out with groups of other people several times since the meeting but have had little one-on-one time.

You all see where this is going.

The very night we met, I made a point of dropping into the conversation the fact that I had a tubal ligation several years ago. (I always find it best to get that said as soon as possible.) Last night we talked. He wants a kid. Just one, but that's still more than I'm willing or able to give him. I don't know what to do. It's a non-negotiable issue, we both realize that, but I don't think either of us is willing to just turn our backs on what could otherwise be something incredible between us. We just kind of put the problem on the table and stared at it.

It can't work in the end. I know that. I know it's stupid and pointless for us to waste our time entering into a relationship with such a un-compromisable issue. So I'll have to do the right thing and walk away. I am devastated. I literally collapsed into hopeless sobs over this earlier today. I don't fall for people that fast -- it's not me at all. I am absolutley amazed at the depth of loss I feel for something that never even was.

I always said that any man who wants kids is obviously not the right one for me. This is just the first one I've met who appears so right in every other way. I've never regretted my tubal before and I don't now, but this is the first time I've had to deal with such a painful repercussion of it. I'm just heartsick about it and figured this community would understand.

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lol early b/c i won't be here tomorrow enjoy >:D

16yo Idiot Launches 8 mo. Old With Inflatable Pillow, Gets Arrested.

( Article and news vid behind cut. )

Just WTELF, that poor baby! Just what kind of sick in the head do you have to be to treat a helpless human being like this in the name of humor? I like what Sheriff Breeden had to say at the end of the video there. "It's not gonna be funny when the judge gets through with him..." Hell yeah, dude. This dumb fuck is going to get his ass chewed up and spit out by the justice system. I'm boggling the teen videotaping it wasn't charged with something too, for failing to protect his little brother.

Though I kind of wondered if the producers secretly found it humorous considering the 20 bazillion playbacks of the baby taking flight.

Regarding the emptiness of downtown after yesterday's festivities:

Me: "They left late, in the dead of night. ...There was a traffic jam."
Sara: "Like a douche at a one-night stand."

Sorry. Sara's going to write a song about it later. Shh, shhh....Don't worry about it.


I love that I'm completely wasting what little money I have on vinyl when one of the speakers is busted.
Actually, I love that even with a blown speaker it sounds relatively awesome.
Music in the Terrordome. Always a trooper.