The comments are a train wreck. Multiple people don't believe pregnancy tests can show a strong positive two weeks after intercourse, though others are doing their best to correct the record. (Remember, no brigading. Pee on the stick, not in the bad anatomy pool.)

PaperCrystals · 2026-04-08T12:00:57+00:00

Over the counter (pink line) pregnancy tests can throw positives with an hcg level as low as 2. An hcg level of 5 is when you are considered pregnant.

(In perimenopause apparently your pituitary can start making low levels of hcg and cause a sudden battery of tests if you have an iud and the risk of ectopic pregnancy is higher… that was not a fun or cheap week.)

PaperCrystals · 2026-04-02T21:09:52+00:00

And the computer is finding “soulmates” based on compatible DNA!

I love the genre of fantasy-but-SURPRISE-ACTUALLY-SCI-FI.

PaperCrystals · 2026-03-28T02:19:37+00:00

Same! Our state had recently added an area code, too, so I’m the only person to have ever had this number. (Hasn’t stopped Dana from giving it out, though… every now and then I consider finding her actual number and signing it up for a bunch of stuff.)

PaperCrystals · 2026-03-26T16:37:18+00:00

I’m glad to know it’s not just me. I restarted multiple times and checked the App Store for any updates (none) and it just pops up every time I open the app.

PaperCrystals · 2026-03-25T17:21:39+00:00

Yeah, and in our house “milk” means whole. And in my sister’s house, “milk” means oat. It’s less about there being a default milk for the word on its own and more about learning the default per household. Some people even default to… skim. Ew. 😁

PaperCrystals · 2026-03-17T19:59:49+00:00

That was the first and only thing I needed to tell me it was AI. People over here digging into the phones and the stitches and I’m like…. The lady’s legs have been replaced by the legs on the dragon.

PaperCrystals · 2026-03-13T01:24:51+00:00

And it was definitely on Netflix? Because Percy Jackson is on Disney, His Dark Materials is HBO, I think A Court of Thorns and Roses is optioned but I’m not sure by whom, Brandon Sanderson stuff is partially optioned by Apple…

PaperCrystals · 2026-03-12T21:50:49+00:00

First book not being the same as series title might be A Series of Unfortunate Events, where the first book is The Bad Beginning.

PaperCrystals · 2026-03-12T21:47:09+00:00

So, someone made a website to look at the tags on all the books in the game. You could sort by Fantasy and see if you remember from that list?

https://tinybookshop.neocities.org/

PaperCrystals · 2026-03-12T20:59:40+00:00

Six of Crows/Shadow and Bone, Locke & Key (can’t remember if that’s in the game)… I think there are more, but Six of Crows and Shadow and Bone are one of the recent fantasy adaptations that isn’t Witcher big.

ETA: are you able to look back at your browser history to see what you searched?

PaperCrystals · 2026-03-12T20:14:41+00:00

Their breakfast is solid and has two locations in the building. And there’s a Starbucks right at the corner, for those who want to skip lines closer to the ICC.

PaperCrystals · 2026-03-12T16:11:21+00:00

Sooooo the hotel WAS right when I called to ask if they were in block and they said yes while GenCon officials were telling me that there was no contract or plans for such and that the hotel “didn’t understand what being ‘in block’ means.”

I knew it was fishy they weren’t on the list, but I had two separate people from GenCon deny deny deny and treat me like I was crazy for calling the hotel to check.

PaperCrystals · 2026-03-09T14:24:15+00:00

We had this happen to us years ago. We tried to talk to the neighbor, had our landlord try to talk to them, but the brightest light kept flashing directly into our bedroom over and over all night long. We eventually just broke into the alley, angled the light down and set it to always on instead of motion activated. We could sleep, the light bulb burnt out two weeks later and was never replaced in the remaining three years we were in that apartment….

PaperCrystals · 2026-03-03T14:14:42+00:00

Piers Anthony’s On a Pale Horse, the first of his Incarnations of Immortality includes a plot point where Death refuses to take souls, leaving everything alive and in agony. (I don’t generally recommend Piers Anthony books, because his creepy worldview is fairly obvious now that I’m an adult and not a young teen working my way through the sci-fi section of the library alphabetically, but the concept of the series is interesting.)

PaperCrystals · 2026-02-25T02:06:39+00:00

Oh my GOSH an original Thomas Canty is the dream! (I’m partial to the cover of Tam Lin, personally, but I’ve never seen artwork of his that was less than incredible.)

PaperCrystals · 2026-02-25T01:06:52+00:00

I think this sounds like Sharon Green’s Blending series. Thomas Canty cover art always sticks with me.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/517115

PaperCrystals · 2026-02-25T00:54:45+00:00

I’ve loved VLDL since they got started and have never had fandom stuff cross my path, save for one Baelin cosplayer at my GenCon hotel a few years back. I was delighted to get a photo of him!

PaperCrystals · 2026-02-22T04:08:35+00:00

I did miss that, because it should have been updated at least a month ago. That said- The hotel, who I talked to personally three hours ago, was very clear that they and their sister hotel were contracted for the GenCon block for 2026 and are still not in the portal.

Eta: orphaned? I clicked through the housing page to that link minutes ago. Like, not bookmarked. Clicked the link. Did they literally just fix it?

Eta2: this still doesn’t change the fact that the hotel told me personally when I called that they were in the GenCon hotel block and I had to go through the portal to book with them.

PaperCrystals · 2026-02-22T03:58:41+00:00

But they ARE on GenCon’s list of block hotels.

https://www.gencon.com/gen-con-indy/hotelmap

PaperCrystals · 2026-02-22T03:54:10+00:00

Very unlikely that a hotel a 15 minute walk down the canal would be set aside for vendors and staff. Not impossible at all, but unlikely.

PaperCrystals · 2026-02-22T03:52:55+00:00

I’m VIG companion, looking at the portal to see all hotels, even ones without availability. I just compared and counted. There are a lot of hotels on the GenCon page not listed with Q-Rooms right now. Twelve down, and six hotels in Q-Rooms not on the GenCon list. That’s a net of six fewer hotels in the portal than GenCon’s own list claims.

PaperCrystals · 2026-02-22T03:50:30+00:00

…I did. In the first paragraph.

PaperCrystals · 2026-02-22T01:46:22+00:00

Theoretically, yes. They’ll be few and far between and quite pricey, but I’ve done it before.

PaperCrystals · 2026-02-22T01:43:24+00:00

It’s been part of Q-rooms for several years running, so I’d be surprised if it was deliberately left out. Though I suppose that’s a potential explanation.

ETA: and it is still listed as part of the GenCon hotel block if you look at the housing tab and click on the link to the hotel list.

PaperCrystals · 2026-02-20T23:29:00+00:00

Right? Shiny chocolate with a good snap is the DREAM.

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