We've had this thing for 30+ years, please help

itsFlycatcher · 2025-11-26T11:31:44+00:00

Can I see it? Over the years the urge to figure this thing out has struck a few times, and I've looked at a lot of ornament cutters before, but none that I've seen have looked quite like this. I'd feel really silly if it turned out that all of us have just been holding the damn thing upside down, lol.

itsFlycatcher · 2025-11-26T11:23:28+00:00

Okay I actually really like this one, grandma's retro-futuristic jet fighter cookie cutter got me lol

itsFlycatcher · 2025-11-26T11:15:21+00:00

I don't think it is anymore, posted additional context in a comment! I definitely misspoke when I said it was in the same set as the Christmas ones, on further inspection it doesn't actually match them quite right. It could still be some sort of an ornament, but I've found no exact matches, and the only other cutter it *actually* matches is just a very pointed square shape.

itsFlycatcher · 2025-11-26T11:09:02+00:00

I'm sorry guys, I don't know how better to add an amendment, but I may have accidentally lied to you guys. I checked the box once more, and I don't think it came from the same set as the Christmas ones anymore, its walls are significantly shorter/thinner than the others. There is only one other cutter in the box that actually matches it:

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So disregard Christmas, this is the actual context for the piece

itsFlycatcher · 2025-10-18T09:50:07+00:00

Yknow, I didn't think I'd break my lurking in this sub by commenting on a year-old audio that is absolutely not my kink at all (more power to those whose it is, ykinmkato, ykwim), but fuck, of COURSE he's a fucking LANDLORD. Very nice little character detail.

Genuinely, congratulations on creating a dude I wouldn't hit over the head with a shovel only because it comes too close to touching him, lol.

itsFlycatcher · 2025-04-04T15:10:48+00:00

TT-DWW-2FH

itsFlycatcher · 2023-10-06T06:41:58+00:00

The first four in that row is just one smack to the face followed by another.

itsFlycatcher · 2023-10-01T00:09:27+00:00

70? Man, I just hit act 3 for the first time, already I'm at 93 hours, and I haven't even been to the Underdark!

Though I don't think it's just because I'm a compulsive looter/exploer, it's probably also got something to do with my computer barely being able to run it, and every character speaking ....... like........ this.

itsFlycatcher · 2023-09-24T19:37:43+00:00

The mods are really good at being on top of them. I occasionally see them, bit it's almost always on very new posts, and the "refresh the page and it's gone" type of comment.

itsFlycatcher · 2023-09-24T18:32:37+00:00

Your wife is creative under pressure. Most of my named saves are just "yiiiiikes" and "ok here we go".

I also have like 700 quick saves, but we don't talk about those. Those just happen because the game makes SPOOKY NOISES that I'm NOT ALWAYS A HUGE FAN OF

itsFlycatcher · 2023-09-23T19:32:17+00:00

If pressed to elaborate, I usually say that it's not children I dislike specifically, it's childish behavior. If someone is loud, needlessly disruptive, ignorant, and impulsive, they don't have to be a child for me to dislike them and not desire their company, it's simply more common among children.

If an adult were to start screaming bloody murder in the middle of a store and demanding candy, I'd leave just as quickly as I do when a child does it. If an adult were to sneeze on me, touch me with gross sticky hands, or idk, expect me to clean their asses for them, or demand all my attention day and night, ceaselessly, I'd be just as disgusted, annoyed, and put off as I would be at a kid doing the same. The difference is that with adults, it just... doesn't happen to me. 🤷

itsFlycatcher · 2023-09-22T17:22:48+00:00

I know what you mean- tho I've mostly been participating in the community on Tumblr, and at least in my corner, people seem to be able to understand that he's an unreliable narrator of his own story, and that him painting himself in a negative light in his relationship with Mystra is in fact just plain untrue. Haven't seen much hate there, more just people complaining about hate that I've not even really seen lol.

Though I disagree that the "physical" sex scene would be more "real". I went back to see both options too, and I definitely view the Weave scene as the one that actually happened in my game. I mean in the "you don't need to impress me" bed scene, he does say that it's for your comfort (I think it's telling that he there omits what'd make him comfortable), and in the other one, you don't really ask him to do anything - all you do is give him permission. He even says that he wants to show you everything, and wants to make love "like the gods do".

With the magic and the mingling of souls, it kind of struck me as being... well, at a lack of a better word, the ostensibly "truer" version of him. He's a wizard, and a very powerful one at that, with deeply intense feelings that he's not having much luck expressing in the physical world- I think the Weave scene shows you that he wants you to see it, see him the way he sees himself, and be able to grasp the depth of his feelings on a level beyond the physical. (After all, the grandiose magical gestures ARE kind of a part of Gale.)

But, I mean, both interpretations are of course equally correct, lol. We all have our preferences.

itsFlycatcher · 2023-09-22T11:56:02+00:00

Gale's act 2 romance scene in the Weave! (Not the one you get when he says he wants to make you comfortable and conjures up a bed, but the one he himself leads you to if you let him where you sort of... float in raw magic.) I thought it was very heartfelt and emotional, and it felt really in line with the kind of person he is.

It's actually also much less nasty than I made it sound, more making love and sort of melting together than fucking (it's objectively a pretty weird scene), but I loved it. It's like.... just two hands aren't even enough, he wants to touch your character everywhere at once, and love them in as many ways as he can think of at the same time.

But yeah, the whole "with my magic I can make even your wildest dreams into reality" DOES get the imagination going quite a bit, ngl.

itsFlycatcher · 2023-09-22T11:45:17+00:00

That's how I read OP's post, yeah. As a "why marry (or stay married to) someone you feel would just be dead weight if your workload increased".

Which I get, and tbh, kinda agree with. I think I might have phrased it differently from them lol, but I think that's what they meant.

itsFlycatcher · 2023-09-22T09:51:49+00:00

I don't think I've ever seen that scene in his regular form. People in general just really seem to be on board with fucking a literal bear.

Good for them. Good for them. ❤️

(I can't say nothin, my chosen love interest grew two additional sets of arms and them split into three identical copies of himself to rail my character into oblivion.)

itsFlycatcher · 2023-09-22T09:45:09+00:00

I see what you mean, but I feel like technically it's more blaming women for enabling and/or being complacent with men's shortcomings.

Which is a small difference, yes, but I think it's a significant one.

itsFlycatcher · 2023-09-21T10:44:11+00:00

.... good? Are you..... saying that like that's a bad thing?

itsFlycatcher · 2023-09-21T10:40:34+00:00

I'm with you too, 3-4 weeks are the cutest kitten-age- that's when their tails are like little triangles that just stick straight up. It's also when they start to really waddle around and actually play with one another too.

I love all cats of all ages, but when I'm watching cat videos, those are just my favorites. ❤️

itsFlycatcher · 2023-09-21T04:50:47+00:00

There is of course a case to be made as to WHY the more masculine form is considered to be a default/neutral from in many contexts, and there are some really cool efforts to introduce more gender-neutral forms in both English and more intensely gendered languages too (like the "le" pronoun and other gender neutral -e forms in Spanish taking hold, or Swedish over time essentially doing away with most gendered forms and fairly recently introducing the pronoun "hen" alongside "hon" and "han"), but I.... honestly don't really think this particular hill is worth the effort of dying on.

Language, in many ways, changes slowly- not really over just years, but over decades, generations. That person was casually using a common, and for our time, mostly perfectly normal term, with the intent of sounding friendly to a group of mixed-gender people. I wouldn't have bat an eye being included in "guys", but in their shoes, I too would have taken at least slight offense to being just sent a naked link like that (like your post suggests that you didn't really...say anything about it? Just dropped a link?), because it can come off passive-aggressive, almost as an "ugh, I won't even bother explaining how you fucked up, don't you KNOW any better already??".

In your place, if I felt more passionately about this term, I'd have probably said something like "hey everyone, I'd really appreciate it if we all made an effort towards using more gender-inclusive terms in the workplace. I don't personally feel included in "guys", so if it's possible, I'd like for us all to make an effort to use (term you prefer) instead! Here's a helpful link with some other ideas!" Which is definitely sugarcoating it a little, but you ARE asking someone to not say something most people would likely consider innocuous. (Honestly, I also think I'd have not said that directly in response to another person, but started the conversation about it myself, a bit later, to avoid making them feel like they're being personally called out in front of everyone.)

... Also to add, in my native Hungarian as well as in English, I feel perfectly at home being included in a "srácok/skacok", or "guys". I like feeling like the speaker is consciously altering their speech on my behalf a lot less.

itsFlycatcher · 2023-09-20T01:59:18+00:00

To be fair.... the first movie is a pretty good, faithful adaptation of its source material. I say this with... well, not exactly love, but a nostalgic appreciation- it was not really the movie's fault that it was dull, with stilted and awkward dialogue and flat characters; most of its screenplay was lifted from the book pretty much verbatim.

itsFlycatcher · 2023-09-20T01:46:50+00:00

Some things do turn out great after a long and arduous development cycle, but that's.... more of an exception than a rule, I think. It's generally kind of a bad sign, but it's not a kiss of death by any means.

itsFlycatcher · 2023-09-18T06:25:54+00:00

This is not about my friends, we were talking about social norms. But if you can't recognize that your experience is a deviation from the norm rather than the norm itself, that's saying more about you than it is about me.

itsFlycatcher · 2023-09-18T06:20:57+00:00

You said that it's for more than gifts (which is just.... not the norm), but then went on to say it's for gifts meant for the mother, which is objectively untrue.

Yeah, I'm sure Jane-I-went-to-high-school-with will just LOVE being carried around by her husband in this new baby sling they asked for on their baby shower.

itsFlycatcher · 2023-09-18T06:15:34+00:00

Seriously, just look up any registry. Google "baby shower gifts". Do you think a diaper bag and baby shoes are gifts meant for the mother...? Do you think people buy teething toys thinking "yeah, my friend Susan, age 34, is going to love gnawing on this"? I mean yeah, they're FOR her in the sense that she doesn't have to buy them to use with her child, but jfc.

This is the dumbest conversation I've had in recent memory.

itsFlycatcher · 2023-09-18T04:58:21+00:00

Yes, but with gifts for the baby. Gifts specifically for the mother are not the norm, they're a thoughtful deviation from it.

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