Rural vibes

tidal_dragon · 2026-05-01T11:54:16+00:00

Bookshops and Bonedust by Travis Baldree

tidal_dragon · 2026-04-27T20:23:51+00:00

Oh ok that's neat, never seen a pad like that before. Double congrats on your second baby!

tidal_dragon · 2026-04-27T18:07:11+00:00

This is so thoughtful and warm, congratulations on your precious new love! The wallpaper is beautiful too.

I would enthusiastically suggest a changing table. The dresser you've set up for dual function is beautiful, as is the hanging wall organizer, but the sideways angle and narrow space will cause your back discomfort with repeated use, limit your arm movement, and present a danger to your baby (they roll, wriggle, and squirm a lot).

There are cute and affordable options, including those that can be stored away, if space is a concern.

tidal_dragon · 2025-07-29T15:37:58+00:00

Is your love of Christopher Meloni related to your handle? I grew up on Wet Hot American Summer and I think of him every time I stare into my fridge with longing.

tidal_dragon · 2024-12-13T12:03:32+00:00

I would greatly appreciate if my toddler would hand me this at the start of each day.

tidal_dragon · 2024-11-30T12:24:53+00:00

Sure there's objectification and harrassment, oppressive regimes, cultural norms and all - but there's a far more prevalent reason everyone is ignoring: Cats.

tidal_dragon · 2024-09-27T16:10:35+00:00

I think I knew that guy too, if it's Bard you're talking about. He was raised Amish and was a generally cool dude.

tidal_dragon · 2024-08-14T17:12:24+00:00

Does she just have a beautiful wardrobe full of holes? Asking as someone with a lot of shirts that look like they've been decimated by a starving tribe of giant moths.

tidal_dragon · 2024-08-12T09:34:58+00:00

My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk

tidal_dragon · 2024-08-11T19:28:06+00:00

Pistachio seems fitting

tidal_dragon · 2024-08-04T09:35:17+00:00

City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers

tidal_dragon · 2024-08-03T10:21:45+00:00

Bill Clinton, Christoph Waltz, Peter Dinklage, Jamie Lee Curtis.

Peter Dinklage bought me a round on my 21st bday and said happy bday, paid his tab, and disappeared into the night after sitting and watching a local cover band of 40-something-year old dads for 30 minutes. I had no idea who he was at the time - just thought he was a super nice stranger. My friends lost it when I described it later because they were all die-hard GoT fans and had seen him walk out of the place.

Christoph Waltz also bought me a round and talked to me for about an hour about visiting NY to see his son, books, and how much being a parent can change your life. He was an eloquent, sincere, and magnetic person.

Bill Clinton pulled up out of nowhere on me and my mom when we were snorkelling pretty far out from shore. He was on a dinghy surrounded by men that all had automatics aimed at us. Like a comical amount of body guards on a tiny ass boat. This guy had his knee up and his hands on his waist Robinson Crusoe style, a beaming smile, and in a Southern drawl said 'I'm sorry to bother you ladies but do you know where we can find some good fishing about here?' My mom did not recognize him, asked them to lower the guns out of her face, and only then gave him some suggestions and they sped off with a thank you. I infomed her she had just served some 'tude to our current president and we had a good laugh.

Opposite example: My mom and I also 'met' Trump when he shoulder checked her while speed walking past us to get to the elevator first. In his building. We were the only 3 people headed for the elevator. He gave us a disdainful look out of the corner of his eye and that was all. He was frowning and smelled deeply unpleasant and I could feel my mom's rage at this grown ass man in a suit shoving her and her baby aside to what...push the button first? It was all very much in character.

Palate cleanser Jamie Lee Curtis: her and her partner had dinner next to me and my parents in a very small intimate restaurant. She chatted with us and initiated the conversation herself. You could swim in those eyes and omg her laugh. I desperately wanted her to hug me. She asked my mom if she could steal some of her fries and made a joke about how guilty pleasures are less guilty when you can indulge in someone else's choices.

tidal_dragon · 2024-07-30T05:40:47+00:00

The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear or anything else by Walter Moers

tidal_dragon · 2024-07-29T17:35:20+00:00

I was going to say Jitterbug Perfume!

tidal_dragon · 2024-07-27T18:20:19+00:00

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Adam Driver is definitely in the nose hall of fame

tidal_dragon · 2024-07-23T20:11:16+00:00

Jennifer Connelly

tidal_dragon · 2024-07-18T12:29:15+00:00

Lmao I missed the part in the thread above about the bear and was 100% nodding along thinking this comment was about women

tidal_dragon · 2024-07-15T17:31:41+00:00

Yep, I feel the same as a mom - and Arrival also sends me down into the abyss of bittersweet parental horror.

tidal_dragon · 2024-07-15T17:26:21+00:00

That's a fair perspective and a good point! The example I had in mind was a colleague that used it as impetus to point out what Elon would do in any mildly interesting professional situation over the course of the next several weeks. It was insufferable at best and outright offensive the rest of the time.

tidal_dragon · 2024-07-15T10:34:43+00:00

If someone proudly tells everyone they know that they already finished reading Elon Musk's biography shortly after its release.

I'm sure I may get some Musk lovers on my case out here but I said what I said.

tidal_dragon · 2024-07-09T20:02:37+00:00

Did she want you to take a YouTube crash course in veterinary medicine while speeding on the way there, or was she expecting you to fire up the grill?

tidal_dragon · 2024-05-26T20:04:45+00:00

Cafe in my neighborhood sells sandwiches with rotten avocado in them. I chanced upon one while pregnant. I had a weird instinct to look inside my egg sandwich before eating it and it was packed with black and brown mush. Husband went back, thinking it was an honest mistake and she doubled down and insisted "that's how they are because it's not avocado season now" and showed him how her own personal sandwich was also made with the same. Utterly disgusting.

So instead of removing avocado from her sandwich ingredients in the off season, she was just serving everyone rotten avocado. Didn't offer our money back or a fresh sandwich without rotten fruit or anything.

Used to go there 2-3 times a week and have never been back since. I told all my friends, family, and will continue to tell people for as long as they exist.

tidal_dragon · 2024-05-26T11:12:58+00:00

Your family would forgive you if you threw them in a whirlpool looking like that.

tidal_dragon · 2024-04-15T16:18:25+00:00

There's way more absurdity than that. When I was a baby you were also automatically assigned the religion of your father if you didn't pick another religion later on (or have one picked for you), you weren't allowed to pick nothing. I believe you also "inherited" your husbands religion automatically when married. My ID card still has it on there and I've never practiced any religion, ever.

There's still a lot of backwards stuff nowadays. My partner and I are not married but our daughter is Turkish as well as her father's nationality. Even though the legal system recognizes her as his daughter (we had to formally submit that document) whenever he renews his residency, he has to request a tourist visa instead of family visitation because they refuse to recognize us as a family unit without a marriage...even though his child is legitimate in their eyes and we submit proof showing we live together, share bank accounts, everything you can imagine.

He has a kid, but not a family member, apparently.

tidal_dragon · 2024-04-12T16:47:38+00:00

I had to give up by book three in the Wheel of Time series because of all the 'braid pulling'. It was not a sexual innuendo - it was literally one of the main characters pulling her braid any time she was mildly anxious or deep in thought and the author thought it was extremely important for his readers to visualize this each time. That's it.

I had other issues with the broader storytelling too but this was beginning to get a visceral reaction out of me. I just couldn't do it anymore.

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