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Daemian

My black cat Jack

He's getting kinda fat right now, which makes him more squishable heheh.

Daemian

Also, I sometimes run around in the woods with elf ears and contact lenses...

Wysteria

It's @Tvistor! The man is alive and going Bard! Glad to hear you're enjoying Australia (and really hoping you weren't near the Swanston St wall collapse) and slowly transing your skills. Don't forget to pop in now and then though, if just to say hello…even if we're different factions. Oh and by the way, enjoy Melbournian winter

Tvistor

Ohsnap.

It's rant time, and I'll use this thread because it's where you posted.

WHAT ON EARTH IS WRONG WITH THIS COUNTRY'S WEATHER?

I was talking down the street last Monday and things were going fine. Then it started to drizzle, then something hit me on the back of the head. I was like:

"WHO'S THROWING <EXPLETIVE> AT ME?"

And all was still. Then I was like:

"This rain is unusually hard."

Because it was <EXPLETIVE> HAIL.

I know you people in countries with cold weather haven't realized this, but the world wants to kill you. It wants to drag you screaming out of your house and punch you in the face for the length of three Cyrenian Senate meetings. Your rain, which is supposedly comprised of one of the chemicals that is almost universally known as a lifegiver has decided "Water may giveth life, water may taketh life away." and launched an all-out airborne assault on you.

And the venomous animals. WHY ARE THERE SO MANY OF THEM?

"My hand is kinda itchy. Well, it's probably noth --"

KIDDING, YOU JUST DIED.

And no, "You can get the antidote within 24 hours." and things like that aren't comforting. In other parts of the world WE DON'T NEED ANTIDOTE. I have not had to receive the antidote for anything on pain of death in my entire life.

And the cold. The cold. Humans are not meant to operate at anything below twenty degrees Celsius. I got frostbite and my compassion turned black and fell off last month.

Sob.

Wysteria

DID I NOT TELL YOU TO BRING AN UMBRELLA FOR THAT "FOUR-SEASONS-IN-ONE-DAY" CITY?

Now you know why people down there like their hot chocolate (and for some reason ice cream) shops en masse! That, and the rain is nothing til you experience a Brisbane flood where you need to surf your way out of suburbia to the CBD and have snakes swimming the things like a boss. HAVE FUN IN SUMMER WHEN EVERYTHING IS ON FIRE INSTEAD.

Melbs is at the butt end of Australia so you get the earthquakes too But hey, venomous creatures and deadly weather aside, you get kick arse food 24/7 and some very, very obsessive rugby fans who try to beat up the protestors / buskers on a regularly basis.

If it helps: this was in my apartment when I was living down there — called a wood borer and about 2.5" long for this one:



^_____^

Melodie

God, I haven't laughed that hard in a while.

Come back, @Tvistor, we miss you.

Jhaeli

Alyssea said:

And I have no idea why her husband has no shirt on.

Because skin to skin is incredibly beneficial to babies, especially newborns. Your body actually helps theirs regulate temperature, heartbeat and breathing. It also promotes bonding and encourages feeding when it's with mom.

Averi

@Tvistor woooo! Bard!

@Chryenth Epee is better.

Chryenth

No. No on every level.

Epee. Urgh.

Vayne

Foil. Thatisall.

Xae

@Ryukishi was in town for a few days, and we hung out for a bit before he left.

Xae

@Ainia we went to Southlands since I work at one of the places there, ate breakfast at the.. Crepe Cafe place thing, and just talked until I had to go to work. Our time was very limited xD

Berenene

@Wysteria HEY, MELBOURNE'S COOL, so cool in fact it's damn freezing!

@Tvistor really? Under 20? If it's under 20 and no rain, then it's picnic weather here.  But yeah, the weather does do some pretty freaky things here.  If you don't like the weather, just wait 10 mins and you'll be fine. But it has had the positive effect of providing us with some of the best cafes around where you can get a nice hot coffee/chocolate that is perfect to enjoy while the rain passes...enjoyed on Lygon st...with some nice warm crostoli or a delicious lemon meringue tart or...excuse me, I'll be back in about an hour.

Trilliana

Only reason I'd ever go to Australia... just to see all the amazing food that's being talked about

Wysteria

Berenene said:

@Wysteria HEY, MELBOURNE'S COOL, so cool in fact it's damn freezing!

@Tvistor really? Under 20? If it's under 20 and no rain, then it's picnic weather here.  But yeah, the weather does do some pretty freaky things here.  If you don't like the weather, just wait 10 mins and you'll be fine. But it has had the positive effect of providing us with some of the best cafes around where you can get a nice hot coffee/chocolate that is perfect to enjoy while the rain passes...enjoyed on Lygon st...with some nice warm crostoli or a delicious lemon meringue tart or...excuse me, I'll be back in about an hour.

don't remind me of all those cafes I misssss. Now I want to go to Richmond and eat at that place with the weird glossy bun American burgers, or that Chinese dessert / tea place that's named after an opium den you can only find upstairs which I stumbled upon one night at 3.30 in the morning…

Siena

Only reason I would ever go to Australia is well...see and experience everything? No joke. Those didgeridoos are pretty cool. 

Jiraishin

opals.

Kresslack

Hey Erin,This is Andrew, I came in Saturday to show you the bloody wolf print I want to get done. I've finished up a mock of the details, and just emailing to confirm my appointment for 1 pm today. If you have anything available after 1pm please let me know, otherwise I'll see you then.Regards,Andrew

Xae said:

@Ainia we went to Southlands since I work at one of the places there, ate breakfast at the.. Crepe Cafe place thing, and just talked until I had to go to work. Our time was very limited xD

French people give me the crepes.

Daslin

uhh, @Kresslack think you put an email in your post.

Kresslack

Well what the fucking fuck. Can't edit it. Oh well, the ink therapy went well in any case.

Keres

he's getting bigger - now he wins sometimes when we wrestle and ends up trying to eat my face

nice rapier @Tvistor - go poke some Aussies

Ruth

Finally graduated! Though I'm still looking to continue studying, today really marks a milestone in my life as I transition onwards into adulthood!



Stage!



Flanked by two of my lecturers! The one on my right is my course manager.



My sister, my dad and me.



I insist that all of you must see the bear my sister got for me. So FLUFFY.

And now. On to your regular pet showing:

Kresslack

Congrats @Ruth! I've seen you in lab coats so often it was a bit odd seeing you in the robes. 

Titonus

Because I'm fancy like that,

and, this is going to happen.

Titonus

Also, someone said something about cats? This is Sam.

Aitox

@Ruth, congratulations! What did you graduate in?

Amunet

This is my left thumb.

This is my right thumb.

And here is the best picture I could get of the cut, now that the bleeding has stopped.  I can't bend my thumb this morning to actually see the bone, it's so swollen.

Pardon my dirty fingernails; they look grosser than the thumb.

Hataru

@Amunet have you looked into the charity regulations at the hospitals near you? Because in my experience a cut like that shouldn't just be left, its quite easy to not only get infected but if you nicked it bad enough and hit the bone (which it sounds like you might have) it can go terrrrrrribad.

@Titonus all I can think about right now is god awfully awesome cat calendars. Its not a bad thing.

Trilliana

@Amunet If you can, head to a drug store or walmart/kmart/whatever and get a thumb splint. And Urgent care as soon as you can, most hospitals will have a payment plan, and your college might have insurance for students, so talk to someone in your admissions office to see?

Amunet

It feels like a hairline fracture, so there's not a lot that a doctor is going to be able to do for it that I can't do here at home. I've been cleaning the cut in the morning and at night with alcohol swabs and Neosporin, and in between I have my thumb splinted tightly with gauze, a tongue depressor, and cloth tape. I'm pretty sure I'll be fine (and saving myself the crippling debt that inevitably occurs following any sort of medical treatment).