Ixrec
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mega thread Song Stuck in your Head Right Now
Ixrec replied to Blue Moon's topic in Media Discussion
This week in "catching up on a decade of brony music", Giggles and Gumdrops is my latest earworm. -
Financial software development. Will probably be doing this forever, since everything else I like doing I like much more as a hobby than a job.
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Spend a long time double-checking exactly how many of our memories, feelings and abilities are identical. Anything else would depend on how similar we are.
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I'm probably about even as far as non-physical stereotypically masculine/feminine traits go. Whether something is seen as masculine just doesn't enter into my decision-making process, and thinking about it on purpose like I'm doing for this thread just leads to me being deeply confused about what the concepts even mean (I suspect nothing). I do wear masculine clothes without any makeup or other beauty products, and on the other hand I've had my hair in a long ponytail for years.
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When you buy Rainbow Dash slippers. -
Big nope here too. Any specific task with a concrete goal just keeps me awake. Doing almost anything for the purpose of sleeping tends to be a losing game unless I'm actually tired. But once I am tired, it usually helps if I let myself daydream in bed instead of any constructive thinking (like making plans for tomorrow) or seeking external entertainment. Although it quickly becomes impossible to distinguish these "intentional daydreams" from actual dreams, which I guess isn't a bad thing.
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How many boyfriend/girlfriends have you had?
Ixrec replied to Reecejackox's topic in General Discussion
Hm, sounds like I'm an outlier here. There's probably no way to say this with zero melodrama, but let's see how little we can manage... Just the one ex. We met online during college, we visited each other in person a few times, I moved to the UK so we could live together, and in total the whole thing lasted ~8 years. FWIW, the intended tone here is not "sad" but somewhere between "bittersweet" and "hopeful". There's nothing wrong with having ex's. -
It really depends on what "similar to MLP" is. For any specific aspect of MLP, I'm sure we could find a ton of shows, but it's gonna be different ones for each. "Non-anthro animals" confuses me since MLP ponies are certainly somewhat anthropomorphized, but I suppose I should mention Kipo and the Age of the Wonderbeasts since that's a great show with lots of talking animal characters (albeit higher on the anthro scale than MLP ponies), a similar idealistic tone and the power of friendship is in effect (although no rainbow lasers). If what you're after is an animated show with a similarly idealistic tone and younger target audience where the heroes often try to befriend even their villains (which is what I'd say made MLP:FiM appeal to me), then She-Ra and Steven Universe are also excellent.
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general Are you still in touch with your childhood friends?
Ixrec replied to Muffinnz's topic in General Discussion
Nope, unless you count my parents. For me elementary school, middle school, high school, college and post-college all had completely different friend groups; nobody ever stayed in touch beyond any of those transitions. -
I have been in a relationship with someone I originally met online, yes, and that's the only serious multi-year romantic relationship I've ever had. I have not yet tried an online dating service, but I certainly will eventually, if only because there don't seem to be any "offline dating" options these days.
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Of all the pony fancomics I've tried so far, my favorite is dsana's "A Storm's Lullaby" But according to search, it's never been mentioned once in this entire forum, much less this fanclub. So let's fix that! Whole comic: https://www.deviantart.com/dsana/gallery/69364076/a-storm-s-lullaby Spoiler-free but representative example page: This is also a good time to binge it, since the latest strips are at a lull in the action after a few of the bigger conflicts got satisfyingly resolved. -
Checking out https://rodstevenmusic.bandcamp.com/ earlier today put me back in the mood to shuffle nothing but Eurobeat, so stuff like this:
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funny Admit something weird about yourself (APPROPRIATE!)
Ixrec replied to Jade The Pegasister's topic in Forum Games
Most of the answers I could give here are already in other threads, but... For the most part fictional violence and gore doesn't bother me in the slightest, unless it involves eyes. Something about eye injuries or surgeries freak me the hell out and I generally cover the screen or skip ahead when they go there. This is also why I will never, ever play Dead Space 2 a second time. -
What unproductive task do you waste your time on the most
Ixrec replied to Best Username Ever's topic in General Discussion
"Productivity" outside work hours is a self-defeating concept stemming from the dehumanizing ideology of capitalism trying to trick us into brainwashing ourselves into being ideal wage slaves! But seriously, in the conventional sense, I'm simply not doing any "productive" tasks outside of work these days. I certainly feel satisfied and productive when I spend a lot of time talking to friends, reading comics or ponyfics, watching shows, and so on. -
Yes, all the time. I have a waist-length blond ponytail, so it's pretty hard not to. Especially in bed when too much tossing and turning inevitably leads to me rolling my face into some of my hair, and then I need to rearrange it or else suffer incessant self-face tickling. Although when I play with it too much, that's a strong sign I should've washed it by now and I'm doing the hair equivalent of scratching an itch because it just feels unwashed. (other people have also played with it after asking permission, which is maybe the only time I feel more like Rarity than Twilight )
