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8ballcat asked:

What's your dad like? Can you describe him?

When we went over to see him at Thanksgiving he was in his 70s, and he was still in good health despite having diabetes, liver disease, and some other stuff.

He had a lot of funny stories from when he was younger, many of which involved him getting into the wrong kind of trouble. He worked in a toy warehouse as a teenager, and so on the night of the “toy war” riots, a large group of police officers showed up looking for him, as he’d been on the floor of the warehouse for days and they wanted to check that he wasn’t “rioting from hunger” or something. The story of the toy war riots was what I most remember from my childhood visit; I remember him sitting me down one day and telling me how as a teenager he was really into the whole “toy war” / bushranger thing, and a large group of police officers showed up looking for him because he was really into it. My dad is probably responsible for the fact that I am not a mass murderer. (The toy war thing was just a specific riot over a toy line. I don’t think we’d want to live in that world any more; at the very least we don’t need more Toy Wars.)

He also liked to do little riffs on stories he told, such as in the above account. He had a way of telling stories where his characters would end up making decisions that would be weird if you read it all in one go but are plausible in context; it was an old-school type of “storytelling” and “plotting” where you just sort of let it unfold as it was unfolding.

The most recent story I remember him telling me involves the time we went to see The Hobbit in theaters in the early 1990s, when I was just a baby. We were late to the movie, and he had this whole routine of telling me, just in this monotone, very “dry” way, about how it would have been much easier to go see The Hobbit in theaters if I hadn’t been born, in order to avoid the long wait that occurred when they decided to change it to a 3-hour movie. The way he tells this story makes it sound sort of crazy, and in retrospect I’m not 100% sure he actually believes this; he may have been joking. (If you were born later it would have meant skipping The Hobbit, and then they’d have had to go back and get it from a VHS copy or something.)

We went to see The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit again in the theater a few years later (around the time I started school), and when I was young I asked him at one point how he could be in the middle of all those books, all by himself. He told me he liked it “because if I went in one direction, the next thing would be something totally different, and the next thing that would be totally different…”

Anyway, he’s a very sweet and funny guy. (That’s just an attempt to convince you I wasn’t joking when I said he’s funny, for whatever reason; he’s not actually “funny,” just very sweet and intelligent in a different way from his older brother.)

8ballcat
morallydiseased katy-l-wood
katy-l-wood

You know what the hardest thing about doing marketing for a fossil replica company is? The amount of times our ads get flagged for trafficking in endangered animals.

Honey were are a few dozen million years beyond endangered. Also. THESE ARE PLASTIC. THEY ARE NOT REAL.

gallusrostromegalus

This is abolutley not a problem that I could have anticipated you having. I’m sorry.

But also this is hilarious.

Because What I’m imagining is someone trying to smuggle like. Compsognathus. Taped to thier legs on a plane like how people smuggle birds and reptiles and the flight attendant going.

Sir.

Why are your pants shrieking?

katy-l-wood

Sir, why is there blood dripping out of your pant leg? Sir, your leg is wiggling. Sir, where are those feathers coming from?

I THINK they’re mostly getting flagged by AIs, which honestly raises some interesting questions. Is “dinosaur” on a list of endangered animal words that is an auto ban for ads? If so, who put it there? Are they oddly religious or just dumb? So many questions.

ralfmaximus

Clearly you are unaware of the uptick in time traveler crime circa 2030 or so.

katy-l-wood

I do not have to abide by laws that have not been made yet, thank you. If some sort of time cop has an issue with that they’re welcome to come take it up with me personally.

morallydiseased renthony
astraldemise

skyrim is a bad game because i cant hug my friends or my husband. maybe i want to let the people in my life know i appreciate them dearly even if they just have three lines of base dialogue

astraldemise

and before one of you says something like “oh why dont you just play stardew valley or animal crossing or some other game where you get to be nice to people” please understand that i enjoy hunting the city guards for sport but that doesnt mean that im not full of love