💬Weekly random discussion & chat thread: W15

👀 ethanol talk to me about dice

I’m another dice hoarder here!

This here is my collection of miscellaneous dice who I don’t have full sets for. They take up about half of a repurposed Pirouette cookie tin :0 In this pic you can see a bunch of various Pound-O-Dice, as well as: 2x Gemini Astral/White d4s, 2x Gemini Copper/Steel d4s, 2x Gemini Black/Blue d4s, 2x Pipped Borealis Purple d6s, 1x Gemini Blue/Green d4, 1x Gemini Black/Grey d6, 1x Gemini Purple/Teal d20, aaaaaaand 3 POD exclusive split pink and green dice which I like because they have the same sort of colors as the Splatoon 2 mascot Inklings, as well as Callie/Marie and Pearl/Marina. Wish there was a full set of them :’)

Aside from loose dice, I have a few other full sets as well! A set of HDDice Purple Pearl, HDDice Blue Aurora, 3 sets of POD exclusive green speckled (One red, one black, and one reinked blue), 2 POD exclusive blue speckled (Both with black ink, though I plan to reink one copper), a set of Festive Violet, a Lustrous Dark Blue, a full set of Gemini Copper/Steel, Gemini Green/Yellow, Gemini Purple/Red, aaaaand a Vortex Solar set :0c Most stores around here only carry Chessex, so I’ve got a lot of them in my collection, lol. My HDDice ones are some of my favorites for that reason, because I was able to identify them as non-Chessex dice in the store and grab them for some more variety in my collection! That all said, my goal is to someday own a set of the forbidden Borealis - Confetti, Clear, or Aquerple. Ideally all three, lol! I bid on an Aquerple set a few months back, and had the leading bid for a bit, but it got pushed out of my price range in the last few seconds :’) Someday...

Aside from that, I also have some stuff to start making my own dice! Resin, paints, stuff to make molds... I have ideas for a few sets already, so here’s hoping they come out well when I finally have a chance to do em!

Im a passionate collector of figures,plushes and 3d charms(like the lil chibi ones)! I really love all types esp sets/exclusives. My favorites atm are a Japanese shadow the hedgehog figure lootcrate was selling , gloomybear rare plushes they no longer make, One piece pop figure of Franky, and my one piece charms!(esp my franky and buggy)

I also collect stickers and cute stationary.

I used to collect insects! I have about a dozen framed butterflies under glass (so you can flip to see dorsal and ventral) and several shadowboxes of beetles, mantises, and a few interesting hemipterans. I started the collection when I was very young, where I would save up and purchase one framed insect every year from a local fair. _{Don't worry, the insects were sustainably and humanely harvested}

Then after I went to college, I gained the skills through lots of classwork to catch, dry, mount, and pin insects myself! nvn It's definitely delicate work, but I think the hardest/most expensive part is really finding a good display. Especially if you want to hang them, and not store them in a box. I'm hoping to use the woodworking skills I've picked up as an apprentice carpenter to make some nice ones in the future.

Unfortunately I live in a place where I don't have room to display them at the moment. I do have some old pictures of my butterfly collection (it's grown since then) from my old apartment tho!

I've been too broke to work on any of my collections oof

but I collect toys (Mostly just the ones I think look good I'm not committed to just collecting one brand). I also collect Tokidoki Unicornos but I haven't worked on that collection for a while. Also hoping at some point to start collecting more vinyl figures/art toys than just unicornos mostly because I'm actually super into that kindof stuff and heck i actually wanna make my own vinyl figures some day

Week 12: Tell us about your favorite genres!

(Regardless of books, movies, shows, music, etc)

Oh bruh nobody in this week yet?

For shows and some books, I dont wanna recite similar things Ive said before so :3c linky link one and linky link two 

For movies, if not counting animated ones, I....cant watch too many live actions bc of my issue with distinguishing faces so I tend to prefer fantasy and stuff bc its easier to tell the character apart and follow the story ahah :^D

For games, I'm not particularly picky on genres tbh? There are few exceptions like horror games or games with heavy camera controls (motion sickness...) but otherwise I dont mind anything as long as its good, though this is coming from someone whos her last console was the good ol' DS :3c

For music, uh, I have performers and composers I like, but again, I'm open to most genres as long as its nice? Hahah

Fantasy/Medieval Fantasy is my favorite genre! I got more involved with it when I became super attached with Fire Emblem.

For video games, I really love RPGs and Platformers, though I'm more on the RPG side, due to my love for FE.

For music, Indie and 60's-80's/Oldschool-styled music are my favorites as well.

Let's see...

I don't watch series or movies, i don't read and i only play the sims so... Let's talk about music. Im having a metalhead phase. My Spotify playlist is like 99% hard rock/metal and that's really funny and sad at the same time. Im open to all subgenres tho, but i think that maybe i should listen to more things, but the other things i like (lovelive a vocaloid songs) aren't on Spotify so.

Music, mostly dubstep, or the fact that the majority of the songs on my iPod are from either the Portal and Portal 2 soundtracks, or tge Portal Stories: Mel soundtrack. TV shows, give me something with ghosts or mystery, and you've got me. For video games, well, I have horror games, like Bendy and the Ink Machine, puzzle games like Portal, platformers like BattleBlock Theater, and shooter games like Overwatch (oof the only shooter game I have.) Woooo this was a long post

Music: Speedcore???? Psytrance, Hardcore, Breakcore, Rave music (basically a lot of hardcore techno stuff) + sometimes synthwave, ambient, 

Games: RHYTHM GAMES especially arcade rhythm games, sandboxes, and i'm getting back into action rpgs thanks to Monster Hunter

kinda blank on anything else at the moment but yeah that's a general idea

Books: Novel wise I like sci-fi and war novels. I also like to read wartime biographies as well as WW1, WW2 and Age of Sail era history books. 

Fic: I usually default to looking for Hurt/Comfort fic which I suspect is down to me being dense with emotions due to years of having my feelings invalidated and trivialized that h/c kinda forces/allows me to feel sometimes? It's gotta have a happy or bittersweet ending though or it won't have the desired effect. I really like mission fics and as far as ships go slow burns are my life. Gen or shippy 100,000+ word Angsty h/c slow burn fics with missions are The Ultimate and make me do the   emote. 

TV & Film: Always gotta be live action. Sci-fi, anti-war war drama and documentaries. As far as documentaries go I watch a fair bit of stuff? I like post-apocalyptic docudramas and End of the World documentaries because all the theories for how the end of the world can come about are morbidly interesting to me. I also watch lots of stuff on weather, space and other geological phenomena! I like fly on the wall stuff, anything from stuff like Mighty Ships to documentaries following emergency services around. It can be interesting but they're often good for background noise. For mindless background noise I like cheesy popcorn action flicks and comic book movies.

Music: Rock and metal. My taste has shifted over to a strong rock preference these past few years but I still listen to a good deal of metal. I favor Blues Rock styles in particular (Barns Courtney is a great example). I also really like ambient trance and it soothing enough I have a playlist of it for when I'm having trouble sleeping but I kinda pulled a Pavlov on myself and if I want to listen to quiet background noise it can't be ambient trance or I'll start getting sleepy. :'D 

Games: I don't do a whole lot of gaming because I'm terrible at it and end up giving up pretty quick but generally sci-fi games with single player story mode like Mass Effect really appeal to me. I like playing Star Wars games too. On one hand I like the idea of having game toons but it runs the risk of me being stuck in the character maker for ages trying to figure out what I want LOL. Tbh I will likely look at anything with nice cinematic graphics that my laptop can run without bluescreening on starting the game.

Aesthetic: Cyberpunk and diesel punk.

Double question again! Apologies for the delay on Week 13, you are free to answer either one or both of them.

Week 13: What do you eat on a daily basis?

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Week 14: If you could have any superpower, what would it be and why?