Rory June

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06/01/2016

Rorykurago: in which I give up on work for the night, and watch Brooklyn 99 and draw Tendo

Shmoo92: Oooo, I like the sounds of this!

06/01/2016

Shmoo92: Sho, on the first day of the month, we play "pinch punch first day of the month (and no returns)!" and whomever pinch punches everyone 'wins'. This month, tis my mom, and she pinch punched me thumb nail first into my wrist

Rorykurago: Yikes

Shmoo92: Yeeeep

Shmoo92: There was blood and much mocking

Shmoo92: The mocking will definitely continue once she's calmed my sister down (whos freaking out for unrelated reasons). I'm torn between listening to the argument and having a shower so I can't listen to them argue

Rorykurago: Surreptitiously make tea and then sidle out?

Shmoo92: They're in the living room downstairs, I'm upstairs, "well it's different mom, I'm your kid!"

Shmoo92: From what I gather, dads freaking out about a lot of stuff (such as his company was just bought by another and they're laying off a ton of people) and he said some stuff to lea about her paying rent, mom's like, 'what. I haven't heard this. why would you do that. you have no money.', and I'm like 'I'm doing none of the stuff dad says lea'll do and I'm older sooooo'

Shmoo92: Though while I don't have tea, I do have a chocolate rabbit ....

Rorykurago: Nibble. Nibble,mouse, nibble.

Shmoo92: Your hearing days are numbered, rabbit!

Shmoo92: Also, should you be getting the shut eyes?

Rorykurago: I am do the sleep now

Rorykurago: Have a better rest of the day?

Shmoo92: I expect so! Once I finish unpacking my suitcase >_<

06/01/2016

Shmoo92: When you have a moment to spare on non academia, I would like to know how the twins tend to wear their hair

06/02/2016

Rorykurago: ah, that's easy, no break needed:

Rorykurago: pre-Academy, to their shoulders, generally in a ponytail or braids; post Academy, they cut it super pixie-cut/short back and sides short

Rorykurago: (post-Tahnee, Dana has that little mental break and literally shaves it back to roughly a 2-inch fringe and a fade)

Rorykurago: something like Ginifer Goodwin in her less-fringe stages (don't want hair in your eyes while training or piloting)

Rorykurago: After this essay, I'll find the time to photoshop something like it

06/02/2016

shmoo92 sent a post, The Politics of Light and Dark

Shmoo92: Non academia approaching!

Shmoo92: >gets twitchy to write something with white = bad and black = good< >realizes I haven't written a clear cut villain since I was 12< >cries forever<

Rorykurago: lol

Rorykurago: honestly, I don't think most villains are clear cut

Rorykurago: ...that said, Fenrir my demon wolf got himself god-moded, killed the goddess who raised him, and then ran around eating poor little baby pre-gods after being stripped of his powers to try and get his mojo back

Rorykurago: also started a civil war, the end of the first stage of which is basically the magical A-bombing of Brisbane

Rorykurago: for reals tho, that post is GORGEOUS

Shmoo92: THE POOR BABY PRE GODS

Shmoo92: good heavens yes

Shmoo92: More related to good and evil, "Bones of Faerie" is a book I will recommend until I die

Rorykurago: Oh? Yk I just got a new kindle, so I'll look into that

Shmoo92: excellent!

Shmoo92: Janni Lee Simner

Shmoo92: Do your best not to read and synopses or reviews or anything as I feel it's very easy to spoil

Rorykurago: hmm okie

Rorykurago: do you have a preferred twin for the emoji thing?

Rorykurago: because otherwise I'll do Tahnee

shmoo92: Nope!

shmoo92: Go for it!

rorykurago: she seems more likely to pull angelface

shmoo92: "Which one of you stole cookies?"

shmoo92: "😇"

rorykurago: "Why is that crate burning?"

rorykurago: "How much collateral damage do you think you caused in that last simulation?"

rorykurago: ^ that one. That one, I think, is the way to go. Plus then I get to practice helmet hair, drivesuits, and sweaty faces :P

shmoo92: Double prizes!!

rorykurago: SUBMITTED

rorykurago: ...now I sleep

rorykurago: hogod

shmoo92: tis almost Saturday, you can do it!

rorykurago: different note: how did yesterday turn out? ( / this morning)

shmoo92: The argument? mom eventually got lea to calm down and then drove her to the bus so she could better get to a picnic

rorykurago: yay food outside?

shmoo92: With two of her best Ottawa friends!

shmoo92: And then there was a biiiiit of an issue when one of their sets of keys wound up with lea so adventure!

rorykurago: huzzah

rorykurago: ....

rorykurago: oops?

shmoo92: According to the sibling unit,

shmoo92: ""Hey, dyou still have my keys?""

shmoo92: "Uh, no?" >gets home< "what're--oops. Hey, Charlotte~?"

06/02/2016

shmoo92: Of Dana and tahnee, whos more likely to stick with the Fei yen spitting feathers and whos more likely to chase after the extra poofy, extra grumpy riceball that's actually a baby frogmouth?

rorykurago: FROGMOUTH?

rorykurago: AS IN TAWNY FROGMOUTH???

rorykurago: BAAaAAAAaaBY!!!!

rorykurago: (lol probs Dana would chase the bird, since Tahnee is more pro-baby)

rorykurago: (unless this is post-baby-freakout, in which case Dana would start after the bird, only to be grabbed by Tahnee and have a child thrust at her)

rorykurago sent a photoset, “I come from a favela in Brazil”

Rorykurago: p.s. here's your daily shot of beauty

shmoo92 sent a post, “What is that bird”

Shmoo92: GRUMPY RICEBALLS

Shmoo92: >swoon<

rorykurago: notice the difference in mouth-interior colour. Tawny Frogmouths have bright green mouths <3 precious fluffball freakazoids

shmoo92: Huh

shmoo92: That is ... kinda creepy. Or freaky.

rorykurago: no, no, no, I love it so much!

shmoo92: It is totally loveable!

rorykurago: They try so hard to look like branches, closing their eyes and craning their little necks up and then BAM! bright green hahaha

rorykurago: precious muffins

shmoo92: Just green isn't a usual inside colour! So my brain keeps going "is that healthy...?"

shmoo92: The rice ball chasing is shortly before baby freak out, I believe; they're allowed to feed some of the birds and Fei Yen thinks a bird is big people feed and ....

shmoo92: Time for this shmoo to snooze

shmoo92: Enjoy B99!

06/03/2016

rorykurago sent a photoset, "that feeling when AAAAAAA"

rorykurago: on a more poetic note: you ever get that thing where you misread something and think 'oh, that is LOVELY' and then re-read it, and the actual text is just so much less interesting?

shmoo92: Yeeeeeep

shmoo92: WhT was it in this case?

rorykurago: I read "It is in the sea you hear it", from "it is the sea you hear in me"

rorykurago: other fun examples have been "every damaged soul (sun) burns bright and violent", and "let him kiss me with the knives (kisses) of his mouth"

shmoo92: I went through A couple years when my brain would decide what I'd read before id finished reading it; the most memorable was "sitting in three inches of blood in a bath" from "listening to three inches of blood, thinking of taking a bath"

rorykurago: whaaaaaat?

rorykurago: I mean, I like the first one better, but LOL

shmoo92: #ADHDproblems >_<

shmoo92: And friends with rather eccentric music tastes!

rorykurago sent a post, "Today I learned how to hack unprotected CCTV cameras"

rorykurago: hey look: it me as a criminal

shmoo92: I want to learn how to do that!!!

shmoo92: but yea, watch as a new breed of benign criminal springs up: hacking into animal CCTV cameras

rorykurago: "I'm talking to two strange horses rn THE HUMANITY!"

shmoo92: lolol

shmoo92: Farmer: "there be a ghost in my barn!"

shmoo92: Horses: "people. so weird."

06/05/2016

shmoo92: Have a good afternoon!

06/06/2016

rorykurago: Thankee!

06/06/2016

shmoo92: May I include your email in a discussion with you, pickleplum, and I?

rorykurago: sure

06/07/2016

rorykurago sent a post that's no longer available (145587088940/vintageeveryday-what-its-like-to-be-twins ?)

for our various girls

rorykurago sent a post that's no longer available

shmoo92: I like it!

shmoo92 sent a GIF

shmoo92: Both relevant and save-worthy!

06/08/2016

rorykurago: >start looking into Chinese history for the background of a character

rorykurago: > take a 2hr wikiwalk on wuyi tea, Fujian ethnic minorities, and trade history in the Fujian region

shmoo92: What a lovely way to spend an afternoon!

rorykurago: it would be--except it's kinda procrastination from writing THE DAMN CHAPTER

shmoo92: What tale is it for?

rorykurago: the Dinotopia one

shmoo92: Coooool!!!

rorykurago: I'm basing my pilot cast off the first year cadets visible in the miniseries, and one of them is Chinese

shmoo92: Brilliant!!

shmoo92: I want to hear more, but it's also 1:23(!!) so I'm regretfully calling it a night

rorykurago: His actor is Sang Cam Lui,

shmoo92: I wish you the best!

shmoo92: and I'm totally googling him on the morrow

rorykurago: I can put together a mini bio, but honestly, it'd just be more chaos in all of the stories I've mentioned :P

rorykurago: sleep well!

shmoo92: Can I have one anyway? >flutters eyelashes<

rorykurago: For Yun?

rorykurago: Sure; I don't know a lot about him, and he's kind of a prickly guy.

06/08/2016

rorykurago: aaaand now I'm looking at saddle anatomy and adjusting for Skybax saddles

rorykurago: damnit

06/08/2016

rorykurago: sent a post, “why is shipping/liking”

rorykurago: actually no one mentioned Newmann. Like... at all.

06/08/2016

shmoo92: do you mean Hot Dads?

shmoo92: in any event, I've been working it out with OP and things are good!

shmoo92: About the mini bio, Dinotopia story = glider story?

06/08/2016

rorykurago: DT=/= gliders

rorykurago: No, I meant Newmann

shmoo92: Weird, I thought someone did bring it up somewhere ...

rorykurago: Mm, someone did, but as a response, in the sense of how dare you say THIS PARING is worthless

rorykurago: like.... no one mentioned you. Sit down.

rorykurago: Look I'm only at the party because skull-bearer haphazardly threw out "they're going after Team Hot Dads too", which I ALSO haven't seen anywhere (so I smell BS), but it's possible they did and I missed that

rorykurago: What do you mean you've "been working it out with OP"?

rorykurago: concern-poster OP, or "since when is WhiteGuyMcWho'sVanessa??? problematic" OP?

shmoo92: "Why is shipping/liking Newmann suddenly contraverial" OP

shmoo92: I'm not entirely sure they get it--they seem hung up on why Burn Gorman was so absolutely enraged by Vanessa's existence

rorykurago: ??

rorykurago: I thought his reaction was more along the lines of ?? than !!!!! SIR HOW DARE

shmoo92:

shmoo92: Upon rereading, it does seem more ?? Than !!!

shmoo92 sent a photo post, "BEST. AUTOGRAPH. EVER."

shmoo92: Found out where my description came from! In other news, I want to punch everyone in this thread.

rorykurago: which, the thread on that photo?

rorykurago: siiiiiiiigh

shmoo92: The thread on that photo, yea (except possibly the last person)

rorykurago: I.... the main problem I have with people going "only the movie is canon, so Vanessa isn't" is that they then proceed to take LITERALLY EVERYTHING ELSE from the novel as canon

rorykurago: fuck off, kiddles, you can't have it both ways

shmoo92: Except when Hermann's supposed to be able bodied and blond, which no one brings up unless they're talking about ignoring Vanessa

rorykurago: what?

rorykurago: diiiid I miss that in the book?

shmoo92: I hear/d it a ton when shit hits the fan (again)

shmoo92: I'll try and find a link

rorykurago: Mm, I'd still be rebutting that with Newtmann's family histories, Newt's atypicality (diagnosed, instead of just being douchery) any details about the earlier attacks excluding names of kaiju, all info from character bio sheets....

rorykurago: all of that is novel

shmoo92 http://arkhamarchitecture.tumblr.com/post/98892562082/theangelshavethephonebooth-i-guess-the-other blond, able bodied hermann

rorykurago: Oh, I was hoping they'd have actual quotes or pictures from the book. Sigh. Guess I'll have to read it again.

rorykurago: I take their point, but also stand by mine.

shmoo92: !!! I have it in a searchable format!

rorykurago: If they ONLY want movie things, then we can't have Nova Hyperion or Coyote Tango Tunnaris

rorykurago: fun fact: Tunnari does not register as a surname at all on Google (which doesn't mean it isn't one) buuuut Gunnár and Viktor are both used as first names by the Sami people so.... now they can be Sami.

rorykurago: THAT is paracanon. Vanessa, less so.

shmoo92: Pentecost turned to the other man, a blonder and more stuffy variant on the lab-coat stereotype, and added, “And Dr. Gottlieb.”

rorykurago: well I mean technically brunette /is blonder than black

rorykurago: :P

shmoo92: XD

06/09/2016

rorykurago sent a post, "the worst!!! thing!!!"

rorykurago: yes hi hello this represents my 'Scott' feelings

shmoo92: lol

shmoo92: but it's so true

rorykurago: oh, i forgot to ask: did you find Yun's bio in your submission box?

06/09/2016

shmoo92: I did! Is why I asked about Dinotopia = Glider story. I was gonna follow up with 'so they have similar casts?' and forgot >_<

rorykurago: no, they don't have similar casts. Yun is... actually not really like anyone in the glider story, when I think about it.

shmoo92: Okay, so yun is the only one in both?

rorykurago: ? No, sorry, Yun is only in Dinotopia. If I've said otherwise, I'm sorry for confusing you

rorykurago: Glider story (I'm guessing) is the one about three kids with varying levels of magic? If so, the main cast of that one are Myse, Kiele, Indar and Acala

rorykurago: In Dinotopia, Yun is one of twelve fliers, in a larger cast (whose names you probably don't need :P )

shmoo92: What's "Fly High"?

rorykurago: Fly High is the Dinotopia one, after "breathe deep / fly high" which is the flier's personal blessing call and response

rorykurago: I'm seeing now where the totally reasonable confusion comes in

shmoo92: XD

shmoo92: I was just about to say "you see now why I is confused" :D

shmoo92: I'm getting funny looks from parents for my giggles

rorykurago: Lol

shmoo92: I want to make you a wiki for all your universes now XD "Unconfused!Shmoo"!

rorykurago: I honestly would but I don't know how to make a private one

shmoo92: I don't think you can, but you can lock all the pages to prevent editing

shmoo92: If you made a new wikia account just for it, though, it would be unfindable.

rorykurago: Mm, that'd still mean putting it all out on the web for anyone to find

rorykurago: Which I'm maybe unreasonably twitchy about

shmoo92: We're all a little neurotic :D

06/10/2016

shmoo92 sent a photoset

shmoo92: Human avatars of Jaegers, I bet.

rorykurago: So that's who, Nova Hyperion?

rorykurago: post battle?

rorykurago: :P

shmoo92: FUCK THOSE ARE SPIDERS I THOUGHT THEY WERE FREEDOM GUNDAM

shmoo92: okay bedtime for me

rorykurago: Lol

rorykurago: Yes those are kajiu blue tarantulas

shmoo92: >shudder>

shmoo92: Now I have the arts for a version sans spiders

rorykurago: Theory: the really crazily named kajiu are named at random, the boring ones like Hous are named by sight

rorykurago: *Hound

shmoo92: I like it!

06/10/2016

rorykurago: Tahnee came out surprisingly cute, yeah

06/10/2016

shmoo92 sent a photo post, “WHAT TO WEAR WHEN”

shmoo92: I saw the back of this dress on TV while dining at a restaurant in Sorrento and have been looking for it ever since because Ranger. Photo. Shoot.

06/10/2016

rorykurago: Really? Looks more like kaiju fashion shoot to me?

rorykurago: Who do you see it as?

06/10/2016

shmoo92: Rrrriiiiiight you're not in my head

shmoo92: It's less of a specific 'who' and more the concept of that spine piece

rorykurago: I did have that thought, but it looks very organic? that one specifically

rorykurago: the idea could be altered for machinery

shmoo92: I saw it and immediately thought of a glamour take on drivesuit spines

rorykurago: but IDK if that's what they'd go for when depicting Rangers?

rorykurago: oh yeah, drive-suit Centipede, definitely

shmoo92: Very true, and there's a lot more rib action

rorykurago: Ranger-inspired high fashion?

shmoo92: Ooooo

rorykurago: (that also doesn't fit as much with Rangers-as-Jaegers)

rorykurago: so...Vanessa, modelling a dress like that in bronze and gold?

rorykurago: depending on how dark her skin is?

shmoo92: Pffft, there're plenty of opportunities for pretty --EXACTLY

shmoo92: I'm trying to find someone it wear it to a gala

shmoo92: *as well

rorykurago: that's a LOT of train

rorykurago: Given the Colliers make a(n interal) fuss about tripping on Fancy Dresses when they /don't have floor-length train, absolutely not them

shmoo92: Would it work as well with a shorter train? >squints>

rorykurago: Kirra also doesn't seem like she'd dig having to wade through her dress, although slink would be appreciated

shmoo92: Yea, she's not impressed

shmoo92: It looks downright wrong on Andrea (but she's so short and baby faced PR's usually stuck with prom dresses for her)

rorykurago: (p.s. we don't have Prom. Only Formal)

rorykurago: (as in, we call it 'a Formal')

shmoo92: (>steps over to wiki resources<)

rorykurago: We know what prom is, we just... never call it that. Ever. (unless we're talking about a North American event, which is specifically a prom)

shmoo92: Intewesting. We have both prom and formals (usually just Winter Formal)

shmoo92: Homecoming?

rorykurago: not a thing

rorykurago: honestly what tf is Homecoming

rorykurago: (rhetorical, I wouldn't like an answer rn, ty)

rorykurago: I'm subduing an escaping witch

rorykurago: all I wanted was the make the first chapter more interesting. Now here we are with escaping witches and people being hit with pitchforks

shmoo92: Any torches? XD

shmoo92: I don't think I've ever been to a school where homecoming is a big deal--I think it's more a USA thing (and a queens thing, but queens is weird)

rorykurago: No torches; a gardener's pitchfork, an escapee in white pyjamas, a spellword and several ticked-off security guards wielding black permanent markers

shmoo92: Black permanent markers?

shmoo92: What would they do in a chase/recovery scene?

rorykurago: I'll send you the bit in just a minute. It's not very long

shmoo92: EEEE!

rorykurago: In this case, he's on-site at the witch-hunter's HQ

rorykurago: a chase/recovery scenario off-site would involve tranq rifles or live ammunition

shmoo92: So the witch is trying to escape HQ?

rorykurago: yep; they have a dentention/interrogation block

rorykurago: (this is a modern-era story, fyi)

shmoo92: The markers gave it away :D

shmoo92: Im looking forward to reading it! I am for bed now--have a great day!

rorykurago: night <3

06/11/2016

rorykurago sent a GIF

rorykurago: yoooo it's 1800's!Dato

shmoo92: Omg

06/11/2016

rorykurago: p.s. one of the submissions in your inbox is the Witchhunters bit

rorykurago: (unless tumblr ate it)

shmoo92: It's there! It's there!

rorykurago: hokay, just checking

rorykurago: :P

06/11/2016

shmoo92 sent a photo post, “The Ao3 Tag of the Day”

shmoo92: I feel this is of interest to you, possibly because of "gal pals" being old timey for "they're totally gay" 06/11/2016

rorykurago: LOL

rorykurago sent a video, Documentary: Swordsmith

shmoo92: *u*

rorykurago: so... want to say the guy who shows up near the end in the green bandana is maybe Mori-san?

shmoo92: Gosh yes.

06/12/2016

rorykurago: do you have a face claim/physical description for Chantell?

shmoo92: She's half Vietnamese (from her dad) and half possibly black

rorykurago: African black or Australian aboriginal?

shmoo92: I've been trying for ages to figure that out

shmoo92: I'm leaning towards Australian Aboriginal because her hair seeeeeems to be the same texture as Kirra's

shmoo92: Except, like, 1/10th the length so it's a bit hard to tell

shmoo92: It's kinda 'curls around her ears'/under her earlobe length

shmoo92: She has brown skin; it's never as light as taupe nor is it ever as dark as Kirra's but it tends to vary

shmoo92: And I think she's 5'6", maybe 5'5" (the wiki says she's 5'7")

shmoo92: Also she has her dad's nose and she's not happy about t

shmoo92: I don't know if her nose is particularly offensive, I just know it's not a button nose

shmoo92: She wears a military skirt and her jacket most days, and likes the little cap too

shmoo92: It seems I have no idea about her footwear, tho. Huh. Possibly ankle boots? But all my characters tend to have a pair, it's like my default shoe (and I finally found a pair in real life!!!!!!!!)

rorykurago: lol @ that last point

shmoo92: ZD

shmoo92: EFF

shmoo92: XD

rorykurago: is ZD what cylons do, because they only have one 'eye'?

shmoo92: LOL

shmoo92: >o( unhappy cyclopse

shmoo92: <o) happy cyclopse

shmoo92: My I inquire as to the nature of your inquiry?

shmoo92: I am being told to go to bed. Have a good day!

rorykurago: I was just wondering about one of the Buzzfeed presenters (and there's no description up on the wiki)

rorykurago: meanwhile: that awkward moment when you try to write "Skybax pilot" and you brain tells you Skybax is spelled j-a-e-g-e-r

06/12/2016

shmoo92 sent a photo post, “HERC HANSEN!!!”

shmoo92: !!!!

shmoo92: Re your previous messages: Fly High pacific rim AU? CD

shmoo92: *XD

shmoo92: I'll update the wiki today for Chantell. Probably should make a tag for 'characters in need of housekeeping' ...

rorykurago: DO NOT GIVE ME MORE THINGS TO WRITE

rorykurago: Yeah, isn't there an icon or banners that says 'this page could use more love' or something?

shmoo92: Plenty of wiki-specific ones

shmoo92: Though its easy enough to steal a template (implement on the other hand ...) and with the pixel people I'm making we'll have a decent icon ....

rorykurago: *thumbs up*

shmoo92: Which is also why I asked about Dana and tahnee's hair as they're on me list to pixelate

rorykurago: Welp, it's pretty much like that Tahnee C1 pic, although probably a little darker

shmoo92: >snaps a salute<

shmoo92: I have how you described their hairstyles somewhere, and the OC family day headcasts too

Do you know what went wrong with this one? I should probably retry it with that undertone cheatsheet before asking but.

shmoo92 sent a photoset, “Quick sketch of new character” shmoo92: Grandma!Vanessa?

rorykurago: lol probably

rorykurago: unless you age it down, and that's just legit the type of clothing Vanessa chooses to wear

rorykurago: although shinier, probably with a gold glasses chain

rorykurago: hanging off her statuesque frame prettily enough to make all the techs who are into fashion go 'ugh can you not'

shmoo92: She goes grey early or are we imagining her with brown hair?

shmoo92: >snork<

rorykurago: I only saw the b&w sketch

shmoo92: "You're so glamourous but so not! Hooooow??"

06/13/2016

shmoo92: This Vanessa and Hermann have matching shawls/sweater vests

rorykurago: lol

06/14/2016

shmoo92: If Walt Sorvino lived, would there be a significant other in his life?

06/14/2016

rorykurago: Not sure.

rorykurago: If he wasn't in hospital, probably, but I don't know anything about them

rorykurago: He was married and divorced before K Day, two daughters aged just either side of the twins.

rorykurago: I'd guess he's het, but it's only a guess. He could be bi.

rorykurago: Most likely his partner would be female tho

shmoo92: In ANSK, would he like his own quarters with Fiona and Derek or would he prefer his own suite?

rorykurago: Mmmm... I feel like he'd go with the flow--but he probably wouldn't want to crowd the Colliers (or their occasional fiery row)

rorykurago: o wai?

shmoo92: I think it was a combination of thinking of Dato and Ima and Tahnee, and then wondering where the parents collier and sorvino's relationship goes when the three of them are soooorta working together

rorykurago: Well they were all pretty good friends before the Jaeger Program (obvs). If they're drift compatible (actually I'm not sure Fiona and Sorvino wouldn't be as well) then they'd all get along pretty easily in confined spaces. I think it would really depend on how big the apartments you're talking are

rorykurago sent a photoset, "Charming Animal Bookmarks"

rorykurago: I like to imagine someone sent the Collier girls a couple of these during their Dingo Kurago days, and Dana still has one :P

rorykurago: *a couple of the dingo/fox looking ones

shmoo92: THOSE ARE SO CUTE!!!

shmoo92: The suite for "married tier two officers" is the same size as as a Ranger team's suite which is designed to ensure both parties have their own space and don't try to kill each other. "married with a kid" is similar to "ranger and sparel

shmoo92: *spare"

shmoo92: There're preliminary blueprints on the wiki under "Shatterdome (residences)" that were drawn before I realized what I was seeing in my head had a 'plumbing corridor' under each floor and that the washroom areas were three squares farther back (technically the hallway j was seeing in the Rangers' quarters was longer but that was pretty much the only way I could extend it)

rorykurago: Yeah, I'm aware of the existence of the blue prints

rorykurago: but I'm also not very good as visualisng flatspace as 3D\

shmoo92: Probably doesn't help the scale's totally off XD

rorykurago: ol

rorykurago: *AUGH. LOL.

rorykurago: There's a program called GoogleSketchUp which allows you to 3d model floorplans/buildings

shmoo92: oooooooooo

rorykurago: I might look into doing that during this break if you can get me an updated map/scale

shmoo92: good heavens google has useful stuff

rorykurago: free to download, to

rorykurago: *too

shmoo92: 'This break' is winter break? (I fear if it is a break today I will be asleep)

rorykurago: yup, winter/semester break

rorykurago: (as in break between semesters)

rorykurago: my last exam is on the 20th

rorykurago: ofc, fittingly, because I have actual work to be doing, my creative processes are working on overdrive

rorykurago: upside, all sorts of fascinating developments are going down on various stories

shmoo92: ah yes, the procrastination creativity XD

rorykurago: downside, NO STUDY IS BEING DONE

shmoo92: Awesome! And congrats about the exam! (Two days after my birthday!!)

rorykurago" well I just shifted my lesbian barefist-boxing story from Tucson to Alice Springs (you don't know that one), and the protagonist of the sphinx story apparently has very bad cramps for the start of each rendition

rorykurago: aaah yes, your birthday. I meant to ask: what art/creative thing would you like?

rorykurago: It'll be late, because exam, but I will do something?

shmoo92: I lubs you!!!

rorykurago: that's not an answer :p

shmoo92: Attempting to figure out how to word it without using "so it's somewhat odd ..." but I think I'm going to go for the direct "so how good are you at drawing teacups?"

shmoo92: because tiny people/jaegers (like gataroo's picture set) in teacups fill me with a wonderful kind of joy somewhat darkened by "dang it, I want to sit/swim in a teacup!"

rorykurago: I can give it a go? Probably won't be the best thing ever, since I've never tried before

shmoo92: Sure!!

rorykurago: thinking a particular Jaeger?

shmoo92: Typhoon and Cherno are always favourites, but they dont have to be jaegers, they can be hoomans

rorykurago: hmm. I don't really want to step on Gataroo's toes tho... got another idea to put a spin on it?

rorykurago: (Otherwise much as I love you, it feels a little like cheating them out of a commision :/ )

shmoo92: (Kinda does :{ )

rorykurago: sorry :(

rorykurago: (I was just skimming Gataroo's archives, and if I could think of a way to do it differently, I would but I'm coming up blank right now)

shmoo92: Even with people instead? I didn't mean to bring up Jaegers as an idea, more as an example because there already exist Jaegers in teacups (I have jaegers in tea cups on a cup on my bedside table which is why it camed to mind). I also was going down the 'what fills me with squee' and cursed that my recent cute things are based off existing pictures, leading to Kirra hugging the giant, fuzzy bee, which led me to a complete different place that is space royalty!kirra (possibly à la Jupiter Ascending since, as she knows how to pet bees, Jackson thinks she must be a space princess in both ANSK (later) and Turtles (rather early)

rorykurago: lol

rorykurago: so... Rangers... in tea cups?

rorykurago: really?

rorykurago: is there a Plan B?

shmoo92: They're wearing swimsuits /obviously, git your mind out of the gutter, Rory

rorykurago: (or C, depending how you want to play it)

rorykurago: hey, yo, I can't even WRITE smut without blushing, how am I supposed to DRAW it??

rorykurago: :P

shmoo92: :D

shmoo92: (You see now why I was trying to avoid 'so it's kinda odd ...' because it totally is and I don't know why I find it so cute.)

rorykurago: I'm just trying to think how you'd draw that so it doesn't just look like a paddling pool

rorykurago: aaand now my brain has suggested Borrower/flower-people Rangers, which is almost worst

rorykurago: *worse

shmoo92: Adding to that Borrower image (did the Borrowers have the tails or were those the Littles?), a possible reference is a manga, bleach, where the original version had the leading lady shrink when she lost her powers (they scrapped the shrinking idea) and when she took a bath she had to do so in a cup. May be tricky to track down tho.

shmoo92: Plans B and C is space royalty!Kirra and Weis attempting (or succeeding) in shenigans in the Shatterdome (bb!mako is welcome)

rorykurago: Shall I set aside my flower-fairy Rangers then? :P

shmoo92: >dies because fairies!!! so pretty!!! so sparkly!!!!!<

rorykurago: ... I'm going off on a more May Gibbs tangent, but okay...

shmoo92: >investigates<

shmoo92: Google was dumb and only showed me one picture but >dies of cute< ACORN HATS!!!

shmoo92: Plan A.2 is flower fairy rangers because they remain small people

rorykurago: lol

rorykurago: WHY IS IT SO HARD TO FIND OUT INFO ON NATIONAL FLOWERS/FLOWERS NATIVE TO CHINESE PROVINCES

rorykurago: wait, is Australia the only place that has floral emblems for its states?

shmoo92: OMG I WANTED TO PULL MY HAIR OUT GOOGLING THAT

shmoo92: Canada does!!!

shmoo92:

shmoo92: We also have trees and coats of arms for each province and territory too!

rorykurago: yep, same

rorykurago: So the city flower of Shanghai is the magnolia

rorykurago: that's... progress, I guess

shmoo92: All I'm getting are links to Prince Albert porcelain

shmoo92: Like, no, that's not the China I meant, cmon Google, be smart about this.

rorykurago: lol

rorykurago: adventures in Fuck You Siri

rorykurago: Do Better

shmoo92: LOL

shmoo92: I looked up "provincial flowers" which apparently is a pattern of Prince Albert China which is maaaaaybe a bit more justified but still

rorykurago: aaaand the Kagoshima prefecture's floral emblem is the Miyama-Kirishima azalea

shmoo92: Jesus Christ

rorykurago: Don't know if that breed comes in blue, but azaleas do

rorykurago: what?

shmoo92: *jc Canada has a provincial mineral

shmoo92: getting a liiiiiittle too cohesive, dear

rorykurago: You find something Rule 43 about ceramics?

rorykurago: *34

rorykurago: cohesive or comprehensive?

shmoo92: Um, im not sure. there may not be a word for it, it's like, if one province has an official mineral, not every province needs a mineral

rorykurago: I feel now is a salient time to point out that the floral emblem of NSW (state of Sydney) is the Warratah. Just.... let that sink in.

rorykurago: also the state flower of Alaska is the Forget-Me-Not I'm dying, I have died, and so has Yancy

shmoo92: Is that this pink-red thing that looks like a gigantic rasperry OHMIGOD CHUCK IS A GIGANTIC RASPBERRY

rorykurago: bahahaha

rorykurago: yeeeeeep

shmoo92: >endless snickering<

shmoo92: O my, forget me nots are horribly fitting

shmoo92: This may be of use

rorykurago: possibly

rorykurago: I shall investigate later

rorykurago: presently, TO STUDY

rorykurago: sleep well

shmoo92: Good plan!

shmoo92: Thank you! Good luck studying!

06/15/2016

shmoo92: Re pics of demon dogs: So cute!!!!

rorykurago: Yeah, adorable. Day before yesterday black dug up a bromeliad and replanted it in her own bed

rorykurago: Charming idiots, the pair of them

shmoo92: Bromeliad?

rorykurago: Plant. Googlee, por favor

shmoo92: I spelled it right!!!

rorykurago: 👍🏻

shmoo92: Dog must have been so proud of herself XD

rorykurago: She gets a smack whenever she excavates, so idk if this was 'if I replant it Mum won't mind!' Or...

shmoo92: lol

shmoo92: Studying going well despite the racket?

rorykurago: I'm slightly behind schedule, but it's moving along

rorykurago: At the moment, biggest concern is that I'll forget the first topics I looked at by the time I study the last ones

shmoo92: If it's in your short term memory and you're putting a lot of stuff in your short term memory, it may get shuffled into the long term memory queue

shmoo92: And then you won't be able to access it fully until you wake up the next day

shmoo92: Which could suck if your exam is today/tomorrow

rorykurago: Mm. Thankfully, the early topicss are ones I'm fairly familiar with

shmoo92: Then you're fine

rorykurago: Papyrology; inscriptions; Homer/Herodotus/Thucydides etc

rorykurago: I'll be able to muddle through an essay on them, at least

shmoo92: They're in long term storage--though it's very good to dig them out and get them to the top of your brain to save time on riffling around

rorykurago: This exam is 3 essays in 2 hours

shmoo92: O dear god

rorykurago: Yep that's the thought

rorykurago: ...both of those, actually :p

shmoo92 sent a GIF

shmoo92: :D

rorykurago: I have Muay Thai tonight, so that's a definite break

shmoo92: What fun! Will help you sleep, too, hopefully!

06/16/2016

rorykurago sent a photoset, “Okay so I’m really excited"

rorykurago sent a photo post

rorykurago: Ima Moya, probably

06/16/2016

rorykurago: FYI, Jen in this video is the face-cast I was wondering about for Chantell (obvs not right, but just so you know where my head went):

rorykurago: lookit this cutie

rorykurago: oh dear god, she's even cuter in candid. I'm done. That's it. auuuuugh

shmoo92: Ohmigoodness she's so cute!!!!

shmoo92: If she were Chinese, id say she looks a lot like Nang, actually

06/17/2016 at 1:40 AM

shmoo92: I'm watching Kennedy Center honours instead of sleeping

shmoo92: This is stairway to heaven performed by Heart and it is beautiful

shmoo92: This is a tribute to John Williams; what amuses me is in the second number (with the orchestra), well, apparently Elton John was also honoured that year and he was dancing in his seat a good part of the time

rorykurago: I took the dogs to the park as a study break, came back, let the cockatiels out for some cage-free time, and then backhanded the Terrier across the butt because he actively snapped at one

rorykurago: yours sounds more peacable

shmoo92: yes, yes it does

shmoo92: Is terrier behaving now?

rorykurago: Ha- no. he's outside.

rorykurago: He was banished for growling at me when I smacked him.

rorykurago: The general process goes: he does something he's not supposed to, gets a smack, growls because he was smacked, gets another smack--this continues until he either backs down and goes to his bed or is sent outside

rorykurago: ELton John wiggle-dancing in his seat is kinda cute

shmoo92: Once outside, he sits by the door and sulks!

rorykurago: also something I can picture Hermann doing

shmoo92: *?

rorykurago: pfft no. He doesn't have that much conscience.

shmoo92: ... you have a very good point there

shmoo92: LOL

rorykurago: I missed Hermann's birthday, too. I'll have to throw a post together.

shmoo92: I was wondering if you'd missed it or if you were letting the rest of the fandom make their own as I saw, like, four of them

shmoo92: This is Santana and features prooooobably one of the best convergent jokes I have ever heard ever (note next to whom Santana is sitting)

rorykurago: ofc Hermann's birthday is one of the few things klandom actively does

shmoo92: *whenever you get a chance to watch it

shmoo92: yeeeeeeep

rorykurago: no, I just missed it and haven't done it yet

shmoo92: I must be following good people cause yours for newt was the only one i saw

rorykurago: I don't know if there were others, because I didn't see any either

rorykurago: of course, my whole point is to be even-handed, so I /will make one for Hermann. Just haven't yet

rorykurago: *that said, there probably /were others. But I also make a point of not following Newmann stans

shmoo92: After exams. Academia first, fandom second (sadly)

rorykurago: yuuup

rorykurago: hold up: bird is eating the mail

rorykurago: back in a sec

shmoo92: Goooooodbye, mail!

rorykurago: successfully tempted him away from paper with roasted almond

rorykurago: "hooman I see you have roasted almond. I also would like to have roasted almond. give."

shmoo92: That would tempt me, too

shmoo92: loool

shmoo92: "Why have this bland tastelessness when I can have the almond of abundant flavour?"

rorykurago: "giiIIIIiiiiiiIIIIIve"

rorykurago: *except ear-pierching

rorykurago: piercing

rorykurago: idek what pierching is

shmoo92: 'Piercing' said by Sean Connery?

rorykurago: lol yeah, now you mention it...

shmoo92: :D

shmoo92: To bed with I now, may the brains be with you!

rorykurago: I'll just be over here drinking rum and coke to take the edge off this tension headache while I make notes about the political cycle of anacyclosis as laid out by Polybius in the 2nd century BCE

rorykurago: night!

shmoo92: !!!

shmoo92:

shmoo92: It's to a song called "Istanbul (not Constantinople)"

rorykurago: awww, They Might Be Giants

shmoo92: which is somewhat relevant by virtue of being very old and somewhere Mediterranean-ish!

rorykurago: Birdhouse: honestly the best thing

shmoo92: Their song or irl?

rorykurago: the song

rorykurago: Make A Little Birdhouse In Your Soul

shmoo92: That's so pretty!

shmoo92: To bed for reals. I wish ye the best with the headache de edging >hugs<

rorykurago: also relevant because references to Jason and the Argonauts :P

rorykurago: aww, head pains! sleep!

rorykurago sent a photoset Photographer & Artist: Local...

rorykurago: !!!!!

rorykurago: I found. the shoot.

rorykurago: (part of it, anyway)

rorykurago: (WITNESS: JAEGER LADIES)

rorykurago: (also this is pretty much exactly what I envision painted onto Dana and Tahnee's backs for the Blacklight party in 2017 pt 1)

06/17/16 at 9:58 AM

shmoo92: "'Exactly what I EuroVision painted' ...? /Envision! Okay, not awake yet."

shmoo92 sent a photoset, "Alchemy porcelain ‘ by Darya"

shmoo92: Moar nifty tea services!

06/17/16 at 6:12 PM

shmoo92 sent a post, "someone: what’s a…"

Relevant to your academia-ing? XD

06/17/16 8:51 PM

shmoo92 sent a photo post, "Alpine Ibexes climb nearly 90o" shmoo92: It's the original!

06/17/16 10:11 PM

shmoo92 sent a video, "He does this every time I whistle,..." Are either of yours whistlers?

rorykurago: Wolf-whistling, yes. Tuneful, no.

06/17/16 11:56 PM

shmoo92: You always look good to them? :D

rorykurago: it's more that that's the notes they know they can make loudly enough to make ear physically vibrate and get attention

rorykurago: (generally in the form of someone moaning "oh my god shut UP that HURTS")

shmoo92: Owwwww

06/18/16 at 4:07 AM

rorykurago: One of the authors I'm looking at in the 19th century Tractarian Movement in John Henry NEWMANN-- and my brain's just noping hard out of it

06/18/16 at 8:42 AM

shmoo92: That name is ruined for me

rorykurago: I just heard Lorde's 'Buzzcut Season' for the first time and now everthing is Dana and Tahnee and it hurts

shmoo92: o

shmoo92: >holds gently<

06/19/16 at 1:06 AM

rorykurago:

06/19/16 at 6:45 AM

rorykurago sent a photoset, “[ http://vrabia.tumblr.com/post/146150216466/queensofhighgarden-girls-loving-girls-in-the Girls loving girls in the same-...]” rorykurago: ugh, look at all this gorgeousness

06/19/16 at 9:21 AM

shmoo92: Re video: I love you

shmoo92: Re photo set: >swoon<

06/19/16 at 7:46 PM

shmoo92: Good luck!!!!!!!

rorykurago: danke

rorykurago: I hav until 5:45 today to do the rest o my study/consolidate

rorykurago: *have

shmoo92: How's the brain?

rorykurago: weeeell, dancing around my house and washing my face aren't getting the rest of my study done, but they ARE doing a good job cleaning out the stress momentarily

shmoo92: Which, at this stage, is just as important

shmoo92: Stress makes you forget!

rorykurago: just to confirm: Initiative Tiny Ranger Flower-fairies Drinking Tea is a go, yes?

rorykurago: (I'm planning my free time from tomorrow, can you tell?) ;P

shmoo92: Initiative Tiny Ranger Flower-fairies (drinking tea) is a go! (Activity is up to your discretion)

rorykurago: No, no I can't tell :D

06/20/16 at 6:41 AM

rorykurago: Still alive!

rorykurago: Deeply regretting my last essay choice, but alive

206/20/16 at 8:04 AM

shmoo92: \(^u^)/

06/22/16 at 8:10 PM

rorykurago: Re BookBub deal: bahaha

rorykurago: cuuuuute

shmoo92: :D

06/23/16 at 10:15 AM

rorykurago: should be sleeping

rorykurago: instead, looking up dirt-biking courses and listening to the Queen of the Damned soundtrack

rorykurago: :/

rorykurago: #lifeskills

shmoo92: Instead writing/reading/researching/arting--none of the above! XD

rorykurago: nice

shmoo92: Have you dirtbiked before?

rorykurago: we're productive members of society >winning<

rorykurago: I've done a bit of motorcycling, but dirtbiking no

shmoo92: >awkward highfive fistbump<

shmoo92: Possibly do more dirt bike course lookup when not tired?

rorykurago: Welp, tomorrow I have to clean a house, get home, get cleaned up, and then find my Happy-outgoing-extrovert face for a night out with the girls

rorykurago: soooo... not until Saturday?

rorykurago: but I take your point

shmoo92: Yea, I hear "should be sleeping but I'm thinking about doing something a bit risky" and I think, maybe wait until all faculties are intact? :D

rorykurago: hahaha

rorykurago: Ironically, I've actually been planning to go out on the bike myself and have a bit of a play on the fire trails, but tonight it occurred to me that if there are defensive driving courses for cars, there are probably dirtbiking courses

rorykurago: >idiot<

shmoo92: >pats hand<

rorykurago sent a GIF rorykurago: SHINY

rorykurago: SHINY THAT /MOVES

shmoo92: SWOON

shmoo92: gawd I love that designer

rorykurago: yeeeep

rorykurago: I could never pull them off buuuut Moyas could

rorykurago: also Mako

rorykurago: holy hell, Mako in #3

rorykurago: I.... I just...

shmoo92: Is #3 the silver one?

rorykurago: (cue Rals making some dorky-af comments about 'looking up at the stars' just like when he was a kid)

rorykurago: the one with the most silver, yes

shmoo92: (omg)

shmoo92: ... does he say that after the party while on his knees?

rorykurago: maaaaybe

rorykurago: or maybe he makes joke #1 /during the party (and Mako elbows him)

rorykurago: aaaand then joke #2 aaaafter the party

rorykurago: and Mako just sighs

rorykurago: and then moans

rorykurago: because.... yk...

shmoo92: Raleigh finally managed to sort out what slinky fabric was attached to what

shmoo92: (I feel #2 would involve more sorting of skirts but the point stands)

rorykurago: there are about a THOUSAND jokes there about astronauts, and breathing, and the mysterious darkness, and holding your breath, and celestial bodies

rorykurago: ....I'm trying to breath and laugh and type and not having much success

shmoo92: I know what to blame typos on then :D

rorykurago: sooo I just saw a 'Duke is the biological son of Herc and Stacker because Stacker is trans' post

shmoo92: I maaaay have seen that one

rorykurago: as much as I want to get behind trans Stacker, that scenario reminds me uncomfortably of MPREG

shmoo92: It ... yea

shmoo92: yes it does

rorykurago: I get that it's a real thing which happens to real people, but fandom and mpreg have a long history, which to me basically goes: bleh

rorykurago: Why are you so against women?

rorykurago: --why are you so against women of colour?

rorykurago: why is Stacker not allowed to have a life which does not wholly centre around the PPDC?

shmoo92: Doesn't having a kid or two give stacker a life not wholly centered around the PPDC?

rorykurago: Depends how they play it

rorykurago: I do like that post floating around about how Vivienne basically raised Duke and he was kept as far from the Pacific as possible

shmoo92: The one where his bedroom is Luna's old bedroom and there's still a bit of purple paint here and there?

rorykurago: But I swear to God, if they give Stacker a canonical wife of colour and then klandom tries to Vanessa her, I will flip a table

rorykurago: several

shmoo92: I will be right there with you.

rorykurago: RE bedroom: yep, that one

shmoo92: Will you send me trans one? If I've archived it I don't seem to have tagged it

rorykurago: ...oh. well. that explains a lot. OP is skullbearer

rorykurago sent a post How Duke could be...

shmoo92: ffs

shmoo92: I find myself unable to appreciate skullbearer's presence.

rorykurago: their rabid Newt stanning kind of soured me to them, tbh

shmoo92: "Since when is Newmann controversial"?

shmoo92: "It's just homophobia. They go after Hot Dads, too"

shmoo92: Like wtf?

shmoo92: I have /never seen anyone hate on Hot Dads (though I don't follow any hansest peeps)

rorykurago: I've never seen it either tbh

rorykurago: like... never. Most just seem to ignore that it's a thing?

rorykurago: But then I tend to avoid the hateful corners as a matter of course, so

rorykurago: anyway. I'm in enough of a funk, I think :P

rorykurago: time for bed!

rorykurago: Have a good day, love

shmoo92: thanks! Sleep well :)

shmoo92: >hug>