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10 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup · 0 replies · +2 points

Oh my stars, I'm so glad I'm not the only one who accidentally boiled a Diva Cup dry! *cringe* I had mine ten years. RIP, old girl.

Buuuut it prompted me to "upgrade" to the "Model 2" because I am now An Old, so it fits even better now?? Getting your period is penance enough, imho. Treat yourself to a spanking new Diva Cup if you prefer it to OB (also my tampon of choice, kept in my purse and office drawers for emergencies), but either way, give yourself to whatever makes the misery endurable, I say.

10 years ago @ The Toast - How To Be A Good Patient · 1 reply · +39 points

I want to take all of us who relate to this, who relate oh so much, and gather us all together somewhere comfortable and restful and soft, with endless food and drink (all of which will, miraculously, make us feel good and nourished, and never bad or sick), where we can all just rest for a nice long time.

We'll all have to go back into the fray -- after all, our friends and family are out there! -- but wouldn't it be so nice to rest from the endless humiliating scramble of seeking medical treatment, just for a while?

10 years ago @ The Toast - A Butterfly Is Just A ... · 0 replies · +18 points

Actually, my worst moth story is from a trip to the cottage. We had a campfire going, but it was out in the open so I was able to handle the occasional moth fluttering around the periphery. But then some kind of Mothra-spawn came out of the pitch-black sky (in my memory, the thing is the size of both my hands; in reality, it was probably about half that, because no bugs get that big where I live) and just kamikazed into the flames. AND IT DID NOT DIE. IT JUST SET ITSELF ON FIRE AND THEN STARTED FLAPPING AROUND AT ABOUT FACE-LEVEL. WHILE ON FIRE.

I tolerated about .0000001 seconds of giant-flame-moth flapping in the vicinity of my head before booking it into the cottage as fast as my legs could take me. Nightmarish. The friends I was with were surprisingly understanding (one of them has a deathly fear of snakes that had... come into play during a stroll through the forest earlier when we encountered a garter snake, so I think the whole group was pretty sympatico w/r/t phobias).

Eff moths. Big ones, little ones, not-on-fire ones, on-fire ones. All of them.

10 years ago @ The Toast - A Butterfly Is Just A ... · 1 reply · +8 points

Mottephobics unite!

I have run from rooms that had a moth in them. I have to steel myself to even clear away obviously-dead moths (THEY ARE SNEAKY AND MIGHT BE FAKING AND WAITING TO FLY UP AT YOUR WHEN YOU GET CLOSE). Once I was riding in the passenger seat of a car when a moth appeared, and despite my panic I somehow actually managed to roll down the window and shoo it out within a few seconds (while yelling in terror), which is good because if I hadn't managed to find the damn power-window button I might very well have straight-up opened the door of a moving vehicle while in city traffic and bolted.

I have pretty much no other phobias -- spiders, snakes, bees? no problem. heights, flying, public speaking? bring it on -- but moths give me the existential heebie-jeebs. I just want them to stay far away from me forever.

10 years ago @ The Toast - Ye Olde Baking Spells:... · 0 replies · +9 points

I feel like this is missed opportunity for a Crush Cakes collaboration. Or maybe that's just my massive crush on Natalie Dormer talking. Crush tarts, anyone?

10 years ago @ The Toast - The Sequel To The Beau... · 1 reply · +102 points

WENCHILY.

New favourite adverb.

11 years ago @ The Toast - How to Soften a Fall: ... · 0 replies · +24 points

Oh, marvelous, just marvelous. "First published essay" eh? First of many, I really really hope.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Zelda Characters Who A... · 2 replies · +10 points

I haven't played it since the late 90s, so I remember the general story outline but very few details. I did watch, with glee, as someone I follow on Tumblr (who was not even a zygote in the late 90s) was posting about playing through Ocarina of Time for the first time, and was wondering who this mysterious Sheik could really be??? followed by a post about ARGH WELL NOW I FEEL LIKE A DOPE. Haha, youths.

Zelda games: bridging generational gaps since 1987 (or 1986, if you were in Japan at the time).

And, for my fellow Olds who were into Zelda back in the day: the wonderful comic from Nintendo Power is being reprinted!!!

11 years ago @ The Toast - Zelda Characters Who A... · 4 replies · +9 points

Ha, Link can't get no respect! I'm currently playing through Ocarina of Time (on the bee-yoo-tee-ful 3DS I got for Xmas) and I am now going to note with glee the different treatment he gets when he's all growed up vs. when he is a little wee boy.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup · 2 replies · +64 points

I don't know if this is true for everyone, but there is an ad for Neil Gaiman's upcoming collection up in the top right-hand corner of The Toast for me today, with his picture in it. And now whenever I see his face, I think "leather golf hat OF THE SOUL" and cackle to myself, and I just wanted to thank everyone for that (esp. Liz Watson for the article, and rrieselavy for the comment).

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