I’m have absolutely no interest in astrology myself, and I generally agree with everything you’ve said, but I will say that in my experience there are a ton of people who don’t really believe in astrology (that the placement of stars affects one’s personality and lives writ large), but they enjoy the ritual or find it…

Holy cow, I’d never heard this and it’s an absolutely fantastic reading! Thank you so much for the suggestion!

While I don’t disagree with you overall, I actually mentally decided that my Destiny character[s] are mute and their ghosts speak for them, since they’re rather emotionally and mentally connected.  It’s how all of the dialogue seemed to play out anyway, and other ghosts in the game weren’t particularly talkative.  It…

I am one of those Loud People who just escalate in volume, especially when I get excited, without realizing it.  (In appropriate places, though.  Just loud.)  My husband and friends have taken to just saying “Inside voice, inside voice!” which is a nice way for me to know I’ve gotten loud without knowing, haha.

I know nothing about fashion and have absolutely no eye for it, but every time I see this look, I have the same reaction. Like, this just looks bad. And not in a haute couture runway, “this is a weird and interesting thing that I don’t like at all but there is sure a bold and weird vision behind it” way. Just in a…

No joke, my husband was shocked, SHOCKED at the results when he asked me to put some concealer on him to cover a pimple when we were attending a wedding.

I have to get a lot of infusions/blood draws/IVs/etc because I have Crohn’s disease, and about a year prior to going on immunosupressant medication, I’d been beefing up on all my vaccines, making sure I was prepped for everything just in case.  The first time I got a bunch, I was like....holy shit, these needles feel…

Generally speaking, the elderly and the immunocompromised do get their flu shots! :) (There’s even an specific flu shot for those who are 65+, and we immunocompromised people can usually get the shots, but not the nasal spray variety, as that one is a live virus rather than the normal dead virus shots.)

I have no kids and my husband and I want no kids! I’m immunocompromised, though, because of a cocktail of drugs I have to have infused for several hours every eight weeks—think chemo-lite! all the immune wrecking, none of the calories!—and I would definitely appreciate if you got a flu shot.  :)

I think if the understanding of the flu shot could be reframed as a public health policy (if you can, you have to!) rather than a personal choice (I’ll probably just get it next year), it might really help with these discussions.

The message of “As your parent, I want to protect you from so much, and cancer is absolutely on that list.”

So glad you like, and I hope it made your weekend just a wee bit better. :D Give Fred a headpat for me. I love those soft wee headfluffs!

I hope you don’t mind an internet stranger doodling that dangerously dapper koala-eared beastling of yours! He’s so handsome!

Also, most people go to college at the prime point in their life where their body is ready and willing to bounce back from anything. Even if you never drank or did drugs—I did little of the former and none of the latter—practically anyone could stay up all night working or doing schoolwork and rock a test the next…

I’m going to angry-draw some cute shit. Little flower sprites and shit. Bubbly bodies and squeaky-pink cheeks.  WITH ANGER.

I’ve never been anything but relatively lean (it goes up and down but I have never been what society would consider fat) so I can’t speak to your first point (though I absolutely know it to be true, especially considering the appalling way I’ve firsthand seen doctors treat my friends who are fat). But to the second…

Especially given that vanity DLC is how some free-to-play games make their money (Path of Exile comes immediately to mind--although there are a few small quality of life purchases available, like more room for more loot, 99% of what you can buy from them is entirely cosmetic).  

Honestly, I think Doom is a pretty damn good adaptation of a Doom game.

I also think the ability of good animation to convey emotion—especially non-verbal, complex emotion—is a real touchstone element that people sometimes overlook. You can convey a lot more, often much easier, with some well-placed cartoony eyebrows and dramatic mouths than you can with a real-life actor. The real-life…

That truism also shows a vast misunderstanding of people, moods, and emotions.