A sufficiently desperate amalgamated waffle sorter

You know what's sometimes really fascinating?

The "More Like This" box deviantART added to the side of picture pages a bit ago.

For instance. This is Ivan. I just saw a fanart of him for which that box featured several instances of the title character of Yotsuba&!. (Who, curiously, does share his daughter Karis' hair color. Is dA promoting crossover ships as backstory...?)

For another instance. Mudshipping, in Golden Sun fandom, is shipping of Isaac with Mia. I just saw a mudshipping fanart for which every picture in that box, except one, was Legend of Zelda fanart. I mean, yes, I can see some resemblance between Isaac and Link, and one of the Hylian goddesses has blue hair, but almost every picture?

I wonder what it looks at. I imagine the artist, and what else the artist has uploaded, plays a part, but clearly that isn't everything.

I wonder how many people can legitimately say that the voices in their heads keep them sane?

It's odd to say, I know. But if one's definition of sanity includes understanding and being able to deal with other people, I'd say it's accurate enough for me.

Way back when I started at Milliways, I believed I played Felix basically as myself. This was not entirely true - I played him as somewhere between myself and his canonical self, with a few aspects from neither. Vestiges of this remain to this day. But it sort of set the stage for playing him as he actually is, and even more, hearing him. The Felix who lives in my head today may not be precisely the canonical Felix. But he specifically isn't me. He has different goals, motivations, and responses than I do. And because he isn't me, but I have access to his personality, I have that much more understanding of persons-other-than-me. It's no longer exactly trial and error - or it is, but without external consequences.

And the other voices I've picked up along the way - Kain, and Rose, and Fluttershy, and Applejack, and to a lesser degree Spock and Karis, and even the alternate Felixes - all help. They're at different degrees of not-me, but more importantly, they're in different directions. Even if Rose were more like me, she wouldn't necessarily be more like Kain. Spock isn't on the same line as Fluttershy, no matter what their respective 'distances'. And so on. Which means that I have more places I can look to figure out what people expect, and how they will react to whatever I do.

I still don't expect to ever be "normal", but because of headvoices I think I can fake it better than I used to.

What.

"If you like Dragons you might like Pandas check out the trailer for Kung Fu Panda 2"

Where is the logic? The grammar? The punctuation?

No, those aren't things to go with recent purchases. You know why? Because of the six suggestions, only two (maybe) have any connection to the things I've bought beyond Category: Video-Game-Related. Getting a couple of RPGs for a previous-gen handheld doesn't mean I want an FPS for a different company's current-gen console, or an audio cable to go with yet another company's consoles. Or an XBOX.

Despite what I've said in the past, I have done it. I've made a Facebook account.

I don't intend to link to it from here. I prefer to keep my life as [kd7sov's name] separate from my life as kd7sov.

The other day, I posted about a picture I made. Yesterday, I decided I might pimp it in adepts_gs and avatar_fans, the fandom comms for Golden Sun and Avatar, respectively.

Between the two, they've gotten six times as many comments as anything I've posted here. Felix may well have had threads that beat the total, and I think I got more the first time I hosted DE, but it's still something of a milestone.

Apparently, the vector-graphics program Inkscape doesn't recognize the scroll-wheel part of my laptop's touchpad as a scroll wheel. And, unfortunately, my wireless mouse is apparently having some sort of connection problems that are edging into unuseability.

Incidentally, I've started putting things on deviantArt, which might interest some of you. There's not much there yet, partly because dA's upload process doesn't seem to get along with Firefox. Or maybe my computer. Or maybe the couple-hundred FF tabs I have open.

Maybe this shows what kind of things I read, but I wouldn't expect Amazon to list things like "environmental suit", "triage center", or "wrist lights" as "Statistically Improbable Phrases".

"Parasite affair" or "dermal regenerator", sure, those aren't in the common parlance. But "wrist lights"?

(The book in question, for the record, is "Worlds of Deep Space Nine volume 2: Trill and Bajor".)

I have recently been linked to the Felicia Day song "Do You Wanna Date My Avatar?". Despite the huge following of stuff from Runescape and WOW that's been set to it, there's one notable lacuna.

Considering the sheer number of ATLA music videos, and the immense shipflail that's been going on continuously since the first episode aired, it's actually a little bizarre that the internet appears to contain only one combination of these concepts - in the form of a reference to the song, in a comment to the Last Airbender superbowl ad, postulating a director's cameo.

It would likely be brain-breaky to make or watch, but what internet person would let that stop them?

See, IE, this is why I prefer to use Firefox. (Which, in turn, is why I have so many tabs open that Firefox has trouble playing any video, which is why I have to keep turning to IE. But we're not mentioning that.)

Anyway, in Firefox, if I type the address and get it right, it never takes me to a Bing search. If I select the address from my history it certainly never does a search. If the target no longer exists there it might give me a "Problem Loading Page" message, but never a "do you want to find this?".

I can possibly understand you getting a bit stroppy with those pages that don't load properly without the www on the beginning, but anything beyond that... no, thank you.