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[the denizens are the voices in my head. If you speak "multiple", it's a form of that. Don't worry about it otherwise. And with this, you've officially gotten more context then when I posted this on Bluesky a couple days ago.]

Listening to Fretless (probably the best contra band who aren't) and watching the denizens dance with each other and happy-crying a bit because it is so good to be a little freak and okay with myself

(all the denizens are superbly musically inclined --they have a better connection to instrumentation than I do. Zaphod pretty much only does percussion (including piano), the other three swap through most of the strings section with alarming alacrity. Alis focuses on fiddle, cello, and rock-bass; Hyde on guitar, violin, and viola; Gabe on fiddle, upright bass, and piano when Zaph's not doing it. Hyde and Alis take turns DJing when that's the vibe, but it's a little rarer for them to come out for that.)

All of them CAN ring bells (I could have handbell Royal if we weren't stuck inside one body) but Hyde finds it boring, Zaphod struggles with concentration (regardless of whether he's trying two or three bells) and Alis only rings things I/we are dead-solid at. Gabe rings like I do.

Gabe in general is the folkiest/has most similar hobby space to me. He's the only one who will dance Scottish with me, and the only one who really ever thinks about footwork or technique. Hyde will dance with people (esp blues) but not generally alone. Alis dances alone like I do: wild and fully.

And the three of them(and sometimes me) will all dance together and it's really fucking good.

***

As an additional note that didn't make it to Bsky, I misspoke when I said Royal: it's cinques, uncovered.

~Sor
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So there was a post on Tumblr, "Things you will see on a road trip across America"⁰. It spoke to me, far more than the Regional Gothic trend did, and I was quick to respond with my own listing. You may read my additions ( under the cut )

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Of course, then I started writing more about it all. Have some blather about road trips. It's not under a cut, because I do not love you enough.

According to my quick count, I have visited (or at least driven through) 36 states. Let's look at some highlights...

-From very young to age 11, the family drove to Peoria IL every year to visit Great-Grandma Deemy. She died in 2000, which was the year of...

-The Big Trip! Mom, her best friend Neva, and me and the sibs spent 2-3 straight weeks on the road. We drove from Maryland to Colorado, took a turn north up through both Dakotas, cut east back to Minnesota, just missed Michigan, and swooped back to MD. It was an absolute fucking delight. Kansas is terrible, we somehow skipped Nebraska entirely, and mom spit-swore she'd take me to the Mall of America to ride the roller coasters before I turned eighteen. This is why I don't trust my mother. ;)¹

-From very young until college, we drove to Winsted CT for Thanksgiving, and also usually for a visit in the summer. Dad's parents (St G'ma, G'pa Gus) live up there, on a wonderful horse farm with rock-walls to climb on and a pond and art and books strewn everywhere. I haven't been to the farm in several years --Thanksgiving started moving around my sophomore year of college-- and I miss it terribly. I should organize a visit some weekend!

-Starting in about, oh, 2002 or 3, us kids (Shan, then Al, then me) attended Stayaway Camp in Maine. Have you seen the Parent Trap? That is the camp we stayed at. No literally, they wanted to film at Wyo, but they were told to piss off, there was a camp to run. Anyways, there would be 2-3 trips up a summer (dropping off, changeover day, picking up) with some subset of siblings and parents, and staying the night in either Winsted or Boston.

-For two of those years, when the sibs were at camp and I was not, me and the rents drove down to South Carolina for a conference at Myrtle Beach. This is relevant because it means I've visited both South of the Border and Wall Drug.

(The second year, when it was just me and them, mom started to have some really funky vision problems and dad had to do all the driving home. Turns out she had MS. Anyways, that was 2002, which means Shan started camp in 2001, which works out since I did 2003 and 2004. Good talk.)

-Moving on to adulthood, I went to college in Boston (well, Cambridge). The family did many runs to pick me up or drop me off with my stuff, several of which did not involve my mother (see also, Dragon*Con.)

-Didn't roadtrip much in college, but right after I graduated, I got to do 14 straight hours in a car with one other driver (mom --although Shan did drive a couple hours), two siblings, and two cats. We moved to Chicago! Cats do not like it when the car goes 80 mph. They are fine when it is up to 85. No officer, I had to speed, I was doing science!

(Two days later, I did half that again, doubling back to Hiram, Ohio with Alys in tow. Dad was out of town, mom had to wait for the movers, I was her Official Adult for her college orientation. This was a profoundly uncomfortable experience for us both, I suspect, plus we had a serious argument about whether World/Inferno Friendship Society was a hipster band in the first thirty minutes of driving and were both super tense and stressed for like an hour. That bit I mentioned about the Lion's Den? I think it was figuring that out which calmed us the fuck down and brought us back to giggling like loons.)

-Sparr and I have made the Boston-Atlanta(ish) drive a few times. One of these times, I drove 17 of 20 hours (I did not make that up above for humour value). One of those times, our rental car was totaled and we had to frantically scramble to get home. The last time went quite without problem, except for the entertaining logistics of picking people up or dropping them off in at least five different locations.

-In early fall 2012, I was unemployed. My favourite ex-partner decided to move to Seattle. Their rich friend offered a plane ticket home. Mel and I packed up a uhaul (technically a Penske), drove to Cleveland (where we spent a day with their mother and raided a storage unit), drove to Chicago (where we spent about an hour and a half with my mother before she left for some vacation and we hung out in the house and watched movies --maybe George of the Jungle?), and drove and drove and drove and drove to Seattle. The Milky Way is every bit as stunning as I implied, Buttes will never not be hilarious, and having a governor keeping you from going over 75mph when you're on a 70mph speed limit road going DOWN THE ROCKIES is the shittiest thing.

I think that's the most of 'em. There's some small ones with strangers (from Indy to Chicago a couple times after GenCon, and I'm about to do Boston to Syracuseish) but most of the long trips have been with friends or family. States I have been to without driving there: Florida, Texas, California, and Arizona. And I suppose technically Tennesee in that I *have* driven to Georgia before, but the trip we went to TN, I flew to GA and then we drove up there. Dunno if that counts or not.

I hold no respect for America the Corporate Identity but I do fucking love America the road-trip liminal space of folklore and legend. Given a world without capitalism and a Tesla Roadster², I wouldn't even bother with a house in exchange for a rotating selection of friends riding shotgun as we roam around this world.

~Sor
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0: Although I appreciate the thing someone pointed out, which is that they mean "USA", not America.

1: In case the smiley is not obvious, my mother is THE BEST MOTHER and I trust her very much and have forgiven her, but it's fun to tease.

2: I am adding this footnote seven years later to acknowledge that this reference did *not* age well.

Hay-ol-ee SHIT! Becky is the most amazing person in the entire freaking world.

You will not guess what she made me for Christmas. And it is awesome.

~Sor
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So yes. Theres life.

Today is officially homework day, although we'll see how well *that* works. Stupid fisking English class with it's unreasonable deadlines and vague objectives. *shakes fist*

Today is unofficially day after everyones birthday day, although a quick peruse of my friends list seems to point out that vvalkyri is older today. So yay to her! And yay to Fish and McGig and Dan and Koob for yesterday, since I was lazy and bad at agknowladging that.

Lifes been uneventful lately. Well, alright, not so much yesterday since I got to go to PORT DISCOVERY!! THAT was COOL! And I got to eat cake! Delicious, Koob-designed, ednoria-made cake! It was very much a five year olds cake, and very very very good.

And Port Discovery rocks. And I got to run around and play pretend with aramintamd's eldest which was major fun, especially as I haven't played with her in a lonnnnng time. So whoot for that!

And afterwards, Nathen drove me to the awesome korean supermarket he's found and I bought a whole bunch of origami paper! Let the secret project commence!!

Wow, I love that man. Everyone should, he's just freaking AWESOME!

Learned more of my kung fu form. I should go practise that. Back secondish.

*bach* voot, I haven't forgotten it yet.

Truly, a wonderful achievement. What's it been...sixteen hours since you did it last?

Hey, shut up, bitch!

You...uh...do realize that carries over, right?

Yes. Yes I'm calling myself a bitch. But you *are* being a bitch.

Naw, I'm just sarcastic! Surely your cynical mind can handle that, can't it?

No one likes you.

Don't go all Her on me.

NO one likes Her.

This is a very true thing. The first intelligent thing you've said all day.
*ducks*
*wacks*
You bitch.

Thanks, I love you too.

...I should cease the babbling...Hey!...and go back to talking about life.

Woot, life.

So uh yeah. Spring Break really ain't doing anything for me. Just being confusing, and pointing out that I need to work on prom and life and school and such.

Although, in other news, I seem to have found myself a fursona of sorts. Namely, as a bat-type with a fox tail. Mostly because having wings? REALLY FREAKING COOL!

I think that is all. Physics time! *dances*

...Shut up. I don't need your mainstream odd looks anyways! Physics is phun. :p

~Sor
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P.S: On the last entry...first off, thank you. Second off, it looks to be resolving itself, and hopefully will.

...gawd, I hate waiting.

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One of the dares I've been catching up on was to write a love poem.

If you look over in the Kattales^*, you will find four.

That is all.

~Sor
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*The Kattales, is of course, the name for my story-journal. It's also known as katarina_tales

Well, um, I haven't updated in a while. We know this.

Why?

Mostly because I've been playing too much DDR.

That is all

ANI: KAT!

What?

ANI: First you don't update for a week, and then you decide to leave just a few sentances? Thats NOT good.

Hush, I've turned Evil.

KRIS: Yay!

Well, sortof an apathetic evil.

KRIS: an apathetic evil? That sounds...

Dumb? Yeah, I know.

KRIS: Ok, just as long as you know. So, has anything interesting happened in the last week?

Well, lets see...I got a B in HVAM, Crossroads Inc started up, I scanned in a bunch of artwork and uploaded it to my DeviantArt account, we played Runequest yesterday, spring break started, I'm working on rules for a dice game, I think I know what I want to wear for Halloween, Sluggy.net was madness on the first, and I'm not REALLY a schizophrenic healer...I just play one on TV...er, in this RPG I'm playing on Sluggy.net.

ANI: *blinks* informative.

AME: can we maybe have some details?

yeah sure, why not.

HVAM = Healing Vision Angelic Mix = very hard DDR song, so I'm really glad I got a good grade on it...

RAF: *coffOBSESSIVEcoff*

You really ought to do something about that cough of yours. Oh, and we determined that, due to what he's obsessed with, Jeremys dream would be a bunch of hot girls playing Magic: the Gathering on fire.

AME: I' m not even going to ask

Yeah, thats probably wise of you.

RAF: So, what would YOUR dream be?

I dunno, but it probably has something to do with unlimited time and high speed internet.

oh and dice. Theres always room for dice.

KRIS: A flaming room filled with adorable bishies all roleplaying and reading webcomics and playing with dice and stuff?

...

sure. Except I think we missed the piratical aspect of that. and of course, we always need a few dozen mentions of the GSWS

AME: The what?

Sorry dear...classified information.

AME: *glares* I thought that that didn't exist with us.

Oh it normally doesn't. But keep in mind that the entire population of the GSWS is...one.

KRIS: I wanna join...

I know you do. EVERYONE wants to join it. I mean, who wouldn't want to join my secret society.

RAF: Jack Chick?

*laughs* probably. That guy is one of the biggest assholes ever.

ANI: Be nice. He has as much a right to his opinion as you have to yours, plus he actually does try and do something about it.

I just think its ironic about how he points out that comics are of the devil...in his comics!

AME: Yeah well, you shouldn't call him names.

I know. I take it back, even though he is completely anti gaming in ways that I will never understand. I HATE anti gamers. With a screaming passion. I also REALLY dislike the fact that he's so flargin homophobic.

AME: Kat! waitaminute...Flarging?

Yeah...umm...nevermind.

AME: Oh this explanation ought to be good. Whats Flarging mean?

An adjective form of Flarg.

AME: And whats Flarg?

uhh...A general curse word used by the deziens of the CCCT and by one of the Great Ones, Crossroads Inc himself?

AME: Kaaaaat...what IS your obsession with cursing out of books?

The teachers are less likely to get pissed by it? Unless, of course, they've read the Artemis Fowl books, Crossroads Inc, or Myste Lackey's work.

RAF: Crossroads you've explained...but what are the other two?

D'arvit and Sheka. Eoin doesn't give an explanation of what D'arvit means, only that its a very bad piece of fairy vocabulary, and Sheka means, quite litterally, horse shit.

There, I just taught the kiddies out there three new curse words. I feel so special.

ANI: KAT!

What? I told you already, I think I turned evil.

ANI: Lovely. So, now that we just spent 36 lines about HVAM, only two of which were actually on topic, whats next?

Well um, before i go any farther, I want to apologize to everyone who has me as a friend and dislikes the fact that I write really long entries. I suppose I could serch around and figure out how to make them just those little links, but I'm too lazy.

Next details: I'm going to skip over Crossroads right now, since I plan to gush about that in the TGAoW section, so...Pictures! I added 14 hand drawn pictures to my Deviant Art account and they're so PRETTY!

Click?

Thats the link. hopefully. If it works THANKS JANNY! if it doesn't, then I must be doing something wrong.

KRIS: ...

What?

KRIS: That pic you've got of Robert...

Yeah. He's sort of based off of you.

KRIS: *nods* that explains a lot.

Yeah it does!

Next stuff: Runequest! Runequest is a tabletop RPG that i am playing with Veronica, Lily, Zoe, and Paul as our GM. We managed to find Thedart (probably spelled wrong) who has some sort of connection with Teras's (Zoe) aunt.

We also wandered around a lot and fought some zombies and skeletons, PLUS we figured out how to make Vinna's (Veronica) unicorn horn work. We also went into spirit combat with these wraith things, and we all killed them, but our power didn't go up.

Yeah, and I deleted this next bit of news because I try to avoid rants/flames/direct attacks in here.

So...Spring break started! Yayness!!

KRIS: so, how is this going to be different from your normal routine?

It's not! except for the fact that I won't have to go to school all day. actually...*looks at the Todo.* hmmm...

ANI: yeah, I would definently advise getting some of that done.

*sigh* maybe...I can at least cross two things off it though!

ANI: What.

Finish reading Penny Arcade and CotC! Of course, that means that I have even MORE webcomics to read on a daily basis, but thats ok.

ANI: *rolls eyes* why am I not surprised?

Because you know me too well! Next up...yeah. My dice game.

Basically you take a large number of dice and roll them a lot. I have better rules, plus some stratigies, but their secret.

Halloween costume: well, considering I'm probably going to forget by the time it becomes relevent...Anyway, I may or may not be an evil genie for Halloween.

April Fools day was really fun, and i fell for all three of the big pranks played @_~

RAF: What pranks?

Well, I actually belived that all these random people had become mods for a day, I thought Ex Mrs Llefser really was on the boards, and I was skeptical, but more or less beliving, of the fact that SqueekyMewMew had to leave.

So basically, I'm a gullible little idiot.

Oh, BTW, it says "Gullible" on the ceiling of the stagecraft room.

AME: Does it now?

Well no, but it will by next year.

And last bit of news...I fell in a hole and am not trying to figure out weather or not it was a good idea to be hacking off bits of a gigantic collum of Jello. I have a feeling that we are all going to die soon. They did tell us not to read.

AME: What does that have to do with being Schizo?

You know, I really shouldn't be writing this here...oh well. Anyway, my charecter has two halves which each want control of her body.

KRIS: cool in an odd sort of way.

yeah, Nan/Alis is a cool charecter. I like her.

RAF: waitaminute...you named one of the halves Alis?

yeah.

RAF: hrmph.

What? Trust me, I NEVER go by Nan.

RAF: I really do think you should try and roleplay someone COMPLETELY unlike you every once in a while.

Yeah but I'm too pacifistic to do so. Plus, I can't act romantic.

KRIS: so the oppisite of you would be someone romantic and violent...a dominatrix maybe?

...sure...

KRIS: go me.

Yeah, anyway, I think that thats all for todays news.

See yas

~Sorceress/RAKAKat

TGAoW (ha! bet you thought I'd forget didn't you.)

Todays News (4 April 2K4)

Crossroads Inc started on the first. In theroy. And me being me, I managed to wheedle my way into seeing the comics that are supposed to be up today. Try looking here

And the Crossroads appeared, and yea, it was nifty.

MINOR NEWS:
~Sluggy is very cool all of a sudden. I want one.
~GPF finished it's lovely little story arc, and it ended really well. Kudos Jeff! Kudos!
~Spare Parts also finished its story arc, and it was COOL! I wanna know what happens next.

Thats all for today. Lets see if those links work.

~Sorceress/Kat

OH YES! IMPORTANT NOTICE: The lovely little avatar I'm using isn't mine in any way shape or form, and I don't have permission to use it. (although i'm going to try and get permission, and if I can't, I won't use it) This icon was made by TheNewAwk of Sluggy.net, and belongs to him

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