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I did too at first, you’re not alone.

I live rurally and have spent the night without power 3 times in the last 2 months.

It gets old.

Hahaha you should see the outage map of Washington State.

What do I like to do? Nothing, I hate power outages.

What I typically do is I have a large stockpile of candles from an old MLM scheme. I light those and play on my phone if there’s Internet. We have multiple battery banks for these occasions.

If there’s no Internet I will read. Both ebooks and regular books because my attention will shift.

I also try to do something productive like study for something.

Most of all I pile like eleventy billion blankets on the bed because I’m so cold. The furry ones are poor space heaters.

When I was a kid we always played games. Like charades or something. My dad would light the camp stove and we’d entertain ourselves for the evening as a family. They were nice.

Yep.

Hello traumatic memory I had been successfully repressing.

Ditto. Hated them as a kid, then as a young adult I could tolerate them cooked, now I could eat them raw (on/in something). Tastes change, man.

Same thing with mushrooms and mustard.

Well, it was the birthplace of t_d… not like it didn’t have lots of right wing voices before.

ITT: none of the power posters I was thinking of. Suspiciously silent now, eh?

This sounded like an ominous privacy warning lol!

I actually liked Factor and heard about it from a podcast. It worked really well for me but I didn’t keep it more than a few months because it is so expensive. If I lived alone or made more money I’d do it again.

Oh, honey, no.

I deleted paragraphs of advice because you’ve made up your mind and you’re not actually looking for counsel.

Just know a 25 year age difference is a lot. It may work but statistically it is a terrible idea. What do you have in common aside from the class where he had authority over you? No need to answer, just think about it.

Any sexualized anime girl shirt. I don’t care if she’s clothed, it’s cringe as fuck you’re basically wearing a waifu.

Venture Brothers, probably. I already quote it too much. Hot dolphin!

Food. Probably get a single catering size meal from a restaurant.

In the late 90s-00s a good half of the school wore hoodies and pajamas everyday. So it was 50/50 t-shirt n jeans vs hoodiejamas.

I’m with you on the pedo-staches. Ew.

You should refer to her as her nickname, Rory, since they’re both Lorelei.

I have always been “non-traditional” looking. When I was young and skinny I don’t think I was ugly but certainly not conventionally beautiful. Now that I’m older I am certifiably “meh”.

The expectation to look pretty (for men) is still there even if I don’t meet the criteria for their attention. I still feel the societal pressure, I still feel bad about my appearance when I’m not serving male gaze ideals. It doesn’t just go away even when you’re disqualified from personhood for being ugly.

I’m hoping becoming an old biddy will release me from requirements and I can feel free.

This is just like Maximum Overdrive!

If you include insects and arthropods and everything suddenly turns into uberbloodlust-kill-all-humans then non-human animals win, hands down. I think people overestimate their ability, the effectiveness of weapons, and the sheer number of insects that are near you at all times. Insect biomass alone outstrips humans by an insane margin. Very few mammals or other animals would get a lick in, I think. There is no hermetically sealed bunker that would hold for long, and that won’t save you from the mites already on your skin although they probably can’t do a ton of a damage.

Am summer fae. Hard disagree. The worst part of summer is indoors where they abuse air conditioning to create a dry frigid wasteland.

And wildfire smoke which didn’t use to be a thing where I live.