It began with our family's shock at a NWN game site's rules encouraging covert cybering. After we tried to dicuss this on AmiaWorld forum, DMs not only banned our players but vindictively punished our son, a completely innocent bystander, causing him great mental pain and confusion. Since we can't go there any more, won't YOU please help us make Amia safe for children to play in? (Philosophical discussion is also linked.)
This time I'm going to make a break with tradition. 
Show and tell is the name of my game this morning.
<- Egg Almost-A-Wing
<- Hawaii Creeper Wing
<-Red-Spectacled Parrot Wing
<- California Condor Wing
<- Bald Eagle Wing
That ought to do it. <- "A bright guy with stuff to say."--Mark Evanier
posted by Hypatia Theon @ 4:15 AM
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In tongues we spoke,
But then awoke,
Screaming, "REAL!
That's what we feel!"
Now join our song.
It won't take long.
Rhythm, rhyme, harmony,
Every time what you see,
Is what you get.
Then you'll be,
Fancy free.
Well met. All set?
That's it. Don't forget!
Read Jenny's poetry <--- CLICK HERE!
posted by Hypatia Theon @ 11:53 AM
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Now is the time at last to do a bit of free writing. I'm in the mood, feeling rude. Got nothing to lose but my cool as Shelly Manne winds down a jazz instrumental rendition of "I Could Have Danced All Night." That's 「一晩中踊れたら」in Japanese; however, unfortunately, now it's time to head off the the beach for our daily swim... I'll take a photo, though, and post that here later today.
Well, forgot both to bring our digital camera to the beach and to post this, too; however, the good news is that over on Andrena's Ankh I found this VAMPIRE'S KISS OF DEATH <-Click here for an adrenalin rush, or heart attack depending on your stamina against NAKED FEAR, or, if I made a mistake, you may just get a photo matching game...
posted by Hypatia Theon @ 7:53 PM
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Team Awesome wrote:
Thanks, Dave, I spent half an hour at Cool Archive without being able to make an 88X31 banner with legible text. Also, I noticed Cool Archive requires a link back, so I guess I'm better off just using your banner, which I've never actually been able to make appear on one of our blogs anyway. *Tired Sigh!*Hi, You recently signed up for Exchange-a-rama, my 88x31 banner exchange. I noticed you were using one of my banners for your own (that's fine and I have no problem with that), but let me know if you need help creating one that better reflects your site. Here's a link to a page that can help create banners. It's not too complicated, but you still have to tinker with it a bit. http://www.coolarchive.com/logogenerator.php dave
Maximum Awesome& this is on my hubby's:
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At the bottom of both our blogs and some linked pages, too.
posted by Hypatia Theon @ 5:57 AM
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I'm clicking that link now...
What will happen next?
Hmm... Pretty cool!
Your link has been added to your Blogroll
posted by Hypatia Theon @ 9:14 AM
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Incisive comments by LongZhenZhu & Sweet Song. <- Hypatia Theon may philosophize about dream-coin economics soon.
Here's a look at Things to Change forum at AmiaWorld.net, from which our entire house is IP banned now.
Please note the many heavy hitters: site owner, MagnumMan, DM, Replicant, and Selmak, the author of Lola.
Dream-Coin Economics seems to be cutting near the quick, nicht wahr?
posted by Hypatia Theon @ 8:44 AM
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Phoenix, you said about Role Play:
"Role PlayI'm going to blogroll you, now. There! It's done.
I have always despised conventional roles in a relationship. I may be female, but does that mean I should do the most cooking, cleaning and washing? Does it mean that I am the passive person in the relationship? Absolutely not just as in the same way, if you are male, then you shouldn't be doing most of the providing, hunting and gathering. You are not the one who always decides what to do when you just want to leave it to someone else, you are not the one who necessarily organizes the money, reviews the bank account or decides how we are going to meet next month's bills.
No, if we are a partnership, then that is what we are, partners, brothers, sisters, friends, lovers and parents side by side on our journey, on our path through life and through our relationship. If you want me to walk behind you, or if you expect to walk behind me, forget it! We can both run, with our hair streaming out behind, hand in hand, fingers locked in happiness, into the horizon."
posted by Hypatia Theon @ 9:15 PM
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Pearl_Dragon said...to Alice in Wonderland:
About your point:
One lesson: never to play a new CD in parent’s car. We live we learn.
That is however one of the reasons why this CD sticks in my mind and why I will purchase the acoustic version next week. That and well, (listening to the original version right now, as of course I did purchase the CD again, sometime later maybe at a more appropriate age of say sixteen or something, and still have it on my media player), as I listen to it I sometime wish that I could actually care about someone enough so that I would feel some of that angst and agony when they left. I mean I am not saying that it would feel good but I imagine the passion/love that would come before would have to be significant, to provoke the writing of such songs
Well, as I parent I see this issue now from both sides, the artist's desire for expression free of censorship and the parents need to protect our kids, perhaps you may feel overprotect is more like it?
Anyway, thanks for your kind comment on my blog, but you probably missed my rap on naughty words buried deep somewhere among the links:
Probably now it's as good a time as any to bring up the question of what a girl should say to describe having a good time.
Pearl may get lucky soon with a guy she's been flirting with for awhile. O.k. let's not beat around her bush, she's likely to get laid by a cute guy she's been assaulting with a full-on seduction campaign of near epic proportions damned near equivalent to the preparations that went into D-Day. LOL (Why is Amia just the opposite of real life, in that here it's the guys who are so coy?)
Anyway, since Pearl appears to have ball-bearing heels, there's a "flaw" built into her character to guarantee that any "action" always has to take place off stage only later to be cutely referred to by sharing reminiscences about those ecstatic feeling or by nostalgically repeating together those sweet nothings that were uttered during the moment of truth and so on, which brings us to my point, uh, .... directly after just one more small but important diversion.
Before their ghost was well laid by Lenny Bruce, seven common Anglo-Saxon terms of enormously graphic descriptive powers were widely condemned as whores of expression, which most good citizens used heavily when they needed to get their meanings off in intimate private intercourse yet those same upright citizens hypocritically refused to acknowledge the very existence of these seven salacious words in public places such as the sacred halls of prime-time television. I'm sure many forum regulars can recite that dishonor roll from memory, while the rest of the English speakers present, even the non-native ones, would effortlessly be awarded a big red A for their ability to pass a test on the meanings and common usages of the entire magnificent seven. Thus, we all know very well that the rather innocuous word "orgasm" appears nowhere on that list of infamy. In fact, now-a-days nobody blinks an eye when celebrities appear on evening t.v. shows to describe the frequency and intensity of, difficulties with, or foreplay techniques to evoke and enhance those very personal precious moments of consummate elation.
As a role-play necessity, Pearl must refer to those unfurling waves of quivering pleasure when she shudders in frenzy over the top of love's mountain to shiver down the other side into a pool of melted delight every time she explains to lovers eager to share favors with her that the only suitable place must be behind a long series of locked, barred and very well-padded doors at the bottom of a deep dungeon or behind stone walls that would make China's own 10,000-li barrier seem paper thin. That's because when you ring her bell, it's not quantifiable in the decibels usually used for sizing up noises but measured along the scales reserved for natural disasters like earthquakes or erupting volcanoes. In other words, Pearl has to tell her lovers that she'll not go quietly into that stark delight, but it's gonna sound like, uh, remember when a huge interstellar object plunged down, wiping out 90% of Earth's life forms and splashing millions of tones of liquefied rock so far into orbit that we can all easily see spots where some of it pockmarked our dear sister moon? Well, Pearl's really intense orgasms are a bit noisier than that.
So, uh, is it o.k. for her to warn suitors in plain English about her noisy orgasms, or should she employ elegant euphemisms, Kanto, sir? If you go with circumlocutions, what are some of your favorites for telling us about Navira's rapturous paroxysms in her frenzied throes of exhilaration when sharing an epiphany of ecstasy with her fickle fey lover of the moment?
LOVE, Pearl Dragon
posted by Hypatia Theon @ 9:19 AM
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After a few hundred years in soulful communion with her beloved "One," Hypatia Theon found herself drawn once again into human form, this time after becoming a seasoned RPG campaigner, which you can read about at [http://pearllong.blogspot.com ] Hypatia Theon investigated the applications of role play to therapy at MDJunction, as you can see at [http://www.mdjunction.com/diary/fun-games/pearl-hunts-a-cute-hunter-game-forum-post-of-player-longzhenzhus-character-pearl-dragon]. Now the time seems ripe for a new endeavor, the application of the skills she's learned to coordinating volunteer experts and problems in economic development to make our world a better place.
