If you’re new on the blog, please stop by this thread and say pie — er hi.
We recommend that newcomers (that’s what “neophytes” means) look over The Rules and The HG2MB (Hitchhiker’s Guide to MuseBlog).
Next, if you’re so minded, stop by Who’s Here (see the menu at the top of your screen) and announce your arrival in a comment there, so we’ll be sure to add you to the official list.
MuseBlog Veterans: Please use this thread only to welcome newcomers as they arrive and answer questions that they ask.
My name is Kai.
HELLO THERE! welcome to the blog Kai
i hope you like it here so far! i am new here as well and this place is fun, like totally! (but i’ll let you decide that for yourself) 
get out the red carpet with pie stains on it we have a new guest!
Hi! Welcome to MB!
Now I know how our various Cats and Kats feel…
Welcome to the blog!!!
I’m technically not new(see below; someone knows me!)
Hello, Kai! I noticed you mentioned on another thread that you don’t like your profile picure. It’s okay; you don’t have to keep the default picture. Simply sign up for an account at gravatar.com and enter your new picture with your email.
So true. Thanks a lot!
My parents are blocking gravatar.com…
My name is Kai and I’m here to say
I’m a nerdy kid and I’m here all day.
My sister invites me out to play
I say “no” and she says “no way!”
I sit and play my video game
Mom says that’s stupid and really lame.
I’m not high in rank or style
Don’t confuse my name with Kid or Kyle!
I sit first at an empty table
A kid comes as quick as he is able.
He says this is the cool kid table,
I say that’s a lie, a mistruth, and a fable.
Now, remember me as the nerdy kid
And you’ll never want to put nerds under a lid!
any relation to Crraw?
Eew! Don’t even MENTION the Muse of bad poetry! *shudder*
What’s wrong with him?
I’d rather have Crraw than Boo, the fictional rejected 10th Muse of Scary Stuff, any day.
I’m a photi (pronounced fish).
Take the “ph” out of phone
Take the “o” out of women
Take the “ti” out of creation
Put them together and it makes photi (fish)
hi photi how ‘ya been?
Here is a chart for smileys you may need. Type these keys to make smileys (Don’t put in spaces like I did; I only did this so that it wouldn’t look like this:
= :lol:):
: lol : =
: oops : =
: grin : =
: eek : =
*fart*
Stupid garbanzo beans!
Sorry. Just a politeness blooper. I get those sometimes.
SOMEBODY TALK TO ME!!!! I’M ALL ALONE!!!! Please…
hello! see
im talking to you 
Hi, Kai! You have a space-loving twin, by the by.
The slow pace of the blog can be a little jarring for neophytes to get used to; unlike other sites, MB doesn’t move at the speed of light, nor does it want to. This, of course, is mainly a result of a combination of GAPA moderation and the fact that there are only around forty (ish? it seems like forty) regular posters on the blog at any one time, most of whom spend their days in school of some kind.
Compared to the rest of the Internet, which prides itself on speed and new information every few seconds, this can be very strange. We like it this way, though. It gives us the ability to build a community peacefully, and makes sure that someone wanting to catch up on the day’s activity doesn’t have to scroll through thousands of posts.
It also, we’d like to think, lends us a certain air of dignity. (Yes, yes, get your laughs out.) We are very silly people– I don’t expect entirely serious minds could create what you’ll find here– but we pride ourselves on being not only nerdy but also intelligent, not only silly but also creative, not only thinking but also thoughtful. (Check the Prussiania threads for a prime example of MuseBlog’s particular brand of ridiculosity. Sorry, Robert.)
I’m sure Robert sees that as a compliment. Besides, it’s important to remind you every once in awhile that silliness is not something one has to grow out of.
Hey! you’re an Administrator! You work at the Hare and the Hedgepig! How do I sign in? it says I need administrator confirmation of the account! Can you tell me? Or is it the parental controls my parents are using?
You don’t need to sign in. You can already do everything you need to do. That’s why we’re in no hurry to approve new accounts until we’re sure people plan to stick around.
Or until you decide you want to play chess.
WHAT?! if i can’t be funny and sarcastic any time i want to then i’m leaving
i came here to bring happieness to your dull lives
No offense
Perhaps my phrasing was rather tortured, but nowhere did I say anything against being funny and sarcastic. My point was that we GAPAs try to reassure MBers that being an adult doesn’t mean you have to give up the pleasure of being silly sometimes.
Well, it just RUINS my dignity!
Here is a list of some of the coolest bands and some of their songs.
Modest Mouse: Parting Of The Sensory, Dashboard, Stean Engenius
The Beatles: Yellow Submarine, Eleanor Rigby, Strawberry Fields
Beck: Go It Alone
Radiohead: Paranoid Android
The Pixies: Cactus, Caribou, Where Is My Mind
These bands rock!
I love your poem.
I approve of your taste in music, too.
I’m Castle, and it is very nice to meet you.
As Cat’s Eye said above – the pace here is slower. There’s some things we do that work well with that that are also common courtesy, and it usually takes newcomers a little while to adjust to it.
We try to think of everything we’re going to say, and put it all in one post on the relevant thread (we have a Random thread, a thread for music, a thread for six-word stories…threads for everything. If you need to find one, ask around). The blog is also based off of a magazine that has a young-ish age range/audience, so we try not to swear. Very mild language is sometimes accepted, but we don’t encourage it. You can use the word “cake” in place of any swears you might have.
Too long, didn’t read:
Try to post all your words in one post (you’ll get used to it, I promise)
Post on the thread that makes sense
Use “cake” instead of lovely, obscene words
You will fit right in, I think. Welcome to the blog!
Holy cake! You ARE the typical top hat man (or woman? No offense.)!
Have you heard of xkcd?
xk-whatta-what? Um, No.
It’s a webcomic. Castle’s picture is taken from one of the characters of that comic. The character, Hat Guy, is a bit… different… from what you seem to classify as the typical top hat person. Personality-wise, I mean. Of course, Castle himself is far different from this Hat Guy in many ways.
hat guy? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA HA HA heh heh heheh hmm. *cough* sorry no offense Castle but that name is so funny! like i can almost emgine if he was a spy or a detective: “Quick Hat guy! hurry i’m injured! Hat guy! please!” pffft HAHAHAHAHA! again no offense Castle… please
*raises eyebrow*
*is mildly amused*
Also: Be warned: xkcd contains a lot of swearing.
Indeed.
I love Modest Mouse! Parting of the Sensory is an underappreciated song.
WOW! My joy is more than what this smiley shows:
Do you want the lyrics? Here, I know them by heart:
There’s no work in walking in to fuel the talk
I would grab my shoes and then away I’d walk
Through all the stubborn beauty I start at the dawn
Until the sun had fully stopped
Never walking away from
Just a way to pull apart
Dehydrate back into minerals
A life long walk to the same exact spot
Carbon’s anniversary
The parting of the sensory
Old old mystery
The parting of the sensory
Who the (cake) made you the boss?
We placed our chips in all the right spots
But still lost
Any (cakehead) who had ever walked
Could take the ship and do a much finer job
This fit like clothes made out of wasps
Aw, (cake) it I guess I lost
The parting of the sensory
Carbon’s anniversary
Just part it again if you please
Carbon’s anniversary
Who the (cake) made you the boss
If you say what to do I know what not to stop
If you were the ship then who would ever get on
The weather changed it for the worse
And came down on us like it had been rehearsed
And like we hope, but change will surely come
And be awful for most but really good for some
I took a trip to the exact same spot
We pulled the trigger, but we forgot to cock
And every single shot
Aw, (cake) it I guess we lost
Some day you will die and
Somehow something’s going to steal your carbon
Some day you will die and
Somehow something’s going to steal your carbon
Well some day you will die somehow and
Something’s going to steal your carbon
Some day you will die and
Someone’s or something’s will steal your carbon
Some day something will die and
Somehow you’ll figure out how
Often you will die somehow and
Something going to steal your carbon
Well some day you will die somehow and
Something’s going to steal your carbon.
I am 11. And no. I have never heard of Spitting Venom.
It’s on their Good News for People Who Love Bad News cd. I just like it a lot
Isn’t on We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank?
Yeah, this.
Whoops! Yes, that’s true. My bad!
I like Beck’s “Loser”.
It’s hard for a joke to make another joke laugh.
Funny, isn’t it? 
Just a tip, Kai: when you want to say a lot, try to keep it relegated to one comment. Double posting (or, in your case, seven times in a row) is generally discouraged here.
Funny how your name has “lover” in it, and yet your avatar is a creepy skull.
IT’S NOT A SKULL IT’S A PIN FROM THE WORLD ENDS WITH YOU GAAAAAAH
Oh, I love that game!
hmm to me it looks like a Japanese or a Chinese letter of the alphabet
…I always thought it was J. R. R. Tolkien’s symbol.
Wait, I just looked it up and it is his monogram. Is it also from the game? I’ve never played it before.
OH NO NOT ANOTHER AWKWARD CONVERSATION WITH MUSELOVERI think he changed it just now, and the new one hasn’t shown up for you, Catwoman, or me. (By the way, Catwoman, it is J. R. R. Tolkien’s monogram).
It’s been changed for a while now, but for some reason it has trouble showing up for some people. It only worked for me a few weeks after I changed it.
hmm… what was your new picture?
also… what was your old one?
because maybe i am seeing your new one now and i just don’t know it because i have always known you (since April 2) to have the one you have now… if the GAPAs will let me i will send you the image i see now
or maybe this IS your new one and Kai was right and she was seeing your old one which might be a skull but how should i know in the thort thime i new you and a… a… a… OMG i need to rest my brain XP
You’re seeing his old one.
I know that because I’ve been on here for almost 2 years and remember when it changed to what you’re calling the old one–which looks much more like a Japanese or Chinese letter of the alphabet than a skull or pin. It is, as I said, J. R. R. Tolkien’s monogram.
Hi, Kai!
People don’t really talk on the Welcome thread–unless you have questions!
Also, you seem to like smilies! I do as well–here are two great smiley threads!
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=8293 = Stupid Senseless Smiley Stories: The thread where you act out random stories with smilies! Can be anything from real life to HPB slaughter.
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1480 = Round Robin Smiles: The thread where many people contribute to a continuous story, all told with smilies! Extremely dead, but you can help revive it!
Welcome Kai!
I’m overwhelmed with- pies? Really? Isn’t that Kokopelli’s old joke?
They’re somewhat of a staple here on MuseBlog.
wait… Kokopelli’s OLD joke? you mean… the pie throwing joke is OLD?!?!
well then, let’s make it new again!
[Excess pies retro-snipped. Sorry, we shouldn’t have allowed them in the first place, –Admin.]
Oh, you want a pie throwing match? This may as well be an insult throwing match! How patronizing (actually, you have a right to patronize, since I AM a beginner).
Here’s MY pies!
[Too many pies! I’ve snipped about 99% of them. Also, please reread the stated purpose of this thread. –Admin.]
But… Administrator! Catwoman was doing it too! At least snip hers! Or at least let me have the same amount of pies as her!
but… i also did it on the pie war thread too! please delete that! it wouldn’t feel right to keep that post there then if i did something wrong please delete them as well. i couldn’t stand doing something wrong on museblog and knowing it!!!
[Done. –Admin.]
Aww, it’s okay. You should see some of the older threads, we used to absolutely spam smilies every which way. Don’t worry about it. I mean, it’s a good idea not to keep doing it, but it’s not a big problem.
I just realized that since you’re both rather new, you might not know why your pies are being deleted. I know that if I were you, it would seem unfair and unreasonable to me, even though there actually is a good reason. The thing is, too many emoticons can make threads harder for some computers to load–maybe not yours or mine, but there are people here whose computers do that. So although pies and other emoticons are fine (we wouldn’t have them if the GAPAs didn’t want us to; I’m pretty sure it was their choice to allow the site to accept them), too many in a row can make things difficult.
I just thought you should know, because I don’t know about you, but personally, I hate not knowing why something isn’t allowed, and I thought it might be helpful.
I’m going to play Asteroids. Now you will all disappear!
For those of you who do not know what Asteroids is, it is a game that you will find as the lowest entry on the right.
It was recently added to the ‘blog after a rather sparkly and unicorn-filled April Fool’s Day.
Perhaps you would like the Random Thread? That’s where most of our random posts go, and if MuseBlog were a social network, this would be the ‘wall’. Is that right? I don’t know. I don’t actually socially network, so…
I think that’s a reasonable way to describe the Random Thread. Does anyone have any other suggestions?
Well, when you want long, extensive talk, go to the Hare and the Hedgepig! They’re full of topics! They’re like a whole ton of threads put together! Try it.
Hello Kai D.!
Hey, Kai D! How’s it going?
Now, no need to get formal, Areohawk. You too, Agent Hippie! Who puts two capitals in their first name? Just call me Kai.
I believe the reason they’re calling you Kai D is that there’s another Kai – KaiYves – on the blog, and they’re differentiating the two of you.
I’m fine with being Kai Y if it will keep people from getting us confused.
Why won’t my new gravatar show up?
It occasionally takes a bit.
Did my representative picture change? I’m really Kai D.
I can be so many people! (I am really Kai D.)
Heh heh!
I am a little creeped out that I can change my name and not my picture. 
The picture changes with your email, not your name. A while back, people would tack lots of add-ons to their names. The picture would still be the same, but the name could change from “Agent Lightning” to “Agent Lightning needs to be working on her NaNoWriMo” to “Agent Lightning (200 wung points)”. We don’t really do that much anymore, though.
i do!
oops spelled my email wrong! haha
also Kai D that is a good example of what Agent Lightning was talking about. so if you want a different or better Profile. purposely spell your email wrong (or use a different one if you have another installed on your computer)
by the way Sorry For The Double Post (SFTDP)
Misspelling and email address works? Because when I wanted to make an alter ego, and I changed my email address to sorrygapasilackanotheremailaddress@gmail.com (or something like that), the comment didn’t post, and I was told, “Please enter a valid email address.”
I have five email addresses.
One was my very first and had a terrible name. The GAPAs are aware of this. It contained the word “quarkle” followed by some numbers.
One was another one with a stupid name.
The third is my first gmail account (the others were ISP-provided) and consists of my name and some numbers, which looks nicer than quarkle. It’s also my main account.
The fourth is the same as my first gmail, only with the numbers changed. I use it for signing up for very specific and important website accounts.
The fifth is also gmail, and I use it for imageboards I post on so that people can contact me if they like my work.
I use all of them except No.5 for avatars.
I use MobileMe/iCloud, and my main email is (myfullname) because it’s a family account. I have multiple emails, many of which I’ve used for alter egos, but that’s the only one I ever check.
Usually, to misspell my email address I change a few letters. For example, if my email address was agentlightning9000@(insertnameoffavoriteemailproviderhere), (it’s not anything like this– the GAPAs can verify that). I might change it so lightning didn’t have a t, (agentlighning) or change 9000 to 9001 or 8000 or 900.
Each misspelled variation will give you a different picture.
Experimentation with different alter ego pictures has taught me that if you veer too far off the path of your actual address (make it too dissimilar from the original spelling) then WordPress will recognize it as a fake address and give you the “Please enter a valid email address” message. For example, if I changed the email I mentioned above to “agentlllighning90000000@@@@@(insertnameoffavoriteproviderheeere)” it would give me the message.
WHAT DOES THE GAPA SAY ABOUT HER EMAIL LEVEL?
IT’S OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAAAAND
where do you people get that saying? i heard that saying over nine thousand times before. but where is it from?
It’s an Internet meme; I here it in real life, too. I think it originally came from a Yukio episode, but most of the people who use it don’t watch Yukio. They’re just jumping on the bandwagon.
Nope! It’s from Dragon Ball Z.
I KNEW IT!!!
the GAPAs cut out a piece of my post so it might not make any sense continuing this conversation
Bibliophile:
You (or any other MBer) may use “anonymous(at)museblog.com” for your alter egos, or whenever you don’t want to be identified. That’s easier than making up a bogus email address that might not work.
It works like this — see?
Ohhh. Is this new? Nifty!
I don’t post under any other names, but I used some of my other emails to get new gravatars for the Masked Ball threads and I often just use “notmyrealemail @” whatever when I’m somewhere I don’t want it to remember my email and autofill it in the future.
Yes, it’s new. We should have thought of it years ago.
Of course, you don’t have to call yourself “Anonymous.” You can use any name you want.
Nifty.
hey this is cool! it really works!
not that i didn’t believe you Robert. i know you would’nt lie to us
exept if you were playing a joke of course
I’m feeling hungry…
you know what i do when im hungry? i eat
Hey!
Hello, Jane. Are you connected with Kai? You seem to be sharing a computer.
poopoo
Looks like we have some visitors (creepy-one has my name)!
And also seems to be using your computer.
Damn those clones.
ADMINOSTRATORRR!!! SMALL BUT FIERCE SAID A BAD WOOORD!
Very mild language is generally let through, as long as it isn’t excessive. Being used humorously (such as here) also helps.
ADMINISTRATORRRRRR
CATWOMAN IS YELLING AT MEEEE
WHY IS EVERYONE SO MAD
WE’RE NOT WE JUST FEEL LIKE USING ALL CAPITALS HERE
[I DON’T KNOW WHAT WE’RE YELLING ABOUT gif here]
WWHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! I LIKE CAPITALS! THEY ARE SO FUN! I COULD DO THIS FOREVER! YEAH! THIS IS SO FUN!
BECAUSE I SWORE AND APPARENTLY I’M BRUISING MUSEBLOGGERS’ DELICATE EARS
OH DEAR ME
My ears are actually made of literal porcelain, so that comment is actually very offensive to me and others. Please reconsider the use of the word delicate. Otherwise, I may prosecute you for ableism.
I think, though, that by delicate, she was referring to ears that bruise easily. Yours don’t bruise at all, so in that sense, your ears are considerably less delicate than average. Or was that what you meant all along?
I’ve learned to tune it out.
After all, I am in a public school.
I don’t usually swear myself, but after almost-2 years in a public high school I don’t even notice anymore.
Jeez! Do squids have something against public schools!? And if ANYONE gives me a squid, I will personally find the squid and tell him my opinion about insults.
*dares anyone to squid me*
Well, hello there. I don’t think I ever introduced myself as well as I intended to, but truthfully, I am a giant space squid. Am I correct in hearing that you had an opinion you desired to share with me or my fleetmates?
Squids aren’t insults. They are often times used in sympathy…but I’m still new here so I am going to hope someone will be able to better explain everything.
(By the way, are welcome threads usually this long?)
Almost never.
Wow! You gave me 3 squids and *Cskia! Why don’t you meet up and listen to my opinion about insults?
[insert petty comment about Kai D’s preferred insults here]
Good with me, as long as all my fleetmates are invited as well–all the hundreds of them.
We generally have nothing against public schools, by the way.
Same, although I would prefer to see “darn” substituted on MuseBlog.
So would we.
As would I.
I don’t think people swear more in public schools than private, generally.
Those aren’t the only 2 types of schools, though. When I was in a virtual school, I never heard anyone swear at all. That technically was part of the public school system, but no-one thought of it that way.
I suppose that private religious schools that are really strict might have less swearing, actually, but I wouldn’t know, never having been to one.
I’m in a private religious school, and I definitely hear less swearing here than I did when I was in public school.
OH NOOOO
MY INNOCENCE HAS BEEN RUINED
This is what happens when you confront the perils of the interwebs.
MORE SCREAMING! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAHHH!
Exploring the Woven Beyond, are you?
i’m such a sketchy internet person~
I’m sketchier.
*leaves to go sketch*
Oi, Sketch, are we getting married one of these days? We should round up all the other fiances and fiancees and have a big MuseBlog wedding after the May Day Ball is over.
Speaking of which, I need to drag Beedle back to the blog. I can’t marry her if she’s not here!
Yes, that would be perfect. How are we going to work out the whole me marrying both you and your son thing?
Eh, we’ll just roll with it and see how it turns out.
Awesome. <3 <–that is our married couple strange incestuous love
*barely concealed snickers*
*all-out laughing. no attempts made to conceal it*
I LOVE THIS PLACE
I LOVE YOUR FACE
RHYMING IN SPACE
BOWIE’S IN SPACE
Have you seen Flight of the Conchords videos? Because that.
I have not.
But now I’m listening to David Bowie and I’m going to have Ziggy Stardust stuck in my head for the rest of the day. Could be worse.
Ooh, yes, that sounds excellent! By the way, what about couples who arranged a specific day to get married but then just kind of forgot about it until afterward? Does that mean we married but forgot to announce it or we just sort of forgot to get married? If there’s going to be a huge blog-wedding, I’d prefer the latter so that I can participate (as a participant, I mean, rather than a guest and or/priestess), but Choklit should have a say in it, too. What do you think, Choklit?
(I just realized that that sounds like a term of endearment even though it’s actually just your name).
Am I adopting both you and your fiancee/wife?
Well, you can if you want and Choklit doesn’t mind. You didn’t offer to earlier on this thread, though, if that’s what you’re referring to; you offered to adopt *Cskia (my sister) and me. We’re not engaged, at least at the moment.
I’d love to adopt more people! I seem to have several kids and no spouse in site. I’ll go make the papers final, if Choklit doesn’t mind.
So my fiancee/wife is now also possibly my sister? Excellent. I also realized that Cskia has another sister, LBK–except that she has another sister, Random, with a clone, Mago. You can’t adopt them all, because R101 was using their lack of blog parents as a way for *C to be her sister’s sister and not her sister. *C does have a blog parent now, which could complicate things. I’ve worked out that the only way left for it to work is for LBK to be the biological sister of one of them and the adopted sister of the other. If you adopt LBK, she’ll be *C’s adopted sister and R101’s biological sister; if you don’t, it can be the other way around. The first way, though, would mean she’d also be my sister and possibly Choklit’s; the second way, she’d be Mago’s sister by default, I think, so either way, LBK gets a new sister. She just has to choose which. I hope she doesn’t mind; if she doesn’t want to think of either of us as her sisters, I expect an arrangement can be made. Anyway, it’s up to her, I think.
I agree, we should all throw a grand… thing. Whatever gigantic and flammy and fantastical weddings are called.
I need a term of endearment for you. Tardy? Hm.
I’m also engaged to Luna now (through off-blog interaction).
Quotation from my Spanish class:
Classmate (talking about answers to a crossword puzzle): “What’s this one? Because it says the husband of my mother and not my father, but hermanastro doesn’t fit.
Teacher: Step-brother?
Classmate: Oh.
Me: Yes, my mother married my step-brother.
Other classmate who started listening too late in the conversation: What?
We need to make this happen.
Bibliophile: What, it hasn’t already?
Oh, wait, we don’t have step-anythings because there haven’t been any divorces. I rather hope there won’t be.
Piggy, you’ll be my husband-in-law and -father-in-law several times removed. By the way, were you ever engaged to Rosebud? That would relate us even more.
…although I’m not very sure about marrying Swalot because that would make real life interactions a bit awkward. I mean, “fiancee” seems a better nickname for him than “husband.” Don’t get me wrong, Areo, I love you very much and we’re engaged a dozen times over and all but I wasn’t planning on marrying you quite yetHas anyone here heard a song called “I’m My Own Grandpa”? Because that’s where I see this leading.
You have inspired me to look it up. Oh my, this seems to be coming true…
This was seriously an assignment in freshman biology. We had to chart it all out in preparation for charting our own family history. It was such a nightmare.
It also gives an indication of how pointless my freshman biology class was.
SFTMC.
Husband-in-law? That’s a much more creative term than “fellow spouse,” the best equivalent term I was able to come up with earlier. I like it.
I think Piggy is sort-of engaged to me, actually?
All right. Yes, I was making fake email accounts. I just wanted to see what representative pictures I could come up with.
oh yea i did that once. and everyone got mad at me
so i advise you not do do that anymore.
Kai D doesn’t need advice; judging by her cute blushing emoticon, she’s already feeling guilt.
Catwoman, darling, we weren’t mad at you. We were just frustrated, since impersonating people violates the Blog code. We love you.
On a side note, how long ago does something need to happen to be referred to as “once” in that sense? Of course, technically “once” is used for “something that happened one time”, but in this case it’s used as an “ah, I’m reminiscing” word and I’m just pondering how long that should take. Hm.
SBF:
In this case, “once” means almost three weeks ago.
Wow.
darling? isn’t this… too formal?
SFTDP
i meant forward
oh my gosh i’m such a scary internet person
calling people “darling”
get out your missiles
<creep on>
*prepares missiles for launch*
“I can’t miss from this range,” I think to myself as I aim at SBF sitting behind her desk.
*fires missiles*
RAINBOWS EVERYWHERE
</creep>
Oh, sweetheart, I didn’t mean it that way.
Use ALL the pet names!
HOW DARE YOU CALL ME ME GIRL! CAKE! CAKITTY CAKITTY CAKE! AAAAAAAAAAARGH!
*simmering with anger*
CAKE YOU, SMALL BUT FIERCE! CAKE YOU! YOU ARE SMALL AND POKE IN THE WRONG AREAS!
And one little note: Check out the HG2MB. You will find that you call someone that you don’t know whether they are a girl or a boy “en.”
But now you have the knowledge tha I am a BOY. Cake!
Please read my beautiful fiancee’s post, take a deep breath, and kindly calm the cake down.
OFFICIAL RESPONSE TIME
Hi, Kai D.
Considering I’ve been on MB for over three years, I know about the custom of using the gender-neutral pronoun “en”; I didn’t use it in this case because I was fairly certain that you were female, which was not a correct assumption. (This was partially because KaiYves is a girl, partially because you impersonated someone named Jane, and partially because of your writing voice.)
You know, you could have just corrected me with, “I’m a boy,” and been done with; I would have accepted that. Yet you chose to basically cuss me out. (In case you didn’t know, “cake” is a substitute for swear words on the blog – this would be found on the HG2MB, which I’m assuming you know, since you so helpfully gave me that “one little note” to check it out.) That upset me, because I initially said something flattering toward you: Catwoman advised you to not impersonate people, and I said you had shown the proper humility.
I’m slightly confused about your sentence, “YOU ARE SMALL AND POKE IN THE WRONG AREAS” – I understand that I am small, considering my username is “small but fierce”, but are you telling me that I poke people in all the wrong areas or are you saying (ungrammatically) that you will poke me in all the wrong areas? Either way, it’s irrelevant and slightly rude to capslock that vague and profane sentence.
Listen, I didn’t mean to anger you. As I said, I was trying to defend you, and clearly that didn’t work out. The thing that upset me the most was your condescending tone in the “one little note” section of your post, and I’m frankly really offended.
I would like some acknowledgement that you’ve read this post and Cskia and Sel’s posts, which are infinitely more polite and eloquent than mine – but right now I’m asking you to please take a deep breath and kindly calm the cake down.
OFFICIAL RESPONSE END
Also, I will poke you in all the wrong areas.
Oh my KOKOPELLI this is [one of the reasons] why we love you.
I laughed out loud (I refuse to abbreviate that) multiple times while reading this.
Also not gonna say that thing ’bout poking because that would just make me feel like a total creep.
I have absolutely no reservations about seeming like a total creep.
P.S. Don’t forget to check out the next season of the Sarah Connor Chronicles this fall on Fox!
…Erm. What? Have I missed this joke/reference?
It’s an xkcd reference.
But I haven’t watched anything on Fox since I watched Firefly. I’ve decided to never look their way again, those Firefly-canceling cakeheads.
I’d love to hear what you have to say, monsieur Kai (OMG I USED A MALE IDENTIFIER). Don’t be embarrassed…it seems like there’s been a break in your posting. I didn’t mean to scare you off.
If you feel that strongly, you can always add some sort of indicator to your name. Not the motivation for mine, but somehow people are less likely to err in pronoun use.
I suggest “Kai D the extremely male guy-male-man”.
Or, better yet, “Kai D the exceedingly masculine guy-male-man who is male and manly and he is a guy”.
Or he could just add a “♂ ” symbol like the one we put beside his name on the MBers-in-chronological-order page.
male-man’s here. i wonder if i got a letter from my pen-pal
There is that. *blush*
Dear Kai D, please calm down. We are a large community and honestly, even as a considerably long-time MuseBlogger I still get confused about the genders of my fellow bloggers. Perhaps SBF thought you a girl because our other Kai, KaiYves, is known to be female.
We know that the term “en” is generally used, but humans make mistakes all the time. Please do not cake my fiancee.
Thank you for reading.
Kai D, there’s really no need to be so angry about it. It was a simple mistake, one that anyone could have made, and I know I’ve done it more than once. It’s not an impossible mistake to make on a community where you don’t always know the gender of everyone in it. It wasn’t meant to be insulting or hurtful to you; it’s not a huge deal. So please try to calm down about it, and don’t be mad at sbf.
Exactly. Selenium is one of many of us who gets genders wrong occasionally, and I personally think he’s one of the lesser offenders.
THIS
PERF
I’ve even seen Robert do it!
Robert’s a great GAPA, but even she makes mistakes sometimes.
It’s true. My mother used to say I’d forget my own head if it weren’t attached. I never forgot her gender, though.
Oh, Robert – she’s so forgetful.
don’t be mad at SBF. he just made a little mistake. (i am sorry SBF if you are a girl but i havn’t been on MB long enough to determine your genders) if someone mistakes me for a boy (like, that happened on another website) i just say something like this: “but… i am a girl… so to speak i would be “Female” you know… the exact opposite of “Male” you see” and just take it as a simple little mistake and forget about it. and i know Small But Fierce is sorry that he offended you. please forgive us. you should have introduced yourself as a boy earlier on. so no one would have made any mistake and offended you so.
I am a girl. Don’t worry. Thanks, doll.
Well, what kind of boy would bequeath the name “Catwoman” unto himself? A boy who wants to be a girl, more or less!
I think she has a different username on the website where she was mistaken for a boy.
yes the other one was Apples♥oranges123. and a lot of boys like fruit. so i can see where someone could make that mistake
dang email…
Why would that be an issue?
Well, hey. I’m not exactly new (I posted as The Mole a few years back), but I thought I’d return and scope things out. Glad to see that this little haven of intelegence is still decidedly active. Well, anyway, I’m back
Welcome back! Nice to see you.
Hello!
*attempts to resist overwhelming snarky desire to point out that “intelligence” is spelled with two l’s and an i*
INTELLIGENCE IS SPELLED WITH TWO “L”s AND AN “I”
Sorry, I don’t know what could have come over me. Welcome back to the blog
Preterition. One of the most disingenuous rhetorical devices, in my opinion.
Oh. That’s rather embarrassing. Sadly, though, most of my spellings have been codified into my iPad’s autocorrect, whether they’re correct or not.
Autocorrect will one day be the death of me. I’ve made so many errors on my iPod it’s not even funny. I mean, some of them were funny, but they’ve also gotten me into some unfortunate situations.
Yea. For something that’s supposed to be contex-aware, it sure doesn’t like to construct sentences that make a lick of sense.
I’M HERE!!! Oh wait, no one knows who I am….Cake. I’m so excited to be here! I can’t wait for a joyous time filled with squids, hugs, and pie. And hopefully not too much cake. I’m attractive, charismatic, and single. LOL JK…about being single…..wait, no i’m not…..hmmmmm…awkward turtle!
Hello, Monkeyboy!
Hello Monkeyboy! Welcome to the ‘Blog!
Welcome!
hello! Monkeyboy is it? welcome to the blog here!
im sure everyone is happy to see a new MBer come! again… WELCOME! *tosses welcome pie*
WOW! In only 10 days this whole blog turned from empty to at LEAST 20 posts. SHEESH!
170, actually.
*faint*
When I saw comment 29.1 in the moderation queue, my first thought was, ”
Are they comparing I.Q. scores?”
Eh, I don’t think anyone would’ve fainted over 170 then.
I mean, once I *erm, I meant we* rule the world, we can always fudge the necessary documents in retrospect and change the tests to reflect applied pie-rodynamics*,
“culture”, BA (cannon) and MBers birthday colors.
*and pyrodynamics, and pyrodynamics of pie-rodynamics (i.e. how best to throw a flambéd pie, or how to best flambé a pie being thrown at you, or anything else involving fire and pastry projectiles)
I am the best at firing Bunny Apocalypses from cannons.
(I believe the word you are looking for is “canon”)
Lo siento, estoy muy cansada.
Except in real life, I’m really awful at throwing anything–even pies.
There have been a total of 2,223 threads created by the administrators since the blog was started, with comments on those threads usually exceeding 150 posts and often reaching to 500 or more.
Bear in mind that this isn’t the whole blog, just one of the threads on the blog.
When does your new gravatar show up? Mine never showed up! It was a really cool picture of a brain.
It depends. Sometimes it shows up immediately; sometimes it takes days; sometimes it takes hours for some people, days for others, and just doesn’t show up to the rest.
for me it took a split-second
Out of boredom I will draw an electric guitar out of I’s:
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NOTE: Administrator, can you please keep the I’s arranged the way they are?
Kai D, unfortunately, spacing proportion changes automatically along the way from submission to moderation space to actual blog. We have no control over the process.
P.S. Now that you’re officially welcomed into the fold, this thread is really meant to be for questions about finding your way around if you need help. The Random Thread is there to be random, or you can seek out threads dedicated to particular subjects.
Wow! I feel like I just got a degree for museblogging!
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if that were possible?
with imagination it can!
and i go with the GAPAs. let’s move this conversation over to the Random Thread. and this is my last post on this thread unless a new person needs welcoming. this was just a final attempt, i know most of you wouldn’t want to take orders from a neophyte. but i’m just saying. just in case any of you are brave enough to shun your ego by listening to a neophyte. (let alone a cat)
I know I’m not the first to say this, but https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=11585, bro.
Is there a thread for making suggestions for how to improve the site? Because I think it would be cool if we had a webcam thread where you could talk using your webcam and post passages.
Here is a smaller version of the electric guitar I tried to draw:
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Yes there is: https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=8467
Also, again, try going here for general chat like the electric guitar: https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=11585
Oh, SFTDP, but the GAPAs have a strict policy against personal communication unsanctioned by parents. Webcams cannot be moderated, and could theoretically contain personal information.
You MBers make our jobs so easy.
Considering that webcams would in fact show your face, it would certainly contain personal information.
Unless you stood behind it or something.
Come to think of it, though, an audio Kokonvention would be rather fun.
tiny!
How do you know how old musebloggers are and when their birthday is?
There’s a birthday thread where MBers post their birthdays. It’s completely voluntary: if you’d rather us not know when your birthday is, that’s fine, but most people volunteer that information.
In response to your earlier post, you can go to the Suggestion Box thread and suggest things for the GAPAs.
I am writing a cool story. It is called Brother. I will type it here for you:
Brother
By Kai D
Chapter 1
There was a BOOM sound that came from the other room. My brother was at work. My brother was notorious for being experimental with everythin he was given. Lately, he was into putting chemicals, plastics, and metal alloys together to form dangerous things. He had been grounded from his room for fear of him finding a way to burn the house down. His name is Morticus Andrew Dunn, or Moe for short. He is described by the word “mad†in three different ways: He’s mad when I interfere with his “world revolution solutions (notice how in this quote he tries to sound smart and important), he’s the “crazy†kind of mad, and that’s his initials, too: M.A.D.
I found it extremely funny when he burned himself by putting dry ice into a fire. My name is Olive Diamond Dunn. My initials describe me in only one way: I am odd. I tend to mix foods together like my brother mixes chemicals. When my family hurts me I don’t cry while when my family leaves me by myself I do cry. To tell the truth, Moe and I are weird in different ways entirely.
I am only able to type Chapter One because I don’t want to type so much.
Kai D.,
Could you copy the story to the Writing thread, please?
Done.
Why don’t the links I create work? They will only go into this blog. I promise.
Just to make sure…
I don’t know what format you’re trying, but if they look like this
<a href=”http://whatever”>wordswordswords</a>
they ought to work.