[Closed for now]

[FerretPrince]

[FerretPrince]

[Saraneth 6th Bell]

Ohmaigawd, it's you. How you doing?

[FerretPrince]

Holy s**t, I know you! 8D

I'm doing much better these days. It's good to be back on Gaia. What about you? How's the art going?

[Saraneth 6th Bell]

You do indeed. :'D

I r fine, mostly. Doing an illustration degree and obscenely, annoyingly busy for a lot of the time. I live in a box room filled with art supplies.

You still have the collection of various cute and fuzzy critters?

[FerretPrince]

Man, I completely blanked out on your name. Acute kidney failure is a b***h, man. Trust me. Don't let your kidneys fail you.

Fewer cute and fuzzy critters than I would like, honestly. All of my pet mice died (old age and cancer; it happens), but the vole is still doing well. And I've got a pair of rats now. They're adorable. The cats and dog are doing just fine. And the lizard is doing well. He inherited the mouse aquarium.

[Saraneth 6th Bell]

Yeah... I'm not planning on kidney failure, but then I don't think anybody plans for that. xD;

Poor mousies. D: Although I guess they're not really known for their long lifespans. Rats are cool, though. It's like levelling up in rodents! Increase in size and brain power, lulz.

Mouse aquarium makes me think of little mice in snorkles and flippers. Which is way too cute.

My dog is psychotic and my cat is kind of senile. Although the senility has made her very cuddly and loving. Unfortunately I don't see them often since I live at uni nao.

[FerretPrince]

Oh, hell yes. Besides, everyone knows that rat-types are super effective against maze-types.

I think one of my cats might be senile. But, if she is, she's been senile for years. She comes inside every day and then refuses to eat until someone walks with her into the kitchen and points at the cat food dish.

You moved into a dorm now or something?

[Saraneth 6th Bell]

My cat did that 'I am hungry, and you are shoving the plate under my nose, but I refuse to eat, wait where is the plate again?' thing for a few months, which was worrying since she's a pig. But she's back to being Gobbly McVacuum now.

Not dorms, luckily. Here in Angle-land, we believe in a bit more privacy than that. :'D I have my own room and bathroom, tiny as they may be, in an apartment with four other people. It's pretty decent. Although plenty of places don't have ensuite bathrooms and I'm sure some people might share a room, but it's not common.

[FerretPrince]

Ha! One of my cats does a very good impression of a pig. A really fat pig. She's a little over 2 years old now and 21 pounds. I now take her for walks every day. She hates this.

It's really more of a 'drag' than a walk.

Hey, you're pretty lucky to have your own bathroom. How're your roommates? Alright?

Yeah. Pretty much everything I know about England has been gleaned from books, primarily Christopher Fowler, my new favorite author. Or one of them.

[Saraneth 6th Bell]

Jesus Christ, that is one lump of a cat, especially for a female. burning_eyes

Yeah, the people in my flat are pretty awesome. One girl has the same classes as me, since she's doing the same degree, so it worked out pretty well. No evil food-stealing, boozehound bastards, so yeah.

*snerk* Want to learn about England? Read goddamned George Orwell. XD Although our chocolate and baked goods are very good.

I don't think I know who Christopher Fowler is.

[FerretPrince]

Hey, good flatmates are important. They make the difference between a totally liveable situation and a DEAR GOD GET ME OUT OF HERE situation.

Oh, come on! Orwell is part of the American education too!

...

I swear, we have one.

...

Somewhere.

...

I have my suspicions that someone left it in their pocket and put it in the washer machine, but we can totally fix it.

I definitely want to go to England someday, if only to have a giggle as people call pants 'trousers' and other adorable words.

It's alright. ._. Apparently no one does. He's a pretty good writer though. He writes a detective series, The Peculiar Crimes Unit. You'd probably enjoy it, since you love perfectly imperfect characters. Also, they taught me the difference between pubs, taverns, and inns. This is very important.

[Saraneth 6th Bell]

Yeah, definitely. My flatmates are pretty awesome. They had a sort of mini surprise birthday party for me a few weeks back. We still have the balloons kicking around.

I know it's part of the US education, but there's a reason why that sort of book is most often set over here. >_>

Haha, when I lived in Ohiooooo I always said trousers. But here I keep saying pants. I am so contrary, apparently. Here, pants means underwear. Which I don't understand, because if pants meant underwear, there wouldn't be the word underpants.

I might look him up sometime, then. Mostly the stuff I have been reading lately is all online. There is a surprising amount of friggin awesome gay fiction online, and the funny thing is it is mostly written by women. A lot of fun emotionally retarded, violent characters who remind me of Neth. Although I think I'm the only one with an emotionally retarded, violent character who is not a raging top. ._.

[FerretPrince]

Oh man. A surprise birthday party? That is pretty awesome.

Yeaaah... you know, I often think that, if V For Vendetta had been set in the US, it never would have been produced. Americans are very picky about that.

If I ever go to England, I will use English terms with impunity. Skeleton in the cupboard. Pub. Throw a spanner. Yeah. I'm doing research on this.

Say, are you the person who introduced me to Greg the Vampire? If not, it's a great story. Too bad it was never finished...

[Saraneth 6th Bell]

Yeah. We ate cupcakes that they had decorated in icing with improper words and pictures. I believe there were two p***s cupcakes. It was glorious.

Also, it's the setting. America is far too huge and has far too many guns for a 1984 style takeover. Ye olde UK is an unarmed island.

Skeleton in the cupboard? That's hardly English, unless... Oh, do you say it with closet, not cupboard? >_> I think I say it with closet, too, since cupboard implies like...the smaller version where glasses and plates are kept. XD

I bleeev I am. I think she does eventually mean to finish it, along with her other fics, but she is driving me mad. I check her lj far too much considering how the updates she provides are non-existant.

I know some other awesomesauce stories if you want me to send you the links.