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when you need your teeth cleaned do you go to a rodentist
Thoughts on vacations: Do you prefer theme parks, built up cities, tourist traps and such or calmer more relaxed escape to nature, camping and hiking kinds of things?
If you had to travel a long distance would you rather fly or drive it (assuming both are an option)?
Ugh.
So here's the thing. My family used to make trips across the country from New England to the Midwest several times a year-- for reasons largely pertaining to my parents' work-- and that necessitated a whopping SEVENTEEN HOUR drive, if not longer. The bigger problem was that a substantial portion of it was on congested interstates flanked by featureless expanses of nondescript fields if not frankly depressing rust-belt cities. And you saw more and more of these things the further you went. So, y'know, road trips can end up being a little bit depressing depending on the path you end up taking. And then there's the fact that driving them requires constant vigilance, and a lot of places have crummy drivers...
Flying may be more impersonal, but at least the flight itself generally comes along with a fairly pleasant view from above the clouds, even if the trip itself is flanked on either end by bureaucratic nonsense. Still, you miss out on the camaraderie of being in a car full of friends.
Which is a way of saying, I suppose, that it depends on the route I'd be taking. But I'd probably fly out of practicality, unless I had a caravan full of friends I was going with.
Your go to "today SUCKED and i need to unwind" activity?
Do it. Buy a toy. A fleshlight is discrete and a fun time for all! But mostly you.
How does a magic rat man become the base commander of a unit of plane enthusiasts and degenerates?
Out-of-universe: It was kind of an accident. I had the whole 'base commander' in the coat and the helmet and all that and at some point- I want to say it was the picture of looking up at the stars in an X-29's cockpit?- I just doodled up a rat alt so I could post it in my FA gallery. This process repeated several times until I decided I liked the look enough to just give the coat and such to Syd and ruled that they were, in fact, the same person all along. Somehow.
In-universe: probably because he was the only person stupid enough to take a crack at it.
Got any playlists you like to listen to? Music to rat to.
I've got a few tracks I keep returning to. Weirdly enough there's this old extended dance version of Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer" that tends to help me focus on my artwork when all else fails. Obviously I'm a big fan of the FFXIV and Ace Combat series' OSTs, too.
But I sometimes just go to whatever jazz streaming channels I can find on Youtube and go with those. Less fond of lo-fi, though.
is it better to cradle rat like baby, or hold rat like cheeseburger
ASMR: Local six foot rodent types on keyboard, creaks his chair, clatters his teacup against the desk.
Yes.
Not the guy who asked the ASMR question but low quality mic ASMR is the most soulful ASMR.
You own any toys?
The best part of morbier cheese is when it goes "IT'S MORBIN' TIME".
This is going to sound weird but ever think of doing ASMR? Your voice is calming as hell man
Ever think of drawing a humanized version of Syd?
(Preferably with the rat ears and tail remaining present)
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