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Pisces |
Jul 17 2007, 10:18 AM
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Joined: 20-November 05
From: New Zealand

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QUOTE(DoomedOne @ Jul 16 2007, 10:13 PM)  I got a question for all you advisors out there, though. I fell in love with my roommate, like think of love as the sun, and my self as a comet that was just mindin its own business being a swinger when it got pulled into this solar system for good. I can't concentrate, she pops into my head all the time, I count the hours until I know I can see her again, I feel like I want to just grab onto her and never let go. But she's 4 years older than me, and she shows it in maturity. Apart from the fact that her adult life is getting into full swing and just a year ago I still had to be home by midnight, we're a match made in heaven. We love the same stuff and I feel like we can hang out for weeks straight and never get sick of each other. My other two roommates have both said we should date (jokingly) and it's just getting to me. I can't stand being away from her, I can't stand being with her knowing I just want to have sex with her. I know she doesn't want a boyfriend, and I definitely don't have a chance even if she did. I mean, I can make her laugh but a guy needs more than that to get a girl 4 years older than he is. Should I just try to get over her?
Getting over someone is so hard when you haven't been out with them, but I would give it a try. Stopping obsessing over her is a good place to start, as it will mess up your interpretations of your & her emotions. Trying to stop obsessing definitely won't work so start obsessing over someone else, don't flirt or sleep with them just spend time and think about them, it may put things into perspective. A relationship with her could be an option, girls have been known to date with an age difference larger than that the other way and even though I don't know anyone who has gone out with a girl 4 years older than him, the guys who went out with girls 2 years older had far more successful relationships than with younger girls. But chances are she thinks that 4 years is too much, asking her out could be a bit too intense but admitting to her that you have sexual tension with her would be a good step if you are willing to risk your friendship.
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jack cloudy |
Jul 17 2007, 10:44 PM
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Joined: 11-February 06
From: In a cold place.

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Yeah, I'll be sure to bring some paper and a pen along. I don't know if I'll work too hard on my fanfics though. I want to focus for a bit on some of my other work.
For example, I've been fleshing out my Kendjarr concept. Basically, a Kendjarr in my universe fills the role of an elf, namely humanoid but not human. The idea was that they evolved to mimic the top predator of the planet (human, duh) as a sort of camouflage. Similar to how some flies have stripes similar to bees and wasps. They look human and most parts function like a human's Reproduction doesn't by the way, so interbreeding can't even be attempted. This is a conscious effort to evade any possible trauma's of 'weird relationships.'
Their behaviour is decidedly more animalistic in ways yet in other ways they appear more civilized.
I've got their behaviour set pretty much, but I'm still working on ways to distinguish them from humans. So far I have fine scales (indistinguishable from normal skin without a close look), cold-blooded, carnivorous, enlarged eyes with big pupils for a life in an environment where it's always night, a symbiosis with luminiscent bacteria that causes certain parts of their body to glow and curved claws for climbing and grasping. This glow is used for communication and recognition. (Each Kendjarr family has a distinguishable dominant colour.)
Oh, and I'm particularly proud of the ears. Mostly because I managed to stay away from taking human ears and making them pointy. Read on. The 'me' person is a human and the she is Kendjarr. This particular Kendjarr is still a child, had no contact with other Kendjarr and is very basic in behaviour. Her behaviour mostly resolves about stealing food at this point.
There was something that caught me, more than the hair, more than the eyes or that remarkably pale complexion. It were the ears who, although being in the right position, were nothing like the common ear found on a human’s head. In fact, I wasn’t even sure if they were ears, so different were they. They were the most amazing organic structure I’d ever seen, coloured a breathtaking red. A thin and flexible stalk that hung downward in a slight arc, long enough to reach down to her shoulders if it would bent far enough. And from this stalk branched countless smaller stalks, which branched again, which branched again, till the final result was something which resembled seaweed, only infinitely more complex. Each individual branch slowly waved back and forth, like a leaf in the wind. At random intervals, the whole stalk would flutter as if to focus on some minute sound. I couldn’t help but try to touch them. Gently, I probed forward with a finger, doing my best not to scare her. When my finger made contact, the ear curled up into a tight bundle. A few moments later, the ear gently unwrapped back into its full splendour. ,,Hmm, very sensitive, isn’t it?” I whispered. I was now pretty much convinced that despite the visual gap between mine and hers, I was looking at a pair of genuine and functional ears
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Fabulous hairneedle attack! I'm gonna be bald before I hit twenty.
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ShogunSniper |
Jul 17 2007, 11:24 PM
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Joined: 30-May 05
From: The state of Confusion.

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oh yeah! guess who just scored a 20 or so year old ibanez bass guitar that was owned by a member of my dad's old band back in the 70's? me. 
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blockhead |
Jul 18 2007, 02:38 AM
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Joined: 23-March 07
From: Lokken

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QUOTE(jack cloudy @ Jul 17 2007, 05:44 PM)  Oh, and I'm particularly proud of the ears. Mostly because I managed to stay away from taking human ears and making them pointy.
Good man, saving us from another iteration of an aged cliche  From your description of the ears, I can't help but wonder at the frequency response to audio. Specifically, would this type of ear respond to ultrasonic frequencies (the sound of computer monitors and "dog whistles" will drive it crazy) or instead to subsonic frequencies (earthquake early warnings)? Would this ear cause this race to be sensitive to the loudness of sounds to the point of they'll be asking your main character to "speak softer please" every five minutes?
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jack cloudy |
Jul 18 2007, 06:04 PM
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Joined: 11-February 06
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Shogun, congratulations with your guitar. I tried playing one once. Managed to cut my fingers. Black Hand, all I can say is happy playing. If you ever make Sethyas on Oblivion, try to give us some pictures, ok? I'll think about it, Blockhead. Lessee, I think they would have developed more towards the ultra-sonic range of their spectrum. The diet consists of small insects and animals, some of which likely make high pitched sounds themselves. Earthquakes aren't much of an issue in their environment. They're far away from any sort of tectonic activity. About the 'speak softer' I'll have to think a bit more. More likely the ears would simply fold up partially or completely during very loud noise.
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Fabulous hairneedle attack! I'm gonna be bald before I hit twenty.
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milanius |
Jul 18 2007, 10:00 PM
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Joined: 14-February 05
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Dear god, the heat. THE HEAT. I could've literally passed out today if there wasn't for the air conditioning and this huge fan I used throughout the day. It's gonna be much worse tomorrow and at Friday... damn.
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Zlo činiti od zla se braneći, tu zločinstva nema nikakvoga
Petar II Petrovic Njegos (1813-1851)
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DoomedOne |
Jul 20 2007, 01:54 AM
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Joined: 13-April 05
From: Cocytus

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Gracias Pisces, I pretended to like another girl to explain my lovey-dovey mood and allow myself to vent some of those feelings without letting anyone know they were actually for my roommie. I had a crush on this girl before but got to know her and realized she was just not my type, we're still pretty good friends though. So I started hanging out with her more and flirting with her again (She seemed pretty happy since I hadn't flirted with her since we first met, even though she has a boyfriend)
And yeah, a guy can be as old as he wants to be compared to the girl, but the reverse just isn't so past a couple of years. For some girls it is, but an 18 year old boy and a 22 year old woman just don't fit together. She thinks of me like a brother, while I think of her like an angel. I'm not alone thugh, my 19 year old friend has been trying to make a move ever since he got back from Santa Barbara.
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And the Buddha replied, "Why not try crawling into the blazing furnace?"
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blockhead |
Jul 21 2007, 04:58 AM
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Joined: 23-March 07
From: Lokken

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QUOTE(minque @ Jul 20 2007, 09:17 PM)  Oh dear...I´ve been sitting here almost all night by now! But thet´s the way it is when you have a good time..You know I just re-installed Morrowind, and I´m working on getting it back to what it was like a year ago..just before my former lappy crashed.... yayyyy  Woah: if I've done my math right, that's like 3 AM, your time. Don't forget to put in White Wolf of Lokken Mountain. No Morrowind is complete without it, imoho. And if you like large mindless dungeon crawls, I've made just a few of those. 
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Pisces |
Jul 21 2007, 06:27 AM
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Joined: 20-November 05
From: New Zealand

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QUOTE(Ibis @ Jul 21 2007, 12:50 AM)  Listen to Pisces, he is not only an expert stalker of womenkind but he also has suffered some heartbreaks I think; although he claims attraction to all but defeat by none. Don't even ask him about fathers' discovering him hiding under beds .. !
Well I currently have a crush on one of my friends who is almost 3 years older than me so I can sympathise with doomed. I don't and never was obsessed with her though so I am perfectly fine with remaining friends, though I think she may like me. From past experiances I know that being obsessed causes you to mix up feelings so needs to be avoided in many situations. And I'm not sure about that defeat by none, what do you mean by defeat, in some situations I like being defeated. This post has been edited by Pisces: Jul 21 2007, 06:28 AM
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Ibis |
Jul 21 2007, 12:25 PM
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Joined: 30-March 06
From: Florida Moon-filled Sleepless Nights

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Twists Lord Revan's arm ... hows that for persuasion? QUOTE(Pisces) ..what do you mean by defeat, in some situations I like being defeated. So you're saying you like it on bottom?
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DoomedOne |
Jul 21 2007, 10:15 PM
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Joined: 13-April 05
From: Cocytus

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Yeah Pisces obsession clouds your judgment. As someone attempting to incorporate buddhist techniques of mindfulness and meditation in my life I've learned the difference between states of mind with good judgment and bad judgment, and obsession and attachment definitely lead to bad judgment. I just need to remember to be myself and feel free to act lovingly toward her but with certain boundaries kept in mind.
To be honest, she's good for me because she's motivating me to mature so I can be at her level, you know? It's hard at first, overcoming all urges to act petty or non-confrontational, or to be neater and more organized. In fact, I look at myself before I moved in and realized I've gorwn up more in these few months than my whole life. I was just really motivated not to be her bratty little brother.
And now I still like her but I'm not obsessed. I mean, I've gotten over the fact that we'll probably never be together and now, if there is that slight chance she sees something in me that makes her think about what age difference really means, I'll be ready but I'm not going to go out of my way to prove it to her. I'm going to actively try and improve myself, and hope (because I can never give up hope) that she catches on.
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And the Buddha replied, "Why not try crawling into the blazing furnace?"
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