â™ ~Merskelly's Sad Pad but also Rockin' Ace Booth~â™ 
 

[Acey Rant Incoming]

:/ Not really sure what the big deal is with everyone on Valentine's day.
<.<; Might be because I'm a dead fish, but I'm pretty sure it's some kind of virus. :/ This love day is pretty frickin' weird.

Where I come from, puttin' your lips on another someone's means you're lookin' for a fight! >:/ Them's fightin' lips!

<:[ And what's with all these flowers and chocolates and BEARS? 8/ Call me crazy, but bears are NOT the sort of animal you want to trust to hold onto chocolates AND flowers. and balloons for that matter. >:/ They got really REALLY long claws y'know? No offence to bears, but, c'mon, you see flowers and chocolate, /:] ya need ta eat 'em up right away!

Plus! >x'{ All these couples are going out to eat for dinner at restaurants, ALONE together. /8{ And suddenly I get looks for eatin' alone, like I'm some kind of endangered animal?? What if I just wanna eat food and not share it? <X{ If I wanna share my food with someone I will!

<:{ *shrug* And is it too much to ask that an individual guppy like myself just be in friendly company and not urged to hook up with anyone lonely? >:/ Hooks are bad news in the first place. And also, since when is it a crime to refuse gifts and marriage proposals? =~<

>x{ Ugh! All this lovey dovey stuff should start and end in spring! >:/ With all the other violent, creepy and infectiously concerning events in earth history. >-> Like my birthday..
[Acey Rant Over]

oooh, spinny chair!

err, hi!

You already had me at spinning chair - but I'd also take one of those really awful pissed-off looking pictures ^^

I hope you have enough spinning chairs for everyone.

*shrug* :] I don't care for spinny chairs, as they make me nauseated and dizzy, but when I was a little child thing I used to love spinning in them! <x}
Knock yourselves out. :] But don't actually. 8[ The chair is breakable, like your skulls. And take turns, hm? :}

o.o; Wow, Death, you actually WANT a weird ass valentine doodle?? Are you sure? <x]

Yes, I am sure.

(I also mildly want to break the chair, because lovey dovey cheesy queasy stuff needs some mindless violence as a countermeasure. Though that would rob several people of their entertainment. So I guess I don't want to break the chair. Count it as my good deed for the day.)

Idk might be more of an aro rant cuz romance

But heyo

Oh! Then this valentine doodle is probably just perfect for ya then.. x'D

Heyo Kit! :] *weirdly waves with 4 fingers*

<u<; I kinda feel more Aro, but sometimes can like a romantic gesture. :/ It's just that a romantic gesture to me is a sweet cuddle that lasts about 5 minutes and then turns into an attempt to choregraph some sort of awesome jabbawockeez dance, before giving up entirely and just flippin' hugging out frustration so I can feel nice. :] Then sharing a bowl of snacks. :/ Or singing a song together. But like that's all. I can't really give a f*ck about eskimo kisses, neck nuzzles and sensual strokes. *scratches head* <x} It's just weird to me. I don't mind a nice squeeze or backrub tho. -U- is that still Aro? :[

Absolutely perfect XD
I'm starting to like this Valentine's thing. It's all about doodles and pizza, right?

Aro is the lack of romantic attraction. Doesn't mean you also dislike romantic mush

:/ Hmm...not too sure what qualifies as romantic attraction. Liking personality? <:/ How they do things and why? o.o Could I be demi-romantic?

@ Death: :] I always thought it was forcing your childhood enemies to like you for a day and get free candy from them.

In elementary school only about three of the ~30 cards would ever have candy. And that was always a sucker
Fegh

Yeahh, >.> even though I knew they weren't poor kids, I got skimped out of candy mostly. But I didn't mind it since I was a weird kid and didn't care for a whole lot of candy. :] It's just funny getting a "thank you for being my friend" from a peer who completely ignored me and was never friends with me, lol. <x}

The hardest part for me each year was remembering my peers lol
I'd say decorating the box too but I think we kinda stopped fussing so much about how it looked back in 3rd, so three grades were meh

Middle school was great, they were all embarrassed about it so anyone who did participate did it on the down low

High school was a rose on each locker for everyone who got you one. I know that freshman and sophomore years I didn't get one, but at the same time hardly anyone did those two. Cuz that cost money
Junior and senior I have no idea cuz by then I figured out how to handle class books without needing to put stop each class. Plus the books I needed to haul drastically dropped, and by binder-bag carried everything else. So if I did those two years, I never found out
Which confused a teach my senior year the one time I was forced to use my locker
Teacher: where's your locker?
Me: idk
T: why not?
M: never used it
T: ??????!?!?!?!?!?!??!!?@? brain breaks
Then once I was able to get my stuff back out I was able to forget location and password lol

<x'D haha! omg. I never had that in high school, where I don't know my locker and never got to use one, I have,

but so far in my college, I don't have a Student ID card.
I've made it a semester without one somehow, and never got one, because I have to submit a picture with really strict requirements to serve as a means of Identity, instead of getting my picture taken and an ID issued. I guess it's the student's responsibility to supply the picture. *shrug* >w> So I never took one. I just memorized my ID number, since it's all I need anywhere I go on campus. <x'D Don't have a student ID tho.

hums quietly about platonic love being as important as romantic love, but romantic love sells more and valentine's day has become yet another day filled with corporations. lgbt+ marriage isn't even legalized in specific parts of the world, and polyamorous marriage isn't legalized anywhere as far as i know.

Wait, you mean valentine's day isn't just about giving yourself post traumatic stress by staying up all night collecting tokens so you can adopt pink coloured pixel pets?

also whiskey's been bothering me a bit today, my ear is fucking blocked, and i have to inhale some dr. pepper.

I had a college ID before I started high school
Which I kept in my binder-bag
So in 10th grade as part of Animal Farm, before we could go in, we had to line up in front of the door. Those with an ID of theirs could go in. Those who did not, went to a different class. Every English class had an aide so the teacher could do this
Teacher expected that year's high school ID. She didn't expect a college ID. She tried to argue that it was issued in 2009. I pointed out that she only asked for ID, not for this year's ID
I got in, prolly cuz she didn't expect a college ID for a high school student

how does one get a college id if they're in high school

Derpy waddles in and gently pats Merskelly's leg.
"Merskewwy? Can I have hug pwease?"

Lol....forgot which account I was on.
XP

Good job asking, Derpy!
XD

High school offered French and Spanich as foreign language courses
College offers ASL. Downward compatible, aka can be used for high school foreign language credits
I said I wanted to take ASL
Superintendent, who hated anyone and anything different, argued
Unfortunately for her, my parents had already gone to the principal, who told them that her hands were tied but here's this info they 100% did not get from her nod nod wink wink
Superintendent lost. I took ASL at the college. And since I was technically also a college student due to that, I got a college ID

I want hugs. .3.

Derpy waddles over and hugs your ankle.

-w- ohhh yissss. Love me some good hugs.

Y'all seen this interpretation of the reason behind the day?
https://celepom.tumblr.com/post/190831836777

Huh. Unusual take, but I get it.

I like their version better too.

My local college had a trial project where teens could attend several afternoon courses (though not the ones with limited space) as long as their grades in high school stayed above a certain level. When I took part, I also was issued an ID of my own.

i vaguely wish there was a universal sign language, but that'd be difficult to implement.

:] Humanity has thrived on not uundstanding one anoootheer, evn f thy seak the sam language.
DAMMT KYBOARD!!! >C<

merskelly - is your keyboard feeling all right?

No. It's misbehaving again. So now I have to resort to using the touchscreen. B[
Which I hate using for anything other than doodling...
Speaking of which, anybody need an angry valentine? X}

so put your keyboard in time-out!

tbh, that looks like my typing before i fix alll my typos. they're horrendous.

(it's why one of my most common reasons for editing posts is "proofread first, then post" XD

Yes. All the angry Valentines!

...at least for obscene gestures.
Friend of mine once inadvertently pissed off a salesman at a bazar when she wanted to signal OK after haggling a bit, and he read the gesture as an insult.

*screams in frustrated Ace/Aro*
Just had an obnoxious person (seriously, she's just obnoxious in general....but especially today) do the whole reading too much into friendship conversation with me today.
Her: "How's A?"
Me: "Good"
Her: "Good? That's good....are you two an item?"
Me: "No. Hell no."
Her: "It could still happen..."
Me: "Nope. Never gonna. Don't want it."
Her: "A's a good guy..."

I just knew yesterday went too well for Valentine's Hell to be over.

"Next time you shove your nose into my business I'm shitting on it"
Friggin allos and their needto shove two people together. Especially middle aged hetero women

I am a strong, single, dragon mama, who don't need no significant other! *snap*

https://i.imgur.com/0DJib1v.png
Here ya go. x]