The Autumn Bluestocking - mist, mellow fruitfulness and hot chocolate!

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Welcome one and all - as the nights draw in, pull up a chair to the fire, and the gerbils will be along soon with hot chocolate and Tunnock’s teacakes.

Bloody hell, Beetle. Nightmare fuel. It's the asparagus .gif all over again.

That chowder sounds lush.

If Modom would like to try something a little more carnivorous, perhaps she would like to consider the fennec? Available in two sizes.

Do not search for asparagus in the gif drawer.

Do not do it.

I have to admit to a fondness for the sand cat.

I can't even get it to show me a cute cat gif.

And I will always put in a good word for my cousin Sionnach Artach.

Sand cats are well cute. Much nicer than Pallas's cat with their muttonchop sideburns. Although clouded leopards are just 😘

Sand cats are well cute. Much nicer than Pallas's cat with their muttonchop sideburns. Although clouded leopards are just 😘

Eta MN keeps giving me twins!

Charles LeClerc <swoon>

Thanks Boiled beetle.

Can't got it to draw correctly from a prompt. But if I then say "that moose is not female" after a male version, it draw a correct version.
I added 4 female moose pics and type these are female moose. Maybe I need to do more!

That is a magnificent image, Otter.

Of course you need to do more. You need to add a beetle to your adventures.

That wasn't what you meant though was it 😁

It’s always about you, Boily!

This is not a drill. This 👆 is a drill.

I have to second this

Do not put asparagus in the .gif drawer!!!

You’re probably safe in one of Otter’s pockets.
the lovely hat I had earlier seems to have blown off. I’ve got another (modelled by a kitchen roll…I considered drawing a face on but decided to spare you all that). Crucially it’s got a chinstrap, necessary when flying at speed.

Of course. I'm the centre of my universe, are you trying to say I'm not the centre everyone else's universe? Because honestly that just does not compute.

This is all getting a bit much and DARVO to be honest. I've checked two threads back and I had two posts where 1) I was discussing my insomnia with another poster as I'd posted in the early hours, saying that I frequently self ID as a hedgehog (which I do outside of Mumsnet).

Someone suggesting a mouse which doesn't work. And 2) I asked whether there was room for another small naive new hedgehog after you self IDed as a hedgehag. Then someone else made me into a new lemon yellow hedgehog.

If at any point you had a problem with that Banned, you could have mentioned it or even PMed me. Instead somehow we ended up married which I took as an odd sign of welcome that you would like another hedeghog. Until you turned into a skunk and summarily divorced me in what came across as a bit unpleasant.

This did leave me confused and a bit rejected but I went along with it as a sort of play. So that's why I mentioned earlier not marrying a skunk and making some other comments. I've not gone back over these, first I wanted to check I had posted what I thought originally about being an attack on me and respond as quickly as I can.

But if I crossed a line you could have PM'ed me or said so and I would have apologised as it was only meant to be a divorced hedgehog continuation.

As the rest of the thread has felt like generalised personal attacks on me i.e. assuming I didn't ask about species and took over which I clearly didn't. Then someone else has posted an entire story of me muscling in. Because what I'm not allowed to talk about my insomnia/delayed onset sleep problems?

You chose a new thread without the context to deny I've any reason to be confused or miffed attack me reverse victim and offender by claiming I muscled on on being a hedgehog when I asked, and reversed it.

This all sounds like a sad misunderstanding - it can happen all too easily and maybe the surreal tendencies this thread has contributed.

Hello lemon I read your post very carefully and your other issues are not disrespected.

The Bluestocking has ran for many threads for a number of years, and you are a new member and very welcome as such.

it has become a bit ridiculous, i feel a bit ridiculous, but somehow or other this situation has created a tension on here that nobody wants.

I see that you recognise that you were mean to me because you thought i was being mean to you. It was not intended i was trying to move over for you make, room for you so to speak, but then that upset me because i have held the hedgehog personae for a long time.

PM you and say what? Since this Bluestocking is supposed to be ridiculous

As for all the other beasts bugs and machines they struggled to know what to say we have babbled and twaddled along happily for a century of threads.

So lemon all you have to do is change your identity as per several hints

and all will be back to normal convivial madness.

There was another moose many threads ago. It appeared for a short time in just one thread. ThatAgileMoose I think. I tried to engage with it but it wasn't interested. Haven't seen it again since.
Particularly in the Bluestocking where animals are encouraged, if you happen to have a username that includes an animal it's easy to make some kind of alter ego in pictures. But if you haven't, it would be nicer if people would take account of who's here already and not tread on other people's toes.

@Bannedontherun like I said I asked about being a hedgehog 🦔 two threads ago having mentioned self IDing as a hedgehog in passing in a light-hearted discussion about insomnia and someone asking if I was okay, which had nothing to do with you.

You then mentioned being an old hedgehag and I'm asked if there was space for another hedgehog as that sounded like it. You didn't say anything then and someone else turned me into a yellow hedgehog.

How was I supposed to know you had a problem with me being a hedgehog when I asked about it and you didn't say anything about it? I have no idea what the history of this thread is, how long you've been anything or if there are multiple animals. I love hedgehogs.

If you actually had an issue then just say "no thanks I think two hedgehogs are confusing"

Now you've threatened to leave and told everyone I've muscled in and they've supported you such as "But if you haven't, it would be nicer if people would take account of who's here already and not tread on other people's toes."

And yes I'll think about becoming something other than a hedgehog but this is quite an unpleasant way to go about it, lying and saying I didn't ask or consider you, and gaining support rather than discussing it directly with me.

AI is a bit of a blunt instrument I think. Just as, when offering medical advice or news stories it will make things up and pretend they are real, it does that with images. I've had some shockingly awful images when trying for various scenarios with Bluestocking characters. There was one that was virtually pornographic and I tried to complain about it but nothing happened. There's no accountability.
As for doing female representations, it's really uphill work. I quite often say when trying to get a representation of a female moose "female moose with only elegant ears on her head and no other protuberances" which is a bit of a mouthful, but if I forget to say that I will often get moose with gigantic antlers.
That is an amazing image however, the moose has a most peculiar tail!

Digging out the conversation...

no, none of this was deliberate on either side
I think maybe banned didn’t realise she minded till the AI pictures had paired you up and then felt awkward?
whsts that saying about not attributing to malice what can be explained by cockup?