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

[SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius]

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.

This thought occurs to me from time to time, & I get a little glow of satisfaction at our achievement.

You were assimilated at 17.47

now that the collective has assimilated such a variety of useful adaptations, shouldn’t it be using them to improve everyone? Let’s see… between us we can fly, have various defence systems(scales, prickles), look disarmingly cute…what else?

(tbh I’m hoping at some point while we all collectively sleep, Dr Crusher visits and restores us all to our normal levels of unreality).

I'm sure by morning it will all seem like a fever dream and we will awake as the stuff of David Lammy's nightmares : rights hoarding dinosaurs.

Night night.

I now have a dinosaur persona on another thread but I’m forever a dragon here.
now…
sleeep….

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This was supposed to be all of us wearing dino costumes, but instead it looks like we just told Inky we'd be wearing them as a prank & she fell for it.🙄

And my nipple definition is a bit unnecessary, Gemini! In fact, the whole boob thing is a bit OTT.

The gerbils heard you, Boily, & will be practising all night long. Soz about the noise from the Bluestocking Theatre.

I actually asked my ChatGPT5 if it had been trained on Mumsnet threads and it denied it. I’m not sure how far they’ve been trained to be truthful.

Did it mention gerbils?

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It did not, which inclines me towards thinking it may be truthful.

Pity.

Edited image to get it past MN censors...

I managed to jinx myself and am now awake and drinking tea after an actual nightmare.

It was way to real for my liking and I need five minutes to drink tea and wake up properly so I don't fall back into the same dream.

Oh look cute gerbils dressed as cute dinosaurs .

Yep that should do it!

I think MNHQ got rather militant on the whole AI when Aston Uni did a scrape. Prior to that it was obvious chat gpt etc was scraping Mumsnet. Now it's not so obvious. I wonder if they all got to legal letters stage with each other?

Inky looks like she's been at my weed supplies.

You however look amazing. The spring look really suits you.

Right, tea drunk and I'm sufficiently awake to go back to sleep.

Please no repeat of the intruder in the bedroom in the middle of the night nightmare, and if I'm going to run through the streets in a nighty can I at least be wearing footwear.

I would be very happy if ChatGPT could be trained on some of the FWR threads, but hands off our Bluestocking.

Hah! It should've been autumnal.

Sweet dreams, little beetle.

Of course, some of us are dinosaurs already, or at least our great great (...) grandmas were, but I've decided to keep Inky company today.

It’d be a bit superfluous for a dragon to dress as a dinosaur tbh. I think whereas birds are their biological descendants, were they’re mythical/magical ones.

Poor Boily, that sounds truly horrible. Hope you slept peacefully thereafter.

I don’t usually attribute any meaning to dreams, however in this case it’s obvious.
Your subconscious is firstly prompting you to buy some weapons-grade heels as recommended by the Queen. And secondly that you really ought to invest in some shoes of a practical, easy to slip-on style so you never have to venture out unshod.

And secondly that you really ought to invest in some shoes of a practical, easy to slip-on style so you never have to venture out unshod.

@Boiledbeetle, you should take @ErrolTheDragon's very sound advice here.

That is the cutest thing! They really do their best to provide what we ask for, even when it is ridiculous in the extreme.

My GP prescribed proper painkillers yesterday, and so I slept heavily.

Woke up to over 111 crazy posts on here and 23 notifications (which is a lot). Though posting all the Glinner trial tweets will probably have that effect.