any second now I'll start singing Linkin Park showtunes

[whitereflection]

Day before yesterday during all the spnland comment spam challenge, I was in such a happy mood. Then yesterday it just all went poof so quick--meh during the day, and late got hit with an emo brick (and even dug out my old 'melancholy' iTunes playlist. Though some of that music is really good...) Want to hide in an unproductive mope, but promised I'd so something for someone today, so I can't.

I love the idea for that schmoop_bingo, and want to get a card, but they don't let you request to not get certain choices. And I really, really, really am not comfortable working with the topic of pregnancy, which they have on there of course (twice, I think, no three), and trying to do anything regarding kids/children (which there are a bunch of selections for) just would be so unfun I can't even explain it. I know you can get one bingo and ditch the card, but with so many choices being pregnancy/baby/child related, I get mental images of a card full of such and not being able to make even one bingo. >_< I feel like I'm the only person in the world that finds such topics the absolute opposite of schmoopy.

Good grief, I'm so stupidly down for no reason. This is ridiculous.

Comments

[chez-amanda.livejournal.com]

No, one of my other friends doesn't like kidfic. I, for one, love it :D provided it isn't mpreg because... no.

Here's something that might make you smile:

[dcillusioned.livejournal.com]

Actually, I completely agree with you here. While I wouldn't mind signing up and adding this to my ever growing list of prompts, I'm not big on kidfics and I refuse to write or read mpreg. ~ sigh ~ Guess I'll just watch instead.

[akintay.livejournal.com]

Well, you don't have to fill out every prompt. I think chances are pretty good that you'd be able to do the meme without having to write a kid!fic.

Sorry you're feeling down. *hugs tightly*

[zuben-eschamali.livejournal.com]

I feel like I'm the only person in the world that finds such topics the absolute opposite of schmoopy.

I'm with you on this one; after a quick scan of the list of choices, I didn't want to risk it, either. Also, I'm fairly certain I can't do schmoop on command, but that's a different story.

Hope that thing you promised to do keeps you from moping too much. *hug*

[cherie-morte.livejournal.com]

BB! I am sad to hear you are not cheery rn. You should always be cheery :(

*hugs and snuggles and forehead kisses*

Also, for what it's worth, I hate pregnancy and kidfic, too. I got a few kidfic square that can easily be avoided and not a single pregnancy square! I really suggest you try it out! <3

[lady-eilthana.livejournal.com]

Look at those dorks and smiiiile! :)

[keerawa.livejournal.com]

I really, really, really am not comfortable working with the topic of pregnancy, ... trying to do anything regarding kids/children (which there are a bunch of selections for) just would be so unfun I can't even explain it.
ME TOO!!!!!!!!! Seriously. Times 1000.

I want nothing to do with the raising of children. Or reading about such in my free-time. I get enough of them at work, and at home I DO NOT WANT.

And the idea of being pregnant squicks me, No, seriously. Forget mpreg, I can't deal with fpreg. It's like ... a parasite grows inside you. And it's huge. And then it comes out and takes over your life and turns into a PERSON?!? So very fucked up.

Yes, my issues are showing. This is one of the dozen or so topics where I just cheerfully wave at normal society from across my own personal Grand Canyon. (It probably has something to do with my Asperger's, but that may be over-simplifying.)

Maybe you could personally contact the organizers and ASK them if it would be possible to not request certain items on your bingo card? They might not have realized that some of them would be problematic.

[whitereflection.livejournal.com]

It's interesting to run into someone else that's squicked at the idea of pregnancy in any forms. My closest friends IRL are all very uninterested in such, so we all understand each other, but I think I'm the worst about it. I've had...well, not nightmares, but close to, like panic attack type dreams, for years now.

And your mention of Asperger's here caught my attention--my husband's older sister is autistic, but I have for years now suspected that both he and his younger sister have undiagnosed Asperger's. There's a lot of his behaviors and personality that made more sense when I ran into books on the subject back when I still used to be a library worker.

[keerawa.livejournal.com]

*nods* There's definitely a genetic component, and it's considered a spectrum disorder. They could certainly be on the end of the spectrum that finds it easier to interact with neurotypicals and go undiagnosed.