Personal Question: Choosing to Appreciate Life

[Mistress Dalisay]

I feel as if I don’t take the time to really mingle amongst you lot besides when we banter 😛

So let’s get friendly! Tell me one thing you love and why it’s so important to you.

I’ll go first!

A lonely walk upstate. Where the only thing you hear are the greens and everything hiding in between. Watching those seemingly so meek, yet carry the weight of the world on their back.

Yet, they live such small lives compared to ours and I can only envy their simplicity.

I often think of what’s to come in the next life. Perhaps, becoming a blade of grass amongst millions. Not seemingly indifferent, but truly being part of why Earth is still standing. There is so much life in everything.

[Goufin_Around]

A small thing I love is a walk in snowfall. It is for sure better with a friend or a significant other as a fyi. I just love the silence of snow falling and the crunch under your boots while you walk. It’s very centering and peaceful. It’s one of those things that makes me present in how beautiful life is. 

[Mistress Matira]

Any kind of wild swimming is crucial for me. Oceans, lakes, streams beneath underpasses… Maybe it’s an ancestral feeling of being decended from people on an archipelago? Or maybe because I’m a Cancer ♋️ 

[Mistress Lovely]

Rooibos tea, masochists 

[Mistress Dalisay]

On 5/23/2026 at 3:58 PM, Goufin_Around said:

A small thing I love is a walk in snowfall. It is for sure better with a friend or a significant other as an fyi. I just love the silence of snow falling and the crunch under your boots while you walk. It’s very centering and peaceful. It’s one of those things that makes me present in how beautiful life is. 

I looooove a calm cold night. Back in the day, I’d sneak off in the middle of the night and I swear I could always hear all the life just a bit louder; Owls hooting, maybe a deer scurrying. It was the best part of living in buttfuck nowhere.

[Mistress Dalisay]

On 5/24/2026 at 10:25 AM, Mistress Matira said:

Any kind of wild swimming is crucial for me. Oceans, lakes, streams beneath underpasses… Maybe it’s an ancestral feeling of being decended from people on an archipelago? Or maybe because I’m a Cancer ♋️ 

I think our people are meant for the ocean. I haven’t met a Filipino who couldn’t swim. The current runs like our blood.

[Goufin_Around]

6 hours ago, Mistress Dalisay said:

I looooove a calm cold night. Back in the day, I’d sneak off in the middle of the night and I swear I could always hear all the life just a bit louder; Owls hooting, maybe a deer scurrying. It was the best part of living in buttfuck nowhere.

One of the few things I miss from living out in the boonies. Don’t miss deer loitering on the side of the road while I drove by though lol

[AioriaRegulus]

Walks on a powdery sand beach during a quiet sunny day where the only sounds I can hear are the ocean waves. I enjoy the peace and simple beauty of it.

[Mistress Dalisay]

On 5/27/2026 at 6:52 PM, Goufin_Around said:

One of the few things I miss from living out in the boonies. Don’t miss deer loitering on the side of the road while I drove by though lol

You ever seen people hit deer with their cars just to take them home?

[Mistress Dalisay]

On 5/27/2026 at 8:15 PM, AioriaRegulus said:

Walks on a powdery sand beach during a quiet sunny day where the only sounds I can hear are the ocean waves. I enjoy the peace and simple beauty of it.

On 5/24/2026 at 10:25 AM, Mistress Matira said:

Any kind of wild swimming is crucial for me. Oceans, lakes, streams beneath underpasses… Maybe it’s an ancestral feeling of being decended from people on an archipelago? Or maybe because I’m a Cancer ♋️ 

Yall are making me miss the water!!! Just being around it can be so surreal; nothing to compare right now except the hustle and bustle of everyday life.

When I get the chance, maybe I’ll just choose to float away and listen to the waves.

[Goufin_Around]

8 hours ago, Mistress Dalisay said:

You ever seen people hit deer with their cars just to take them home?

No lol, nobody hits them on purpose, they do a lot of damage. However, there are a lot of people who will take a roadkill buck home if it’s got a big rack on it to take that part. Usually 6 pointers or more 

[AioriaRegulus]

9 hours ago, Mistress Dalisay said:

Yall are making me miss the water!!! Just being around it can be so surreal; nothing to compare right now except the hustle and bustle of everyday life.

When I get the chance, maybe I’ll just choose to float away and listen to the waves.

If you ever have a chance and are so inclined, try traveling to Magens Bay in St. Thomas. The water there is so warm, and calm (no big waves) that you can legitimately float and just listen the waves. The serenity is surreal.

[risotto]

Birds.  I love birds.  They are little miracles, our tiny dinosaurs.  There are birds who can remember, literally, 10,000 locations for stored food.  There are birds that weigh nothing, but glimmer and hover and can shoot off like a comet.  There are birds that are a comedy show trying to take of or land, but are deadly snakes underwater.  There are birds blacker than any other black on earth because their potential mates can see UV and their feathers absorb that too.  And there are birds like the scarlet macaw, where if you see a flock of thirty-some, you know it will always be an even number, because the pairs always stay together and no one knows what happens to the birds who lose a mate.  Not that birds are some morally perfect animals.  Ducks, in particular, have a generally outrageous level of sexual competition, leading to at least one species where the male has a penis longer than his overall body and a very substantial amount of duck-rape.

[Farm Boy]

I love the philharmonic.  I’m not knowledgable about classic music, but I find in very peaceful.  I also love sitting at the beach and watching and listening to the waves.  It’s so hypnotic snd therapeutic. Life is so chaotic.  Both of these activities bring me peace. 

[Mistress Matira]

17 hours ago, risotto said:

Ducks, in particular, have a generally outrageous level of sexual competition, leading to at least one species where the male has a penis longer than his overall body and a very substantial amount of duck-rape.

…and their penises are corkscrew-shaped!!

[Mistress Dalisay]

20 hours ago, Goufin_Around said:

No lol, nobody hits them on purpose, they do a lot of damage. However, there are a lot of people who will take a roadkill buck home if it’s got a big rack on it to take that part. Usually 6 pointers or more 

I’ve seen a beetle hit a fawn. It’s not that uncommon. Trust.

[Mistress Dalisay]

20 hours ago, AioriaRegulus said:

If you ever have a chance and are so inclined, try traveling to Magens Bay in St. Thomas. The water there is so warm, and calm (no big waves) that you can legitimately float and just listen the waves. The serenity is surreal.

I’m taking your word and adding it to my travel list. Destination #8.

I hope they love a lone traveler.

[Mistress Dalisay]

19 hours ago, risotto said:

Birds.  I love birds.  They are little miracles, our tiny dinosaurs.  There are birds who can remember, literally, 10,000 locations for stored food.  There are birds that weigh nothing, but glimmer and hover and can shoot off like a comet.  There are birds that are a comedy show trying to take of or land, but are deadly snakes underwater.  There are birds blacker than any other black on earth because their potential mates can see UV and their feathers absorb that too.  And there are birds like the scarlet macaw, where if you see a flock of thirty-some, you know it will always be an even number, because the pairs always stay together and no one knows what happens to the birds who lose a mate.  Not that birds are some morally perfect animals.  Ducks, in particular, have a generally outrageous level of sexual competition, leading to at least one species where the male has a penis longer than his overall body and a very substantial amount of duck-rape.

Dear Friend,

What kind of bird do you think you would be?

[risotto]

On 5/31/2026 at 4:03 PM, Mistress Dalisay said:

Dear Friend,

What kind of bird do you think you would be?

I'd like to think of myself as an owl, maybe a snowy owl, but I know that's not right.  If I were an owl, I'd probably be a burrowing owl, though those little guys are fiercely protective and I appreciate them in their own way.  Owls have superpowers, I don't.  A snowy owl can hear a mouse a metre under the snow when it's ten metres in the air.  More realistically, one of the corvidae, the family with jays, crows and ravens.  Smart, social, not always nice, mostly omnivorous.

[Mistress Matira]

45 minutes ago, risotto said:

I'd like to think of myself as an owl, maybe a snowy owl, but I know that's not right.  If I were an owl, I'd probably be a burrowing owl, though those little guys are fiercely protective and I appreciate them in their own way.  Owls have superpowers, I don't.  A snowy owl can hear a mouse a metre under the snow when it's ten metres in the air.  More realistically, one of the corvidae, the family with jays, crows and ravens.  Smart, social, not always nice, mostly omnivorous.

Agreed. I can only hope to be a corvid next time around 🐦‍⬛ 

[AioriaRegulus]

On 5/31/2026 at 3:59 PM, Mistress Dalisay said:

I’m taking your word and adding it to my travel list. Destination #8.

I hope they love a lone traveler.

The people are so kind - lone or not, their hospitality extends to all.

[Goufin_Around]

On 5/31/2026 at 3:46 PM, Mistress Dalisay said:

I’ve seen a beetle hit a fawn. It’s not that uncommon. Trust.

That driver just sounds very mean tbh lol 

 

[GentlemanRoleplayer]

5 hours ago, Goufin_Around said:

 

On 5/31/2026 at 3:46 PM, Mistress Dalisay said:

I’ve seen a beetle hit a fawn. It’s not that uncommon. Trust.

That driver just sounds very mean tbh lol 

 

Ringo is pretty old now, it was probably just an accident. 

[Mistress Dalisay]

On 6/2/2026 at 2:12 PM, GentlemanRoleplayer said:

Ringo is pretty old now, it was probably just an accident. 

Not when they then strap it to the top and drive away all giddy.

[GentlemanRoleplayer]

4 hours ago, Mistress Dalisay said:

Not when they then strap it to the top and drive away all giddy.

That was probably John. He was the meanest Beatle.