Ides Of March Party

I'm having an Ides of March party this year and I just wanted to share my invitation just in case anyone else wanted to host one too.

Here's the gist. Each invitee (senators) has 10 votes (paper tokens), and you can give as many of those votes to whomever for whatever reason you want, whenever you want, during the party. You can also not give them out; you could keep them.

At the end of the party, you will count how many votes you got from others and then subtract any votes of yours that you didn't give out. You will then write your number on a sticky note and stick it to your back.

Once done, all the invitees circle the roo,m checking everyone's back keep a mental note of who has the highest number after a few minutes. All partygoers (senators) will "mob" and lovingly "stab" (with their fake retractable knives) that person with the highest number. For they are Creaser and have won over their fellow senators to dictatorship. The person with the 2nd most votes is the winner and is named Brutes. (And they get a prize!)

I have some mini-theme games that require some extra participation and thought before the party, which give us excuses outside normal party activities to give out votes:

• Vote Who Wore It Best: Toga edition. (Wear your best toga, whether it be a bedsheet over your day clothes or full garb.)
• Vote Best Dish (Don't tell me what you're bringing! I want to be surprised! . . . . Tho do tell me if you're bringing something incase none of you do so, I can prepare some food :)
• Vote For Best Knife (You can either buy your own rectarable knife or decorate one of the knifes I'll have at the party.)
• Vote For Best Ides Of March Meme (This party was inspired by the spirit of Tumblr holiday memes, so take a peruse on tumblr or make up your own)
• Vote For Best We Should Just Stab " " Speech (Basically just a short rant/roast about something that annoys you, could be a person, object, trope, trend, ect… anything really. Please no longer than five minutes.)

You can participate in as many or as few as you want in these mini games. Tho I do hope most of you do participate, *bats eyelashes*

There will also be normal party activities, board games, dancing, good company, maybe karaoke ect.

Starts at 11am - Ends 5pm with an after party of who ever is left to watch something Julius Caesar related. I haven't thought that far yet lol.

Absolutely amazing how AO3 is a part of the internet that doesn't sneak in any ads and doesn't have an algorithm and doesn't watch you or record how much time you spend looking at each fic or whatever. It's just right there to use for free. Legend

Being online and not knowing imperial measurements is fun because you'll be on the internet seeing memes all talking about being six feet tall like it's a huge giant massive hulking big man size and just once decide to look it up and it's just 183 cm. That's like... 3 cm above the male average here. You could be that height and nobody would remark on it because that's literally the most normal height to be.

And then I look up what 8 inches is in cm and jesus absolutely fuck that. If I saw that irl I'm going to lock myself in the bathroom and escape through the vents.

recently came across some plates and bowls that would be perfect for a children's hospital

I am about going to gripe about something that's been really annoying me lately.

First let me start with a disclaimer that I am speaking generally here. Of course both the U.S. and Europe are both massive and diverse places containing hundreds of millions of people, and a lot of regional differences. Neither the U.S. or Europe are a monolith (although a lot of people on the internet speak of both places as a monolith, which I wish people would stop doing, since neither are).

I could be wrong about this, since I don't live in the U.S., and haven't visited everywhere in Europe. But between where I have visited in the U.S., and where I have visited / lived in Europe, and from what I know from my friends in the U.S. and friends in other European countries, I get the feeling that overall the U.S. has stricter disability access laws than a lot of places in Europe do, especially in regard to building codes.

Of course there are exceptions, I know New York city is abhorrently hostile in its design towards anyone elderly and/or disabled. Although when I visited New York city it really just felt on par with a lot of major European cities with how abhorrently inaccessible it was.

One example of this is that recently I saw a Reddit discussion where a USAmerican vacationing in France was surprised at how many staircases didn't have handrails, because according to this man handrails are required by law in the U.S.

The comments were all Europeans having an absolute field day with this. Pretty much all of the comments were some variation of "I can't believe Americans are too stupid and lazy to use the stairs without a handrail 🤣🤣🤣 what's wrong with you fat lazy stupid Americans that you can't even use stairs without a handrail 🤣🤣🤣 thank GOD I was born in Europe where I was just taught how to walk up and down the stairs on my own and don't need a handrail like a lazy fat stupid American 🤣🤣🤣"

A few people tried to gently point out that this was about accessibility for elderly and disabled people, and it's not cool to laugh at building codes that are about accessibility, but those commenters were usually shut down with some variation of "yeah well in MY European country if someone is disabled or becomes elderly we either move to a more accessible building or we modify our home to be more accessible, we don't sit around whining like a bunch of Americans that our building isn't already accessible 🙄"

Which is, such a cruel way to talk about accessibility. Why wouldn't disabled and elderly people deserve the same access to a building as anyone else? Are elderly and disabled people not allowed to visit friends and family? Anyone could get hit by a car today, and after that struggle with going up and down stairs without the use of a handrail for the next several months, years, possibly the rest of your life. It's so easy to feel smug when you can easily trot up and down the stairs without a handrail, but so cruel to be unwilling to consider anyone who struggles with stairs should maybe be allowed access to the same places as you.

Honestly when I go on vacation abroad with my elderly + disabled mother, it's often easier to go to the U.S. with her than other places in Europe, because the U.S. does tend to be more accessible (in my experience, and except for New York city ofc) making going around to different public places with my mom generally a lot easier than somewhere like France or the Netherlands.

Out of all the things you could clown on the U.S. about, why you gotta go for accessibility of all things? It's disgustingly ableist and ageist, and I have to wonder if these people actually just hate disabled people / accessible design, and are using the U.S. as an excuse to hate on disabled people and accessible design.

"Not beating the ___ allegations" is such a 'now' turn of phrase, implying as it does a world where everyone's behavior is always on literal trial by a guilt-presuming judge and jury that consists of anyone who happens to be paying attention.

brain, heart: idiot bitches who never know what they want

stomach, genitals: idiot bitches who know exactly what they want and never shut up about it

lungs, kidneys, liver: pretty chill organs, all told. if these ones are complaining then i'm usually the one who fucked up

"objectively physically attractive but in possession of negative rizz" is one of my favorite character concepts. i think it's so great when there's an absurdly hot person who's just a complete fucking loser. the mood is unsalvageable the moment they open their mouth kind of deal. you get no bitches because you're so sucks.

The Smash Bros. cast swapping anecdotes about their various evil doppelgangers and Mario getting into an argument about whether Wario counts.

I think acting like heated rivalry is cringe and unimportant is in and of itself cringe and i think acting like you're cool for not watching a tv show is even cringier