/dev/random: T-Shirt recommendations call and a list of questions.

I have two things.

First up, I need to add some T-shirts to my collection. I have progressed to the point where I seem to have collected a "dad bod" to go along with my "dad story times." Fault for this, if it is to be assessed, can probably be spread a lot around of the participants in a previous relationship, for causing stress and for making decisions about cooking and so forth.

There are a couple of caveats for the new shirts. First, they must be fannish. They can be official shirts, if those things are good, but I find that independent creators often have quite the cute collection of possibilities in their shirts. Second, they must fit my actual body, which is, depending on the fit, anywhere from XLT to 2XLT, and the important part is that they must be long, as I tend to load pants with things, which may make them sit lower on my hips.

So, I would like your opinion on which of the hundred-thousand shirt manufacturers is most likely to have correct fit, correct fannishness, that will last through the launderizers, and is preferably ethical in its treatment of persons. If it can manage all of those things and be relatively inexpensive, all the better.

If they also make seat covers for vehicles, that would be super-fantastic, but if you have recommendations for that on a separate entitiy, I will happily take those.

Much of my fannishness lies in the way of things like RWBY, Kingdom Hearts, Awesome Women (Hermione, Belle, Luna Lovegood, et cetera), and so forth. Just as a general example, but good art is good art.

Suggestions, please!

Someone has put up a seemingly-random set of questions again. This looks like as good a time as any to give them a go.

1. Have you ever driven an electric car? Would like to, but have not driven a full-electric vehicle.


2. Do you live in an area that is prone to tornadoes? Not currently. Have lived in places that had tornado watches and warnings, though.


3. How many closets does your house have? At least a dozen. Although not all of them are classically what we think of as a closet.


4. When was the last time you saw someone you went to high school with? In person? March. Online, regularly through the magic of the social media.


5. Have you ever eaten moussaka? If I have, I don't recognize it by that name.


6. What breed was the last dog you saw? A Belgian Malinois.


7. How long have your parents been together / How long were your parents together? That assumes someone's parents were together when they were conceived, which could be a terrible thing for someone to recall. In my particular case, they've been legally bound to each other for twenty-five years less than my maternal grandparents, and both sets continue to add years one at a time.


8. What has been your most epic cooking failure? Remarkably, it involves no heat nor fire, but one morning, as a very smalling, I thought it best to make breakfast, which involved the combination of several ingredients - green olives, ketchup, not-mayonaise, mustard, relish, and a few other things that I recall that made it distinctly inedible. Every other screw-up in the kitchen that I've done hasn't been that bad.


9. Do you read other people's responses to question sets like these? Yes. Sometimes it's illuminating, often it's entertaining.


10. What's your bedtime routine? Cat litter box, turn off all the lights, lock the doors, put on the braces, engage the breathy machine, go to sleep.


11. Do you agree with "distance/absence makes the heart grow fonder?" Nope. At least, it doesn't for me. That might be because so many of my friends are already distant and intermediated through usernames and such, so I'm going to like them equally well whether they are near or far.


12. Have you ever been to Mexico? Nope. Lots of people I know thought of it as a vacation destination for relaxed rules on drinking and relaxed morals on sexual partners when they were younger.


13. Do you have a bad temper? Yes, and it's almost entirely self-directed. I do get mad at other people, but they have usually done something significant if I go off on them. As for myself, I will totally stomp up and down about a perceived failing of my own, a lack of memory, o\r something where I feel like I could have had enough control over it to make a bad thing not happen. This is one of the reasons that I keep in mind as to why I'm not really suitable to be someone's romantic partner.


14. When was the last time it stormed here you live? What's your qualification for "stormed?" The last really heavy rainfalls were maybe a month or two ago, but they don't have accompanying lightning or thunder, which is what I would consider the necessary part of "storm". The last thunderclap I heard with rain was over a year ago.


15. Do you ever fact-check the things you read on the Internet? Librarian.


16. How long would it take you to walk to the nearest store? Presuming "store" means something to the order of "grocery", it'll take about twenty minutes at a brisk clip.


17. What five words best describe your mother's personality? Good Catholic wife and mother.


18. Do you know any transgender people? Yes, in various stages of transition, already transitioned, or not transitioning at all.


19. What's your dream job? It looks a lot like the one I have now, just with more power and resources and less oversight and terrible co-workers. Actually, my dream job would be to be able to have all of my needs met without having to put in any work at all, so that I could fully devote myself to whatever interests I wanted to pursue, but most of us don't have the starting resources to be able to achieve this.


20. How old were you when you got your first smartphone? Thirty*cough*.


21. Have you ever had a parrot sit on your shoulder? Parrot, no. Gecko, iguana, and python? Absolutely.


22. In the morning, do you eat breakfast first or brush your teeth first? Breakfast.


23. What's something you've had to learn the hard way? [REDACTED] was not, in fact, a problem I could fix, no matter how much I tried.


24. What sort of window coverings do you have in your living room? There's a polarizing item I can use so that the harsh sun doesn't come through unguarded, and then several sets of very effective curtains behind that.


25. Has anyone in your life treated you abusively? Yes. They will categorically deny it, because that would mean changing their opinion of themselves to be something other than "I'm fundamentally a good person."


26. What's the weather like right now? Dark. But also cloudy.


27. How long has it been since your last breakup? Less than a year.


28. Can you concentrate well while listening to music, or do you find it distracting? I tend to choose my background music to be appropriate for the situation at hand, so that it does not become distracting.


29. What's the name of the amusement park closest to your home? Odyssey.


30. Do you like the Rolling Stones? They're not actively offensive to my ears, so yes.


31. What was the last single item you spent over $100 on? Paying my credit card off for this month.


32. What's something you've been struggling with lately? Feeling like I'm never going to make it out of my debts.


33. What was the last caffeinated drink you had? Probably the Coca-Cola last night with dinner.