#Blogtober

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Blogtober Day 7 - Favoritism Wins

Aster my beloved!! Also probably clear, I’ve been taking this as an opportunity to try out new brushes for backgrounds! Still a bit unsure on the grass, but I do think it looks a bit better than the air brush I typically use. Do think hand painted flowers are better though, even though these were MUCH quicker.

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13 facts about me, though 13 isn’t my favorite type of number, I felt like it was what was needed most. Regardless, a few things won’t exactly make the most sense, but I figured what is already there makes total sense and it actually fits well enough with the idea if there’s only 13.

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31 days of blogging: Here’s what Blogtober taught me

This post was supposed to come out last week but because of some unexpected circumstances, I had to take a small break from blogging after Diwali. Well, I’m back now!! And as I promised in my Blogtober recap post, today I’m going to talk about some things I learned after participating for the first time in Blogtober and completing my goal of publishing 30 posts last month. One plan failed…

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Blogtober 2024: Day 31

Happy Halloween Everyone! I can’t believe Halloween is here and October is over. As sad as I am to see all the spooks leave, I am actually excited to have a cozy November. Monthly Wrap up: Books- Scary Stories From Mexican Grandmothers The Book of Witches The Monsters of Elendhaven Death at Morning House The Dark Becomes Her Five Survive The October Country Nothing More To Tell Here…

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Autumnal Colours

I am one of those people that is cursed by those around me, as Autumn is my favourite season. I love the changing of the seasons, where things get a wee bit more cozy, and trees turn that wonderful shade of orange. Don’t ask where I got the romanticising of dead leaves from, I just like it. The snoods are on, the slippers are own, and we survive of cups of tea. I just like it. I could do without…

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10/4/24

Good evening all! I hope everyone had a great day! I am working on some new content. Soon, I will have some new health and fitness products to review. Until next time, keep eating your greens!

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Blogtober Day 3: Tasty Tuesday

Happy Tuesday! I hope this post finds you well! Last Tuesday, after I grocery shopped and put everything up, I did not feel like cooking. I am sure many of you can relate to this. We’ve been trying to eat a little better, so I also knew I did not want take-out. I remembered I had bought a few things for times like this. See below….. Less than 10 minutes, less than 300 calories, less than 20…

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Blogmas Day 2: Christmas Characters Book Tag

Hi everyone! *EDIT* Yes I know that it is not in fact, the 2nd December BUT until I catch up we are pretending like the first 4 days of Blogmas happen on the same date – I definitely didn’t just forget to schedule my posts to go live I am a professional 👀Welcome to Day 2 of Blogmas, if you haven’t caught yesterdays post then you can find it here: Blogmas Day 1! Today we have our first Christmas…

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I like the Hans Bellmer stuff, even though it qualifies as super pretentious.

What were your thoughts on Ghost in the Shell 2?

Thanks for asking! My main reaction to INNOCENCE is that it's extremely cluttered. The snowballing mass of literary citations is interesting at first, and then it becomes so dense and relentless that it just started to feel haughty and I worried that it was taking the place of actual writing. It added extra stress to my already-paltry ability to keep track of what was going on in the movie; I had the feeling that the story wasn't as profound as the first film, and Oshii made up for lack of depth by just making everything really complicated. Overall I found it ambitious but sort of pretentious.

I had a similar problem with it visually, like some of it is absolutely stunning, and then at some point it just becomes cluttered with so much detail that no distinct visual statement emerges. I think sometimes the desire to throw absolutely everything at the wall interferes with the movie's ability to articulate itself: Like, that CGI convenience store obviously took a lot of work, but it is so starkly different from everything around it that all I could think about was the craft and I was taken out of the story; or the parade looks great, but then there are those seagulls that are so cheap-looking I wondered if I was still watching the same movie.

I didn't hate it, though. I would say that I actually LOVED the first 30-40 minutes of it. The scene with Haraway was one of my favorites out of either movie, and I enjoyed the proof that Batou is charismatic enough to carry his own feature even though Motoko really dominates GITS iconographically and Oshii must have known that we would all be wondering if she would appear the whole time. I basically enjoyed INNOCENCE and I'm really glad I saw it in a theater, even if in the end I think it shoots itself in the foot by being overburdened with details, references, and various other complications.

When we got home we watched AVALON which I hadn't seen in a really long time. It's such a weird movie; for something that's partly an action film it's incredibly static, and it suffers from a this brooding silliness, but it takes itself so seriously that I kind of have to admire it, like there's just no self-doubt in it. I guess I sort of like it even though I would have a hard time saying it's really "good". And sometimes it's beautiful, naturally the dog-feeding scenes are the best thing in the whole picture. What is even going on with Oshii, I think he would turn into one of those dogs if he could.

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BLOGTOBER 10/2/2024: THE STRANGER WITHIN (1974)

I wish I had made this the first movie of the season, because it was an ABC Movie of the Week from October 1, 1974! I really enjoyed this weird thriller about how Barbara Eden gets pregnant despite her husband George Grizzard's vasectomy, and her increasingly bizarre behavior suggests that something more than infidelity is afoot. Screenwriter Richard Matheson adapted his own 1953 novelette Trespass, and I have learned that a novelette is longer than a short story and shorter than a novella. I did not know this.

Roe v. Wade was codified the year before THE STRANGER WITHIN came out, and the film is full of casual but surprisingly frank remarks why a person might need an abortion. Barbara Eden had a traumatic miscarriage not long ago, which motivated George Grizzard's vasectomy, and his suspicions about her mysterious new pregnancy are threatening the integrity of the marriage, and then she starts getting sort of sick or something--so it's clear that a person might be reasonably entitled to end a pregnancy based on various quality of life issues for the child and the mother. I wonder if it was a big deal for Barbara Eden to choose to do this movie where she and her costar regularly and openly discuss abortion with no moral quibbling. I wonder also if it was a big deal for ABC to show it, at the dawn of legal abortion.

Anyway, soon the couple has bigger problems than family planning, because Barbara Eden becomes hypersensitive to sound, and she needs the house to be ice cold, and she makes weird paintings, and she eats pounds and pounds of salt with scalding black coffee, and she craves information which she absorbs through her hands, rubbing and touching and feeling everything in the library. The couple gets Bob the hypnotist (David Doyle) involved, and it seems like hypnotism is a really great job if you are a gigantic busybody who immediately asks and won't stop asking probing personal questions, even if people beg you to stop. Anyway, Bob has one of the best lines of dialog I've heard all year: "Why do people always assume that anything from outer space is horrible?"

THE STRANGER WITHIN is not a perfect film; it's an obvious ROSEMARY'S BABY knockoff with a little EXORCIST sprinkled in, and for a movie that is only 75 minutes long it has a few too many long scenes of Barbara Eden wandering aimlessly in nature as she communes with whatever knocked her up. But it's intriguing and entertaining, and it seems like everyone enjoyed making it, especially cinematographer Michael D. Margulies whose pedigree includes John Cassavetes' MINNIE AND MOSKOWITZ, POLICE ACADEMY, DIRTY MARY CRAZY LARRY, and of course, THE BABY. Night scenes are illuminated by dramatic pools of light and splashes of saturated color, which heightens the drama even of exposition and repetitive bickering; it's just a fun movie overall. Recommended for viewers who assume that anything from outer space is horrible.

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Blogtober Day 13 - Redraw Your Least Favorite Panel

Well… immediately knew going in I’d HAVE to pick an ask-twilight-fanged-rocks panel. That said, I will say the original of this isn’t actually my least favorite. I didn’t want to comb through and actually find which one I like least, so I just went for one I’d have fun redrawing!

Plus the original panel of this is one of the ones where you can actually see my biology notes to the side due to me drawing it in class, so I think that definitely makes it a contender anyway.

Don’t know if I do really like how it turned out, them both being dark colors made them kinda blend together, and it doesn’t help that the scene takes place at night ^^;

Original Panel:

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Eternally dark and beautiful!

List of Superstitions that I believe in. There’s at least 7 on the list, and of course it’s complicated. About time to have fun with them.

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Participating in Blogtober: Worth it or not?

A few days ago, this fellow blogger was trying to prove it to me how unreasonable it is for me to post everyday on my blog as if I’m being forced and when I’m not even getting paid to do it. While, in all honesty, my mind was straight going for a ‘mind your own business’ kind of reply, I decided to keep my calm. The thought suddenly crossed my mind that what if someone else who might be genuinely…

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Blogtober 2024: Day 30

My little cousin came over for an entire spooky craft day! We of course put on a movie, and got to crafting. She wanted to learn how to crochet, work with polymer clay, air dry clay, foam clay, bracelets, and charms. So, we did it all. Crochet: Spooky Cow (keychain) Pumpkin (Keychain) Ghost (keychain) Clay: Ghost Pumpkin Dinosaur Cat Dog Bracelets: Boo orange and black Purple and…

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A Writer's Block: A Very Serious Problem

Or is it?

So, here we are, smack dab near the end of Blogtober, and I’ve hit a snag. A big, juicy, writer’s block kind of snag. It’s like my brain has suddenly decided to go on vacation, leaving me stranded with a blank page and a deadline looming.

I’ve exhausted my list of ideas, which, let’s be honest, was probably a bit ambitious to begin with. Anyway I picked all the topics I felt I could write about.

I’m starting to think I might be experiencing a full-blown mind-life crisis, but for my writing career. Is that even a thing? I’m not sure, but I’m pretty sure it’s happening to me right now.

I’ve tried all the usual tricks: staring at the ceiling, drinking excessive amounts of coffee, and listening to inspirational music. But nothing seems to be working. Maybe I should try a more unconventional approach, like writing a blog post about my lack of blog post ideas. Or maybe I should just give up and go watch cat videos on YouTube or sink my mind into another Korean show on Netflix.

I guess we’ll just have to wait and see what happens. In the meantime, I’ll be here, staring at this blank page, hoping for a miracle.

Stay tuned for the thrilling conclusion to this year's epic tale of writer’s block (or not) .

for my fellow writer with a case of writer's block - Fun Fact: Did you know that writer’s block is a common experience for writers of all levels? Even the greats like Stephen King and J.K. Rowling have admitted to struggling with it. So, if you’re feeling stuck, don’t worry, you’re not alone.

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Back to school

My course with Open University has officially started, and I have been doing some studying today. It is all textbook work so far, and I am trying to write my own notes to put things down in a way that makes sense to me. Which isn’t easy, because a lot of things don’t make sense to me. Something that is not purely unique to uni work. The world can be a confusing place. I just need to make sure…