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[logosbot-tm]

Virgil is, imo, one of those emos who definitely should stop drinking energy drinks (specifically monster), but he doesn't. Instead he's collecting the cans on a shelf for some unholy reason

[wire-smith-crafts]

Not sure how to classify these. Gadgets? Contraptions? Not sure they have enough moving parts to be contraptions. Maybe just mechanisms?

Mostly they're fun little practice pieces. I've been messing with springs and two-position toggles. The fact that they make fun desk fidget toys is a bonus!

The one with the insulated copper is technically an electrical switch, toggling between open and closed. The all-steel one is just a test of how weak of a spring I can get away with.

[everchased]

got stuck in stardew valley again, will be back to posting shortly

[iloveacronix]

Most normal Krux and Acronix conversation💀💀💀

@get-acronixed-meme

[ysaefinn]

https://pin.it/67tKl276k

Suguru/Satoru with anything that’s small and breathes

aka us

-👹

Heres the pin :>

DEMONON THIS IS SO FUCKING SWEEEEETTTTTTTT AND ACCURATE 😭😭😭 the immediate attachment is so them...so much mom energy its getting difficult to breathe UGHHH

[honkowo]

interesting experience i had leaving the shopping center carpark today

(no collisions or anything dw mr truck guy went around fine but FUCKKK HE GOT CLOOOOOOSE)

[chameleon3]

band camp i miss u come here

[skunkes]

how exactly do you get a printer to print something in the exact size you want it to 😭

[moe-broey]

Okay, I was almost tempted to make a poll, but. As fun as it is as an idea (yay! Group participation!), I think I already made my choice and didn't wanna disappoint anyone if I didn't pick the winning option LMFAO

So, instead, I just wanna walk you through my thought process! Book 3 is approaching, for my quotes blogs specifically I mean. This means I have to set up the evil-alfonse-quotes -- I mean, Lif quotes blog. For the Bit.

For Alfonse and Sharena, I picked out some FEH comic illusts that I think represent them well. Both of them being silly and sweet w Kiran on the header, and the icons! I wanted to capture them each, on a few dif fronts.

Like! Those are my friends! I know them! Alfonse, with an award winning sincere smile, but also! Putting on a good face. Best foot forward. He has an appearance to keep. He's also very charming! As for Sharena! OH THERE ARE SO MANY GOOD SHARENAS TO PICK FROM. You can take that same angle -- award winning smile, best foot forward, to the MAX with her. But!!! Out of all of the choices I could go with... this icon feels like something she would pick herself. It's silly, it's playful, it's cute! Even the more chibi style suits her perfectly, esp in contrast to Alfonse's look.

Okay! So, back to Lif. I already have the idea of making what I lovingly call the Askr Extended Family Photo Comic the header. Where Lif is spotted shuffling behind Gustav, in the background. It is just. EXTREMELY funny, to me. He's a fucking cryptid, to me. Rare Lif Sighting. And APPARENTLY. YEAH. RARE LIF SIGHTING FOR FUCKING REAL. As far as I know, dude has only shown up in THREE Day in the Life comics, including that one. Damn. Okay!

I did not know how dire the situation was, going into this. So I'm scouring the website and also looking through an archive. I have the header, but I need an icon! I come out with a grand total of... three. Options.

I gravitate towards this option first. Rare Lif, so early on it's not on the site (I could be wrong, but also I did flip through all the way back til I couldn't anymore! Cuts off on a Ranulf and Lethe centric comic). Okay, so, what's the deal here? Should be simple? Easy, done? Well... while it's a very nice illustration of him. He looks cool, brooding, threatening. It's a little... stiff. Like, I might as well pull from his in-game art! Which is ALSO really good, but, not what I'm aiming for. It's hard to explain, but art created for specific purposes has different vibes. You know. In-game art is meant to showcase The Art, and the best features of the character. Comic illustrations can get sillier! Or can focus on more personality based things. And capturing the personality, is what I'm going for! Also... because it's a rare Lif, and bc of the way this illust is drawn... it's not immediately clear this is a FEH comic panel. It might not even be clear that it's official artwork. As an artist myself, I'd prefer to stick to clearly official work for this! I don't want any confusion or concerns about uncredited art!

NEXT. I literally only have one other comic to pull from, now. And... Okay, hear me out. I love silly-ifying this man. I love goofing on this absolute DRAMA queen of a man. I love poking fun at him at every opportunity. There is a Reason why I named the blog something stupid instead of being straightforward. HOWEVER. While this is a fun, silly moment..... it just doesn't capture him in his entirety, you know? In fact, I'd argue this is a rare moment where he's directly contradicting his dark, brooding and tortured persona he's so carefully crafted (and well, the natural bits of it too. That came with The Trauma). To me, esp in the full context of him and Thrasir saying "Our work here is Done" Tuxedo Mask style, dumping the rest of the workload (of which, to be fair, was not in their jurisdiction) onto ANNA. You know, Commander Anna? The woman, while not the exact one, but the woman he used to work so closely with? His boss, his co-worker, his friend? Oh he is ABSOLUTELY doing that on purpose to fuck with her. This is a Lif zoomies moment to me. This is a Lif DEEPLY INGRAINED NEED to be A Jackass moment. To me. The type of jackassery that comes with being an older brother. Old habits die hard.

All of that said... it's a very good moment. It's also a very cute illustration. But it's too cute. Too playful. Too silly. It's a real and true moment from him that just doesn't fit the same way anymore. And definitely doesn't capture him in his entirety. This is my opinion, my verdict, with great regret and sorrow. Next!

Out of the illusts from this comic, really only two are usable as an icon. This is the other one. And..... HEAR ME OUT. It goes back to my thoughts of picking that specific illust for the header. Catching a Glimpse of the local cryptid haunting the place. The Ghoul Himself, lurking and shambling about. AND GOING BACK to my thoughts on why I picked those specific Alfonse and Sharena icons!!!!! To capture their personalities, and the faces they put forward to the world! How they see themselves, or want to be seen! Oh, Lif does NOT want to be Seen. This is one of two candid shots you were able to snap of him while all other attempts he's like Big Foot. Some blurry, glowy spectre who is going to get SO FUCKING MAD AT YOU when he catches you trying to catch Him. And!!! And!!!!! POKING FUN AT HIM. The comedy of seeing This Fucking Guy in broad daylight is unparalleled. He looks SO out of place, on a nice, clear, sunny day. Not so scary now, running errands for Commander Anna, ARE you, buddy? Huh?? Huh??? Oh god wait don't reach for your cursed sword I'M SORRY I'M SORRRYYYYY --

It's funny! Ironic! That the third one was a "I'll do it if I Have To", in my mind. I didn't want to use it. I did, very much, want to pick something Cooler. But no... that's not the Route....... do not be swayed by his objectively very cool appearance and his dangerous demeanor. Rule number one to being a Lif enjoyer is you HAVE to make fun of him. Rule number two, is that you have to make fun of him in a Lif-honoring way. You cannot solely focus on what makes him cool, what makes him tragic, and what makes him endearing, those rare moments of softness. No. You need to Hone In. LOCK IN. On what would make him want to punt you across the battlefield, full fucking force.

That's just how I feel, though! Thank you for joining me on this little journey! ☺️☺️☺️😌💖💝💗💘💞💝💞💘💖💞💖💓💞💓💖💞💓💖💗💗💝💘💘💞💕💕💕

[balentay]

Feeling like shit..... Missing..... Her.............

[einsatzzz]

between my phone battery being gregnant/dying and the path of that damned typhoon, i am so cooked jsbfhsdvfdsvf i can't even see notifs/reply to messages from there bc it keeps shutting down, im typing this all on pc rn, it's so inconvenient ueueueue

[martyrbat]

what’s your favorite book you’ve read this year??? i gotta pick up something new!!

what a lovely question to receive! im so sorry for the delayed response and that i dont know your taste in books (please feel free to dm me anytime and talk about them!) but i really enjoyed The Gilda Stories to the point i've read it three times within the same month!

its a 1991 novel forcing on a Black lesbian that escapes enslavement and eventually becomes a vampire by two lesbians. each chapter being about a different time period in her life [1850, 1890, 1921, 1971, 1981, 2020, 2050]!

i dont want to give too much away if you havent read it yet but the writing is so enchanting and Jewelle Gomez's style is one of my favorites. its simultaneously melancholic and comforting, holding onto the message of how important hope for tomorrow is despite the current state of today and that community is needed not only for survival but for actual living—that those connections is what makes life truly fulfilling. i've underlined so many little lines in almost every passage (when not underlining the entire passage itself!) because i just love gilda herself as well as how her motivations, desires, and resilience is written and explored. plus i find the way vampires and how they function to be such a beautiful idea and so creative :) i really hope you read it and enjoy it as much as i have!! <33

from the afterword:

“Jewelle Gomez says that she modeled her first book of poems The Lipstick Papers after Lorde’s early publications, and was inspired by that vampire who appears on the very last page of From a Land Where Other People Live. Lorde asks whether the black community is ready for a black woman who defies limitations, and Gomez responds with Gilda, a black woman who moves across time and space, navigating different eras in black creative community. Gomez provides depth and flesh to the nightmares of narrow-minded people who police the definition of blackness, and steals back the power and threat of black feminine difference. In other words, if the definitions of blackness, femininity, and queerness are death in the eyes of the dominant culture, Gomez offers another way of being black, queer, and feminine by creating the undead.

Policy makers are afraid of the black woman who keeps her family alive without access to food, but here is Gilda, living on wine and dreams in the dark. Black nationalists are afraid of the black woman who can be a man when she needs to be, but here she is wearing britches and sprinting through the Midwest. The white feminist movement is afraid of a black woman in control of her sexuality, but here is a black woman who can run a brothel and kill a rapist with the same skills. Black women are afraid that expressing their power will leave them isolated and alone, but here is a black woman who wrestles for generations with the need for space and intimacy, interdependence and agency. Black artists are ready to produce a poetics that is more than a reaction to the oppressive narratives of the man, and here is Jewelle Gomez, a poet, relevant for generations.”

[thetarttfuldickhead]

What would have happened if Roy agreed to come on as coach before Jamie returned to the team? Perhaps it would have played out the same but in parallel: the team first angry, then softening, Roy ignoring him, then softening – but perhaps not. Would we have had a Trent Crimm sort of situation, with Roy being very clear that no one is to talk to Jamie? Would that have hastened the team’s (already fairly quick) acceptance of Jamie, because they feel a bit bad for him? Or would it – more fun for whump purposes – rather have served to prolong their animosity, Roy’s dislike feeding into their own, and their tacit approval fanning his darker tendencies?

Or maybe Roy would have been quicker to warm to Jamie if he’d actually gotten to see the team take some of their frustration out on him, and Jamie taking it with reaonsably good grace and (for Jamie) humility? After all, Roy needs a bit of time to process things, so I think him walking into a situation where everyone else was already cool with Jamie while Roy was still very much on a “I hope he dies” kick messed with him, and played a part in him electing to just ignore Jamie completely, because he had no idea how to deal with that.

(I tend to think that Roy would have voted an emphatic no on Jamie returning, but only because he trusted that Ted would bring him back anyway; he knows their chances of being promoted back to the Premier League is that much better with Jamie on the team, but he just cannot stomach the notion of being seen as in favour of Jamie being there.)

[fractallogic]

Fridge: gone through

Trash/recycling/etc containers: put out, the fullest they have ever been

Stuff: put into a pile as well as I can when my entire everything hurts

Last load of dishes: started

I am ready for a shower and bed. I wish I felt less disgusting because actually I just want to go to bed, but my hair is crispy and my skin is itchy from so much sweat

Left to pack: my room (clothes, shoes, tchotchkes), bathroom, stuff on shelves, pantry, kitchen essentials

We can fuckin do this. God.

[clementiens]

it's so cool and awesome how much more mobile and independent i am because i have an ebike on account of not being able to drive and having limited mobility . i'm really grateful for paratransit when i have needed it but being able to just go out and do stuff is really great and being outside in the air with the trees is so nice

[simplyghosting]

Spent 2hrs and even input code into command prompt as an admin to try to figure out why google wouldn’t let me load the engine on a laptop but did on a computer (of which both were connected to the same wifi) and couldn’t figure that out but did find a work around using a cloudflare DNS. So yay I guess.