#I know I still owe stuff

[valtsv]

always thinking about her (the beautiful insult to canon silt verses ending that exists in my mind where VAL sets up a saints' union chilchuck style)

[deathtodickens]

Stenography 101

My court reporting professor is actually very amazing. All of my classes are live, over Zoom, so I’ve not actually met her - or any of my classmates, even though three of them live in town and three of us have a text group - but the impact of her amazing support and personality has been very obvious on us, as a class. We have a group chat on WhatsApp where 20+ of us commiserate over every new concept in the theory we’re learning.

That said, she experienced a terrible loss last week and canceled one class but promised to be back the next day. (We meet three times a week.) Her returning so soon after is, of course, an absurd thought but I understand that people just want to maintain some sort of normalcy while grieving.

But as we all saw this notification over Canvas, and felt the impact of her news almost at once, my class hustled, collected donations, and sent this woman a giant flower arrangement with all of the add-ons we could find and afford. There was money left over from later donations for a second gift basket with care items, like gift cards for food delivery, so she wouldn’t have to worry about remembering to eat.

I offered to draw the card for that and already had this image in my mind. Took a photo of my machine and outlined it, then dove in to drawing these flowers from a reference bouquet. Which, honestly, I don’t think I’ve ever done before and wasn’t sure I could actually do.

(And y’all now that realistic stuff isn’t really my thing. But every now and then I have the patience for detail.)

I should say that I was greatly inspired by our professor fully committing to joining our class the day after her loss. Tears and all. She’d received her flowers and thanked us all, then wiped her eyes and moved forward with dictations for our final quiz of the semester.

This is just a drawing that I didn’t want to add words to, but I hope it brings some additional comfort and I hope she sees that it’s meant to relay our gratitude to her dedication to our success.

Court reporting schools and programs have something hovering around a 95% fail rate. I am only in my first semester of theory but we will have the same professor for all three theory semesters. Then off to speed building (the hounds), up to 225 wpm, where most people tend to give up.

I love the machine and learning a very detailed, even if a bit stroke intensive, theory that makes sense to my puzzle-loving brain, but at some point in the future, I know we will all just be hanging on for dear life.

Til then, I will be sprinkling this new love of mine into my little collection of sporadic thoughts here.

[moregraceful]

many things i have been keeping under wraps at work, such as pronouns, but also, very critically, age. bc i got that ageless mixed race asian swag where i am very clearly not an undergrad but also??? they just don't know. and it WHIPS and it is so funny to ME because all the managers and shift supervisors are like damn this girl in her mid-twenties is so easy to talk to, it's like talking to a peer. surprise bitch i'm older than you. and maybe this means i'm performing psychological experiments on cis men, but i am ngl if i hand you a two page resume that you don't read, it is simply none of MY business if you think i am in my mid-20s. they are going to be so mad when they find out lmao

[thesupernaturalhouse]

I just want yall to know I am drawing smth for the accidental overlord vaggie, someone requested it and it's basically-

Vaggie calculating how many people owe her favors(gave her their soul)

[youreaclownnow]

Yesterday I read Earthian for the first time in years. Forever and always, I think it'll always sit in top spot for my overall favorite BL manga. It hit different than it used to, but I felt as though I understood it in a deeper way than I did on any prior read. Truly it is a beautiful manga, emotionally heavy, but hopeful and full of passion.

[bitegore]

I misplaced my credit card.

It's prbably not stolen, but, out of an abundance of caution, because it hasn't turned up in four days and the last time I saw it was a day I wasn't doing super hot for a number of reasons and then got sick as a dog after, I'm going to operate under the assumption that it's somewhere out in the public and I have to concern myself with the idea that someone might pick it up and use it. Before that happens, I'm going to order a new one in the mail and cancel that number.

This normally wouldn't be a big deal, because I have a debit card, and I try not to spend money I don't have. That is not true right now, because I get the money in my actual bank account (mostly) from my dad, who has been saying he'll get it to me for about a month now and not doing it. His bank account was hooked up to my credit card (which we did last month so he could pay my bill for me). This also normally wouldn't be a big deal beacuse I have cash. My college is cashless. Sometimes I have to spend money here. So you see what the actual problem is, right?

Anyway point is I suddenly have about $70 to split over everything I'll need to pay for for the next (estimated) two weeks, during what is probably the single two week period I'm going to spend the most money on takeout. (Midterms).

Normally again this wouldn't be a huge problem! I'd take on some art commissions and finish them off later. I don't love doing it but I can do it. Normally. I have a lot of outstanding commissions from this summer that I owe people, though. So I can't in good conscience do that.

Anyway, all that to say: I'm selling nudes. Hit me up. I'll do whatever. Particularly good at taking pictures outdoors but I can do it wherever. I'll fill requests. Send me a message and I'll see what I can do for you.

"teaser" under the cut :3

[fire-on-fuel]

@verpineshatterrifle your tags are literally so true and real!!! Wanted to post them because they're related to what I've been talking about with what makes someone aro or ace and how it is to live out being those things and because the exploring aspect of this is really underappreciated in fandom imo, both in the context of exploring the character and the character exploring themself. The nulls are such a great example of this because of their Situation, there's so much stuff they know about the world and so much they don't. The idea of them trying things out and it working or not working or working in an extra twisted way feels comfortable and likely. It's messy being anywhere on the aroace spectrum, especially when they live in a society that (I'm assuming) doesn't really know where to place those things

[byanyan]

think i've decided that i really am gonna delete basically all of the older stuff in my drafts unless i'm really really really attached to something... haven't decided what all is going or like, what the cutoff point is gonna be just yet, but. i'd really rather just get some new stuff going with y'all bc muse for older threads has, in a lot of cases, grown kinda stale at this point (and also i'm so much farther behind now thanks to the fucking mental breakdown in april that i'm still recovering from ajfksdhfs)

thank you all so much for your patience & understanding, and i'm sorry about having to do this. it's just gonna take a lot of pressure off of me while i'm finding my footing & energy to write again, it's got nothing to do with not liking an interaction or not wanting to thread with you ♡♡♡ i'm looking forward to starting a bunch of new stuff with everyone who's still interested in my little freak child!!

[tariah23]

Man, I still remember participating in one of the many jjba zines that I took part in and how my piece was placed as the first page (for the second time) and how one of my mutuals/artists that I’ve always admired, hit me with the “oh… you’re on the front page again… 😅…” like man, that kind of killed me lmfao. I never got over it like man, what was that about.

[arlo192]

she is everything to me. everything except the several hundred dollars I can find her for on eBay

[theroundbartable]

Me: positive responses to my school work? The hell?

Teacher: well, yeah, you did good-

Me: but this- I! Did this!

Teacher: yes. Well done

Me: holy shite! I did good? What if I do another task?

Teacher: awesome!!!!

Me:

I present to you: the mind boggling concept of getting praised for your accomplishments rather than punished for your mistakes.

I've been living off this experience for over 6 months.

[wayfinderships]

I'll be so doomed the day I ever get a girl f/o

[lulu2992]

“It’s okay, he doesn’t punch as hard as you do…”

That one time Taylor, after finally confessing to some of her allies that, contrary to what the whole county believed, John hadn’t died in the crash of his plane, arranged a meeting between them at the 8-Bit Pizza Bar to determine the best course of action, and John made the mistake of approaching an angry Nick Rye who was trying to calm down outside. The pilot’s response was quick.

Shout-out to Adelaide for grabbing a cold can of Tana Cola from the nearby vending machine!

I still have “old” art to post so I’m posting it! This time, I decided not to draw a background because I wanted to try to use a screenshot instead. It was a fun experiment but I don’t know if I like the result... However, I did redraw the Tana Cola logo (included below)! Too bad it’s barely visible :’)

[residentialsinyomakai]

I'm using pc to post on tumblr dot com for the first time this is so weird omg,,,, anyways

For what I actually came here for, I LEARNED HOW TO MAKE WEBSTAMPSSSS >u< ! I'm super happy cause I never knew how people did it before but now I can make my own yokai watch idiot themed stamps,, already made a Roughraff and Rawry one so a friend and I could match! Now I'm either gonna make squid ones, Hino ones, or go to bed cause it's pretty later here y'know y'know lol. Probably gonna learn how to make blinkies next >:)

[relevant-url-incoming]

So Naz and Ams and their assorted cohorts have some timeline fuckery that I don't do with my other legacies, thanks to the family tree thing you can do and my having no idea what the class stories were like back in the day (which was like maybe two years ago but shhh it was The Day)

Meaning all my tech classes ended up in one generation and their various children were all my "canon" force users, and also proceeded with the Alliance part of the story. Which makes for some interesting adjustments such as:

Saresh is not Janarus' immediate successor but rather comes several chancellors after him (do we have any info on term length or limits?)

The dark council exists as the game presents it for the force users, and for the rest of them unless it's like. Jadus or somebody who only matters to a tech class, they're all just handwavy ocs I may or may not flesh out

Torian showing up in the kotxx stuff is in fact a touching father-daughter reunion. Which is trippy for several reasons. But hey that will be fun to write!

Jordan and Kaliyo are both tired middle aged folks seeing echoes of dead friends in these young upstarts trying to stop Zakuul. As you can imagine they handle that very differently

Raina gets to meet her dead husband's son who he never knew about. She and said son also do not know, and this goes unremarked. But I know. I know.

Theron's entire timeline is just. Wonky as fuck now. I crumpled it into a ball on accident. So I guess Satele is only a bit older than the folks in that first generation (made easier by them not really interacting with the Jedi council at least) and she can end up grandmaster of the order by the time the force-using kids go through their class stories. There could possibly be an argument for important parts of Theron's life shifting dramatically but! As most of his backstory is not discussed in game I Do What I Want

This also means that there was a sort of history repeat happening with the supposed cessation of hostilities after what happened to Coruscant pre-game - they go through the war, claim to call a truce, and then spend a long time saying "we are totally at peace!" While fighting just like they did at the start of Naz'erli and Ams and their respective siblings' stories. Which feels very futile but also very star wars in the end, something something cycle of violence and war. Idk the themes are a work in progress still, usually I'm out here talking about freedom and autonomy but this legacy... Very cycles and history focused methinks.

[aranostra]

sc. how about a little starter call for my paul de pointe du lac since i haven't done anything with him yet (reply if there's a specific verse you'd prefer). multis please specify.