#frictionless

[xtrablak674]

Nothing on my mind...

Wanting to write something, and actually having something to write about, are two very different things. My writing usually has to come from a place of strong emotion, repulsion, passion, anger, rage or indecision. I have had some strong feelings about some films I watched recently, a niece who I realized was quite spoiled and maybe my empathy about a friend struggling with familial relations, but none of these items got me to launch a Page in iOs and get down some thoughts, and I missed that. I can't just write to write.

The main reason I wanted to do a post was to use a particular photo that showed up in my For You in the Photos app, just a year old photo of me from behind wearing my hakama pants. As I try to loose twenty pounds I gained I can clearly see that I am thinner in the photo. And even though I am more than a quarter of the way back to where I was I still enjoyed the picture because I felt I look good in it. Striving to look good is a constant worry and struggle, even though its for an audience of one.

Even my issues with this eBay seller who listed an item, then forgot to mail it because allegedly they were moving, but then after I had to reach out to them again two weeks after the purchase the story changed to, they didn't know where the item was. My thing is, you're misrepresenting, just refund my money, why are there further games or discussion? I have already submitted to eBay for a refund, but these kind of people are just messy and get so caught up in themselves they don't notice they are inconveniencing others.

I told a friend today that she needs to work on taking up more space. She went through some traumatic ish this weekend and thinks her feelings aren't worth the tears they are imprinted on. I want to dissuade that and encourage her to not be so apologetic about allowing herself to matter more to those around her. I think sometimes trauma leads folks to want to move through life as frictionless as possible and thats relatable, but life is about friction. And if you are creating friction so you have the room to express your full humanity I am all here for it.

Dionne Warick is now on my spirit I was looking forward to getting that four album collection and right now I am trying to quench that thirst with some Billie Holiday which is an entirely different vibe. But I finished my Sci-Fi Sunday early. I did something I don't usually do I ran of cartoons much earlier than usual. For a few moments I was like what do I do now?

The bulk of me filling my time usually has to do with something I am watching, so when I run of out of things to watch per my regularly scheduled programming I get a bit lost. I did put my walking clothes in the buckets to be washed. I wear them for two weeks than switch to other clothes to wear for a couple of weeks. Its getting cooler and wetter I hope I am able to walk for at least another month albeit I did successfully do at least a couple of sessions of yoga on the rainy days we had.

Well for having nothing on my mind I did find a couple of things to write about and now I can use the photo I want to use the way I want to use it. The thing was I was putting restrictions on myself saying I have a blog that shows naked flesh do I really want to bring any of that over here, and I decided I need to stop partitioning myself and allow me to be me and now try to stick to such a rigid agenda of who I should or shouldn't be in the digital spaces of the interenets.

[Photo by Brown Estate]

[hypercubecats]

◁ ¦ ﹉ PREVIOUS PAGE ﹉ ¦ ¦ ﹉ NEXT PAGE ﹉ ¦ ▷

◄◄ ¦ ﹉ REWIND TO THE BEGINNING ﹉ ¦ ☱∺∷⊹⁎

[arcticdementor]

A physics joke

Q. What does a frictionless spherical cow say?

A. Nothing, because it has zero mu.

[legionofpotatoes]

I know the discourse well is poisoned and no one hates bioware games more than bioware fans, but I am just 🫠 having so much fun with veilguard it's unreal. It is selfishly the dragon age game I always wanted. with less emphasis on cRPG, a more focused story, curated mission based design that spotlights the high fantasy stuff, slowburn structure with companions, significantly less sidequest bloat, and a fully real-time action-oriented combat system that isn't riddled with the growing pains of previous titles. when I first played origins I imagined something almost exactly like this as my ideal version of a sequel; and it was one of those dirty, selfish thoughts that I knew was disrespectful to the then-established DNA of the thing, but I can't help but feel giddy about having it here and now. like down to the shift away from the childishly dark tone and to something more inherently flexible with a baseline aspirational quality. I hate aesthetically depressing games so much. am I not alive right here and right now already

When I say "aesthetically" there though I do mean it. I'm fully on the opposite side when it comes to tone and positions expressed in the story itself. I am just not including that in my analysis because I am not done yet - so please no spoilers! I think I am where most people consider to be the second act, and I definitely have my gripes with the narrative framework and some of the optics, but I won't put the cart before the horse and will see how it wraps things up first. Above that level, in terms of how it presents itself, of how it plays, of how it balances its core pillars - it is such a bioware-ass game and I could not be any cozier in it. So grateful it exists

[marlenacantswim]

sure were in time for those stars, huh?

[bookhobbit]

I'm binding the Mythos quilt and I've generally found I prefer to self bind because you have to have backing overage ANYWAY so might as well use it to bind with. The only issue is, this usually means the binding is single fold rather than double fold, and thus not as strong. Problematic! My oldest bed quilt, which is single fold self-bound and sees a lot of use, is already showing wear at the binding.

For the Mythos quilt however, I came up with a solution. Take the binding piece and fold it in half, with the raw edge behind the quilt batting. Then fold that over.

I'm interested to see if this wears any better than what I learned as the standard method of self binding (fold narrowly with the raw edge right under the front binding strip, the way you'd do with a hem).

[theriverbeyond]

as a fellow grad student i just have to say that every time i see the words "thesis partner" in your posts i take 1 million points of psychic damage. this semester i almost dropped a whole seminar to avoid a single group project. you are so strong

anon I wish I were you because I wish I could just drop a seminar to avoid this group project. unfortunately I cannot and am in my own personal hell. I believe my program sets it up like this because the professors hate grading ❤️

[livenudebigfoot]

why does this weird black market drug have such slick marketing materials. Who is designing these.

[rubensmuse]

DA2 comps used to encourage each other to kill themselves

[gabbynyssa]

Oh, hey... Guess it's time for me to say something on tumblr about DC that's not a popular opinion...

So, I finally watched the Superman teaser. Casting looks great, loving the vibes and filming choices, looks promising in a lot of ways.

The only problem is... that's entirely too many characters for what is functionally a first movie's first teaser. I love seeing my less popular faves get to be in a movie, however... you put a small Justice League in a trailer that's only a few minutes long. That doesn't show that you're confident that you've made a good Superman movie, that shows that you got so caught up in playing catchup with the now flagging MCU that even your first teaser has to rely on cameos.

Like... I'm eventually gonna watch this movie and hope it's good, no matter how bitter I still am about Batgirl being canned, Batman Beyond being shelved before it even got finished writing, and all the other Warner-Discovery CEO greed fueled BS. And I'm gonna be giddy to see the blorbos from my comics that haven't gotten to be in big screen stuff before. But I think we've seen the pattern before, and slapping the name of "guy that made a few movies work when nobody saw it coming" on this doesn't change that they're still following that same pattern.

I do still think the casting looks fantastic, I'm just reasonably skeptical about them making a good first Superman movie that also introduces general audiences to Guy Gardner without making something feel half-baked. And to a lesser degree, the number of other characters as well, as they're not as hard to see the appeal of, but large casts in 2-3 hrs tends to mean someone gets left behind or everyone is cookie cutter.

[pikapitou]

absolutely useless point to make but if you are fr gonna do the thought exercise of changing your characters' genders then acting like. oh they can dress the same and act the same and all the same things happened to them but now they're a girl! that's dumb as hell. women can do anything and women can have any traits but acting as if something as influential as a change in GENDER won't affect a character's storyline is. well let's just say. fucking insane

[0k-seizurre138]

(Translation by me)

In this expanding world,

Just how far and where is this miniature garden of ours?

Even if it turns into ashes,

There has to be a new creation

(90 seconds 'til midnight)

I don't want to tell, but,

Ah, to this world...?

I have to say my goodbyes soon

I don't want to die yet,

So I'll try to use a cutter to cut the tube of mortalness

I turned around and I noticed that

my yesterday's mistakes got reasons (hm)

♪

God hates my annoyance/frustration

Ah, but do I really have to hide it

with frictionless soil?

Before my ashes scatter, please leave me alone once more

You're leaving me behind → You're leaving me behind...

It seems that I can't turn back

I'm a useless/poor creation

The one that nobody doesn't pay attention to

There's nothing left of me including my heart. Nothing left.

[frankenshane]

nancy, you can save the smoke filled rooms chatter for november 7th

[sunb0ts]

Good Mythical Morning it is 6:30 AM in the night and the still-filled tea offering glass on our extremely vertical upright tall unclimbable-to-small-or-large-house-creatures bookcase altar just audibly scooched a few inches before loudly falling and spilling over. prompting mikeko to dash into his hide (said with eyebags)

[youandthemountains]

drives me sooo irrationally insane when i feel like a Task for people

[tubapun]

That sex was terrible. I've been in theoretical science experiments with more grip than your asshole