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Found some old art! I've been into scrapbook journaling, so I went through an old accordion folder of loose art from middle school through college. I had a blast putting some of them in my journal and hanging up some of them. How about that Sonic koala OC, lol?! I think the idea was that she needed the roller skates to keep up (yeah that will make you as fast as Sonic, lol!), and she would jump off of things and float down with the parasol. Honestly it's not a bad design for how young I was (13 ish?). The ears look amazing.

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Inspired by my friend describing Iori as a little hater

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Garden progress and my first ever produce (that is not an herb). PLEASE STOP RAINING.

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No Shape,

…but Still Here.

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Hidden's Life

Categories: General life stuff and health, Gardening, Journaling, What is Magic?

General life stuff/health

I somehow have what seems like bronchitis AGAIN. My health has been awful this year, with two cases of bronchitis and my first case of covid, which hit me like a bus. When you add in the time I spent struggling to adapt to my new meds, it's been hard!

There has been a ton of rain in my area, and we had leaking in the house. We called a contractor, who ripped away some siding to reveal water damage beneath. We knew we would need a new roof in a few years when we bought this house, so we've been saving, but now there is an extra expense of fixing all this existing water damage. Worse yet, the last home owner knew about it, as they made a token (ineffective) attempt to patch it up. Thanks, man.

So, uh... Yeah. We are about to kiss a lot of money goodbye. It's not really stressful, because we had the luxury of being able to prepare, but uhhh we will have to take a look at our spending for the year, for sure.

Despite all of that, as well as waaaay worse political stuff that I would prefer not to get into, I'm doing as well as I can.

Gardening

I am obsessed with gardening! It started small, with the desire to grow my own lettuce, and joyfully snowballed into... Just, just everything! I couldn't tell you the last time I opted to learn so much, devouring books and videos, and immediately put the lessons into practice. It's so satisfying! It's so fun! Plants are so cute! They grow so fast! They give you food! They are all so different and have specific needs! I LOVE THEM!

It's so engaging on so many levels, and it's good for you in multiple ways, too! It gets you outside, it's exercise, and you make healthy produce that you want to eat. And it brings me back to childhood, where I spent so much time outside alone, watching insects move, collecting rocks, and disturbing small creatures. My mother constantly had to tell me to, "put Mr. Snake/Frog/Bug/Lizard back where you found him." Hahaha, I picked up a baby bunny once and it froze. Not recognizing the freeze reaction as fear, I thought it liked me and happily pet it for a few minutes. It ran away like a shot when I put it down, and my grandmom made me wash my hands for ages.

I've always liked living things, is what I'm saying.

Journaling

I've been journaling since I was 4, before I could write. I kept a drawing diary back then (it's incomprehensible). And while I've always journaled off and on, I've been experimenting lately, trying to find something that really works for me.

I started an A6 size Hobonichi Techo this year. It has monthly spreads and a single page for each day, with the days pre-labelled. I love the form factor of the tiny book, and the thin, crinkly Tomoe River paper is delightful. I've used it consistently all year, although there are covid entries that consist of just... groaning. But while I've achieved consistency, there is no substance to the entries. There's no room for it! It's basically a retroactive to-do list. This happened today, then this. It's boring, and it's my life, lol! I also don't like how a quarter of each page is taken up by a header on top + a footer with a quote on the bottom. This is MY journal, I don't need other people's quotes, lol!

I am a stationery junkie, and I ran across a journaler who loves the Midori Codex, 1 page 1 day, which I decided to try. It's A5 size and features 365 pages of creamy MD paper, which is fountain pen friendly but thicker than tomoe river. I can write as much as I want, when I want. I have been using stickers, washi tape, ephemera (stuff like tickets for events or cute wrappers), and photo stickers printed from my phone with an Ivy Canon printer to turn it into like... A journal/scrapbook combo. This makes journaling way more fun and interesting, but it's also more time consuming, so I generally make 1-3 entries/week instead of writing daily.

I think I'll drop the daily/pre-printed journals next year. They cost more than blank journals, they always have sections I don't use, and I don't like how restrictive they are. And 1-3 journal entries/week is probably a fine number.

While I'm talking about journaling, at the height of my excitement for this new scrapbook/journal, I researched books about journaling and purchased The New Diary by Tristine Rainer, published in 1976.

[A quick aside. The book is a paperback with really nice, thick paper, like easily the highest quality paper I have seen in a book that wasn't... You know, like a high end fountain pen journal or something. The book cost $6.95 in the 1970s, which seemed super high to me. I checked for inflation and yep, this paperback book is $40 in 2025 USD!!!!! It reminded me of talks with my boomer mom/aunts/uncles. They talk about how great we have it now. Back then, luxuries were expensive (entertainment, electronics, clothing), but necessities were affordable (food, housing, education). Personally, I'd prefer more housed and fed people to fast fashion and cheap TVs, but $40 for a paperback book is still pretty crazy.]

The book is really... interesting. Rainer explores ways to elevate the diary from "today I..." to a tool for self-discovery and tapping into instincts/the unconscious. At times, it veers into woo woo territory, as often happens when Jung is involved. I use the tarot to tap into the unconscious, so like, I'm not judging, but it was interesting to see a book on journaling go in that direction, although of course I see the logic. But a mixture of this journaling book discussing accessing the unconscious and a gardening video I watched got my mind churning over a fun question:

What is magic?

I watched a video where a woman taught viewers how to make lotion bars from thyme. She specified to harvest the thyme "just after the morning dew has dried," which set my witchy-loving heart aglow. There's a scientific reason for that; the flavor profile is highest at that time. But does that not sound like a kickass potion ingredient?!

I've always been fascinated with the natural world and magic, and the natural world as magic. I love faerie lore, myths, witch lore, and ghost stories. I don't believe in any of those things (to clarify, yes, people identify as witches, but I don't believe any humans possess supernatural powers), but that lack of belief doesn't make the stories any less amazing, meaningful, or part of the human experience. In another life or past life, if that exists, I'm absolutely a witch.

But then, like. Aren't I now? Science and witchcraft have a ton in common. Slowly, I've come to realize that I think magic is any pursuit where the following are true:

-Pursuit is a learned skill that requires dedication and discipline to master

-Craft records are carefully maintained and shared

-A community forms around the dissemination of this knowledge

Which is to say, anything can be magic if there is passion/dedication, records, and community. This is also known, by one definition, as culture, the passing of knowledge from generation to generation. Some people believe that culture is what separates humans from other animals. Because we have recorded language, we can learn from a human who lived hundreds of years ago, allowing us to build as a species.

I don't believe in magic in the sense of powers, but I believe in something better. I believe that when we dedicate ourselves to a pursuit and share it with others, we make magic. And frankly, that's a lot cooler.

I hope you're all doing well, despite... Well, despite... You know, everything. Please rely on your community and give back what you can. Love you!

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small drawings of my fav digimon tamers! - joe and mimi are my comfort characters

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digidestined

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Pride month reblog! A sexy, sex positive queer story! Explicit, complete.

New Digimon Fanfic: Exploration

I published the first of four chapters of a new explicit digimon fanfic today! You can find it on AO3 here and FFN here.

Summary:

An AU story where Motomiya Daisuke, Anami Eimi, Ichijouji Ken, and Izumi Koushiro are undergraduate students in 2024. This four chapter explicit story follows their exploration of sexuality and relationships in a consensual, queer-friendly way.

Author's notes:

This story features college-age characters exploring their identities in a supportive/sex-friendly/consensual way. We'll see characters pushing themselves to see what they like, asexual characters exploring sex, casual relationships, casual relationships ending, casual relationships shifting to committed ones, monogamous relationships, and possibly poly and open relationships. The characters are purposefully pushing themselves and each other in the name of self-discovery, but they are doing so consensually. They are beginners, though; their advice isn't perfect. Also, while the story is sex positive, there are difficult aspects to being queer in our world, and to navigating relationships in general. Those do come up here.

Chapter one: Motomiya Daisuke x Anami Eimi Chapter two: Motomiya Daisuke x Ichijouji Ken Chapter three: Izumi Koushiro x Anami Eimi Chapter four: Still in development

Additional Notes:

Hi all!  So, this story was inspired by a dream I had of Daisuke and Eimi hooking up, which, if you're familiar with Eimi and my work, was...  Kind of weird for me.  I ended up fleshing out a story without meaning to simply by trying to figure out what could possibly bring those two together like that, and this is what I came up with!  It began expanding to contain Daiken, and suddenly it was June, and I thought...  Pride month celebration!!!!

I feel extremely unsure about sharing this work, because explicit content is outside of my wheelhouse, and because I'm lowkey terrified of accidentally blundering somehow when it comes to exploring queer themes (although I am queer myself).  So please be kind <3

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Quick Cost Effective Gardening Tips

2025 has brought changes to federal agencies in the USA. The FDA (food and drug administration) was among the gutted agencies. For years, I've been signed up for email alerts for food/safety recalls, and I went from receiving 0-2 alerts per week to 0-5 per day. One of the most common- and most deadly- is e. coli outbreaks from lettuce packaging plants.

I eat a lot of lettuce, so I began researching growing lettuce at home. It turns out that lettuce and herbs are some of the priciest produce per unit weight, and they are easy to grow. Things snowballed from there, and I'm now a huge gardening enthusiast! But I quickly found that SOIL IS EXPENSIVE HOLY COW! A few trips to the hardware mega store made me wonder if at home gardening was cost effective, after all.

Here are some tips for saving money in the garden, from me to you, with love.

1.) Check your municipal area for free top soil/potting soil/compost.

My county collects compost bins from citizens who opt in. It's another trash collection, just in its own bin. The compostables are delivered to a local center that generates compost, soil, top soil, and mulch. Some counties will allow citizens to take away what they want for free. In my area, it's low cost, but the smallest amount you can purchase requires a truck to haul away.

2.) Failing free or low cost soil etc above, check your local nurseries.

I paid $28 for a 50 pound bag of top soil from an online retailer. That same bag was $40 at Home Depot. I visited my local nursery today and found that they sell 50 pound bags fro $4!!!!!!!!!!!!! Potting soil was $5! And compost, THE SAME DAMNED BRAND, was $15 instead of $28! God, I wish I knew about this in March!!!!!

3.) Growing from seed is far less expensive than buying grown plants from a nursery or hardware store.

Growing from seed takes more time than buying a plant, but it's cost effective. Plus, you can buy exactly the right variety of plant for your available space and preferences. I've learned that there are so many cool varieties of veg out there!

4.) If you would like to get into gardening in the future, start composting now.

If you live somewhere with autumn leaves, you can easily make compost from those, grass cuttings, and your leftover produce/produce waste. Here is a great quick start guide to composting at home. Compost is an integral part of gardening. It plays a huge role in revitalizing soil between uses. Plus, if you make it at home for free, mixing it in with purchased soil is cost effective.

5.) Grow bags are relatively low cost, easy to store, reusable, and are wonderful for container gardens. I was shocked to learn how many crops, including larger items, I can grow in grow bags.

What Should I Grow?

That depends on your tastes, where you live, and what you eat most. But if you are suffering from food insecurity, some of the best items to grow are potatoes and sweet potatoes, as they are high in calories, and beans, as they are a plant-based protein, easy to grow, and prolific. As mentioned above, lettuce is both one of the most purchased produce items, the most expensive per weight, and is susceptible to e.coli contamination during packaging (in 2025 in the USA). As an added bonus for sweet potatoes, their greens can replace spinach in any recipe and are loaded with nutrients (SWEET POTATO GREENS ONLY, potato greens are toxic). Beans take nitrogen from the atmosphere and pull it into soil, and nitrogen is one of the most needed nutrients for plants, so planting beans in your beds means that you are getting free fertilizer AND protein!

Where do I start?

I love Epic Gardening and have learned a ton from them! I started with my most desired crop, lettuce. I recommend learning your growing zone if you are in the states and using extensions for the nearest agricultural schools to learn more about planting in your area.

Good luck!

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mimi & outfits :)

patreon (eng) / apoia-se (pt-br) / ko-fi

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the brothers next will be out as keychains & stickers in july on etsy ^^

btw the rest of the main 8 coming soon as well

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It’s finished! First fanart I made of Digimon Story Time Stranger :3

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☺️ 仕上げまでできた！中途半端に挫折何度もしてきたから、今回は完成品では処女作

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Digimon babies