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smoking with my ex's cat because he's chill like that

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listening to red valley isn't enough. i have to write a masters dissertation on freezing frogs

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Heat wave in England! Y’all know what that means

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a small comic I made after listening to ep124

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I know that some British people take umbrage at Americans calling the Great British Bake Off relaxing, but it's just because GBBO is such a different kind of stressful from American baking shows.

American baking shows will be called something like "Cupcake Knife Fight", there's horror movie lighting everywhere and dramatic stings every 5 seconds. All of the contestants are shit talking each other and fist fighting over the one single deep fryer provided by production. It will show the judges all whispering to each other at their super villain table overlooking the whole kitchen, and one will be like, "Oh my god. Everyone look at Brenda right now. She's straight tanking it." And it will cut to Brenda, who is running around covered in flour and crying and also bleeding for some reason. Then you get a clip from an interview with one of the contestants, and they're like, "I really need to win this. Without this award money, I'm gonna need to close my restaurant, sell my dad, and live out of my car. AGAIN." Then the giant digital doomsday clock overhead lets out a horrid klaxon, the judges tell half of them that their cupcakes taste disgusting, and one of them gets eliminated and sent to walk down the dramatically-lit shame hallway never to be seen again.

Meanwhile GBBO is in a lovely, brightly colored tent, there are delightful and friendly hosts/jesters there to keep everyone entertained, and all of the B Roll is of like... a bumblebee going into a flower, or a lamb running in a field. And yes, there will be moments where someone will mess up their timing or something, and they'll be looking at their bake through the oven door like, "oh gosh I don't think this will rise in time!" Then they stand up to find Paul Hollywood directly behind them ominously. His creepy whitewalker eyes will glow white, and he'll say something like "the 12th of June. 2035. Drowning." And his eyes will go back to normal and he'll walk away. Then the baker gives a playful grimace to the camera and says "that didnt sound great, did it?". Cut to a sweet looking older woman sipping tea on a stool and she says "oo I do hope that Prue enjoys the taste of my sugary, sticky baps!". Then, at the end, someone gets a gold star for doing good, and the loser of the episode gets in the middle of a giant group hug. You see all of them at the end of the series at a giant carnival with their families and the post credits informs you that all of the contestants have become a Partridge Family-style traveling band and stayed friends forever.

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carved my first stamp today oh yeah (with a lot help from my lovely friend who actually has previous stamp carving experience)

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You're just a mammal. Let yourself act like it. Your brain needs enrichment. Your body needs rest. You feel hunger and grow hair. You need to pack bond with other sentient things so you don't become unsocialized and neurotic. You are biologically inclined to seek dopamine and become sick when chronically stressed. "Hedonism" is made up to place moral value on taking pleasure in sensory experiences. I am telling you that if you don't let yourself be a fucking mammal, as you were made, you will suffer and go insane. No grindset no diets no trying to be above your drive for connection. Pursue what makes you feel good and practice radial rejection of the constructs meant to turn you into a machine. You're a mammal.

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I'm relistening to The Silt Verses again and i cannot stop thinking of the Paraclete's Gulch as the St Kinga's underground chapel and the salt mine system surrounding it.

it's got:

underground water pools

various historical and/or religious carved statues

a chapel chamber

and so so so many tunnels

like. Is this not a perfect visualization of the Gulch

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when ozymandias king of kings tells u to look upon his works and despair but, boundless and bare, the lone and level sands stretch far away

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many crane wives songs are secretly aromantic if you know how to listen

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I need to be more disciplined starting tomorrow

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Retouched an old Harrow painting

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I don't know what paddington is doing on that list, but it made me think of the time someone drew a picture of the queen with paddington after she died, and we had scores of people losing their minds at the idea that paddington bear wasn't the same kind of communist as them

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in ep 1 Gordon asks Warren to take the whole cryonics stuff seriously but he never did, he went to Red Valley on impulse despite all the horrible things happening there, he went back into hypersleep over and over again even though it was (to put it lightly) a very bad decision because he wasn't taking his life seriously let alone Red Valley, but throughout s4 he finally is and now that Gordon has woken up they're actually on the same page that they should've been on since the beginning

oooohhhhhh rv team you want to reference "I need you to take this seriously ok?" in s5 so bad you really wanna do it i promise you

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oooohhhhhh rv team you want to reference "I need you to take this seriously ok?" in s5 so bad you really wanna do it i promise you

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a good way to inspire yourself to do more is to see yourself as the wacky sitcom B plot character in your friends lives, "wouldnt it be funny to tell the friends in my phone about it." has gotten me to do anything from going to a festival (excelent) to wild camping (it went badly) (coastguard called) to trying to get the train to stonehenge (stonehenge costs money so i ended up just getting lunch in sailsbury, it was okay.) i bought a bicycle today and 20% of my reasoning was "itd be funny to surprise my roommate by coming home with a whole bike." . life is for living. and baby i live for the bit.