#bedside shelf

[samdecors]

[fictionadventurer]

Potential March Reading:

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

Celia's House by D.E. Stevenson

Something by C.S. Lewis

Something by G.K. Chesterton

Something by Tolkien and/or Wendell Berry

Something by Rumer Godden and/or Elizabeth Goudge

Jesus of Nazareth by Pope Benedict XVI

Gospels of Mark, Luke and John

[jalopeura]

ah, you enjoy environmental storytelling?

indeed, i sometimes dabble in such things as well-

[autistickaitovocaloid]

Btw her

[tastytofusoup]

A bedroom-in-progress after 5 days. Just put together the Mad Men-ass sofa.

In addition to the fairy lights I'm going to wrap artificial ivy around the clothes hanger, and maybe the bed head too.

My kitchen/dining room is currently a dumping room for boxes/deliveries/anything. I'll make my bed/living room and bathroom nice first then I'll figure out what I'm doing in there lmao. Gonna make my bathroom like a mini spa, with artificial plants, eucalyptus, a towel ladder, baskets, etc.

[daybr43ks-lam8]

[the tune of a musicbox comes from the lantern. there's a steady beat to it as it gently glows a mixture of yellow and orange]

. .

[dramatic-dolphin]

where the fuck is my 3mm crochet hook

[beaversatemygrandma]

At roughly 4 to 5am one of the cats decided to climb on top of the shelves right above my head where i sleep. Shelves that we put there specifically bc they couldn't reach them. (They grew since then. They can now...) And I was rudely woken up by a lego succulent that was on display hitting me right in the head.

The little shits have mastered verticality and I'm hating it.

Anyways. Anybody have any recommendations of museum putty for displayed lego sets? (Bc anything that isn't plastic isn't out in the open bc of them.)

[thatonebirdwrites]

edelweiss and ivy. also cactus if you don’t mind another one. sending you good vibes for your day ahead. thank you for sharing your writing with us. x

Aw, I'm glad you enjoy my writings! edelweiss ⇢ how’d you think of your url/username? what’s it associated with to you? My nickname is Bird. Had it since I was a child actually. It started as a joke, where my younger sister claimed I sung like a bird, perched like a bird (I loved to climb trees as a kid), and fluttered like a bird. A few friends took the joke further and started calling me bird whenever I was being excessively silly or if they caught me climbing on something to just perch and watch silently an activity. Then when I was twenty-three, I almost drowned in the Gulf of Mexico. It was in Mississippi when I was working on a housing project, before I got super sick. My team had taken a break at the beach, and I was just wading around. I can't really swim, so I didn't follow the others in their swimming races. I was fairly close to the beach, and the water only went up to my knees.

Picture the day: a cool breeze off the ocean smelled faintly of salt and algae. Sky studded with cirrus clouds, and the water cold against my calves. Sand squeezed between my toes, and only a few shells poked the sole of my foot.

Suddenly, the sand fell away from my feet, and I plunged into the cold water, having lost the ground entirely. I tumbled in the waves, the murky water dark and disorienting. I couldn't tell up from down. A creature dived in front of my face, looking like a living shadow. I didn't think. I just grabbed it, and felt feathers against my skin. The bird, who likely thought it was diving for fish, angrily bit my hand, but I held on. Up the bird went, tugging my hand in the direction of air.

Once I broke the surface, I opened my hand and floundered in the water. My teammates shouted my name then and soon I was surrounded by the others who dragged me back to shore.

I have to admit, they were astonished to see me erupt from the waters and release a bird to the sky. Because of that, they started calling me Bird too. So the nickname stuck. I use it now for all my online stuff. As for the rest of the username -- well I write stories. Sadly TheBirdWrites was already taken on tumblr, which is why I used 'that one bird writes' instead. For AO3, thankfully, TheBirdWrites was open for me to nab as a username.

ivy ⇢ what are your ‘tells’ for your emotions and moods? how can someone tell you’re happy, annoyed, upset or tired? This depends on which part of me is present. If I'm shy or nonverbal, I smile and tend to be more open to affection. When I get overwhelmed or tired, I frown and curl in on myself. Nonverbal me communicates with gestures or writing things down.

If I'm super tired, I get ditzy and a bit silly. It looks almost like one of those fun drunks, but I don't drink at all. When I'm more vocal, I'll ramble like Kara Danvers when I'm happy or excited. I'll be eager to share whatever story or thought I have. Or ask a dozen questions to hear the other person's thoughts. And it'll be this silly eager joy that bubbles out of me. When I'm annoyed, I cross my arms and grimace. If I feel well enough, I'll directly state why. But my annoyance quickly turns to tears. My anger is the same way, it burns bright and then quickly extinguishes to tears. That's when I struggle to put my words together in a coherent manner. If I'm with someone I trust, that's when I give my safe word if I need to exit to recuperate. If I'm upset or close to panicking, I just shut down. As in, literally collapse into a heap on the floor and huddle there until I recover. People have mistaken this for a seizure, so I've ended up in the emergency department one too many times. :/ I fidget a LOT. So will often have some sort of fidget toy with me. Usually one of those spinners or the flexible cubes. (I love those cubes. You can unfold them flat then fold them up again. They ended up in one of my stories as one of Lena's fidget toys). Me fidgeting doesn't necessarily mean I'm anxious.

The tell is if my hand tremors are visibly apparent and I'm struggling to unfold the cube or spinning the spinner as fast as I can, then I'm super anxious. If the tremor is hard to see and my fingers gently working the fidget toy in a slow, methodical way, then I'm deep in thought.

cactus ⇢ something you’re currently learning (about)?

Again depends on who is present. :) Here's a taste of some of what I'm learning:

I love to worldbuild, but to do that, I need to read about different ways of organizing society since I want to explore non-capitalist societies in my Elivera world, where almost all my original fiction takes place. One of those authors is Elisee Reclus, the 18th century social geographer, who critiqued domination and colonialism and racism but also explored anarchist and communal ways of organizing society. I also have a few books next to me that focus on how Indigenous tribes organized, communes like the Paris commune in 1800s or communes in Switzerland, the radical communes in South America, the Zapatista of Chiapas, Rojava in Syria, and other places like that. I'm also reading about Irish myths and legends. Specifically about The Morrigan and the Tuatha Dé Danann and their four treasures. Earthing the Myths by Daragh Smyth is one of the books I'm reading for this.

I am also reading about various magical practices such as Wild Magic by Forest or Water Magic by Lillith Dorsey And of course, I can't help but read about some of the recent developments in astrophysics. Like the physics of a black hole, specifically the quantum aspects that happen in the singularity. I wanted to study this in grad school, but then I got really ill and have been unable to ever go. So I read about it instead and dream up story ideas. All that to say, I can't pin down one idea. I bounce back and forth on the above topics depending on which part is present. :)

Thank you for asking! :D

[infiniteseriesofhalfways]

why oh why does my next book have to be across the house? it's dark out there and im in bed.

[slowdesire]

took my brother with me to windowshop for my room + actually buy pillows and pillowcases my mom wanted

[straykats]

also to the mutuals who i know have read iron widow and or have encouraged me to read it,,, im so sorry

[munch-mumbles]

it is taking so much mental fortitude not to go to bed and sleep holding kitty. i want to so bade . but i dont want to damage her furrrr............................................

[beauzos]

Just thought about this but I wonder. are most people able to just watch a movie or an episode of a show without having to pause multiple times just to think about other things. I know it’s probably not helpful to ask this on the neurodivergence website but I do wonder about it. Like I don’t think it’s abnormal to have to pause once or twice but is it weird I can’t sit through basically anything without pausing over and over again

Like the only way I can sit through something without interruption is if I’m playing a game. Otherwise I will pause every few minutes to think or to get up and do something random before coming back. I don’t think that’s normal but I’ve got no earthly idea what level of interruption IS

[silks-up-my-sleeve]

I keep getting this weird hit of motivation to do mini cleans