#i have a list and no time ; 0 ;

[kerrtesy]

Going to finally be able to start answering a few asks! Sneak peak for tomorrow.

I want you all to know the Count Bleck and Timpani comic was intended to be just a one time comic, I don't know why I thought I wouldn't end up drawing more.

[icewindandboringhorror]

Hrmm... put together a roommates quiz finally after years of thinking it would be an interesting idea lol.. Though obviously not meant to be taken super seriously, I just like thinking about this aspect of personality compatibility. Like yeah, maybe you could get along with someone just chatting with them, but living together is such a different thing. .. curiouse...

[kindaorangey]

OKAYYYY IVE WATCHED THE NEW INVINCIBLE EPISODE NOW. the mark and amber plot and the developments on the viltrumite invasion plot were soooooo interesting this show can really hit when it wants to huh

[sysig]

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[restinthewest]

I lived in the city that I was born in until I was in my mid-late 20’s, at which point I moved about an hour and a half away. I was so sick of that city by the time I moved and SO ready to go.

Here I am several years later and I am continually pestered by the thought of moving back. I still don’t have overwhelming fondness for the city itself, but there are parts of it that I like and I miss the places it afforded me nearness to. Mostly, I miss my family. I still see them on a regular basis but not as much as I’d like. I wouldn’t mind some logistical support, especially with Hallow. I know my dad would be happy and willing to come let Hallow out for me if I needed, or I could drop her off in their backyard for a day if I needed to.

This is just one of those things in life where there is no perfect answer. If I don’t move back or move further away I will always miss them and be plagued with the idea of wanting to go home and guilt for not being there. If I move back I will ALWAYS want to leave again, I already know this.

[nephriteknight]

you know the worst part about doing the mature thing and leaving an internet discussion when the person you're talking to acts super disrespectful and assholish isn't the shit they said to you, it's the knowledge that no matter what you do they'll think they've won. like I don't give a shit that a stranger on the internet thinks im "infantile" for totally bullshit reasons, but I am fucking FUMING at not getting the last word. like I know the responsible thing to do is just ignore this fucker, but if I do that they'll think they Won The Discussion with the power of *checks notes* baffling and unwarranted aggression.

[dreaming-of-galaxies-and-stars]

You know what time is it? That's right, it's time for

aka time to reinstall this clunky masterpiece again 🧛‍♂️🧛‍♂️🧛‍♂️

[bunnyb34r]

Okay finally rested enough to talk ab the craft show!

So for YEARS this one has been heaaavily coveted by many crafters and has been hard to get in, but always told that it's worth it. That you'll make your table cost back in like two hours!

Yeah no... had mom not made wreaths, we would have lost money... Anyway super super dead at times like absolutely no one walking around, just the vendors getting up and shopping bc they could. Then it would pick up but you would get maybe 2 interested shoppers out of every 10. 4 if you were lucky.

People adored the boo boo bunnies and cat toys and I sold the most of them. So now I have to make more cat toys 😭. It's not the amount of effort it takes to make them, I love making them. I hate stuffing them with catnip 😭😭😭 but that's why people (and cats) love them. Also need to put bells on them bc people really like the ones with bells, which I stopped doing bc several people kept asking if I thought their cats would eat the bells... like you can cut it off man idc sgdggdgd once you buy it it's yours idc if YOU eat it if that's your thing just give me my dollar

Have to make a card for the bunnies bc it's hit or miss on if people know what they're for (you pop em in the freezer and hold them to a small "boo boo" and use it like a little ice pack, or you can pop out the reusable cube and use ice. Either way it's a cute little ice pack.

Only my one cousin bought any handwarmers 😭 and her wife had to pay me in $4 worth of quarters sgsgdggddg I was like take your time you could pay me in pennies and that'd be fine too (had a little kid pay me 25 cents for a slap bracelet in various coins and it was so sweet 🥺)

My mom posts our shows on her fb so that family and friends can show up to support us, and the first time since we've been doing these, we had 3 groups of family come in!

But that wasn't always a good thing...

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My mom's cousin brought her daughter and granddaughter, and they talked for awhile and eventually mom's cousin bought a wreath (thank god). And she was like "oh my god this is so beautiful!! 😍" and complimented my stuff as well (but my stuff is more geared towards kids/parents like the boo boo bunnies, so she didnt buy anything from me agdgdgdg)

Then my cousin (not the handwarmers one) came and I used to really love her/she was my favorite cousin... until she moved back to the state and I realized goddamn you're super annoying and have 0 social awareness (in a THE ATTENTION SHOULD BE ON ME! and a never really thinking ab the situations she puts people in when she does shit, way. Not a "I am incapable of grasping social norms/social rituals"/"I cannot control how loud I'm being/why what I say might be considered rude" way.

Anyway she fosters dogs and has 4? Of her own, anyway she always has at least one dog with her at any time. Doesn't matter if you were attacked by one when you were a small child, or that you only have cats, it's a small dog! You're gonna like this one!!

She takes them into the grocery store too 😑. Anyway she brought her foster dog to it and ofc everyone kept coming over to see it and every fucking time she would canvas this dog like "his name is Bob. He goes up for adoption in two weeks at [shelter she volunteers at]" to every goddamn person who walked by.

"But Mar, doesn't that mean she brought customers to you?"

Nope! She and her dog blocked customers from my table bc they couldnt fucking get in with the people cooing at the dog and figured eh I'll skip this one, there's 100 vendors here.

Doesn't mean that every person who skipped would've bought from me, but none of the people who came up for the dog bought anything or so much as looked twice at my shit anyway. 😑

She did tell our cousin to meet her there though bc our cousin's wife is a photographer and she was gonna take pics of the dog at a nearby park. Didn't mention AT ALL that we had a booth, so they didnt really bring a lot of money, they thought they were just gonna say hi to us real quick then go.

My cousin's wife was like YOU DIDNT TELL US THEY HAD A BOOTH HERE?!?! OMG LOOK HOW CUTE!!!!! and they bought 2 handwarmers from us 🥰. And we gave their son some stuff for free as a gift (plus bc they ended up staying for like 2 hours and that shit is only so fun for a 7 year old for so long. But it was more so just Handwarmer Cousin staying to talk to my mom for most of it while her wife, son, and Dog Cousin went shopping/canvased Bob around. But I like HW cousin still so it wasnt bad sgdggdgd I just half listened to them talk while I took care of customers. Sold 1 ornament (the whole show), some cat toys, and I think another bunny, in that time lmao)

But the whole time Dog Cousin was there I was like 😐/🙁 instead of my fake customer service smile bc that smile only lasted until the second person she canvassed Bob to and that was approximately 30 seconds.

She didnt even consider buying anything, or say anything ab our table. Only when my mom asked her if our prices were reasonable. To which we got a "yeah." Then immediately back to Bob. 😐

After they left I went to walk around and goddamn there was nothing really good there except two crochet tables which had little plushies but nothing that jumped out at me.

Did trade a tooth pillow for a small tombstone shaped bar of soap of about the same price with another vendor sggdgdgdgd which was odd but nice

Anyway here's hoping my cousin wont come to the next/last show and that we find fun stuff at that one to buy sgdgdgdg

[bougainvilea]

should go to sleep (12:30 am and have uni tomorrow) but am feeling deeply unsatisfied and filled with fear at the sheer amount of things i feel like i hve to do

[internetgremlin-writes]

girl, u started posting things for Christmas and then just went missing 😭😭😭 what happened to you??? is everything okay?

Hello I'm okay I promise!

Yeah that one was on me for thinking a December writing challenge would be a fun little thing I could do in the evenings whilst on an ICU hospital rotation 🙃 long story short it was super busy in the department and I stayed late pretty much every night and then had to do the keeping the human alive things and study for quiz time at rounds with the specialist each morning so I literally did nothing but study, eat and sleep for the whole month and I just didn't get a second to relax or write 😭

It has been CRAZY since the start of December!! I had a week off for Christmas and then I was travelling again for more placement, I've been applying to jobs and my finals are in 4 months time (which sounds like a while but I have 5 years of content to review and full time rotations in the day). Have also been lowkey seeing a new guy so that's been taking up a lil bit of headspace too 😶

I've also decided 2023 has got to be the year I decide to grow up and get my shit together before I enter the real world and honestly who knew meal plans and food shopping and working out took so much time!? Not me.

As the guys who've been here for a while know, I'm never gone forever!! I'm gonna need a couple more weeks to get through a round of job interviews, finalise my revision plan, survive an equine hospital rotation and get settled in a healthier routine, then I'm planning on making a partial return once I've got a bit more control over things and I can afford a bit of a break from all of this, but I won't be back online and posting regular-regular until the end of May after my exams

The good news is I'm taking two months properly off in the summer so you can bet your assess that's going to be a project finishing marathon!!

The Christmas fics are going on pause and will be re-released next year (I know, I suck, I'm so sorry for letting you all down) and I'm going to finish Flat Spin and Obvious by September and hopefully work through my request pile as we go from now onwards to keep me in the writing mindset

Anyway, I love and miss you guys like mad! I'm shocked by how much attention this blog is getting even when I'm not posting and I promise once I've got my real life together I will be back. In the meantime keep rereading and sending stuff in, I love hearing from you all!! <3

[ladyhavilliard]

I did something I thought I would hate today, but it ended up pretty fine :)

[beast-style]

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7sotugwFiNKJdvehqMdKBv?si=36e7a4a8b1ae47dd&pt=773006fdc97613172234affb3b62f684

my poll follow up! everyone says he listens to classic rock so i tried to condense the most autistic classic rock tracks in one place and then i titled it “kiryu” :)

some 90s with a heavy 80s skew, i figured he learned most of his bands in his late teens/early 20s and branched out only because of the sweet siren song of butthole surfers. and beck

[sixofravens-reads]

also this may be entirely inaccurate but I'm wondering if part of the annoyance towards using tropes to sell books nowadays has to do with authors using popular tropes/keywords to get good engagement even if those aren't accurately represented in the book?

I don't use tiktok or twitter and don't read a lot of official marketing material (aside from the tor.com insta, which is still somehow marketing The Atlas Six as some dramatique dark academia murderfest, it is not. it sucks. anyway...) so this might be a garbage thought, but certain tropes are VERY popular right now, and I have to wonder how many authors go "ohhhhh well the love interest and MC don't immediately like each other when they meet....I guess it can be enemies to lovers even though they start being friends after like 30 pages once the bad first impression is cleared up?? and I gotta be super dramatic about it bc this is tiktok and we don't do Normal"

which leads readers to be disappointed bc "I was expecting years-long enmity and blood spilled and rage and murder and this guy was mildly annoyed because the MC tripped on the stairs when they met :/"

like I'm not saying everything has to go 100 for it to be a good story, but the idea that your marketing has to promise Game of Thrones level drama and intrigue, or Bridgerton level sexiness, when you wrote a fairly mild YA romance is....annoying.

[reikunrei]

tbh i will forever be thinking abt the little happy wiggle Mike did in the pizzeria when El was like “i... missed you” that shit was SO CUTE

[peppermint-moss]

how are you?

doin alrighttt im currently just kinda in a 'just keep rollin mode'; i've had a REALLY BUSY couple days cause university fall semester's starting up again ;-; and its an hour transit for me to get to my school rip AND i work as a peer tutor there too lol so i've been trying to get myself to take it somewhat easy n take idk smth ppl call "breaks" /j which is sorta workin haha

[fullmetalscullyy]

i am literally hunkering down to write some fics this evening i've got my wine i've got a banging playlist and i w i l l find inspiration. i will. to get this done