Hey y'all! My grandma loves hot cocoa, but has some heart issues that mean even the tiny amount of caffeine from the chocolate in hot cocoa is no longer an option for her.
Do you have any recommendations for caffeine-free hot cocoa? I'm thinking given the whole "chocolate has caffeine" thing it'll probably have to be like white chocolate hot cocoa, but I don't know if y'all have any recommendations for what basic white chocolate hot chocolate to get
(her favorite hot cocoa in general is the swiss miss hot cocoa with flavored coffee creamer added, so like the more basic the hot cocoa mix the better. The hot cocoa is merely a thing to put the flavored coffee creamer in)
Every once in a blue moon I get super high and stare at pictures of fictional characters and giggle! I typically make a Tumblr post too! Hit a bong for the first time so I will be doodling how that went! (Embarrassed myself in front of the whole squad)
apparently my aunt is upset her daughter (mid-30s) doesn’t seem like she’ll get married any time soon and when my mother told me that i laughed so hard bc like. me and our other cousin (late-30s) aren’t married and clearly have no interest in it and are thriving in our careers. the only cousin from this side of the family who’s married is—you guessed it—the only male cousin.
HIII recently I've been inspired by you to look into other Golden-Era LT art directors because I've been really curiois about what I like the most about specifically Sylvester designs... It's been really fun too, because I've just ended up in this really insane rabbit-hole about early Sylvester incarnations... It's really funny how they nailed his personality in Life With Feathers only to end up experimenting for the next 5 or so shorts.. It's also really interesting how specifically Art Davis did these really unexpected takes on him, specifically in Doggone Cats and Catch as a Cat Can .. long story short, not only do I wanna see more of Sylvester in a trickster role, but I've also found that I just REALLY like Art Davis's take on Sylvester design-wise, I just really like the rounder shapes and the increased expressiveness and elasticity.. It makes him feel more catlike, in a way..
ALSO THIS ISNT RLLY A QUESTION OR ANYTHING i just really wanted to spill my thoughts out of my head because they keep bouncing around. I think I'm gonna specifically specialize in Sylvester history for no reason..
HELLO!!!! OH MY GOODNESS WHAT A SWEET ASK!!! i’m so happy to hear i could inspire you! 🥹🥹🥹 it’s definitely very fulfilling getting to connect names to cartoons and to drawing styles, so i’m glad you’re taking the deep dive! AND WITH ART DAVIS ESPECIALLY!! he truly is so underrated. a great director and an even more amazing animator!
YEAH i totally see what you mean by Davis’ Sylvester! his take on the character isn’t one i think of often, but it’s just because i haven’t seen those shorts as many times as his other ones. i agree, and i love that he had the ballsiness to just do this completely different take on the character that nobody has attempted since LOL. there’s probably a reason for that… but, at the same time, it’s uniquely funny. for those who have not seen an Art Davis Sylvester cartoon:
my favorite take on Sylvester is probably Bob McKimson’s ‘40s take for similar reasons you listed—i love how frumpy and haggard and just… kinda nasty he is LOL with the tiny eyes and the giant, round nose and muzzle. ideally, Bob Clampett’s is my favorite (black nose and yellow eyes and all!) but with only one cartoon—save for some storyboards for another, RIP Fat Rat and the Stupid Cat—that’s not really much to go off of.
if you like Davis’ Sylvester, then definitely look to Friz Freleng’s shorts as well! i know it’s not quite the same given he’s under the art direction of Friz and Hawley Pratt, but Davis was easily his best animator and he animated some incredibly memorable moments in those cartoons. Tweety’s Circus in particular is a masterclass of his animation and almost makes watching a Tweety cartoon worthwhile
Hey y'all! I didn't get many requests for particular pride flags or pride plushies this pride month, but I did get a few requests for an intersex pride something. The intersex pride flag (like a few other flags) is more difficult for me to make, because a symbol is harder to incorporate into an oddly-shaped plushie than just stripes, and the circle will have to be* appliqued by hand so I'd prefer to limit the number of circles.
So far, I have three ideas:
1. one of my pride bees (a very round bee consisting of three stripes) that's yellow with a purple stripe in the middle. There wouldn't be a flat ring, but the stripe would kind of form a ring?
2. a yellow dog plushie with a purple ring around its eye like the dog from Little Rascals. Idk how well known that dog is anymore or if it would be recognizable, but it's a one-applique option? I could also include purple patches on the back that are not rings, like the dog's markings in the show (in the movie? to be honest, I just remember the ring around the dog's eye)
3. a blue ringed octopus but the rings are purple. I think this would be awesome but I don't want to applique that many rings by hand and haven't found a fabric with the rings at quite the right scale and density for this project, so this is probably a longer-term one but I do want to make it eventually
Do y'all have opinions on any of these, or any other ideas? For intersex pride plushies or for other pride plushies, I've had some work and some family things come up this month that mean I have not gotten as much sewing done this month as I wanted to, and I do love making pride plushies and would love more suggestions
*yes, there are a few other ways I could possibly do that, but functionally with the way I make things it'd be by hand
7. If you had to choose one way to die, what would it be?
are you offering? 👀
Probably go to sleep and never wake up. Like a heart attack on my sleep or somthing, maybe carbon monoxide poisoning? idk something that doesn't hurt or happens while i'm unconsious so I'm not scared lol
often i wish i could go to the hyperfixation store and pick out a new one that fits my interests and have them install the update in my brain so that i can escape to a fun lil world where i'm excited and engaged over something again instead of just doing the same things over and over trying to squeeze out the last possible drops of serotonin. like don't get me wrong i love rewatching/rereading my comfort media but sometimes i just want a New Fun Thing to be obsessed with and spend all my free time making posts and content about and i want to bother all my friends until they get into the new fun thing with me. but alas,