#so worth the $60

[hostess-of-horror]

A Day at Cape Girardeau's Anime Con

Sorry for the lack of pictures, other than the first post...

BUT, to make up for it...

Guess who I just met?

@minnesotamedic186 @mimizzin @randomrabbidramblings @bramble-scramble @salamifuposey @darkmedolie @tiramegtoons @medys-space @lemonbaloni @deezeyrabbidy @pastelprince18 @zao-starstruck

[junoskelton]

finally decided to pick up pokemon scarlet after so long as my first pokemon game and honestly having such a good time with it, the npc's are all so good and make the game so much worth it

[buglaur]

she's live

now you can see what everyones height is in my head because i refuse to download height sliders. look at ass <3

[profesionalpartyguest]

early 60s miniset for you! 4t2 @coloresurbanos Jackie Kennedy - among my favorite hairs ever! based on the most glamorous of first ladies, it's perfect for your country club gals or your modern era grandmas. TF-EF, afterglow naturals, textures are originals blended with afterglow straight. 14.5k polys, 13.4k vertices. Download here. Tomato Retro Lipstick - a nice 60s shiny lipstick! base texture is taken from this image (the cherry tomato swatch) then hand-drawn over by me. alpha is also hand-drawn by me. come in 7 swatches (but i included a volatile base for more recolors!). Download here. @the-afterglow-archive hiiiiiiiiii

[deoidesign]

I've been... Busy 👀

Trying to get all 4 arcs from season 1 into books!

(not available for sale, these are print proofs. I'm planning a Kickstarter early next year!)

[uncanny-tranny]

I love giving advice, apparently, so if you are a newly pierced person or are planning on being pierced, here are some of the things I found helpful, as somebody who isn't a professional piercer but has had six plus piercings on my face and body, and multiple ear piercings (which I don't count, since I DIY'd them):

Normal bath towels are your enemy, proceed with caution after bathing. NEVER wipe moisture away from a fresh piercing, always pat it dry

You will hit a new piercing and it will hurt. This is inevitable, just know that you likely haven't destroyed it. Feel free to cry, though, it hurts like hell.

If your piercer gives you instructions, heed them. If you're on restrictions, please take it as seriously as possible

When you're going in for a piercing, please eat or drink something - at least what constitutes as a snack for your body. It really helps

If you're getting an oral piercing, make sure you size down after the healing period - I hadn't sized down for my last oral piercing when I first had the chance, and it was... so annoying to have too-large of jewelry

Not all jewelry is made equally. Do your research on materials, threading, and sizing. I've found that titanium jewelry is really nice for me, and I like it, but that isn't the only option. Make sure you think about your body and its needs and preferences

Close your eyes while being pierced (I found this really helps me)

Don't over-clean a new piercing, twice per day is usually a good place to start

The completed healing period is a very average suggestion - you may heal slower or faster. Try to adhere to that suggestion, though, especially if you do not feel you're healed enough

Personally, I have found that I am completely healed when my piercing feels like just another part of my body, even when it is touched. When my piercings start to feel as though they are foreign when they never do before, I know I likely need to clean them

While I have DIY'd piercings, I personally do not recommend it, especially if you are either not using sterilized equipment, or are piercing a very dangerous place (like the tongue). If you are absolutely positive about committing to the DIY mindset, please try to do due diligence in research at least

Tip your piercer. Body mods are a luxury service, and it takes years to even become a piercer, much less to be proficient at it. Tip your piercer, ESPECIALLY if their prices feel too good to be true - they likely are. Unless you are directed otherwise by your piercer, just assume that you will be tipping them for their services and budget accordingly

Make sure you understand how your piercer wants you to take care of your piercing, and ask questions. There is no question too "dumb"

If you are getting a body part pierced you are insecure about, realize your piercer has most likely seen HUNDREDS of different body parts of various sizes, shapes, and oddities. Your body is not uniquely bad, nor would a good piercer make you feel unwelcome or uncomfortable with your body. If they do, however, DO NOT go through with the piercing. You should feel safe being pierced by somebody, and, indeed, that is the bare minimum.

If you use saline wash to clean piercings, you can DIY it. You will go through NeilMed like no other, and with it being $5USD a bottle, that price can rack up quickly. Make sure you use distilled water and non-iodized salt, though

If your piercing is infected, please don't be too ashamed to seek help. It's in your best interest to make sure you don't get ill or your site gets nasty ("nasty" as in painful)

These are just some of the things I've learned being a pierced person! My piercings are something I absolutely needed, and I do not for a minute regret having them. I want that same happiness to befall you, and that happens when you are able to understand a bit more what goes into piercings. You are, essentially, getting a new body part installed by a pro, and so I don't want you to not be ready for that.

Again, I am not a professional piercer, but am rather a body piercing enthusiast with many different types of piercings. I don't have every piercing, though, so please look at this critically for the piercing(s) that you want or have. At least, treat this like a soft suggestion or ways to help you brainstorm what you will find helpful.

More tips are obviously welcomed, especially if you yourself have more insight or expertise. Good luck to every pierced person or future pierced person reading this💛

[americankimchi]

the way i finished bg3 and immediately went through the 5 stages of grief for like a solid 2 hours

[my-eyes-on-the-skies]

...started knitting a baby blanket for a baby shower next week and I'm over 1/3 of the way done. In two days. Ow.

[calnexin]

I have a final in 4 hours but for now I freak it sidestep style

[starmocha]

OK but now you're responsible for my racing heart, Zayne 😭

[doodlboy]

Woah! All of Heart Failure in the same image?!💔

[Raoul, bottom left, and Riven, top right, belong 2 the very cool @raouls-inferno !!!]

[hollow-keys]

The Devil's Chord is basically:

"Let's go visit Mr Wifebeater and Co, who are obviously the most important musicians of all time, and act like they were all totally cool people even decades after Mr Wifebeater's wifebeating became public knowledge."

"Oh no, the world went into a nuclear winter without music we have to save it by finding the right chord to banish the evil demon music thief!"

"BTW the music demon is a nonbinary drag queen called Maestro (I'm gonna assume they don't know that's a gendered word lmao) who was safely prevented from destroying the world by the Catholic church banning the chord that summoned them. Please do not think about the subtext of that."

"Also this random washed up musician somehow found out about the summoning chord and played it. Don't ask how no one else tried playing it out of curiosity when it was apparently already public knowledge or how the church knew it was evil without playing it."

"Ruby is just saur important she managed to hold off the music demon with the power of the songs in her soul (???)"

"The Doctor pulled 6/7th of the banishing chord's notes out his own ass first try somehow and Mr Wifebeater and Paul McCartney got the last one first try also."

"Musical number everybody! The End!"

Literally what the fuck was that?

Honestly the original Toymaker serial was so haunting at times with him trapping people from the real world in his domain and turning them into literal toys he would then bring back to life to use against new people who got trapped in his domain. He pit them against each other in games, promising freedom to whoever wins, dooming them to either remain his puppets and let the newcomers go free or doom the newcomers to take their place so they can escape, and that's assuming he was telling the truth. The Doctor can't beat him, only escape and leave the domain with those people trapped inside. The TARDIS team tell themselves they're not real, just puppets pretending to be real people, but it's not clear. They're tricking themselves into thinking it's clearer cut than it is to make it easier to leave them behind.

Those were such good episodes and all RTD can write is pale imitations that are insultingly stupid even for children's television. "We defeated the Toymaker with a game of catch" "We defeated his child (did I mention the Maestro is related to him?) with a musical note password we got first try." What is this?

And they're still going with the pouring salt at the edge of the universe weakened the fabric of time and let supernatural beings in thing? "I invoked a suspicion at the end of the universe where the walls of reality are thin" doesn't sell the salt thing, sorry. I can't take it seriously. If Chibnall wrote this, more of you would be hating. This is like the fucking rat saving the universe in Endgame all over again.

[freaky-flawless]

No one talk to me unless its about Clawd's flare pants.

[ch2n2o2x3]

𝒜𝓃𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝑜𝓁𝒹 𝒸𝑜𝑜𝓇𝒹 𝒷𝑒𝒸𝒶𝓊𝓈𝑒 𝐼 𝒸𝒶𝓃 𝒷𝒶𝓇𝑒𝓁𝓎 𝒷𝑒 𝒷𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝓈𝒽𝑜𝓌𝑒𝓇 𝓁𝑒𝓉 𝒶𝓁𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝑔𝑒𝓉 𝒹𝓇𝑒𝓈𝓈𝑒𝒹 𝓁𝒶𝓉𝑒𝓁𝓎

[whenuwalking]

despite the negative press hema group I am getting into scottish singlestick. I am concluding this group is actively a hostile environment for me to be in. Luckily I have stolen the two new members and they are my friends now, so it has become more bearable, and we meet outside of normal practice and with my friend's group!

Singlestick is very fun and light, and I like that I can practice sabre movements more or less. It's a cool weapon and it's been fun to spar with. I just wish this group wasn't so weird to and had less pretentious people leading it so that I could actually enjoy being around them.

[mysicklove]

today i cried for like 2 hours bc i am taking this online (4 week) statistics class and i like regret it to the fullest amount. like my ass is getting kicked rn i do not understand anything and i have a midterm THAT IS WORTH 60% OF MY GRADE in 2 days. i was seconds away from dropping it and getting a W (which will look so bad for PA school)

anyways the point is i didn’t quit, so i will be ruining my GPA. so u guys have to be nice to me for the next week bc this will possibly be my first B since freshman year of high school 💖💖💖💖