Random Musings

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[akathecupcakes]

My baby girl Pepper is showing signs of kidney disease. I’m trying not to panic because we caught it early and can hopefully turn things around, but we lost our boy Elwood to kidney disease in 2020 and that was awful. I’ve had Pepper since I moved to Madison in 2014, she’s survived 2 moves, suddenly gaining 2 brothers, the pandemic, and then the addition of a two month old kitten to her space. She’s a tough cookie. We’re going to be fine. Hopefully.

I’ve updated my Ko-Fi page, all money made through that platform will be going towards Pepper’s future care. I have plushies for sale and commissions open. If you’re interested in something not listed, shoot me a message and we can discuss it!

[radiolightning]

In case anyone is having a bad night:

Here is the fudgiest brownie in a mug recipe I’ve found

Here are some fun sites

Here is a master post of Adventure Time episodes and comics

Here is a master post of movies including Disney and Studio Ghibli

Here is a master post of other master posts to TV shows and movies

*tucks you in with fuzzy blanket* *pats your head*

You’ll be okay, friend <3

[meanwolfs-remade-deactivated201]

i will reblog this everytime it shows up because any of my followers could have a bad night right now

[becausewhatiam-iswhatimnot]

All these links, besides the first, are broken. So here’s some more.

Here’s an emergency compliment

Here you can play 2048

Here’s a playlist of Bob ross

Here’s a website to watch movie’s and shows for free

Here’s a website to watch documentaries for free

Here you can to nothing for two minutes

Here you can break something. It’s good for anger

Here’s a button to press to make everything okay

Here’s a site to cut something up (TRIGGER WARNING)

Here’s a site that makes you a website depending on a song you choose

Here’s a gay comic. It’s adorable

Here you can spend Bill Gate’s money

Here you can draw your own island

Here you can learn about patterns website’s use

Here you can get your life stats

Here you can listen to the Tucker Zone (Headphones needed)

Here you can see how fast you’re moving

Here you can see the progress of time

Here you can see the future of the universe 

[becausewhatiam-iswhatimnot]

Want some more? 

Here’s the butterfly project

Here’s a snickerdoodle mug cake

Here’s a link to some free audiobooks

Here’s something to read when you feel like a burden

Here’s a secret

Here’s my playlist of some sea shanties 

Here’s another secret

Here’s a link to some cool websites 

Here’s a blog that gives you recipes for when you’re low on spoons

Here’s some Brony Headcanon’s

[becausewhatiam-iswhatimnot]

Some more? I’ve got plenty

Here’s 100,000 stars

Here you can control the weather (TW FLASHING IMAGES)

Here you can weave silk

Here you can make a castle of your own

Here you can make a kaleidoscope drawing

Here you can explore recursion

Here you can play a jelly block game

[becausewhatiam-iswhatimnot]

I’m back with some more! 

Here you can draw with pasta

Here you can draw logo’s from memory

Here you can play this is sand, here you draw cool sand designs

Here you can play The Organ Trail

Here’s a customizable white noise website

Here you can simulate gravity

Here you can create your own guardian of the galaxy

Here you can make your own galaxy

Here’s a website you can get some support at.

[becausewhatiam-iswhatimnot]

to find later

[addiewho]

Here you can split circles into smaller and smaller pieces (I found this really satisfying)

Here you can have images of people point to where your pointer is

Here you can paint someone’s nails

Here you can grow a garden across your screen (Audio included)

Here you can try out all kinds of mind illusions (Trigger Warning: Flashing Lights)

Here you can see how many miles you have scrolled

Here you can watch a website load forever, although you might be getting enough of this on Tumblr mobile

Here’s a rickroll

Here you can remind yourself that you’re awesome.

Here you can throw trash into a dustbin only for it to bounce right back out (Audio included)

Here you can make sand dunes using sand (Audio included)

And here you can generate more cool websites like these

[boy-in-the-stars]

pinning thissss

[fiddlepickdouglas]

And yet more!!!

Here you can listen to a gentle rainstorm

Here you can make snowflakes

Here is a Line Rider feature film with relaxing music

Here is the entire script to the Princess Bride (many don’t need it but it’s fun to read anyway)

Here is an abbreviated script for the entirety of Book 1 of A:TLA that I made out of anger at the film that definitely doesn’t exist

Here is a playlist of the top 10 most relaxing songs ranked according to science

Here’s a site where you can make a dude beatbox with fun animations

[nyxsomnia7]

I’m fully aware I will need this at some point.

[akathecupcakes]

Buy Cryptids, Cuties and Chaos a Coffee

Become a supporter of Cryptids, Cuties and Chaos today!

I have a Ko-Fi! There’s some completed plushies in the store, but also some commission slots!

International peeps (aka Not In The US): I am terrible with international shipping. I sent a friend a gift and he had to pay customs fees and he won’t tell me how much so clearly it was bad. If you want something, please message me so I can attempt to figure out how much the shipping will actually cost.

[akathecupcakes]

It’s almost 5am here as I start typing this, I’ve been awake-ish since about 3 and actively out of bed since around 4:30. My wedding is today; I didn’t sleep well when I did sleep and think Pepper knew it. When I was trying to get back to sleep and feeling the anxiety of having to try to go through today exhausted, she came in and laid down on my back and started purring. It was amazing, the most relaxing and sweetest thing. I never got back to sleep, but I feel slightly more rested.

I’m not worried about the wedding itself; it’s going to be exactly what my Katie and I want, and will be shared with people we love. My wife made my wedding dress because she wanted me to have something I was comfortable in. She looks beautiful in her suit.

I cannot wait for this to be over lol it’s been so stressful. I’m looking forward to not having to plan a wedding anymore and be able to just hang out with my wife.

[akathecupcakes]

Highlights from the wedding:

- Our flower boy, Imp, being so excited to throw petals around and everyone cheering when he did it.

- Everyone going crazy over the “Cryptid Hunt” we set up; my wife has cryptid charm keychains in her etsy shop, and I hid a 8 of them around the reception. People were coming up to me asking where they were hid and getting excited to find them.

- My aunt Amber, who has Down’s syndrome, bringing me a box of candy from our candy table because she wanted to make sure I got some. She still called me Sarah and before I let it go because I didn’t think she’d get it, but this time I told her that my name is Paxie now. She called me Paxie the rest of the night. Shame on me for not believing in her.

- Our photographer taking some amazing couple’s pictures and just being a boss

- We didn’t do speeches or a first dance, but the one thing I wanted was a picture of me and Imp dancing to Dance Magic by David Bowie. This was his first time meeting me so he was a little shy but we got the pictures and it was lovely. The best part though was that the Game Chops version of City Escape from Sonic Adventure 2 started playing and he went feral. It was amazing. And they we played Don’t Stop Me Now by Queen and he just boogied on down. It was wonderful.

-Seeing my friends fro Chicago; they live so close but I never get to see them because of schedules and such.

- Walking down the aisle with my stepdad on one arm and my uncle Doug on the other

- Everyone enjoying the collection of board games we had available (still don’t know if anyone touched the Ouija board or not)

- Having the best night of my life with the woman I love

I am still so tired, so I’m about to have some coffee and eat leftover wedding cake for breakfast.

[akathecupcakes]

It’s almost 5am here as I start typing this, I’ve been awake-ish since about 3 and actively out of bed since around 4:30. My wedding is today; I didn’t sleep well when I did sleep and think Pepper knew it. When I was trying to get back to sleep and feeling the anxiety of having to try to go through today exhausted, she came in and laid down on my back and started purring. It was amazing, the most relaxing and sweetest thing. I never got back to sleep, but I feel slightly more rested.

I’m not worried about the wedding itself; it’s going to be exactly what my Katie and I want, and will be shared with people we love. My wife made my wedding dress because she wanted me to have something I was comfortable in. She looks beautiful in her suit.

I cannot wait for this to be over lol it’s been so stressful. I’m looking forward to not having to plan a wedding anymore and be able to just hang out with my wife.

[akathecupcakes]

My Twitch Channel recently hit affiliate status! While that does mean I can gain revenue from adds and subscriptions, what it really means is I GET EMOTES!

I’m so excited, my wife has already done some sketches for me and I can’t wait to get them uploaded!

My current schedule is Sunday Nights at 6pm central; Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday at 2:30pm central. If you’re interested in hanging out and chatting while I crochet and having coffee, please stop in and say hi!

[luckykittycolor]

[theunfairfolk]

Baba Yaga Fury Road

[hawkuletz]

@elodieunderglass does this count? It is quite horrible.

[elodieunderglass]

It tracks!

[copperbadge]

Cabin off the roads

[akathecupcakes]

Guys, Gals, Non-binary pals, presenting my cat.

[akathecupcakes]

Internet Auntie Paxie is going live with coffee, chill vibes and a crochet project! Come hang out, ask questions and listen to some tunes! https://www.twitch.tv/internetauntiepaxie

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[akathecupcakes]

I guess this is my thing now; I don’t update for a while but then I come back with a bunch of pictures and a rambling.

Things are about the same as they were the last time I updated; Katie and I are working towards our wedding, which is fun but also sad in its own way. My cousin and her family that live in Norway aren’t able to come, which was always a possibility but still makes me sad. Her daughter, Fia, was going to be the ring bearer alongside my other cousin’s little boy, whom I call Imp, as the flower boy; Katie’s niece, Ellie is the ‘official child wrangler’, helping the littles down the aisle. Imp and Ellie will still be walking down the aisle, but we’ve updated the website to say that Fia is performing her duties remotely, something Katie came up with when I didn’t want to completely remove her. I love her so much.

The Big Gay Pride Market was last weekend (6/13-6/15) and I’m more than a little sad about it. It was a fun weekend, it always is! But it wasn’t as profitable as I would have liked. We made back our booth fee, which wasn’t cheap, and Katie sold some of her own stuff for the first time and did AMAZINGLY… but then I see people doing the same stuff as me talking about how it was their best show ever and the doubt starts creeping in. My stuff isn’t good enough, my stuff isn’t likable… but the truth is my stuff is not the viral stuff you see on instagram. I don’t make cows in overalls, or dinosaurs that look like food, or cats that look like fruit. I make cryptids (occasionally in pride flag colors), pickles with butt cheeks because that’s funny as hell to me, and Bongo the Confidence Squid keychains because he believes in you. Point being, it’s not that my stuff isn’t good, I’m just not doing what everyone else is doing, and that’s okay. I’m doing what makes me happy. I’m not expecting this to be a full time job, and I need to stop selling myself short.

I also need to start taking more pictures for the etsy store, one pic isn’t great for SEO.

I mentioned that I started a Twitch Channel recently; I was streaming pretty consistently until everything got stressful and depressing and I didn’t want to subject people to me being miserable for 2 hours at a time. I have a tumblr for that. Anyway, I’m going to try to get back to it, if not this week then next. Just need to figure a few things first.

That’s about it for me, I’ll try to update more than once a month but make no promises.

[akathecupcakes]

It's my 15 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

SERIOUSLY!?! THIS BLOG IS 15?!

[weirdcatlive]

[just-another-cat-blog]

pride month!!!

[lemonsharks]

Is that a miette?

[jeanjauthor]

Pride for you!  Pride for a thousand years!!

[lost-and-cursed]

you COME OUT to miette? you come out to her as queer? oh! oh! pride for mother! pride for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!

[akathecupcakes]

I continue to be bad at updating things, so here’s a bunch of photos!

Photos 1&2: I didn’t have a purse for pride so I made my own and then added various pins 💜

Photo 3: Set up from the last market I did, the Madison Mental Health Market

Photo 4: Sick mug I got from the same market!

Photo 5: Some Bongo the Confidence Squid plushies I made for said market

Photo 6: A ‘Care Bear’ I made and ended up giving to my buddy Huds for his Bristol Pride Fundraiser he does every June! The tummy sigil is something I made myself that means “I am Loved and Wanted”

Photos 7-9: The Skeleton Crew, Milton (pink crocs) and Winnifred (black crocs) get their summer outfits on.

Photo 10: I was doing commentary for Amber Cyprian on their Games Done Quick Hotfix show “Passion Project” and while I was commentating, I was crocheting this Pride Pal in Enby colors in their honor 💜

What else is going on… my wedding is happening in November and I’m excited! RSVPs are trickling in slowly, got the sweetest “regretfully decline” from a friend that may get hung in a frame because it was so nice. Found out that Amazon emails me whenever someone buys something off our registry so I know what we’re getting before it arrives and I’m hiding it in my closet until the wedding so Katie can be surprised.

My beloved is starting to have her art turned into products that she plans to sell! Her first time selling at a market is going to be at the Big Gay Pride Market June 13th-15th and I’m hoping she does better than me. You can see some of her stuff on her instagram, Atomikit_Studio

I’ve started doing a crafting stream on Twitch! I haven’t done it for a few weeks, been busy with market prep, but if you want to know when I go live, follow InternetAuntiePaxie! It’s mostly just me talking about whatever while I crochet for about 2 hours, but I enjoy.

That’s all I’ve got for now. Hope you all are doing well. Remember to take your meds, eat something and hydrate!

[coelii]

reblog to give your headache to elon musk instead

[coelii]

I’d just like to point out the growth in this post has mostly coincided with elon’s public spiral downward and I’d like to think we’re all a small part of that

[coelii]

bro can’t think because he’s just got a rager of a migraine 24/7

[akathecupcakes]

Made some more keychains yesterday, went a little nuts with it. I try to make ‘Covert Pride’ keychains for people who can’t be out for whatever reason. But also burgers and fries because I like those in general.

[akathecupcakes]

I recently cleaned a lot of pics off my phone, so I don’t have a lot to share regarding things I’ve made recently, but these are honestly a good representation 😁

Pic 1: I got into making things with silicone beads recently, it’s really soothing to do and a lot of fun finding ways to combine the beads. This is a “straw charm”, there’s a silicone ring that goes around a straw on a tumbler (or whatever), but I’ve also made keychains, plushie sticks and pens. It’s a borderline obsession at this point. That specific charm kind of tells a story if you think about it…

Pics 2 and 4: Whenever I was feeling down on myself, my Kit would send me the squid emoji, 🦑 (I hope that shows up for everyone), and tell me “Bongo the Confidence Squid Believes in You!” 💜 I found a squid pattern collection that I really liked and started making Bongo plushies. The pattern used on these Bongos is keychain sized (that green yarn was really thick, y’all), but there’s also a “baby squid” pattern (which is what I’ve made the most of) and I’m working on the “adult squid” right now. Pattern maker is PlushiCo Patterns, go check them out!

Pic 3: The Scene: The Big Gay Holiday Market in Madison, WI. It’s day 2, things are slowing down and I hear someone saying they wish they could find a pickle for their tree. I have my phone with a bunch of patterns loaded onto it and a project bag full of supplies, so I get to work and thus “Paxie’s Pickle Bois” were born. I know I got at least two made, one going to a person who almost started crying because they’d been looking for a pickle because it reminded them of their dad and that almost made ME cry. What you don’t see is that for some reason, I started having Kit put butts on them. No, I can’t tell you why, but it’s hilarious. I have more pics on my instagram, Cryptids, Cuties and Chaos, but I’ll try to remember to get some posted here too. This pattern is also by PlushiCo!

Okay, I need to do my actual job now. I’m thinking I’ll do a stream later today and work on some Bongos or Pickle Bois… we’ll see!