noodling around

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I’ve decided. July shall be

PANTS FREE JULY

NO PANTS

NO LEGGINGS

NO SLACKS

JUST SKIRTS, DRESSES

exceptions can be made for sufficiently awesome palazzo pants or shorts. bike shorts or chub rub or whatever doesn’t count as pants, they’re underwear.

the great work begins.

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tiny Calcifer

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was at PAX East and realized:

Next year there could be Murderbot cosplay

I hope I hope I hope

WAIT

There could be SANCTUARY MOON cosplay

I can’t pull off the silver bodysuit but MAYBE

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If you want something done, you gotta do it yourself.

Now to fit this jacket…

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I’m did it yay

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[pusong-mangga]

edit: apparently op is on tumblr! send them some love!

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Sometimes you just have to make the thing.

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Me: aww, look at these lovely flowers M got me! I’ll put them in a vase and take them outside because —

Hunk: HELLO I WOULD LIKE SOME OF THAT BRIGHT SALAD IT SMELLS DELICIOUS AND TOXIC AS HELL LEMME AT IT

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1) i am at the stage of a crochet project where i have to count stitches

2) I am jet lagged out of my tiny little brain and have decided to have a glass of wine

therefore

3) I will not be crocheting tonight because I do not want to end up attaching myself to a nearby wall

just gonna sit here and listen to spouse playing piano arrangements of expedition 33

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was at PAX East and realized:

Next year there could be Murderbot cosplay

I hope I hope I hope

WAIT

There could be SANCTUARY MOON cosplay

I can’t pull off the silver bodysuit but MAYBE

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If you want something done, you gotta do it yourself.

Now to fit this jacket…

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I’m did it yay

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Last year was a good year for making stuff.

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One of the crochet scale pauldrons I did for elder kiddo. Posting because I finished a writing prompt for the week.

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waiting for the blizzard to hit

BREAD-MILK ERRAND BOYS

SNOWBLOWER POWER TOYS

GOTTA HAVE THE FRENCH TOAST AS THE SNOW COMES DOWN

PARKING SPOT NEMESES

IT'S BOMBOGENESIS

GO AND GRAB YOUR SHOVELS AS THE SNOW COMES DOWN

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I’m going to start posting a thing whenever I meet my writing goal for the week. This is for last week’s goal. Also a flex on actually learning to make croissants! Let’s see it the knowledge persists outside of the classroom…

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Clematis two ways.

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mooooooon

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hooray for successful hysterectomy

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writing more

Not a bad resolution, really. Especially if I don't force it to be anything in particular. I wish I had some kind of simple flowchart/choose your own adventure system where i could populate it with a bunch of prompts, and set a series of questions about what do I feel like writing today.

I like having written, I like having made things. And in the middle of the process, I'm pretty good with it as well. I just...it's hard to start, to decide that I actually have something to say. So giving myself less choice in *what* to write may actually help me in *starting* the writing. Plus I can generate writing prompts okay, I just don't want to have to select one and make it be load-bearing for the day.

Here's the kind of flowchart I'm envisioning:

Fiction or nonfiction?

Fiction: fanwork or original? Fanwork: Sharon from Agatha All Along has a garden after death, Cliopher has the flu and needs a cozy day, Pacific Rim nerdboys get into drift-related shenanigans, TF2 Medic/Pyro kink... Fanwork-related: why I love HotE, Penric, what grinds my gears about Nightmare Before Christmas, fanrant on magic types... Original: worldbuild or character or plot? Worldbuild: write up the Orcish Empires, write up the Drow/Duergar lost-one mythos, write up more backstory for the Island... Character: a deeper look at the dreamer from After the Fall, character studies like AtF, more on Melusine's Hound / the Auditor... Plot: more on Melusine's Hound, more on After the Fall...

Nonfiction: personal or distanced? Personal: memory or presentday? painful or pleasant? descriptive or contemplative? Distanced: metaphorical or pragmatic topics? Politics, nature, metaphysics, ethics? Making things or pondering things?

It feels like if I could put together a questionnaire that spits out a response depending on my mood, I might be able to write on that response more deeply. Rather than browsing the list of prompts and going "nope none of these sing to me". Just enough external-requirement pressure to create - like a yuletide fic prompt, or the bounds of a sonnet.

Hm. Sonnet. Add that on here. Fiction, nonfiction, or poetry?

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So between perimenopause and fibroids and other associated crap, I’ve been having longer and longer and heavier and heavier periods.

Naturally I started thinking of this in terms of Pacific Rim.

“Originally we were experiencing a uterine event every four weeks. That frequency and intensity continues to increase geometrically . By my calculations in mere days we will experience simultaneous uterine events!!!”

*staggers out of bathroom, discreetly takes iron pill from a little tin* Restart the clock.

I told my sister about it, and she asked if that means I’m calling my uterus The Rift.

Hell yes.

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courtesy of sibling awesomeness