Intro
I'm DaLaidee (the Lady), early 40's, she/her/haaaylady.
I'm not a "creative person," but I paint miniatures, from D&D to Warhammer 40k. Advice and tips welcome from fellow painters or enthusiasts.
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@dalaidee
Intro
I'm DaLaidee (the Lady), early 40's, she/her/haaaylady.
I'm not a "creative person," but I paint miniatures, from D&D to Warhammer 40k. Advice and tips welcome from fellow painters or enthusiasts.
hey, welcome to Dragon Park! you look good in Employee T-Shirt Blue! this is your first day, right?
sure, so you must have just come from the admin building, that's where all the onboarding stuff happens. are you working in one particular exhibit, or...?
oh, sick! you get to work with me! Upkeep Tech is where it's at. no one wants to admit it, but we get all the fun jobs. follow me, the tech office is this way, we gotta get you oriented! you won't get to meet anyone yet, almost everyone is out working already, but we can get you some stuff!
first, you need a nice shiny Upkeep Tech pin! go ahead and put that on your lanyard. you'll also need a massive assortment of keys. let's see, electrical, server room, main office, mess hall, employee lounge master key, exhibit gate key... yeah, put all those on the lanyard too. you're gonna jingle a bit. you learn to love it
now, before i give you this next key i'm legally required to ask if you have a valid driver's license. oh, good, this one's really fun. this is the Motor Pool key. cmon, let's get something to drive!
now, it's hot enough out that we have to take the water truck and do a run with it every couple hours. yeah, these used to be riot control vehicles; we bought them for cheap and stuck some hoses on them so we can use them for water purposes. it's a pretty fun job. we get to water the plants, refill the reservoirs all over the park, and spray the water cannon at the dragons- oh, no, they love it. they try to chomp at the stream like big dogs, it's hilarious. you wanna drive?
yeah, just be gentle with her. she can really move if you hit the pedal hard. yeah, there you go! alright, schedule says we just have to hit the Island Pools and Sahara Street this morning, so we'll fill up at the Pools. left here, and then i'll jump out and get the exhibit gate
ok, stop here, i'll go hook up the hose, and we'll just chill for a minute
ok, we're full! drive over there to the pool, and we'll dump in a bit of water to get the level up to where it's supposed to be. aaaaaaaand, ok, that's good! let's roll!
welcome to Sahara Street! heads up, when the dragons realize we're here they'll probably start chasing us. it's all fun and games, of course, but if they catch us it really does hinder our ability to do our jobs everywhere else so we want to avoid them until designated Dragon Interaction Hours later. i'm gonna go up and man the cannon to spray the plants down, if i yell at you just gun it, got it?
ok, you can drive on a bit, let's get some of the trees over by that oasis. it looks all clear up here right now. i don't see much- NEVER MIND HIT THE GAS damn that camouflage is good! ok, there's a gate to the left of where you're driving- shit- try to get through that and HURRY WE'RE BEING BOARDED THE WATER CANNON ISNT WORKING-
hell yeah! another shift survived! ok, i'm scheduled for some pipe repair in the Rainforest Kingdom, and that's a tiny hike from here; can you just drop me here? thanks. go ahead and take this truck back to the Motor Pool and check out your schedule to see what you have next. see you on lunch break!
Art.
eldritch horror girlfriend: hey! my eyes are up here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and-
Ma’am, respectfully, your eyes are ON your tentacles.
Every once in a while I try to hold a pen with my right hand and am like... this is how most people are just doing it? I cant even hold a pen let alone get that pen to cooperate with my brain. Absurd that anyone is doing this.
I would say lefties are absurd, but that’s inviting some ambidextrous boob to comment me into oblivion.
Nightbringer Repaint
Oooh, lovely!
My meal prepping Xennial angry but humorous heart in a meme. Perfect.
Feeling edgy with my marathon (okay, two) doctor appointments. Gonna have a dermatologist cut a thing out of my face, then my every-few-months visit to my oncologist.
Why do I drink coffee?! It’s a stressily-existing-day, and just got to let the professionals do their jobs. I just have to be pleasant and graceful.
I think that should be my shadow self’s name, Stressily Ann Againwego. 😂
I mean I love my body and have worked hard to keep it strong, but the peri to meno has been hard especially with the chemoimmunomakeyoufeelbad drugs. I can proudly say with medium intensity weights, no cardio (cortisol management), I have cut well, all told.
October 2025 I was a good beefy 153-154 lbs average, and I’ve just hit my 140 lbs average at 5’8.”
I’m fucking starving, ugh. But now Maintenance Calories Yum Time for six weeks and going to ramp lifting load percentage!!!
I’m leaning into mid-forty-glory and I’m gonna add a group Tai Chi class. I think this is the year it settles into my exceptional balance, functional movement, fuck sarcopenia muscle, hormonally balanced year!
Glowing skin can be next year, whatever 😂 This is thick ass muscle year!
that was everything I was hoping it would be. marvelous
I love this because you know exactly where it's going and you're not disappointed
I was so looking forward for the Jupiter gravity and it didn't disappoint and THEN THE SUN GRAVITY MADE ME HOLLER
i think you could reach escape velocity on pluto by just jumping really hard
THWE DRAMATIC PAUSE IN THE SUN GRAVITY HAD ME
Every mythical creature has a natural counterpart meant to balance them out. Elves and dwarves, werewolves and vampires, etc. Humans have just discovered they too have a counterpart.
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Oof, sorry about missed messages, but catching up and will be back on next week ❤️
You can teleport! How does it look?
Puff of smoke
Leaving someone's sight and suddenly you are gone
Fading out of existence
PowerPoint animation
Transforming into a flock of crows
Portal
A trapdoor that isn't there when someone checks
Exploding into confetti
Popping out of existence with no fanfare
Shooting yourself out of a cannon
The Secret Option (tell me)
i don't even want to teleport
Confetti? Nothing but pins, baybeee.
I don’t miss NY, but sometimes I do.
this is the funniest fucking billboard possible. who the fuck paid for this
And why is it Wisconsin, not Texas? Even Texas admits it wants to be a separate planet.
I think today was finally the day, and now my “Ask An Old Person” are open. I’m ready. 😂
Go ahead, kiddo.
Spring is almost here and all the snow has melted in Sweden! I'm excited to see what plants will grow in the garden. A little fox 🦊 visited our yard the other night so I've been dreaming of it wandering through the forest and bringing spring 🌱🌷🌼🌹🌻
The inspo photo I took!
The daring little fox looking for kibbles missed by the dogs
Painting process~
the fact that we only have “herculean task” and “sisyphean task” feels so limiting. so here’s a few more tasks for your repertoire
icarian task: when you have a task you know you’re going to fail at anyways, so why not have some fun with it before it all comes crashing down
cassandrean task: when you have to deal with people you KNOW won’t listen to you, despite having accurate information, and having to watch them fumble about when you told them the solution from the start (most often witnessed in customer service)
feel free to chime in i ran out of ideas much faster than i anticipated
Promethean task: opposite of a Cassandraean task. You have the right information, and SOMEONE has to share it. But it's all in the delivery and if you're the person to identify the problem you WILL be hated forever.
Oedipal Task: (1) Attempting to avoid an unspeakably awful outcome and in doing so creating the circumstances that will bring it about. (2) Trying to solve an problem and discovering that you are in fact the problem you are trying to solve.
Odyssean task: you’ll complete it but it’ll take 20 times longer than it should and involve multiple side quests and mini-adventures
Ah feel 'sif an Odyssian task is basically a poor sod mid ADHD
A Pandorean task - just the act of starting it unleashes all manner of disasters.
damoclean task: the thing you've been putting off long enough that it becomes a constantly hanging doom over your head
pyrrhic task: you can get it done but it's going to cost you
medean task: you can get it done and you don't care what it costs you
dionysian task: task that might not be -better- if you do it drunk, but -will- definitely be more fun
hegelochic task: it was a simple job, but your name will be recorded in the annals of history for how impressively you fucked it up
task of theseus: a project for which the parameters have changed so many times that you're not sure it IS still the same task
gordian task: ok technically there Is a Right Way to do this but it's going to be fiddly and awful and take forever and what if. what if you just said fuck it. and started slicing
trojan task: a task that looks like an Easy Win, but the second you accept it, forty hidden problems appear
sphinxian task: a task where no one will tell you what they actually want, but you will still be punished for not guessing correctly
atlasian task: a task where everyone agrees it is impossibly heavy and unfair, but somehow that does not stop them from handing it to you
persephonean task: a task that was supposed to be temporary, but now you have accidentally become (seasonally) responsible for it forever
narcissean task: a task that would be easy if the person in charge could stop admiring their own terrible ideas for one freakin second
I feel like I have done more than half of these. Why am I not fucking wise? Tragic…oh, wait, yeah. Great.