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All of my plushies!
In order of how long I’ve had them.
^ This is Brownie. I’ve had him since I was 1 year old, apparently. I remember insisting that teddy bears were 1 when they are born, so that we would be the same age.
I had a whole bunch of stuffed toys as a kid, but he’s the only one I have left, and the others vanished when my parents moved.
“the team has come together as a family”
#let’s go steal a family
Sketching some bears from the bear cam! 🐻🐟
1930 c. Andre Perugia evening shoes with uppers made entirely of glittering rhinestones. From Art Deco, Avant Garde and Modernism, FB.
"There's no hope for the future." And that's how they felt during the Atomic Age, during the World Wars, during the Enlightenment Revolutions, during thr plagues, during the Viking raids, during the fall of Rome.
Yet, we persisted.
CS Lewis had something to say about this
Been feeling a bit hopeless of late. Wasn't expecting to stumble across a quote that would fundamentally alter my perspective and make me cry during my lunch break but here we are
This is an excellent sentiment.
I feel like the first class you played in DND tells a lot about you
Reblog and put in the tags what your first class was
puppy :)
Last year, I befriended a Catholic seminarian. We've gotten to be pretty decent friends. Seeing as he was staying in town for the summer and I wasn't, I entrusted him with caring for my plant.
He did a wonderful job, but as he was returning my plant to my custody, he explained "I watered her every other day, I gave her new dirt, moved her into the sunshine, prayed the rosary-"
"What?"
He looked at me, confused. "Isn't she a plant you pray with?"
"No," I said slowly. "She's a prayer plant. That's the... colloquial name of the plant."
Upon seeing his stricken face, I realized something went wrong. Turns out, this entire time, he's been including my plant in on his prayers and leaving her near icons.
Listen, totally cool. My plant becoming Catholic is a great deal for her not dying over the summer. But now I must navigate this interfaith household. Keep me in your thoughts.
#i love prayer plants but they're fussy so I don't keep them#can we have a picture op they're so pretty
Behold, Dorothea
(Naming my plant "Gift of God," and then giving her to a seminarian with just the explanation that it's a prayer plant? Okay, that's my bad.)
I should also add- I ran into my rabbi and explained the situation. I then asked, earnestly, if there was a remedy. A mikveh of sorts, or a beit din, or something.
He turned to me, sighed, and said in a very deadpan tone-- "Plants don't have covenants, Joy,"
So Theodora's a free agent according to rabbinic opinion. I guess I'll permit her to be Roman Catholic.
once again I am on the hunt for glasses for weird little freaks, but this time I've found some cool ones pretty easily! so in case anyone else is looking, I stumbled across some real weird and gay frames at all of these sites:
eyeshells aoolia zeelool lakoh vooglam lens alter
like, eyeshells in particular has a startlingly vast collection of asymmetric glasses:
(this isn't even all of them)
and also this steampunk nonsense that I love so fucking much and cannot justify spending any money on:
while aoolia has...tbh a lot of the frames the other sites have, but more expensive, but also, a collection of the gayest people you've ever seen:
though tbh not nearly as gay as whatever lens alter has going on:
and vooglam has uhhh...whatever this is!
huh.
(I can't vouch for any of these companies ofc, though I think I'll get something from at least one of them. ideally not the slime glasses, but hey!)
but honestly the absolute best thing I found in all of this is this site that makes vintage fashion, and which happened to have:
these replica victorian railway glasses like the bisexual guy in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter had, AND WHICH
you can even buy with prescription lenses, jesus fucking christ you have no idea how hard it is to not immediately drop $180 on this shit, I'm having to physically restrain myself, I want them so fucking bad
and hey, if you don't need prescription lenses, y'know what else you can buy from this site?
the glasses from national treasure 😭😭
anyway, I'm having a gr8 time! and now I know I can definitely find glasses that are weird enough for my very high standards
in case you care, this is the bisexual guy from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
it's not canon he's bisexual, but tbh he does have a life story that involves losing a woman he loves, and then spending his time picking up men in bars by asking if they want to commit murder with him, so. that's basically the same thing
common advice for social anxiety is to tell yourself "people aren't going to think less of you just because you said something a bit daft" but the thing is. sometimes they will. and you just have to learn to be cool with that and to treat it as a dnd random encounter rather than letting it ruin your whole day
recent example. lady at my careers appointment had a post-it with her name on it stuck to the monitor, so i introduced myself by saying "hello, i'm eliot! you must be [name], it's nice to meet you!" and she stared at me as if i was the stupidest person alive and said icily, "yeah, i'm [name]. congratulations, you can read."
in bygone times this would have reduced me to a sort of quivering blancmange. thankfully i am now in a place where i was able to pull back, calmly evaluate this interaction, and say to myself "this woman should probably not be working in a customer-facing job"
important additions!!!!
Sometimes learning "wow, that person is a DICK" is the best thing for your social anxiety.
Erika Toliusis (b.1969) - Pacific Angel. 2022. Oil with palette knife on canvas.
@teaboot
Painted with a FUCKING PALETTE KNIFE?
its funny to take a step back and realize you are a tgirl communist who uses desktop linux exclusively
make enough correct choices in life and you too can become some annoying guys strawman
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LAST BOOK I READ: Dawnshard, by Brandon Sanderson.
A BOOK I’D RECOMMEND: everybody should read the Murderbot Diaries. I've most recently foisted them upon my (delighted) mum
BOOK I COULDN’T PUT DOWN: all of the Children of... books by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Exceedingly compelling sci-fi
BOOK I’VE READ TWICE OR MORE: I mean, there's so many! But my top groupings of rereads are: The Lord of the Rings, Discworld books, and the Murderbot Diaries.
BOOK ON MY TBR: my To-Read Pile on Storygraph has 44 entries, several of which are the first book in a series as a placeholder. But besides finishing the series I'm currently reading (The Stormlight Archive and The Dragonriders of Pern), My recent adds are: Radiant Star by Ann Leckie; The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling, and Redshirts by John Scalzi. The oldest books on the list are: The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal (here since before I started using the app), Battleground by Jim Butcher (the finale of a series I've grown disinterested in but have followed since university), and Revelation Space by Alistair Reynolds, a series that I've kinda forgotten why I wanted to read it, but I'm pretty sure it's very novel SF.
BOOK I’VE PUT DOWN: I've paused Plastic, Prism, Void by Violet Allen. I think I need to dedicate more attention to it at a stretch, because it's pretty heavy.
A BOOK ON MY WISHLIST: honestly not many. Generally, if I fancy a book, I save it at the library or find out where to buy it. If I can't do that quickly, I tend to forget about it. That said, I'm currently in the process of acquiring all 12 volumes of The History of Middle Earth.
FAVORITE BOOK FROM CHILDHOOD: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. They're very special to me because Mum read them to us. (We got bogged down in LotR, but Mum insisted that we finish each book before we watched the matching movie.)
A BOOK I’D GIVE TO A FRIEND: I most recently acquired the Murderbot Diaries so we can lend them to people. (And so that Jojo could reread them without trying to borrow them again.)
BOOK OF POETRY OR LYRIC THAT I OWN: I'm not particularly into poetry. But I do own a book of poems for kids, very eclectic, but it's where I learned to recite The Raven from.
WHAT I’M CURRENTLY READING: my main read is Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson. When I run, or I'm crafting, I've got The Return of the King on audiobook. And to dip into I have The Fall of Numenor, another posthumous Tolkien work.
WHAT I’M PLANNING ON READING NEXT: before I get to the final Stormlight book, I'm gonna read Radiant Star. Following that, I'll probably work my way through the next few Pern books (probably interspersed with some SF books, like Redshirts and Hell's Heart).
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been reading cicero's rant about words being given obscene meanings and i don't think i've ever seen a latin sentence that made me burst into such immediate and violent laughter before
had a couple people be like "i have no idea what this means" so to clarify: the word penis in latin originally meant tail and only later got the sense of, uh. penis. so this is cicero complaining that nowadays all these hooligans are using the word "penis" for naughty purposes
Thank you for this post, I will be showing it to every boomer who ever complains about how the kids these days are butchering the language.
the draft you're embarrassed by is data
bad news: you have to read it.
good news: you only have to read it like a scientist, not a judge. (more on that in a second.)
it's not proof that you can't write. it's proof that your instincts are working. you can SEE that the dialogue is wooden and the pacing collapses in chapter six and there's a character who shows up in act two and then, spiritually, dies. the fact that you can see all of this means your taste has outpaced your execution.
that's not a crisis. that's just where you are right now.
the scientist thing
a judge looks at the evidence and delivers a verdict. guilty. not good enough. why did i think i could do this. the verdict is emotionally satisfying for about four seconds and then completely useless.
a scientist looks at the same evidence and asks: what is this telling me?
the subplot that goes nowhere — what were you trying to add? the scene you wrote in twenty minutes because you just wanted to get through it — what were you avoiding? the ending that felt earned in december and now feels like a shrug — what didn't get set up earlier?
the bad draft isn't a failure. it's a very long, very specific note to yourself about what the story needs. you just have to learn to read it that way.
what to actually look for
the scenes you wrote fast and felt weird about. that's not momentum, that's avoidance. your subconscious knew something was off and you kept going anyway. go back. that's where the structural problem lives.
the character who disappears. you didn't forget about them. you wrote yourself into a corner where they didn't fit, which means something in your structure shifted mid-draft and you never corrected for it.
the dialogue that makes you wince on reread. nine times out of ten, the character is saying the theme out loud instead of living it. fixable. actually very useful to know.
the ending that feels hollow. the ending is almost never the problem. something earlier didn't do its job and the ending is just where you noticed.
the reframe
a first draft isn't a failed final draft. it's you finding the story before you can tell it.
the writers you love have embarrassing drafts. you just never see them because by the time the book is in your hands, the map has already been folded up and put in a drawer. yours is still on the table.
read it. take notes. figure out what it's trying to tell you.
then write the real one.
— rin t. ✨
every novel starts with one question that refuses to leave you alone.
maybe yours is hiding somewhere in here.
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