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[transhuman-priestess]

if you've never engaged with a creative art on a regular basis you need to understand that it requires concerted effort to get into "the groove" to make something and every second that it takes to get into that groove causes physical pain, but the only thing worse than doing it is not doing it.

[transhuman-priestess]

I want you to imagine that you have a button. That button is at the bottom of a pot of boiling water that also has piranhas and radium in it. If you press the button you will recieve the best orgasm of your life, but in order to press it, you have to first put your hand into radioactive boiling piranha water for at least 6 hours. This is what it's like to write.

[animentality]

[minipliny]

Fun fact from Jan van Aken's How Wars End

[official-kircheis]

Samuel Taylor Coleridge liked this

[raginrayguns]

and the illegal boats can't do shit about it because if they kill the albatross they'll be cursed

[traceloops]

[samshepard]

shoutout to everyone dealing with. thhe fucking difficulty

[rosemochi]

the fact that all of my mutuals immediately reblogged this from me really says something about all of us, doesn't it

[ebookporn]

[emmettkane]

[tigerator]

[xiaq]

On the one hand, deciding to do a herringbone pattern probably increased the floor renovation project time by 4-5 hours. On the other hand, my library floor is going to look bomb as hell (just as soon as I run to Home Depot for more flooring because I ran out 😬). We’ll do black grout in here as well. And once the floor is done…I can start building bookshelves 🎉🎉🎉

[xiaq]

Finally. Ready for grout and also ready for this project to be over. Not to sound old, but my knees are not what they used to be.

[xiaq]

Finished!!

[xiaq]

Ok, it’s been a hot minute but we are finally making progress again on the library! We have moved the door a foot so we can have wall to wall shelves, and the bookcases are all built! I just have to sand and seal them and hopefully we can install them this weekend.

[xiaq]

(!!!!!!!!!) We are sanded and installed! Finishing up the toe kicks tomorrow and then I will seal everything this weekend and hopefully start unpacking books next week!

[xiaq]

Two layers of poly down. One last light sand and a final round of seal tomorrow and the shelves are done! (Also started painting the ceiling).❤️❤️❤️

[xiaq]

Starting to unpack books and still painting the ceiling!

[xiaq]

Books are all unpacked and starry night projector installed. Now we wait for the new light fixture, shelf lighting, and rug to arrive. ❤️

[xiaq]

Light fixture installed, rug laid, throw pillows thrown. Bookcase lighting should arrive this weekend and I’m debating adding gold stars to the ceiling. But we’re nearly done!

[xiaq]

Ok, it’s before and after time:

I really am in love. I still need to make the rolling ladder and figure out what to do with the TV wall (the wall the couch is facing). But I have to focus on more pressing projects for a bit, so expect a final update in a few months, maybe! ❤️

[escuerzoresucitado]

Who up stroking they sword while lamenting the social realities.

[traceloops]

[tallahasseemp3]

please read this story of a man accidentally discovering his wife is the world's best Tetris player

[lichfucker]

[image description: an excerpt of text that says:

“It’s funny,” I told Flewin. “We have an old Nintendo Game Boy floating around the house, and Tetris is the only game we own. My wife will sometimes dig it out to play on airplanes and long car rides. She’s weirdly good at it. She can get 500 or 600 lines, no problem.”

What Flewin said next I will never forget.

“Oh, my!”

/end id]

[justahumblememefarmer]

TL;DR on the article

The husband was writing an article on classic video game records, was surprised to find out that holding the Tetris record is a bit of a big deal, and mentions how good his wife is at it.

The guy he’s talking to mentions that the record is 327, way lower than his wifes usual scores of 500-600.

They travel to a tournament, and she goes to do her attempt. Just after she beats 327, and is climbing higher, a judge brings up to the husband that the specific version she’s playing actually has a different record of 545.

She overhears that she needs to beat 500-something, and keeps going, setting the record at 841.

[jacobjoaquin]

Liminal Tunnel

[dreams-of-soft-rain]

[enki2]

[max1461]

This is actually a Markov model for anyone.

[phen00b]

mutuals come visit me down by the PP stream where Succ is

[artbyblastweave]

My father's funeral was yesterday. There are a lot of ways that I could attempt to eulogize him, but for the sake of expediency I'm going to go with an incident, towards the tail end of the Obama administration, where I was sitting in the living room reading, and he charges in in a big huff, says, "Look at what he sent me! Can you believe this guy?" and hands me this:

[rain-droplet]

I'm so so curious what death panels could possibly be. is this a council that decides who dies ? what does this mean ?

[artbyblastweave]

A major Republican talking point/smear during the early Obama years was the idea that the Affordable Care Act would inevitably result in a slippery-slope towards the existence of dystopian bureaucratic review panels who would assess whether it was cost effective to keep any given person alive using state resources (colloquially referred to as "death panels.")

The intended joke was that my father was LARPing as a hypothetical insane person who heard about the concept of death panels, misunderstood them as an actual plank of Obama's platform, thought they were a great idea, and then spent eight years badgering the surgeon general about how to sign up for them as if it were akin to jury duty, before Obama personally intervenes to try and get him to stop. The tone of the conversation right before he handed this to me had undertones of a guy feeling backstabbed about a politician not following through on campaign promises.

[trivalentlinks]

A good friend of my spouse's and mine made us an amazing alphabet book for our baby! Entirely written and illustrated by hand. Look how gorgeous:

(not including all of them because I didn't want to overwhelm with images, but here are A, B, C, and a selection of my favourites. I particularly love J!)

Also here's the title page!

I love this book so much I wanted to share it with our friends. Baby is still too little for books, but I'm sure he'll love it too!!

[heateron]