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The Project Hail Mary movie was quite good, solid storyline and characters and visuals and so on, but I gotta say, as someone prone to motion sickness, there were some Choices made for the cinematography which were meaningfully good for the movie but physically bad for me personally especially on a very very big screen.
I feel a little sick and really hope I don't fall asleep with my brain drifting in phantom circles tonight.
Every time I see a single mention of either parsley or sage or rosemary or thyme - and especially if I see two or more in proximity, as happens a lot in recipes - my brain immediately queues up Scarborough Fair to play in looping fragments between my ears whether I want it to or not.
The modern Sisyphus is given a long driveway and a single snow shovel, and is told that if he can completely clear the pavement he is free to go. Snow is falling continuously, re-covering everything he's already done and making more difficult any parts he hasn't touched yet.
He will never be free, yet doggedly he perseveres, sure that sooner or later, the snow must stop.
Happy Pi Day.
I burned my pie. Made a mental note to check on it in 10 minutes to see if it was done, then apparently threw that mental note in the trash along with the entire concept of the pie's existence for the next hour.
I've gotta say, I love the sheer innocent optimism of guys who walk into the shop a day or two after Valentine's Day and confidently assert that they're here for the discount roses.
Like.
Buddy.
No.
No, if you're lucky the roses might have reverted to non-Valentine's prices - might have. If the wholesale prices have also already gone back to normal. I've worked at a place where the rose prices stayed up for a full week after V-day. This isn't the holiday candy aisle at Walmart. We aren't desperately trying to clear shelves for the next big seasonal merchandise thing.
Those roses are gonna cost, at the lowest, a normal amount.
Funguary 2026 2: Fairytale
A bit late, but last week was Valentine's and I had no creative energy left to me during that.
Amethyst Deceiver mushrooms plus a fox and a hare - tricksters and tricksters and tricksters.
Ithillids experimenting on lycanthropes to create highly intelligent and psionically powered Whywolves
Whereforewolves
Funguary 2026, Week 1: Decay.
I went on a conceptual tangent at the start. Rather than start with a mushroom from the list, I immediately went "Deathshead Hawkmoth" and started down a research rabbit hole of sorts.
These moths lay their eggs on certain poisonous plants like potato, tomato, woody nightshade etc. This can sometimes make them toxic in turn. They like to get into honey, infiltrating hives by putting off honeybee scents to go unnoticed.
Honeybees sometimes build their hives in old, rotten trees and logs. Honey, in contrast to the Decay theme, is symbolic of longevity and preservation.
Inky cap mushrooms grow from the ground, but sometimes they crop up where rotten wood is buried. Funny fact: they are edible, but have an effect on the body whereby they make alcohol more toxic - something something poisoning the mead.
So here in this mess of things, we have a rotten log which supports both golden immortal honey and dark inky mushrooms, wound in deadly nightshade, providing sustenance to a black-and-golden moth marked with a skull of death.
I haven't painted anything in ages. This was a good excuse to break out the old acrylics and painting paper pad.
I ran around a single major region in the base game of FFXIV - The Black Shroud, including the city of Gridania and its residential area, the Lavender Beds - and took screenshots of every unique flower I could find.
I don't know if they have names. I assume not, but who knows if some long-forgotten side quest or repeatable job had a throwaway term for some of them? I've seen a tiny little allied society quest from the most recent expansion that gives a local flower a name; it would be easy to miss.
The first flower grows on shrubs in Gridania and Central Shroud. The second and third are huge and grow around the tiny Sylph village in East Shroud and have glowing varieties (the third one is also a different color - blue) exclusively in The Lavender Beds. The final set are also huge (some stalks have to be at least ten feet tall, compared to my 5'2" character) and also glow - pink and purple in The Lavender Beds, and the brightest cyan blue is only found deep in Stillglade Fen, where the Conjurer's Guild resides.
There are many more flowers in the Shroud, let alone in the various other regions of the game; these have only scratched the surface. Maybe one day I'll sketch more of them. While some flowers were reused in various areas or with recolors, there's a surprising variety, and they seem to be quite different from one area to another, even within a single region.
Funguary 2026! The drawing challenge where we draw fungi during the month of February. This will be the last time I’m hosting this event, which is bittersweet… So join in on the fungi fun one last time, so we may end it with a bang✨ Event starts Feb 1st
In order to join, create one art piece centered around mushrooms per weekly theme. Drawing daily is a lot of pressure, so I thought we’d keep it chill this time by only doing one a week. This will give us more time to flesh out our character! Ive written down species suggestions, but please feel free to draw whichever shroom you fancy!
The only official rule is to honor fungi as your almighty deity. Oh, and to use tags #Funguary & #Funguary2026
Can’t wait to see everyone’s shroom creations! Will be stalking the tag and reblogging creations, as per usual❤️
I may have slightly overdone the amount of starting water on the two stocks I made today.
I now have over 12 cups of duck stock, and about 18 cups of chicken stock.
That's...that's too much stock.
Hello.
Do you still write for the Transcendence AU of Gravity Falls?
Because I really enjoyed reading your ficlets about it
Hi,
Honestly, I haven't written much of anything in quite a while. I am glad you enjoyed what I did, though. Thank you!
"That'll take years!"
"The time'll pass anyway."
Ok, hold on a second here, Janet. My objection is not necessarily about the length of time in and of itself, per se. My objection is based in the fact that my attention span and interest in the project might last two weeks, three at absolute best. After that point any passion for said project will make like a toad in winter and bury itself deep and for an unknown amount of time - days, weeks, months, maybe years itself - before suddenly and unexpectedly re-emerging regardless of how it might inconvenience any other projects or interests that have cropped up in the meantime. Repeat ad infinitum.
So yeah, the big dream project might take a highly dedicated, focused, and dogged individual years to complete - working at it for a few hours each night after work or whatever - but for me, anything with a timeline beyond a single-session sit-down has a rapidly, perhaps exponentially, diminishing probability of ever being done, and an inversely proportional increase in the time it'll take to do it. I've taken months to a year to finish things that only required maybe five, six hours of actual work, purely because those five-six hours couldn't be done consecutively.
Polling the masses
I can't decide something.
Black sparkly fabric on the inside of the capelet or the outside?
I don't think I can make it reversible, as I only have one closure and it's kind of one sided in terms of how it gets attached to the piece.
Sparkles where?
Inside
Outside
Thoughts on either option:
Inside - sparkles show in flashes, more subtle, blue fabric can more easily be embellished if I find pretty decorative bits for, say, chest or back
Outside - Very spacelike, blue fabric is just a little bit softer, but not as much opportunity for decorations I think due to sheerness and thinness of the sparkle fabric.
Perfect 50/50 split, well done everyone who voted. Thank you though!
I put sparkles on the inside, based on the suggestion that it might be more durable that way and also on the fact that I'll more easily embellish the blue fabric with appliques or whatever if I feel like it. That said, I was careful when sewing the closure loops on to only stitch through said blue fabric so in theory the sparkles are unblemished, and maybe I can turn it inside out if I really feel like being extra starry and running the snagging risk.
Polling the masses
I can't decide something.
Black sparkly fabric on the inside of the capelet or the outside?
I don't think I can make it reversible, as I only have one closure and it's kind of one sided in terms of how it gets attached to the piece.
Sparkles where?
Inside
Outside
Thoughts on either option:
Inside - sparkles show in flashes, more subtle, blue fabric can more easily be embellished if I find pretty decorative bits for, say, chest or back
Outside - Very spacelike, blue fabric is just a little bit softer, but not as much opportunity for decorations I think due to sheerness and thinness of the sparkle fabric.
It needs to be blocked and stopped from curling up at the edges and everything, but heck it, I made a thing, all on my own.
(ft. the scrap paper on which I drew a wonky adhoc grid to plot out the stitches and note which way knit base vs purl base was going on each row, and highlighted as I finished each row so I didn't lose track.)
Cozy Hobbit Farming Game Hot Take:
They should've set it not in a vague time just before the events of LotR, but immediately after the Scouring of the Shire.
Think about it. It comes with so many elements that explain your start-up-the-ruined-farm game loop, your broken community, your community improvements, etc. Like, why is your hobbit hole and garden in such disrepair at the start? Because you were kicked out of it when Saruman's Men overran the place, and you're lucky it hadn't been fully dug up yet! Why is foraging and farming so important yet so difficult early on? Lots of farms and gardens were turned over and put to the exclusive use of feeding those Men, and probably choosing your own gardening pursuits were Against the Rules. What's the point or purpose of putting all this effort into (re)befriending NPCs, feeding them, helping them with their problems? You've got a goddamn community to rebuild inside and out!
There could've been quests or long-progress resource gathering things to tear down the shanty houses the Men had built, re-dig and re-furbish hobbit holes, restore those hobbits recovered from the prisons to good health, replant torn down trees and rebeautify the town.
You might not get the cart ride from Gandalf at the start, but at the close of the first year you could instead get a visit from Samwise Gamgee the Gardener, coming by with dust from Galadriel's Garden to replant the most beloved trees (and maybe provide a mechanical upgrade to farming and gathering yields from that point onward).
I can kind of understand why they might not go that route because your first step into this lovely quaint fictional location would be dirty and dark looking, all torn up and ruined, but damn it imagine the game loop being about fixing what was broken and making it better than it was before!
