Chaos Gremlin

30s ✦ Ana ✦ they/them ✦ Queer Teacher, Musician & Aerialist ✦ @pluckedstrings on Ao3 & Bluesky ✦ Banner by @Toktopus used with permission ✦ I’m basically the group’s mom but in a Steve Harrington way

[pluckedstrings]

About Me

Ana, they/them, Tumblr Ancient My current interests are Baldur’s Gate 3, Stranger Things (Steddie & platonic Stobin mainly), Critical Role, D&D, Disco Elysium & Dragon Age. Feel free to chat! :-) personal tag | art tag | art

Writing: writing tag | ao3

Stranger Things Fics — Night Shift | M, WIP | fic tag — One year after their first battle with Vecna, his plan succeeds and the monsters of The Upside Down are released into their world. Those luck enough to survive the initial onslaught scatter, changing the landscape of the world they knew. Now on year later, Steve and his friends find themselves in a stranger new normal in a new town, but with familiar company. Disco Elysium Fics — Clothes Make the Man | E, wc: 3,892 — When they move in together, Kim is surprised by just how many clothes Harry has, most of which he has entirely forgotten about. As Kim helps him sort through the boxes of clothing and accessories, Harry gets Kim to expand his wardrobe a little. New Routines | M, wc: 4,470 — When they move in together, Kim is surprised by just how many clothes Harry has, most of which he has entirely forgotten about. As Kim helps him sort through the boxes of clothing and accessories, Harry gets Kim to expand his wardrobe a little.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

MAY YOU NEVER LOSE YOUR HYPERFIXATION

[scorpionlafemme]

Life gets better when you pursue your nerdy interests again

[screenshotsofdespair]

[canonkiller]

many people sharing the writing post today... hard to keep up with..... know my universal advice:

if it sucks you should still write it

if it'll be unfinished you should still write it

if you never share it you should still write it

if it's not a linear fiction adventure you should still write it

if you will have fun writing it you should write it :)

[cottaegecore]

when you start reading again and it's like oh. oh . the sun actually does still shine.

[the-irreverend]

pov: you're waking up and it's june 1st

(happy pride month yall!)

[postcardsfromheapside]

I laughed because someone said she reads high fantasy and the only authors she listed were SJM and clones, and then she said when she searches for high fantasy she only sees men listed so did I have suggestions, and when I replied with my google search prompt plus results, she informed me she differentiates between YA and "adult" (many classic fantasy heavy hitters often get listed as YA even though they're insanely good - recommended even - for adults to read idk), so I guess it's only real fantasy if it's "adult" which still doesn't explain the narrow reading bandwidth but whatever.

[crabanarchy]

Pipe sprung a leak in the bathroom the other day and the cat came and bothered me about it and I can't stop thinking about it. She doesn't know what a towel or a mop is but she knew there was an unauthorised fucking Wet and she trusted my ability to rectify the situation

[dragonsblowingoutbirthdaycandles]

your life is not an optimization problem

[dragonsblowingoutbirthdaycandles]

as in you'll never achieve the perfect daily routine, sleep schedule, coping mechanisms, mannerisms, fashion sense etc. even after years and years of healing and improvement and self-discovery. you will never be so good at life that you manage to utilize every waking moment. its great to be productive and all but sometimes you'll suck ass. sometimes you'll take eight hours to be done with a twenty minute job. you'll prioritize the wrong thing. you'll sleep for 12 hrs just to avoid being awake. you'll relapse. and you'll relapse again. you'll forget to turn in the assignment. you'll order too little food. life is far too large and complex for you to even experience it completely, much less try to make sense of and control it. you can't. please give up on that and be at peace with the hours you lose. they are not separate from your life.

[daily-lifeprotips]

If you have a senior to check on ask them to "borrow" something small so they think they're helping you.

My mom (72) recently downsized and moved close enough to me that checking on her in person regularly is not really out of my way, but when I was obvious about it she wouldn’t let me “stop-by” because she was, “fine”.

Well, one day I actually needed some aluminum foil so I called and asked if I could borrow enough to cover a baking tin because I didn’t want to run to the store. She said sure, but when I got to her house she needed furniture moved, a wasp nest removed, and her coffee pot fixed. After I got the foil I mentioned each thing cautiously and she let me take care of them for her. So next weekend I’ll need a cup of rice and check on her again.

[morwentrouble]

Even better, here’s an array of more reciprocal options for building relationship & supporting seniors’ dignity and independence:

- ask for something they can actually help you with. Elders have skills. Mending? Advice about knitting, gardening, home repair, nevermind professional training?

-ask about their experiences. “I was reading about xyz event the other day & I would love to know what that time was like for you. Can we chat about it over tea?” Goes double for family history for relatives.

-“Someone gave me this [or, I ended up with extra] & I don’t need/want it, but I bet you have a use for it. Can I bring it over? I would hate for it to go to waste.”

-work side-by-side. They get your physical help, you get their experience & expertise. “Could I come over & have you show me how you [used to] prune your gorgeous roses? I’m trying to get better with mine.”

[hollytree33]

Ghilan'nain

So I read the Horror of Hormak

[cafffine]

be pro-aging but wear sun screen. sun protection is not beauty industry propaganda it will save you. wear it. or else.

[rheumaticrhetoric]

[shaggydogstail]

This tweet lives rent-free in my head now. Hands-down the best comment about the relationship between art and artist.

[prinnay]

Moving On.

[prinnay]

process pics :)

[callese]

refseek.com

www.worldcat.org/

link.springer.com

http://bioline.org.br/

repec.org

science.gov

pdfdrive.com

[growing-yet-into-magic]

Worldcat is my bestie and my one true love!! Not only does it tell you what library a book is at, but it also price compares different used book sites against each other for easy view! It's how I got Tarot For the Master for $10!!

[growing-yet-into-magic]

Oh, and since I have your attention: z-library (books and textbooks) and sci-hub (gatekept scientific journal articles.) I just ripped a textbook for class off z-library and snatched a required reading from sci-hub. Life is good and education should be accessible at every stage and station of life.

[mckitterick]

information wants to be free

[seedingsolarpunk]

Anna's Archive is an open source mirror library

The world’s largest open-source open-data library. Mirrors Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, Z-Library, and more.

[queermaddscientist]

Get yourself a fabric store that will light your fabric on fire for you

No but legit I asked what the fiber content of something was and the guy didn’t know so he cut a chunk off and lit it on fire and felt the ashes and was like. Yeah this is mostly cotton with a lil bit of silk. And that was the moment I knew. This is it. This is the fabric store for me. Also that guy is marriage material. Not for me but damn some person is gonna be so happy with him.

[rawringthroughthetwenties]

Ok but this is actually one of the easiest ways to tell what something is made of! I did a textiles degree and one day as part of a class we all went outside with a pile of scrap fabric and set fire to the little pieces and recorded how they burned. We were given a chart that looked something like this to tell what each fabric was (it gets a little tricky is it’s a mix of fabrics though). Why did we do this? There is very little regulation in the textiles industry so a lot of materials are mislabelled as something they aren’t and sold for more than they should be, also sometimes people buy fabric second hand or discounted which doesn’t have any label at all. If you have a fabric you are having doubts about, cut a tiny piece off and do the burn test and you should know pretty fast what you are dealing with. Anyways your fabric store should be lighting things on fire because this means that they are actually checking what the fabrics are and aren’t trying to pass cheap stuff off as more expensive than it is.

[queermaddscientist]

Ooh! I knew it was a standard test but I hadn’t seen a chart as detailed as this thank you!