Stuck in the Middle with You

Reston, 34, married, they/them, disabled, bisexual, AuDHD

[reservoircat]

made a new account from scratch.

if you're still interested in following me and seeing my art and writing please follow @noveldivergence

[woxeldritchcounty]

We're Hiring!

Do these jobs interest you? Send in your application today!

[reservoircat]

The probelm with being someone who starts from the top of the pattern instead of the middle is contending with the end result being off center! Ah well. Still cute!

Pattern by Sokol Stitch!

[teaboot]

I love learning about other culture's Houseguest Protocols but I hate hate hate when they don't match up cause like

I (PNW Canadian, raised with etiquette from my old British great-grandparents) sleeping over: Can I help with dinner. Can I do the dishes. PLEASE let me do something useful. Im sorry I'm here. I can sleep on the floor it's fine. You don't need to cook for me I can go outside and drink pond water. Do you hate me

My friend (Indian, raised by entire extended family in Dubai) hosting me: Why won't you let me feed you. Do you need more coffee. Am I doing something wrong. Do you have enough blankets? I will buy you warmer clothes. Here, you can sleep in my room, I'll take the couch. Why are you crying? Oh God am I a bad host

[teaboot]

Also,

Me (PNW, raised European etiquettes) making direct eye contact with a family member I have wronged: They will know by my forthright and direct body language that I am owning my mistake and not trying to lie or minimize my actions. By looking them in the eyes they can know that they have my full attention and I am fully dedicated to making things right

Family member (Cree, raised with Cree etiquettes) seeing me stare them down like I'm daring them to try shit: I can tell by their unwavering death-stare that they are not the least bit ashamed of themselves. Obviously they are lying to my face and also think I am an idiot. This is an act of severe disrespect

Me, oblivious: I'm doing so good at Apology

[reservoircat]

I am "green stickers on video rentals" years old.

A gift for the bff @spookshow-video <3 <3

[reservoircat]

@bearometer

In answer to your reblog tags! The aida was dyed by Witch's Garden Crafts on Etsy who is phenomenal and has wonderful quality dyed aida. I highly recommend her shop, and you'll definitely see more of this and some of her other aida in my future projects!

[shacklefunk-deactivated20220623]

yknow theres a lot of pressure to be successful, particularly on artsy kids whose professions are seen as useless unless theyre famous, but life is fucking hard and sometimes things dont turn out

but i think thats not bad. my dad has wanted to be a musician forever, and hes rly pretty good. but then he joined the military to get away from an abusive family, and then he got married, and then he got divorced, and a lot of horrible shit HAPPENED. he has ptsd and severe anxiety and he could never really get back on the horse. and he never made it as a musician, and now hes 53

but i grew up in a house full of instruments, and he can play all of them, and some of my earliest memories are of him playing guitar on the front porch and me thinking there wasnt a better musician in the world. so. even if you dont get to the stars, exactly, what you do isnt worthless. its not a waste of time if life is difficult and you cant make it, or if you arent famous, or if your work doesn’t influence thousands of people. it will influence someone

there are a million ways to be happy and a million ways to be a successful artist. we create what we do to enhance the human experience and relate to each other and improve ourselves. theres something to be said for just doing that,,,for the sake of doing it, yknow

[talkgentlytome]

This is the most comforting, warm and important piece of text I have ever read, and it is so true. No life is wasted that is spent sharing and loving.

[reservoircat]

I am "green stickers on video rentals" years old.

A gift for the bff @spookshow-video <3 <3

[kafus]

genuinely frustrated and upset about how much using neocities as a filehosting service is being spread everywhere. they disable hotlinking for non-html files for free accounts so it won’t even work properly for those purposes and even supporter accounts are asked not to be used as a file dump host directly by the website. neocities offers a service that no other website provides and that i think is extremely important, but they sure don’t make a ton of money doing it. please, please, do not use neocities as a filehost, they don’t want you to and i don’t want you to either. there is a reason they ask users not to

[scallioncreamcheesebagel]

i've been using postimages.org as a filehost for a DECADE and it has always been super reliable. postimages has never let me down. it is a website designed to do one thing, host image files, and it does it well. highly recommend it!

[reservoircat]

Recent cross stitch for a friend! PAttern is by LaSelvaDesign on Etsy.

[woxeldritchcounty]

Welcome to the weird and sinister World of Eldritch County, a text-based roleplaying game. Create a character and enroll in Miskatonic University in Arkham, Massachusetts, and embrace the strange, unknown world of eldritch gods, abominable horrors, and twisted cults. Will you fight against the darkness, or let it draw you in? Explore Arkham and World of Eldritch County today!

[maxknightley]

from what I've seen, there are exactly Three Jobs hiring at any given time. they are:

senior logistics strategist at Hewlett Packard. $140,000 / year. requirements: three separate MBAs, fifteen years of business experience, no "ethnic" grandparents, unearned sense of confidence

"customer success ambassador" at Glurp. $70,000 / year, give or take, since 90% of your pay is based on commission. requirements: associate's degree, no experience, has never heard the phrase "pyramid scheme," no sense of shame

part-time server at Le Bon Mot. $15-$16/hr depending on level of experience. must work weekends, overnight shifts, holidays, while asleep. requirements: you will let customers spit on you.

[maxknightley]

I feel like I make some variant on this post once every two weeks, which should tell you how well the job hunt's going.

[nessa007]

the amount of people in the replies saying “what career” lmao

[thevanillahorizon]

Gladly

[officialbillyhoehargrove]

Don't forget this meme exist because everyone on the set was hating him and they get super happy when he died.

[electricparasite]

[joey-wheeler-official]

i’m enough of a nerd to see when a weapon would be impractical but not enough of a nerd to give a shit

[curiooftheheart]

Scythe Wielder: *Shows up in a media*

Me: You know, scythes were designed for reaping grain, not combat. Yes it is bladed so it could be a weapon but not a very efficient one.

Scythe Wielder: *Does that badass scythe stuff*

Me: Hot damn that’s cool.

[triviallytrue]

twitter will expose you to types of guys that you thought were extinct

[letterboxd-worth-a-damn]

[shinsouisprecious]

[fixyourwritinghabits]

I cannot stress this enough, write it poorly. Write the shittiest draft you possibly can, stick 'ah fuck something happens here and now they're fighting' to get over

Write the worst fucking version you possibly can and stick it in a folder and forget it for a month or two before you look at it again. You know what you have now?

A first draft. And with enough time to think some new thoughts about it, you'll soon end up with a better, second draft! And eventually, you'll end up with something you'd be perfectly okay with letting other people read!

You'll never believe this process works no matter how many times you do it, but it totally does. You just have to drag your brain kicking and screaming to that blank page and get the bones down first.

Write the shit out of that shit.

[burnticedlatte-deactivated20240]

Gabriel for @reservoircat ♥️