the soy side blog

i'm soy. this is my side blog. for art, see @soyrwoo

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My art blog is @soyrwoo, where you can see stuff like this:

This blog is for sketches, plant/garden posting, gifs, memes, extended commentary on my art blog posts, and other things that don't belong there.

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This post with a link to this Crayola crayon technique booklet came across my dash and it was a lot of fun to flip through, but I thought it was missing one I particularly liked as a kid.

Music is All Was Well by Wintergatan

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2026 Seed Startin'

The mourning doves and robins have returned, it's time to get back to that gardening grind!!!💪💪💪👊👊👊 (<- person who tries to do the lea...

This year's heirloom tomatoes are under way! I wrote a bit about it on my other blog ^^^

Part of the purpose of soysville was to get me to write longer-form posts more often. We can see how well that's worked. So earlier this year, I revived my old Blogger account and started a new blog over there, then forgot to share it here.

I've got an ongoing series on my mission to make my own custom cookie shapes with minimal effort per batch:

Cookie Quest, part 1: There has to be a better way

It feels a bit odd to call this "part 1" as this saga has been going on for a while now. This is just the first time I'm formally recording

Cookie Quest, part 2: Katabasis

So continues my quest to find an easier way to decorate cookies, so my cookies don't keep coming out like this: I'd concluded that the way a

Stay tuned for upcoming entries such as "This isn't Working" and "Why is Art so Expensive" and "Rabbits may be Cute and Fluffy but they are my Sworn Enemies."

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Chainsaw Man starting around 1997 means this was probably on the radio while all that business with Reze was going down

DYNAMITEなhoneyでもういいんじゃない....

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Shark Exorcist (2015)

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I'm watching the Atarashiichizu Fan Meeting vol.4 digest video and I love that the first shot of all 3 of them is like

They've been doing this for almost 40 years and still haven't figured out the kerning

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Furby 2005 and Furby 2023 discussing fashion

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*Pachelbel's Canon in Ds furiously*

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FNS歌謡祭 | 2025.07.02 香取慎吾 「UNERI KUNERI (feat. Kroi)」

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I wanna be a star in the night!

週刊ナイナイミュージック | 2025.05.28 香取慎吾　「夢々Ticket (feat. 緑黄色社会)」

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It's been a bit since I've done a plant post. I was preparing my garden for transplants over the weekend and noticed that, unlike my chives and pineberries, my sage hadn't survived the winter, so. Time To Start Some New Herbs, I guess.

These are our subjects, my favorite perennial herbs, which I got in a cheap multipack of herb seeds some years ago.

They may be a little old. That's fine. Don't worry about it.

I have this plastic cover from an even more expired aquarium water test kit, which fits 6 2-inch pots and will make for a nice mini green house.

Never throw out anything.

The plan is to transfer these into an outdoor container, ideally all of them in one big planter, then plant some cilantro and dill seeds in there directly. Most of the containers I have are on the small side, but wouldn't this tie together nicely if I can find a suitable old one to reuse?

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週刊ナイナイミュージック | 2025.05.28 香取慎吾　「夢々Ticket (feat. 緑黄色社会)」

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週刊ナイナイミュージック | 2025.05.28 香取慎吾　「夢々Ticket (feat. 緑黄色社会)」

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A little 71 grader nord kjendis s14 Team Nordkapp

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イチオシ！！ 2022.8.23 | Ylvis interview

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Some notes on the interview that I initially took for my non-Japanese-understanding friends, but they're for everyone now that the video has been taken down:

The story is introduced as "The surprising truth behind the popular song" and "Uncovering the identity of the mysterious duo that sings the song"

When asked if they know any Japanese, Vegard says "It's a cell phone" and "It's NOONtime!" in Japanese

Bård says "Where is the kitchen?"

The dance move above is described to them as "ghost pose," which is a thing that makes sense in Japan as a pose that ghosts take on. Not sure about anywhere else.

"I thought the way they turned down Mr. Sato's request [to dance] was quite elegant." "Very well done." "Yes, it was very cool."

The uploader included the part where The Fox is fading out and the announcer says, "On to the next story. A passenger vehicle has collided with a tractor at an intersection and caught fire."

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Norges herligste | Mustachmannen

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Mutter/Muttern | Labyrint