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etakyma replied to your photoset “I am staying with a friend who has cats, and this morning’s visit from...”

You... Have a digital Lab? ooooooo... How?

My mum has a membership to Jacquie Lawson Cards, which is a digital greeting card website that specializes in sending musical/animated and interactive cards. She sends me about a dozen a year, and they’re cute little cards where occasionally you get a bonus, like a program you can download or some PDF coloring pages. One of the regular characters in the cards is a little dog named Chudleigh, and one of the cards she sent me offered a “Download Chudleigh!” option, which I IMMEDIATELY clicked on. 

Anyway, it’s a little program where a tiny animated Chudleigh runs around your desktop -- he sleeps, fetches slippers, etc. It’s a single EXE file that doesn’t need installing, so I put him on my work computer. He has been with me through two changes of jobs, four different computers, and now the laptop my work got me so I can take him with me to meetings. :D 

It’s especially funny when someone else is looking at my screen at work and suddenly a random dog runs across it. About half the people it happens to, they initially think they are hallucinating. 

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Post Office Bounty! 

@drownedinlight sent me a wonderful fluffy owl as a Speakeasy-warming gift -- I’ve stashed him with my Christmas things for next year’s tree! 

“D” and @sarsypan both sent me EXTREME GLITTER; D sent me the Noel card (the envelope BURST and oh, the glitteration!) and Sarsypan sent me the Be Merry card. The glitter is, it’s very festive. And Sarsypan, good luck with someday becoming a property owner! It’s terrifying! 

@etakyma (I believe? Please correct me if I’m wrong!) sent me a wonderful Cactus Christmas card and some fun owl stickers, which will shortly be adorning my work notebook. :D 

The cute pooch (with a cute pooch sketch on the back!) is from @innytoes; I’m glad I could be a spot of light for you, and thank you for your adorable pup! 

The beautiful Japanese wood-block print by Tsuta-ya Kichizo and the Ofuda you can see atop it are from @janedrewfinally; I believe you also sent me a Hawaii good luck charm? It didn’t make it into the photo but I found it in an envelope later, because I am a hot mess. Anyway, I have hung the Ofuda in my entryway and I’m sure it will be a great blessing! 

And, finally, oh the suspense! The lovely semi-porny postcard in the middle is from Giles :D I can’t decide whether it’s Keel and Young Sam or Vimes and Vetinari, but either way, yowza! 

Thank you guys, even for the glitter :D 

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etakyma replied to your post:October, you can go fuck yourself with a rusty...

Words are so small when wanting to help, but this is the kind of thing you just have to breathe through. So I am reminding you to breathe through it. I hope the whole thing goes as smoothly as it can.

Thank you. Truly.

These last couple of weeks seem to be one hit after another and I forget sometimes to stop and catch my breath.

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etakyma replied to your post:Am I the only person who gets really annoyed when...

I’ve never been a paper piecing fan. I’ve never actually used the technique because it seems like a whole lot of bother. Sure, curves can be difficult little suckers, but you CAN do it without paper piecing. And points, well, those take a bit of practice, but again, paper is usually not needed there either. Are you quilting a difficult pattern that NEEDS paper piecing? Or are people in the videos just half-assing it with the paper piecing?

I think it’s just that paper piecing was maybe really popular in the 90s??  I stumbled over this backlog of HGTV quilting videos and I figured I’d give them a watch since I love learning other peoples techniques but none of them have paper-piecing listed in their summary and yet all of them are done that way.  I was really just looking for some easy pointers (hold your fabric like blah so you can cut it blah kind of tips) and instead it was just video after video of “look at this cool technique! Oh wait, it’s just using paper again! isn’t that great! more paper!”

IMO nothing needs paper piecing. Just do the geometry right and then cut it and sew. Haha. WOw, I think I’ve found another thing to add to my “irrational hate” list. Paper piecing.

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Answers About The Shirt Fic

auressea:

with a nod to Cooper Anderson even…. OMG! Sam! 

I really LOVE how you told it backwards. It was quirky in a way that reminded me of Adaptation.

I’ve always wanted to do a backwards narrative like that, but I never really felt capable of it. This for some reason felt really natural. I had a lot of fun, learned a LOT of technique just banging this one out. I was worried that people wouldn’t get it or would be confused by it, but it doesn’t seem like anyone is, which is pleasing. 

(It’s actually, uh, Anderson Cooper the news anchor, who is also gay and out, hence why Steve chose him -- I think Cooper Anderson’s name might be a nod to him? But I had to google who Cooper Anderson was so don’t feel bad :D)

etakyma:

So adorable… And not for nothing but there is a Smithsonian article on gender and clothing colors and Steve was born in a time when it was widely considered in America that pink (as a strong color) was for boys, and blue (as a pretty color) was more suitable for girls.  Pink for girls didn’t happen until after WWII.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/when-did-girls-start-wearing-pink-1370097/?no-ist

I had seen that article, or discussions about it, and I almost included it -- I thought about it in the scene at the food pantry. But it didn’t really seem to have a place, and honestly I didn’t want Steve to have to justify his wearing of pink. Like, I think he wears pink in part because of that but also because he looks rad in pink and has no time for gender policing. I think probably the “rainbow shirt covered in glitter” bit derived from that little conversation with myself. (The original line I had there was “Rainbow shirt covered in glittery dancing dicks” but then I realized that while Steve totally would wear that shirt, he wouldn’t wear something with visible genitalia to a fundraiser, even a salsa dance fundraiser at a gay bar. That’s just unprofessional, and also children might see it.) 

nettlestonenell:

What’s even awesomer is the shield kinda goes over the left boob.

HAHAHAHAHA sorry this is a comment on the shirt and not the fic but oh my god I just saw this comment and died laughing. 

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etakyma replied to your post:My Ten Favorite Games

Zork! Hardly anyone remembers Zork. I played what became Zork I before it WAS Zork I. And the game has a fatal flaw that was left in it…

"WANT SOME RYE?  'COURSE YOU DO."

I played them all.  My brother had a HATE on for games with the text controls.  My favorite was when we were trying to control the goat in King's Quest.

For those who don't know, there was a time when you typed out your command.  So in this game, you had to get a goat to a bridge, so the goat would attack the troll blocking it.

We knew what we HAD to do, but we had no idea how to do it, which lead to the following conversation:

-Get goat.

-You cannot get goat.

-Pick up goat.

-You can't pick that up.

-Give goat carrot.

-Goat eats carrot.

So by now my eleven year old brother was getting so angry that he just types:

-Kill goat.

-Kill goat with what?

And he stares at the screen.  He stares at me.  I shrug.  Confused, but willing to give this a try, he types:

-Kill goat with knife.

-That's not very nice.

I thought my brother was going to throw it through the window.

The instruction it was looking for, you see was -SHOW goat carrot.