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I think I can be both relieved that I left but still occasionally find myself ENRAGED that I *had* to leave…

I've been trying to process my anger and, fine, *grief* at a series of events that happened last year but also had been building up for the year or so before that. It's been hard trying to put it into words but I think I finally have an analogy that works.

It's like... a friend asks you to be a roommate. You make all these plans about how you're going to share your space. You make rules about visitors, other possible roommates, the activities you want to participate in as a group and just the general vibe you want for your apartment. A vibe that specifically prohibits allowing defecation in shared spaces. You agree on that particular rule. Or at least you think you do.

Then the roommate brings first one "rescue" dog then another then ANOTHER into the apt. And sure enough, those rescues shit uncontrollably in every room. You wonder how this is even happening, there were RULES! You hear, oopsie i forgot these particular dogs can help but shit uncontrollably, and you grit your teeth and try for diplomacy because you’re supposed to make allowances for lapses in memory.

You ask, hey I know dogs can’t help but shit and you really enjoy getting your hands in there to clean up said shit, but maybe when you see them showing signs of having a bowel movement...could you take them somewhere outside of the apartment to shit? Because we had rules about this.

But apparently roomie loves it when the dog shits the house because it gives them something to feel good and proud about cleaning up. It’s like rescuing them all over again, I guess.

And so you leave the apartment and that seems to suit everyone just fine. The dogs are happy, their rescuer is happy, and you don’t have to endure a daily deluge of fecal matter or witness the inevitable cooing and wiping up of that shit-filled, rescue palace.

But just because you’re out of there doesn’t mean you’re not still incredibly angry about it. Because what was the fuckin’ point of all of that planning?

Still, you if you’re trying not to be constantly seething, you do your best to move past it all and not begrudge people their rescue dogs or the heaps of praise they get for being the proprietor of space where all are welcome to smear-themselves in shit in hopes that someone will come around, wipe them down and coo at them about how they’re the bestest, sweetest, most cleverest girls ever.

But sometimes there's a breeze that carries just the tiniest whiff of fresh excrement and you just can't help but remember how goddamn stupid and infuriating this whole situation is.

hometoursandotherstuff

He built this from pebbles.

via fairy witch cottagecore vibes

wellwaterhysteria

hi, ummm. this is awkward. haha. yeah um do you think you could push your boulder up somewhere else? like a different hill? because this one’s kind of already taken. yeah it’s the one i’ve decided to die on, so.

wellwaterhysteria

yeah thanks. um and if you see that woman who sometimes comes running up here could you tell her that i’m- yeah the one who makes all those deals with god. yeah. could you tell her this is the hill i’m dying on and she needs to find a different one? fuck hang on i can see those two kids with that pail of water again give me a second-

seachanqe

Your bookbinding projects are so cool!! Could you tell us how you do it? How do you format everything so nicely and like, get it into book form? Frigging sorcery that's what it is, wow

Thank you so much! <3

ArmoredSuperHeavy's guide was invaluable; I could not have done bookbinding without them. It details step-by-step how to format your book in Word to make it look like a book, how to print it, and then some information on how you can put the book together.

This tutorial and this tutorial (both by sealemon on Youtube) show how to do the first stitch to sew my text block together that I tried. Great tutorial and a kettle stitch is a super easy one to do.

Along with Superarmorheavy's guide above, I also used this tutorial by sealemon again for how to do a hard cover case binding.

This Bookbinding Resources Master List has a TON of information on where and what supplies you'll need to get for bookbinding. It's a bit overwhelming, but I found in general, the basics you need are:

Awl (one of the more sturdy ones, but don't get one that will punch too thick of a hole)

Bonefolder (absolutely essential! You can find places to purchase it in the Master List above or on Esty or Amazon)

Paper (This is my current preference, cheap enough for starting out but still has a book look)

Linen thread (I've seen some tutorials just using sewing thread too)

Pretty paper (for end papers and/or covers, though I've learned it's much better if you use a thicker, more sturdy paper for end papers, something closer to cardstock)

Bookcloth (links to stores that sell it can be found in the Bookbinding Resources Master List above, there's a least one website that sells a grab bag of cloth, which I really liked because you get a random assortment of cloth you can use!)

Book press (You can either buy one or make your own. I made my own, which was EXTREMELY easy to do, there are guides in the Master List above, or I used sealemon's tutorial here)

PVA Glue and some sort of brush (a bigger one and smaller one help, you can find the glue in the Resources Master list above)

Davys board/chipboard/something sturdy to serve as the hard part of your hard cover (You can find places to purchase it in the Master List above, or you can buy chipboard at a craft store, or if you really want to, you can use cardboard you have at home!)

T-square ruler (You're going to be doing A LOT of measuring. Any ruler would work, I just find a T-square makes sure I am perpendicular to the paper)

box cutter (in addition to having a box cutter, I've also found one of these to be EXTREMELY helpful for people like me who have trouble with straight lines)

A good printer, or otherwise you will have to print at a place like Staples. I ended up buying a cheap laser printer, best purchase I've ever made.

I..... think that's it. I may realize I've forgotten something and I'll make an edit to this post later. I am always happy to answer questions though!

#Bookbinding

fagcrisis

im about to maul someone.

fagcrisis

"stories dont need conflict" girl anything can be a conflict if ur story is about chickens going on adventures the conflict is the fucking fence they gotta hop over. if ur story is about making a lovely cup of tea the conflict can be turning on the stove. like u literally cannot write a story without conflict

fagcrisis

ALSO i hate mfers who say this shit and then go "thats why i like ghibli movies cuz theyve got no conflict" OH YOU MEAN HOWLS MOVING CASTLE, NAUSICAA, PRINCESS MONONOKEY CASTLE IN THE SKY ETC THAT ARE ALL ABOUT THE HORRORS OF WAR

fagcrisis

even the ones that arent about the horrors of war. in kiki's delivery service kiki growing up and learning to trust people and accept help is the central conflict of the story!! my neighbour totoro's central conflict is how the girls are dealing with their mom being sick and the responsibility they feel this puts on them!! i could go on!!

eeby-deeby-dark-and-creepy

#writing

planet4546b

i mean this so seriously if you have any sort of creative project you can and should be a little obsessed with it. you should reread your own writing and look at your own art and brag about your ocs its literally good for your health

nb-chuuya-deactivated20231025

the fact that whenever i see an inbox (1) on my ao3 dashboard i perk up like a dog thinking "attention? attention?!"

morriganwarrior

Forget Pavlov's dog.

Try AO3's Writers.

Pavlov got his dog to salivate for a bell ringing, cause the dog was trained to think FOOD whenever good boy heard the bell. Fic writers, when we see that message in our E-mail or the number by our AO3 Inbox, we dance, squee, and our eyes go wide cause COMMENTS.

sosuperawesome

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kellyroman

A recent animation I did of one of my illustrations! Website | Instagram | Shop

xplodingunicorn

coraniaid

She Must Be Dying Without A Reflection

Far from my biggest problem with Season 4, but on recent rewatch I realised that I really don't like the way everyone reacts to finding out that Harmony has become a vampire. It's just unnecessarily (and I think kind of unpleasantly) flippant in a way that really doesn't feel in character for anyone involved.

Or, well. Arguably Harmony hasn't actually 'become' a vampire at all, which is sort of my point. With the weird exception of vampire!Willow in Doppelgangland, the show to this point has been pretty consistent about following the line established early in Season 1 that this isn't how it actually works.

So in The Harvest, Giles is quick to tell Xander that Jesse has not 'become' a vampire:

"Jesse is dead ... you're not looking at your friend. You're looking at the thing that killed him."

And in Lie To Me, Buffy points out that Ford's plan to 'become' a vampire has a fundamental flaw:

"That's not how it works. You die, and a demon sets up shop in your old house ... it remembers your life, but it's not you."

But compare this to The Harsh Light Of Day, where the Scoobies' collective response to finding out what happened to Harmony is just to ... blandly agree that she was always a shallow and unpleasant person and not particularly care beyond that. I mean, that's a natural enough response to finding out a disliked former classmate has been kicked out of college or decided to become a life coach or whatever, sure. But to finding out that she's dead? Seems a bit much.

Obviously strict rigorous world-building was never really the point of the show and nor should it have been. But up to this point it felt like this was a bit of lore that the show was trying to take somewhat seriously. And I just don't think the pay-off for not taking it seriously here is worth it.

It's particularly galling, actually, since Harmony wasn't just killed by a vampire off-screen during the gap between seasons. Whatever her faults, Harmony died fighting vampires and trying to help save the town from a giant demon. Which feels like the sort of thing you might bring up when you're busy agreeing how vapid and self-absorbed somebody was. And she did so at the explicit request of the people who are now shrugging her death off as though it's just another flaky life choice.

I mean, blaming herself for things that go wrong in Sunnydale, even when they clearly aren't her fault, is ... sort of Buffy's true calling in this show (really, the whole vampire stuff is more of a hobby). At one point in Season 3 she somehow manages to blame herself for almost being burned at the stake by an angry mob, and apologizes to Willow about it while it is still happening. And this is one of those rare deaths that I think arguably is kind of Buffy's fault. (Having everyone in the school turned up armed to graduation to fight the Mayor's vampires is ... thematically satisfying, sure, but it's not strictly necessary to the whole 'blow up the big snake' plan, is it?) And yet ... nothing.

So yeah, this little moment just kind of bugs me

(I don't really like the way vampire!Harmony is used as a character throughout Buffy or later on in Angel, either, but that's largely a separate issue.)

alfredsnightmare

Jonathan and the Brides

Milwaukee Ballet production of Michael Pink’s Dracula

citizen-zero

hey so if any of you saw this image of Jonathan and the vampire ladies from the Dracula ballet

You may be interested in the fact that I found what appears to be a legal, professional recording of the entire ballet uploaded by the Milwaukee Ballet Company

samueltanders

mylittleredgirl

chenfordsbee

“All he saw were her lips, full and pouty, and—provided that she kept them shut and didn’t actually speak—eminently kissable.

Kissable?

Anthony shuddered. The thought of kissing Kate Sharma was terrifying. In fact, the mere fact that he’d even thought of it ought to be enough to have him locked up in an asylum.

And yet…”

—The Viscount Who Loved Me, Julia Quinn (Chapter 5)