soldier in the blackberry war

Jamie • they/them in love with sunlight and the slow movements of time

[tossiemering]

in the mycelial network dancing to hyphaepop

[tossiemering]

there is so little time before I move, it’s crazy… only a month left in my apartment which means I have one month to either pack or get rid of ALL my belongings. plus also make some art because I’ve committed to having a show at the end of it all. ahhhh!!

[spicymochi]

your month, your seal!

[tossiemering]

my sweet snuggly baby. why are you damp

[tossiemering]

anyone else’s cats ever eat their fingernail clippings or is Connie just a total freak? he just. gobbled them all up. while I was busy clipping the second hand

[heedra]

In elementary school, my best friend and I had this game we would play where we were school supplies living inside a child's desk and going on slice-of-life adventures inside it. And I remember that a key component of our school supply society was a sort of religious schism that existed around the purpose and nature of the giant hand that occasionally reached in to grab different citizens, use them, and then return them, because most school supplies considered this an auspicious and enviable moment of being selected for a greater purpose and allowed a glimpse of a vast truth, but pencils considered it a horrible portent of doom because they always got sharpened during it and came back smaller and closer to death. We were third graders btw.

[tossiemering]

my little circle

[cutecipher]

a cat is a sort of machine that dispenses hair all over you and everything else in the room

[tossiemering]

also god I would KILL for a pasty right now. I would kill God for a pasty right now.

[alanaisalive]

The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

[iguanamouth]

oh shit

[throughshadow-to-the-edgeofnight]

[gloryofdawn]

Heartbreaking that Escanaba in da Moonlight is such a niche movie, because it means that it hasn’t been appropriately clipped in such a way that I can easily pull Remnar’s monologue about heading out to the outhouse that contains a line to the effect of, “You never know what’s gonna be out there. Aliens. Bears…” Horrified silence. “Alien bears.”

[secondcityscreencaps-blog]

[tossiemering]

after a good fifteen years of hearing my dad talk about the movie, I have finally seen Escanaba in Da Moonlight. and damnit if I don’t feel seen and represented in my Yooper origins. those are the woods I played in as a kid! everybody talks like my grandmas side of the family! Escanaba was the nearest gas station to the camp me and my dad built!

[tossiemering]

what the fuck. what the fucccckkkkk

[tossiemering]

improvisationally cooked a potato in a way I’ve never cooked a potato before for breakfast and it turned out good!

[tossiemering]

apparently Connie is making this new “3:30-4:30am scream time” thing into a habit. help

[zinesbycee]

(nods sagely) (nods basily) (nods rosemarily) (nods saltly) (nods star anisely)

[tossiemering]

thoughts so far for Connie + 20h travel time:

put the pillowcase from his Favorite Pillow in there with him (smells like home, he is used to sleeping on that pillow)

longest stretch without litter access is 7-8 hours, otherwise will use travel litter (disposable pie tin + ziploc of litter)

practicing with pie tin litter box starting now

meal during the long layover and then once we arrive

water: ???

Fun Treats That Make Him Sleepy?