its more droning, i think. lower pitched, but harder to tune out? like a car with a really bad mechanical squeal driving around your neighborhood

trying to find the right way to describe the difference in how these cicadas sound as opposed to the usual ones

sitting in my car feeling dull. i should go back home and see if the new paint i got for my hallway makes me feel better

feeling like i’m rolling a lot of mixed successes today and on the one hand, hey, not a failure, but on the other hand

My secret as a writer is that I'm much less interested in one person's character development than in the shifting dynamic between two different people who have a complicated relationship

excited for the next tech innovation: cerulean

the thing i don’t understand is that azure is an existing word with a defined pronunciation!!!!

that brief but very weird feeling when someone on here is using the same icon you are and you see their replies to someone you follow pop up on the timeline

i’m commenting mostly to be like i don’t think it’s weird that you can’t really tell bc there are a lot of different colors in each of these skeins which makes it extra complicated! whether or not they go may come down to what they end up becoming and how they would be worn!

Tarot card Showing someone petting a lion?

this tarot card indicates what’s in your mouth WHAT’S IN YOUR MOUTH

in entirely predictable news…..

i candied the citrus peel myself!!!

i made leckerli and put them in my grandmother’s christmas cookie jar and i am feeling that surely i would be getting a good grade in christmas if only there were someone to grade me

i like the *option* of contacts but this is why glasses are superior

i had an eye appointment yesterday and they put contacts in, which i then wore for 10 hours when i have not worn contacts in years, and my eyes are still delightfully bloodshot this morning

listen, the way it gets dark so early does suck (just ask my dog!), but my mornings post time change have been so much better

that thing where you and a coworker are playing a game of chicken over who can be the worst at a miserable task, so as to not get asked to do it again, but while also not being the one who gets blamed for it not getting done

i’m gonna sink back into denial about it for a while

genuinely shocked by the heavy lifting a hot pot of tea is capable of

me: i don’t have a damp closet problem
also me: finds mold all over my suede boots

why is the weekend always over

i will get rid of something i have never worn and then miss it 5 years later

i find getting rid of clothing so fraught bc the whole “if you haven’t worn it in x amount of time, you won’t miss it” is just personally untrue for me

it’s beginning to look a lot like the holiday season (me committing to painting something for friends/family as a christmas gift despite the way it will hollow me out)

the most baffling show on television is the Great British Baking Show. every season they find 12 people who are kinder and more charming than anyone I’ve ever met in my entire life and who are also talented bakers. how are they doing this

just discovered there's a bluesky equivalent of tweetdeck (deck.blue)

gamechanger

october? what october

yesterday at work i was telling coworkers “yeah it’s going to be november in two week” dead serious so that’s how things are going with me

The idea of a fic or piece of art “bombing” because it doesn’t get clicks is a relatively new phenomena and I am going to keep posting Vonnegut’s letter to students until fandom understands that.