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Evening affirmations:
I am a kind friend
I can get off the couch
I am good at getting ready for bed
I can defeat the bedtime routine
I did have some laying down time while talking to my family!
Still need to eat food and redo my nails and write in my journal and call my family
💥💥TWO TIME, COUNT EM, TWO GAME NOMINEE @smolghost.bsky.social 💥💥
Cut a bunch of fabric pieces for epp this morning and then went to a felt flower making class and then spent an hour trying to buy glue gun sticks and now my brain is also made of glue
There's a lot of talk about leaving Substack & whether it will be the death-knell of your newsletter. I have been on Beehiiv for 7 months now & @tlpavlich.gay helped me run some numbers. So, was leaving Substack worth it? The answer, for me, has been a resounding "yes."
Here are the hard numbers:
My package is in Madison but it is NOT OUT FOR DELIVERY usps let me come to you I can fish it out of the pile I promise
Using a blanket stitch on a blanket, all is right in one tiny corner of the world
NOT NOW, XANAX RECALL
Austin Walker is one of the coolest people in games and I felt so joyful getting to listen to this interview, where he dug into one of my games and put it in dialogue with one of his own. ✨
just the sweetest little pangolin you ever saw
fun fact: no pangolin has ever done a single thing wrong in the entire history of the world
Sign reading Violators will be towed at Owner's Expense
Owner's Expense is a valid New Earth Hegemony name
that sounds awesome man. hey how about you and i draw clocks real quick just for fun
u ever been like i wish i was reading a book that was like the real housewives of idaho explaining what the panopticon is?? okay well read yesteryear by caro claire burke you're welcome
Hello friend!! Today my qpp and I did yoga and went and picked out a bunch of supplies for me to start New Craft and then I ran the last session of my current ttrpg (others are gming next so this is a happy conclusion, not a bummer) and in a bit will be movie time with roommate
Sol Cesto is a banger. Listen to @notquitereal.bsky.social and I talk about it in the back half of this ep of Side Story from last year. sidestory.show/12-the-succu...
Thyme Travellers An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction
This sequel to the award winning anthology of Palestinian fantasy, science fiction and horror is now 57% funded! #projectwelove
www.kickstarter.com/projects/158...
Dear lord, poor Helen. Her story is like an absurdist play about a Faustian bargain for a writer. Dangling $175,000 in front of her “so she could have time and space to write” but the price is to give up the exact time and space to write she already arranged. Diabolical and ableist.
An embroidery hoop containing a sewn aerial view landscape. It depicts an apple orchard in bloom in the centre, allotments to the left and sheep in their field at the bottom. Train tracks go past the top of the orchard and allotment.
Sewn train tracks past an apple orchard (to the left).
An angled view of a sewn vegetable allotment surrounded by rough land, trees and with train tracks to the left.
An angled view of embroidered bushes and paths going through them leading to an orchard, allotment and fields.
'A simple (perfect) life' - my spring landscape is finally finished! An apple orchard in bloom, old railway, sheep with their lambs and an allotment being prepared for growing :) Zoom in to see all the other tiny details too... I think this might be my favourite aerial embroidery I've ever done!
The Yorknew City arc in Hunter x Hunter is so cool because it’s three of the main characters looking on eBay for a PlayStation 1 game off screen while the fourth develops a Martial Art centered entirely around being history’s greatest hater.
Fun fact! There's a whole community dedicated to jailbreaking and modding kindles. You don't need to settle for this.
kindlemodding.org
"sorry I can't come to your once-in-250-years party. I'll be busy doing something it would actually make much more logical sense to do four days later. I bumped it up on purpose so I could throw it in your face. eat shit forever, amen"
there is no hater on earth like a hater from Chicago
Finally finished watching the Chimera Ant arc of HxH, which means I've finally listened to the Media Club Plus eps about the Chimera Ant arc finale and GOD what a show (HxH and MC+ both).
“There was a lot of mess inside of me [that] I had to get out or it was going to choke me."
The creative trio behind Orbital Blues tells Rascal about the beauty in impotent frustration, especially against a space western backdrop.
Photo of a black cat in bright sunlight. His head is raised enough to look back at the photographer and he's squinting like he hates what's happening
Fern's utter disdain for the concept of getting up is extremely understandable
Now with alt text:
im not a fountain pen person but this is an undeniably lovely object for sale on a website that has not made design choices that piss me off
Reminder: NASA photos, audio, etc. are public domain! That awesome moon eclipse photo? Well, that can be your next cover image. The close-ups of the edges of the moon? That can be your next full-spread background.
Soooo uw's mychart switched to a new payment processor that now just. won't take my card. cool. love to see "Error message: "
So helpful, thx