January 1, 2023. So this year I kicked things off by doing THREE FREAKIN DRAWINGS in one day because the brain rot for "A Port in a Storm" by @smile-dearie is freakin REAL. This fic is incredibly bingeable and if you're in the market for some Noceda siblings fluff, angst, and hurt/comfort, this is your one stop shop. Artwork is for Chapters 4/5 and 8 respectively. Also the fic just updated yesterday so go!!!! CHECK IT!!! OUT!!!!
ALSO Also the sketch for these drawings was provided by the ever-elusive, ever-talented Bon on discord:
being a sharks fan is essentially the same as being a fan of an ahl team and watching all your former players go off to have great success on real nhl teams
Once Peter got his own place he was able to relax more. Didn't have to fear Aunt May walking in. His bedroom wasn't the room he had to entertain his friends. It was hisbplace to have whatever he wanted with out judgements.
His bedroom was his new haven. Got the softest sheets he could afford, he still needed to get a fluffy comforter but it was starting to get warm out so it wasn'ta big need yet. Strung up a makeshift lace canopy with some fairy lights. He found a pull out couch and the livingroom also had a Murphy bed so if someone had to stay over. He still got to keep his bedroom to himself.
Bought himself some slippers, a 2nd hand silk robe he found at the goodwill. It's worn, thinner then it should be, but it's a pale rose gold color, and still so soft. Sure it only just barely covered his rear but he thought he looked pretty good in it.
He setp up his vintage vanity he got, it was just sitting on the street corner. He brought it home and sanded it down, painted it. Fixed the parts that were broke. The mirror wasn't perfect, but that just added to its charm. It house his splurge at the make up store. It was a safe space to explore this side of himself.
I've already written a post about how some of the reactions today are reminding me of the way people reacted to Jonathan early in the novel's run (and I mean beyond memes and 'Aaah, nooo, look behind you!!' horror audience reactions), and this is just going to be an off-the-cuff rambling post rather than detailed, structured meta, but seeing posts contrasting Mina positively against Jack, re: believing in vampires are so interesting to me bc I definitely remember when even MINA was getting called stupid for not realizing Lucy was being attacked by a vampire back in Whitby and trying to rationalize her experiences!
Like, I have not forgotten people being like, 'Wow, Mina thinks the two holes on Lucy's neck are from her safety pin? That's so stupid, they are OBVIOUSLY vampire bites bc that's the only thing two holes on the throat could be! How can she think a little safety pin can do that?' (it was probably a larger shawl pin), and 'Mina saw someone with red eyes, but she's claiming it must have been a trick of the light? It's obviously real, how can she just ignore a red-eyed vampire right in front of her?' It was to a lesser extent than Jonathan bc she was otherwise bold and proactive, but even Mina, as smart and perceptive as she is, didn't immediately recognize she was dealing with a vampire, and that's understandable with the very little information and paradigm she was dealing with. I think we should also remember that while she believed Jonathan's trauma and was perceptive enough to take his journal seriously just in case, she still had doubts about the objective truth and wondered if it was a brain fever issue, and she only recently fully accepted the truth, with one of her data points being an encounter with Dracula himself, so she was predisposed to believe Van Helsing.
Obviously, I get that the understandable frustration with Jack is that he's had so much more information thrown at him, and he's still deeply in denial and taking refuge in rationality (but it's perfectly consistent with his character, and believable in terms of actual human behaviour), but I'm also like, hmm, yeah, even fan favourite Mina once got hit with being called stupid for rationalizing her experiences in a way that makes sense for someone who thinks they're in a world where vampires aren't real.
actually interesting thought about plants for trigun:
since the plants were much more likely to have been made for terraforming rather than resource generating was the reason why gunsmoke was deemed as not a good fit could be because the plants would need a lot of water and other resources to properly make a plant a home? cause if if they were created to just produce resources, gunsmoke would have been a perfectly fine planet to inhabit. sure it wouldnt have been pretty but it would have made a good candidate to land on
i started my 9-5 corporate job and have been very repetitive in my day to day life, but I haven't been feeling happy/satisfied/fulfilled.
It feels like throughout my entire life, I've been working on something to achieve, like getting an A in a class, and then graduation, and then finding an internship, which turned into a job, which is now my full career.
Since I've achieved all of those tangible, cap-and-gown-ceremony goals, I haven't felt like I have anything to achieve anymore. I read a lot about having hobbies, and I do. I crochet, I read, I play video games, I stream those video games, I hang out with my roommate, with my boyfriend, with my other friends, and yet I find myself looking for more external validation than internal satisfaction.
I do have goals, like learning korean, but not having an actual "this is it! you're done!" celebration at the end feels a little pointless. I'm not sure how to make goals or what goals I even want to have anymore, when a lot of it is just "exercise" or "get more hobbies".
I could lean into the compsci girlie side and make my work who I am, but frankly I am not passionate enough about my work to do so. I don't do side projects and I enjoy learning on the clock, but don't feel motivated enough to do so outside of work.
Need a little trans boy bouncing on my cock calling mommy mommy mommy as he gets the cock shock! 💥 Crying out for mommy while I’m hard as a rock! Get some cuties hard while I have them in a lock!
I hope someday I do something weird enough someone Tweets it and I see the screeenshot of that Tweet on here. Just so I can say "Yes, that was me. However, this person is the weird one for thinking this totally normal behaviour is weird and worth Tweeting about."
Accidentally came up with a terrible historical romance novel:
She was a humble artists' model, he was a Renaissance painter patronized by the crowned heads of Italy. Warring city-states tried to keep them apart, but fate drew them together. She loved him, but he only loved sfumato and chiaroscuro. Would she ever be