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why should I touch grass when I can draw it instead

#friend art #pretty!! #I really like the texturing #and the little details like the ladder folding over the tree #and the cracks on the island #very pleasing color palette too #lovely work :D

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Pavo (Peacock)

#original art #my art #another zine thing #I'm not dead just in academia

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Impressed my department head with a fancy spreadsheet formula. Selectively did not tell her that it's for Stardew Valley.

#it's great though now I can search any item and know if I need it for the community center / a mail quest #I can also search a fish name and learn its location and season and weather and time #is this just the wiki? yes #but no internet required #it also lets me wishlist crafting items & buildings and reports on how many resources I need #cries in needing 5970 wood #personal

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didn't think "spent the morning fiddling with firefox settings to fix my feedreader and google account logins" was a sentence I would be texting my roommate on a Sunday morning but here we are

#I wish I could say it was a long story #but it was actually an extremely lazy one #because I've had this problem for like two weeks #but didn't bother trying to fix it until today

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I've been tagged by @lutiaslayton to share the last seven lines of my most recent WIP. As tempting as it is to copy-paste my half-written emails, I'll do something slightly more interesting (and maybe slightly over seven lines):

"Randall 'Randy' 'Bratscot' Ascot," Angela said, moving and talking faster now, herding Randall back into his own hotel room and feeling a bit like she was the terrorizer rather than the other way around, "you have thirty seconds to give me a really good speech as to why you're destroying your own city and giving all of us extra paperwork and PR drama."

"Okay. You're the real Angela. I get it now," Randall said, his voice small and eyes wide. He was fiddling with his hands now, the exact same way he used to when they were teenagers. Though he was certainly taller, more tanned, and with a messier hairdo, he really was the same person. She must really have caught him off guard. "I—listen, you guys were the ones who—" he paused. "Wait, did you say my city?"

Angela crossed her arms. "You're a co-owner of our bank account, you know. You co-own the land we're standing on. You co-own this hotel." And goodness if that hadn't been incredibly annoying to pull off. Trying to sign it so that a person who, in the eyes of the law, was at best missing and at worst dead for the better part of eighteen years had been… a hassle, to say the least.

Randall was gaping at her now. "I—but—you—he said—"

"Who said what?" Angela narrowed her eyes. "Are you referring to the man with the feather boa and the cape?"

"Descole," Randall said absently, "his name is Descole."

"Right." She didn't really care. "I'm not sure where he got his information, but he either got it wrong or has been intentionally lying to you. I can show you the deeds if you would like. Or have you talk to our lawyers." She just wanted to put all of this behind her. She wanted Randall to come home. She wanted to fix things up with Hershel without leading him by the nose. She wanted to throw her heels at Descole.

Ideally all of those things would happen, but she would take two out of three.

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No pressure if you're not interested but @the-therapist-is-ace, @darkscaleswriter, and @blue-skelly if you join in ^.^

#this wip lies heavily on the “unedited” side #but that's the joy of random unpublished snippets #this might be the first time I've posted anything writing-related on this account #wild #I'm obeying the seven line limit in the same way I obeyed page limits for essays in high school #also known as pretending they didn't exist #and getting called out for it later

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there's algebra too

Math is really tiring, im so glad i finally get to relax and do some knitting and crochet and i oh god oh my what the fuck

#I have not knit much comparatively but for the duration that I did #it was like 10% following a pattern #and 90% undoing my mistakes in said pattern #when I got to reading charts it felt like another language #and also my ability to count both boxes on a piece of paper alongside stitches on a needle #is lackluster #the fact that I knit left handed continental is also not the best for googling techniques sometimes #not sure how that happened given that I learned off the internet #oh well

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I love the Demon Bull Family arc of “Saturday morning cartoon villain parents” to “slightly less evil Saturday morning cartoon villain parents”

DO NOT EDIT OR REPOST

#genuinely the dbk family's collective character arc was tyrannical overlords to disgruntled twice removed drinking buddy #and I love that for them #also dbk did his entire character arc in the span of revenge of the spider queen #specifically in the seven seconds it took him to realize that red son had escaped successfully #and iron fan just vibed #good for them

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jokes that will literally never not be funny to me:

saying “speedrun strats” every time you fuck up

saying “first try” when you’ve tried the thing like 15 times, minimum

#those are all incredible #I'm also a big fan of “you didn't see that” when very visibly fumbling in front of like four people #also for different situations of similar energy #singing your own praises for something like getting off the couch #or checking your email #or impulse purchasing six tiny ice cream bars #no regrets #only joy

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how do lactose intolerant people survive in this country

#what are they doing to their dairy that is making me so ill #why do they strength rate their cheese but not their spice #'it tastes better' actually it wants me dead #at least being too ill to do work saves me from having to do work

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I'm not lonely *moves to the kitchen to be closer to a lump of defrosting meat*

#the real reason is that I want the kitchen to warm up faster #and what better way than with my ambient vibrating stress as I try to do this project

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Reupload of my Lego Monkie Kid AMV with Top of the World by Greek Fire! don't have time to reupload it to youtube rn (I didn't know you can't edit video files after the initial upload, rip) but I figured I'd toss the updated version out here on tumblr anyway. still really proud of this!!

Song - Top of the World by Greek Fire Program - Kdenlive

#lego monkie kid #wait why did I not know the updated version was on the internet #betrayal of the highest order #literally just showed the youtube version to a friend yesterday and was like I can dig up the final one later #it's been here the whole time #smh my head

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I have such double standards for my writing and drawing because I'll write 12k words then go "yeah not good enough to post yet" versus with drawing I'll see a mess of scribbles in the vague shape a frog and go "good enough."

#this is sparked by the fact that I checked my drive this morning #and found an unfinished fic that is currently 52 pages long #art of all mediums is hard #but also wildly entertaining to revisit like 2+ years later

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Lego Monkie Kid Season 4 Special Spoilers!

I'm not sure I'll ever recover from the fact that MK just snapped and killed god.

#lego monkie kid #lmk #lmk mk #sun wukong #lmk s4 special #lmk s4 special spoilers #lmk s4 spoilers #this special was so much #it was so cool but also very concerning #I'm sure both MK and Mei having extreme anger issues and universe ending power won't have future ramifications

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Congratulations! You have solved the puzzle of where to find our interest check: it's today! Here and now.

You can fill out the interest check here.

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And, of course, on behalf of our favorite gays, happy pride month!

#ooh this looks cute

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The Least Intimidating bakery in the village has closed for good so now I’ve got to go to the Intimidating Bakery, it’s awful. If you don’t have a PhD in being French I don’t recommend going to that bakery, here’s the humiliating account of the 3 times I’ve visited it so far:

the first time I went in there I pointed at one of those extra-skinny baguettes and said “a flute, please” feeling pretty sure of myself, and the baker said “… that’s a ficelle” (you idiot) (was implied) “a flute is twice as large as a baguette.”

That’s insane, first of all, a flute is a skinny instrument. Call your fat baguette a bassoon, lady—I made some timid remark about how it would make more sense for a flute to be a skinny bread and the baker said, “In Paris it is. I thought you were from the South?”

oh, that hurt

I guess I’m from the part of the South that’s so close to Italy the bread’s waist size matters less than whether it’s got olives in it, but I left the bakery having an existential crisis over whether living in Paris had made me forget my roots

the Least Intimidating Bakery just had normal baguettes vs. seedy baguettes vs. horny baguettes (easy mode, some have seeds, some have horns), while the new bakery has breads that are only different on a molecular level—there’s a good old loaf and then another, identical loaf called a bastard? google told me a bastard is “halfway between a baguette and a bread” but denouncing them like “those are not regulation-sized bastards” would get me banned from the bakery for life

on my 2nd visit (while I stood in line discreetly googling baguette terminology) there was an English tourist who asked for a baguette while pointing at what was either a rustique or a sesame and I felt a bit worried for them, but the baker just clarified “this one?” to waive any responsibility if they found out later it wasn’t a classic baguette, then handed them the bread without educating them in a judgmental tone and I felt envious

I know it’s because she thinks the English are beyond saving but still it made me want to come back with a fake moustache and an English accent so I wouldn’t be expected to play bakery on expert mode just because I’m French. I asked for a pastry this time and the baker asked “no bread with that?” which felt cruel, like she wanted me to sprinkle myself with ashes and admit out loud that my level of bread proficiency isn’t as advanced as I once believed it was

The third time I went, I had lost all self-confidence and I hesitantly pointed at a bread and said “I’d like this, uh—what is it called?” and the baker looked at me in disbelief and said “That’s a baguette.”

God.

for the record, if that stupid bread had been flanked by a skinny bread (ficelle) and a fat one (flute) then yeah of course I would have known to call it a baguette, but in the absence of reference points I now felt lost and scared of being called a Parisian again

it’s hard to express the depth of my suffering so I’ll just let the facts speak for themselves: this morning a French person (me) stood in a French bakery in France surrounded by French people and pointed at a baguette and said “what is this called”

#okay as somebody currently visiting the UK I am feeling this #because there are like 80 pastry names that I have never heard of #and forty more flavors of tea #and also about twelve unique dialects of the English language bouncing around #I keep going into stores and ordering things #expecting to know what they are #and I've been proven wrong nearly every time #a teacake? is not a cake?? #nor was there tea??? #it was good but also it was like a piece of bread with some butter on it #I tried to describe it and somebody asked me if I was talking about a crumpet #and like #what is a crumpet

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you ever see a super duper good rock? yeah

#so cutee #the round mudkip #and the very good rock

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Hero & Partner Week Day 7 - Free Day

Once grown, Marill and Azurill decide to try their hand at exploring. The hero and partner offer to help them but they insist on doing it alone. That doesn't stop the hero from finding them some supervision regardless...

@heropartnerweek

#pokemon mystery dungeon #pmd explorers #explorers of sky #heropartnerweek #heropartnerweek2023 #pokemon #my art #the last thing I drew for this event! #it's been a very fun but very busy several weeks haha #this premise took me so long to think up actually #my plan for what to draw for this day went through like twelve different ideas #eventually the thought of drowzee and the marill brothers emotionally adopting each other while the partner and hero lurk in the background #became too enticing #also this literally reads as the hero mugging drowzee #and I just think that's nice