#it took me like four hours maybe?

[mads-is-tired]

the gillion shirt hello???? did you make it did you purchase it i am so passionate about it

hello!!!! yeah i made it!! i just bought a random tshirt and we’ve got one of those cricut machines so i cut the text out of heat transfer vinyl! i’m glad you like it that’s so cool :D

#it took me like four hours maybe? #the text was easy to get i copy and pasted from the wiki #and i drew a pretzel drawing using soupiguess’s design #then digitally traced my drawing #the longest part was weeding all of the little circles inside the letters out #and then the damn vinyl wouldn’t stick to the shirt properly 😭😭😭 #it is worked out in the end though!!! #i always forget that i can make my own tshirts #mads answers a post #OH I ALMOST FORGOT #my favourite part is that for the gillion tidestrider part in the light blue #i edited/warped the text with the FISH warp #it was too damn perfect and it looked good in the end!!!

[mattodore]

if i can get these hair ties to work first try i'll be unstoppable

#river dipping #blender #got home and immediately opened blender where i've been for the last few hours #i made some draft hair ties which were just circles i popped into s4s and tested in cas #took me at least four attempts to figure out how to get the uv maps to work but now that i've got it!! #i'm working on the actual hair ties i want. i just finished getting both hair ties all nice and snug with matthias's wrist #so now i'm onto the actual uv mapping and vertex assigning... #i'm going to make three packages one with both hair ties joined and two with them separated then i'll merge them into one #i'll also scale them down and fit them onto theo's wrists after #like... they ARE for theo's hair after all so he should get to wear them too lmao it's just... yk. matthias's acts of service... #gotta make sure he has them on him at all times so he can put up theo's hair for him #now that i'm thinking abt it tho theo is right handed unlike matthias... so for him the hair ties should be on his other arm... #i think you can mirror meshes right??? idk if i can't figure that out i'll just make new ones #...also hello <3 i've been offline for most of the day #would feel weird not saying hi here bc of it lmao #.....had to change the caption bc i was like. ykw maybe i shouldn't say that abt someone i don't know just bc they made something #<- tags typed after looking through the guy's likes on twitter lmaoooooooooooooo

[blissfulstatic]

i started all of these games at wildly different times, took varying levels of breaks partway through each of them, and then finished all of their achievements in the same two days

i don't know what to do with myself now

#buenos dias short people #tunic was like. i played to maybe halfway. took a months long break #when i picked it back up i didnt remember what i was doing so i started a new file and played like a third #months long break. but this time i resumed the second file and played through to the end #the game is very cryptic but starting over gave me a handle on the mechanics and what was important #outer wilds took like four tries even though i knew it would be good i just wasnt hooked #the game is about knowledge even more than tunic like knowledge is the whole deal and it comes slowly at first #but when it hit it really hit. god damn #please play outer wilds #spyro? um. it was good #i don't know that i took any big breaks from it? there were some but a couple weeks at most #spyro levels are not particularly complex. or content rich. and i really felt that 60 hours #playing the whole trilogy all back to back can really burn you out #its a collectathon you're bound to spend a good while just wandering around to find that one last thing you missed #and i didn't know i could left stick for sparx to point out the nearest gems until like halfway through 2 so that was a time waster #im not saying it wasn't a good game but spyros moveset is like. glide fire charge and you do this for three games #until they throw in random nonspyro playable characters in 3 and they all control really bad and weird. but its still mostly spyro #i could have taken big breaks between each game and it would've been better probably but its a collection im gonna roll to the next one

[coquelicoq]

i completely solved a cryptic crossword for the first time the other day! this is huge for me because i've always been so annoyed by them lol. but i kinda get it now, it is very satisfying to figure them out.

that said, there are several answers where i still do not totally understand the clues. if anyone who is familiar with cryptics (sometimes just called "crosswords" outside of the US) wants to help me out, i'd be very interested to hear your take!

this cryptic was in the 2022 puzzle mania edition of the nyt (released at the very end of the year), so if you are planning to solve it and haven't yet, i guess don't read this? lol. since i waited five months to do it i feel like that will apply to no one, but just in case.

i realized after drafting this post that the answer key is available online (here), but it did not actually answer my questions in every case, so i've kept my original text but added the answer key answer after each one in case it makes more sense to you than it does to me.

13A. Has misgivings about deception to an auditor (4): RUES. so "has misgivings about" is the definition of "rues". but i don't know what "deception to an auditor" is doing. could it have something to do with the fact that "rues" is a homonym and anagram of "ruse", a kind of deception? but i still can't figure out what "to an auditor" is for.

the answer key gives "homophone ruse" for this, so i guess i was right about the deception part, but i still don't get the auditor thing.

14A. A con almost grabs actor's awards left unbalanced (10): ASYMMETRIC. so EMMYS is hidden backwards in "asymmetric", which takes care of "actor's awards" and "left", and "asymmetric" means "unbalanced", i guess. so that leaves "A con almost grabs", along with the A and TRIC of the answer. i can't figure out how to make those relate to each other.

answer key says "a(symmE)trick – k (rev. Emmys)". fuck does that mean?? why are we subtracting the k? and i'm still not really sure what the con is there for?

26A. Concentrate for spare and strike (5): THINK. "concentrate" is the definition of "think". what is the "for spare and strike" doing??

answer key: "thin + K". okay i see how thin = spare but wherefore this K? does K stand for strike in baseball? that sounds vaguely familiar...

28A. African country returned Los Angeles family inheritance (7): SENEGAL. senegal is an african country, and it's also an anagram of angeles. i'm guessing the "returned" is a clue for the anagram? but what is "family inheritance" for? oh wait, senegal backwards is LA genes!! but then is it just a coincidence that "angeles" anagrams to "senegal", or is that indicated in the clue somewhere???

answer key: "rev. L.A. + genes". okay so it does sound like angeles being an anagram of senegal is a coincidence, or at least not covered in the clue?? seems like a missed opportunity but what do i know.

5D. Largely moderate Arizona city (5): TEMPE. tempe is a city in arizona. what's "largely moderate" doing here?

answer key: "temper – r". am i to understand that this is saying moderate = temper and the "largely" part of the clue is telling me to keep most but not all of "temper"?

#the big-ass american crossword was not that interesting i'm sorry to say. the actual solving was too easy and the logistics were #very annoying. it was so huge (four newspaper pages & almost 800 answers) i had to do it on the floor #which was uncomfortable #and looking up each clue in the list took so long because there were so many #i was interested to see how long it would take so i timed myself and it took me 2h04 (though it felt like it took 10 hours #based on how sore my neck and back and legs were lol) #and i could have finished in under 2 hours but i didn't realize that i didn't have to do anything special with the super mega words #in order to solve the crossword. like i figured out what the words were but putting them together according to the instructions #is only necessary for solving the metapuzzle and so could be done separately. so i wasted a few minutes trying to do that #the other puzzles were p cool except the word search bugged me for reasons that were mostly the fault of my own poor planning #but psy is a one-named singer!! so technically there were 8 one-named singers not 7!!! #i actually haven't solved the metapuzzle final answer yet #i have all but one of the letters but then they have to be put in order and i have no ideas for what the order is supposed to be #cruciverbs #my posts #but anyway very exciting that i solved a cryptic for the first time! maybe now i can get past my mental block about them

[remitro]

not gonna do ALL the risetober prompts but i did want to do at least one!! i don’t really. have a favorite turtle my brain kinda rotates a wheel around and picks one of them to be the Subject Of The Day

#crow.jpg #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt #rottmnt fanart #rottmnt mikey #rottmnt raph #rottmnt donnie #rottmnt leo #rise of the tmnt #i think i got like straight up fucking possessed to do this #here’s how it went right i log onto tumblr i see someone else did a prompt #and i’m like oh cool i wanna do that! #and then four hours later i snap out of god knows what and boom it’s done. insane behavior #not sure why this one took me so long tbh maybe it’s bc i haven’t done lineart in uh #A While

[milo-is-rambling]

I wish I had friends near meeeeeee to distract me from my brainnnnnnnnnn

#need to talk to anyone irl who isn’t related to me or dating my mom or my therapist #anyone else near me please I’m losing my mind #nature isn’t healing me sleeping in a fully dark room all day isn’t healing me how do I magically fix this without having to put any work #into it oh I can’t oh u have to do the work okay how do I do that. therapy once a week. oh. okay. yup. #can I speedrun it? oh no? I can’t. oh damn. okay fine whatever. therapy once a week. AND I HAVE TO ACTUALLY LISTEN AND DO WHAT SHE SAYS. bro #what the hell okay fine #well here I am !!!!! where is the fixing where is the feeling better I feel like all I do is stir up all these touch emotions from every #part of my life at once and then she sends me off to rot for week before I come back and talk again #I just feel like I’m losing it!!!!! and ik it’s extra bad bc birthday countdown is on in my brain and im stressed and i feel like a huge #fuck up that can never be fixed and like I will die having done nothing with my life except weigh other people down and so exhausting and my #brain won’t ever shut up like yes I get it years and years and years of built up shit that I never properly dealt with and still hold blame #for constantly and I feel like I will never be fixed like I CANT be fixed like this is a losing battle and I just am struggling today man #idk what I was saying I just took my morning weed hit to try and relax my back a little and now my brain is like scrambled eggs #which is good that means it’s working #I’m gonna try to take a nap maybe cause I only slept four hours and it was like choppy thru the night and then maybe I’ll go to the lake #later I’ve been feeling the need to be in a body of water recently

[crybaby-bkg]

tomorrow is my last day of having to do work for my classes and I’m just soooo ready for this upcoming break. I wanna write for an entire day at a time again and learn how to crotchet without putting so many expectations to be perfect the first time again!!!! I wanna paint and play my switch and just lay down without feeling guilty!!!!! I need it!!!!!!!

#I still have to respond back to discussion board posts after tomorrow 🙄 #but at least I wont have to do actual work after next week!!!!! #I wanna be free!!!!!! #also tips for learning crotchet would be greatly APPRECIATED #bc I don’t get how to do any of it 😔 #anyway lemme take my ass to bed #I have a quiz (or maybe two I’m still not sure) #and a paper and presentation and db to do tomorrow and I really don’t wanna #I know it’s gonna be light work but it’s gonna be time consuming which is what I loathe #like omg it took me FOUR FUCKIN HOURS to do ONE project today #I was mad as hell #it wasn’t even necessarily difficult to do just SO TIME CONSUMING #gimme my time back so I can nap on the couch in front of the fire place damnit #okay enough ranting gn!!!!! #—in store chit chat! 🍫

[radioactive-worm-on-string]

All I’m saying is that it’s tragic how very intelligent students are forced to drop out and made feel stupid because some professors feel the need to make their courses so intense that one needs to study 50-60 hours a week, while they just need rest to function, but would have no problem understanding the material if they just had to study 40 hours a week, the actual fucking guidelines for what full-time studies should be.

#I remember when I had a bad cold the week we had FOUR LABS #AND THREE OF THEM WERE SIX HOURS LONG #I think I ruined my liver with all the paracetamol I took #I stood there like a zombie and watched things drip for four-five hours a day and barely saw sunlight for a whole week #I get that’s it kind of inevitable that e.g. chemical engineering will be more difficult than economics #but why is especially stem like that??? #I’ve seen people in classrooms of the physics/engineering building at 6pm on a Saturday #although this partially applies to me #I’m mostly thinking of other people and I’m not calling myself super intelligent #humans just need rest #maybe in particular neurodivergent people #my mom (who is an epidemiologist (she doesn’t work with Covid)) has told me that so much study time is to be expected #and with everything else going on in my life #I just don’t know if I want to put myself through it #maybe if becoming a biologist was my dream I would do it #but now??? idk

[chiropteracupola]

not sure how specific a prompt you want but!! i would love to see another hilarion drawing 👀 if you want something more specific, maybe something to do with those closing scenes from frontier wolf where alexios is recuperating, but i am very much not fussy :)

time to take a break!

#em draws stuff #frontier wolf #slightly belated summer of sutcliff #<- yes it was Fully Snowing while I was adding in the background wolves but I am keeping that overarching organization tag #this is another one of those ones where I had to start over from scratch three or four times before it turned out how I wanted it #but hey! definitely getting faster at the fur pattern! #last time it took me fully half an hour to color the cloak and this time it was maybe five or ten minutes #and I think I'm finally getting close to an alexios design that I like

[cacowhistle]

just finished oneshot about six years too late lmao. really really liked it :] i think i really started to understand what it was about after restarting for the true ending. it's hard to put into words. but something about the pain of creating something. and it being real. but you can't interact with it further than the boundaries of itself. the experience is real, but you can't take it all the way out of itself. niko walks out of the game window itself at the end. they can't take the rest of the game with them.

that, and something about the lack of replay value. you can never experience playing the game for the first time ever again. you had your adventure. replaying it wouldn't be as meaningful. the undertale pacifist run effect. its not as real the second time.

you can replay the game as much as you want, but you only have one shot to experience it the way it was intended.

idk. it was very good. if you haven't played it yet (who fuckin knows why i hadnt yet, its been out for six years) i highly recommend. very good game :] storywise AND mechanically. the whole "have to interact with the game via files on your computer" and "the game knows ur fucking name" tricks are old, but still super fun. a lot of the puzzles are pretty clever!! all in all v good game i had fun with it. also niko is adorable. love that little catguy.

#oneshot #it was honestly a pretty short experience. i think in total it took me maybe like. three or four hours? #honestly maybe less. i kinda breezed through some portions of the game #but i think it was good :] not the most groundbreaking game for me personally but definitely up there #ANYWAYS. just wanted to dump my thoughts somewhere

[girlwithfish]

it still makes me sad and its only been like 20 hrs since i found out asleep for 6 of those hrs so yeah idk i think I've processed it. maybe i hate conflict maybe i am too forgiving or naive or trusting maybe i just want stability maybe its just i love him so im willing to forgive not sure.. i dont rly feel much abt it if i dont think abt it too much

#i guess i considered it to be a dealbreaker possible relationship ender before like this morning when i was dealing w it on my own #while he was asleep and it was lonely and i cried twice or three times in tbe bathroom #i was in denial at first thinkjng maybe its not that bad then thought about it more and more #then cried #and then i was up for four hours just thinking abt it and it was worse bc i didnt know anything and so i didntk now the extent of it #or anythjng or if there was more and i wanted to die so bad #idk #i feel better and closer bc we talked it out for hours and #maybe i should have been more angry. i was just hurt at first and started crying when i confronted him and then i just felt emotionless but #heard hjm out and his handling of it made me trust him more bc at least he came clean and was honest and #took accountability bc i wouldnt have continued w this if he had kept lying or trying to downplay it idk #It sucks but i forgave him i think and believe him and if i dont think abt it ican almost pretend. it feels weird bc im used to being able #to trust him nd hve never really questioned much despite my relationship anxiety and anxiety abt getting cheated on #i just never thought anything like that wluld happen to me so. ifeel stupid a bit but idk

[odder-outlet]

raphs so frustrated he could just scream

#this took me like four hours because I was sick #or maybe im just that slow or whatever #rottmnt #tmnt #rottmnt raph #another shitpost #mlp #idk i thought it would be funni #hehe

[izzy-b-hands]

#text post #kudos of the last anon in my inbox today... figured I'd ask #apparently it's upsetting and not actually useful to many to have me post the links per this anon #so i figure I'll ask and see if anyone wants to give their opinion #ngl my writing confidence took a shotgun blast to the face last night #hence no day 13 or today's fic posted yet #i was also up till four worrying over my writing and finances hence this v late poll #bc my dumbass just woke up half an hour ago at one #tumblr polls #who am i even typing this for like i KNOW the answer bc no one interacts with my link posts #but other writers do it to some success so i thought that was always the way to go #maybe not tho i guess #what the fuck do i know lmao

[circusislife]

I am on a holiday with my family, which Is good.

I Is the ird day and we already have visited Seven museums, about three churches and a couple of locali points of interest, which Is also good.

What Is not good, Is the fact that my sister an mother (but primarly my sister) have a trak record of leaving museums only when they have to (aka closing hours or having enough time ti visit another Museum before closong hour) and the current record for longhest time spent in a Museum Is eight hours (without break)(It was the Vatican Museum, so Fair, but still).

We are now visiting an etnical (?not sure that's the right Word but don't have the energy) Museum of cultures around the world. It Is beautyful, Amazing and has tons of things that are simply breathtaking. But...

BUT WE'VE BEEN HERE FOR THE LAST FOUR HOURS,HAVE TO SEE YET ANOTHER QUARTER OF THE PLACE AND CLOSING HOUR IS STILL 1.5 HOURS AWAY.

I think I'm going to go INSANE.

Thank all that is good and holly the last section Is on asian culture (which I find particularly interesting), but my attention Is limited and already strained. There's only so much I can take before I loose It, and that limit Is 4 h MAXIMUM.

Afterwards It Is a Battle between wanting out and wanting to actually see things and both sides are loosing.

Also, we have been walking and standing around visiting museums for the last three days and my feet are killing me!!!! T_T

Even the history entusiasts are dead on their feet, I Just cant!!!

Update, se finally got out, After a Total of 4h 30min. I have seen sunlight again !!! T-T

#posted and tags added three hours later from hotel room #I was honest to God going insane #I love art and history too #But I have my limits #And those limits are over FOUR hours in the same place #Sis and mum were dying too at the end #And they are the more passionate ones #Is It possibile to overdose on art and culture? #Yes It is #Also I no longher want to cut off my legs at the knee #Beds are comfy #I took pictures to cope #Maybe watching them later I Will enjoy them more #rambling #ramblings #When I'm tired I do weird things #Like start singing for no reason #And skipping all around the place #Adrenaline+tyredness(0 self control)+adhd=madness #My sister joined me into the abyss #We were having duets and chases on the way back to the hotel #Berlin Is beautyful #But to finish the Museum Island in less than two days Is NOT normal #Spending 8 hours per day in museums #making good use of the long weekend #25 April Is the liberation's day (italian holiday) #crashing into bed #Peace✌️

[tj-crochets]

One and a half lines of quilting done for the cat quilt! I’m seven hours and fifteen minutes into making this quilt, there’s seven lines of quilting to make total, and then I have to do the binding. I think like at least an hour left to sew?

#sewing update #I'd post a picture but the quilt is currently rolled up to give me access to the next line I want to quilt #and is sitting on my sewing machine #this is for one of my nieces #my other nieces quilt only took like four and a half hours lol #that's okay they won't know #maybe after this quilt I'll make another pride plushie

[theonlythingimfuckingisstupid]

fukn. tired

#i even slept an entire six hours last night. #and took like. a four hour nap. #but now i have to go take care of my grandma's dog soon. then i'll be going into town and doing the hospital and other grandma's house #but all i want to do is take a shower and write. #and bring the dog inside so she can lay on me and help me ward off the impending panic attack coming. that i'll have to deal with alone. #and in town. around too many people. #fuck. i wish i had a weighted stuffed animal. that would be nice. maybe i can make one #i really need to sleep. #em rambles