Personal life feelings blog - Kinstuff * Others I know/have known * humour * struggles of being human * and the Joys too * I am very gay and Spiritually trying my best
Julius Caesar memes are fun and all, but make sure you don’t forget the true meaning of the holiday: Stabbing the fuck out of politicians for their flagrant, self-serving abuse of power.
My parents got married years ago. Divorced when I was 8 years old. I threw away their wedding pictures today. Last month I turned 27. Why I kept them is somewhat of a mystery, baffling to everyone else, including my mother.
Maybe I liked how young they both looked, how wide and careless the smiles. Maybe it was the straight people purity - the white dresses of bridesmaids and the mother and the bride, white backdrop for pretty pictures, white tablecloths over white tables, white dancefloors under shiny black shoes, white pearly teeth against joy-stretched lips, white pristine perfect flowers everwhere.
Maybe it was the idea of me and my brother being just that; Ideas in those moments, hopes not yet beings, an inevitablility not yet bodies. Whatever the reasons, I kept them. Framed pictures and albums filled with memories of a life before me. Maybe that's why. Time captured in moments in a world I did not walk in.
For years they were a treasure heavy in my chest, heavy in my hands. It felt wrong, placing these precious things in a trash bin filled with everything else that would dirty them. It would ache my heart to think of these smiling faces sitting sun-stained in a dump somewhere.
"They are just things, remenants of something long since finished." my mother would say. "Let them go, let them leave."
No, I would think, make them echo, make them sing. I threw them away today. Not enough space in the apartment for things with that kind of weight. I placed them delicate on the top of the bin, along with a dozen mother's day and valentine's day cards from when I was still a child in a child's body.
I was surprised by the lightness of my heart, my hands. I felt a stone in my throat shift, the disolving of something that allowed me to sing with more light. Echoes I thought. Yes. It's okay if that's all they will be.
After School Ghost Theory 101 with Professor Fenton
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[Image ID: A four page comic that starts with Danny Fenton standing in front of a whiteboard holding up a white cat. “Question: Do ghosts purr?”
Tucker: “Danny when was the last time you slept?”
Danny: “Irrelevant.”
Danny info-dumps: “The answer is yes, but also no. Technically, all beings that possess a core are constantly "purring”, a.k.a. Core Vibrations. Core Vibrations are a nonverbal, emotion-based communication system between Ghosts, similar to how some living species use pheromones to communicate. The exact tone of each ghost is different the same way people’s voices are different. Humans can only hear these vibrations when the frequency passes through their audible range (20Hz - 20KHz), hence the ‘purring’ sound. When the range dips into infrasound (16 - 20Hz) it can cause feelings of fear and unease in humans that they often associate with ghosts and the supernatural. Also known as the ‘Heebie Jeebies.’”
Danny, wiping off the whiteboard: “Any questions before we move on?“
Danny’s audience consists of Wes Weston, Tucker Foley, Sam Manson, Danny’s clone Ellie, and Dash Baxter in a classroom. Wes is seated at a desk at the front taking notes. Tucker is sitting on Sam’s lap playing on a Switch, Ellie is sitting on a desk behind them. Dash is asleep at the back of the room.
Ellie, now holding the cat: “Is this Vlad’s first cat!?”
Wes: "Could you tone down the floating eyes before the next part? They’re kinda distracting.”
Danny: “What eyes?”
Wes: “Please stop gaslighting me.”
A transparency trick on the last page reveals dark shadows and eyes all around Danny when viewed in dark mode. /.End ID]
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Unexpected kindness can make a difference in someones life.
I haven’t done anything with the mane event in a while but the overwhelming love the comics still get drove me to make this lil piece I’ve had in mind
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So today we were lunching on the patio and a couple of bees were very interested in my Pepsi. Since it was diet and therefore Not Good For Bees, I was preventing them from getting into the can. So they landed on my hand and head-butted my knuckles, exactly like the cats do when they think I have treats. We went inside and made wee dish of sugar water and I carefully deposited the ladies on the side of the dish, whereupon they daintily chugged that shit down like frat boys at a kegger. Well, being bees, those ladies went back to tell their friends. So soon there were more bees. And they were HUNGRY. Soon the first dish was drained. Then the second. I think the warm weather means the bees can’t really bed down for winter yet, but very few flowers are blooming in mid-November. I remember seeing a post over the summer about making a bee waterer by putting “stepping stones” in the liquid to keep them from bumbling in and getting their wings wet. And by the time I found something to use for that, they’d drained another two dishes. So now, um, here we are. I present: THE BEEZENING.
Witchy tip: this is a great way to charge your citrine.