It FINALLY happened 🤩 I've waited my whole thirty five years to get to watch this happen in real life! Why yes, I did spend several hours sitting in the yard staring at cicada on a Saturday night and it was amazing!
Part 2 of my Hinox Eye polymer clay project! AKA Gary becomes a mother because this is my baby, my creation, born from my own mechanical hands! I AM THE GREAT CREATOR.
His name is G̶͕̪̘͆r̷̟̆́e̵̩͂̕g̵̨̬̘͗̇ô̸͈͖̐r̶͊͜y̴̲͖̺̍̐, Destroyer of Worlds, isn’t he the cutest? I’m gonna call his species Deathalopods! A name that really strikes fear in heroes. I-I mean bad guys! BAD GUYS.
Took this a few years ago when my bff found what she thought was a dead dragonfly to save for me and I rescued it and brought it into the sun to warm up.
This friend is exactly as vibrant and bright as they look.
That cicada post, with the gorgeous teal-seafoam cicada, made my night. Like genuinely I felt a sense of wonder and awe so profound I felt the need to send you an ask directly instead of just leaving my tag. Thank you for catching that on video, so much.
I'm so glad! It's something I always wanted to see irl and I'm happy to share it 🖤 I've been able to watch it happen several more times since and it is beautiful and awe inspiring every time.
Was helping a person with her insurance claim (I work in insurance). She's telling me her situation and we're going over solutions. Going back and forth asking and answering questions. She stops in the middle of answering a question to ask me
"Excuse me, I don't mean to be disrespectful, but are you a man or a woman? I've been going back and forth calling you ma'am and sir because I can't tell from your voice and I didn't want to be rude"
I explained that I'm nonbinary so I'm neither. Not a conversation I usually have on the phone at work- I let people call me whatever and I get about a sixty/forty ma'am to sir ratio. Her response was priceless:
"Oh. Alright guess I wouldn't have been right either way" said with a chuckle. "But hey I was trying"
I'm moved in. I'm working on the unpacking process. Realizing I've been alone and numb for a really long time. I'm pretty sure the numb is going to run out soon. I can feel it peeling away at the edges. But, now that I've got just a little bit of stability under my feet, I'm worried the sad is going to leak out. I don't know if my heart can handle safe anymore after so long in survival mode. Cause alone is still stable. But boyo does the sad leak in. Need to figure out how to keep it from leaking out.
My brain is struggling. I'm genuinely having a very hard time. My mental health has been improving since the move but there's still a *lot* I'm trying to process. Death among them. I'm losing people left and right and I can't even be mad cause I get it. Living is fucking hard.