Our COVID wedding day shortly after lockdown 2.0

@tokidokikokoro replied to your post “until the end of the game huh? now i feel bad for...”:

Well NOW I just have to do that.

​Y-yeah... you do that thing that I can't remember what we were talking about 3 weeks ago.

*checks*

Oh, we're still tormenting Adrian over here. Benoni's for everyone!

various doodles of my character Ron (+ others) that i took in the worst lighting conditions just so i could struggle to edit them into coherency. all for you <3 these range from March to October 2023

Just FYI, our cosplay website is now fully updated! You can now find armor stencils, wips, full shoots, and clickable buy links for all assets of ALL 200+ of our cosplays! 

My commissions are open again!

I'm reopening commissions for the time being - check out my pinned post for more information!

Because of upcoming life events, I'm still quite busy so I may favor simpler designs at the moment or take more time to fufill orders, but if you're interested in art from me, shoot your shot in my DMs or at my discord #cadere !

So, hey. How did you and your family celebrate Passover when you were a kid? How about now?

My Rhode Island aunt and uncle almost always hosted a big family Seder, and it was the absolute best. A good Seder is educational, food-filled, and legit fun—it's a ritual meal that includes storytelling, singing, prayers, and a general focus on including and teaching everyone involved, regardless of age or even whether attendees are Jewish. (If ever you're invited to a friend's Seder, go! Do not bring a challah, which my actually-bar-mitzvahed brother-in-law did once as an attempt at a thoughtful host gift. We still make fun of him.)

And my uncle (the same one who officiated at my wedding, and the wedding of my other sister) may well be the greatest host/leader there is; over the years he compiled from a medley of sources what added up to his own Haggadah (basically the guidebook to the Seder—there are a million published and informal versions working off the same template, with readings and activities and interpretations that can go kid-centric or feminist or traditional or whatever). It was always just insanely fun, and warm, and joyous, with incredible food and an increasing array of baked-in, just-us traditions.

Since I went to college basically down the street from their house, and then lived just an hour away in Boston for so long, that was pretty much the heart of my and my family's celebration most years—right up until Passover 2020, at which point the pandemic negated what had been plans to travel from our new home in Illinois for it, and they also downsized and had their own kids scatter geographically and gain very little ones, so that particular tradition is at best on hiatus now.

But there are fun Seders everywhere—well, the Zoom ones of the pandemic years were a mixed bag, but we've found friends who've make a good go of it, over the years, too, if not quite as an elaborately planned out hourslong celebration as my uncle would do. When I studied abroad in Denmark, Boyfriend and I went to an Orthodox Seder that was in a mix of Danish and Hebrew, for instance—that was novel, and so much of the procedure and the Hebrew was familiar enough to follow along.

Still working on exactly where we'll be for those two nights this year (we haven't really met any Jewish families in Pittsburgh yet to garner an invite, and none of the Reform or Conservative synagogues seem to have community events, which is surprising? And I don't really want to go to Chabad?) but we'll figure something out.

That said, as fun as the Seders can and should be, the rest of Passover is a slog of not eating bread or adjacent products, and experiencing whatever it is matzah does to one's digestive system over the course of a week. It's a meaningful observance, and the fact that the relevant rabbinical boards have stopped including rice and legumes in the "no" column in recent years has been great, but...it's ultimately a holiday recalling the story of the Exodus, and how we were slaves once, so, like, there are some less-fun elements. But the freedom celebration parts usually outweigh that!

Finally got brave enough to listen to Saviors and.....I don't hate it? It's kinda good? I suppose that's a win after I've hated everything they've put out for the last 15 years.

I didn't get into The Longshot until 2020 and I remember not understanding how Billie could write those really very good Longshot songs in 2018 or whenever and then regress into whatever the fuck he was doing with FOAMF. Saviors finally feels like the coherent Longshot album I was looking for, although it still doesn't sound like a Green Day album to me. But I'm not mad at it, so I'll let it slide.

god. couple of asks in my inbox i wanna answer but i require my brain to be more than 50% online for this and alas. i am so sleepy...

For this Valentine's Day, I've chosen to show appreciation to the local viruses for the week

finally planning our wedding reception after four years :)

I am feeling so ill right now? Like headache and dizzy and nauseous

down bad and clara bow !!

Hi Milo!!!!! <33333

Down bad - do you believe in aliens?

Oh my guy we are so NOT alone in the universe there are so many other guys alive and thriving out there

Clara bow - which celebrity do you get told you look like?

I honestly don’t think I’ve ever been told I look like one so just gonna go with the totally random answer that my boyfriend’s cousin’s fiance looks EXACTLY like me it’s bizarre hahaha

ttpd asks!

6 months ago today…

… with trembling fingers and heart beating out of my chest, I clicked Post and published It Would Be.

I didn’t expect this to happen today, of all days:

I have an idea in mind for a celebration, but it’s holiday-themed because I wasn’t expecting to hit a milestone for another month or so. And it’s too early to think about Christmas! 🎄

So I’ll hang on to that idea and see where we are in a month or so. For now, thank you THANK YOU for making my halfway around the sun on Tumblr so special ❤️ I love you all!

like 2 years ago somebody asked to see our curious george menorah with headless man in the yellow hat and I dont think I ever posted it well here you go whoever you are. its also a music box

jumped into a freezing lake today with friends

So turns out expecting myself to set up the next poll during the semester was a foolishness. My last final is on the 19th, so I'll look at really and actually starting during the break. I promise this isn't dead!!!