I just saw a mouse on my wall-mounted shelf. it is very messy, but theres no way up. I am scared and confused. people like to say that the animals were here first. but thats not true! I was here first, and mice and wasps and flies and moths and fucking STOATS are INVADING my SPACE

first three studies in egg tempera ! using pigments available in the medieval era (except for titanium white)

top is a study of a miniature from Christine de Pisan's Épître d'Othea, bottom left is a loose crosshatching study based on this Mary Herbert painting, bottom right is based on this photograph

You can use an aluminum crochet hook on a cold day, but watch out!

God. God. God. Holy fucking shit i love Avatar so fucking much

Happy Valentine's to lauralemer!

The prompt was 'sharing heat after getting caught in the rain' but uh… by the time I was done with this I realised belatedly that they kind of didn't get to the part where they soak their feet together oops 😂 Take this as a very imaginative reading of 'things are heating up'??

Randomly, y'all have no idea how much research I did into fireplaces and heating during the early Edwardian/late Victorian period just for that last image………….

Crafting update! - I set out to make a teddy bear (either a memory bear or a Bucky Bear, whichever, both are on my to-make list) - I did not do that - I have a baby quilt almost done??? I mean I’d already had the quilt top done, but I made the quilt sandwich, pinned it in place, and quilted it - I’m pausing to cool down because it’s currently hot* in the room where my sewing machine is, but once I’ve cooled down all I need to do is trim the backing and batting to size and add the binding. Almost done!! :D *it’s not that hot I am just a delicate plant that thrives in a very very narrow temperature range

and like. obviously i feel very lucky to know SO MUCH of where i came from. like i can't even feel conflicted if i think too hard about it the only thought is we went from china to cambodia to america again and each time we gained pieces of a new culture and we learned something new. different pieces of childhood and music. different pieces of food and movies and language. how fucking cool. also okay no i'm gonna pass out now 🫡 see you around quil!

!! Yeah! There's always the thought of at least I have what I do have. Because it's so easy to focus on what we've lost, but there are people who know/have even less than we do culturally. Like I make jokes about how much trouble my last names give me, but at least I have them. Not everyone does. And I live in the Southwest, which means there's a lot of influence from further south (mexico and beyond) that those who live further north don't have! My dad didn't growing up in the midwest.

it's such a balance, feeling appropriately mournful for what you've lost and can't recover, what you've lost and have to work for, and remembering what pieces you have actually retained. and then containing all of these emotions in such a way that you can go about your day without exploding or sobbing on the floor about it.

you sent this several months ago but I hope you passed out good <3

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apparently my housemate's been turning on the heating in the living room just to dry her laundry and ugh i don't know how i feel about that :/

i think you should get to sue college campuses if they don't give you access to adequate heating in freezing cold weather

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27 outside? somewhat tolerable. 27 in my room? murder

bed warm and dark, world cold and bright :(

i got a lil humidifier for my bedside and finally have stopped having nosebleeds 👍

Very busy, productive day today. I cleaned out all the junk that's been sitting in my room for ages (other people's junk btw), swept, dusted, mopped, cleaned the walls, got rid of my broken blinds, moved some furniture around, and got Dad to take a look at it when it was all finished so he could see what needs to be done to get the place fixed up. He has a couple things he has to get done first, but soon he'll get started fixing the leak in my roof, and he'll probably have to tear down my walls, at least partially, and get them replaced due to the water damage. After that, the plan is to buy a new bed and move it into the fixed up half of the room, and junk my current bed while he fixes up the other half. Once that's done, I can move my bookshelves out of my closet and maybe set the area I have my bed in now up to be a little library/sitting area/dressing room.

wish I'd got up at 4:55 but I only went adjusting the windows but like i'd barely slept at all at that point because of the heat so I microslept longer and idk if it did anything, it barely cooled down at all in my room so  hopes & prayers for today ｡ﾟ(ﾟ´Д｀ﾟ)ﾟ｡