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I think Kumar got over his picky food phase. He used to eat only 200g cans of duck for a long time now. The 200g cans are more expensive than the 400g ones, so I was spending a lot more money than usual on catfood.
Offered him some other food I still had left (400g beef, chicken and shrimp) yesterday and he liked it and I also caught him eating some of Clawdias food which was something different. I still have like 20 cans of the poultry, chicken and shrimp type of food he used to eat for half a year, so maybe I can finally use those lol.
#i dont feed him all 400g at once btw just mentioning the can type because#when i got 400g duck he DID NOT eat that and would only eat the food out of the 200g cans#i did a side by side and showed that to a friend who also was like wow wtf he rly only takes the food from the small cans#apparently its something about how the food is cooked in the cans and the bigger cans needing longer cooking and then losing some flavour#cat#cats#kumar#clawdia#i wanted to get 800g cans but im afraid they wont eat that#that would save me the most money#i got lids to reseal them and putting them in the fridge keeps them fresh so i could use a can for like 3-4 days
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Taking pride in One's own appearance.
#you people are becoming my guinea pigs for my finally learning how to communicate information via comics. a thing ive needed to practice at#also BLEGH. YUCK. andrew hussie was right candy makes you sick. this is a little too saccharine for me. yeesh. let me get back to the meat.#isat#isat spoilers#in stars and time#in stars and time spoilers#isat fanart#in stars and time fanart#isat siffrin#isat loop#sifloop#doodlebyte#'let me get back to the meat' i say eyeing something similarly sickly in my sketches. at least it's mildly tormented as a counterbalance...#you people have no idea how much im having to stay my own hand. oh i can draw miserable nudity but the most basic of fluff? visceral#anyway i dont know the logistics of picking up a glass eye or where loop got money (besides pilfering from siffrin) & ive previously drawn#sif with a vague blank middle-grey eye as either being scarred over or a blank occular prosthesis put in quickly at the nearest town#i dont know that they'd have a glass eye during the game but considering prosthesis are reccomended to keep the skull etc from deforming#id imagine it would probably come up postgame as something to do now theyre not on a time limit trying to save the country#plus i assume that having it gouged at by a sadness wasnt exactly a clean wound by any measure#all this to say. idk i just wanted to get some information across in comic form to Test my Abilities#and we're far enough down now to say my absolute most wretchingly sweet fluff headcanon that actually inspired this#which is that i think siffrin gets into the habit of not wearing the eyepatch around loop so they kinda match.#and as a signifier to the other that they're letting their guard down around them. vulnerability etc.#just kinda wearing it around their neck so they don't lose it
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your post about only communicating the minimum needed reminded me of the gricean maxims (concept in linguistics describing how people communicate)! your advice was very similar to the maxim of quantity :)
From the UPenn School of Arts & Sciences site:
Grice's Maxims
The maxim of quantity, where one tries to be as informative as one possibly can, and gives as much information as is needed, and no more.
The maxim of quality, where one tries to be truthful, and does not give information that is false or that is not supported by evidence.
The maxim of relation, where one tries to be relevant, and says things that are pertinent to the discussion.
The maxim of manner, when one tries to be as clear, as brief, and as orderly as one can in what one says, and where one avoids obscurity and ambiguity.
#yeah suffice to say many autistics would be rated by others as not adhering to these#quantity is subjective#and relation is something that we tend to think of in a different way than non autistics#speaking very broadly#we think people want to understand all the working parts surrounding a thing#whereas many non autistic people want to know just what will affect them personally#or what will make sense from their position and viewpoint#i want to see the whole forest and all the trees in it and it does help me make better decisions than most non autistics#but when i try to tell THEM about that entire system to help improve their decision making it's a lot to take in and it's not intuitive#for them to follow and they feel that a good enough decision is good enough most of the time#they dont want a perfect one because its just not efficient to live that way#which fair#but it is frustrating when im trying to help someone save a ton of money skipping an unnecessary purchase or make their life at work easier#etc#but they just dont wanna hear it#but in time one must learn boundaries and not trying to save other people or rule their lives after all
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What markers do you use and what kind paper? The textures are so Delicious
Very basic paper, actually! I find I overthink when using expensive stuff and it makes my sketches worse.
As for markers, I use Copics! Not that this is an endorsement (my first set were a very nice gift), but I have really liked using alcohol based markers over water based ones; lovely texture, good blending, and less streaking. However, the price can be *brutal*, and you can very easily get by with other markers + pencil crayons.
#ask#art faqs#fancy supplies are nice but the dont really help THAT much for art skills. Consistancy and persistance does.#I balked the first time I needed to go in to buy a few new ones to fill out my roster.#if you are going to invest; my strategy was to make those fancy new supplies a reward for drawing X amount of days in a row#that way one doesnt buy a bunch of stuff for a soon to be abandoned hobby#Art is a relatively cheap hobby at its basics. You do not need the fanciest and most expensive things.#I think watercolour is the only exception for me; that paper better be high grade. The paint mix also matters#but I digress. Buy what you need and not what you want. Save your money.#Guilt will make you stop drawing. Hoarding supplies and never using them is wasteful#when I drop money on new colours I'm going in with a list of what I want#and looking through the swatchpad for hours until i get the right colour.#cant emphasize enough how fortunate I am to have been gifted my copics. I never would have bought them on my own.
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sometimes looking at like Self Help Strategies lists for the symptoms I'm having is always just like:
thing that I already do
thing I have tried 10 times
thing I already do
thing that I don't have the money to do
thing I already do
thing I've been doing since I was 10yrs old to no avail
thing that is impossible given my situation
thing that doesn't apply to me
thing that I already do
thing I have already tried
hrmm, oh wait, maybe finally- OH, yeah.. okay. thing that I already do but it was just phrased slightly differently
thing I have already done
#I think maybe productivity tips help less if the reason you're unproductive is partially like.. physcial health and other extenral things#out of your control. rather than just like having trouble paying attention or spending too much time on tiktok or whatever#all the strategic to do lists in the world are not going to somehow prevent me from waking up with a debilitating migraine or whatever#or having external stressors or lacking resources and connections or other Productivity Essentials etc.#especially many tips involve stuff like 'cut off from social media' since thats the modern day time waster for so many poeple#and it's like.. lol.. i can hardly even maintain a blog even thuogh i actively WANT TO DO SO. 'shut off your smart phone!' already#done babey i fucking hate smart phones i shall never use an app unless i am forced to. 'delete tiktok' yep. already covered. tiktok and#all of those thinsg are my enemies. 'save money by cancelling some of your services' cool. already ahead of you.#who the fuck is out here paying for like 10 different subscription services. pirated videos uploaded to google drive and youtube to mp3#my beloved. etc. etc. and so on. 'socialize less' .........LOL.. if only you knew.. mr.writer of the article. i can barely muster#talking to friends more than once a month and even less if I'm actively sick (often occurence) etc. etc. ... hewoo#I think maybe instead of generic productivity tips I need more like.. how to refocus and be productive anyway even if you have a headache#or are nauseous or etc. Not that those are always things to ignore. and of course you should let your body rest and etc. But plenty of peop#e have mild physical symptoms and just work through them. Ithink something about the way my body/mind is SOO hyper attuned to all#sensory information just makes it like... constantly 'GRR well I cant focus on WRITING right now because my lef#t ear feels weird and my socks are too itchy and my back has a strange pressure and I'm vaguely warm and my eye feels some ssort of#way it doesnt normally feel and I'm hyperaware of my breathing and also nauseous for no reason' and like half of those things I#think '''normal''' people wouldnt even notice or at least would be able to just live through. but for me it's like.. nealry impossible to i#gnore and soooo distracting always. like 'wahh.. nooo we can't draw or get anything done.. my legs feel slightly heavy or something!!'#like............. ok......... who cares. thats not even a PAIN sensation it's just something weird. but it's just like.. NO. constant#mental alerts about the 'heaviness' of your legs be upon ye. Though Imean like.. yes.. 70% of the time I am in genuine pain#or having some sort of actual ailment with trackable physical symptoms. but sometimes it's just like... we could totally be working right#now and ignoring this silly thing but my brain is fixated on it for no reason uncontrollably. etc. etc. I guess it's the same way that like#most people can go to a grocery store without the whole experience being so overwhelming and so much stuff going on at once#that they have to rest afterwards but like.. in my own HOME doing NOTHING i feel like I should be able to not get overwhelmed lol. ANYWAY#Rolling my bastard little rock up a dumbass hill and so on and so forth
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wouldn't it be nice if the author of the fics finished them. the author is me.
#vent#for the last 4 months my life has been in stupid crisis mode#like constantly#from major ones where i had to move out for a while because it was impossible to stay where i lived#to not being able to use my kitchen for over a week#and like other more or less minor house related stuff that made it impossible for me to use something normally#not a single week without something like that or shit at work which is constantly being so fucking chaotic#and now someone died in my family#not someone very close but i liked them#and of course like feeling sad that they are gone can't be the only thing#because it has to come with the headache of i need to travel for their funeral and it's just before easter#so there's no one in this city to leave my dog with#because most of my friends either live abroad or have cats or are busy before easter..#i'd just want a week where nothing happens#and like the writing is weighing heavy on me#because i miss it#also i wish i could finish something#i wish something good would happen that i could feel proud off#also because i'm mentally ill and fucking stupid when i was going crazy with my kitchen not working and work shit#i bought new furniture#because after 15 years i've finally had enough money to buy some that aren't fucking black and inconvenient and ugly#which is like a huge project and a crisis i brought onto myself#just because i was too burnt out to write#and i wanted something nice to happen to me#like a nice living space that doesn't make feel like i have no ownership over it because everything in it was some else's choice#and that old furniture was bought by my mother and my brother ages ago and it's handmedowns#and my fucking horrible mother feels personally slighted that i want to get rid of a bed that is broken#because my brother's kids jumped on it regularly when they used to visit pre covid#yeah it's been broken that long because i lost all my savings during covid and had to change careers to a souless pointless corpo job#long pathetic whine and overshare over
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i love character creation!!!!!!!!!!!!
#warframe#tula plays games#tula plays warframe#my graphics could look nicer#and i could still run it at a good fps#but it makes me computer cry#and by cry I mean marginally louder than normal#technically I’m in the market for a new graphics card#but this one works! I can play everything I want to! why would I get a new one?#(the answer is that this one is getting up there in years and it was secondhand when I got it)#and I’d rather be…prepared#and at least considering getting a new one if it does crap out#I have the money saved but I am waiting for now.#and (even better) my other pc parts should be good for a good bit longer#since my graphics card was second hand I was able to get everything else a little better than what was needed for the gc#so upgrading will be easy#arguably my monitor isn’t a super good one either but I’m not like….one of those people who needs crazy good monitors#I’m just happy I can get 60 fps in most things I play nowdays#I’m used to playing at like 20-30 for years
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Designed a dress I want to make heavily inspired by Merida from brave and then I decided to draw it on Merida.
The original sketch:
#I've been big on costume design ever since sophomore year when I was on our play's costume team and I like to think I'm good at it#In 11th grade I got a superior at districts competition for costume design so#Unfortunately I didn't get to do it again in 12th grade#I think my into the woods antebellum Red riding Hood and my regency Rapunzel would have gotten high scores but whatevs#Oh yeah! I also gave her archery gloves. I wish I had archery gloves it would save my hands so much pain#I have money I should get some#This had got to be one of my only dress designs without a million pounds of tulle#I like tulle heavy dresses lol#Like my Cinderella from into the woods design. Or my Juliet and Clara dresses (I admit I do name the dresses I design with people names#I know a lot of people do that and I think it's better than saying 'oh that one pink dress' like babes which one#I still need to properly draw my tinkerbell dior dress design#Basically the skirt is just like that one door dress. The one that looks like it's got flower petals. But it's green#And also very tulle heavy#For this dress I was trying to figure out a way to incorporate tartan in the design and as I was looking online for teal velvet fabric I#remembered how hard it is to find that exact shade of fabric (my dad made me a merida dress when I was little and it took forever for him t#find the exact shade) and then I realized I could just use blue and green tartan (which is way easier to find they've got plenty at Joann's#And I'm pretty sure my dad already has some I could use) instead!#I want to get a few simpler sewing projects under my belt before I attempt this#But my mum suggested I make a matching dress for my dolls and like. Literally amazing idea.#I've got a tunic I need to make for a convention so that's how I'm gonna start. Like the most I've done on a sewing machine is hem so yeah#we're starting small#I design dresses all the time so I really need to learn to sew so I can make them#And this is my motivation I NEED this dress#Anyway#my posts#my art#pixar brave#I once said my favorite Disney princess was Merida and my friend said 'yeah that's what I figured' like??? Is it obvious?#anyway moving on
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[pained wailing emoji]
#.pdf#rd#THE REST OF THIS IS JSUT ME WHINING. FEEL FREE TO IGNORE#i dont wanna go to work ‼️‼️‼️ i feel like i am nearing a breaking point i am sofucking burnt out#every time i go to work. my brain gets Scary at me. stresses me out. dont like it ☹️#im supposedto be going in tonigjt but im dreading it sososo much#my work hour options have changed from “fully flexible” to “7am-9pm only” whcih yeah i know that doesnt sound that bad. but i have non-24#(circadian rhythm disorder that makes me sleep progressively later every day circling fully around the clock over ~3 weeks or so)#and bcos of it often i have to force myself out of bed in what my body thinks may as well be the middle of the night just to get to work#and then i dont ever get enough time to recover from that to actually let my sleep fall back into its natural schedule wjich is the only#time i feel properly rested. so essentially im chronically sleep deprived which is making me chronically stressed and way less productive#i just reslly really want to fucking save up a little money and just Not work for a week or two. bjt. with my sleep bullshit i cant really#work enough to be able to put anything aside. at all#so. kind of an unrealistic desire i guess. lol#ive been feeling like this ever since like early january when i was told i ahve to stick to a more normal schedule. & its only getting worse#idont know i just wishthere was something i could do that was fully flexible on timing but also doesnt havw the kind of workload that would-#-stress me out like basically anything with longer-term projects so ykmow Most flexible schedule jobs.#i do have one thing in mind i could do on my own but its dumb and probably wouldnt make much money and has startup costs i cant afford rn..
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he's such a sad little guy i love him a lot :) so funny how he immediately went from Australia's #1 most saddest soppingly wet little man you've ever seen, to blowing up a lab and stealing their assets every Tuesday morning for Shits And Giggles™
#barry steakfries#jetpack joyride#there should be a tag for salesman barry.......#salesman barry#yeah like that tag's ever gonna nail it down#imagine hearing a knock on your door and it's just this little guy with a gramophone pleading like ''pleas give me mony :(''#i would give him my whole life's savings in a heartbeat except i don't actually have money so i would just hug him#world's most absolutely pathetic sad little man in existence becomes world's most impulsive and chaotic troublemaker in 5 seconds flat#that's literally just the jetpack joyride trailer summarised
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It seems people are getting hype about Magical Girl As Horror Lately? and idk the main concept ive been revolving around- for an au I prommy ill write something for soon ok- is, like. Not exactly magical girl as horror but magical girl as. It is so so unfair. Imagine you had a falliable, human, imperfect body- imagine, even, it was unsatisfying, not fitting to you, or misfunctioning in ways that impair your life. and imagine being granted the ability to loan a perfect body made out of light and flowing with power and perfection, a poised, radiant body- only to turn back .only to have that other form only validated to help others. only to have a real actual mystical voice which claims important in the universe claim that to be or do good your own body really isnt enough?
Just. Having a good body you can turn into as if thats ok to do to someone, give them that and take it away
#this is a trans disabled reading but also its not as if even just your most basic Teenage Girls is not a category of a deeply policed body#cmon.#like yes magical girl is a beautiful celebration and defiant embracing of everything good and holy about frills and femininity#and i do very much love that im very femme#but the idea of tying that with EFORTLESSNESS is something to explore#i would like to poof lolita fit n accesories on and off it would save me a lot of money and spoons#but umm. yeah no Being A Femme Light Warrior is a lot of work. i have warrior armor montage w my fits#AND THIS IS NOT JUST THE POILITICAL AUGH I WENT DOWN A TANGENT IM SORRY#the original point is#if we want to explore the transformation sequence as a place of distortion in a horrror llike manner#lets PAINT AROUND THE EGG. lets talk about the emptiness of the minute after you poof back.#lets talk about the GAP of the change
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The bug man announced a tour!!!!!!!!!!! I just hyperventilated in the shower
#I’m not kidding when I’m saying I would pay any amount of money to see him#if he comes to Europe I’m buying a plane ticket to any city and front of stage tickets#I have enough money saved up for this (i wanted to use it to pay my way through a semester of uni abroad)#BUT this is much more important to me than any stupid ass uni Semester could ever be#I will not let myself believe that I’ll see him because I had tickets before and the show got cancelled and I was inconsolable for weeks#but I’m just saying#I’ve got my credit card ready paul please say you’ll come to Europe#I’ll give you my Kidney my lung my heart whatever you want boy just sing your silly songs for me PLEASE#I think this is what religious people feel like when they think they’re going to see god or whatever#the thing is this is the single most important thing to me and IF it happens it’s downhill from then on. there’s nothing more there I think#imagine seeing lady Madonna live imagine seeing him okay wings stuff imagine seeing MCCARTNEY 3 SONGS LIVE#imagine holding up a sign and he reads it and — I shan’t say#play* not okay
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looking into drawing tablets once more ...
#again the would-like-to-start-off-small-as-i’m-sort-of-still-new-to-it#i think i’m most likely to go with the xp-pen deco fun . i previously considered the huion h420 but nah#i don’t have many options my budget is not that big !!! i am using my own money so i am reluctant !!!#though my friend told me to just save up until i could buy a bigger ( more expensive ) one bc i could apparently#seriously injure my wrist if i use a tablet thats too small ... what#ahhh misery pain agony. i’m kind of curious as to what my other artist mutuals/friends use but i’m too shy to ask some of them LOL#esp since i don’t know them that well. and i’m scared of them (tumblr mutuals i ♡ you though)#it might be an obvious but i had no idea that it was apparently important to take into consideration the pen weight as well????????????#df seems like my best option because its also compatible with mobile devices ...#💭
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I talked to my dad on the phone the other day about where I should live to save up for a car, if I should find some cheap digs in Europe or something, and he said "just get a hotel room on the vegas strip for a while" and I feel like that explains a lot of how I ended up this way
#tbf it WOULD save me money#you can rent those for like $750 a month or so#but I think after a week of living on the strip I would be driven completely insane#that's a 3-4 day spot at the most#I'd be like those russian sleep experiment people
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Fuck guilt "activism" -- it makes you feel guilty for spending a penny on anything that isn't going towards a specific cause. Food? Guilt. It could go to children. Decent toilet paper? Guilt. Pizza? Guilt. Pet necessities? Guilt. Saving up for a necessary surgery? Guilt.
Making people feel guilty about shit does not an activist make. You can do great shit for important causes while also not making people feel guilty for existing.
#i am bedridden and am trying to save up for surgery on my back#everything i can't save my parents will have to take from their credit card#which have high af interest rates btw#and fun fact: people need food#they shouldn't be made to feel guilty for not starving themselves for any cause#and the pizza. wanna know something?#my parents have me buy it with THEIR MONEY#Their money would never in a million years go to most causes that are important#i can only sometimes control WHERE we get it#and yet i feel horribly guilty for it#and i'm tired of it!#activism centred around guilt are bullshit#among many other things they burn people out#i'm still crawling back from being burn out in 2017 or so#i can't open activist emails no matter how much i want to#i am only just starting to be able to send emails again#i haven't gotten back to being able to make phone calls#activism means pacing yourself and taking time away from it to recover#if you burn out you're useless as an activist#guilt-based activism is a fast-track to burnout#i'm going to stop frustratedly rambling now
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Thinking about how AI taking over the simpler calls at my last workplace was part of the reason why the job started to suck (the calls left are the more difficult/want to yell at you people, less staff on in general etc) and led to me quitting in a mental health/burnout breakdown.
But it's not art, it's one of the sucky things people say they DO want AI to replace without actually thinking about what that means for people.
And it's happening to more and more customer service jobs, so there's less of them out there, and the ones that are suck more etc.
#it wasn't even good ai#it got things wrong and frustrated people#but the bosses loved it bc it saved money in staff#while they weren't the ones being yelled at when it fucked up#idk what i'm doing next#it's been over 6 months and i've luckily had savings and live with family#but i've been telling myself i'll start applying for things again soon when there's things worth applying for#but there just isn't anything else out there#i keep having stress dreams about ending up back at there#and i know if i asked they'd probably take me#though most of the people i liked have moved on too#so it would suck even more#the world is depressing
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