would y’all be mad at me if I was and have been working on a fankid sth AU project

I’m so damn tired

they tried to say he was illiterate, but <redacted> knew his teachers had been wrong; it was just that the books they assigned were so boring, he was never able to make it through a single paragraph before tracing the lines of wood grain in his desk until his vision blurred seemed more appealing.

if only they knew how fast he could read an interesting book - but he wasn’t about to admit where he’d spent his day, not when there was a field that still needed plowing!

(or, pre-chine chine finds a cleaver’s fable book and steps out onto the slippery slope)

sometimes it pays to have random vintage items, years of travel memorabilia, power tools & ADHD:

for funsies: how many ITSAY-related items can you spot?

HAPPY 10TH ANNIVERSARY TO RICK AND MORTY!!!!

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OH MY GOD! I CAN’T BELIEVE IT’S HERE ALREADY!!

Somebody needs to put them in an old folks home before the destroy earthbread with petty gay drama

*sighs* can’t make anything easy for myself can I?

I was sliding around the internet and saw this skirt from SHEIN.

And immediately thought I can make that better! In beautiful linen! With massive pockets! So I got to work. Step one. I’ve been wanting a wrap circle skirt for a while so cool let’s do that. So I cut out the half circle, easy peaky. Well. I did not have enough fabric for the flounce after that. (Literally the time between seeing this pic and measuring fabrics was like. 15min lol) so I went on the website I got the linen from and they no longer offered it in the weight I needed!! Ok well. I do have a heavier linen in my stash already and I didn’t really want to pay more for shipping then for the fabric anyways. So I will use that. A waistband with the thicker fabric would be better anyways and the ruffle would have some nice heft plus I was gonna leave the edge raw and the thicker fabric would ravel just a little nicer imo.

But then.

I saw some cotton lace at the back of my stash. That would be hella cute!!! Only it was only 2 in wide. But that got me thinking about lace and um. Crocheted lace. That’s insane tho right? I already have a perfectly good solution and I haven’t crocheted a full piece in like 6 years….

Anyways I spent the morning before work sampling/relearning lol. I’m gonna have to make like 3 yards since I want a 2x times gathered ruffle.

Another unforeseen frustration in my quest to find a romance novel I actually like: a huge chunk of college romances are written by people who have clearly never been to college.

AU where Mewtwo uses Giovanni’s form to interact with the real world without being snagged by another criminal organization.

Me: Haha wow it’s been years since I’ve played HM let alone got this far in wooing the bachelor I want to marry, I’m sure it’s probably as corny and cringey as I remember—

Luke: Hi Sunshine!! 😊

Me:

loki season two has me screaming crying throwing up trying not to get dragged back into the mcu trenches

The Setauket Letters: Benjamin

A letter by Benjamin Tallmadge to his father, Reverend Nathaniel Tallmadge, in the Winter of 1769, written in New Haven, Connecticut Colony

Dearest Father,

There is more to this world than Setauket. I knew it when I left, but now I am seeing it for myself, with my own eyes. I walk the same streets you did, learn the same things as you- but I am also learning for myself. You always said I would never be content with the answers given to me in the books and words of men I’m meant to listen to, and you were right. Everyday there are new answers to seek. The talk in New Haven is so different than at home it feels otherworldly, fantastical. And yet I cannot hear enough of it.

The people of New England do not sit silently and only open their mouths to raise toasts to the King. There are protests, pamphlets, action. I remember hearing about it when I was younger, but now I can read them, now I can make the decisions for myself. My thoughts are full of the lessons we can use from the past, bring them into the present and make ourselves stronger. Should we light a fire under ourselves, under a cause we have never thought about before? It keeps me awake at night. I must confess, I can barely focus on my prayers. I apologize for the disappointment that will cause you, but surely you understand, Father.

Selfishly, I am not the only one kept awake. My roommate is a boy from here, Nathan Hale. He has ties to Anna Strong’s family.

(Please give her my thoughts if you see her. I think her father would be inclined to agree with me. Mr. Woodhull would not, and would burn my letters to Abraham if he had the chance to read them.)

Hale and I get along nicely- so far, he is a good friend, as good as the ones I left behind at home. He is also a younger son. When I keep him up with my light, we talk about someday traveling to Boston. Perhaps we could attend a town meeting- they are talked of all through New England.

I wish you could meet him. Perhaps he will join me on a trip home.

Though, a part of me does not want to come home, Father. At least, not yet. That town is stifling. I do not how long I would be able to endure the dreaded silence, the buried talk. The thought of hearing a lecture from the Magistrate makes me want to jump into the sound and swim far away.

If I stay here, I will make you proud. I promise you.

Tell my friends about my letter.

Your faithful son,

Benjamin

Laying in bed wishing I was in a field full of milkweed collecting seeds

Out of absolutely nowhere over the weekend I got hella inspired to tell a story that has absolutely *nothing* to do with my legacy save and OCs.

Instead of doing what I usually do (abandon everything except for the New! Shiny! Thing!!!) , I’m letting it marinate in my brain juices while I keep up with the Orsons, and letting myself write and doodle and think about it in my downtime.

Because if I’m gonna add yet another save to this game it’s going to be hella cohesive with a beginning, middle, and end and *not* a variation of something I started and ditched before.

Also I might need to take a break and go through Yet Another Purge because my mods folder has gotten to an ungodly size that is impacting how my game runs and, let’s face it, I don’t use even 50% of what I have. I just like to have options. But I only wanna do this when I have a significant backlog in the queue to lean on, so it might be either a slow project or something I do over winter break.

This is some like, far distance stuff. But I wanted to share it with *somebody* because I feel like I’m gonna explode.

On Instagram I said I’d fix the tree but haha I lied it was 3:00AM and I didn’t wanna deal with the tree so I just left it as is I think it’s funny this way

So I! Actually tried! Something! New!!! And by that I mean I actually did a full on scene not just a silly little portrait or pose and you know I learned a lot of valuable lessons doing this. A lot of valuable lessons. Many. Don’t color the background after the characters kids please don’t do it. Also plan what you’re actually gonna do because I’d finish one thing and get absolutely stuck because I didn’t know where to go from there

I drew this for AkiRui week on Twitter and I thought I was gonna do all 7 days and I only managed 2 BUT was it fun?? Yes very! It was nice doing something bigger and it was probably good for me to step out of my comfort zone too. I’m gonna do Anhane week too and hopefully that goes A LITTLE easier now that I’ve kinda figured out how to do some stuff

So anyway I like these 2 together I think they’re very silly and they probably pick at each other a lot but like affectionately. I feel like the Shinonomes would have to give each other 2 weeks notice before inviting Rui/Mizuki over because the one time they were there at the same time they just tag teamed Ena and Akito

Oh yeah also yes this was originally gonna be based on that one Club Penguin image but my brain started coming up with more and I just went with it

i need to bitch about my job for a minute in the tags