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to my queer and trans friends

i don't want to be caught uttering something as trite as "you will make it through this." i mean, you will make it through this: you've made it through a lot of things.

what i want to say is that you will live a life through this.

you will wake up about once a day. you will see the moon. you will eat good food. you will hear the sound of trees shaking in the wind. you will smile at stupid jokes. even as some things undoubtedly become harder, you will experience countless moments of simple animal joy.

when a Big Thing goes Horribly Wrong, we feel washed away. our future hides from us just out of view. sometimes we worry it might not exist anymore. but the future comes around no matter how much or how little we worry about it. eventually we get there and we find: the future is just a day like any other day, containing exactly one day's worth of problems for us to solve, and one day's worth of animal joy with it. no matter what.

don't lose sight of that, okay?

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think that everyone has their own personal theme in life

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Simple Plan recording the What’s New Scooby-Doo? theme song

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Women Watching Stars, Ōta Chōu, 1936

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The artist: https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/153864

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I'll be your mirror, reflect what you are, in case you don't know

(I'll Be Your Mirror by Nico and The Velvet Underground)

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how am i supposed to relax when there are things

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can we all agree that it's pathetic when so-called "friends" try to sabotage your opportunities? you're clearly jealous that the amulet of eternal darkness chose me and no amount of "please fight it, i know you're still in there somewhere" is going to change that. crab bucket mentality. grow up.

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I love when trauma makes characters messy. I love when characters don't know how to show love. I love when they lash out. I love when they're vile and break down. I love characters who aren't perfect victims. I love when stories don't excuse behaviour but allow you to understand it

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do you all see my vision here

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I love that you can just grab kittens. old cat have achy joints and a sense of dignity that you have to play into, so you gotta be deliberate and respectful in hoisting them, but if a kitten is whirlwinding past you, you can just reach out and snatch them. and they'll be like 'mamma mia, I never did nothing :p' and writhe around and lick your fingers. highly abductable animal

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stars fall like dragons

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my latest bind! it's of my own 9-1-1 fic, and i probably could've gone for a half-letter size, but i decided to make a chunky little quarto instead. the case is inspired by some prototypes @badbladebindery created for one of their fics (which are sooo awesome and beautiful).

the case is made of 9 different pieces of chipboard, with lokta paper on the "base" layer and bookcloth on the top layer. art and titles are htv. i would've adjusted my art so the top of the bone wasn't folded over the edge, but alas, i was not paying attention to edges. (I also applied the htv before gluing those boards to the base layer, so i didn't fold the bookcloth until later.

i keep experimenting with homemade bookcloth. now i've actually gotten into using wheatpaste with kozo paper as backing instead of heatnbond, and it's way better. the black fabric here is a quilting cotton, and it's a lot more solid than some other cotton fabrics i worked with. one day i will use actual bookcloth and have better comparisons, but not today.

anyways back to fighting indesign !!

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let slip the dogs of war