#delays in delivery

[jamaicamocha]

Port Strike Brewing Coffee Crisis

NEW YORK, Oct 1 (Reuters) – The unloading of hundreds of containers with imported coffee beans at the United States’ East Coast ports has stopped due to the strike of portworkers, aggravating the tight supply in the largest coffee-drinking nation. The delays in delivery of imported coffee to U.S. roasters and coffee chains could further increase bean prices which hit multi-year highs last week…

[omatoxin]

doing it scared!! (birthday self portrait)

[fisheito]

My favourite fantasy lately is Kuya kidnapping Eiden and bringing him to a house in the woods to punish him for endangering himself during some adventure. Kuya keeps Eiden in bondage and constantly on edge, teasing and denying him. And Eiden just takes it without asking to be let out, allowing Kuya to vent his fear and frustration, because he's nice like that.

But, at some point, even the strongest little soldiers break, and just when Eiden is about to shatter from all the stress and Kuya's oppressive anxiety, Quincy comes for the rescue. He's the only one who managed to find that little wooden shack in the middle of nowhere (you know, because Kuya's allowed him to), and he comes in and persuades Kuya to relent.

Kuya hasn't even given Eiden any dick in all the (three? four?) days they've been at it, so serious he was about the discipline aspect!

Eiden cries when Kuya finally fucks him, and Quincy makes him spill

this just reminds me of Billowing Wildfire Kuya R2 where eiden saID sO HImself

i would not be surprised if kuya went full speed into an evil edging hostage situation because he doesn't know how to process eiden's mortality

[doginprogress]

I’m so annoyed but it’s such a “first world problem” type thing that I feel stupid for feeling this, but alas, I also simply cannot get over how fucking annoyed I am rn

I’m out of town for a funeral. But, I’m going home Thursday and need dog food cause the last of it got sent with Ponzi and Spork to Ponzi’s breeder’s house. So after 7 pm last night I ordered two bags of dog food on chewy, thinking it would take them a day to process and prepare, and then it would ship on Thursday.

Of fucking course not. I woke up to notifications that it’s shipped. In fact it’s being delivered today, less than 24 hours since my order went in. And I won’t be home until Thursday afternoon so the ants will have a great feast and I will have wasted $100+ and still need to fucking buy more dog food 😭🙃

[shopwitchvamp]

So I'm gonna be stuck taking & editing pictures very last minute tomorrow after all :\

[lavellaned]

It’s been pretty easy so far to avoid spoilers bc I’m allergic to every other social media platform and I keep my personal interests to myself with the fervor of a dragon hoarding gold so no one in my real life knows how much I love dragon age. Whoever said that being closed off is a bad thing was lying I’m having a great time 👍

[holts-knees]

Realized I forgot to post my trip sketch page from when @swiss-army-fangirl came down in April! Little highlights of our trip < 3

[thedragenda]

Finally made Blink a proper ref in preparation for ArtFight :D My sorclock DnD character Dont Blink that would be terrifying if he didn't have the personality of a whimpering doormat. He's trying his best to save the world okay! It's kinda hard!

[chaosofshadow]

Can you curse the Amazon delivery service perhaps. They're delaying my packages. And I'm sad.

-Log

What will you pay?

[krafterwrites]

She will be real in about 4 hours (hopefully)

[littlecarnet]

Some gifts I got for myself were for my apothecary/tea trunk shown here. The new items are a white marble mortar and pestle, a wooden tray to transfer herbs to the little teakwood bowl, and wood spoons. A portable glass borosilicate tea kettle and flowering tea in rose and chamomile in cute glass vials. The teas and raw materials in the glass jars are from years of collecting from my own garden or wild foraged. The little booklet holds all my recipes and favorite mixes, and the white folded things are cotton teabags for infusions and such. Tea mixing is part of my self care rituals. The process of mixing, the smells, tastes, or using them in beauty products or medicine is satisfying.

Fun fact: Traditionally in my mother's culture, a young woman was taught basic herbal medicine as part of her skill set as an adult, which can also include embroidery, musical talent, poetry, leather working, wild foraging, budgeting the home and business, and in much older times, divination, astronomy, proficiency in using a weapon and falconry. It's said the more skills a woman knew, signified her family's high status and a higher dowry.

I have powdered incense like this already, but not the tools. These are a lovely brass. They'll get a lot of use this winter, when I typically use incense. Making incense is part of my self care rituals just like tea mixing. The process of milling herbs into powder to roll or turn into cones with makko powder, then to dry and burn later is very therapeutic.

My mom got me a Five Year Memory journal, something I spotted at a bookstore while we were shopping. The other gifts are things she collected for me leading up to my birthday. The bracelet is really pretty, made in Nepal and ceramic scarab charm. A brass African sun coin (a sun sign since I'm a Leo), a trilobite replica, and jewelers loupes.

Art supplies I got: A soft cover floral journal with a pen pouch, a mini sketchbook, a basic set of Daniel Smith split primary watercolor set, and a watercolor journal with watercolor pigment incorporated into the pages themselves!

I've eyed these for so long! These paints have been used in nearly every Ghibli film and a lot of other high profile studios in Japan. I've always wanted to try my hand at these. I heard they have properties of both watercolor and gouache.

[smittyw]

(dailies 9.30.23)

was feeling silly & thinking of little fairy types again, but they ended up being variants i never drew before or again since..

[deus-ex-mona]

tfw nakamahazure

shoddy tl under the cut

Add a single head

To two arms and two legs

With five fingers or toes each

And you’ll get the shape of my body

Being by myself, I’d thought that I was alone in this world

Then, on a certain day, I crossed paths with you

I wanna play with you

I wanna be friends with you

I wanna tumble and squabble with you

With your two horns and wagging tail

Your sense of individuality

Is truly amazing

This is a first, isn’t it?

Let’s head out to town

Let’s look for some new friends

And befriend them together

Why are you afraid of me?

Why are you pointing your fingers at me?

Why are you running away from me?

Why have you abandoned me?

Whether it concerns the colour of my skin or the colour of my hair

I’m always the sole outcast

I don’t have horns, nor do I have a tail

And yet that alone has made me the outcast

I’m setting off

By my lonesome again

I’ll be looking

For people to befriend

Why are you afraid of me?

Why are you pointing your fingers at me?

Why are you running away from me?

Why are you throwing stones at me?

Why are you laughing at me?

Why are you making fun of me?

If only things were just a little different

But I’ve been ostracised again

[thebookworm0001]

Things that are good today

I should get two packages in the mail this week

One is the datv art book, which I can read in its entirely without fear of spoilers

One that is a care package from a friend who sent me stuff for soup when I was sick

[orbmanson7]

Finally got an actual update on when my genloss vhs tape is supposed to show up so... I guess I'm just gonna sit here and wait for it to arrive

[gotchi-blog]

Just ordered a Chiikawa pet! I've never had one but it looks so cute that I had to get it. As a Christmas present, I guess. I should be here in December