#hobby shenanigans

[maripr]

Might have gone slightly insane due to lack of sleeping and made a tiny John Ward from Airdorf 's FAITH amigurumi that squeaks when you squeeze its head. The yarn is shitty but it's all I had, I didn't follow any pattern and made a mess and now I need a nap but it fits.

[nell0-0]

Artblock be like:

A+ for effort, he's trying.

HC: Mask just has never tried this before. The most experience he's had with drawing was helping carve the tree with Skull Kid and drawing stick figures in the mud with a stick pfpfpf

[flame2ashes]

Jane and Garrus like to think they're the funniest people ever while doing shit like this

[dazais-guardian-angel]

gotta say that if bram stoker is trying to convince me that Renfield isn't actually future Johnathan from another timeline, then he isn't doing a very good job at it

[momosandlemonsoda]

WIP Wednesday

Today has been... not great... but I'm coming in hot with some rock star au words. Have Li Lianhua and Di Feisheng taking their date to its natural conclusion.

“We need to go,” Li Lianhua gasps, and A’Fei bites harder for a moment, teeth digging in enough that he groans, loud in the space between them. Finally, A’Fei draws back. “Yeah,” he says, reluctant. He pushes a helmet at Li Lianhua, pulls on his own. “We’re going to my house,” he says, as he mounts his bike. Li Lianhua stares for a moment at the picture he makes, poised on his motorcycle, ready to go. Then he fumbles with the straps of his helmet, finally getting it fastened and climbing on behind. He snugs up behind A’Fei, feeling hard thighs between his own, pressed against A’Fei’s fine backside, which is not making his cock any less hard. Resting his hands flat against A’Fei’s belly, he lets them drift down below his waist at the red lights, a reminder for both of them of where this is going and what will happen when they get there. A’Fei drives fast—too fast—but it’s exhilarating, he finds, to trust in A’Fei’s skill, to trust that he’ll get them there in the end. They turn into the alley behind Di Feisheng’s rental, past a row of little fenced back gardens, then pull into a fenced area. A light clicks on, too bright, at the motion. A’Fei barely lets him get free of the motorcycle, pull off his helmet, before he’s on him. Hands catch his back, his hip, then slide ‘round to grab his ass as a mouth lands on his. “Fuck,” he gasps into A’Fei’s mouth.

And a tiny snippet from the next morning because it cracks me up. This is usually how I end up writing a scene--just dialogue at first, and then filling in everything else.

DFS: You’re wearing my sweatshirt. LLH: Yeah. DFS: Why are you wearing my sweatshirt? LLH: You jizzed on my sweater and it’s disgusting. DFS: Mn. LLH: You could apologize. DFS: I could. LLH: Ugh. Get dressed.

[skijumpingf1]

Welcome to my ski jumping Instagram following analysis that literally nobody asked for (I am in need of new hobbies btw)

For this I analysed all male jumpers who scored world cup points this season (67 in total).

The most follower has Zyla (412.000), followed by Stoch (396.000) and Kubacki (353.000). Wellinger is fourth and the first none polish jumper with around 165.000 followers.

Bartolj (1.090), Marusiak (1.233) and Imhof (1.331) have the least followers.

The FIS Instagram has a following of around 95.700 people. Jumpers who have a higher following than this and can be considered "bigger than the sport" (you get what I mean hopefully) are Zyla, Stoch, Kubacki, Wellinger, Kot, P. Prevc, R. Kobayashi, Kraft and Geiger.

On average a male ski jumper has 45.007 followers. Jumpers who have an over average following are the above and Tande, Forfang, Hayböck, Leyhe, Granerud and D. Prevc.

A few things that surprised me are that Kos is the only jumper out of the top 10 in WC that has less than 10.000 followers. Especially since he is basically carrying team Slovenia in terms of content imo. Also, Sundal has just 3.363 followers which seems low considering he was on the podium this season. I thought that Stoch has the most followers tbh and not Zyla but apparently I was wrong.

Let´s move on the nations in general.

As you can see Poland obviously has the most followers on average (who is suprised? Not me). USA has the least.

A thing to point here is that Japan is being carried heavily by Ryoyu. Without him team Japan would be just above Switzerland. Also, the second most following in team Japan has Junshiro.

This trend can be seen in team Slovenia as well. Peter has almost triple as much followers as his brother Domen, who has the second most followers in the team. Interestingly if we would count Cene in this statistic too, he would be number 3 in terms of following (in front of Timi, Anze, etc.). So we can see that jumpers with successful siblings maybe get a boost by this.

Team Norway feels the most homogeneous. The main guys (Danny, Johann, Halvor, Robert, Marius) have pretty similarly following. It is a spread from around 30.000 between them but that is nothing compared to team Austria for example (Stefan has over 70.000 more followers than Michi in second). The reason for that is that team Norway has noone who has that really big following. All the other top teams have at least one jumper who is sticking out.

From the small teams (with just one person in the standings) Ipcioglu has the most followers with over 30.000, which is quite remarkable for a jumper who isn’t from a ski jumping nation.

[riddles-n-games]

They may not always be in Texas, but Tobias Hawthorne still has a chokehold on them. 😭😭😭

Ladies and gentlemen, Texas Hold' Em, the Hawthorne Version:

Tobias Chokehold 'Em, the Graveyard Shift Edition.

[kedreeva]

My setup today at the reptile expo!

I will definitely say, the Sunday shows are not as good as the Saturday ones. We'll probably be skipping Sunday ones from now on. I did hand out a lot of business cards and brochures today, though, and made a good impression on a lot of people. I even had one person drag her family to my booth after she handled a mouse, and we were able to work out trading in the mice her niece bought from someone else for some of mine instead.

I KNOW we changed some minds today, because there were several people who made disgusted faces until I started talking and they meandered close enough to see someone holding a calm, sweet mouse. Absolutely LOVE hearing "I never knew a mouse could be like this." I had one pest-control guy stop by and explain that he kills mice for a living, but he wanted to hold a live one that was calm and he kept quietly saying to himself "it's so different/it's so nice." I had so many people ask me "how much do you handle them to get them this tame" and be surprised the answer is "I do not handle them, this temperament is bred into their DNA." I had a lady who just... broke, standing there with a mouse laying in her hands calm as could be, and she said very quietly "do little kids hold these?" Just mystified.

I've learned now to say that they won't jump or bite because they are bred for show and have to be able to sit in a judge's hand without jumping or biting, and for some reason the judge part of this just clicks the info for people? Like I always say no they won't jump or bite, but they don't always believe me... but I say a judge has to be able to hold it? Every single person was like "oh" and just relaxed about it. Suddenly it's just like: Ah, Yes, this is a Professional Mouse.

Someone from my old job showed up, and didn't recognize me, though I recognized them. When I mentioned it, they said they'd left, too, they only "lasted" two months. I said I was there twelve years and they were like HOW and it's like my dude (neutral), I entered a fugue state in 2010 and quit the job 12 years later I guess. They ended up taking 2 mice home.

At any rate, I had fun as always. We have another one Saturday, so I'm hoping to sell the few that didn't sell today, and to bring a few more that weren't quiiiiite ready to go today. I wish the tricolors would get their act together and start breeding better, because I would LOVE to offer more of those. The siamese are working on it, which is great because those ALSO sell fast. But alas, I cannot make the mice go any faster than they want to go.

[y-rhywbeth2]

I know he's Elminster, but the fact that he gets to be level 20 while I have to mod the game to get over level 12 is fundamentally unfair. Game balance blah blah - gimme level 20.

(Technically being a level 6 wizard is supposed to be impressive - at least back in 2e, not sure how game balance carries over, but I like to believe the standard continues -so we're still absurdly powerful. Nevertheless - level 20.)

[myfeelisfunny]

tell me you're bowing down to media pressure without telling me you're bowing down to media pressure

[crazycatsiren]

1. Compound bows are complicated and I'm basically having to completely rethink everything I've ever known about archery.

2. Thanks to having been chronically ill and nearly 4 years of inactivity, I have practically no upper body strength. I might have to lift some weights because my arms are basically noodles.

3. Day 1 and I've already lost an arrow. 😑

[maripr]

Me: im aroace, i don't ever wanna marry and have kids

My aunt: btw i happen to know the italian champion of magic the gathering

me: is he looking for a wife mayhaps

[atruewarrior]

Im always so stressed out about having so many wips, not being able to focus on one and subsequently not getting any writing done, and it just dawned on me that I have never stopped to ask myself which one I wanted to work on. Which one was resonating with me the most and would give me most joy and satisfaction to explore and actually spend precious time on.

Right now the answer’s none. There’s not a single wip in my drafts that would bring me anything other than that rush of dopamine you get when you finally hit post on ao3, another if you get a comment (keyword: if), and that brief pride of having produced something to justify calling yourself a “writer”. And is any of this really worth getting this worked up over?

[meowmeowmeowimacat]

New favorite hobby: taking screenshots of bluechair panels @shencomix

[curry-and-gunpowder]

Feeling completely normal about Oda Sakunosuke this morning.

[guns-in-the-valley]

i’m obsessed with this little tea storage container my husband got me from hobby lobby