#jim's journal

[headdaze]

being witness to the wind breaker ao3 page slowly grow from barely 13 pages to almost 30 now brings me a certain kind of happiness 🥹

[lone-sk]

Today I decided to revisit Jim's Journal, and I was immediately hit with this absolute banger

[potentiallyjim]

I'm really struggling right now, and since posting here is like shouting into the void, I figure the void can take all my worries.

I recently got moved to a new team at work. Without warning. It's not fun to be reminded I'm little more than a replacable cog, but whatever. The projects I'd been working on moved with me. Also fine. But more work has been added to my plate. A lot of work my previous boss and two others had been doing part-time got added to my load.

It's not that I can't do this work. It's all data science like I'm used to, but I'm now the "owner" on all this. The main point of contact, which has always been my former boss' role.

Logically, they wouldn't toss me in without a net and I know I can rely on the folks who formerly worked on this stuff to help look over my work if needed, but I still feel like I'm being tossed in the deep end.

I'm a people-pleaser. Another team is wanting more of this data science work and after working through the details, I gave them a rough timeline of 2 months. This wasn't even a generous timeline for the amount of work they were asking for. They shot back that they were expecting on the order of 2 weeks. Again, logocal me knows that's a wildly unreasonable request, but the inner people-pleaser tells me "well, if I just push myself more..."

On the bright side, talking with the folks who were doing this work previously, they balked at the two-week expectation. And my new boss is telling me not to make *any* commitments or expectations since I'm still in the "learning" phase of this project.

I woke up this morning at 5am and had a minor panic attack thinking about work. I can't live like this.

I guess being in demand means I can pick and choose what I get to work on. I get to determine what I get to work on. ... Yeah. I'm in demand amd my time is a limited supply. I get to control this economy! This is oddly empowering!

[themarvelproject]

Marvel house ad for the African Saga team-up between The Punisher and Wolverine in The Punisher War Journal featuring art by Jim Lee (1989)

[muppet-facts]

Muppet Fact #864

In the 1980 presidential election, people cast write-in votes for both Miss Piggy and Kermit.

Source:

"Cizanckas Fund ... The Write-in Votes." Matthew L. Wald. Connecticut Journal. December 7, 1980. Section C, page 3.

[garadinervi]

Tokyo Poetry Journal (ToPoJo) Vol. 15: Visual///Visionary Poetry, 2024

Essays: Scott Mehl, Jordan A. Y. Smith, and Jim Andrews Cover Art: Solène Ballesta and Lin Syoki Design: Victoria Bennett Lead editor: Zoria Petkoska K.

(via @blnxpc)

[s0larize]

[multifandomrandomgirl]

On this day in 1969 and 1971 we lost Brian Jones and Jim Morrison respectively. Rest in peace angels.

Junk journal pieces I did today for them

[jillianwygand]

some journaling I have done lately to keep the creativity flowing

[bclaymoore]

Jim Aparo ADVENTURE COMICS covers featuring the Spectre.

For a brief time in the mid-70s, Aparo worked with writer Michael Fleisher on a series of ultra-violent Spectre stories that sparked some controversy, and ultimately helped lead to a multi-millionaire lawsuit by Fleisher against author Harlan Ellison and Gary Groth's THE COMICS JOURNAL.

[headdaze]

ok follow-up post to the one screaming about how I learned to cope with character death fear yada yada yada

[for context the character I just got attached too in the webtoon is called thaddeus][he is indeed very attractive]

when I went to type in the tags I typed in the webtoon name--Killer Peter--just to see if the tag would pop up automatically (I wasn't sure since it's a fairly??? new webtoon???? just a little over a year old 🥹) the tag popped up but 2 out of the 3 other tags that also automatically pop up besides, obviously, the words I literally typed in--which as I have found out are the ones that are most often associated with the words I've put in--are:

#killer peter thaddeus ... and.... #thaddeus x reader

I literally went "oh." out loud then started laughing so hard and continued with "DANGGGGG YALL ARE THIIIIRRRRSSSTYYYYYYY!!!! LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" 🤣🤣🤣

not faulting you (I am one of you, in fact) but I was just surprised because like I said in my previous post, as a webtoon reader, I sometimes forget it's not just "me" reading the series and feeling things for it, there are other readers who carry the same passion as I do 🥰 that's why I love this place and other places where fans can congregate, like reddit 🥹 it's nice to be reminded that I'm not alone as a fan, even though it feels like it sometimes 🥹💞

tldr; y'all thirsty, good for you, I may have gotten surprised and gotten a good laugh out of it but honestly me too ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧

[aquarda]

“Tell them you came and saw and looked into my eyes and watched the shadows of the guard receding.”

[bee-barnes-author]

Got my first agent rejection today. Really trying to not let it ruin my confidence in this book.

[remembertheplunge]

I ran into these entries tonight. I don’t think I’ve read them since they I wrote them 10/28/2009.

Jim was my partner of 12 years, Jim Wentzel.

Notice how on the second page I wrote Wheeler’s suicide. I didn’t know from that, now, who Wheeler was. So, I googled Wheeler suicide 2009 and, the Medium article I referred to in my last post about Jim Wheeler came up.

Note also that Jim gave me instructions that night on what to do if he died. While he played Charlie Chaplin’s “Smile”. He loved Charlie Chaplin, a 1920s film actor who played the lovable hobo. We even had a life size statue of Charlie in his hobo outfit!

Jim, whose liver was failing, died days later on November 9, 2009. His death was unexpected.

He once said of my journal writing “I know now why you keep the journal. They are a living thing”.

And now, they and Jim have led me to Jim Wheeler and the world of the study of Queer archives. I’m amazed. Thank you Jim.

(He grows worse. Scary. Jim to me “If I die, get Jen T.to Quit Claim Hilton to you and spreading my ashes in Mariposa Grove. (While playing “Smile” Charlie Chaplin”)

[tulpar-transmissions]

🧣WE'RE TALKING TO SOMEONE

🧣AND NIGHTMARE SAID THIS:

🧣AND I'M LOSIGNG MY SJITH THWAT THE FUCK IS THAT BAJAHAHAHAH

[muppet-facts]

Muppet Fact #1048

According to a study published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, scientists have discovered a 270-million-year-old amphibamiform in Texas. The fossil was originally uncovered by the late Nicholas Hotton III. Due to the "cartoonishly wide-eyed face," the researchers have named the newly discovered species after Kermit the Frog, calling the proto-amphibian Kermitops gratus.

According to lead author Calvin So, they used Kermit's name in hopes of bridging the gap between the scientific community and the general public:

"Using the name Kermit has significant implications for how we can bridge the science that is done by paleontologists in museums to the general public. Because this animal is a distant relative of today’s amphibians, and Kermit is a modern-day amphibian icon, it was the perfect name for it.”

Sources:

Smithsonian. “Researchers Name Prehistoric Amphibian Ancestor Discovered in Smithsonian Collection After Kermit the Frog.” EurekAlert!, March 21, 2024. https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1037759.

So, Calvin, Jason D. Pardo, and Arjan Mann. “A New Amphibamiform From the Early Permian of Texas Elucidates Patterns of Cranial Diversity Among Terrestrial Amphibamiforms.” Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, March 21, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae012.