#lucidowl moment

[sentientstump]

Hi Stump!

How do you typically set yourself up for drawing? Is it an almost ritualistic practice (having a set location, time, and/or headspace and so forth) or something you relax into when something else isn't happening (like voluntarily holding your breath and then returning to normal breathing)? Do you enjoy whichever of these you experience, or is it just part of the process?

And what was the last kind of bug you saw? :D

Hi Max! Looking back... yes, i did have set ups for drawing! Let me try to remember something..

I usually was in my 1×2(ish) bed after dinner time and homework time, sitting leaning on pillow leaning on wall. I usually had no one to talk to in those late times, so i was bored and also itching to do something, to make use of free time. I guess i dont have that much "free time" anymore, i talk to two people per day now! (so, that explains the tumbleweeds here at the moment, i am a busy man Bl ...LOL)

i would usually put something to listen to at the same time? Music, songs (from only one band), original scores from different games i was normal about, hermitcraft episodes, video essays, streams and i think that's it

Big thing about me drawing in that pose is that i would get an increasing urge to fall to the left side, head on pillow and continue to draw that way? But listening to anything would be compromised, because left side now has pressure from the pillow! So it hurts now! I think I've grown since when i was a teenager when i wouldn't get that urge so quickly... Time goes.

I like to draw when it's pitch black. It feels safer somehow, maybe the screen could be lowered in brightness. In summer that can't happen, because we get lighter skies at night.

I like to post what i draw right away and not linger on it for too long. So i can close the art program for good and breathe out. If i catch a mistake later, then it's not my problem anymore, so yippee!

oh yeah and no glasses. their frame is too thick to see clearly. and i cannot get rid of smears 100%, so i could get tired eyes if im not careful i guess.

i saw a mosquito an hour ago, and it's one of those light kind? like it's smaller, less rigid, and most importantly more ANNOYING. i remember grumbling about them in my sleep last year, about their noise, how louder it sounded compared to other kinds.

Other than that.... I saw a black with a red stripe in the middle fuzzy caterpillar on a pavement side block. I was in a hurry so i didn't process it very much :c... wbu! :D

[sentientstump]

Stump! What was the first video game you played?

Whoa! I actually don't know... let me think

do mobile games count? if so then i think it would be either a cowboy flying game (Johnny Crash does Texas) (what a name) on my Sony Ericsson flip phone or a Bounce game on my Nokia phone

OR WAIT HOLD ON my moms cooler nokia phone had games on it as well!!! IT HAD A SHREK THE THIRD GAME I REMEMBER THAT (IT REQUIRED SO MUCH SKILL WITH 1-9 BUTTONS GRAHH), and also a building game? and a who wants to be a millionaire game, so now i don't truly know which of these could be the first one, im sorry 😭😭

this is such a cool question, i want to answer it for my own sake, let me have this guys-

i think its safe to assume i also got on parents' pcs at work. So then it could be windows pinball or minesweeper or any of those card games. Does windows paint count? I thought it was a game.

I happened to also have a mock-up of a laptop that taught you letters and numbers and stuff, let me find it real quick.

close...? but it was way chunkier and red and teal sorta. ...i mean, this had videogames! although kinda junky, i remember feeling like it was not truly fair. so it counts

or maybe my bro playing final fantasy (or something) on borrowed console on our huge (cube) tv, he was fighting someone and also he said that the yellow ostrich was called chocobo or something

maybe it could be that connect two tiles pokemon game. Speaking of pokemon it could be a rom on pc! Fire Red on bro's laptop! It could be a final fantasy isometric rpg game again (i searched for it several weeks ago and was so disappointed that it was FF again, my bro is a NERD jkjk you got this bro💪🏻✨)

maybe it could be on relatives PC, such as gta san andreas, assassin's creed, alavar games, lego star wars; relatives PSP with loco roco, naruto fighting game, simpsons movie game? with chocolate bunnies, pirates of carribbean; on childhood friend's PSP little big planet; ГРИБНАЯ ЭРА (ITS NY FAVOURITE GAME although it had a unskippable graphics error in one of the minigames, in Nostradamus brain specifically, but other than that it was great!!!!) and some лунтик learning game on PC my dad got from somewhere; lion king learning game? i honestly have the vaguest memories of it, смешарики параллельные миры ALSO MY ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE on our old pc, Beyond Good and Evil game where the bosses were spoopy :c (also listen to the voice acting in the first 30!!! seconds, holy smokes)

i think I've covered all of the bases here. tbh i still have no idea which one of these could be the first one... ^^"

my bets on mom's phone ones LOL

[sentientstump]

Is "dried dandelions in the winter wind" a common saying there or is it something you came up with? I've never seen that phrase before and am immediately a bit enamored with it :0

oh no- 😭 i saw a tiny hedgehog-like dried purple flowers on the window sill and also i was looking for a weird sentense to say, so i weaved the phrase with that

[sentientstump]

Stump!! I have two questions.

1) What is your ideal breakfast?

And 2) If you had to choose between having an experience that afterward would make you feel certain you'd seen a ghost- whether you believe in them or not- or having an experience wherein you were to have it unquestionably confirmed in your mind that nothing outside the realm of established mundanity exists (eg. no ghosts, also no gods or other spirits etc.), which would you choose?

two questions... a great challenge!

1) I'd say it would be fried wobbly egg on plate and then some additional trapezoid bread slices. I like to combine those to make an egg sandwich. But we usually eat dinner leftovers...

2) As an extreme anxious being i would take the second one in a heartbeat. I don't want ghosts to be around me all day and me not knowing anything about it! They won't offer me advice, they won't be able to help with loneliness when needed, then what's their deal anyway! I don't want them to be mad at me right now for these harsh words but what can they do if they do exist? They haven't done anything to me or for me yet. If they want to prove that they bring luck or something they better make it significant to witness then-

[sentientstump]

Okay, now I've gotta ask, I'm curious. What's your optimal ceiling height?

gotta be 2.5 meters, or like me plus my clone cutoff legs? anything higher will make me think about maintenance and communications and all of the ventilations and cabels and foamy panels to cover it all to bring it back to 2.5 meters. anything lower then ow, my head, i will look like a question mark even more

[sentientstump]

Hi Stump, happy pride month :D

Hi Max! Happy pride month! (⁠人⁠*⁠´⁠∀⁠｀⁠)⁠｡⁠*ﾟ⁠+