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[eeveelove04]

Flare days are for painkillers, naps, and Epithet Erased. I've been trying to read Prison of Plastic but holding a book hurts rn. Anyways me and my friend agreeing Mera had the right idea. Also me convincing my cat to watch Epithet Erased.

[emerysnonsense]

I had company for breakfast

just hopped on the table and tried to steal my food

and returned every time I tried to shoo it away, so I just made the bird stay on his side of the table

[whoviandoodler]

you ever go into a tag for a show or whatever and find several painstakingly created gif sets from interviews with the actors where they're just like. fully mocking fans? talking about them like they're the most despicable thing on this earth kind of bitter mocking. and on the one hand you're like, okay, i get it, fans can really be shit and get overly parasocial and think you owe them something beyond the work you created but on the other it's like. bro this makes me not want to engage with anything you do at all. ever. you don't have to sing your fans praises but you can do them the basic courtesy of professionalism and not ridiculing the entirety of everyone who both engages with your creative work and whose interest ultimately results in your paycheck.

[walking-circles]

recent drawings i did

[autistickaitovocaloid]

Love my server

[sichore]

I'm so fucking funny in case y'all didn't know

[pikahlua]

Just so you know, the anon who asked you about Bakugou's "connections" isn't me (I'm the one who asked you about if you like the relationship between Bakugou and Deku) , I wanted to explain to you what I don't like about how Hori's treating Bakugou but it's hard to do so in a tumblr ask. I'm also too shy to dm lol

Well thank you for telling me, because I was feeling really bad about going to the effort of writing all that for someone who I thought wasn't serious. I'm glad to know that was just a troll I mistook for you. That's my bad. Sorry.

I wish you would dm though! I promise that in conversation I'm not that serious or mean or anything. This blog is just more of a formal writing environment and I have to answer asks like I'm putting out content for everyone. But I do much prefer to answer signed asks or discuss these things in conversation, because that's far more personal and fun. I don't expect anyone to agree with me on everything, and I only criticize ideas, never people for positing them. That's what academia is supposed to be all about!

And to prove I'm actually not taking things that seriously, here's what I'm like in my meta Discord on a random day:

[deweydecimal-system]

i got to be a little plant boy yesterday so I thought I'd show the tumbly cause I'm so proud of myself

the plants pictured are a snake plant and aloe, the plant im working on in this pic is going to @questionablechaos :D

[thedaydreamdweller]

This broke me

[oediex]

I've had a box for twenty years or so filled with tea bag wrappings. My family started collecting them after my grandmother went into assisted living, and we found out she had several booklets with instructions on tea bag folding. Origami, but with the paper wrappings that tea often comes in where I live.

One year ago today, in a deafening silence, my nephew was born. The day before, three weeks before he was due, he had died in my sister's womb. The weeks that followed were pretty surreal. Mourning a person we hadn't met, but who we'd been waiting for for months. I remember how, just days before it happened, I had expressed my excitement to friends over welcoming another member to our family. I love children. I loved this one already.

My sister chose the moon on his birth announcement card. A big, white full moon against the dark blue night sky. Two years earlier, she had chosen the sun to represent her firstborn. It was fitting. So a few weeks ago, when I bought some tea that came in white paper wrappings, I wondered if I could remake his birth announcement card, but with tea bag wrappings. I had been itching to get back into it for a while now.

This afternoon, I finally got to work. Scissors, a glue stick, some folding, some ripping. I had conceived of a tea-bag-folded moon and a dark blue collage background. The former I created with eight of the white paper wrappings that I had recently acquired. For the background, I was happy to find that twenty years ago, my family had drank quite a bit of blackcurrant as well as forrest fruit tea. I ripped their wrappings into tiny pieces and patiently glued them to the piece of drawing paper I had cut to size.

While I was working, it was unclear if my vision would bear fruit. I had done tea bag folding before, creating stars and flowers to adorn a birthday or Christmas card. But combining it with a collage background from torn paper tea bag wrappings was entirely new.

Happily, the result is stunning, if may say so myself, and definitely worth another try. I better start drinking more tea.

[hiracaeth]

mental illness captured above in real time

[myneckmybackmyanxietyattack]

Who needs a flowers when you have a friend that gives you gerrymandering-themed valentines 💌

[my-life-is-a-sidequest]

Kind of wondering what my colleagues get up to after I leave

[bittersweetblasphemy]

finally got to take a walk through the cemetery we live by. very relaxing and peaceful walk. even found some family members <3

[raystarkitty]

AAA I reached out to my childhood friend who found the rainbow monkeys I drew for us!! No idea why they’re playing tennis and basketball, neither of us were very into sports 😹

Designed me and @vuiu Rainbow Monkey sonas!! One of the first original characters I made as a kid was a pink Rainbow Monkey so this was very sentimental and fun 💛

[ladyimaginarium]

Positivity from some of our& robot s.ystem m.embers !!