Historian, local Barney Calhoun cosplayer, cilantro enthusiast.
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✅ Museum volunteer bowling night
✅ Bowl supremely well for once wtf
✅✅ Crush notices good bowling 🙌💪🤌🤌🤌
✅ Free adult beverages
✅ Talk to boss for an hour about a bunch of stuff
✅ Arrive home
✅ Discover 1/3 chicken wing has been stuck to face for majority of night
#suwave and nonchalent#was dreading it after the last two weeks of Big Emotions#but it was 1500% what I needed#before dealing with this new job and the large upheaval at work#lots of Big Feelings for the museum fam tonight ❤️#it was all good#but the bonus best part was definitely bowling prowess getting Perceived#said Perceiver bowled phenomenally two years ago#like three weeks after a hip replacement#and i was like#dang#at the time
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im a hater BECAUSE i like things and want them to be good. and also because im an asshole
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2025
BE A STUDENT OF WHAT YOU ADMIRE
DO IT BADLY RATHER THAN NOT AT ALL
TO DESPAIR IS TO CEDE VICTORY TO THOSE WHO DO NOT DESERVE IT
BROADEN YOUR CULTURAL HORIZONS
REVEL IN THE ANALOGUE
ACTION ABSORBS ANXIETY
GRIEF IS PRODUCTIVE; GUILT IS NOT
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So... 2024.
- Barney C.
- Learned some Blender basics
- Went back to Seattle and ECCC
- conceived and oversaw installation of massive new interactive exhibit at work
- conceived, designed, and produced massive temporary centennial display at work
- scored a Marriott room first try for D*Con 2025
- interviewed for and got senior curatorial position at work
- lost one of the horses to a terrible bout of colic
- lived in a cabin on an island for three days
- lost my new (very cool) boss five days ago in a climbing accident (still processing that one)
- met some of THE coolest possible people at D*Con this year
- half-assed a Blue Shift!Barney cosplay
- printed and built a whole-ass AR2
- rescued a very fresh calf that had spent the night in the ditch outside the barbwire fence
- acquired a resin printer and learned how to print 3D stuff in resin
- learned basic electronics for cosplay bullshit
- Barney's Civil Protection helmet
- got marginally better at running
- took lots of naps with the cats
- climbed one (1) mountain with @veradune
Here's to 2025!
#the greats have been great#and the bads have been deeply distressing#and will continue to be#but grateful for the health of family and friends#resolutions: make more shit#climb more mountains#draw more shit#get shit done at work#don't take shit at work#take more barney photos#including some proper ones of the Blue Shift kit#finish watching hlvrai so I know what the Kids™ are on about#play through HL2 with the dev commentary
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I must not go into the tags. The tags are the mind-killer. The tags are the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will ignore the tags. I will permit my ignorance to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn my inner eye to see its path. Where my ignorance has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
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When a broken system openly and brazenly profits from your suffering and death, what options do you truly have?
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Not to be old on main but if I am trying to view a $1600/month rental unit and the rental rep is using words like "wanna" and "gonna" in their texts, it's not really helping their sales pitch.
#between the price and the half-assed comms#i feel this is deeply symptomatic of Modern Society (TM)#bonus points for spelling my name completely wrong too#we live in a society
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CAITLYN's Fight Scene
Arcane Season 2 | Act3 |
#fiiinally finished season 2 last night and the whole street fight / hold the bridge sequence was absolutely as cool as i thought it would be#1000000000/10 would watch again three million times#caitlyn kiramman#s2 had a bit of a rough start#and the jesus!victor stuff was Not Subtle™#but that final episode was absolutely everything i wanted from the show#arcane spoilers
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Man, sometimes I think about deleting my FB account but then gems like this turn up and you're just not gonna find that anywhere else.
Context: Sir-Gay was bitching about Manulife having a Pride flag in the background of their profile picture.
#should probably block out the names#but who gaf#always here for grade-school roasts for people with grade-school opinions
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Hmmm... might be getting back on my Arcane bullshit. Is this the year I'm finally going to do a cosplay about it? More news at 6. 🤔
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"Do you write a lot of smut?"
"Well, it took me three tries to spell orgasim the other day so that's gonna be a no."
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Start the morning off right by watching a bunch of your shift-mates get absolutely wrecked by one single dude with a crowbar and a pistol.
#barney calhoun#barney calhoun cosplay#just realized the crossed arms are actually a bit barney-coded as per That One Image#anyway this was posted in a group image post a while back but i liked the angle and the seacan texture enough#that I thought it needed its own post#half life 2#half life 2 cosplay#civil protection#metrocop#“just like old times eh gordon?”#also have some griddy stuff planned and might actually be able to take those photos this weekend now that it's not -20 C
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citadel: explodes
every citizen: woooo yea
scientist on the TV: we all need to fuck. now
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Old friend.
#barney calhoun#barney calhoun cosplay#had the notion a while back about barney coming across a crowbar while deep under-cover#current photo by MKissau Photography (IG)#extra edits by me#fun fact: i couldn't actually see the thing there#head-canon: Civil Protection helmets come with a comprehensive HUD#because you can see jack-shit in general with this#half-life 2#half life 2#gordon freeman
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All of this, plus:
taking your enemy's weapon out of their holster to use on a different enemy
horniest battle moments:
- taking your ally's weapon out of their scabard to use yourself
- using someone else's shoulder as a rifle stand
- nudging someone's chin up with the tip of your weapon
- freezing with your blades against one another's throats, breathing into each other's mouths
#would be lying if I said this wasn't going in my barney fic#inspired 1000% by camina drummer in season 2(?) of the expanse
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Love how eating a Big Mac in the car at night involves getting the Big Mac all over yourself and the inside of the car every single goddamn time.
#struggle bus#only quality posts here lately#but hoooope to have some really good stuff this weekend
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