The Thing Is That Loid Thinks Of Himself As A Completely Average Normal Person, Which Means Whenever

So, I made this shoddy little zine awhile back that features all the sdv bachelors and bachelorettes with their favorite gifts. I think I would like to expand on it eventually and include all the NPC characters and a calendar and some other useful info that I always have to refer to the wiki for. But who knows when I’ll have the time.

These are all up for sale on my etsy shop.

netflix really dropped heartbreak high and do revenge in the same week and expect me to be normal about it

Everything is The Good Place and nothing hurts. 

There’s a quote from Bert where he says he‘s “known big bird since he was a little bird” and the thought of it makes my heart cry so here’s that

The last time I got really into Stardew I made these calendars to help myself keep track of things, and I just realized I never posted them here!

They track birthdays, festivals, special forages, clinic days (the transparent villagers with green crosses), days that shops aren't open (the greyed out faces on the days of the week, traveling cart, and seasonal crops and fish. (Pierre and Clint are each half greyed out because their availability changes after you complete the community center).

I've found them helpful because I tend to only be able to play short amounts a few times a week, so this way I can mark down future dates that I need to do something important, last days for planting a specific crop, and of course have an easy way to see whose birthday is coming up! It's also saved a lot of headache trying to remember when Marnie is actually in her shop.

for mama

You ever have a compliment that just sticks with you for literal years and years? Maybe forever?

For me, it’s when I was working as a figure model for art classes at my university (because it paid well due to being an early-morning thing and was easy to get because nobody else wanted to apply due to the near-nakedness and pervasive body image issues in our culture). There was this one professor who was always so happy when I showed up as the female model for that day because he said that I had a “good sense of motion”, and it was fun to draw. (Which, in itself, was a great compliment because I am a clumsy, self conscious person.)

But what really got me was one day we were doing 15-minute poses, which are harder to do because you need to come up with something interesting and dynamic, but you have to be able to hold it for a quarter of an hour without moving even a little bit. They didn’t have any specific guidance for us, so I just… did something. Idk. But about five minutes into wandering around helping the students and talking to them, he paused and told me that I was doing a good job, and, “What a fun pose. You’re reminding me of Rodin’s ‘Eve,’ there. You always have a very Rodin sort of energy about you. Thanks for waking up early for us.” And then just went back to discussing the use of ink with one of the students like he hadn’t almost reduced me to tears.

Then I went home and looked up Rodin’s ‘Eve’ and was blown away because she actually did look like me? I had ended up in that pose almost exactly just by chance, but she also had a soft, squidgy tummy and the hip dips and weird butt and big feet and thunder thighs and strong calves, just like me.

And I don’t have a great relationship with my body. Very much the opposite. I frequently hate the way I look and fit into it, but then occasionally from the depths of the past comes the voice of an art nerd telling me I’m like a Rodin sculpture, and I feel like, “Yeah, I have Rodin Energy so suck it, brain!” And it helps me reframe the way I’m thinking about myself because I can get outside of my head for a minute and see that while I’m frustrated with my body, it has an art to it just by existing. Soft tummy? Fun to draw, nice curves! Big thighs? Strong lines! Dimples and wrinkles and slopes become a place for light to sit. Bodies are so cool, and that includes mine! Even if it’s not quite what I want it to be, it’s still a work of art that nature sculpted just for me.

And for him it just seemed like such an off-handed, normal, natural thing to say. He thought “Hey, that looks like Rodin,” and so he said it.

Just… Idk. Compliment people. Say what’s on your mind. You have no idea whether it’s going to totally change a person’s life. It’s just words to you but it could be really, deeply important to them.

Be sad but get up. You don’t have to shower. You can put on the same clothes you wore yesterday. Nobody will care. The sky is blue, wildflowers are blooming by the side of the road. Strangers have stories to tell. Go for a walk, go for a drive, go to a greenhouse, a bookstore, a movie theater. You can stay in bed but nothing is going to happen there. Sometimes you’ve really just got to get the fuck up.

It's tough being a queer Christian because you have one vocal minority within Christiandom that wants to condemn you to hell and treat you like you don't understand your religion and on the other side you have another vocal minority of queers treating you like you are incompetent at best and a traitor and evil incarnate at worst. It's the wick burning at both ends of the candlestick.

Honestly? Fuck this culture of shaming people for learning about things late and liking them. who gives a shit if you discovered a song from years ago and youre in love with the band? Catch up with series you just discovered and talk about them to your friends, fall in love with movies others have known way before you even heard of them, read books youd heard of long ago but never got interested in until now and become a huge fan!! This idea that people are “fake fans” for not knowing about or being interested in things before and loving them now is garbage and we need to get rid of it. Just let people enjoy things jfc!!