My goal tomorrow is to make a double batch of pizzelle (split between anise, lemon, and either vanilla or almond flavors) which will take forever BUT at the end I will have a huge pile of pizzelle!!!

“Then they shouldn’t have voted for this!” Bitch, Asheville is a blue college town and the county has gone blue for decades. I am so sick of this “if I pretend disasters only happen to red areas, it means I’m safe because I’m properly on the left!” No. You’re not safe. That’s why we save everybody.

Today in Jeremy's salad: collard greens, bamboo, hibiscus leaf, pansy, and strawberry

Mommy’s lil tough guy alert 🔥 🐍 🔥

Buddy boy 🥲

If you're ever worried that Onyx is not a happy man please refer to this evidence

COLUMBO: *speaking flawless Japanese but with an insanely specific and inexplicable regional accent* Tora-san you're from Katsushika Ward? Wow. what about that. I like Katsushika ward. Now my wife, she's always preferred Adachi ward

Just had the sad/weird experience of reading a really good fanfic from nearly a decade ago, seeing I already left a glowing comment, and then realizing it was written by someone I am not friends with anymore and haven't talked to in years

Feeling very sad after ketamine but I was very anxious beforehand so that doesn't seem unreasonable. Just free-floating bad vibes, it seems like, nothing particular going wrong I am just off today! Can rerack tomorrow and hopefully make some good writing progress

I had only tried the skull once in hades and wasn't into it, but I just had a good run with persephone skull and I have decided that I am a skull fan after all

Be excellent to each other

today I realized what was wrong with the sex scene that's been bothering me for like 3000 words and while it sucks to delete a lot of progress, it'll be SO much better now. this is why thinking about writing also counts as writing!

🎶simply having a wonderful skeletor time🎶

Shoutout to @samhainpress.bsky.social for making me this incredible rainbow cicada necklace, it's so fabulous! (Also shoutout for a great design despite my lack of solid design concepts other than "this cicada is so cool, I need it to star in a necklace," I love to leave the details to the experts🙏)

Ehehe a very excited pug just jumped up at me snorting and wiggling 🥰

Lord save me from twelve-person clocktower games where there's a juggler on the script but not in play and eight people make veeeery sloooow juggles (applies to gossips as well but juggles are so much longer at the best of times)

More signs the ketamine is Doing Something: that is the least stressed about the traditional family surprise box video call I have been in years

Onyx vs. the surprise box

every once in a while I get the urge to listen to the Genesis album Invisible Touch and am reminded why I was both fascinated and unsettled by it as a kid. My dad played it in the car constantly right when it came out so it really wormed its way into my brain.

suddenly feel absolutely terrible and I bet it's because I was thinking about how Milly suddenly got very sick a year ago and then we had two more weeks with her and that was it

Just passed by a restaurant using barnacles as decoration in their window display It isn't as bad as it would be if the barnacles were still in there but: augh

time to go back and add "robot gore" to a couple stories...

I FINALLY (after a frankly embarrassing amount of time) remembered to embed the beautiful art by @elefxxk.bsky.social into my Neve/Lucanis fic 🙏 what a good excuse to read it again archiveofourown.org/works/61658764

while most of your familiars in Hades 2 have reasonable skills, it is a little less intuitive why Frinos is calming restless spirits. but then I realized they're just hopping over like hey want to see a cool frog? come to the crossroads and the spirits think damn I DO want to see a cool frog

feeling MUCH less anxious about my new job now that I have a little over a week of actual work under my belt. feedback so far has been along the lines of "nice job catching this weird bug!" so that's great

I hate salmiakki but I respect the dedication to being disgusting. It takes creativity to use a flavoring best described as "what if salt tasted like it both had an expiration date and was far past it"

Was just shown an ad in which a lifeless AI voice said "nothingness is here"

Sorry I was late I was sorting my camera film and I had to reach down and let my cat Sid sniff every one, that's just procedure. We work as a team. Anyway it took like 75 minutes.

I love cooking, it's very important to me to make dinner pretty much every day*, but woof sometimes you spend two hours making something that cooks for an hour more and it is Very Tiring *we have been ordering in on ketamine nights and it is the most delivery we've ever experienced, to give an idea

considering how strongly I feel about no one ever using or even knowing my birth name, one would think I'd use "deadname" to refer to it, but it has never felt right to me! not a criticism of the term, I think it's great, but somehow I have never vibed with it.

His dual nature

for catsitting reasons I am essentially out of the house for much of the day this week (most days I would rather work/write somewhere else, which is kind of nice, than take an admittedly very short bus ride twice) which is fine, BUT it means limited snuggle time with Onyx in the morning!!!

a thing I highly recommend is having a friend write a fanfic you want to read but aren't the right person to write 💯

His dual nature

Three new clocktower players in the games today! I am so thrilled to have this little group to play with and it seems like everyone has been having fun although not everyone loves the iconic landmark of Town Corpse Pile

I don't know if this is a correct perception or not but it feels like Britain is much more CHRISTMAS this time of year than even America is

All right, I need to figure out how to implement Travellers in gameplay before today's clocktower game since I might use them for once (I know the basic mechanics but haven't actually used them in the game interface and I'd rather not bumble through it live)

Happy Longest Night to all who observe

Behold his benevolent gaze

Innovation in munchies cuisine: sprinkling labneh with homemade lemon-lime salt and eating it with a fork

I know most of y'all don't follow clocktower stuff but believe me that the mastermind play by mara joy in this month's nrb patreon game was impeccably done 💯 I would say "it reminded me why mara is my favorite" but I never forgot in the first place, you fools

THE LADY CATHERINE DE BOURGH: What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets!

Dear lord it had been MONTHS since I had my toenails painted, I don't know why I just wasn't doing it but I am teal and sparkly and feel much better If course I have kept my hands done this whole time though, I absolutely do not feel right if my nails are bare

A Dark-eyed Junco (slate-colored subspecies) dines on dock seeds.

teamwork: I realized I was extremely hungry after starting to do my nails so enne is making me ramen and I will make them a hot toddy in an hour or so (it's all rainy over here and I've been craving tea lately so...why not)

Glad the SFWA walked back their AI policy yesterday but....what is wrong with them they they thought it was ok to allow partial use in the first place? Completely baffling and inexcusable

Today whole watching summoning salt I was stretching and enne was on the couch and onyx was going between us chirping and nuzzling like he wanted to make sure we were both paying attention to him 🥲

it feels absolutely terrible to get on a muni bus with a full wrap advertising sports betting and telling me PASSIVE INCOME? HOW ABOUT MASSIVE INCOME

thinking about Frog Detective today...if you have not played the Frog Detective games you absolutely should, they are weird and cute and very funny and wow all three games are on sale right now! frogdetective.net

the thing I have learned here at the end of my first real week of QA is that "what will I do if I can't find any problems today" is not a worry I ever need to have