Y'all. My reviews solution on my website just discontinued support, and didn't bother to send an email to me about it. I lost hundreds of reviews... and I found out from googling their blog that there's no way to download an archive when trying to figure out why my reviews page wasn't working.

Woke up with legit migraine. Piercing pain, aura, can't make my eyes focus for long, vicious nausea.

Sometimes I'll use my forward facing camera with camera/video recording app open as a faux body double when I need that to get something desk-related done. Phone took this photo while I was doing that today. It's interesting, how different I feel in photos when not performing a persona for it.

Okay I’ve watched about a thousand YouTube videos and I think I’ve got this. I’ve got my frozen turkey, I’ve filled the flimsiest container I could find to the brim with scalding hot oil and placed it in my living room and the whole family is gathered around live-streaming this is gonna be awesome

Radicalize the Kid's Table with these offerings from Seven Stories Press. #Thanksgiving #Books #Activism sevenstories.com/collections/...

Happy Thanksgiving (if that's your thing). I hope you all have many, many reasons to be thankful this year

Oh damn, it's ponytail-o'clock. Shit got serious.

Alright. Got to mark four different Motion projects complete. I am ONE TASK away from on schedule and I just threw my hair in a ponytail to go get that one done. TRUST MY SYSTEMS TRUST MY SYSTEMS.

Sneak peek at *some* of the latest shop update. It's a big one. Which Bebe Fountain Pen is your favorite?

I think he's used to impressing people and riding that. FML lol.

If I'm going to attempt to predict the future and explain bizarre human behavior with complicated patterns pieced together obsessively over time, I'd rather it be learning Astrology instead of trying to get to know Yet Another Man.

Practice chorale music (less than two weeks to concert), edit images, eat handrolled chocolate truffles for dinner.

Obligatory Product Photography Session Selfie. IYKYK. Tell me I'm pretty and send (gluten-free) tacos. The next two days are going to have me cross eyed from photography and editing.

On a scale of 1 to 10, where one is crying into a tub of ice cream from exhaustion and 10 is kicking ass and taking names... I am whatever listening to this song on repeat to keep functioning is: youtu.be/4fndeDfaWCg?...

I have no idea why I woke up at 7am with my heart racing from adrenaline dumped in my blood stream, but I do know that, one, I didn't fall asleep until after 3am, and two, I am TIRED.

Thank goodness for The Ordinary's Squalane and Motion's project templates & scheduling. Saving my skin *and* sanity today.

Just learnt about a new critter: Brazilian jewelled tarantula. OMG

You know, taken as a whole, I am the good kind of terrifying. I like that. I should really do more with this.

I do not *need* a Brazilian Jeweled Tarantula as a pet, but I *really* want one. Must focus on work, not new spider frens.

It is time to be a Menace.

Someone is going to hate me for this, but I think I'm keeping this one for myself. It's been years since I've kept one of my own pens. Bebe Fountain Pen in Nimune with Electroformed Copper Kintsugi, and Barracuda nib feed under a Medium Jowo 6. youtube.com/shorts/5nU4U...

THE ELECTROFORMED COPPER KINTSUGI WORKED IT WORKED IT WORKED IT WORKED IT WORKED. Before photo because I haven't taken an after:

He asked to see me again late Weds night - suggested Friday or Saturday. I said I'd be open to figuring it out. He said we'd try and figure it out tomorrow. I texted early that morning that I could do Friday. He texted about random stuff during the day. Gamed with friends that evening.

Look, if you want to see me, figure out the appropriate summoning ritual & tools, and then *summon me.*

I do realize it's telling on myself, naming my favorite material colorway Power, but you can't tell me the name doesn't fit. 😍 //Bebe Fountain Pen body on lathe, freshly polished.

Kim, why are you terminally online? Answer:

//Daily Thread The calibration pen for the Winter 2025 design worked. I have electroforming numbers now, and now it's time to run the actual prototype to make sure the cap and body will fit together. I am working as fast as physics & chemistry allow; it does not feel fast enough. Has to be though.

Caption too long for BlueSky. www.instagram.com/p/DRTfYZsjt0...

I am the kind of decision fatigue & bodily tired where I can't even fathom why anyone would want to spend time with me or enjoy my company/presence. The debuff is total. And I'm still working because I am seriously fucking tired of people asking me when I'll have new work ready & want it to stop.

There's still a few of these left, by the way.

//Daily Thread I have shipped all orders (several days ago) but USPS is showing as label created and nothing more. I LITERALLY HANDED SOME OF THOSE PACKAGES TO MY CARRIER. We are not pleased.

I wish I didn't miss talking to someone who ended up being otherwise bad for my health and stability.

It's new ridiculously beautiful and amazing pen day courtesy of @abigailmarkov.com Moon Phase Fountain Pen. So sparkly, threads so smooth, like looking into the dark reaches of space and seeing the motes of color at play amongst the stars.

I really should not be surprised that my nutritional everything is off after almost two weeks of barely being able to eat or drink. Am I mildly irked? Yes.

Things I repeat on a weekly basis, minimum: I do not take commissions. I have a minimum six month wait for new work to hit the shop.

Maybe we shouldn't call it giving away money when billionaires give it to themselves.

Why does EVERY single dude proselytizing about AI look like Ben Shapiro's slightly hotter, but equally dim, cousin? "AI can write literary prose now!" No, it can't. It can regurgitate stolen words. Go back to snorting espresso beans, you absolute turnips.

I cleaned the casting table off last night. This does not sound like a big deal, but it was. 😂

I'm reminded of the classic XKCD comic on dependencies xkcd.com/2347 , only now it's Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS and Cloudflare that have all failed in the past 6 weeks taking huge swaths of the Internet with them.

Coming off of steroids is physically awkward. (I just need to whine, I don't need a lecture on tapering, impact etc.)

I now have enough external reference data points to understand why my tarot decks have been beating me over the head with The Empress card lately.

I need to sleep for like a year after this last month and a half. Or maybe it's just the prednisone insomnia wearing off and I hadn't noticed it before since I'm so used to sleeping poorly from stress? Or was so focused on not dying?

Met Prince Charming this weekend. First date. Bookstore. Now I wait for him to tell me he's absolutely not interested in seeing me ever again and I go back to being a workshop gremlin.

What do you mean, it's "almost December?" WHAT DO YOU MEAN.

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.

Design in Fusion -> 3D Print on Form3 -> Clean & Cure -> Hand-paint with electrically conductive paint, wire model -> Electroform copper over 3D Printed form (left, shown) -> Thread 3D form under the metal that's become the cap liner -> Refine on wood lathe, sand for a very long time (right.)

Design in Fusion -> 3D Print on Form3 -> Clean & Cure -> Hand-paint with electrically conductive paint, wire model -> Electroform copper over 3D Printed form (left, shown) -> Thread 3D form under the metal that's become the cap liner -> Refine on wood lathe, sand for a very long time (right.)

Sneak peek at the latest shop update. www.abigailmarkov.com

Got more than 3 hours of sleep! YAY! (6, in two hour stretches.)

Youngest asked for biscuits & sausage gravy this week. They found a box biscuit that was gluten-free and I just finished making a very traditional tasting gluten-free, lactose-free, white sausage gravy - on the fly. I feel like I have violated the natural order of things.