To Ravelry designers who decide to put a previously free pattern behind a new paywall: fuck you. Also, after some searching, I found your pattern stashed on my laptop after all. Cheers 😘

LRP: I just signed up! I pledge to do the writing thing for 180 days in 2026. Eeeep! Scary! :D

We have a mission for you today, writers. That mission is to make a commitment to your writing life. Choose one of the pledges for GYWO and get your words out over 2026. Only you can make the decision to write! getyourwordsout.dreamwidth.org/930533.html

Me: I'm toying with this fic idea for a specific trope My girlfriend: Awesome! I wonder if [EVEN COOLER IDEA for the same trope] would work too. Me: !!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's -1 Celsius right now and I'm sooo cold. Under a blanket, with a heated blanket under me, with 2 layers including an 100% Merino wool one. 🥲 Hmm, Murderbot hypothermia fic...

@gamebyrd.bsky.social Omggg you're the one who wrote the fic series (The Last Client) that burned down my fields!!! 😭😍👌 It is SO GOOD and hurts so much! 10/10 would cry again!

It took me 1.5 hours to run the rest of my pre-holiday errands because everything was so crowded. 😅 Recovering from the crowds for the rest of the day, haha. We're chilling on the couch watching Alone in the Dark 2 (1993). It is SO wacky and slightly broken so far. 😂😂

important addition to the family

Loud constructions noises from the ground-floor apartment today. Will they motivate me to get stuff done like I want to, or will I sink into inertia again? Stay tuned to find out. 🫡 🫠 (But fr, my motivation is SO low these days. I hate it. I want to do so many cool things! T_T)

I just learned about Alan Billis, the "modern-day Pharaoh," a cab driver from England who donated his body post mortem to be used in an attempt at Ancient Egyptian mummification. FANTASTIC documentary that made me teary. Science is amazing. (CN: mildly graphic) www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYxU...

The new Duolingo exercise that makes you translate words out loud had me screaming "CORRER!!!!!" at my phone with increasing frustration as it refused to log it as correct. 🥲 😂

I am trying to rewatch Persuasion (1995) but I forgot how insufferable so many of the characters are. 😂

I never read Reader Insert fics (is that what they're called). Just not my thing. But there is one (1) that really captured me. I was refreshing the blog daily to check for updates, that's how much I like it. It's finished now & I am itching to write a snippet from a side character's POV. aaaaaaaa.

I found a fic that, instead of clearing my skin/watering my crops/etc., has left me with terrible acne, bombed my fields, and trampled all over my heart. The aaangst omg. But it's SO GOOD. 😭

My roommate is singing along to 'Mary on a Cross' & hit the very low note in the chorus flawlessly, and now I have goosebumps 🥹 Science is amazing. Medicine is amazing. The horrors persist but so do we.

Today in 'weird shit I'm googling for fanfiction-writing': popular drinks in urban 1800s Denmark. The document is called "definitely not Frankenstein (2025) fanfic". The forlorn squeaks you heard were just me, waddling away in my clown shoes.

Solange ihr kein totes Capybara in den Uni-Bus schmuggelt, um es dann illegal zu autopsieren, weil ihr rausfinden wollt, wie es gestorben ist... und damit die ganze Buslinie lahm legt, weil die hinterher gründlich desinfiziert werden muss... @plutodetective.bsky.social

I see all of y'all calling the Creature Adam, and I respect that very much, but please consider: Deucalion, Prometheus' son. I've seen it used only once in a fanfic, but it immediately rewired my brain. What a beautiful name!

*tunes into the Game Grumps livestream* Dan: "We all had to walk a gauntlet in order not to become furries, and I fell and got shot with all the arrows."

I checked on my favorite yarn of all time* & saw that the price has gone up again... 🥲 I keep telling myself that one day I'll be able to afford knitting a sweater with it & I sure hope it doesn't get discontinued before then. * Sandnes Tweed Recycled in vinrød/wine red

I'm watching Frankenstein (2025) interviews & if I drank a shot every time an interviewer calls the Creature 'Frankenstein' I'd be drunk within 5 minutes. Thankfully, Oscar Isaac (icon 🥺) is very good about correcting them. 😂

Yesterday while I was Socializing(TM), I was asked whether I am a midwife, based on my extensive knowledge of pregnancy/childbirth. Ngl it was one of the most flattering moments ever. 🥰

I'm rewatching Frankenstein (2025) and somehow, Victor's abuse is even harder to see the second time. I want to pelt him with rocks. "tHe AcHiEvEmEnT fELt uNnAtUrAL," oh did it??? Oh really??? You poor little mew mew. I'm going to kill him with my bare hands. 😂 (Oscar Isaac is AMAZING.)

I tried to pour my coffee into my hot water bottle. Then I forgot it in the microwave (the coffee). Finally, I almost put sugar (meant for the coffee) into my cereal. Uhh... brain, are we okay? Are we braining correctly?

I have just spent the past 2 hours: - learning the backloop cast-on - making a small swatch to test it - closing the neckline of my WIP (Moby sweater by petiteknit) - not realizing I'd created 2 surplus stitches - frogging the neckline - re-knitting until just pre-neckline - akskdshtfwezoooouuuugh

We've landed in São Paulo! I think I put myself into a trance by knitting for the whole flight, I'm super sleepy now. Waiting for our baggage. :D Flying with my girlfriend is super fun, it turns out!!

I've had a whale of a day. 🥲 Probably a painless migraine combined with PMS and post-move exhaustion lmao. My girlfriend is being utterly lovely about the "wasted" day, I hardly know what to do with myself. 🥹💗

Love is when you clog your girlfriend's toilet not once but TWICE and she still adores and wants to sleep with you. 💗 (And no, it wasn't because I forgot about the Brazilian toilet paper thing. 🫣)

I'm having the best time with @plutodetective.bsky.social 🤩😍🥰. There's even a local floofball who's very friendly and soft! The Moby sweater is going suspiciously great. My girlfriend's kink is me getting rest & sleeping well & I feel blessed. 🥹❤️ Plus the food is just as fantastic as last year!

Ratthi only remembered that he was still wearing his interface when SecUnit pinged him. It sent him an image. It was himself from earlier today, seen through its eyes: his hands up, eyebrows up, mouth parted in shock.

I have definitely left way too many things to do on my last weekend before traveling on Monday. See this face? It is the face of regret. 😅🙈

Tastatur war kurz cursed.

I hope that Konatsu Kato, the Japanese voice of in Silent Hill f, gets the voice acting equivalent of an Oscar. She did an incredible job. 👏👏👏

3rd attempt at this (redacted) gauge swatch, let's gooo 🫡 ✨

I've started knitting swatches for the Moby sweater ( www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... ) & this is gonna be my most ambitious project yet. I'm scared lmao but it's sooo gorgeous & IF I can make it work with my gauge it'll be a lovely addition to my winter wardrobe!

Told my social worker the story of how @plutodetective.bsky.social and I met & fell in love & she 'awww'ed so many times. 😂 I also had to explain what Tumblr is & she said she's never loved a piece of media so much that she went looking for other fans. I nodded politely, but... WHAAAT?

I'm waiting for Secret Purchase #1, just made Secret Purchase #2 in the hopes that it'll arrive in time for my travels. :3 *vibrates quietly* That was also some retail therapy because I just spent 1h15min filling out forms.

So the gunk on the downstairs balcony won't come off with regular scrubbing. So I guess I'll need to scrape it off, one tile at a time. This is Fine. ... a good chance to catch up on Re: Dracula, I guess!

We watched Hereditary and I was so viscerally uncomfy the whole time that I gave myself a tension headache. 😂👍 About 7/10, or perhaps 6.5? I liked it but the first half was stronger than the second!

With autumn being here, like every year, my urge to write horror increases! I just don't really have viable ideas. In combination with my Murderbot obsession I'd love to try my hand at MB horror fic. I'm not at all sure how to do that, or where to begin, but the urge(TM) is there.

LRP: My girlfriend wrote a book, y'all!! 😍

My book, Once Upon a Time in Space, is now available on several e-book distributors: books2read.com/u/b5p0yO If queer-inclusive sci-fi adaptations of classic fairy tales sound interesting to you, please check it out!

I just watched an absolute maniac of a Hollow Knight player try to beat Pantheon 5, while drinking a shot after every death, and he ended up killing the Radiance on FOURTEEN SHOTS. Then he drank two more "to celebrate". Why are gamers like this. 😂

All I bought was some chocolate, rice vinegar, and a few drinks, and I fucking spent 20 euros. 😭

Moments from the MCR concert that rewrote my brain chemistry: - the delightful mayhem at that first g note - when Gerard pointed/gestured to the crowd at "so many bright lights" in Famous Last Words - the whole crowd doing jazz hands during Na Na Na - the guitars in Sleep

Successfully sold both my old bed & desk today! 🎉 Now I just have 3 shelves that I'm giving away for free that need to go. Also, this money should cover my groceries for the rest of the month, which means I could get myself a little ✨treat✨ somewhere. (Lbr it'll probably be yarn.)

We just watched Bring Her Back (2025). I'm nooot okay. That was one of the best horror movies of the decade!!! Terrifying and sad. Also, gross. There were 2-3 scenes I had to look away from. 😅🙈

Nitpick of the day: when folks tag Murderathin fics as M/M. The "other" category is right there. Use it.

Once in a while I forget that I named my Gurathin playlist 'wet paper bag man' but then it comes back to me and makes me laugh. It's the little things.

I am watching progressively more insane (as in, beautifully sung & well-choreographed) ICCA sets of allll the a cappella groups and holy fuck. So many talented humans out there. Especially some vocal percussionists out there are incredibly amazing. 🤩