I love knowing how to bake well enough that I can eyeball some amazing mug cakes using what's in my pantry. It's at that point of budget eating, btw. Gotta bake my own little chocolate treats with extremely-past-best-by date cocoa mix (it has non-fat milk powder and it's been well sealed, it's fine)

For the major part of the last decade, Douglas (elder cat) has been too generally skittish to chill next to me at night with any regularity (I toss and turn), but in the last year he's started to drape his entire body over me for long stretches of time while I'm in bed 🥹 Makes me happy.

Took a break from editing to work on the Year Zero video script a little more.

I've always loved working graveyard/overnights, for my own delayed sleep phase, traffic hating, "I like going outside but only when outside is mostly quiet and uncrowded" tastes, but it's getting more and more difficult as businesses shrink hours year after year.

Mariners vs Blue Jays... Seattle vs Toronto... me vs beloved tlist I rarely talk to anymore because half of them never left twitter... T_T

skincare hack don’t leave the house don’t talk to anyone

throw the ball, hit the ball, catch the ball. that's the name of the game right there

The Kid Pix episode of Drawfee is wild because it's all crappy good natured fiddling with a demonstrably fickle, limited feature art program, then Karina jumps on, you hear the phrase "oekaki boards," and immediately you realize we just powerscaled over 9000.

Nearly done editing the section of the video that has tested my patience the most, that being the Japanese localization portion. The process of scrubbing for the right clips has probably accelerated my understanding of written Japanese by a few degrees on its own.

I know many of my fellow ND music over-enjoyers have also mentioned periodic abstention from looping their favorite band/album/song in order to recapture the dopamine. I've been doing that with Vampire Weekend for most of this year. I'm breaking that fast now and LET ME TELL YOU.

There are so many cognitive behavior reminders I have to give myself that my brain loves to try rejecting because 1. they sound like pop psychology bullshit and 2. they counter every instinct in my body and mind. But they work. They help. Today it's "clean your home with love and pride in mind."

Skye is so right..

Gonna get the video finished this weekend. It's shorter, yes, but it's been a BEAST to edit because it's much more specific in its references, if that makes sense? I'm also second guessing myself endlessly on some of the tangents I may choose to keep in.

I hate gay Halloween, what do you mean you’re Ancient Greek particles used in conjunction to denote correlative clauses.

Okay, maybe it's not the best in the history of ALL MUSIC, but

If there's ever a question about why it takes me so long to edit a video after recording and even preliminary edits: it's because I WILL spend an hour on a 10 second composite gag edit that four people will understand.

Eight thousand iterations of this discourse later, there is no political utility in calling fascists fat. All you're doing is propping up the brutal hierarchy which lets people like them work up from deniable social torture to state violence.

Reminder

In no way did I keep up with Homestuck enough to understand much of what happened after Act 5, but Cascade still CLEARS. I think that shit goes hard even if you don't know what's happening.

Tiffany New York Pollard non-binary???? TRULY a win for us.

There are too many -tobers. Peak -tober saturation has been achieved. Give the less fun-to-say months a chance to have cute art challenges.

FINALLY. (Ducky I'm sorry I used you as a shelf for my Switch. In my defense, you seem to kind of like it) This level was a pain in the ASSSSSSS to 100%

🐄🐄 ONE OF US 🐄🐄

Pickles are a snack that turn me into my ultimate goblin form. Hunched over my horde of pickles, crunching deliciously. No one come near me. Pickle time.

I've still got the HinaRia verse from GALA stuck in my head. Hinata's teaser photos are my lock screen/wallpaper. I'm obsessed. Say what you will, to me this is THEE killing part of this song.

"u better not be cunty Tenna when I get home." me:

Okay, so I think when XG made "GALA" they succeeded in executing what LE SSERAFIM thought they did with "Crazy". I still bop to "Crazy" but it's definitely Camp, a Disney XD gay club anthem. Meanwhile XG are actually giving mother in "GALA". (I'm dropping hints that I can't stop listening to "GALA")

I knew it would happen sometime this year, but I still want ready for the punch in the gut when a video finally showed up on my YouTube feed with "20 Years Ago" just.. right there

Yesterday I got everything recorded for a new video, but OBS did some screwy things with approximately 15 cumulative minutes of audio, peppered throughout. I can't fix that audio, I'm gonna have to re-record those parts. 😭😭😭

i actually don't know if i'll be able to go (budget is TIGHT), but 👀👀👀 LET'S FUCKING GO

Sick of having a normal profile name. Going back to my favorite Halloween season name.

Insomnia has been particularly brutal this week. Like please, I just want to be functional tomorrow 😭😭😭

this illustration from a 1920s newspaper ad is still possible in 2025

The fact that XG made an honest to god HOUSE track, and it absolutely rips, sends me so high yall don't even know. House and Future Bass are my true loves.

Chris Fleming puts the whole JoAnn fabrics situation into words I probably was always subconsciously thinking youtu.be/EfH21OGBgig?...

When Perfume finally sings "your Party Maker" in the song "Party Maker"

I strongly believe in the breadth and influence of independent art, to grant us oblique angles on the world and ourselves. But also every indie game is somewhere on this spectrum:

People in the PNW learn how to make good cake donuts challenge (impossible)

Guess I'll just leave this here.

If I do indeed continue to Make Videos, one of the things I want to incorporate more of (but which just seems to happen naturally anyway) is tangents that explain interesting or actually consequential things totally unrelated to the unimportant topic at hand. Brennan Lee Mulliganing it, if you will

It has come to my attention that all the girls are girling girling.

What’s happening: Napoleon is master of Europe. Go deeper: Only the British Fleet stands before him.

Sonic & Donpen

My very first (support) pull after giving up Umamusu for almost a week due to no Seiun Sky in nearly 150 pulls, and I got the new Seiun Sky SSR. Y'all think you're soooOOOOOoooo funny.

The question is, do I drive to Kinokuniya today and see if they have that Nintendo Dream issue in stock.

Amazing that ten years ago I was hashtag menswear obsessed and gleefully putting so much effort into every outfit, now my everyday uniform is Crewneck + Parka + Beanie + gym Leggings. (shoves text that says "I moved to Seattle ten years ago" into the corner) hey ignore that

Working on this Spamtenna Part 2 script like "i swear to god if i find myself taking another tangent to mention an obscure japanese video game from the late 90's that is explicitly referenced in deltarune..."

Not our entire team losing their minds briefly because Atlassian moved 1 (one) button that's part of a frequent workflow to a totally different place. Just cause. She's sooooo silly.

Time to recite the incantation

That was an absolutely lovely stream, what a beautiful sentiment to end things on 🩷🩷🩷