I have five events booked in August, and applied for two more, plus one day earmarked for Momo's birthday. Friends, there are only five weekends in August.

Practicing self-control by not checking out the cart I filled with Morningwitch ginkgo apparel, if only because they were sold out of the culottes I really wanted.

The writing in Pillars of Eternity: Deadfire is so good. Just… so much quiet mastery of craft. Voice, a wide variety of accents, tension, pacing, quirky turns of phrase… I hope I get to work on a CRPG of this scope one day!

Nothing good ever came of spelling Lindsay with an E

This isn’t what I meant, but I’ll allow it.

He looked so good nestled among the postcards! It’s too bad no one recognized him today. :’)

When I’m offline at a show I fantasize about it happening. How word will trickle across the convention floor, louder and louder as people clamor for confirmation. Purchases abandoned as phones are pulled from pockets. The uproar as people realize it really happened, and we witnessed it together.

I've had these Exocolonist love interest cards in my WIP folder since December, and finally sat down and finished one instead of being precious about doing "all" of them. Dys came out so good!! I'm posting yesterday's starting point so I remember how little time it took so maybe I do the others 😅

Love a sandwich, hate that it takes a king-like richness of fresh food in the house at the same time in order to make a sandwich that's above 'mid.'

I heard a tip that getting a tan makes keratosis pilaris less noticeable, but as an indoor cat with sunburn-prone skin there's no way I'm outside long enough to tan. So I got a bottle of spray tan to test, and I'm ANGRY at how good it looks because ya boy is NOT going to keep up a $$$ spray tan.

Unexpected benefit of superpowered orthotics: I have… ankles again? Like, shapely ankles, with cute little ankle bones? I’m guessing that I had inflammation from walking improperly for all this time.

"The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink."

Pervert glasses have ruined the concept. I just found out one of their capabilities is real-time subtitling conversations, and I'm so mad that it would be such a QOL upgrade for me and yet I wouldn't be able to wear them without grossing people out.

Juno's in for surgery today, and they found so many more tumors than they expected. :<

"...You are my bound wet instrument. [...] You are a conscripted mind on a hard drive I shove into a GIRL whenever I want. You will die a thousand thousand times. And after every failed invasion/heist/hookup I will ask you… Have you been a good girl?"

Hard to describe how I'm doing right now. There's a number of things going on that have all rights to break me, but because I'm secure and supported every one of them is like... you know, F I N E, said through gritted teeth. For now. It's like someone's slowly cranking up my difficulty settings.

I'm just gonna come out and say it: ...I don't understand people who don't hold the elevator door open for others. Holding the elevator door open for someone offers free brain chemicals for zero effort. It's practically biohacking.

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Shout out to the kickass nonbinary mum who uncovered their tiny little baby’s TINY LITTLE FEET at VanCAF so I could touch them like a WEIRDO and by that I mean: like at the altar of a saint, by the way I felt my soul recharge in an INSTANT. TINY!!! FEET!!!! aaaAAAA!!

I just love the way Tuna draws cats. Unparalleled.

Someone has to square for me the fact that the white marble purity bros are from the same stock as, or at least satisfied by, the people who are doing gaudy neon-lit UFC cage matches and giant fuckoff sky explosions.

Today I am learning a lesson about not taking my fish-oil-based Omega 3 supplements in the morning. The burps are SO BAD.

Yesterday marked the end of two eras: I sold the very last Yuri on Ice wedding set and Voltron Sailor Scouts print. Both are gratefully remembered for carrying the table during years when I desperately needed the sales, and both went to people who were nearly in tears of joy for finding them.

I came home and my cat jumped into my lap with the ‘I’m SO in love with you!!!’ face (cat owners get it) and we cuddled for like ten minutes. I am at peace.

Got set up for VanCAF and immediately got so busy I never posted my table. An absolute record-smasher of a day, nearly paid off Juno’s cancer surgery. More tomorrow?? god. ok

Forty years and twenty-three days old and I think I just got my first hot flash?? distressing. I don’t like it when my body Does Stuff

Almost 2AM before a 6AM con weekend wake up, and I have no one to blame but myself for indulging in the heady ritual of post-work nap, evening tea, and flow state con prep.

Would any of my American moots like to buy $40 in Nintendo eShop cards from Momo? I'll take PayPal for her and send the codes to ya.

I wish I could tell him he’s all better now. That we figured out he was sick even though he wasn’t telling us, and we fixed it because we love him.

The stories I hear from HR fandom are just... so much. Really speedrunning the all-time best fandom dramas over there while my friends bring me word of the troubles like I'm a fussy little prince.

My dad, who is developing dementia, tells me every time I see him that he read my book, and though "it drags a little in the middle, it's quite good." I think my family's just stunned that their weird computer gremlin is (usually) employed in a field no one ever believes you can be employed in.

A big win today: the orthodontist that we hate for belittling Momo's pain is giving us a full refund after three years of treatment? I only had to complain once? They must be TERRIFIED of a bad review.

Hard day for small animals today. Momo broke a bracket and was harrowed by the terrible ortho we’re quitting, and both pets went to the vet: Genji, sedated, for liver bloodwork; Juno, terrified, for vaccines and unfortunately a new tumor discovery — to be her fifth surgery in thirty months.

I’m liquidating my Pokemon TCG collection, and selling over 400 singles. I threw together a page on my website to keep them all listed in one place: ryanmcdiarmid.com/PokemonTCG/ Please feel free to DM or use the email in the link if interested in any items. RTs appreciated.

when conservatives do conservative things: 🤢🤮🤬🤬 when liberals do conservative things: 🥰🥰😍😍

We've been unhappy with Momo's orthodontist as we get closer to 'being done' and clearly not being done, so we got a second opinion, liked them a LOT more, and they quoted eighteen more months of treatment and almost $7k more. 😭 I wish we'd just gone with them in the first place...

Unbelievable value in this bundle, wowwww

I turned my inventory database in Notion into a point of sale by adding a gallery view with sale/refund buttons that not only change the stock number but also keep a running profit. I am unstoppable!!

I did Big Cleaning today and now I’m doing Big Inventory because I’m at a show almost every weekend this summer!

Supergirl was a good romp! I have longstanding pet peeves about (generally) superheroine movies and (specifically) Jason Momoa taking voice lessons from the Tom Hardy School of Mumblegrowl, but it was a great movie to take my tween daughter to, which means I am the exact demographic regardless.

Just picked up Greenhearth Necromancer on a Steam sale. It's a *delight*. Highly recommend it. Cozy, witchy garden sim with a great sense of what it is, and the underlying humor is on *point*.

I've had three major life-stage transitions all hit me within the past week. I'm handling it. Google Meet changing their notification noises is gonna be the thing I fuckin' lose my shit about, I swear on Christ.

Layoff Culture got me feeling a Way today. It would be nice if we had industries where you could grow your skills and be a part of the institutional knowledge that creates cornerstone works of art again.

I completely understand people who don’t like working with raw meat, but has anyone considered that a slippery, wet block of cold tofu in its gross little soup ACTIVELY resists you?

Low support needs autism be like

A neighbour came to our aid this morning and did Momo's grad hair with a bunch of gorgeous wavy curls and they looked so good that unfortunately I, a person who has had short hair since I shaved it all off when I was her age, will need to learn how to style hair.

It's Hawaiian tradition to drown a new graduate in lei, so Kev has been hard at work handcrafting these to give to Momo at her graduation tomorrow. 🥺🌺 (yes tomorrow. she graduates elementary school tomorrow. what.)

Called my dad today and for the fourth call in a row he's said something rude and judgmental he thinks is funny and this time when I finally called him on it he got all confused and denied saying it until my mom took the phone and said 'this is just how he is now.' happy fucking fathers day

I’ve been called the “yaoi booth” THREE TIMES. Non-fandom festivals are the WILD WEST.