Aaaaand the finer details are painted! I just need to let it dry, apply acrylic sealer, then a layer of laquer for more waterproofing.

I just laid down the first coat of paint! Mainly for base colors before I start adding more details~ Also need to add a coat to the inside of the mane.

There's no way that anyone has the willpower to avoid eating more than 1/16th of a costco pumpkin cheesecake.

The older I get, the easier it is to just sit back and watch problematic people dig their own grave. They may have been my friend, I may have cared about them at one point. However, I value my peace over their dysfunction. I'd rather wash my hands than endure the grit of dirt under my claws.

I've been foiled!

Screw Black Friday. Who wants to frolic in an old growth temperate rainforest?

You stay a perpetual victim? You're only going to create more victims. If you see yourself as the ultimate victim, you start invalidating and slapping people down. You start justifying how you mistreat people. You start lacking empathy and, ironically, you carry forward that cycle of abuse.

I'm really feeling like it's time to go back under the tattoo needle. But I gotta have the money for it.

It's always going to be a journey towards cultivating relationships that are built on stability. I've dealt with enough emotionally unstable people in my life. I'm at a point where I value maintaining my peace over getting swept up in their dysfunction.

I better not be getting sick again...

If you're no longer in your 20s, be sure to take extra digestive enzymes today. You'll feel a lot less crappy, and your liver and pancreas will thank you for it.

Noodle Dragon! The original will be at the MFF art show

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The 2025 holiday season feels like that slowed and pitched down version of the Alvin and the Chipmunks Christmas song. A version that feels like greening out on Alaskan Thunderfuck while stuck on a broken tilt-a-whirl.

Since I was asked a couple of times. I wanted to say that a lot of these musings I write on my timeline have more to do with reflecting on past experiences. I feel like what I learn about life can benefit anyone who might be going through similar things.

With literal decades of experience around haters, bullies, and social rejection? I can say with confidence that they never last. They come on fast and ruthless like a hurricane, but they fizzle just as quickly. They try making an enemy of you, but their biggest enemy is themselves.

Glitch Productions would really do an Animorphs adaptation justice. If you know, you know.

Learning about VFX only taught me just how dystopian and soul-killing the industry truly is. That's only become more relevant in just how much the quality of VFX has declined in recent years. Part of an ongoing legacy of exploitative practices that lurk behind the scenes of entertainment.

Ya know...I could totally picture someone making a horror dramatization of everything that happened on the set of the original Wizard of Oz. Kind of like how Ed Wood was a comedy. You wouldn't have to stray from the source because the entire production really was flat-out horrific. Uncannily so.

You know what I haven't done in a while? Turn a whole entire pig head into a big batch of broth. That's the crown jewel of Hakata-style tonkotsu flavor and funk.

Now that I have the Ichiran copycat on lock. I decided to seek out noodles that are more like Hakata-style in texture. These 99 Ranch thin noodles ABSOLUTELY do the trick! Boil at half the recommended cook time and BAM! Al-dente, whispy, angel hair-like in texture. Just like Hakata-style.

I understand the utilitarian, safety-focused aspect of the design... But the new USPS truck still looks like something a 5-year-old drew after eating their weight in pixie stix. 🤣

Roady's Ramen is super excited about coming back to @getoutthefloat.com for a third time!

All volunteers, vendors, performers and patrons get access to @roady.bsky.social Roady's Ramen. Hot ramen is perfect for those days in February that are known for being warm and sunny. :p

We're all going through it, but we need to look at it from a place of solidarity instead of a contest of who has it worse. Treating our problems like a competition of misery is insufferably shallow and does nothing but drag people down. We're supposed to be a community, not a fucking crab bucket.

Okay. So I finally caught up and watched every episode of The Amazing Digital Circus. Omg. I don't know why I waited until now. This is probably one of the best animated shows I've seen since Gravity Falls.

I was at my first Slabtown Scamper and it was lovely. Here's some pics with @hige96.bsky.social @roady.bsky.social @ruswolverine.bsky.social @buckley.deer.place and @rabidrabbit.bsky.social

I don't know how or why, but ever since I got sick last month my circadian rhythm has been locked into 10pm-5am. By 10-10:30 I'm so out of it I absolutely have to go to bed. But once I wake up at 5am I can't go back to sleep.

I had to duck out of Slabtown Scamper early, but at least I made my mark. xP 📽️ @jangobloos.bsky.social

The older you get, the more your muscles feel like a stewing hen. I will not elaborate.

Notice me, Mamdani Senpai!!!!

End of an era. The "Deployable Ramen Kit" has been repurposed as a bowl tote. But these black storage bags are such a godsend.

Could definitely go for some chashu chaahan after reorganizing the trailer. X..x

Thrift score! Found these two ginormous bags on rollers for $15 each. One can fit all of my folding chairs AND stools, and the other can fit my whole burner set! The straps on both the inside and outside are also nice.

ICE agents in the south be like.

Don't make your life harder than it has to be. That's one generational curse on my mom's side that I'm already breaking by simply not having kids.

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Ichiran copycat round two! All I had to do was dial back the tare a little and...OMG. Yesterday was good, but today? Better. SO much better.

It's wild how much can change in three years.

An ongoing and interesting pattern in my life is that many folks who have tried and failed to break me wind up breaking themselves even more. I step away, I'm done trying to help, and as a result their lives just implode and I narrowly avoided their attempts to take me with them.

There's no telling when or where a yatai will spring up. Whether it be someone's backyard, or the middle of the desert~

HOLY SHIT. Mind freaking blown. @..@ This ramen came really damn close to tasting like Ichiran.

Books with Pictures (@bkswpicspdx.bsky.social) in Portland, Oregon is a GREAT comic shop, and its owner in @omgkatiep.bsky.social is one of the best. The shop is going through a hard time right now, and if you want to help BwP out, they opened a GoFundMe to help do just that.

As someone who is Scotts-Irish, I say this with my chest. Irish immigrants were NEVER slaves. Yes, Irish immigrants were indentured servants, they were treated horribly. But you can't compare that to the way black slaves were forcibly and thoroughly stripped of culture, identity, and humanity.

Maturing is writing a post and taking a moment to stop, ask yourself if it's a good idea to post it, and deliberating on that. I've known quite a few loose cannons that fire off willy-nilly in a way that can destroy their entire lives. Speaking from interpersonal experience as much as societal.

It can take years, even decades to build something. However... All it takes is one minute of greed, anger, and emotional dysfunction to destroy everything. Take a moment to decide if something is really worth lashing out about. Is it really worth the risk of losing everything? Probably not.

Turns out, there's scientific proof that positions of power can cause brain damage. It physically changes and inhibits your brain function in ways that make you more impulsive and erratic. The best solution to pulling out of it is to envision and recall times in your life where you were powerless.

My hairdresser asked me if I'm going to a Ducks game. 🤣

Sociopaths and psychopaths will be quick turn to each other for validation. But they can and will turn on each other just as quickly. As they say, rotting fruit will fall on its own.

Going in to freshen up a mane is like completing a cycle. It's like months of top-heavy baggage is cut away and left on the floor.