there is a project hail mary fan video living in my head but i don't know the first thing about making fan videos so it's just sitting here tormenting me, like athena in zeus' head demanding to be born

Dancing to the Golden Record at 78 rpm, with apologies to Bill Watterson. Attempting to figure out how to draw Rocky by just kinda scribbling with a brush pen. I had to switch pens midway through the dance sequence, though, so the line quality varies wildly, haha. #projecthailmary

gotta say, 35 was a great age to exasperatedly inform people of. just something satisfying about answering "you probably don't know what a vhs tape is" with "i'm THIRTY-FIVE." "i'm thirty-six" doesn't have the same ring to it, but that's how old i am now, happy birthday 2 me

one of my favorite little filmmaking details in Pluribus is how often a character on the phone will occupy one half of the set, leaving the other half of the screen wide open for a split screen effect... that never ever happens. idk why i like it so much, but i notice it every time.

Finished cutting the next part of this piece! Here's an exploded diagram of a Chandri crashout:

finally watched Pacific Rim. now i truly see what tumblr was sayin' about those scientists, wow they weren't kidding

so i finally started reading Skip and Loafer, it's very sweet and fun! But from the moment Shima showed up i was like 'ok... ok is my phm blorbo toxoplasmosis that bad, why does this guy remind me of /Ryan Gosling/ of all people, what is this, aaaa,' and then I turned to chapter 5 and--

ran out of tumblr and bsky to read and was like well how about facebook, what's the worst I could see? and opened it to a thread of locals arguing about a(n admittedly bland) new city logo, all of them going "how dare they use tax money, watch me do better for free!!! [posts ai dreck]" over and over

So I actually did finish gluing that day but never got around to posting. It's the saddest woman in the galaxy, Mon Mothma! There's much more to the piece left to make, hence the ragged edges, but it's finally starting to come together!

Watched Good Boy last night! Only mildly spooked afterwards, mostly because I spent most of the movie cooing over the dog and infodumping Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever facts at my friends

fun rock and hard place I'm currently caught in: Google has these summary cards at the top of certain emails, guessing at shipping times and bill amounts. They're often wrong, but difficult to tell apart from the rest of the message, leading to confusion.

A couple days' work cutting all this out, I'm taking a lunch break and then will hopefully return to glue it together. I got a fancy rotating cutting mat to cut the circles but I'm still getting used to it, so it proved ""easiest"" to just use scissors.... :'D

Watched Contact last night! First time since my teacher showed it to us in fifth grade, which was a distracted watch since I spent the whole runtime terrified that Spooky Aliens would show up at any given moment. Easier to follow the plot when you aren't ten and phobic about aliens anymore, haha

Got into #ProjectHailMary, so of course now I gotta figure out how to draw Ryan Gosling I wanna do papercrafts for phm so baddd but this step can't be skipped, haha :'D

i was angry about other things but then i realized i could put janelle monae's Sally Ride on my phm playlist so maybe life is beautiful after all

decoupled my phone's photos from google photos and went from having 3% storage and the looming threat of no longer receiving emails to using only 6% of my storage at all. now google has the audacity to send me a popup telling me to turn on backups to kEeP my PhOtoS sAfE :((((

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you used to be able to take nothing but local trolley networks from washington dc all the way to bangor maine.

my dad likes to get me to fill out a stanley cup playoff bracket based solely on my design options about the logos. this year I have Minnesota Wild beating the Ottawa Senators in the final, which my dad claimed was exactly what he suspected I'd wind up with hahaha

We've started calling Pumpkin "The World's Strongest Baby" not entirely affectionately, because he can have a fever and jaw pain and be sleepy on meds and STILL scratch us up resisting the cat carrier or pill time. He is feeling better thanks to quick intervention from the vet, at least, whew.

my cat Pumpkin had to have 12 teeth removed, my poor baby ;n;

i appreciate the restraint the project hail mary team had in not actually stuffing the soundtrack with songs about space. i however have no such limitations when building ny extremely self indulgent fan playlist, hahaha

me, sketching: wheee i love circular motifs, i'm gonna repeat 'em all over this very small illustration, wooo!!! me, cutting those tiny circles out of paper: what the hell is my problem

Having a check-in video call with my boss, I mentioned papercrafting and she was like what's that?? And I was like :D!!! I can show you!!!! because I'm at home today, so I could run to my studio, haul out the binder I keep finished work in, and hold up my stuff for her to exclaim over ;u;

Someone on the lunar mission quoted "Amaze Amaze Amaze!" and it nearly made me cry????

project hail mary good!!!! wonder if i could pull off a papercraft, I've got some stony papers......

we watched Tron (1982) yesterday and the fascinating thing was the DVD is a special edition from 2002 with meticulously-crafted themed menus and special features so it was a period piece twice over

very annoying that being home sick doesn't mean you can do whatever fun thing you like. my papercraft wip is sitting RIGHT THERE but i just coughsneezed and it was The Worst. the spirit is willing but the flesh is going back to bed

Had a papercrafting sunday for the first time in forever! Just the first part of a much larger piece cut out for now, this took about four hours. Might try to glue it later this evening, we'll see how I'm feeling.

we've had these beds for weeks and this is the first time they've actually done this!!!!

third time watching alysa liu's gold medal skate and third time just breaking down crying around the midpoint tempo change

I've got a papercraft idea that requires access to a bunch of old national geographics to cut up, but I only have, like, one, and have been too busy to hunt for more. So I keep having this annoying thought process looping in the background going "nat geos? nat geos when? where? nat geos please?"

I'm so mad about what they did to the bus terminal at Boston South Station. The useless fare gates at the train platforms cut off indoor access from the train station to the buses. Once you go outside to come back in, the new bus gates are a brightly lit, sleek wasteland with too little seating.

i wanna make a shortbread pan at pottery classsss, it would allow me to do some carving and then not have to worry about another thing to glaze! but what to carve, what to carve...

managed to catch a katakana error in a translation of something at work because I've been a nerd for this kind of thing since high school and happen to keep a kana book from back then by my desk. to all the little high school weebs out there, never give up!!! it's all worth it!!!!!

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

only recently found out that time management problems are an effect of dyscalculia, the more I read about it the more about my entire goddamn life clicks into place

fun new thing my new iTunes likes to do is automatically try to find album art, even for albums that already have perfectly good ones I put there. It'll throw up an error message like "iTunes couldn't find album art for Too Cool )))):" and i'm like yeah man that's cuz it was a mix tape from the 90s

Alysa Liu's gold medal performance keeps making me cry?? like every time I watch I start sobbing, tears rolling down my cheeks, not even entirely certain why, it's just so so good

pretty sure I lost access to my clip studio paint account, may just have to wait for a sale, suck it up, and buy it again :'3

finally worked up the courage to sync the iPod to the new computer, and yeppp most of my playlists were thrown into disarray. (⁠༎ຶ⁠ ⁠෴⁠ ⁠༎ຶ⁠)

Realizing why people get cameras to monitor their pets all day, I'm currently talking myself down from a panic spiral about one of the cats based on very little other than my brain going "wouldn't it be awful if he got into the string toys and hurt himself???"

So insulting how many times I see Adobe attempt to claim that Adobe Express, their Canva knockoff, can do even a fraction of what full art programs they're killing off can do. Like come /on./

There are a few cabinets and rooms we're not letting the cats into, but Pumpkin is especially good at diving in when we have to open them, and then once extracted will go wild for a few minutes scrabbling at the door to get back in. We like to say he's trying to have an adventure in Narnia.

now more than ever i call upon americans to please specify which Portland you're talking about

caught myself about to google "tarot cards" for a reference when I literally have a collection of them across the room from me

They both love sitting on this heater, but Pumpkin has the most extravagently sprawled limbs when he does

We adopted two cats last week! Meet Pumpkin and Zucchini:

i have the beginnings of a pluribus papercraft idea percolating. i think i need a bunch of smiley face stickers, hmmm

finished Pluribus! carol. carol you've SEEN the matrix. carol getcher head in the game.