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i was tagged by @turneraidan 💖💖💖

🎵 last song: whoomp! there it is - tag team. saw this phm tiktok edit and haven't stopped listening to it.

📺 currently watching: adults fx (yes again. so much better the second time watching it through the panton lens), widow's bay (i want to marry matthew rhys so BAD), and you rang m'lord? (an oldie, used to watch it with my dad and he bought me the box set not long before he died. i never watched them again until now.)

💖 current obsession: adults fx, half man, and project hail mary. also jigsaws (i've been doing so many, we have a little club at work) and going to the cinema (i go at least once a week these days!).

📚 currently reading: still working through young mungo by douglas stuart, about halfway through. idk why it's taken so long, i guess i'm just not vibing with it the way i hoped i would. it's so so similar to half man in a lot of ways but it doesn't quite hit the same. oh! and i reserved butter by asako yuzuki at my library and that just became available this morning so i guess i'll start that soon.

✍️ currently working on: my half man fic that i'm not talking about. i'm about halfway through, trying not to burn myself out so i'm slowing down with the updates as the chapters get longer.

🔍 last google search: picross e7 solutions po86. bcus fuck that puzzle.

📌 tag 10: @apricustar @bambicest @danielsarmand @estpolynesianmary @horrorvampiree @introvertedeviant @lazybakerart @mossterious @noah-wyles @rmilkies

Omg thank you SO much for the tag

🎵last song: autumn town leaves by iron & wine, part of the playlist i listen to most, very good song!

📺 currently watching: leverage redemption (for the first time, though I’ve loved leverage itself for a while, MASH (for the first time since I was a kid), and Columbo! (Watching it out of order using a spreadsheet and a lot of audacity, nearly done the whole thing!) (also for the first time since I was a kid!)

💖 current obsession: Columbo, baking, pokemon, secordle (wordle but you play 16 wordles at once)

📚 currently reading: designing your life: how to build a well-loved, joyful life, by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, as recommended to me by the lovely @shrimptacodaniels , I’ve been reading it slowly cuz it’s a real thinker, oh and I’ve been slowly rereading the ASOUE series!

✍️ currently working on: a big secret project also with her (because… when is this not the case?), also currently working on RESTING MY DAMN ELBOW, oh and am part of a MASH big bang (as an artist!), I really want to write again but 1- my evil elbow and 2- its been so hard to focus on a fic lately

🔍 last google search: old man with cane pokemon, because i was talking about pokemon sprites with my brother and i had such an intense memory of the old guy with cane sprite that i had to find it

📌 tag 10: truthfully I cannot think of 10 and also I have SO much anxiety about cold-tagging people but I am trying so hard and also literallyyyyyy no pressure at all

TEN PEOPLE YOU'D LIKE TO GET TO KNOW BETTER GAME

🎵last song: sneakernight by vanessa hudgens, which is terrifying and fantastic. thanks for your unsettling club beats queen

📺 currently watching: misfits & magic s2!

💖 current obsession: watercolor and bracelet making

📚 currently reading: project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (finally!)

✍️ currently working on: big secret project, little secret project, aaaand an art gallery with my siblings

🔍 last google search: the packing list for my brother’s summer camp! had to double-check we had everything :)

📌 tag 10: i make no promises

@oh-no-here-we-go (no pressure!! I know we’ve only met briefly), @song-jay (👋🥰), and I’ve run out of people I don’t know well yet so let’s tag a darling to keep the chain going @lucy-frostblade

TEN PEOPLE YOU'D LIKE TO GET TO KNOW BETTER GAME

🎵last song: twin skeletons (hotel in nyc) by fall out boy

📺 currently watching: once upon a time recap by haley whipjack on youtube, also rewatching community and legends of tomorrow

💖 current obsession: arcane again, librarians as always, project hail mary

📚 currently reading: gideon the ninth

✍️ currently working on: dinot3 wip, art for my d20 masq fic

🔍 last google search: electric now to see if theyre doing electriccon this year

📌 tag 10: ill try

🎵 last song: Bones Don't Rust by The Mountain Goats! I've been listening to the Bleed Out album a lot while cleaning this week

📺 currently watching: Nothing currently, but I watched Project Hail Mary with my sister a few nights ago. I'd like to rewatch Drawtectives this week though!

💖 current obsession: HLVRAI and Project Hail Mary

📚 currently reading: Finished the PHM book last week and haven't started anything new yet, might be starting A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett soon

✍️ currently working on: Lots of cleaning and a short comic. Definitely need to start my Artfight refs soon

🔎 last google search: "a drop of corruption book" I forgot the author's name lmao

📌 tag 10: No pressure of course! Only respond if you'd like to!

🎵 last song: The I Want to See More song by Mike. I don't listen to music that often lol

📺 currently watching: The HL2VRAI told through animatics playlist I made recently

💖 current obsession: HLVRAI

📚 currently reading: Just finished The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade (very good I recommend) and started on We Measure the Earth With Our Bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lama

✍️ currently working on: Player-Gordon whump

🔎 last google search: "what happens when you disconnect from the internet in half life 2" and various things about dissociation. See above

🎵 last song: Riptide by Aruvn, for Hoyofair 2023— also known as my FAVOURITE song given I'm obsessed with Tartaglia.

📺 currently watching: Carmen Sandiego (the Netflix show) I'm obsessed with the thing, re-watching it over and over again since it first came out, aaa.

💖 current obsession: Genshin Impact — the lore is consuming me and I'm really excited for Snezhnaya to drop so my boy Tartaglia gets more screentime than the crumbs we've been getting.

📚 currently reading: The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien. Been a LOTR fan for years but I wanna get into the Legendarium lore proper, so I've started reading it. GAH i love how overly dramatic it is.

✍️ currently working on: CRK animatic (which will probably haunt me for a couple years) based on Silent Salt and White Lily's part of the story.

🔍 last google search: Would Lohen beat Tartaglia in a fight — my answer is no, but I could be wrong, but I also REALLY hope that I'm not wrong. Teehee. I don't think that in a serious fight Lohen would win, but in a spar, Lohen is less about fairness, no?

* New student, very small. Grace said it was pebble. Pebble is small Earth rock. Pebble likes name.

* He found out Eridians have no gender rules.

* Students brought him mineral sample. After he stopped crying he said he loves show-and-tell game. Human naming conventions oddly literal.

* I told him Earthsun grew bright.

* I took him up atop atmosphere bypass elevator to look at stars.

* He woke up from nap and found me still with him. I did not wait on his chest; he says I am heavy like “elephant” and he “couldn’t breathe.” I laid my arm over him instead, kept him close, feeling safe. He said “cuddle” was warm.

* Before class he heard younglings singing.

* He has plants in house from sprouts on ship. Plant grew “bud.”

* Engineers got seawater temperature right. He took off shoes and stood in water, sighing. He didn’t care about pants getting damp. Cried until shirt was also damp. Humans very endlessly wet.

* He missed “Doritos.”

* Adrian helped food scientists make taumoeba dried paste. Made it crunchy after heating. We fused it into triangle form. Told him it was Tauritos. That made him laugh-cry. Laugh-cry is rare and precious.

* He remembered Eridians have no gender rules.

* We made him celebration outfit. Used metals he calls pretty. He can see frequencies named “colorful” and “shiny.” These make humans happiest.

* I gave him hug when he wasn’t expecting it. Easier to hug close now with exosuit. Hug when Grace sitting down so he does not fall over.

You sleep, I watch