Gotenkslovesme Craft

Meet the Jay, the collector

This soft sculpture is part of my Birds as Folk collection, currently on display at Mansfield Museum as part of a wonderful exhibition of local creatives.

In this collection, birds take on human roles inspired by folk art and local wildlife. The jay is the collector, drawn to beautiful, curious things, feathers, acorns, buttons, and pearls, all carefully gathered and held close.

Every single feather on this piece is hand-stitched, which means two things: a lot of time… and a finger that is still recovering.

Unlike the blackbird, this one was never introduced to the cats. A deliberate choice in the interest of preservation and personal safety.

She was meant to have woodpigeon friend, but I ran out of time to make him! I will start working on him again soon.

This is one of the biggest comic cons in the UK and it’s using someone cosplaying Aika to promote the cosplay section on Facebook! Thought you might think it’s pretty cool 😁😁

YAAAAA!! I remember seeing photos of this cosplayer last year! They CROCHETED the dress and made everything themselves. So impressive! This is their instagram~

About a week later, I got a questionnaire, on paper, through the post. As though I were living in 19ThePast. It had a letter asking me to fill it out and post it back. It took me three weeks to buy an envelope. It took another to actually fill it out. When I did, I inserted the questionnaire, carefully wrote out the address on the envelope, stamped it, sealed it, and looked down to see the questionnaire still on the sofa. I had tried to post them back their own letter requesting I fill out the questionnaire. I, for one, consider this part of the diagnostic criteria.

Anyway, I finally sent it a week later, so it took five weeks in all. That was, as I say, three years ago.

Today, I had to go to the doctor for unrelated reasons, and I was like, "By the way. Do we know what's happening with the ADHD assessment? I know it's a long waiting list, but it's been three years and I literally never heard anything back. Thoughts?"

And today's doctor (a different one) pulled up my history to have a little look, and discovered that a week after I'd initially gone in - during the time I was supposed to fill out the questionnaire but was still vaguely trying to remember to buy an envelope - the referral people had responded to my GP and said "She hasn't done a questionnaire so we can't assess her." At which point, my GP was supposed to call and share this with me so we could discuss

He did not.

And then, of course, they did get my questionnaire, and he should have forwarded THAT to the assessment people at that point to advance the process.

He did not.

Which means I have just wasted three years and a week waiting for an assessment that was never coming. The whole thing came to an end. That was that. At no point did that first doctor ever reconsider any part of my case. He was told they couldn't proceed, and didn't even think to tell me; he just thought "Well, sucks to be her" and then moved the fuck on with his life, I presume.

rainy day 🌧️

Mentally I'm here, whee! 💜🎈☁️ Weeks later and I'm still obsessed with this loading screen in Pokémon Pokopia, the song and the expressions on their faces get me each time.

Or in an alternate reality:

Your mom/aunt/grandma/etc remarries and they are actually a cool person, you use their first name. So if you were to introduce them they would be: Aunt Jane and Bob.