Rayhne's Den

I carried a large stuffed rabbit whenever I went in public for about a week to observe the reaction of others. The point of the project was to do something harmless yet unusual to see if the action would be considered deviant, in which case someone had to try to correct or shame the behavior.

Long story short, nobody tried to correct my behavior. I was asked about it casually, had a few lingering stares thrown my way and when I was with my boyfriend, shop employees would direct questions to him instead of me. However, nobody refused to assist me when I was alone in a store, nobody said anything about the rabbit besides “oh, thats a cute bunny!” and I attended college classes without even a teacher questioning it.

So I carried this pig in my backpack all through college, periodically taking it out, spraying my screen, and using the pig to wipe it off. 

Now, I kept the pig in the side pocket of my bag where he was completely visible.

Then one day in screenwriting class I pulled him out to wipe my screen. 

One of the guys sitting next to me looked appalled. “You’re wiping it off with your little stuffed animal??” 

I explained what the pig was. 

Turns out, the guy had noticed it and just thought it was adorable I carried a stuffed animal with me every day. He’d never mentioned it before. 

The reactions I get range from amusement through delight and “WHERE DID YOU GET THAT” but so far, never disapproval.

The moral of the story is Carry Your Emotional Support Plushie With Pride, You Deserve It.

I already had a Wolverine and a honey Badger Which I got at DragonCon.

Funny story: at 2019 DragonCon, author Peter David spotted my honey Badger, loved it, and handed me the money to go buy him one since he couldn’t leave his table.

Okay but - 

Domino fails their final test, but Shaak manages to stop them from being decommissioned or sent to work sanitation by roping Jocasta into snatching them up for that reason. All the members of Domino kind of collectively groan and complain but ship out anyway, and they’re pretty sure it’s all going to be this terrible, boring slog through ancient books with some stuffy librarian Jedi - 

THIS JEDI LIBRARIAN MAY HAVE DEVOTED HERSELF TO BOOKS BUT SHE KNEW HOW TO HANDLE HERSELF WHEN SOME SHIT WENT DOWN. Best of all, even in the face of danger, Jocasta Nu had her shit together.  Even when faced with the desecration of her beloved home and her beloved books and her beloved Archive, she still managed to have her shit together and she deleted it, rather than let it fall into a monster’s hands. The thing she spent her life protecting and tending to, that’s the thing she destroyed rather than let it be used for evil. And when further faced with the boy they had adopted, who had murdered his brothers and sisters, including the tiny ones, she pointedly asked him what he wanted, because she could see he had no idea. Jocasta Nu went to her death with dignity and peace, even after all of the badassery she was capable of.

the battalion that's assigned to her is absolutely flabbergasted that she's practically ancient. she hobbles around on a walking stick and carries little butterscotch candies in her bag and hands them out at random. she's always saying things like "speak up, sonny, these ears aren't what they used to be!" and tells long winded stories that begin with "back in my day-"

and the clones come to one simple conclusion: they're all going to die

but then, in the middle of their first battle together, the jedi they've secretly started calling 'granny' behind her back freaking LAUNCHES HERSELF INTO THE CHAOS AND DESTROYS AN ENTIRE ARMY OF DROIDS SINGLE HANDEDLY

like i'm talking backflips, force explosions, the works. and her battalion is so shocked they can't move an inch while this lady wreaks havoc like some harbinger of doom

Okay but - 

Domino fails their final test, but Shaak manages to stop them from being decommissioned or sent to work sanitation by roping Jocasta into snatching them up for that reason. All the members of Domino kind of collectively groan and complain but ship out anyway, and they’re pretty sure it’s all going to be this terrible, boring slog through ancient books with some stuffy librarian Jedi - 

THIS JEDI LIBRARIAN MAY HAVE DEVOTED HERSELF TO BOOKS BUT SHE KNEW HOW TO HANDLE HERSELF WHEN SOME SHIT WENT DOWN. Best of all, even in the face of danger, Jocasta Nu had her shit together.  Even when faced with the desecration of her beloved home and her beloved books and her beloved Archive, she still managed to have her shit together and she deleted it, rather than let it fall into a monster’s hands. The thing she spent her life protecting and tending to, that’s the thing she destroyed rather than let it be used for evil. And when further faced with the boy they had adopted, who had murdered his brothers and sisters, including the tiny ones, she pointedly asked him what he wanted, because she could see he had no idea. Jocasta Nu went to her death with dignity and peace, even after all of the badassery she was capable of.

the battalion that's assigned to her is absolutely flabbergasted that she's practically ancient. she hobbles around on a walking stick and carries little butterscotch candies in her bag and hands them out at random. she's always saying things like "speak up, sonny, these ears aren't what they used to be!" and tells long winded stories that begin with "back in my day-"

and the clones come to one simple conclusion: they're all going to die

but then, in the middle of their first battle together, the jedi they've secretly started calling 'granny' behind her back freaking LAUNCHES HERSELF INTO THE CHAOS AND DESTROYS AN ENTIRE ARMY OF DROIDS SINGLE HANDEDLY

like i'm talking backflips, force explosions, the works. and her battalion is so shocked they can't move an inch while this lady wreaks havoc like some harbinger of doom

Okay but - 

Domino fails their final test, but Shaak manages to stop them from being decommissioned or sent to work sanitation by roping Jocasta into snatching them up for that reason. All the members of Domino kind of collectively groan and complain but ship out anyway, and they’re pretty sure it’s all going to be this terrible, boring slog through ancient books with some stuffy librarian Jedi - 

THIS JEDI LIBRARIAN MAY HAVE DEVOTED HERSELF TO BOOKS BUT SHE KNEW HOW TO HANDLE HERSELF WHEN SOME SHIT WENT DOWN. Best of all, even in the face of danger, Jocasta Nu had her shit together.  Even when faced with the desecration of her beloved home and her beloved books and her beloved Archive, she still managed to have her shit together and she deleted it, rather than let it fall into a monster’s hands. The thing she spent her life protecting and tending to, that’s the thing she destroyed rather than let it be used for evil. And when further faced with the boy they had adopted, who had murdered his brothers and sisters, including the tiny ones, she pointedly asked him what he wanted, because she could see he had no idea. Jocasta Nu went to her death with dignity and peace, even after all of the badassery she was capable of.

the battalion that's assigned to her is absolutely flabbergasted that she's practically ancient. she hobbles around on a walking stick and carries little butterscotch candies in her bag and hands them out at random. she's always saying things like "speak up, sonny, these ears aren't what they used to be!" and tells long winded stories that begin with "back in my day-"

and the clones come to one simple conclusion: they're all going to die

but then, in the middle of their first battle together, the jedi they've secretly started calling 'granny' behind her back freaking LAUNCHES HERSELF INTO THE CHAOS AND DESTROYS AN ENTIRE ARMY OF DROIDS SINGLE HANDEDLY

like i'm talking backflips, force explosions, the works. and her battalion is so shocked they can't move an inch while this lady wreaks havoc like some harbinger of doom

and i went into this transcription kinda scared, bc i know mark is v smart and he can talk up a storm on topics. he was asked about his internet connection at one of the m&g’s i was at and he rambled for at least 20min on broadband internet, glass fiber and the evolution of technology.

so like, i came into this prepared aaand i was disappointed haha. maybe it’s 15y of heavily obsessing over his interviews, panels and cons but like… i get what he’s saying? i appreciate it so hard. he is such a smart man, so kind, so lovely. he is the only actor of spn who p much always takes the time at cons to express his love for the fans and for coming all the way to cons to see him and listen to him. i’ve been at so many cons and nobody else took more time than a thanks. 

Happy New Year, y’all.  Let’s hope it’s less of a dumpster fire.

I know I usually do a whole Art Goals post thing but I do not even have anything this year.  I made it through 2020 while still being creative and that’s all that matters.

Okay, more seriously, I have really become more confident of a writer.  Thank you for all your kind words, because they mean a lot when I’ve previously been way too shy and insecure to really share what I write even though I’ve been crafting stories since before I could even hold a pencil.  I’ve absolutely loved writing for The Mandalorian and its characters and I certainly want to continue.  The big ones are ACCPOV of course, Hunter and the Hunted, and I’d like to go back to writing more for the 101 Yoditos AU.

I spent most of New Year’s Eve starting to transfer all the 101 Yoditos AU content to AO3 (and oh wow there is so much of it, I made it to page 7 out of 36).  It’s all collected in a 101 Yoditos AU series.  Most art (except the first few that started the AU) is collected in one work, all those asks and such in another, and the actual ficlets will be their own works.  So if you ever want to see it all in one place, it’s there.  It’s been really fun to go back and see all the old posts and ideas!  Maybe eventually I will even go back and work on the actual fic some more, but no promises, unfortunately free time is limited for me and I already have two big fics on my plate.

For drawing my only goals are really Continue and Pace Myself so the tendonitis doesn’t flare up.  I’m in a slump right now again but it’ll pass, it always does.  Facial Features remain a mystery to me no matter how many references I try to use, but I’ll keep at it.

I carried a large stuffed rabbit whenever I went in public for about a week to observe the reaction of others. The point of the project was to do something harmless yet unusual to see if the action would be considered deviant, in which case someone had to try to correct or shame the behavior.

Long story short, nobody tried to correct my behavior. I was asked about it casually, had a few lingering stares thrown my way and when I was with my boyfriend, shop employees would direct questions to him instead of me. However, nobody refused to assist me when I was alone in a store, nobody said anything about the rabbit besides “oh, thats a cute bunny!” and I attended college classes without even a teacher questioning it.

So I carried this pig in my backpack all through college, periodically taking it out, spraying my screen, and using the pig to wipe it off. 

Now, I kept the pig in the side pocket of my bag where he was completely visible.

Then one day in screenwriting class I pulled him out to wipe my screen. 

One of the guys sitting next to me looked appalled. “You’re wiping it off with your little stuffed animal??” 

I explained what the pig was. 

Turns out, the guy had noticed it and just thought it was adorable I carried a stuffed animal with me every day. He’d never mentioned it before.