First pic still fresh, second one fully healed! I have been trying to think of a Lord of the Rings tattoo for years, with no success until I saw this piece and said "Oh!!!" out loud. I am delighted with how it turned out!! @chechula, thank you so much for letting me do this 💙 your art is so lovely!

most unfortunately not :( the angle i have to hold my head at in relation to my shoulder to get my shoulder near my face creates a lot of tension, and it doesn't permit me to stick my tongue out far enough.

interestingly, i can't touch my tongue to my nose, either-- really all i can do is stick it out real far, and even that's not a given, since i can't do that if my shoulder/neck is weird! what i suspect is happening is that my tongue is actually a fairly normal length, i just seem to be able to push it way farther out of my mouth than most folks 🤷 as soon as i try to move it a direction other than "down," i start struggling.

i am very good at "down," though!

the past few mornings, Soup Cat has begun his day by walking all over my upper body DEMANDING to be petted and cuddled with both hands, and complaining loudly when i doze off. sometimes he lies down as if he's going to snooze for a bit, but he's usually up again in a couple minutes.

i really hope this trend continues, because what it pretty much means is i get to be annoyed awake in the most adorable way i can imagine. i struggle into consciousness cuddling a purring and extremely vocal kitten. it's great.

today i gave myself Blood Thing teeth :D

4: A pleasure to have in class, because I was quiet and terrified of conflict. “A pleasure to have in class,” almost universally. The exception was my second-grade teacher, who was convinced I was cheating at math because I couldn’t show my work. Look, Mrs. Kambic, I do not know how to explain to you why 9 x 3 is 27. It. just. is. That is just what the answer is.

(NOW, of course, I would say two nines is 18, and then you pull 2 off the third 9 and add that to the 18 and you’re left with 20 and 7 and that’s 27 and I don’t know how else to explain this to you, you asshole.)

21: The Lord of the Rings. Holy shit. You would not believe.

31: Ooooo, I will edit this post to add a picture!