#furboa

Origins of your blog’s name: Originally it was waxlyricaloperaticmoon but the rhythm was all off. wax lyrical/lyrical opera/waxing moon - a puzzle and an imperative!

My I’ll always order this food Hmmm...I don't think I have one. I like trying new things!

overused emoji this emoticon ;-; and then 😌 and 🤷🏽‍♀️

Current comfort movie, show, book. I prefer novelty. I find horror movies/series comforting overall, and I enjoy analysing it. I do have a comfort poem - Kids Who Die by Langston Hughes. It is my candle in the deepest darkest depths.

song on repeat Recently? Pretty Girl Hi - UMI

my current hyperfixation FURBOA, I SCREECH Decorating my house. Composting.

oddly specific thing that brings me joy I have bought udders for my furboa

what smell makes me happy Burnt butter with cinnamon. Also, fresh pine.

something i loved as a kid and secretly still do I don’t remember 🤷🏽‍♀️

phone wallpaper right now I go between the weather and fluorescent lime green.

Are you an early bird or a night owl I’m up at 5am every day and am dressed and ready to go at 6. That gives me 2 hours to myself before I go to work. On a free day, I put on my fanciest lounge wear in the glorious knowledge I have HOURS to myself and the day hasn't even begun.

if you work, what is your profession and do you like it: trauma therapist. pretty specialised. I work mainly with undersupported, multiply marginalised ppl. qtpoc, neurodivergent ppl, asylum seekers, criminalised ppl, victim/survivors of FV/abuse and ppl whose identities and/or diagnoses get them labelled 'too complex' (peh! pish posh! papperlapapp!) Do I like it? There isn't space for a rant here, so to summarise: as long as I'm able to keep working according to my values, I'll keep liking it. I have a largely negative view of the field but i also have endless devotion toward humans, our hope, resilience, resistance, wisdom, and ofc, spite. (On a fandom level I think about what mental health support would look like in Thedas 100 times a day, especially when you consider how spirits, mortals and the Fade reverberate off each other. I could write endless meta about mental health and the Fade. My scholarship would thrive in the Necropolis, I tell you. You may know me as Pi but in Nevarra I would be Peike Peikelchen, prospective peruser of pre-death ponderings and posthumous perspectives. Perceptive plus polite, prommy!)

perhaps I'll poke

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goal: i am making a long furby to wear like a feather boa. i would like its head to rise up next to mine.

reason: creating a fashion staple mcing an event

considerations: I want the furboa to be long but not droopy. I also need its neck and head to stay "upright" for the entirety of a gig where i'm likely to be very active (I also know what people are like and they will want to touch it).

realisation: the long furby spine i have on hand isn't sturdy enough or bendy enough for all that

i think my best chance lies in sculpting an inner core of steel wires (not loose, will cord em together) and then feed that through a cable management 'spine' to provide structure, strength, and to keep the corded wire from overbending.

I will then cut the 'spine' into strategic segments. that way it'll have give throughout, a lot of bend where I need it most, and a way to keep certain sections more or less locked.