#ynqh

If the attacks in Chicago actually prove to be by coyotes, it will be the first time on record that a coyote has bitten someone in Illinois. (Past reports have turned out to be dog bites.) I'm pretty sure far more people have been bitten by ducks at your local pond. Respect wildlife, but don't panic.

There have been several legit attacks on other animals by coyotes and a few close calls with people, I mean, the coyotes are not 100% nonviolent in this. But it’s always in February, because mating season. Every year I want to yell at the suburbanites to STOP THINKING COYOTES ARE VICIOUS ANIMALS AND PUT YOUR FUCKING DOG ON A LEASH. Like, all sympathy to someone who has lost a pet, but this happens Every Year. 

ynqh replied to your post “Serious question: is sauce indeed slime with a purpose?”

It’s the placing of human children after honey. Where honey IS the foodstuff. Poor Sam, foiled by dissimilar list items.

See, the problem is, I knew, I KNEW, that if I said “slime is a foodstuff (bees)” I would get ten thousand people who genuinely didn’t understand plus five thousand who understand but think they’re funny going “Wait, what? Bees eat slime?” 

Ooooo, very nice! This effect looks way more like mushroom gills to me! Though it also looks more challenging and maybe hard to cast?

Well, it’s the same technique just to different scales to get different looks. The one on the left is supposed to be a portobello /button/common mushroom type and I wanted those deep gills. When I give it a wash it will have those nice dark depths.

The other is more paroles/fantasy mushroom and I wanted less dramatic gills both because I didn’t need that depth but also I didn’t want to disrupt the flow. The deeper gills needed to be wider for a sounder mold but also for the effect. The smaller gill can work with the mold because there’s less area for the silicone to be trapped.

Luckily I’ll be casting both of these and the chanterelle so if one appeals more than the other to people there will be choices!

*obviously the second one isn’t done yet, the smaller gills are very tedious

Yay! Sounds like this worked out well. Do you feel good about it?

TWELVE POUNDS OF ADORABLE! In a 9 pound package.

LOL yes! She IS twelve pounds of adorable! Or maybe eleven pounds of adorable and one pound of noise. 

nonasuch replied to your photo “I’m off to adventure, only a day late thanks to the polar vortex. I...”

hope you enjoy DC! hit me up if you want vintage store//restaurant/obscure museum recommendations

Oh thank you! But I wasn’t going all the way to DC, just to Pittsburgh.

celeste-de-la-mancha replied to your photo “I’m off to adventure, only a day late thanks to the polar vortex. I...”

you're taking a TRAIN!? i am impressed and a little jealous

I do love me a train, but don’t be too jealous, this particular trip was a bit of a trial. I spent a bunch of it in the lounge car, because the people directly behind us had a small child who had a genius for chaos and noise. 

memprime replied to your photo “I’m off to adventure, only a day late thanks to the polar vortex. I...”

Where in IN did the Amish get off the train?

FWIW in swim lessons we learned to get used to breathing cycles by standing in the pool, breathing in, then ducking our face underwater and breathing out slowly through our nose. Then come up again to breathe in. The goal was to breathe at a normal rate and just get used to doing it in the water. I’m a bit puzzled by trying to breathe out through your mouth while swimming as I can’t imagine doing it, but practicing while standing may help. (And nose plugs might too.)

That’s basically what I ended up doing today! Well, I was doing the breaststroke while doing it, but that was much more manageable than the crawl. 

myjennieblr replied to your photo “I’m just gonna post pictures of my cats when I go swimming, I guess....”

I suppose you could always go with side stroke, back stroke, or breast stroke and largely avoid the breathing issue? But good for you for pushing outside your comfort zone!

My problem at the moment is that while trying to do anything where my face doesn’t end up in the water, my posture is so terrible that I keep kicking the bottom of the pool. I can feel my body align and my legs rise to where they should be the second my face goes into the water, which is annoying as fuck seeing as I can’t keep it in there for long :D 

Backstroke would work but I think I need earplugs. I was Not Enjoying the sensation of water in my ears. 

bitogoth replied to your photo “I’m just gonna post pictures of my cats when I go swimming, I guess....”

Have you considered nose plugs?

Pretty soon my entire body will just be hermetically sealed away from the water :D I think I probably won’t need noseplugs in the end, I just need to properly master breathing. 

terrie01 replied to your post “I just scrolled past this thread again and it occurred to me to look...”

What was the worst fact you learned about Wuthering Heights today?

Well apparently everyone in it is MEANT to be terrible, which admittedly does take some of the fun out of Heathcliff being So Very Terrible. 

silentstep replied to your post “I was thinking about Venom this morning before breakfast, like you do,...”

what defines "loserdom" to millenials, d'you think?

Well, if we look at the other replies to that post, apparently we all think we ourselves are losers :D 

I do think Millennials don’t really have an external concept of loser, because there’s a certain generational rebellion against that kind of sitting in judgement on a person. But I think also it’s important to understand that Generation X wasn’t judging other people either, necessarily, which is why I brought up Reality Bites. 

Reality Bites, in part, vocalized the way that GenX embraced loserdom and slackerdom as a rebellion against the ultra high-achieving, status-seeking, conspicuous consumption madness of the 1980s and early 90s. It wasn’t automatically a negative thing to be a loser -- it meant you were charting your own course and you weren’t seeking validation from people (older adults) you didn’t value. You see that in Ethan Hawke and Winona Ryder’s characters -- he is a deliberate slacker as a way of rejecting a culture he doesn’t respect, and she becomes a loser because (very presciently) she was given every tool for success and then thrust into a situation where success was literally impossible, then held accountable for failing. 

Millennials mainly refer to themselves as losers as a defense mechanism, to point it out before others can, because we hold ourselves to appallingly high standards. A lot of Gen-Xers -- not all, but a fair amount --  embraced the identity of loser because “loser” was a label applied to them by people they considered assholes. 

What’s so interesting about Venom is that Eddie is very Millennial in composition, as a character -- but to the writers, to the people who built him, that seems to signal “loser”. It’s a weird blind spot in the film, almost like it comes from an earlier draft where Eddie was much less successful to begin with.  

reallyquantum replied to your post “I was thinking about Venom this morning before breakfast, like you do,...”

Yep, my friends have guessed that the bad reviews are significantly due to the reviewers not getting how deep the millennial humor runs

Polk looks like she's getting ready to hunt Deebs' tail.

Oh always. They love chasing each others’ tails. 

Currently it’s storming bloody murder outside and they are scared of the thunder, so they’re sitting butt-to-butt on the back of the sofa, making sure they have eyes on the entire condo. 

ynqh replied to your post “POSTER FRAMES: ORDERED.  When I moved to the Eyrie, which is the place...”

“to make it exactly the way I want it” This sounds so intimidating. I’ve been in my condo for two years and the walls are still sparse because I have no idea what art to buy or where to hang it. It seems like such a huge commitment.

Oh, see, that’s what I love about common wall art, it’s the opposite of a commitment! You put hooks in the walls and you hang stuff on them, but if you don’t like something you can just take it down and replace it. I just got rid of like 80% of the posters I’ve been keeping since college or even before, kept the ones I liked, and realized I could by entirely fucking new art to replace some of the ones I don’t want on my wall anymore. It’s been SO LONG since I bought new art, I’m all stoked for it! 

My advice to you is to find a mall with a poster shop, or go to a college campus bookstore during the first week of school (so like, this week) and find a bunch of cheap-ass posters you like in standard sizes (16x20, 18x24, 13x19), put ‘em up on your wall with thumbtacks in places you look at often (the end of a hallway, above your bed, whatever wall you see when you’re sitting at your computer). If you still like them in a month, start buying frames for them, and if you don’t, buy a new poster! 

Or, if you have a bit more budget to spend, go to Bed Bath & Beyond or Target and find some shit you like that comes either mounted or pre-framed. BB&B especially has some really great decor -- it’s mass-produced but it’s still pretty! Target also sells decals you can stick onto the wall and then peel off when you don’t like them anymore, as does Ikea. Those are SO much fun. 

Art doesn’t have to be a commitment -- it can be a whim that turns out well! That’s what I did with my embroidery hoops, I just thought “This will probably look good, and I have spackle if it doesn’t” and I went to town. 

rocketmanimissearth replied to your post “The story about the woman stealing the plant is killing me because in...”

When I lived in a house I had plants stolen from the front yard every spring; when I put in new plants they'd come steal the new ones.

I’m team ears down! So delightful. Ears up looks so surprised it almost seems distressing (what could surprise her so much!).

omfg his meow is so cute

He’s a screamer but I love him xD

ynqh replied to your video “Spider saga. (Sorry for the mess, saga took place by my laundry...”

XD omg! I didn’t see who posted this and most of my dash doesn’t post much personal stuff. So I started the video and expected the cat to *somehow actually get the spider*. I was very mystified, looking around for anything it might jump off of. In other news: your cats are pretty.

LOL no, no cat acrobatics tonight- though he has balanced on the back of a rocking chair before to get at bugs. This spider started in the living room which follows the roof line so is like, 12 foot ceilings or something. When the spider got over there, my monster deemed it in reach and went to scream at the wall to be picked up. Usually I’ll oblige and hold him up to get the bug which is what I was going to do right after I stopped filming. He’s 17+ pounds of cat and holding him and a cell phone would not work lol.