unwittingcatalyst

Good article by David Hunter on how to survive the Trump presidency, both on the personal and on the political plane.

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favorite color: Green!

last song: Wanted For Love by Jerry Jeff Walker

currently reading: Song of Susannah by Stephen King (almost done with the Dark Tower series!)

currently watching: I haven't really been watching a lot of shows lately mostly just stuff on youtube and random episodes of Seinfeld. The last full series I watched was The Sopranos and I'm literally already thinking about a rewatch.

currently craving: A deeper connection with the people and world around me. Or something idk.

coffee or tea: I enjoy tea but I'm obsessed with coffee.

favorite color: Red! (Dark red)

Last song: Everything Happens To Me - Tommy Dorsey

Currently Reading: Dracula by Bram Stoker!

Currently Watching: Match Game & House MD

Currently Craving: poutine 🤤

Coffee or Tea: coffee all the way! Love tea though

Favourite colour: turquoise and purple 🩵💜

Last song: Out of Time - Zedd ft. Bea Miller

Currently reading: Crane: Sex, Celebrity and my Father’s Unsolved Murder

Currently watching: Fallout (my partner’s fav rn)

Currently craving: banana split

Coffee or Tea: coffee, especially iced coffee 🤤 tea is nice in the winter tho!

Favorite color: blue 💙🩵

Last song: ceilings by Lizzy McAlpine

Currently reading: nothing, but the last book I finished was The Matchless Gene Rayburn (it was so good and even made me a little teary-eyed 🥹)

Currently watching: Match Game (which I’m so excited to learn @someguywriting is watching too!!), a million other old game shows, and also Hogan’s Heroes

Currently craving: a milkshake

Coffee or tea: I like both, but I need my coffee!

Favorite Color: Purple 💜

Last song: A silly songs with Larry called Lance the Turtle 😭😂💀 because of my 11month old…the last thing I can find on my history that’s not Veggie Tales related is Daughter of a King by Trailer Flowers

Currently reading: (listening to on audio book) The Librarian Spy

Currently watching: Top Chef and Psych along with lots of Bluey and Veggie Tales

Currently craving: besides a full night sleep, literally any Vietnamese dish I could get my hands on!

Coffee or tea: Tea, but I won’t turn down a cup of joe!

Favorite color: changes depending on the day lol, right now it's pink or yellow

Last song: Care by Dance Gavin Dance

Currently reading: Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey by Lillian Schlissel

Currently watching: Midsomer Murders, Doc Martin, Columbo, and Hogan's Heroes

Currently craving: fall weather

Coffee or tea: tea, I don't like coffee personally

Favorite color: I wemble between green and blue

Last song: I Wanna Be Like You by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy

Currently reading: Charlie Crochet's THIRDS series

Currently watching: Expedition Unknown, Emergency!, Good Omens (again)

Currently craving: Sleep

Coffee or tea: Depends on the time of day. Tea after 6pm

Favorite color: all kinds of blue, along with aqua

Last song: some 80s classics

Currently reading: still many fanfics to read and still new ones to discover

Currently watching: Emergency! (3rd time) and documentaries from time to time

Currently craving: definitely sleep and maybe some food/alcohol

Coffee or tea: tea 🍵 daily but coffee ☕ on Saturdays as well as special occasions

Favorite color: Yes. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, even purple in certain situations; but also brown, black, white, gold... I just really like colors, lmao. I mean, scroll through this blog, look at my art and the colors I've chosen for my various graphics over the years! All over the place, but never boring.

Last song: This is the part where I have to admit that I was listening to a compilation of Pokemon anime openings while working on stuff. My music taste is usually really niche and cool as shit, and THIS is what you catch me listening to! *throws up arms in mock despair*

Currently reading: "Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures and Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs" by Paul Koudounaris. It's a gorgeous photographical trek through a very, VERY interesting collection of largely early-baroque ornamented skeletal relics. I'm so glad I have a fun (if macabre) answer to this one!

Currently watching: Good question! I mean, latently Emergency! as per usual (weekly episode watch in the E! discord and all that! Plus the occasional bit of research or fandom shenaniganery), but I've also had a lot of Time Team and Mythbusters running in the background. Also, Grey's Anatomy with @evilsilence (where I mostly get my kicks complaining about everyone's love life and piss-poor life choices). Also technically Guardian (the C-Drama) and Miss Fisher with @crystalinn, but we haven't gotten around to either in a hot second.

Currently craving: Less humidity in this goddamn place, my hands keep feeling sticky but I can't turn on the dehumidifier because that'd take this room from "comfortably quite warm" to "uncomfortably boiling".

Coffee or tea: Yes please! In that order, or any other. I'll also take pretty much every kind of either.

Favorite color: Blues—light and dark and sparkly and shading to turquoise and sky and next to browns and beiges and white. Also, the specific sparkly bright light brown/pink/orange of low fire red micaceous clay.

Last song: Well, a recent one off my regular playlist, anyway: “Morning Song” by Zero 7.

Currently reading: An Emergency! fic work in progress of mine that I think I last worked on in summer 2023, which I’m hoping to put finishing touches on for Summer of 51s 2024.  Also, generally, fanfic.

Currently watching: Besides episode watch E! episodes, the occasional Gokaiger ep. My son and I have plans for a Lower Decks marathon at an indeterminate time.

Currently craving: Energy to do things. Peace. Healing. The feeling I get when I can do or make things (pottery, writing, improv).

Coffee or tea: Of course. Coffee with sugar and soy milk, cold. Mochas at coffee shops. Ginger tea and green tea and all sorts of teas.

100 days of art, 64/100.

Drew @unwittingcatalyst's DnD character (one of them, anyway) as a birthday present!

Fics are now officially up!

In my AP Art class, there was a girl who was just starting to experiment with mixed media. At this point she was still playing around, trying to decide what direction she wanted to go with her portfolio. So one critique day, she brought in an abstract canvas with some rhinestone highlights and painted and real peacock feathers. She loved sparkles and peacock feathers so she thought she’d try introducing them a *little*. And after everyone had given some input, the teacher gave her his advice, VERY roughly paraphrased here:

“So here’s the thing… I do not like this style. These are just elements that do not speak to me personally, but I see that you like them, and you’re doing interesting things with them.

“My biggest critique is, I only merely *dislike* this piece. I want you to make me HATE it. Go crazy with the things that you like. Don’t hold back trying to make it palatable to people like me. Because I am NEVER going to like it. And if the audience does not like it, it should drive them crazy seeing how much YOU love it.”

Her portfolio was chock full of neon colors and glitter and rhinestones and splashes of peacock feathers and it was a delight. Our teacher despised every piece lol, but she got great marks and I think even won some awards. And more importantly, she was happy and proud of the results. Because she didn’t limit herself by trying to appeal to people who were never going to enjoy what she enjoyed.

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