My Twitter link collections still take more of a toll on my wrist and brain than I'm willing to sacrifice at the moment. But briefly! Check out the guandao that the amazing Shen Wei cosplayer made.
I don't know who ordered the snow that's currently falling after yesterday's sunny 60F but they can go fuck themselves.
Since it was so nice yesterday, I took my two sewing machines (a standard machine and a serger) to a shop for tune-ups. It's been... a while. The shop I went to for 20 years is closed now and the new one charges three times what they did. $150 per machine! Per machine. Outrageous. Offensive, actually. I'm still grappling with paying that, but my alternative is driving them to Kansas City and then driving back to pick them up in a week. Speaking of picking things up, I was so thrown by the staggering cost I spaced going to the hardware store to get my knives that were in for sharpening. So now I have to go out again to get the damn knives. But NOT TODAY that's for sure.
Jesus Christ, three hundred dollars to get my machines running smoothly again. I'm seriously considering calling them back to say "you know what, forget it that's too much money" but who knows, maybe I'll actually sell enough bloomers to cover the cost. Because yes, I'm re-opening the bloomers factory. I'd like to avoid returning to Etsy--their policies have just gotten worse and worse--but I'm not sure what other options I might have.
Ugh. Capitalism.
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stultiloquentia asked me to assign His Dark Materials-style daemons to my faves in Guardian and say something about how they typically interact.
Full disclosure, I read the first book of the series, skimmed the second, and read the ending of the third, decided it was bullshit, and never read more. I remember hardly anything about the series except the animal friend thing. So with that in mind, here are my thoughts on some daemons I think would be appropriate for the SID. (Perhaps I'm taking the easy way out by giving the Yashou their already-assigned counterparts, but their personalities really do fit them. Thanks, good actors!)
Shen Wei: A black panther. This is mostly looks-based because I know nothing of panthers in regards to their general temperament. But how can Hei Pao Shi not have a menacing, black apex predator slinking around him?
Zhao Yunlan: A black-footed ferret. Quick and clever and insatiably curious.
Zhu Hong: Some sort of pit viper. Maybe a copperhead, because that's a breed I'm familiar with and I think they're beautiful. People underestimate pit vipers because they're usually pretty sluggish, but only because they mostly rely on camouflage. When they need to, they can move very, very fast.
Da Qing: A Pallas' cat. Surprisingly cantankerous for as cute as they are, loners, and terrible at running.
Lin Jing: A spider monkey. Long-limbed and one of the few primates that don't groom as a social interaction (so they both have wild hair sometimes).
Chu Shuzhi: A honey badger. Pretty obvious, really.
Guo Changcheng: A small, white rat that everyone thinks is a mouse.
As for how they interact, I really don't know... but I'd love to hear input and theories! This was a lot of fun,stultiloquentia, thank you!
I have found the song of my people. It's not a great song imo? But omg those lyrics *chef's kiss*
And finally, today's dump on cm.net.
I don't know who ordered the snow that's currently falling after yesterday's sunny 60F but they can go fuck themselves.
Since it was so nice yesterday, I took my two sewing machines (a standard machine and a serger) to a shop for tune-ups. It's been... a while. The shop I went to for 20 years is closed now and the new one charges three times what they did. $150 per machine! Per machine. Outrageous. Offensive, actually. I'm still grappling with paying that, but my alternative is driving them to Kansas City and then driving back to pick them up in a week. Speaking of picking things up, I was so thrown by the staggering cost I spaced going to the hardware store to get my knives that were in for sharpening. So now I have to go out again to get the damn knives. But NOT TODAY that's for sure.
Jesus Christ, three hundred dollars to get my machines running smoothly again. I'm seriously considering calling them back to say "you know what, forget it that's too much money" but who knows, maybe I'll actually sell enough bloomers to cover the cost. Because yes, I'm re-opening the bloomers factory. I'd like to avoid returning to Etsy--their policies have just gotten worse and worse--but I'm not sure what other options I might have.
Ugh. Capitalism.
Back to questions!
stultiloquentia asked me to assign His Dark Materials-style daemons to my faves in Guardian and say something about how they typically interact. Full disclosure, I read the first book of the series, skimmed the second, and read the ending of the third, decided it was bullshit, and never read more. I remember hardly anything about the series except the animal friend thing. So with that in mind, here are my thoughts on some daemons I think would be appropriate for the SID. (Perhaps I'm taking the easy way out by giving the Yashou their already-assigned counterparts, but their personalities really do fit them. Thanks, good actors!)
Shen Wei: A black panther. This is mostly looks-based because I know nothing of panthers in regards to their general temperament. But how can Hei Pao Shi not have a menacing, black apex predator slinking around him?
Zhao Yunlan: A black-footed ferret. Quick and clever and insatiably curious.
Zhu Hong: Some sort of pit viper. Maybe a copperhead, because that's a breed I'm familiar with and I think they're beautiful. People underestimate pit vipers because they're usually pretty sluggish, but only because they mostly rely on camouflage. When they need to, they can move very, very fast.
Da Qing: A Pallas' cat. Surprisingly cantankerous for as cute as they are, loners, and terrible at running.
Lin Jing: A spider monkey. Long-limbed and one of the few primates that don't groom as a social interaction (so they both have wild hair sometimes).
Chu Shuzhi: A honey badger. Pretty obvious, really.
Guo Changcheng: A small, white rat that everyone thinks is a mouse.
As for how they interact, I really don't know... but I'd love to hear input and theories! This was a lot of fun,
stultiloquentia, thank you!I have found the song of my people. It's not a great song imo? But omg those lyrics *chef's kiss*
And finally, today's dump on cm.net.