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Okay, let's see, what have I been doing lately other than reading and posting hate about beloved feminist classics.

1. I watched the Never Gonna Give You Up video for the first time in awhile due to that April's Fools Day post that's going around. I had correctly remembered that he is an Immortal, but I had forgotten that he is totally singing to the bartender. (It's not just me, right? He's singing to the bartender, that's the only way that video makes sense.)

2. I did

darthneko's sketch-a-day calendar for March after I saw

sholio post about it! I haven't mentioned it before now because I had no idea whether I would actually finish or not, but it was super-fun.

I did it in ballpoint with no undersketching and minimal pre-planning and deliberately picked a kind of thing I am not practiced at drawing. It definitely deserves Ursula Vernon's "you are allowed to make bad art" stamp but it was really fun and I am fond of the result. It was supposed to be a giant massive spectacular spaceship but I got the scale really wrong on the first couple days so it ended up being the spaceship equivalent of a Winnebago that was parked in somebody's back pasture for twenty years. I am pretty okay with this. Boy did I not manage consistent lighting or perspective, though! (but the wavy bit in the rings is not me misjudging my curves, it's a shepherd moon. definitely.)

3. I also made a very hungry caterpillar! For a baby shower that was two weeks ago. Ooop.

I used a different texture for every section because when I was little I really loved cloth toys with different textures, but maybe most babies aren't into that? idk. It was a fun way to use stash, anyway.

4. I have started re-shelving my nonfiction by dewey decimal number! I HATE THE RULE OF APPLICATION SO MUCH

(I'm using dd because it's what we use at work, I don't need to be convinced there are better systems. I am actually making up my own system for my books, mostly because the ptb suddenly and without input banned us from doing anything "non-work-related" on the work computers regardless of how bored we are when it's slow, so I am pretending inventing my own private classification system is work-related. It does not have any rules - I made the major divisions and most of the second-level ones and am now classifying my nf using the "random book" option on LT, putting things wherever they feel right, and I will later go back and try to figure out what rules I was using. Should be fun!)

5. There has been a sudden surge of OMGCHECKPLEASE love on my reading list the last couple days! ~~which seems to always include a rec of my fic augh every time i look at it i see so many problems~~ It's kind of making me want to go back to the half-finished stuff in that 'verse, which is half pre-4th of July stuff about Kent trying to deal with it and eating a lot of baked goods, and half post-4th of July stuff in which Kent proposes that he and Jack come out together as a couple and that way nobody will think Jack and Bitty are dating so Bitty will be safe, and everybody somehow thinks this is a good idea, and there are SHENANIGANS and FEELS. (I don't think I actually have the capacity to write that one, so somebody else should.) Also EVENTS have MOVED ON since then and idk if I can even still write it.

6. Cat pic?
This is now what I see every day when I get home from work.

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What a great welcome home!

The caterpillar certainly appeals to me, all those wonderful, different squishy textures. I'll bet it will be a hit.

Nah, as soon as I step onto the porch she runs off and pretends she was never there. :P

I kind of want to keep the caterpillar for myself!

...luckily I went kind of overboard making bloops for it and have half-a-dozen left over, so I can totally make myself one really easily if I want.

Cat pic yay!

Caterpillar = AWESOME!!! Also, different textures of cloth are a thing I loved as a small child AND a thing I can justify as Important For Learning And Play as an educator; if you are interested I will fish out relevant links. Nice.

Yeah my Special Blankie as awee one was basically just because it has two different textures I didn't encounter anywhere else. So why are boughten baby toys so boring texture-wise?? (You dont need to answer that, I know it's because capitalism.)

Yes! I'm pretty sure a variety of textures is a thing many babies enjoy. It's a fun tactile adventure, and babies are tactile little creatures.

I thought so but when i looked at manufactured baby toys it was all smooth hard plastic and plain cotton and I was like well maybe it'll be too overwhelming to give her terry and velvet and corduroy? But texture toys are so great (says me the grown-up)! And I made sure it was washable.

My second favorite part of that photo (after the kitty face) is the swirly doom vortex in the middle of the window.

That is probably someone trying to open a portal to Reykjavik

the other end probably opens in this flat, it would explain why i´m always encountering random cats in the hall when my roommate´s away

OMG that cat xD

Would you be willing to post about your personal classification system once you've got it up and running? :D

If I ever do, I'm sure I will! It's very personal, though, based on what books I have a lot of, so idk if it would be resuable.

Nice caterpillar! I think babies like different textures, particularly if they are still at the ages where everything must be investigated via chewing. Also, that cat looks very expectant about something - snuggles, food, whatever, but they want it now. Awesome.

She wants everything NAOAOAOAOW but she never tells us what it is she wants. :P