Pine Hutch

Two small, crochet pumpkins are sitting on a docking station/power bank for a laptop. A spectacularly generic mass-produced modular desk top lies beneath.

Back in the office today but some of @wendles1967.bsky.social pumpkins came with me to cheer up my desk

Average experience of watching terror fans talk about the book

Very much would like to shake this unshakeable cold, though. Every time I think it's gone it reasserts itself, sneezing and sniffling (and snoozing)

I've been away from home quite a lot this year and had decided, while on the work trip that immediately preceded this leisure trip, that I wasn't voluntarily leaving my city for a while

That resolve lasted about five minutes and now I've got things I'm looking forward to, naturally

Had an 18 hour travel day on Wednesday, going from door-to-door from @shinyopals.bsky.social flat to my apartment, but have now slept lots and updated my budget and am about to do every single laundry. Really good to be home where my cats are

I'm so glad to see this, and wish him a fast recovery ❤️

crumch

It could be anyone's cold, tbh! No apologies required, worth it regardless

Being sick on holiday is one of the stupider experiences you can have, because you're fortunate enough to be on holiday and unlucky enough to be sick. Sulking to the opening notes of "Celebration" type of experience

During tonight’s Trick-or-Treating, our 3-year-old got more and more excited.

“More houses! More candy!”

Until he suddenly looked to the sky and shouted (verbatim):

“Can I eat the moon!?”

Don’t let anyone tell you you can’t, little one. Be the cosmic horror you want to see in the world.

*you = your cosplay ftr

that was a blast! I thought I might have recognized you there - I was tall and curly haired and wearing glasses, navy shirt over a chartreuse dress, and seated at the far left of the room on the ground floor with @mosssoupart.bsky.social (who was in a very colourful sweatshirt)

One does enjoy being in a theatre crammed with three tiers of queer nerds

Another joy is witnessing whatever @shinyopals.bsky.social is doing with their AA beans and @wendles1967.bsky.social dozens of pumpkins

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A joy of sharing space with friends on vacation is watching the variety and volume of snacks on the snack table inevitably multiply (I just like it when people I like are together in a space)

a pink and blue menu for Roxy's Diner

a red and cream menu for Lenny's Diner and Pissery

a red-toned menu for Six Kitties Cafeteria

a green and purple menu for Lucky's Cat Food Cafeteria

hi! maybe you remember me from the menu i made for my cat, which hit surprisingly big a little while ago. i made some menus for other people's pets in exchange for donations to pro-trans organisations. now i'm doing it again, but for food banks.

please share! more info downthread!

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗

Thank you!

from an envelope in my brain labelled "is therapy working, not working, or do I need to talk to an endocrinologist"

have you heard of this new thing where you are allowed to be angry and to express it? and that it's not an inherently violent or dangerous thing, to be angry? Yeah turns out they actually launched this at least three or four decades ago I just never got the memo. Self-respect DLC is out too

This made me realize that one genuinely can't talk about Ren without making her sound like a figure of legend

Also this degree of fuck-you hope is a real heavy lift for me today because I woke up with the sniffles and all my bones hurt, but I read the links and said "Is this real? Holy shit. Holy shit." out loud so I figure that's gotta be good

I genuinely think it's important, politically, to read good news items. Believing that the better world is possible, and seeing evidence to shore up that belief, can be important for resisting despair. Medical breakthroughs and stories of liberation and justice are both a part of that, for me

*eats your celery*

good luck!!

On the other hand, I had a couple pounds of the last of the blue (Jupiter) grapes of the season in the fridge, and last night I made grape juice for the first time*. There's a pint jar of deep purple nectar in my fridge now

*childhood experiments with wild grapes and just soooo much sugar aside

Like, GREAT problem to have, and I'm largely grateful for it but I need to remember that while I'm not shy and I love my people, I need unobserved & uncommitted downtime to feel okay. I owe many things to many people and also to me, and even thinking about any of them makes me want to scream/flee

I've spent the last several months filling up my spare time with Activities and Plans and Friends. (Inherently valuable and it forces me to stop working at my ostensible day job.) But my apartment is a disaster and I'm away from home for most of Oct 20-Nov 5 for work followed by fun & I'm STRESSED

I haven't logged into bksy in a week and this was here waiting to slap me.