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Sharing this again for visibility!

The family of my very best friend lost everything two days ago when their house burned down.

I know that this is a tight month for so many people, but if anyone has even a few dollars to spare to help the family get new clothes, or some new christmas toys for the kids, that would mean so much.

Hoping for the best, Sam!

YouTube video by wgaltv Multiple crews responded to a house fire in York County Thursday afternoon.

The fire was featured on local news yesterday:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6oO...

Donate to Support for a Family of 8 After Tragic House Fire, organized by Andrew Crouse On Thursday December 4th my sister and her family experience the worst… Andrew Crouse needs your support for Support for a Family of 8 After Tragic House Fire

A very good friend asked if I could share this to help spread the word:

Their sister's family, 3 adults and 5 children under the age of 10, just lost their home to a fire, just weeks before Christmas.

If anyone is willing to donate to help them, anything and everything is appreciated.

And also us. We miss folk. 👀

I'm dying, Brian. Remember me as I was, not as I what I will soon become.

In the meantime, if it helps to rant to someone who might be able to relate to your experiences, I'm always happy to listen - I wasn't diagnosed until I was 29, and even with medication I still struggle quite a bit, so I imagine we have some common ground there.

I'm so sorry you're having such a hard time with this - even when things go as smoothly as possible, the nature of ADHD makes the process a huge ordeal, and adding extra obstacles and delays along the way just makes the whole thing seem insurmountable.

I hope you can get help soon.

Guess who found mould on their bread half-way through their breakfast this morning? 🤢

As much as I am jealous of them, I also wish them well. 👀

Unhinged. 👀

The URL is a lil buggy cause I think I got something wrong, this one works though!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/her...

I can't access the site for some reason, but I shall try again later!

But dang, the salt was worth it. 👀

Hmm... I suppose he does.

He's *huge* - who makes a snowman too big to fit through a doorway? D:

Jellied eels, anyone? 🤢

But really, the prevalence of take-aways and delivery services is not a uniquely American phenomenon, and it's a little bizarre to assume so. 👀

Then we shall! 😄

We'll do our best. 🫡

I might try to tackle a few here and there, just for myself - I've been meaning to get back into writing for years, and if I manage to put together some kind of map for a setting, I might be able to pull myself back into writing for that setting. Or... something. 😄

They are a lot of fun - I used to draw them like this (albeit, not nearly as well) in my teens for stories I was writing.

It was actually the direction I was originally planning to go when I started getting into map-making for TTRPGs, but I wound up drifting into battle maps instead!

Absolutely vile.

Yeah, it did sour my enjoyment a bit, but it gets so much worse:

I think I was vaguely suspicious Depardieu was a creep, but didn't realize he has an extensive history of allegations. To add to that, Corneau, the director, was posthumously accused of grooming a 16 year old in the 90s. Christ.

Right? Especially given some of the conversations about authenticity. 👀

They could have just shot around it, too - the first shot has Depardieu's character perform with the instrument off-camera, and it's very effective! Just use creative angles and occasional inserts of the performer's hands! D:

Heather and I also watched Amadeus recently, and Tom Hulce apparently spent hours every day for months learning to play the piano in preparation for the role.

I feel like for a film about the importance of music to these musical masters, expecting believable performances is the bare minimum.

Even without learning to play the instrument, I wish someone had at least told them the appropriate moment to pretend to trill (not while holding a single note), or where on the frets you place your fingers (adding a 2nd finger to the same string and fret that you're already playing does nothing).

Guillaume Depardieu could play the cello, and Anne Brochet apparently learned to play the viola da gamba for her role in the film, so their playing was *significantly* more believable, but this only made the pretense of Marielle and the elder Depardieu's playing even more blatant.

Heather and I watched Tous les Matins du Monde last night, a French film about famous masters of the viola da gamba.

I really enjoyed it, but I was regularly distracted/frustrated by the fact that Gérard Depardieu and Jean-Pierre Marielle were very obviously miming along in a nonsensical fashion.

It's been years since I drew a region map like this - I kind of miss it. 👀