Jenna Kass

I'm almost done with my aunt's estate, almost a year after she died. The greatest gift she gave me as the person managing her care was having all of this in place so I simply didn't have to think about it.

DNI: do not intubate
DNR: do not resuscitate
DNH: do not hospitalize (if in a nursing home or rehab facility)

These are decisions that should never have to be on a next of kin or caregiver to make.

Friendly PSA for my US friends: make sure your parents have wills and Health Proxy+DNI/DNR/DNH forms (and if you're it, have a copy or a picture)

As one does

Thinking about Aragorn

This got reposted by some blue wave 15k-following bot, which then got me followed by two other bad-ratio bots. All three blocked now, but sweet baby jesus it's so icky.

😌

Treating bluesky like a hole I toss thoughts into at random and then walk away from

Three pilates classes in three days. Once I reconstitute from the weak goo I have been rendered down to, I will be unstoppable.

Paul McCartney, circa 1965. Imagine he's singing Eleanor Rigby

Doing his taxes
Sending his cash to a group that no longer exists
He's getting pissed
Some of it's local
That part is good cuz his kid will get Pre-K for free
Go NYC

All the little numbers
Where do they all come from

Anyway back to blocking social media!! My therapist gave me gold stars for becoming shop steward with all of my terrified energy instead of doomscrolling and I will survive on that another day.

And 90% of that is Solavellan.

[leans into mic]
70% of my non-Avery mental health is Dragon Age

Anyway I love him and I hope I see him next time I go. Love ya, Forest Hills Danny DeVito.

I asked him how he liked it, and he paused, consideringly.

"Iyt is.... much hyarder thyan iyt looks."

I continue to be blessèdly off of social media (and still barely holding it together) but I must share:

A Russian man the approximate size, shape, and age of Danny DeVito had his first pilates class ever on the reformer next to me today. I helped him figure out the springs etc a couple of times.

Popping in to say this is probably the single most healthy thing I've done for myself in a year.

You help no one by grinding yourself to dust bearing witness to every horror.

Call your reps, volunteer in your community, give money to people who need it, organize with those working toward a goal.

I'm going to block all social media on my phone :)

I cannot be Online rn so instead I finished Dragon Age

Mysterious landscape sketch

Little sketch in #heavypaint

Pilates is "low impact" but also unspeakably evil (good version)

Maddening Insight (2020)

Selfie of a white woman in her 30s with glasses holding her hand in front of her face while looking speechless, fandom helplessness version

The vallaslin scene

Also I forgot how incredible it is to have Solas in the Temple of Mythal to bicker with Morrigan. I'm screaming

Oh it was a good choice to roll it back, even at level 18 What Pride had Wrought is almost too easy.

Baby we do be healing from art school!!!!!

A gouache painting in a small sketchbook. The painting is of Meduseld as Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, and Gandalf first see it on their way from Fangorn, in the late afternoon sun, the light flashing from the gilded roof, the deep valley dark behind.

Touched up my first gouache painting last night. There's stuff I'd like to add (the late-afternoon sun spilling across the grass) and fix (that stream is still way too Blue) but one of the joys for me in this whole process is that I don't have the expectation or ability to get things Perfect.

After meditating on how absurdly overleveled and out of the momentum of the game I was by the time I finished The Descent, I rolled my file back to the save I did before I started it, 10 hours ago.

INT: BRUCE WAYNE’S PENTHOUSE

BATMAN (Christian Bale) looks out the floor-to-ceiling window at Gotham City as it’s coated by a gentle snowfall.

BATMAN
It’s a cool place.

ALFRED (Michael Caine) hands him a newspaper. The headline: MR. FREEZE ESCAPES BLACKGATE.

ALFRED
And it’s gonna get colder.