Lev Mirov
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I presume, the source did not specify clothing types, only that it was a fashion purchase not for a child.
I suspect 24 is a more realistic number, but I think about clothes way more than I want to, and I still don't quite understand where all the extra clothes are going-- I know some people have 300 item wardrobes but that seems like a HUGE outlier?
I'm very worried that instead of Bad Wolf or Vote Saxon, we are going to get the sudden "crack in the wall" or Journey's End where the arc as a whole can't sustain its own weight.
My problem is that I know exactly what I want to wear and it is not necessarily something I can roll up to a clothier and buy, and if I can't get a 98% match including fit, I'm not going to buy it, and to get a 95%+ match, it's out of my budget.
Including socks and things, I understand the 24 items number, okay sure, I end up buying ~10-15 underthings every year, but I'm not sure I OWN 100 items across all seasons.
I presume it includes underwear but if you buy 1 pack of underpants and 1 multipack of socks there's still enough items left to buy something every weekend of the year!
To be perfectly clear this is a TBI thing, I also get overwhelmed by buying more food than I can eat in a week because then I have to remember it exists and say no to it before I can say yes to what I do eat.
I also am a person who gets decision fatigue picking which of three nearly identical but differently shaded cream/gray/tan shirts to wear out of the house, the idea of having more clothes than I can wear in a week gives me instant anxiety.
My brain has become fixated on the statistic that an average American consumer buys 24-64 pieces of clothing for their ~150 item sized wardrobe, which suggests at the upper end you'd have a brand new wardrobe every three years?? That seems very fast.
This. Interfering with transition care for minors is about the idea that dying young is better than living as an out trans person for even 2 minutes, and that trans adults who refuse to die and choose to live are unnatural and selfish.
Like, an underlying idea of peeps criticizing trans care for young people is that transness is fundamentally inferior to cisness, and if you have any other options you must choose that. There's no room there for queer experimentation and joy and yes, community.
I'm still trying to decide if I want the skull, but I've finally settled on putting "the love that is perfected by death" as my first tattoo
The "your tech is attacking you to keep profits up" idea is SO good, I really wish it hadn't been a throwaway adventure of the week. The stuff that is strong about the episode is so strong (Ncuti and Millie's performances!) I wonder if I'll like it more when I've seen the whole series.
One single line about how the Doctor knows these digital approximations are actually conscious because River/Bill/I'm sure there are more or implying the Doctor used his regeneration energy or something would have helped a fair bit.
"you save them all. That's what you do." had me crying so hard I was quivering, and the problem with threatening the Doctor and the main companion is I know they're not dead at the episode end. I can see where it would have made me cry if it had been just ... slower.
There's a thing I can run into with quest of the day plotlines, in tv or in games, where I just feel like there is a huge emotional disconnect between the idea on paper and the reaction. Space Babies made me cry??? This is the first time all season nothing made me cry.
I kept thinking this should have been a two partner with the end of the first episode being the Doctor getting off the landmine, that feels like the right amount of time to invest in these characters.
I live in New Orleans, fans and ice packs help, obviously, but in summer you just have to get used to everything being wet at the time even when there's no rain to lower the temperature, especially your clothes and sheets and hair.
A lot of it seems to boil down to "strongly preferring foods I would never choose is a sign you're problematic for disagreeing with me, while being flexible and open to foods I am inflexible about is a sign you're an indecisive loser".
I feel like everything has been so rushed and breathless and not very character focused, I think I expected BOOM to spend more time breathing and grieving and letting me sit with discomfort and fear.
Does the twist in the episode work if you didn't watch The Name of the Doctor? I get that this is just a thing in Doctor Who, it's fine, I've literally written a story about AIs that are also ghosts, but I found myself wanting to have people react to it.
Maybe it's my mood or something but I don't know if I liked the Doctor Who episode BOOM. Not because I think the premise was bad or that it's too hamfisted (the commentary is fine) but because it needed more time to breathe.
My real concern is in the dead of summer the nights never got below 80F for multiple weeks in a row and there's almost nothing I can do to prep for that.
June 1 last year was already so hot I had difficulty leaving my house and that lasted until mid September. We've already had days over 90F this year, it's almost impossible to think about it being +90F for 4 months.
It will probably be July hot in June and August hot into October. It's going to be like that everywhere even in places where you're not setting record highs in the hottest peak of temperatures. I think we forget it's not just extreme heat getting more extreme, it's prolonged warm.
It's been June hot since early May, which isn't super great and has caused flooding. Even if you think you're prepared for a hot summer, consider what will make it bearable if it's an extra 2-6 weeks longer.
Do you live somewhere in the northern hemisphere where it's about to be summer but doesn't usually get THAT hot? I'm not a meteorologist but I feel like this year's gonna be rough and if you don't have keep-cool supplies you might want to get out ahead of that.
Describe your wip in the worst way possible
A tax lawyer cannot keep his personal life out of a labor dispute
Describe your wip in the worst way possible:
A trio of associates reunite to plan an art theft, while pointedly not discussing their recent separation
This right here, I don't generally sleep 8 uninterrupted hours at a time, 2x daily dosing cycles can't "begin when you get up" or "begin when you go to bed" because 2-3 days may pass before I actually go to bed and get up again.
Obviously if you are me and don't have a trashcan full of soil, it's not free to set up, but it's also the kind of thing that people will dump on you for free in some situations, container gardens are your friend.
If this happens to your potatoes, potatoes are a porch-suitable crop, you can get a surprisingly good yield by putting sprouting potatoes in a very large black trashcan full of soil. There's other stuff to consider like sun/shade/heat/wet so look it up first but free food from food waste is great.
I think in stories where the lens is focused very narrowly, it's often very satisfying to broaden the scope, or emotionally satisfying to spend time with different people or a different place, but there's also Too Much, and I think most prequels aren't written for stories that needed more.
The thing that is my biggest change as a writer from my days in fanfic is understanding sometimes you really DON'T need to elaborate on the one paragraph explaining what's off-screen. An adequate explanation of what isn't in focus is often actually more satisfying than showing every second.
I know it is exponentially more overwhelming to set up a thread of embedded links to where people can buy your work, but I promise it is not spammy in this specific context.
May I strongly encourage you to put a direct link to the ways people can give you money in the thread instead of telling people to go to a link in your bio? Buy links and kofi requests always do better and feel more urgent with the fewest possible reaction impediments.
Jellybean decided today's insomnia means ferociously yelling at me to go to bed even though I am not tired because she wants to sit on my legs while it is cool and dark before she gets too hot to cuddle
Christopher Robin explains he has to go away forever and there is nothing he can do about it, and asks Pooh to continue to remember him anyway, in a fairly heavy handed metaphor for people going off and dying in a war.
I just have to fundraise all the time until August, unfortunately, but I have until June 6 to come up with the minimum for the card carrying the biggest balance since we were able to avoid cracking into our rent fund. Thank you all so so much.
I was able to put $1250 towards this card before interest. Thank you so much everyone. Aleksei and I still have to raise June's $300 payment towards one card and catch up the $1500 remaining on this card, but for right now, the $ in our account covers June 1 rent at least. 💙.
Less than $600 left. Today is the last day for me to pay this bill before interest accrues. Everything that isn't paid off when I send the payment tomorrow afternoon will have to roll over onto June's fundraising. Thank you so much for getting us this far. 💙
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In spite of being pretty sure almost fainting in the cold food and having to crouch like a gremlin on the floor at target was worse than death, the good news is I got hungry enough to go back for milk and nobody remembered me.
I would settle for a very ambitious audioplay style adaptation but I agree it would be extremely Satisfying tv when I'm sad and tired.
Doors that open the wrong way. Why are doors to the outside of Meduseld's Golden Hall swinging IN?!
what is your biggest cinematic pet peeve?
one of mine is when characters brush teeth w/o toothpaste and suds
The distance between them is ALSO a prime number, my first answer to it was "they're both a prime away from 5". (3 and 2, I typed that wrong the first time)
The distance between them is ALSO a prime number, my first answer to it was "they're both 2 away from 5".
It's fucking hard to leave. Leaving everyone you've ever known and cutting yourself off from your history and culture should not be required to have freedom from abuse.
Many times "why don't they just leave" rapidly turns into "I blame anyone who doesn't leave for their tragedies". As someone who left an extremist right wing Christian cult, all I hear is "everything that happened until you broke away was your fault for being born into that family".
I feel like everything I like about the archetype of Holmes and his relationship with Watson is simply absent or directly opposite how I understand it, in Sherlock, and I wouldn't have watched that dynamic at all if the characters had other names.
My kingdom to banish bbc sherlock fan videos from doctor who youtube searches. :/