Why am I so bad at going to bed

Jul. 8th, 2025 04:04 am
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Ugh I am TIRED um

Today there was a lot of floor stuff! I mopped THREE TIMES, and ALSO used the vacuum, plus helped Sibling out with some stuff. And! I learned how to use the paint stripper (gross but effective!) to clean up the skirting boards.

Annoyingly, it turns out we don't have a fucking drill here - my father gave the one I KNEW we had to Sibling, apparently, so Sibling has to bring one back over tomorrow. ANNOYING. (Also annoying: my father takes the cordless drill with him camping, because instead of using pegs he just bolts things into the ground. I just. C'moooon.)

Other than that, not a huge amount, honestly. I should not be so tired I zone out like I have been uuuuugh. But bed now. Yes.

vriddy: Sakura from Wind Breaker pointing at himself (me?)
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I have a couple of pinch hits that revealed that I must still post here on Dreamwidth. Writing's been agony again. I taunted myself by saying "well why do you NOT WRITE AT ALL ON PURPOSE for ALL OF JULY then, since you ain't writing anyway? Save yourself the anguish? See if you actually care?" then huh saw the sign-ups for [community profile] littleblackdressex were open and my favs had already been nominated, thus immediately played myself by signing up. First exchange sign-up of the year though! \o/

Otherwise I'm down to a writing goal of 100 words a day, which I wouldn't have been able to accept before getting blocked again (*pokes pokes* what's going on with ye) because I just know how much better I can do. However, after a long string of 0 days, actually 100 words a day is fantastic, yes. And something I can make myself sit down for. I'm fully prepared to reduce the goal to 50 words next if that's what it takes to make progress.

I still enjoy my stories! I get inspired reading other books!! What is going on!!!!

It is somewhat painful that this fic is the first thing I actually finish since my hurt/comfort + PHs exploits, but it is what it is. I guess crack just gotta crack, sometimes. There must be something deeply meaningful to ponder here.


Silent Killers | Wind Breaker | Hiiragi, Suou | 1.8k words | rated T | Crack treated seriously

Summary:
There's more than one way to commit murder in Furin.

Or, three times Suou is interrupted trying to talk to Hiiragi, and one time it's too late.
Read it on Dreamwidth or on AO3.

Tiny Plastic Souls

Jul. 6th, 2025 07:46 pm
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There often comes a point when I'm building a model kit that I realize that ah, I am being watched right back. There is a tiny plastic soul* in there of some sort, and sometimes not quite the one I'm expecting.

The last month or so of model kits/gunpla! )

*which is not to say I think that my kits are actually-alive in any way, this is more in the fun way that my aunt and I used to leave offerings of jellybeans for my grandmother's porcelain doll collection so they wouldn't eat us in our sleep.**
**at least I think we weren't serious about that.***
***I should probably email my aunt.

Sunday~

Jul. 7th, 2025 03:28 am
tyger: A small ginger cat in a wicker bag (Sushi - bag)
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I didn't do some of the stuff I wanted to today, as usual, but I DID do a bunch of stuff, so that's something! Reorganised my display case already, got rid of a bunch of the smoll things and put in an eevee display - got a few big plushes, now, so having them somewhere they won't get dusty will be nice. Added a couple of things I could put some of the bowls I have shells in on top of, too, gives it some height differentiation AND you can fit more stuff in that way, which is pretty great! Need to figure if I can do something similar for some of the dragons, too, without blocking out the biggest ones in the back. Not sure!

Also moved a bunch of my stuff, but not everything yes - computer's still here, for example. Maybe will do that tomorrow, but we'll see how it goes, will depend on how far Sibling gets with stuff.

New mass outbreak event in pokemon, so have downloaded that update. Haven't played any, though, switch was suuuuper out of battery and needs to charge. Could barely get it to turn on so I could get the update. (Because I am impatient. It'd probably be fine to play NOW, but I should go to bed, so...)

Sunshine Revival Challenge #2

Jul. 6th, 2025 10:44 am
seleneheart: a watermelon showing a bite out of it (Bite into summer)
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Challenge #2

Tunnel of Love
Journaling: The romance of summer! What do you love? Write about anything you feel sentimental about or that gets your heart pumping.
Creative: Write a love poem to anyone or anything you like


I was born in the summer. Summer, to me, is always about freedom. I'm sure this sense is a result of being a student for the normal amount of years, and then being a public school teacher for 18 years. Summer means no alarm clock, no schedule, eating weird foods on a whim, watching thunderstorms roll in. Summer is the deep breath before the plunge into the energetic whirlwind of autumn. Even though I'm no longer teaching, I've turned my alarm off this summer because the sun comes up early enough here in the north that I wake up in plenty of time to get my day going.

When my parents lived in the Low Country, summer meant piling the kids in the car for a two-day road trip to their little island. Laying on the dock and watching the Milky Way wheel overhead. Sitting on my parents' screen porch having late, leisurely dinners, talking for hours, killing at least a bottle of wine, while the kids lazed around on the couches, post-dinner, exhausted from hours at the beach.

Before that, my parents lived in the mountains -the old hills crowned in glory, the Appalachians. Summers then, my childhood summers, meant wading in the creeks, catching crawdads, hiking to forgotten graveyards, scaring each other around campfires. Hours at the public pool, eating ourselves sick on candy and lounging on towels, before jumping in the cold water every so often to play Marco Polo or Red Rover. Or chicken fights when we were older, getting the boys we liked to pick us up. My parents sent us to summer camp - two weeks out of the summer that felt like ultimate freedom, doing things and experiencing things that no one who wasn't there could possibly understand.

I hated summer in Texas, but moving north has reminded me how much I love this season.

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