Whiplash

   Spooky treats for spooky season! I don't want October to end. The rest of the country dumps it so quickly, and then it's another year to wait until making cupcakes becomes worth it. It's cool tho, I got stuff for cookies!

I don't even like pastries or desserts much, but when I went to Joanne's, I saw stuff and couldn't resist. All this considering they no longer carried what I wanted. I'm assuming they're (and every other retailer) already cycling out of Halloween stuff and bringing in Thanksgiving/Holiday stuff. So short lived!

Even still, these were yummy and fun to decorate!

They even glowed a bit under our wonky lights!

Life is good.
Mud slides for all

Gotta try em with ice cream next time. mmpf
Delicious

Lifa brought cute orange lights. Because, why not?

We enjoyed spooky cupcakes, espresso, mudslides, panty-rippers, and whiskey.

I, myself am a lil bitch and do not enjoy whiskey as much as some, but can appreciate the different notes in various kinds. It's kinda like coffee. Lifa is whisky whore. We cannot escape it.

I just... needed to capture how cute the cupcake wrapper thingies are..

I got these as well as spider webbie ones. So cyoo omg T_T


Here is Homdray before I ran upstairs to grab the trash and bring it down:

After:

He looked like jesus loooolol

It's ok, I fixed it.

Cosplay wig and Junji Ito uzumaki windbreaker are the perfect trash ingredients

Something about this wig must've been cathartic for them

And then Lifa put it on

This somehow unleashed his inner Samoan/Pinoy metalhead

Rip my cosplay wig

At which point... Lifa ran out the front door lol
So we chased out after him.
We as in myself and Homdray. Chicken stayed behind, like a dad, expecting his stupid kids to come back within moments.

We didn't.
We found a Lifa behind a tree, and booked it for the playground.

It was like almost 2AM, it's fine.

We started making our way back, when we saw a flashlight in the distance. We started panicking thinking security was about to goof us, but realized it was Chicken. He came with bottles of water, disgruntled but endearing sighs, and emotional head pats. uwu

Upon our return, the headbanging ensued.

Um, my chiropractor told me I basically gave myself whiplash rofl
He put on Metalocalypse, and then I think Chicken put on DragonForce, and then I put on King Diamond. And it just went downhill. Lifa and I were headbanging for like 20 minutes straight.

The next morning, I wanted to break my neck off, and my entire back. But alas, I could not. Because if I had, how could I have enjoyed our cozy new bonfire pit?! T_T

Lifa impulse bought a fire pit.
We save our progress here every week. With drinks, stories, and chillin.

While the fire was starting, Chicken was in the garage doing some final touch ups on his car, when he tells me that there were plenty of buggies just hanging out on his hood if I wanted to feed Meemurs.
And feed Meemurs, I did!

She gobbled that sucker right up.

The idea of "don't forget to feed the plant" is so funny to me. Meemurs makes for not only a cute house plant, but a cute pet lol. While we don't really need to feed Meemurs very often, I still like to give her a treat when the opportunity presents itself. Look at her, she's so cute. And she's still so tinyyyyyyy

The fire was so cozy that night.

So cozy ^_^

Lifa had to go grab stuff. This meant going somewhere Chicken and I haven't gone to in millions of years. We've been happily cooped up at home only venturing out for groceries and errands, but avoiding shopping centers or large outdoor areas with crowds.

Saw this building and my mind immediately went to something else

IF YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW

We spent entirely way too much money. I discovered good, soft, nice quality active wear, and we gorged ourselves out in the open for the first time since lockdown.

A part of me felt like shit- guilty, for contributing to the stagnation of our progress. I'm fine, were not sick, but it's not about us. I'm over it, but don't see myself doing that again anytime soon.

We got enough stuff apparently to be given a giant thing of cotton candy on the house O___O
Spoiler: we didn't finish it!

I finished Chicken's Emil head!

Finally. It only took me several months. Not because of how much work it is, but because I get distracted easily by hobbies :(

But it's finally done. He was like, "whoa that's really cool"
and I was like ^____^
And now it's in his car.

Uhhh... mats are..

• foil ball
• firm and soft sculpey for face stuff
  
• acrylic paints
• diluted pastels
  

Was fun! I'm glad it's done with though. I feel bad for taking so long lol. It also doesn't help that I tend to get perfectionist...istic... and when a project isn't going down the way I envision it, I get discouraged and allow distractions to relieve my frustration with myself. That's what happened with Cydaea.
Bigger chunk than I could chew.
I ended up throwing her away because the way I had approached her frame was completely wrong, and the project was falling apart. So she went in the trash. It sucked. But uh, yeah I think I'll stick to what I know for now. Smaller scale stuff comes out well enough I think :B


Oh yeah, so after the headbanging, my entire back and neck were a mess. I was so ready to get Tammy'd.

That first right after was brutal. She was so sweet, so was my chiropractor. But they were like omg wat did you do. NEVER AGAIN. The second visit was sobering. Still feeling the effects of  METAL, but like what can ya do. She reprimanded in the sweetest way ever and was like, SLEEP SO YOUR BODY CAN HEAL OK? and I was like hokaaayyy Tammyy uwu

Getting spammed constantly is enough to not want to vote. I got one of those stickers in the mail that everyone wears, but I hadn't even voted or filled anything out. They're just sending them out to everyone that registered. What if I forgot?


This past week has been so nice, though. One morning, Lifa made breakfast instead because I accidentally slept in T_T

Today was especially nice because Chicken got his new laptop, and it's just been us with our set ups while we all work and enjoy each others' company.

We've started watching Thudercats (the 2011 one) and it's actually pretty legit lol. I mean... it'll never be the og, but for what it is... they did a pretty good job. It's been dope. We get up early, have breakfast before work and watch Thundercats. Then in the evenings we go for walks and watch anime.

I already hate myself for spending money on Genshin Impact. I fucked up, but yknow what. It's fine.
Waifus are horrible. I need Qiqi.

There it is. Noodles' descent into trashdom.
God, it's so cringe. It's awful. It screams I DON'T ENTIRELY HATE ANIME EXPO, but I like it. Such is life.
I regret to say that that won't be the last. I hate it.
And yet, here we are.
I am totally gonna be that person with lights under the car. It's disgusting. But it'll be tasteful. I have a limit. Like... there are some of those cars that go crazy with waifu/weeb stickers and it's kinda like... it looks like.. how AX smells on the 4th day in the lobby at 6pm. Depending on who you are, that could be good or bad. But uh, yeah. That's my interpretation.

ANYWHO

I wanna make cookies now. It's fridayyyy. Murrrr.

Oki I go make cookies nao ^_^


HAPPY FRIYAY
COVID STILL EXISTS :)

Remake

 Remember in 2018, during the Bethesda press conference at E3, Todd Howard comes out and is all like,

 "Stories that you create and tell, yourself"

I had this whole rant typed out from a few days ago about how... instead of altering original pieces of art for modern audiences, what if producers and screenwriters just got good and created new pieces?
If Todd Howard is telling people to come up with their own stories, then... I don't understand why new stuff isn't a thing anymore and everything is just a REMAKE.

Opinion: remakes suck. (Not to be confused with remasters.) me like remasters. remasters good. remake bad.

REMASTER GOOD. REMAKE BAD ಠ_ಠ

Get good. write new, good stuff. But that's the thing. It has to be GOOD. Not just new. Not just because it's passionate. It has to be good. Like how Mulan was, before they suddenly retconned her HARD WORK AND DISCIPLINE TO BECOME A LEGIT, GOOD WARRIOR and just gave her force powers CHI.

I digress.

But something that I hope goes out of style soon...

Roaring 20's, 30's, 40's themes. Everywhere. Almost as bad as Norse mythology bleeding into every platform of entertainment, but this is worse. This is worse because it's half ASSED.

Do you see?

The brows? Shows/movies now don't even TRY. They're just like, here draw your brows like, longer at the end and put on this etsy dress. NAILED IT. ROLL CAMERA.
Like... drag queens transform their brows all the time. Why can't actresses do it? COWARDS

The men wore make up too, groomed their brows and had slick combed hair.
I would've put Rudolph Valentino but that's not fair because he was kind of perfect.

(Stupid fun fact: Erik in Phantom of the Opera modeled himself after Valentino so that Christine would think he was the perfect man)

Anyway.... yeah. Uh. Here we go again, taking something from the past and rehashing it because we don't have our own identity or ideas.
Is that it?

The late 2010s. Era of Remakes.
{Rehash past media and trends because we don't know who we are, and still get it wrong.}

Fabulous

The only reason this bugged me was because we finished watching Haunting of Hill House recently, and Poppy's design pissed me off. Not really, but it just annoyed me to look at her. It's like the costume designers didn't even TRY to make her look period accurate. Ugh. Idk why that particular character bugged me so much. Probably the last straw. When a trend or style becomes oversaturated, I get irritated just at the thought that my metabolism is working to filter another terribad copy of something I already saw/heard 5876924795829745 times before in a trailer, music video, movie, tv show, magazine, social media mnnnyyyyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggghhhh

... Severely detail oriented. It sucks.

Been a while since I've messed around with clay stuff. I feel so out of practice and sloppy! T_T

Eons ago, I told Chicken that I'd make him an Emil helmet for his car.
I finally finished the base and baked it. It layed around and got dirty when it just needed 1 eye to finish. But I got distracted and it didn't see the light of day for several months lol.

But, since I would be finishing that up, I decided to do something cute and fun for my plants. They could have little friends. So I made them ghost friends ^_^

Different ghosties!
I used to used colored clay, but it sucks to work with, so I've just been using softer clay and painting it. I used to work with colored clay, but if it got dirty, you're screwed.
Twice teh work, but whatevs.
Jiangshi aren't ghosts, technically, kind of? I guess they aren't. Daoshi lock spirits in them I think? Right? I don't remember.
They're dead

This buddy has a lot of work ahead of it. I'll finish it this weekend for sure.

POST MORTEM FRIENDS YAY

We got..
uh.. a ghost.. from.. I guess american style?, a jianshi, a pocong, and an onryo
I'm gonna try to do more.
I wanna do a krasue but gotta figure out how I'm gonna go about it. She cray.

but ugh THEY'RE JUST SO CYOO
The jianshi was... I underestimated how much was gonna go into it.
I thought, it's fine, I'll just make a quick little chibi one, won't take more than an hour to just whatever it really quick.

I worked on that little guy for like 8 hours lol AND HE'S TINY.

Also... I had to learn to write the damn talisman. This took a while.

And then write it on a tiny cut of post-it. My post-its are black, so I had to paint a corner of a sheet yellow with several layers lmao. That's so stupid, who does that

Me. I'm stupid, I do that.

I got the hang of it after several practice drawings, and it all worked out. It's super tiny, barely legible, but it's... on there. Sort of.

Ah, I wanna make more stuff. idk what tho. I wanna make art dolls, but that's like way out of my league. At least... for what I'm imagining I want to do. ONE DAY.

The peace signs are out of control.

This was after my massage therapy.

I need to talk about it. Because it hurts, but it's fantastic. I don't need a pillow to sleep anymore! Going balls deep with this has been the best decision for my well being in a long time. No medicine, no amount of water, long nights of sleep, none of that, achieves the insane relief this treatment brings me.
My masseuse is amazing, I love her so much. She told me she used to volunteer in hospice work as well as work at Alzheimer centers. She recollected her fondest experiences from keeping vigil. What an honor that must be...
To assist in closing a final chapter in someone's long life. To guide them forward beyond memories they've kept away, beyond the person they became slipping away from them, and to be there to help them let go. To hold their hand, look them in the eyes if they even have the strength for one final friendly smile, from a stranger, who wants to be there. Damn. That's so special. And a big deal.

Ah, my heart feels heavy. I honestly thought... that that was for like... qualified people. Or something that isn't me. Can you imagine? Me? Walking into your room? As you're actively dying? Is that oKAY? I'd be afraid of making someone panic. Ugh.
It's something I'll explore. Though I'm unsure of how that can work with the current pandemic, but... If it's a option that can be done safely, hmmmm...
She also worked with children on the autism spectrum. Also something I could see myself doing.

I love her. She's incredible. Total healing class. She gives all her credit to her savior dude, mr. Jesus. I'm of the belief that she should give herself some credit for all that has done and still does to heal and help people, but she is happy and believes she's where she is because of mr. Jesus. And that's cool. Jesus or not, she's good people. She even does the cup thing that leaves marks all over you. I got those on my thighs and hips today. Feels crazy at first but works magic that you didn't even realize needed... magic.

Anyway, enough with my amazement at massage therapy. My chiropractor is dope too.


Ooof. Ranty, this one. I'm being influenced, I swear lol.

Tomorrow is Friday. The house this week has been extra focused on work matters. Weekend will be most welcome!

FAREWELL, FELLOW MASK WEARERS.
And to anyone who doesn't wear a mask, uh that's not very nice.
Happy Friyay MESH MASKS SUCK ASS