@MrGoat This is now my favorite pirate joke.

@Zebrano Alfred's response isn't cryptic enough. 😄

Dumped out all of my sock yarn hexagons and counted them. I've knitted 111. I need around 300 to sew them all together into a blanket. Still haven't decided whether or not to do half hexagons to make the edges straight.
#CoSoKnitting

@misslovelymess I didn't end up in the ER, but I do have the remains of what used to be two drawers sitting on the floor. I don't know if they can be repaired or not.

I got in a fight with a dresser today. Yes... furniture. Large wood container of folded clothes. And I'm still not sure who won.

Watching old DS9 episodes. My heart broke for Garak tonight. It's the episode in which his implant malfunctions. As an autistic person who will never see home again, I wanted to cry with him when he said living on the station is torture, and it's always too cold and the lights are always too bright.

I watched my cat play with a toy mouse tonight. For just a little while, in this small space, all is right. Those moments are little streams from a fountain of life.

I did this one in layers. The pink layer was actually first. It's an acrylic paint pen. The red layer is an ink brush pen, so it didn't really mark over the acrylic and ends up looking like the background.
#CoSoArt

@mcfate Absolutely! Watching Iron Man 2 in 2024, I'm like, "He got a cameo appearance in a movie that is a warning not to trust him!'

We've been discussing a point I brought up a few weeks ago - that Musk is like a cheap knock-off Tony Stark somebody ordered from Temu. Now we giggle every time one of us calls him Temu Stark.

I honestly thought this was going to be a lost cause. It looked so crappy when I started that I almost tore the page out. It was a lesson in trusting the process.
#CoSoArt

Somebody brought home a glass bottle Coke for me because it's one of those little treats that says "I love you". The cat never heard me blow across the opening of a bottle until today.

Friends, my cat would like you all to know she was NOT amused.

I asked her, "How did you think I got such a clear sound on the flute with no training?" She just kept staring at me like I better start begging her not to fling me into the Void.

@PaganMother I went and signed up when I saw your post. Today's my dad's birthday. He died 7 years ago. This is exactly the kind of thing he would have told me about.

If people know pearls come from oysters, why are drawings often done of them in clams? Oysters do not look like clams.

@MidnightRider I had a Sunday School teacher when I was a kid who was very upset about me trying to put Satan on the prayer list. She had me talk to the Assistant Pastor, and he was very uncomfortable when I pointed out the preacher said Satan is the enemy and also said Jesus wants us to love and pray for our enemies. I was sincerely confused about why that wouldn't include Satan.

I don't think they were disappointed a few years later when I stopped showing up.

@MidnightRider I want to tell you we're supposed to carry each other when somebody reaches the point you're at. But, you know, that's part of the problem. Too many people don't understand what it is to be a community. They think it's just a word for "specific segment of the population". I can tell you I don't judge you for feeling the way you do.

@nopuppet_007 One of the things I learned in therapy was that I was criticizing myself when I recognized a trauma reaction. As if I was just supposed to chill once I knew what it was. I learned to accept that it's happening and focus on something I can control. So I can't save the world, but maybe I can finally sort through a box of stuff I keep saying I'm going to clean out. But I do have to put limits on it so I won't overwork myself. One box. Maybe two. Then rest.

@MidnightRider If all hope isn't lost, we have to be able to keep ourselves going for a long fight. If all hope is lost, then nothing we do will change it. Either way, constant panic isn't the answer. We can be informed and rightfully afraid and angry while not turning on each other the way I saw people turn on each other after a few years of his first go. It was coming from panic and burnout. That's what his side wants.

That's part of why I'm focusing on art. My PTSD hypervigilance has been in overdrive. That's not good for my health, and it's not going to make me someone others can go to for help.

I am absolutely NOT suggesting people just "shouldn't be upset" about things. I will suggest that we figure out how to channel it into practical and strategic things.

Remember - the constant panic and shock is part of their strategy. It wears you down so you can't fight even when there's something that can be fought.