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When the posting is tough, the memes get posting?

( In addition to the obvious pandemic focus, there's some food/disordered eating(?) talk behind the cut, and I think the questions are kind of US-centric? )

Hey all, this is mostly a heads up that I'll be doing the snowflake_challenge this January, which I expect will approximately double my posting frequency to around four entries a week, so you can adjust your expectations and/or reading lists accordingly.


Snowflake Challenge, January 1 - 31.

For the first challenge, I've put up an updated intro post and linked it in my profile. It's something I've been meaning to do for ages, so I guess this challenge is getting off to a pretty good start for me!

I got back to a more even weirdness split with this batch -- three prompts from the neural net's lowest weirdness setting, two from middle weirdness, and three from high weirdness.

Content notes: None this time! Unless you count one drawing I visibly gave up on half way through.

( Spot the impatience? )

I did enjoy interpreting the word that has no English meaning.

Every day in October, I drew a picture in ink. This was mostly stubbornness: I only sporadically draw and hardly ever in ink, so I wasn't really invested in the practical side of it, but once I started, I wanted to see it through.

And I did, and I'm proud of that! Not because it would have been bad to take a break or stop if that's what I'd needed to do, but because I don't have a lot of practice sticking with things just because I want to, and I like that this time, I did. And it's given me practice in accepting things I've made whose flaws frustrate me, and that's probably good for me as well.

Instead of using the official Inktober prompts, I used these amazing prompts by a neural net (thanks to alchimie for linking them!), each day picking my favorite from the three levels of weirdness. In this installment, that's two from the most normal set and three each from the weirder ones, which seems like a nicely even split to me.

Content notes: several pen drawings of invertebrates and one of a sort of skeleton creature follow. Also, the scans are pretty messy.

( Anyway, without further ado! )

It feels increasingly weird to have content over there that isn't mirrored here on Dreamwidth, so have a little getting to know you meme I was tagged for by the excellent villainny!

One/Name: I'll happily answer to either E or enemy. :D

Two/Birthday: I refuse to answer on the grounds that I may incriminate myself? I'm not much for being the center of attention.

Three/Zodiac: Capricorn. Memes always seem to say that makes me some kind of competent, practical person. The mind boggles.

Four/Height: Somewhere in the 5'9 range. I'm not being cagey this time, I just haven't been competently measured in an age!

Five/Hobbies: Reading fanfic, novels, articles, blogs; writing occasionally; playing odd indie games, or sometimes more mainstream ones if prodded; DMing the world's smallest D&D campaign.

Six/Favorite Colors: Green, gray, cool colors in general, brown, black.

Seven/Favorite Books: Gosh. I'll say the works of CJ Cherryh, Martha Wells, and Maureen McHugh come to mind. But how in the world can I pick?

Eight/Last Song I Listened To: I've got "Dog Days Are Over" by Florence and the Machine playing right now!

Nine/Last Movie Watched: The heartbreaking El lugar sin límites. (Content notes: homophobia, transphobia, sexual violence, other violence, orientalism, cultural appropriation, plain old emotional devastation. But I'm not sorry I watched it.)

Ten/Inspiration: I think the thing gives me more ideas than anything else is when something is almost what I want, but not quite. The combination of "yes, like that" and "but what if--" gets my brain working like nothing else.

Eleven/Meaning of Username: I'm a terrible perfectionist, and it gets in the way of so many things. It's a reminder to myself to try and focus not on avoiding mistakes, but on finding and creating things that are good.

On tumblr, I would traditionally tag some of you to do this meme too, but that feels a little pushy here on DW, somehow. So -- instead I will invite you all to play if you're interested, and not otherwise!

With thanks to boxofdelights, who gave me five wonderful questions to answer!

( 1. What do you like best about living with your parents? )

( 2. What do you like least about living with your parents? )

( 3. Flight or invisibility? )

( 4. Who is your favorite AI? )

( 5. Which is your favorite book by C.J. Cherryh? )

Let me know in the comments if you'd like five questions of your own!