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Break time breakthroughs are real! Yesterday I was scrolling the tumblr, as one does, and came across this great art by Richie Guzman. (It's a bear at the edge of a body of water, seeing Ursa Major reflected in the water's surface. If the tumblr link gives any issues, there's a website link too.)

Anyway, I really liked the picture, and I was like 'oh, that feeling -- that's the feeling I want for my nanowrimo title!' So now I've got some ideas whirling around, and I'm excited!

Here’s a neat thing: the weather forecast says today will be sunny (you know, after the dense fog advisory is over), and possibly as warm as 50F degrees. I am delighted by this news, especially after a very rainy Sunday. Maybe I can finagle an afternoon break outside?

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My mom recommended I check out last Sunday’s ‘Arlo and Janis’ comic strip, and it did not disappoint!

Arlo and Janis, July 15, 2018, by Jimmy Johnson

100% accurate cat representation!

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April door art is a go! The bird picture is from a 2015 ‘Birds & Blooms’ calendar [art credit to Anahata Joy Katkin]. There’s also part of a 2016 calendar page [art credit to Adam Guan] and a variety of scrapbooking and origami papers.

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[comic by lunarbaboon]

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[credit xkcd]

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I have been off and on searching for a half-remembered tumblr post for a while now, and it turns out it was actually two posts that my brain had combined together!

1. The first was some art by Alister Lockhart and some totally spot-on tumblr comments over at Totally Panda Coffee.

And heck, even if your own death is inevitable getting information out could help save other people, even if it can’t save you. ‘Here are 20 livestreams of the giant tentacle monster including how it moves and attacks, how can we beat it?’ is way more useful than ‘an entire city got wiped off the map and things smell vaguely of calimari idk man’ (from songofsunset)

2. And the second was a poem: Sometimes it hurts when people scorn internet culture, by Shiv (demisexualmerrill)

““Your generation would probably ‘livetweet’ the apocalypse” you say, and you laugh
You mean it as an insult, and I understand,
Or you don’t
because the word lies awkwardly on you tongue, stumbles as it leaves your lips, air quotes visible
You meant it as an insult, so you don’t understand, when I look into your eyes and say “Yes”
Because we would.
It would be our duty, as citizens on this earth
to document it’s end the best way we know
and if that means a second by second update
of the world going up in flames, or down in rain, or crushed under the feet of invading monsters
so be it.
It would mean a second by second update of
“I love you”
“I’m scared”
“Are you all right?”
“Stay close”
“Be brave”
It would mean a second by second update of the humanity’s connection with one another,
Proof of empathy, love, and friendship between people who may have never met in the flesh.
So don’t throw the word ‘Livetweet’ at me like a dagger, meant to tear at my ‘teenage superiority’
Because if the citizens of Pompeii, before they were consumed by fire,
had a chance to tell their friends and family throughout Rome
“I love you”
“I’m scared”
“Don’t forget me”
Don’t you think they’d have taken the chance?”

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April 1st: snowstorm, new door art. Check.

[combination of a calendar picture by Karel K Hendee, plus scrapbooking paper additions by me]

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First up: some new door art for the new month!

*pictures from a 2017 calendar of art by Melody Hogan
*quote from an older calendar of art by Laurel K Hendee

Mix it all up with a bunch of different scrapbooking papers and some paper hearts, and my door is ready for February!

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January door art!

The elephant is a cutout from a calendar — art by Melody Hogan. The picture behind it is from an LL Bean catalog, and the rest of it is various scrapbooking papers.

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