green except too damn hot @green@awoo.space

@Ulfra_Wolfe@witches.town I'm so sorry to hear that, hon. ): sending as much warmth & empathy as I can muster to you both. <3

@baxil thank you for posting this. just... yeah. thank you. it's necessary to get this stuff known, shine a light on it, and it's going to suck to drag it out at any time. today is as good a day as any. <3

@jessmahler @varx@i.write.codethat.sucks I know one person who had a parent who (for lack of a more clear explanation) raised their kid like Coyote would. and yeah... they have great things to say about that parent, buuuuut also some other things that are not so great, for pretty much exactly that reason--lack of trust. :|

now the ducks are gone, and I'm enjoying watching the spotted towhees, sparrows, and juncos cautiously hoovering up what's left.

also just saw a chickadee carefully prune a leafless twig out of a tree and then toss it down into the bushes below. "changed my mind, don't want that stick!" fuckin' chickadees. XD

1. Finish The Damn Story. just... do another write-through, maybe two, stick a nail in it and call it Good Enough. and then POST IT. *try* not to start any new ambitious writing projects until it's done, please?
2. make one Xmas ornament a month, so there's 12 more to hang on the tree next Xmas!
3. do not make any Next Year resolutions.

@noelle P...uolingo? yeah I do that kind of thing fairly often too. XD "I know it begins with an N!" --> it actually begins with an S, wtf was I thinking

@Leucrotta @Azure *is suddenly intrigued*

@cassolotl@dev.glitch.social YOUR CAT IS USING THE TV TO REPLY TO YOU. welp

the Instagram account for my parent people's art stuff! my aunt does most of the art, but my mom does a lot of the work to make it too. some of the new marbles are *gorgeous* omg... https://www.instagram.com/dinahhuletmurrine/

also, somebody put a bunch of some kind of cereal, grains or something, out on the ground below my window, which is spurring two thoughts:
1. ducks are big
2. ducks taste good

>______> #trashwolfthoughts

ah... pileated woodpecker; I can hear it outside. very distinctive call. ^___^

@Ulfra_Wolfe@witches.town it's a known tactic that abusers use to keep control over their victim, either by stifling independent or self-care behavior ("you can't say no to me, you're emotionally abusing me!" = victim feels terrible for being "abusive") or by isolating the victim from their support network, or both. it's incredibly shitty. I've had it pulled on me, fortunately in a very mild, indirect way that didn't mess up my life--but it still makes me *furious*.

@jessmahler
and
2. I couldn't trust my father to give me correct answers. it wasn't a case of "give an obviously wrong answer to make the kid look it up," either; he was consistently inconsistent in giving me correct answers--he just liked being perceived as being "right," and if he didn't know he'd happily make something up, trusting that I'd accept it.

my *mother* would say "I don't know, look it up." and I still trust her word over his, to this day. (there's other reasons too, heh)

@jessmahler yes, you're definitely doing it right!

I still remember--I couldn't have been more than eight years old, out at night walking with my father and seeing the full moon, I asked "why does the moon shine?" and he said that it was the streetlights and stuff from Earth being reflected back.

although I couldn't articulate it at that age, at that moment I realized two things:
1. that wasn't right--there's stories of the moon shining long before humans had electricity. ...

(also Pooka has started yelling at me to go to bed. this is a cat with Opinions about Human Bedtime who does not hesitate to share them at Maximum Volume)

@ThatDamnCat @Nomaxice
"- Kirk once made a cannon that shot fennecs."

this sentence wins
it wins everything
we can all stop now