[sticky entry] Sticky: Intro Post

Apr. 25th, 2025 11:40 pm
soc_puppet: A gray masked dumbo rat wearing a Dreamwidth cheerleading outfit and waving red color-matched pompoms (Cheering you on)
Hello! You may be here because you saw me talking about Dreamwidth on Tumblr, or from my Dreamwidth tutorials at [community profile] newcomers or [community profile] the_great_tumblr_purge. Or maybe you here via one of the communities I run: [community profile] queerly_beloved, [community profile] moodthemeinayear, or [community profile] summerofthe69.

I mostly post about a combination of real life foibles, whatever projects I'm working on at a given time, and whatever fandom I'm into at the moment (currently The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System, as of April 2025). If you're interested in any of these, feel free to subscribe and stick around! You're welcome to introduce yourself in the comments of this post if you'd like, but feel no obligation; I fully support Lurkers in all of your forms 😉

If you want a quick link to a bunch of Dreamwidth guides, check here at Newcomers or here at The Great Tumblr Purge; my own Tumblr-oriented Dreamwidth guides I'll link below, as well:

What to post about on Dreamwidth
Dreamwidth alternatives to talking in the tags
A quick guide to mood themes
The (beta) Create Entries page
Personal Communities: Dreamwidth's "side blogs"
What do I do instead of reblogging?
Audience on Dreamwidth vs Audience on Tumblr
Cut Tag Basics
Uploading Images to Dreamwidth
Finding Friends and Things to Do on Dreamwidth
Dreamwidth and Icons

I think that's it for now; thanks for stopping by, and I hope you enjoy your time here!
soc_puppet: Dreamsheep as Lumpy Space Princess from Adventure Time (Default)
A website where you can click a button once a day to raise money for Palestine.

Posting this here to help me find it and remember to do it regularly.

[sticky entry] Sticky: Rat Mood Theme

Jan. 30th, 2024 12:23 am
soc_puppet: Dreamsheep, its wool colored black and shot through with five diagonal colored lines (red, yellow, white, blue, and green, from left to right), the design from Dreamwidth user capri0mni's Disability Pride flag. The Dreamwidth logo is in red, yellow, white, blue, and green, echoing the stripes. (Disability Pride)
Want to see all the moods for my Fancy Rats mood theme so far? Click here! This is the official mood theme page for it on Dreamwidth. As of today, August 21st 2024, it's effectively done, with thanks to [community profile] moodthemeinayear! I will post an official download link to the full mood theme sometime in December. Anyone who doesn't want to wait is welcome to download the images individually—which is a lot of work, so I may provide a download link earlier in this post, we'll see.

Edit: My Fancy Rats mood theme is now also an official site-supported Dreamwidth mood theme! That means that anyone can use it, no need to get a paid account! There are a few differences between the official version and my original version, so if you want to see all of the official rats, click here. [/edit]

Want to block the images for any reason? Under this cut tag is a list of all of the image links, so you can just copy-paste them into an ad blocker or whatever. Rat mood theme image links )

And that should be all of them! The exception is if I add more rats as icons, which is possible, but probably not for a little while yet 😅
soc_puppet: Dreamsheep, its wool colored black and shot through with five diagonal colored lines (red, yellow, white, blue, and green, from left to right), the design from Dreamwidth user capri0mni's Disability Pride flag. The Dreamwidth logo is in red, yellow, white, blue, and green, echoing the stripes. (Disability Pride)
In a similar vein to "Does the Dog Die?", I want a physical calibration check website. Like, at minimum, a list of foods and whether they're supposed to taste spicy or not would be great. An "Are Bananas Supposed to be Spicy?" type of web site, that expands to answer questions like, "How long should I be able to stand or walk before it starts to hurt?" or "Is stepping down stairs supposed to hurt?" and stuff like that. Including possible explanations for why you might hurt when doing things is probably a bad idea for legal reasons at the very least, but like. If there's somewhere it's possible to check, "Hey, is it normal to only be able to fully breathe through one nostril at a time?" then it's a lot easier to know that it's not normal and possibly bring it up with a doctor.

IDK, there's probably a lot of reasons it's impractical, but that's what makes it a pipe dream.
soc_puppet: Ayane and Hayate from Hayate Cross Blade, absolutely astounded (negative) (Whomst the fuck)
So after reading this article about the (lack of) brown recluse spiders in California, it occurred to me that I didn't actually know what brown recluse spiders look like! The article linked doesn't have any pictures itself, so I decided to Duck Around for some and learn me a little more, given that I apparently live in brown recluse range.

I stopped briefly at Wikipedia to get the basics, then went directly to images, whereupon I found an image that looked, in fact, very little like brown recluses had been described in Wikipedia, or the image I'd found there. Out of horrified curiosity, I clicked through to the page the image was found on, and was greeted with a veritable treasure trove of very obviously Gen AI spider pics. One of the spiders had eleven legs!

Anyway, don't trust the website Spiderzoon for anything, I guess, because if those are the photos that the article writers are claiming to have taken themselves, well. The reality they're photographing doesn't line up with this one, so the information likely isn't viable in this universe, either.
soc_puppet: Words "Creative Process" in purple (Creative Process)
Another surprise podfic, this time of After a Fashion (trainer gets Darkrai a pair of Black Glasses), has lead to me to signing up with [personal profile] peasina for this year's [community profile] pod_together! I've got another fic idea inspired by their same "one-eyed 'mon plus glasses" prompt, and combined a bit with an anecdote from when my brother was in high school and collecting miscellaneous metal objects for a while. I think it has promise!

It should also be short enough that I can fit it in and manage a fic or two for Sot69, my main schedule conflict 😂 Fingers crossed!

Holy shit!

May. 29th, 2026 09:53 pm
soc_puppet: Two girls in highschool uniform staring in awe; their hands are pressed together, and imaginary roses are blooming behind them. Above them is a crude drawing of an umbrella topped with a heart and the words, "A happy ending". (A happy ending)
I've been waiting on the typical spring Kodansha manga drop at HumbleBundle, and while it usually comes sooner in the year (IIRC), this year's dump does not disappoint:

61 volume BL, Yuri, and Beyond bundle for $30 USD. Includes a couple of titles I've been meaning to pick up for a while now, as well as at least one "classic" (Saiyuki: The Original Series Resurrected Edition).
soc_puppet: Adorable art of the Pokémon Piplup; its flippers are clutched close to its chin, its eyes are dewy, and it is blushing, while light pink hearts and bubbles float around it. Originally a sticker for Pokémon Go. (Love Piplup)
A very sweet and brilliantly made (and collaborative!) podfic of Artistic Collaboration can be found over here. The fic features Smeargle teaming up with Jigglypuff to punish some humans who have shown disdain for the arts, and three podficcers teamed up as the narrator and two characters, and it is fantastic 💖

Yippee!

May. 23rd, 2026 10:12 pm
soc_puppet: A gray masked dumbo rat wearing a Dreamwidth cheerleading outfit and waving red color-matched pompoms (Team Dreamwidth)
This evening, I was finally walked through (most of) the process of registering a new site-supported mood theme in Dreamwidth proper.

Which is to say: Cloudy Daze mood theme, coming in the next code push!
soc_puppet: [Homestuck] God tier "Life" themed Dreamsheep (Sheep of Life)
Thanks to everyone who expressed support on my previous post 💖 Apparently replying individually is a major mental roadblock for me right now, so I'm skipping that for the moment for the sake of actually updating for goodness' sake.

I'm still feeling emotionally better at work, and am trying to nail down what sort of accommodations I need. I worked on Sunday and Wednesday, and on Sunday I did my best to take mental note of when I started getting tired versus when I started to physically ache and so forth. On Wednesday I compared notes; I opened the day thinking to myself, "Surely my initial assessment was incorrect? I can't have been starting to flag at only four hours in and counting down the hours until I left while thinking longingly of more painkillers at six hours..." And then I hit five hours of work, and yep, that assessment held up.

That said, my mattress is also not holding up very well, which can't be helping my back recover during sleep. I don't want to rush out and get a new mattress, though, because what if that's not actually a significant part of the problem? I did work enough hours over the lead up to Mother's Day that I can afford one, but my current mattress is supposedly supposed to be viable for another four years, and it wasn't cheap. Ideally, I'd like to try out a different mattress for a night or two, but all of the spare bedrooms in my house are... kinda being used for storage 🤦‍♀️ One is covered in Legos and books, one in toys that my niblings play with when they visit, and one is covered in probably mostly books but honestly has been buried for over two decades at this point. IDK, I'll have to give it some more thought.

Job Update

May. 16th, 2026 10:03 pm
soc_puppet: [Homestuck] God tier "Hope" themed Dreamsheep (Sheep of Hope)
Talked things out with my boss on Thursday, and we came to a much better understanding. Part of it is something that I'm still having trouble internalizing, but is part of my reality, and so I will have to learn to accept it. (Maybe after a brief mourning period. Hopefully the ADA and EAP paperwork HR sent over will help by giving me a way through.)

In short: I thought I was unneeded in my job; Boss thought I didn't care about my job and had one foot out the door.

The reality is pretty close to that, but different in important ways )

Anyway, the bakery Lead Cook (second in command) will be helping me out at work tomorrow and teaching me a few of the things I haven't had the opportunity to really learn in the past two-ish years. I am dearly hoping that one of our "new" bread recipes is on the to-do list 💖
soc_puppet: Words "Tragic Tale" in dark blue (Tragic Tale)
Sucketh the first: Because I did slightly more than zero productive things on Monday, I wasn't 100% recovered from Mothers Day Weekend Hell (a hell which was slightly longer than usual for me, an account of a coworker being out due to jury duty).

Sucketh the second: I've been trying to work on my posture, but apparently "Standing or sitting as if I'm balancing something on my head" is not the way to do it, and instead, for me, results in pain! Some of it from breathing! It was like Level 3 pain, just barely more than I could completely ignore, and I thought for sure that I could just power through and keep going and make it to the end of the day and then I'd have today off and could rest. (I'd already taken a Naproxen in the morning and was several hours out from a second dose, though in retrospect I maybe should have reconsidered that.) And that might have even worked! Except...

Sucketh the third: Somehow, my boss didn't realize that me not being in a position to learn any new recipes over the past eighteen-plus months meant that I hadn't learned any new recipes over the past eighteen-plus months. So when she was busy in the office and assigned the task of a recipe that was introduced last year, my coworker (who was back from jury duty early) was the only one in the bakery who had ever made it before, and that was once and not recently besides. We shuffled responsibilities, and my coworker graciously took responsibility for said recipe, and I thought everything was okay, except...

Well, I'd gotten a different recipe taken care of (baking crème brulee, much more straightforward than caramelized pineapple) while my other two coworkers went downstairs to shuffle some inventory. They showed up while I was taking care of some dishes, shortly before my boss walked in and told me—fairly gently!—that when she asked me to get the caramelized pineapple made, she'd thought I would naturally think to prioritize it over dishes, since the caramelized pineapple would need to cool.

I went into, "Explaining everything would take too long and probably wouldn't make a difference WRT the advice I'm being given" mode, and deferred with an "Okay." Except then Jury Duty Coworker explained that she was going to do it, because I had never made the recipe before, and things went downhill from there )

So yeah. Not a fun day. I had honestly hoped that a good night's sleep would make everything seem better in the morning, and usually that does the trick for me after a minor emotional breakdown like this! But it doesn't seem to have worked this time, so IDK. I guess I'll just have to see how work goes tomorrow.

Praise me

May. 9th, 2026 09:34 pm
soc_puppet: Pixelated Habitica avatar decked out in full Mushroom Druid wear, riding a Dusk Badger mount through a forest with a pet Base Snake (Habitica)
I have an earlier than usual shift at work tomorrow, and instead of staying up and surfing the Internet, I'm going to bed at a reasonable hour. Lights off within the next twenty minutes!

I am being very responsible and deserve good results.
soc_puppet: A crude pencil drawing on lined paper of what's supposed to be a dog; the dog's mouth and eyes are on one side of its face, while its snout is on the other. (Art time!)
I have just realized that one of my longest lived "generic" plunnies would be perfect for a WangXian Modern Day Cultivators AU; like, the platonic ideal for it. But I have no creative urges for MDZS! Only reading!

I've got an SVSSS Modern Day BingYuan fic outline that roughly follows the premise, but not nearly to the degree that Modern Day Cultivators WangXian would. And I want to write the BingYuan one, because there's some delightful shenanigans in there! (Tentative title: "Fake it Til You Make it Gay".) But it's still not quite the same as the fic that I really want.

My current best hope: Write the SVSSS fic, post it, then share the premise for the platonic ideal version on Tumblr, because surely someone will bite. Right? ...Right?
soc_puppet: Computer drawingo of a strawberry dipped half-way in white chocolate, with a dark chocolate line along the middle, so the whole thing looks like a Pokeball (Poke-strawberry)
Fandom: Pokémon
Summary: Darkrai's trainer brings them a surprise from a shopping trip
Mirrors: This comment thread, AO3 link
Wordcount: 228
Ships: Darkrai & Trainer
Notes: For [personal profile] peasina's prompt in [personal profile] javert's Three Weeks for Dreamwidth Pokémon Prompt meme: "Any, Any Pokemon with one eye, Wearing glasses"
Fic: After a Fashion )
soc_puppet: A gray hooded dumbo rat dragging a paintbrush along the ground; the brush is drawing a line of red. (Art Rat)
I've got some colorful dreamsheep icons up over at [community profile] dreamsheep in celebration of [community profile] 3weeks4dreamwidth! I'm also taking color and color combination requests.

I'm aiming to get a Mood Theme in a Hurry calendar done and posted by this evening, but I've also got Surprise Cramps to deal with, so we'll see what wins 😑

Edit: Mood Theme in a Hurry Calendars are now available! They only cover the Minimum and Medium mood tracks, because I am not currently prepared to either stick six or seven moods on a day, or pick and choose which of the remaining 98 moods to include on the calendar. (I'd probably want to go for at least 72 moods total, including the 34 already on the Medium Track calendar, but that's still 38 moods to pick out!)
soc_puppet: Pixelated Habitica avatar decked out in full Mushroom Druid wear, riding a Dusk Badger mount through a forest with a pet Base Snake (Meme Warrior)
Finally made an appointment for my "spring" dental cleaning!

So I go to the local dental school, because that's what my insurance covers, but I also think it's kind of fun and neat to be helping dental students learn. I also take fairly good care of my teeth (thank you, Habitica, for making me a regular flosser!). Apparently, I'm such an easy patient that I qualify for first year dental students to practice on! Which I, at least, think is pretty cool and a neat way to affirm that I keep my teeth in relatively good condition. A fun little (sugar-free 😜) treat for the day!

Concept

Apr. 18th, 2026 09:47 pm
soc_puppet: Sonoko from Detective Conan, thinking back on things (Now that I think about it)
A monster collecting game where all of the creatures you collect are somehow hidden and/or mimic-style creatures. Some of them are still mimic-style treasure creatures (pulling examples from Pokémon, this would be Voltorb, etc), but some you have to solve puzzles to reveal (Spiritomb), and some appear to literally be part of the scenery until you interact with them, either in general (Stunfisk, both original and Galarian) or in specific ways (watering Sudowoodo in Gold and Silver).

I just think it'd be a neat twist on the idea. (Possibly because, of the two dozen or so fakemon I've come up with, two have been mimic-style 'mon a la Voltorb, which is a bit disproportionate!)
soc_puppet: Pixelated Habitica avatar decked out in full Mushroom Druid wear, riding a Dusk Badger mount through a forest with a pet Base Snake (Meme Warrior)
Just a quick celebratory post in honor of a now 20-year-old meme, upon which the original version of "Creative" in my fancy rats mood theme was based. May we all continue to find joy in the harmless memes of yore.
soc_puppet: Adorable art of the Pokémon Piplup; its flippers are clutched close to its chin, its eyes are dewy, and it is blushing, while light pink hearts and bubbles float around it. Originally a sticker for Pokémon Go. (Love Piplup)
Ack, I'm late! These went live on AO3 three days ago 🤦‍♀️ But hey, they're here now, and that's better than nothing, right? Now I need to go heap praise on my podfic recording counterparts!


Fandom: Pokémon
Summary: It's Amity the Unown's favorite time of year
Mirrors: AO3
Wordcount: 641
Ships: None
Notes: For [community profile] pokepodproject's Into the Unown mini-round, featuring Unown A; title is taken from "Do-Re-Mi" from The Sound of Music. Check out the Podfic version!
Fic: Let's Start at the Very Beginning (It's a Very Good Place to Start)Let's Start at the Very Beginning (It's a Very Good Place to Start) )


Fandom: Pokémon
Summary: Someone keeps messing with Kaylee's street art, and she's going to find out who.
Mirrors: AO3
Wordcount: 586
Ships: None
Notes: For [community profile] pokepodproject's Into the Unown mini-round, featuring Unown K; check out the Podfic version!
Fic: Vandalism )

Idea

Mar. 31st, 2026 06:38 pm
soc_puppet: Pixelated Habitica avatar decked out in full Mushroom Druid wear, riding a Dusk Badger mount through a forest with a pet Base Snake (Meme Warrior)
Gävlebocken shaped candles. Light them regularly while the real goat is up, burn them until there's nothing left.

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