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I just drew a scarf symbol and other things for fun purposes but it seems like the model is missing, so I'll just do it for now :/
i cannot emphasize how necessary it is to have a buddy to participate in fandom with. completely elevated experience. don't have a buddy? find someone you like and message them and be their friend. gush over every sketch and drabble and insane headcanon they have. live life to the fullest.
did you guys know you can enjoy fiction even when you want to kill some of the characters with hammers on account of they are interesting and evocative characters that cause strong emotions and those strong emotions do not always need to be positive. crazy stuff
I went to the small pizzeria in a nearby village last month and asked for a calzone, and when she brought it to me the owner had a look on her face I can only describe as bitter.
Naturally my first assumption was that she was judging me for my food order (maybe calzones are too easy compared to other pizzas and she felt under-challenged as a pizza chef?), but then I looked at my calzone and the more I looked at it, the more I felt like it might have been a failed attempt at a cat calzone.
(I didn't ask for a cat calzone, just a calzone.)
If I had immediately identified it as a cat calzone I would have of course said something about it, such as "Aww that's so cute! You made it in the shape of a cat!! Thank you!" — but it was too late. I hesitated too long, and it was just failed enough that I wasn't sure it was meant to be a cat.
I think this poor woman knew her cat calzone was a failure and I wouldn't be able to recognise her effort for what it was, hence the bitterness in her eyes when she brought it to me.
I asked my friend if my pizza looked like a cat to her, and she said "Are you saying this because of the olives? I think they were just placed randomly."
no, I think they were meant to be eyes, and a cat nose. And those are the ears. Wait, I'll turn it in your direction so you can see
Friend: "It's just a pointy calzone... Maybe you should ask the chef if she meant to make it a cat?"
If I tried to make a cat calzone and the recipient of this gift went like 'hey, sorry, is this weird-looking thing meant to be cat?' I would sell my pizza restaurant and drown myself in the river.
After considering this, my friend said we could brainstorm a better phrasing—but then we ended up agreeing that since the chef didn't go 'haha sorry I tried to make a cat and failed!!' when she brought my pizza, the options were a) she didn't try to make a cat; b) she feels humiliated by her failure, and either way it's better to say nothing.
But I felt deeply curious about this unresolved mystery, so this week when I went back to the pizzeria I asked for a calzone again.
The options were now: a) the chef brings me a better, recognisable cat calzone and I immediately remark upon it and she's happy and we erase the failed cat calzone from the historical record and never mention it ever;
or b) the chef brings me a normal calzone, which suggests that the vague cat shape from last time was accidental and just another instance of chronic cat pareidolia.
(I refused to consider option c) The chef brings me another failed, hardly-recognisable cat. She just doesn't seem like the kind of person who would let that happen to her twice.)
Here's the photo of the failed cat calzone from last time, which, according to my friend, just looks like a pointy calzone with randomly-placed olives and not a deliberate attempt to make a cat:
And here's what the chef brought me this time:
THAT'S A CAT.
I knew it!!!!
And it looks so sad!! This cat calzone looks like it will burst into olive oil tears if you once again fail to identify it as the cat that it is
But I didn't; I was so ready this time. I went "A cat!!!!! It's so cute!" and the chef went like yes!!! I tried to make one last time but it looked weird :(
I said I was pretty sure it was a cat last time and apologised for not bringing it up and she said no, it's my responsibility to make it a decent cat. She also said she was glad I'd come back and ordered another calzone because she was really bothered ("vraiment embêtée") by that first failed attempt, and wondering if I'd noticed an attempt was made (and failed)
That's so relatable. It's like when you make a really embarrassing spelling mistake in a text and you're not sure if the other person has seen it and is judging you for it. Should you bring it up? Can it go unnoticed if you don't? It's the cat calzone equivalent of that. I'm so glad we were able to clear the air.
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skk mixtape interest check
after much consideration, i am planning to host a soukoku mixtape exchange!
there are not any dates or solid plans for it yet, but i wanted to go ahead and do an interest check so that i could have an idea of how many people might be interested in participating in such an event, to help me figure out what kind of help/setup i may need for it!
what is a mixtape exchange?: a mixtape exchange is a type of fandom gift exchange where, instead of giving prompts, you instead choose a song and that will be sent to your assigned gifter to use as inspiration for your present!
this exchange would be focused on soukoku specifically
*if you would be willing to be a beta/pinch hitter AND a writer, please choose writer! or if you are willing to be a beta AND pinch hitter, please choose beta!
*if you chose one of the bottom two answers, PLEASE tell me about it! nothing is really planned yet so there is always a possibility that i will be more than willing to discuss what it is you're looking at/what may be holding you back!
*i know i did not include artists, i'm very sorry! but as this is my first time attempting to run an event, i am probably going to limit it to writers only. if the event goes well, i may do another one that DOES include artists as well, but for my own sanity i won't be doing it for the first one.
FEEL FREE TO SEND ME ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE! But also please be aware that i may not yet have solid answers as, again, the event hasn't actually been planned!
people who don’t read books, why not?
blind/low vision/etc
dyslexia/intellectual disability/etc
financial reasons
don’t want to
other
i read books/see results
please spread this so that it can actually be funny instead of just 1 person voting
edit: oh god it has 20k notes and it's been running for less than a day
edit 2: please tag me in any art of this i'd love to see it
edit 3: all of you guys ascking where the vanilla extract is. Here it is, you found it. Congratulations.
Caved pumpkins yesterday, It was fun and messy. They look pretty cool light up in the dark.
My two is the ghostface and the phone, the cyclops and the other tiny one are my little cousin's, the cat on the moon was my older cousin's and the classic scary jack-o'-lantern is her husband's (which I drew the lines on for him to carve on).
It's such a weird place, such a weird world. The air is deep, the water takes everything, the land can't forget. But I can. I can forget... But I don't want to.