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the boy with the lion's heart
OH FRIDAY YOU SAUSAGE WAFFLE YOU.
I started off with a wet foot, after going to visit the cat I'm sitting. I stood on a wonky paving flag and water splooshed all over my left foot*. Then my rucksack ended up being hideously heavy, but that was my own fault, as I was carrying four to five litres of liquid in it. (I'd love to know how much that weighs, actually***).
Then I got the library, and they had all the books I'd asked for, which was good! So I now have: Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin, Strange Girl by Christopher Pike, and Adulthood is a Myth by Sarah Andersen. I was convinced that they'd only get one of these for whatever reason, but was also convinced that it DEFINITELY wouldn't be the Jeff Garvin one (because that's about a genderfluid kid and my locality has Some Ideas about gender that aren't positive). But what do I know.
Oh and I lost a ten pound note somewhere between the library and home. I think it fell out of my pocket in the newsagent's, but I can't be sure. I hope whoever found it spent it on something nice for themselves.
So then I'd planned to go and stay with cat sittee for a while longer, except I had to go back into town to get some things for mum. Which is no big, but I had to wait around for over half an hour for that. And I decided to stay standing (because if I can stand when older people could be using the seats, I will). My lower back started aching and did not quit and it was the fucking worst. I haven't had bad back pain for a looong time. Then my knees and feet joined in because of course I am old and decrepit *eye roll*.
Anyway, that done, I had just missed a bus, so I decided to walk on a couple of stops from the station because I had time before the next one. I sat down in the shelter, and stood up when I thought the bus was on its way. It did not come. After ten minutes, it still had not arrived. It turned up, eventually, forty five minutes after I'd got to the stop.
In that time, I could've walked home, except that I didn't, because I was in agonising pain at that point. I'd also thought that I might have missed it, had I set off, because it could've come past while I was between stops or something.
(It turned out the driver had been having A Day as well).
I eventually got home, though painkillers did nothing, much like the goggles. (I honestly don't know what it is about my physiology, but sometimes painkillers don't do jack for me, even strong ones). I sat down, had a brew, then went and checked on cat sittee (who was fine! though probably annoyed that I didn't stay longer but OW MY BACK). Then I sat at home, with my feet up, as still as I could for as long as I could (difficult, because I get to be the one who does All The Things), and eventually the back pain went away.
I'm still a little sore now, though thankfully it's just the muscles in my legs, and not my back as well.
So that was Friday! (on the plus side I guess I walked 5K and did 8,000+ steps, so yay?)
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I promised myself that I would write today, as I came up with an AU idea for my magical girl story, and I actually really like it. And then I was thinking about visual references for said story (as I'd still like to do this as a webcomic, and I have a clear-ish idea of how places look, but no references). I told myself that I did not need to go on Pinterest to make boards for this.
Except that I went on Pinterest at 10am and didn't manage to wrangle myself off till 4pm!
I like Pinterest, I really do. I think it works really well at collating Stuff. What I don't like, is when you pin something, and it has the pop up saying, "OH THIS WAS ALSO ON THIS INTERESTING BOARD YOU MIGHT LIKE TO LOOK AT!"
and I go, "yes, yes I might!" *right click > open in new tab*
and suddenly I have fifty tabs open and none of my boards are anything like I intended when I went on there, and I have five new ones for no apparent reason.
I do kind of wish it had a folder system, though, so I could have all my craft stuff in one folder, and my writing ideas in another, for example. And THEN have them divided by board. That would be nifty.
One thing the Pinterest binge did confirm for me is how disinterested I am in medieval-inspired fantasy worlds. It's one reason I tend to avoid WRPGs (and don't want to play D&D, for example**), and why I'll probably never actually read Icey Firey Songs properly. (Also yes, yes, I know I just played Skyrim, and I like Dragon Age, but I'm not head over heels about either of them, and part of that is the settings and their inspirations). I think a part of it is over-saturation to some degree.
At the time of writing/posting, I have done no fiction writing, other than copying traits out of an astrology book, for my characters, and gawping at how none of them are a "typical" anything (For example, Mara, my MC, is a Libran, but actually better fits the description for Aries. Cassie, one of her friends, is nothing like the descriptors for Aries, though I don't know what sign would better fit her. Maybe Pisces). That said, it did give me some ideas, though, so I suppose it wasn't time wasted.
Although apparently every single sign of the zodiac is manipulative as heck so that's nice. I don't know if the author of this book has a chip on their shoulder, but it certainly reads that way.
Anyway, I'm not changing my characters' randomly designated birth dates just because they don't agree with some stuff in a book. (I used a random number generator to determine their dates of birth, because otherwise I get biased about what dates I assign people's birthdays to). At least it gives me some kind of idea what sort of flaws to give them (I'm not great at assigning traits in general, even less so with flaws).
If you're interested, my boards are here, and the ones I added today were: concept art, mages, mage world inspiration, desert world inspiration, people in armour, interesting faces, and happy things. I didn't need most of those. I needed the mages, and the mage world inspiration, and that was supposed to be it.
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*I know there's a word for this in The Meaning of Liff, and it's been driving me mad trying to remember what it is. I know it's not Bradford, because those are the leather patches on the elbows of jackets. BRAIN WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME.
**Apart from that one weirdy setting that is a desert planet, I think? Because that sounds cool as heck.
***ETA: Apparently one cubic centimetre of water weighs one gram, so I was carrying around four to five kilos on my back. That's a lot, right?
I started off with a wet foot, after going to visit the cat I'm sitting. I stood on a wonky paving flag and water splooshed all over my left foot*. Then my rucksack ended up being hideously heavy, but that was my own fault, as I was carrying four to five litres of liquid in it. (I'd love to know how much that weighs, actually***).
Then I got the library, and they had all the books I'd asked for, which was good! So I now have: Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin, Strange Girl by Christopher Pike, and Adulthood is a Myth by Sarah Andersen. I was convinced that they'd only get one of these for whatever reason, but was also convinced that it DEFINITELY wouldn't be the Jeff Garvin one (because that's about a genderfluid kid and my locality has Some Ideas about gender that aren't positive). But what do I know.
Oh and I lost a ten pound note somewhere between the library and home. I think it fell out of my pocket in the newsagent's, but I can't be sure. I hope whoever found it spent it on something nice for themselves.
So then I'd planned to go and stay with cat sittee for a while longer, except I had to go back into town to get some things for mum. Which is no big, but I had to wait around for over half an hour for that. And I decided to stay standing (because if I can stand when older people could be using the seats, I will). My lower back started aching and did not quit and it was the fucking worst. I haven't had bad back pain for a looong time. Then my knees and feet joined in because of course I am old and decrepit *eye roll*.
Anyway, that done, I had just missed a bus, so I decided to walk on a couple of stops from the station because I had time before the next one. I sat down in the shelter, and stood up when I thought the bus was on its way. It did not come. After ten minutes, it still had not arrived. It turned up, eventually, forty five minutes after I'd got to the stop.
In that time, I could've walked home, except that I didn't, because I was in agonising pain at that point. I'd also thought that I might have missed it, had I set off, because it could've come past while I was between stops or something.
(It turned out the driver had been having A Day as well).
I eventually got home, though painkillers did nothing, much like the goggles. (I honestly don't know what it is about my physiology, but sometimes painkillers don't do jack for me, even strong ones). I sat down, had a brew, then went and checked on cat sittee (who was fine! though probably annoyed that I didn't stay longer but OW MY BACK). Then I sat at home, with my feet up, as still as I could for as long as I could (difficult, because I get to be the one who does All The Things), and eventually the back pain went away.
I'm still a little sore now, though thankfully it's just the muscles in my legs, and not my back as well.
So that was Friday! (on the plus side I guess I walked 5K and did 8,000+ steps, so yay?)
~
I promised myself that I would write today, as I came up with an AU idea for my magical girl story, and I actually really like it. And then I was thinking about visual references for said story (as I'd still like to do this as a webcomic, and I have a clear-ish idea of how places look, but no references). I told myself that I did not need to go on Pinterest to make boards for this.
Except that I went on Pinterest at 10am and didn't manage to wrangle myself off till 4pm!
I like Pinterest, I really do. I think it works really well at collating Stuff. What I don't like, is when you pin something, and it has the pop up saying, "OH THIS WAS ALSO ON THIS INTERESTING BOARD YOU MIGHT LIKE TO LOOK AT!"
and I go, "yes, yes I might!" *right click > open in new tab*
and suddenly I have fifty tabs open and none of my boards are anything like I intended when I went on there, and I have five new ones for no apparent reason.
I do kind of wish it had a folder system, though, so I could have all my craft stuff in one folder, and my writing ideas in another, for example. And THEN have them divided by board. That would be nifty.
One thing the Pinterest binge did confirm for me is how disinterested I am in medieval-inspired fantasy worlds. It's one reason I tend to avoid WRPGs (and don't want to play D&D, for example**), and why I'll probably never actually read Icey Firey Songs properly. (Also yes, yes, I know I just played Skyrim, and I like Dragon Age, but I'm not head over heels about either of them, and part of that is the settings and their inspirations). I think a part of it is over-saturation to some degree.
At the time of writing/posting, I have done no fiction writing, other than copying traits out of an astrology book, for my characters, and gawping at how none of them are a "typical" anything (For example, Mara, my MC, is a Libran, but actually better fits the description for Aries. Cassie, one of her friends, is nothing like the descriptors for Aries, though I don't know what sign would better fit her. Maybe Pisces). That said, it did give me some ideas, though, so I suppose it wasn't time wasted.
Although apparently every single sign of the zodiac is manipulative as heck so that's nice. I don't know if the author of this book has a chip on their shoulder, but it certainly reads that way.
Anyway, I'm not changing my characters' randomly designated birth dates just because they don't agree with some stuff in a book. (I used a random number generator to determine their dates of birth, because otherwise I get biased about what dates I assign people's birthdays to). At least it gives me some kind of idea what sort of flaws to give them (I'm not great at assigning traits in general, even less so with flaws).
If you're interested, my boards are here, and the ones I added today were: concept art, mages, mage world inspiration, desert world inspiration, people in armour, interesting faces, and happy things. I didn't need most of those. I needed the mages, and the mage world inspiration, and that was supposed to be it.
~
*I know there's a word for this in The Meaning of Liff, and it's been driving me mad trying to remember what it is. I know it's not Bradford, because those are the leather patches on the elbows of jackets. BRAIN WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME.
**Apart from that one weirdy setting that is a desert planet, I think? Because that sounds cool as heck.
***ETA: Apparently one cubic centimetre of water weighs one gram, so I was carrying around four to five kilos on my back. That's a lot, right?
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Oooooh, I enjoyed that. ^_^
I'm sorry that you had A Day.
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Thanks. Hopefully that's the worst one for a long time!
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Secondly, all those books sound like good reads! ♥ I'm glad they had all of them there for you.
"I lost a ten pound note" I thought you meant note as in a paper or notebook and I honestly questioned why you had such a heavy notebook with you, why the weight of the note was important and I was halfway through envisioning a large post-it note and thinking of how hard it would be to lose such a thing when I realized you were saying note as in banknote, as in money. lmao I'm an idiot please laugh at me.
Thirdly, I'm sorry you were in pain ;_; I'm glad you feel better. Hopefully your body will not betray you like that again any time soon.
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That explanation is the best thing I've ever heard *snugs you* though it did make me laugh. I avoided putting a tenner, because I thought someone might not know what I meant, but maybe I should've stuck with £10?
Thanks :) I hope so, too!
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