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Jul. 10th, 2025 08:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
totchipandaOne of my lovely local-ish friends messaged me the other day about a Shadow and Bone actor being in a play and heeyyyyy he's really good actually?? Now I'm back in fandom hell? I sent them some fic recs (alas, not my pairing) and then oh gosh they were in the best kind of fanfic hell. Yesterday they messaged me again saying they were going to watch said play (having aired on PBS recently), and that their friend had told them "you have a problem".
Gurl (gn), you do NOT have a problem. I already did this shame spiral 4 years ago so you don't have to! I've watched some very questionable things for my fandom crush, I gotchu! I offered to watch it with them, so last night we got ourselves settled and they streamed the video and we watched it. I wasn't familiar with the story at all so I got to experience the highs and lows in real time and it was so, so good. You think it's about managing mental illness (in this case, bipolar) and it's really about so much more than that. Augh it was so good. Reminded me a lot of Dear Evan Hansen.
During the show I put in a bit more stitching onto the petticoat. Silk is sooooo nice to sew, I'd forgotten that. I dropped my needle though and thought I heard it hit the silk, but couldn't find it at all so... the couch and possibly the floor around the couch is lava! Hands are still mad, and I struggled with curling my wrist (the one I slept on funny last week). The book said to pleat it up before even hemming, which I've already prepped (bc it was easy couch sewing while I watched the play) so I guess that's my plan tonight. It's been a hot minute since I did any 18th century sewing, it's needing a refresher lol. Weather is very cool right now, forecasted high of 20C/70F, so I can get into kit if I need to and not die.
Federal government is giving people a break on their taxes starting on July 1, so I've just seen it on my paystub for tomorrow. Yes, thank you, I'll take that extra $40! First thought was to blow it on "fun" but the wanting-to-be-financially-responsible side said to save it and work with my originally planned income. Yes, of course the responsible side is right. But maybe I'll let this first one be "free" and save the rest. I have travel plans I want to make.
Gurl (gn), you do NOT have a problem. I already did this shame spiral 4 years ago so you don't have to! I've watched some very questionable things for my fandom crush, I gotchu! I offered to watch it with them, so last night we got ourselves settled and they streamed the video and we watched it. I wasn't familiar with the story at all so I got to experience the highs and lows in real time and it was so, so good. You think it's about managing mental illness (in this case, bipolar) and it's really about so much more than that. Augh it was so good. Reminded me a lot of Dear Evan Hansen.
During the show I put in a bit more stitching onto the petticoat. Silk is sooooo nice to sew, I'd forgotten that. I dropped my needle though and thought I heard it hit the silk, but couldn't find it at all so... the couch and possibly the floor around the couch is lava! Hands are still mad, and I struggled with curling my wrist (the one I slept on funny last week). The book said to pleat it up before even hemming, which I've already prepped (bc it was easy couch sewing while I watched the play) so I guess that's my plan tonight. It's been a hot minute since I did any 18th century sewing, it's needing a refresher lol. Weather is very cool right now, forecasted high of 20C/70F, so I can get into kit if I need to and not die.
Federal government is giving people a break on their taxes starting on July 1, so I've just seen it on my paystub for tomorrow. Yes, thank you, I'll take that extra $40! First thought was to blow it on "fun" but the wanting-to-be-financially-responsible side said to save it and work with my originally planned income. Yes, of course the responsible side is right. But maybe I'll let this first one be "free" and save the rest. I have travel plans I want to make.
