Are you facing in the right direction? Can you catch the eyes of your reflection?

[sovay]

Now that he lives effectively a street and a parking lot from me, choco_frosh came over this evening to borrow a can opener. In the midst of plague-stress, it is one of the more normal interactions I have had in almost two years. I asked him if he wanted a cup of sugar, too.

This tiara has gone on the list of things I would steal from museums. I am very fond of this comic about the Mari Lwyd, too.

The narrowed iris of my life does not please me. I feel like every time I get a fingerhold on a semblance of stability, something else happens. I am very sick of the something else.

Comments

[aurumcalendula]

*hugs*

The tiara is awesome and the comic is lovely!

[sovay]

The tiara is awesome and the comic is lovely!

I am trying to find nice things!

(I am not writing about most of them, but I am trying to find them nonetheless.)

*hugs*

[selkie]

Wait is he the one I awarded the coveted 2021 spot on my Do Not Eat list? How nice!

(Nice nice not eating neighbors nice nice.)

The tiara’s a stunner. I wonder where a person of means might have acquired it.

[sovay]

Wait is he the one I awarded the coveted 2021 spot on my Do Not Eat list? How nice!

He is a rather nice person! Gave me grapefruit for Christmas, in the time-honored citrus tradition.

The tiara’s a stunner. I wonder where a person of means might have acquired it.

Naples, after which I suspect a holiday in Capri would have been indefinitely off the menu.

[selkie]

…that particular web of interpersonal relationships gets you an entirely plausible tiara acquisition. *slow blink* You said there’d be a moment when things slid off the rails into spec fic and I would like to hand you this cookie.

But yes, I think I’d winter in Athens for the next decade.

*sniffs citrus, appreciatively*
Do Not Eat?

[sovay]

You said there’d be a moment when things slid off the rails into spec fic and I would like to hand you this cookie.

See, you don't keep me around just for the ornamental value. Have a grapefruit.

[choco_frosh]

YUP CAN CONFIRM YOU SAID NO EATING ME

[selkie]

Thank you! My brain is only slowly emerging from the Variant Fog and I am name-blind at the best of times. It does help me never accidentally deadname my friends!

NICE NICE, NO MISANDRY SNACKS HERE.

[kore]

I feel like every time I get a fingerhold on a semblance of stability, something else happens

Yeah, ain't that the truth.

[sovay]

Yeah, ain't that the truth.

There are so many things I would rather be doing!

[gwynnega]

That is a wonderful tiara.

I too am very tired of the something else.

[sovay]

That is a wonderful tiara.

It's part of a set! But the tiara is the best as far as I'm concerned.

I too am very tired of the something else.

*hugs*

[kathmandu]

"I feel like every time I get a fingerhold on a semblance of stability, something else happens. I am very sick of the something else."

::sympathetic presence::

[sovay]

::sympathetic presence::

Appreciated.

[cmcmck]

I think all of us now know that plague stress all too well.

As a 17th century historian, one thing this has done is to give me some insights into the stresses the plague outbreaks must have caused and many of us don't have religion to fall back on.

[sovay]

I think all of us now know that plague stress all too well.

To be honest, I wasn't thinking only of plague, but it certainly doesn't help.

[thisbluespirit]

it is one of the more normal interactions I have had in almost two years. I asked him if he wanted a cup of sugar, too.

Ha!

And *hugs* for the rest. ♥

[sovay]

And *hugs* for the rest.

*hugs*

[princessofgeeks]

Your last sentence is something I too am feeling very strongly.

[sovay]

Your last sentence is something I too am feeling very strongly.

Solidarity?

*hugs*

[asakiyume]

It strikes me we should make a holiday commemorating the tiny normal interactions. We could celebrate it with can openers and sugar. Which reminds me, did spatch notice to show you about Nightwell? It started with this tweet, and now it's a very entertaining hashtag. (e.g., this and this, as well as this handy compendium.)

[sovay]

Which reminds me, did spatch notice to show you about Nightwell? It started with this tweet, and now it's a very entertaining hashtag. (e.g., this and this, as well as this handy compendium.)

No! That's really charming. Thank you. I am in favor of strange and vague and important winter holidays.

[rinue]

I love this tiara for you. It makes me want to sew felt and feathers on a ribbon; very inspiring.

[sovay]

I love this tiara for you.

Thank you.

It makes me want to sew felt and feathers on a ribbon; very inspiring.

I think you should!

[choco_frosh]

Thank you again for the can opener! Someday, I will own one of my own and get it back to you.
And yeahwow, that comic rules hard.

[sovay]

Thank you again for the can opener! Someday, I will own one of my own and get it back to you.

Consider it the world's cheapest-ass housewarming gift!

And yeahwow, that comic rules hard.

Can you read it in Welsh?

[choco_frosh]

Just a word here and there. And I could figure out one or two simple sentences like "I am the WORST Mari Lwyd".

[sovay]

And I could figure out one or two simple sentences like "I am the WORST Mari Lwyd".

Cool!