How many years until we rest under new sturdy walls?

[sovay]

Behold Heliopause, Bringer of Presents:



And some flowers. Arranged by my sister-in-law. We're honestly not sure what some of them are. There's a shot of the full vase, but it came out blurrier than the close-ups.











I like taking photographs. I don't think I've ever had any talent for it, but I've always enjoyed it. That probably means I should try it more often. This post edited for Tiny Wittgenstein. Who probably doesn't even know how to use a camera anyway.

Comments

[yhlee]

Flowers!

Okay, I've been dying of curiosity for ages and I have to ask: who on earth on Tiny Wittgenstein? I tried Googling and am not illuminated. (Ignore if I have stepped on something...)

[sovay]

Okay, I've been dying of curiosity for ages and I have to ask: who on earth on Tiny Wittgenstein? I tried Googling and am not illuminated.

So I have a particular spiral of self-despair in which I am convinced that I am mentally worthless and everyone I know is just barely tolerating me and in 2012 it got personified as Tiny Wittgenstein because the historical Ludwig Wittgenstein was so hopelessly apologetic in his self-doubt that I was able to use him as a reality check. He has since developed fan art, which I think is pretty good for a personified neurosis. (I've actually been sent several drawings of him, but that's the only one online.) He buzzes around and sits on people's shoulders and tells them they are terrible at things and generally needs to be flyswatted and/or run over by Tiny Ralph Richardson, who has a motorcycle. I am actually incredibly fond of historical Wittgenstein, which is probably the reason this entire concept got started. ratatosk is technically the person responsible for naming him. On general principle, if you want a surprisingly good idea of what Wittgenstein's philosophy and normal patterns of interaction were like, Derek Jarman's 1993 film is a good place to start.

[yhlee]

Thank you; I appreciate the explanation. May your Tiny Wittgenstein stay well-behaved/contained/???.

[sovay]

Thank you; I appreciate the explanation.

Of course! I don't think I had a Dreamwidth account in 2012, so you might have missed his formation.

May your Tiny Wittgenstein stay well-behaved/contained/???.

Thank you! "Out of my hair" should do it. (And the hair of everyone else I know, because he gets around.)

[tam_nonlinear]

That first picture made me think of a punk rockhopper penguin. It's lovely.

[sovay]

That first picture made me think of a punk rockhopper penguin. It's lovely.

Thank you. I can see it!

[tam_nonlinear]

Although I really regret that I missed the opportunity to make a better pun. Punk-rock-hopper penguin?

[genarti]

That crinkly multicolored explosion of confetti combined with the flower pictures below makes this post look like fireworks made out of springtime. I love it.

[sovay]

That crinkly multicolored explosion of confetti combined with the flower pictures below makes this post look like fireworks made out of springtime. I love it.

Thank you! I am happy to be a harbinger of spring. Today feels like it might actually be the real thing, finally.

[spatch]

Heliopause says "OH HEY HERE'S SOME SOLAR WIND YOU WERE ASKING ABOUT"

[sovay]

Heliopause says "OH HEY HERE'S SOME SOLAR WIND YOU WERE ASKING ABOUT"

AND IF YOU DIDN'T ORDER SOLAR WIND HOW ABOUT SOME HOT SAUCE?

[gwynnega]

Those photos are beautiful. And that is one festive ketchup.

[sovay]

Those photos are beautiful. And that is one festive ketchup.

Thank you! (It just looks so happy about delivering tasty forms of capsaicin!)