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One of those newfangled bots that slap you in the face with hardcore, explicit material decided to show up and like one of my posts.

I need eye/brain bleach. Any recommendations?

I'm angry.

I didn't get to share my work today. We only got through two presentations because my professor went on rambles after each one. And we're going in a very specific order based on the textbook, so I'm dead last.

I was up until 3:30 a.m. working on this thing. I legit wanted to punch something.

I'm supposed to go on Monday now, but I doubt that's happening if my professor decides to talk for such a long time again. I'm thinking I'll get to go on Wednesday at best. So you know what?

I'm just going to give you guys the slides now. If I can't present my work to my actual class, I can at least share it with fellow turtle fans.

Go wild. Just be sure to give credit if you decide to share/cite/etc. it for anything; otherwise, no major rules/restrictions. Have fun.

I'm analyzing Donnie using five different theories of personality in my psychology class tomorrow--and I get to present my work. Wish me luck.

No one is safe from the turtles. All shall fall victim to my obsessions one way or another, even complete strangers. In Donnie's own brilliant words, evil laugh.

Maybe I'll share the slides afterward if I can figure out how.

Good timing. I was thinking about one of my grandmothers yesterday. :)

I would like to talk about my other grandmother here, though, since I know the most about her.

We always think of her when we go to her old house for certain holidays. Two of my uncles own the house now, but we always call it Grandma's house anyway. She also had a delicious nut bread recipe! One of my aunts has the recipe now, but for whatever reason, Grandma's was just something else.

I miss her. I miss all of my grandparents, but Grandma was one of the most consistently present in my life. She and Grandpa babysat me and my brother when my parents were busy, though we easily spent more time with her than we did with him. She took us shopping at the local Shop 'n' Save. She cooked and baked delicious stuff for us, and we helped out a bit when we got old enough. She was special, and we were lucky to have her.

She died in early 2014, when I was 11. She had pancreatic cancer. One of the last conversations I remember having with her was about my grandfather and her last moments with him; he died in 2010. She remembered staring into his eyes has his heart rate on the monitor dropped, holding his hand and telling him how much she loved him. All he could do was stare back at her since he had some kind of surgery on his throat, keeping him from talking. As his heart stopped, and he slipped into the void, she sent him off with a kiss.

It's incredible how quickly life moves, isn't it? How much can happen in just a few years? I wonder what she'd think of me and my brother now.

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TW/CW for the tags: N9zis, r9pe/SA, somewhat in-depth discussion of dementia

Hey there! 'Murican here. I'm looking forward to seeing the results. :)

Also, I looked it up, and it looks like BosWash is a nickname for the general Boston-to-D.C. area. I've never heard it before coming across this poll, but it seems to be a fairly common term, to the point of having its own Wikipedia article.

So yeah. TIL

Also, I'll be here on the sidelines cheering for the Great Lakes, but if we don't win, I get it. I mean, Ohio's here (but even then, Ohio has Cedar Point, so...).

I made a trans cupcake. :)

Well, I tried. It's a little sloppy, but I had the idea while my mom was decorating cupcakes for her church, and I couldn't resist.

More Pen Practice

I found a pen on the ground earlier today, and it looked like it needed a new home, so... 👀

Anyway, I wanted to test it, so I did some more pen sketches. This time, they're entirely freehand and entirely pen-based--no rough pencil draft. And of course, I'm also featuring my awesome ten-color pen from my museum trip last month.

Anyway, who did I choose to sketch?

Some of pole-bear's FNAF human designs. The classic four, of course. :)

The pen writes really smoothly (I just have a very rough/sketchy style). I like it a lot!

So yeah. This is just a little tribute to some of the most important fanart in the early days of the FNAF fandom. (I'm not kidding. These designs were everywhere back in the day.) It may be a bygone era, and there are some things that are definitely best left forgotten, but I'll always have these guys with me. They're really special to me.