I had this weird little shadow box/paper lantern/night light idea and a bunch of these little push down puck lights (battery operated). And a whole bunch of tiny coloring book pages that are a great size for said idea (they’re like 4x4 squares I think)

And so 4 hours and several hot glue burns later I figured out how to make an adequate frame, how to attach the pictures to said frame and, most importantly, how to work out a way to press the push down lights if the little puck light is in a enclosed box, without causing a weird shadow to show up on all the pretty little images (jelly fish, they’re all jelly fish) Oh and also how work it out so the battery panel on the puck light can still be accessed to swap out the batteries given that it’s in an enclosed box

Eventually I will take pictures of the resulting awesome. Especially because they’re gonna end up in my etsy shop. But I just wanna brag because yay.

- Leon

If anyone wants to check it out

My stuff is basically an eclectic, random mix of ‘stuff I do with my coloring book pages when I’m done coloring them’

It’s been a bit difficult getting it up and running for a few reasons but, eh it’s up now. (and I’ve also sorta been stalling in like plugging/advertising the thing because anxiety and embarrassment and shit)

I’ve also got several items that haven’t made their way to the shop just yet but should be up soon(-ish) never mind the projects I’m still working on. Ahah.

But given that Brian and I have a move date for me (and our cats) getting out to Cali to join Brian, seems a good excuse to get over my anxiety and plug the shop in an effort to help fund said move.

So yeah.

- Leon

So I’m watching a video of what gets called, up front, a ‘test of focus’ and asks to count the footballs flying across the screen.

And my ADHD makes focus weird already, but I can actually deploy the hyper focus on demand… sometimes anyway. I didn’t though.

Cause I figured out right off it’s a variation on the ‘moonwalking bear’ thing, so I instantly interpreted the entire exercise as a riddle rather than a test in focus. I basically stopped paying attention to the footballs and waited for other thing.

The other thing turned out to be scrolling words in the background that said ‘stop counting, there’s 27 footballs’

So I dunno what that says about my focus. But I laughed about myself so there’s that.

- Leon

When I watch Doctor Who sometimes it ammuses me the bits that strain my suspension of disbelief.

Like with Silence in the Library/The Forest of the Dead you know the bit that gets me?

4022 people. A Library that is literally a planet. The core of the planet is the biggest hard drive ever. An entire planet. An entire fucking planet. Even if there was just tons of dead/empty space (like if the building density wasn’t that high in places. Empty building in anticipation of more books or whatever). Even if it was a relatively small planet. Even if most (or all) things were automated and there aren’t many (or any) like living, sentient staff members. Even if it operated like a building rather than a planet (so no living quarters or proper food places or whatever, just teleports to those sorts of places off world or something) Even if The Library had business hours and the whole ‘seal it off’ thing happened at a slow time of the day.

4022 people? That’s it? Really?

4022 people on the entire planet? An entire fucking planet, big enough to be full of books from across the galaxy. And there’s only 4022 people there? On the whole planet?

Now granted I’ve lived in tiny rural towns with half the population size but…. seriously. That is a ludicrously small number of people.

- Leon

awful as it is… i kinda get why stuff like actively transphobic bullshit comes across my dash sometimes as ‘tumblr recommendation’.

(i mean it’s a problem, but I understand how it can slip a shoddily constructed net)

But why the hell would tumblr recommend me a creepy post from a blog centered around a specific type of discourse I don’t ever engage in surrounding a fandom I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned on any blog ever… like I had to look shit up for proper context.

How the hell did that get onto my dash, seriously.

- Leon

Sci-fi/fantasy type settings that have some form or another of a Universal Translator. That translates all the languages. Including all the earth/human languages that the protagonist isn’t fluent in (or the languages the story isn’t being told in)

And yet, for some reason, there are always a few mundane, common place, not swearing or otherwise inappropriate words that just… don’t get translated. And not like… words borrowed from other languages and kept as is. But words that clearly have a translation that people who speak [relevant language] actually use rather than whatever the original word in it’s original language is.

It bugs me even more when this happens  right before/after/during an explanation or general acknowledgement of the Universal Translator.

I mean in some contexts, if I think about it, it could possibly make sense (provided there is consistency) but that, for me, always winds up feeling like less of a moment of ‘fridge brilliance’ and more like a moment of ‘this is the head cannon I’m implementing to make the situation seem plausible to me’

- Leon

 So despite the fact that I haven’t been sensitive to poison ivy/sumac/oak for my whole life up until this point…. I have apparently developed a sensitivity

And god this rash is pretty much the worst, most miserable itchy skin thing I’ve ever been subjected to (balancing for duration) and i hate it so much

- Leon

riversintooceans:

riversintooceans:

i think im going to do another binder giveaway bc i Need To Have A Tangible Impact On Someone’s Life In A Positive Way. i’m getting pushback for iding as an ace transman, and i need to fix that by Giving Someone a Binder Bc I Cant Wear One.

same deal as last time, i’ll be ordering the binder from gc2b on your behalf and they’ll ship it to you.

this giveaway is for anyone who:

• is nb or a transman, literally anyone who isnt cis
  
• lives in the us (sorry international shipping isnt in the cards i have had a few unintended expenses come up)
• has an address they feel comfortable giving to me for the shipping (work, school, home, etc. literally as long as you can take packages there ur good)
  
• is at least 18
• is an ace inclusionist
  
• supports marginalized people (proBLM, not truscum, not antisemitic, prochoice, not islamophobic, etc.)
  
• and is looking for a binder

how to enter:

• reblog the post once to your main blog or, if you’re not out, shoot me an ask and i will keep it private.
• one entry per person
• PLEASE, if you are not entering the giveaway but want to reblog, put “#noentry” as one of your tags. it makes this whole thing go way easier for me.
• you do not have to be following me for this giveaway.

i’ll be accepting entries until june 30th, 2017 (end of pride month) at midnight and will contact the winner on july 3rd, 2017.

@terffighter @transboy-positive @nonpassingmlm signal boost?

(via goodpositivitylgbt)

not-a-space-alien:

• Lose the newborn antichrist 
  
• Spend 11 years mentoring the wrong child with your supposed enemy 
• Hypnotize a Satanic Nun
• Turn fake guns into real guns
• Sit moping about organizing your Soul music CDs while you wait for Hell to come beat your ass
• Drop a bucket of holy water on a Satanic Duke
• Drive across the M25 while your car is on fire
• Stand around being useless while the antichrist saves the world

I feel kind of obligated to reblog this.

And point out that you know, if the antichrist wasn’t lost things clearly would have been a whole lot worse so really the standing around being useless while the antichrist saves the world is a pretty good plan after that

Also this list forgot ‘leaving tapes in your car long enough that they turn into The Best of Queen’ Defiantly not okay.

- Leon

(via wetwareproblem)

And I really ended up liking the 12th Doctor way more than I thought I would. I mean I never thought I would dislike him really. 

And every time I watch the In the Forest of the Night episode I crack up when he’s looking at all of the kids for Maebh ‘cause he can’t tell them apart and Ruby says she’s missing. She’s gonna die and the Doctor just goes ‘AH!’

And I really like how when he has some random bit of information that is really cool (and also probably dangerous or world shattering) and he just sorta wrings his hands and has this weird little half smile like when he says ‘The moon’s an egg!’

I dunno. Random thoughts.

- Leon

jadelyn:

unpicasso:

probably my favorite thing abt being a millennial is that i can lie on my resume abt shit like being proficient in excel bc i have the common sense to just google anything i dont know how to do which gives me a giant fucking edge over gen x in the job market bc somehow that strategy never occurs to employers and my underqualified ass looks like steve jobs every time i use a youtube tutorial to make a spreadsheet

Everyone in my office sings my praises for what I can do with excel for this exact reason, even though I joke with them that “I have no idea how to do that - but give me half an hour and an internet connection and I’ll figure something out for you.” I even once specifically said in response to my grandboss commenting on my excel skills, “You do realize that I just like…google stuff when you ask me to do something with excel that I don’t know how to do, right?”

But his praise didn’t change at all. There was no “Wait, that’s all it is?”

Instead, he said “Yes, but the fact that you think to do that - and that you know exactly how to phrase your searches and how to sift through the results to get the right answer, and you then integrate what you’ve learned and use it going forward - is still so much more than any of the rest of us [the other 5 ppl on my team are all mid-40s and up] can do. To you, it’s “just googling stuff,” but it’s still a unique and valuable skill you bring, so don’t shrug off the compliments so cavalierly, okay?“

And this was coming from an executive with an MBA. Don’t undervalue your googling skills, kids. It’s not lying if you know you can figure it out.

My mom and I (I’m 27, my mom’s in her 50′s) actually had a conversation about this (and more broadly, ‘kids’ and tech/the internet) the other day. Because she was talking about how much she hated using the computer for anything she didn’t already know how to do and we hit on this same point. The skills we pick up from googling and you tube tutorials and stuff is all fine and good, but really the amazing bit is being able to effectively search for, filter through, utilize and retain whatever information we’re searching for. And that’s also exactly the stuff we take for granted, labeling it as ‘common sense’.

Seriously it’s kinda freaking awesome.

- Leon

(via hollowedskin)

I’ve been loosing a lot of weight recently. Not on purpose.

and I don’t really know why. I don’t think I’m eating a lot less than usual or being a lot more active than usual. I mean it’s probably one/both of those because I’m shit at keeping track of that stuff but still

it’s weird.

- Leon

I did tell elaborate stories with my trucks though. And my plastic dinosaurs and my dolls and my stuffed animals and sometimes my collection of rocks.

Funny thing…. this is something I picked up from my dad. Granted he told his stories with words on a computer screen but when I was 6 my toys were a way more accessible medium for me telling my stories.

I played with my toys like a story teller. Not a girl. *eye roll*

- Leon