3w4dw: Kawaii Icons!
Apr. 29th, 2026 05:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
adoreI like to browse kawaii stationery scans on occasion. I also have icons cropped from them that I found on ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
bubblycloudsicons and Creamiicandy on LJ, and I like to request more.
Recently for3weeks4dreamwidth, reeby10 has been hosting an icons request fest on their journal. I requested icons, providing a link to a collection of old stationery scans. I received adorable icons 💝
Here are some of my faves!
Fromjavert:
See the rest here!
Fromlumiosecity:
See the rest here!
Also, one of my Dreamwidth friends had an icon request on their journal, prior to this. I requested icons there too, from a different set of scans! I'll share them here, too, when I see them 💝 Any of these icons I requested can be used by anyone else with credit to the makers \o/
bubblycloudsicons and Creamiicandy on LJ, and I like to request more.Recently for
3weeks4dreamwidth, reeby10 has been hosting an icons request fest on their journal. I requested icons, providing a link to a collection of old stationery scans. I received adorable icons 💝Here are some of my faves!
From
javert: See the rest here!
From
lumiosecity:See the rest here!
Also, one of my Dreamwidth friends had an icon request on their journal, prior to this. I requested icons there too, from a different set of scans! I'll share them here, too, when I see them 💝 Any of these icons I requested can be used by anyone else with credit to the makers \o/
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Apr. 28th, 2026 12:08 pmgreghousesgfI've been trying not to think about it but every once in a while something will remind me about L.'s leaving.
3w4dw: kofk avatar 'tea lime'
Apr. 28th, 2026 10:02 pmadoreI realise I'm late to begin participating in 3weeks4dreamwidth but I might as well start now. I thought about what I could post about every day (on days that I'm not posting anything else on my journal) and decided on discussing my avatars on Kingdom of Knuffel. Kingdom of Knuffel is a dressup game, virtual pet/adoptables site and forum community rolled into one. You earn points by chatting and raising virtual pets, and spend the points on dressup items for your customisable avatar.
This avatar is my great success. It's titled 'Tea Lime' and it won first place!!! in the May 2022 Monthly Avatar Contest at Kingdom of Knuffel.
Things I'm proud of:
Matching the Stripes and Hearts background with the Heart Cup.
The necklace looks like it's a part of the dress because the pendant sits right at the center of the bow. Speaking of bows, the dress has a bow, as does the hair, as does the avatar's frame. Even the necklace has a tiny bow.
The way I got the green skin with the white face was by using an item called Clown Facepaint on the Peridot Skin. (Otherwise she'd be green from face to torso.) I thought the violet blush looked nice even though there's no violet in the rest of the avatar, so that her face wouldn't be stark, uniform pale.
I chose the Alseid Lips, which I think makes it look like she just blew on her drink or took a sip. It's just the right, trace amount of tiny pucker.
3weeks4dreamwidth but I might as well start now. I thought about what I could post about every day (on days that I'm not posting anything else on my journal) and decided on discussing my avatars on Kingdom of Knuffel. Kingdom of Knuffel is a dressup game, virtual pet/adoptables site and forum community rolled into one. You earn points by chatting and raising virtual pets, and spend the points on dressup items for your customisable avatar.This avatar is my great success. It's titled 'Tea Lime' and it won first place!!! in the May 2022 Monthly Avatar Contest at Kingdom of Knuffel.
Things I'm proud of:
Matching the Stripes and Hearts background with the Heart Cup.
The necklace looks like it's a part of the dress because the pendant sits right at the center of the bow. Speaking of bows, the dress has a bow, as does the hair, as does the avatar's frame. Even the necklace has a tiny bow.
The way I got the green skin with the white face was by using an item called Clown Facepaint on the Peridot Skin. (Otherwise she'd be green from face to torso.) I thought the violet blush looked nice even though there's no violet in the rest of the avatar, so that her face wouldn't be stark, uniform pale.
I chose the Alseid Lips, which I think makes it look like she just blew on her drink or took a sip. It's just the right, trace amount of tiny pucker.
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Apr. 27th, 2026 12:35 pmgreghousesgfI'm about halfway through one of the books I bought day before yesterday. I think I'm going to save the other one till I go to Texas Thursday, I always get so bored on plane flights and it'll be nice to have something to read I haven't read already.
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Apr. 26th, 2026 03:31 pmgreghousesgfI had so much fun yesterday! I went to a whole bunch of bookstores and I got a couple of books and they were giving out snacks and I entered a few raffles and they were doing karaoke at Green Apple at the end of the run (which I participated in). Green Apple is my favorite second hand bookstore and they always have the most fun stuff on Indy Bookstore Day, I've gotten everything from free tequila shots to John Lennon buttons to tarot readings there at both branches. I only went to the 9th Avenue branch yesterday because there wasn't time to go to both. They were selling a Yellow Submarine poster at Moe's I really wanted but I was going all over the place taking public transit with a backpack which is fine for books but a bit risky for posters.
Then I got home and somebody pulled the fire alarm in the middle of the damn night. Earlier this afternoon I was trying to ask around to see if there was actually a fire but all I was able to find out is one of my neighbors' has a very stupid daughter who apparently thought it was more important to lecture me about Jesus than whether there was a fire or not. I knew she was a dumbass because I got on the elevator with her while I was wearing a bathing suit, dripping wet and carrying a towel and she asked me if I had been swimming!
Then I got home and somebody pulled the fire alarm in the middle of the damn night. Earlier this afternoon I was trying to ask around to see if there was actually a fire but all I was able to find out is one of my neighbors' has a very stupid daughter who apparently thought it was more important to lecture me about Jesus than whether there was a fire or not. I knew she was a dumbass because I got on the elevator with her while I was wearing a bathing suit, dripping wet and carrying a towel and she asked me if I had been swimming!
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Apr. 24th, 2026 01:06 pmgreghousesgfSuper looking forward to tomorrow, it's Indie Bookstore Day, I'm going to get my backpack and go bookstore hopping as much as I can!
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Apr. 22nd, 2026 02:38 pmgreghousesgfYesterday my sister called me and said that when I come to Texas to see my family a week from tomorrow, because we live far apart and have missed a lot of holidays and birthdays, because I love the Beatles and my most recent birthday was the 64th one, they wanted to give me a Beatle themed birthday party, even though my actual birthday was two months ago. This friend of my sister's husband owns a local restaurant and they're going to have a Beatle cover band there! I'm super happy they're doing this although I kind of suspect at least part of the reason they're doing this is because they feel sorry for me because of L. leaving.
merlin, fanfic and the adhd hellscape
Apr. 22nd, 2026 03:05 pmtinyforestspiriti finished elementary a week back and... i'm not revoking anything i said in my post. it just wasn't for me. overall i was a little disappointed to be totally honest. i dove into the tumblr tag (as i do upon finishing any media ever) and it seems to be widely beloved. i think it missed me quite spectacularly. ah, well.
i planned to re-watch merlin as soon as i had finished watching elementary, and now i'm there it's like a breath of fresh air. funnily enough, as much as i always adored it, i never sat down to watch merlin all the way through. i watched the odd episode here and there and i watched either series 3 or 4 as it aired. i avoided series 5 like the plague as i just knew what was going to happen. but now it's time to finally brave it!
and oh how i missed it. i forgot how much i loved these wonderful idiots. i don't know if it's because i've come straight off elementary, but it's really hit me just how much personality these characters have. i love all of them. especially merlin himself. my lord, he fits very snugly into my favourite type of character. he's a little ray of sunshine. i love him so so much. colin morgan too.
right now i am on series 2 episode 13. i've been watching as i draw or spin and it's been a jolly old time.
of course, with a new hyper fixation comes with the urge to write fanfic. i've always been a prolific whump / hurt/comfort writer. it's all i write to be completely honest. it's all i particularly enjoy writing. if i'm not writing whump i'm leading up to it. it's incredibly cathartic for me, as i'm sure it is for a lot of people. i've always thought it would be interesting to give my fic to a therapist and see what they can deduce about me from it, but it would feel like exposing a vulnerable piece of my soul. there's a reason why i never share my fic with people in my real life. i have at least 5 new fic ideas buzzing around the brain, all for merlin, all incredibly whumpy.
so then you would think i would be able to sit and write it.
this is my biggest struggle with adhd, even with medication. doing things. it is easier than it was before, but i still struggle. it's executive dysfunction, i think, combined with task switching (idk if this is more of an autism thing? have both makes it extremely difficult to untangle traits) i will sit with the document open, lost in my own thoughts for ages before i can actually start. once i do i'm usually on a roll. i wrote somewhere in the area of 2k words this morning, but it was exhausting. i love writing and it frustrates me that i can't just do it.
i feel rusty, too. my writing feels creaky. i feel like i've written so much better before and i can't get up to that level again.
on friday i'll be attending a lesson on adult adhd at the recovery college. i've done group things before, i did an online thing under the nhs not long after i was diagnosed. it was helpful just to learn about adhd, fill in blanks and answer a lot of questions i had about myself. it was only a couple of years ago and i've forgotten everything we covered. i'm hoping friday will be insightful.
i think what i really need is an adhd coach. i need to learn how to make my brain work for me... but i have no idea how much that would cost. i have savings, but as someone who can't work it's difficult for me to dip into them. these things are usually eye-wateringly expensive. perhaps this is something i can ask about at the session on friday.
i'm going to see if i can squeeze out a couple hundred more words.
i planned to re-watch merlin as soon as i had finished watching elementary, and now i'm there it's like a breath of fresh air. funnily enough, as much as i always adored it, i never sat down to watch merlin all the way through. i watched the odd episode here and there and i watched either series 3 or 4 as it aired. i avoided series 5 like the plague as i just knew what was going to happen. but now it's time to finally brave it!
and oh how i missed it. i forgot how much i loved these wonderful idiots. i don't know if it's because i've come straight off elementary, but it's really hit me just how much personality these characters have. i love all of them. especially merlin himself. my lord, he fits very snugly into my favourite type of character. he's a little ray of sunshine. i love him so so much. colin morgan too.
right now i am on series 2 episode 13. i've been watching as i draw or spin and it's been a jolly old time.
of course, with a new hyper fixation comes with the urge to write fanfic. i've always been a prolific whump / hurt/comfort writer. it's all i write to be completely honest. it's all i particularly enjoy writing. if i'm not writing whump i'm leading up to it. it's incredibly cathartic for me, as i'm sure it is for a lot of people. i've always thought it would be interesting to give my fic to a therapist and see what they can deduce about me from it, but it would feel like exposing a vulnerable piece of my soul. there's a reason why i never share my fic with people in my real life. i have at least 5 new fic ideas buzzing around the brain, all for merlin, all incredibly whumpy.
so then you would think i would be able to sit and write it.
this is my biggest struggle with adhd, even with medication. doing things. it is easier than it was before, but i still struggle. it's executive dysfunction, i think, combined with task switching (idk if this is more of an autism thing? have both makes it extremely difficult to untangle traits) i will sit with the document open, lost in my own thoughts for ages before i can actually start. once i do i'm usually on a roll. i wrote somewhere in the area of 2k words this morning, but it was exhausting. i love writing and it frustrates me that i can't just do it.
i feel rusty, too. my writing feels creaky. i feel like i've written so much better before and i can't get up to that level again.
on friday i'll be attending a lesson on adult adhd at the recovery college. i've done group things before, i did an online thing under the nhs not long after i was diagnosed. it was helpful just to learn about adhd, fill in blanks and answer a lot of questions i had about myself. it was only a couple of years ago and i've forgotten everything we covered. i'm hoping friday will be insightful.
i think what i really need is an adhd coach. i need to learn how to make my brain work for me... but i have no idea how much that would cost. i have savings, but as someone who can't work it's difficult for me to dip into them. these things are usually eye-wateringly expensive. perhaps this is something i can ask about at the session on friday.
i'm going to see if i can squeeze out a couple hundred more words.
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Apr. 20th, 2026 11:56 amgreghousesgfHad some Yorkshire Gold tea. I'm in the middle of doing my laundry and then later I have to go to the drugstore. I don't like going to that drugstore. Every time I go there something annoying happens. Last time I had to stand around for about twenty minutes not doing anything because they lock almost everything up because of shoplifters and you have to wait for them to bother with going over there and unlocking it.
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Apr. 19th, 2026 01:20 pmgreghousesgfhere's a meme:
1. Bagels or donuts?
Depends on my mood and where I am and what I'm doing.
2. Bar soap or body wash?
Bar
3. Being afraid or being embarrassed?
both suck
4. Big bash or intimate gathering?
I love either
5. Board games or video games?
Board games.
6. Bridgerton or The Crown?
I watched the Crown but got really bored. Never seen Bridgerton.
7. Cardio or weights?
Swimming laps is cardio, isn't it?
8. Carpet or hardwood?
either
9. Clue/Cluedo or Monopoly?
I guess Monopoly, I haven't played Clue since I was a kid.
10. Cook or do the dishes?
COOK. I hate washing dishes.
11. Damp socks or a pebble in your shoe?
Pebbles are easier to get rid of.
12. Dragons or unicorns?
Both are cool
13. Family vacation or solo trip?
Solo trip, or with my friends if that was an option
14. Fork or spoon?
doesn't that depend on what you're eating?
15. General admission or assigned seats?
either as long as I can get a good one
16. Give or receive?
both
17. Hot cocoa or hot cider?
Hot cocoa. I had some just yesterday.
18. Iced tea or hot tea?
Hot tea, always!
19. Italian food or Mexican food?
I love both. I guess it depends on where I am.
20. Long car ride or short plane trip?
L. is about the only person I like long car rides with.
21. Mountains or beach?
Beach.
22. Movie candy or popcorn?
Popcorn. Movie theater candy is too expensive but I will cop to sneaking candy into the theater in my purse or backpack.
23. Musical theater or concert?
depends on what it is
24. Nightlight or no light?
I haven't used a nightlight since I was a little kid..
25. Ninja attack or pirate attack?
Maybe the pirates would let me join them....
26. Outer space or bottom of the ocean?
Outer space.
27. Painful truth or comforting lie?
Painful truth.
28. Pancakes or waffles?
either
29. Passion or friendship?
Friendship.
30. Phone call or text?
Text.
31. Pizza or tacos?
Pizza, but I sure do love tacos, too.
32. Play or concert?
depends on what/who it is
33. Playlists or podcasts?
depends on the content and my mood
34. Puzzles or coloring books?
Puzzles.
35. Rain or snow?
neither. ugh.
36. Ramen or pho?
either
37. River or lake?
I do like hanging out down by Lake Merritt as much as any other Oaklander.
38. Roller coaster or Ferris wheel?
Ferris wheel.
39. Roller skates or ice skates?
Neither. I can't handle either.
40. Salt or pepper?
Pepper
41. Singing in the shower or singing in the car?
Singing in the car unless L. is driving. She doesn't like the way I sing.
42. Skinny fries or thick cut?
either
43. Sneezing or coughing?
I've been having some sort of allergy lately so I'm getting sick of sneezing.
44. Snowboarding or skateboarding?
Neither, but I do like watching skateboarding
45. Snowmen or sandcastles?
sand castles
46. Spicy or mild?
Spicy usually.
47. Street food or fine dining?
either one, depending on my mood and where I am
48. Subtitles or dubbed?
Subtitles. 100% 10000% 10000000%
49. Wine or beer?
either one, depending on my mood, where I am and what I'm eating
50. Zoo or aquarium?
zoo
1. Bagels or donuts?
Depends on my mood and where I am and what I'm doing.
2. Bar soap or body wash?
Bar
3. Being afraid or being embarrassed?
both suck
4. Big bash or intimate gathering?
I love either
5. Board games or video games?
Board games.
6. Bridgerton or The Crown?
I watched the Crown but got really bored. Never seen Bridgerton.
7. Cardio or weights?
Swimming laps is cardio, isn't it?
8. Carpet or hardwood?
either
9. Clue/Cluedo or Monopoly?
I guess Monopoly, I haven't played Clue since I was a kid.
10. Cook or do the dishes?
COOK. I hate washing dishes.
11. Damp socks or a pebble in your shoe?
Pebbles are easier to get rid of.
12. Dragons or unicorns?
Both are cool
13. Family vacation or solo trip?
Solo trip, or with my friends if that was an option
14. Fork or spoon?
doesn't that depend on what you're eating?
15. General admission or assigned seats?
either as long as I can get a good one
16. Give or receive?
both
17. Hot cocoa or hot cider?
Hot cocoa. I had some just yesterday.
18. Iced tea or hot tea?
Hot tea, always!
19. Italian food or Mexican food?
I love both. I guess it depends on where I am.
20. Long car ride or short plane trip?
L. is about the only person I like long car rides with.
21. Mountains or beach?
Beach.
22. Movie candy or popcorn?
Popcorn. Movie theater candy is too expensive but I will cop to sneaking candy into the theater in my purse or backpack.
23. Musical theater or concert?
depends on what it is
24. Nightlight or no light?
I haven't used a nightlight since I was a little kid..
25. Ninja attack or pirate attack?
Maybe the pirates would let me join them....
26. Outer space or bottom of the ocean?
Outer space.
27. Painful truth or comforting lie?
Painful truth.
28. Pancakes or waffles?
either
29. Passion or friendship?
Friendship.
30. Phone call or text?
Text.
31. Pizza or tacos?
Pizza, but I sure do love tacos, too.
32. Play or concert?
depends on what/who it is
33. Playlists or podcasts?
depends on the content and my mood
34. Puzzles or coloring books?
Puzzles.
35. Rain or snow?
neither. ugh.
36. Ramen or pho?
either
37. River or lake?
I do like hanging out down by Lake Merritt as much as any other Oaklander.
38. Roller coaster or Ferris wheel?
Ferris wheel.
39. Roller skates or ice skates?
Neither. I can't handle either.
40. Salt or pepper?
Pepper
41. Singing in the shower or singing in the car?
Singing in the car unless L. is driving. She doesn't like the way I sing.
42. Skinny fries or thick cut?
either
43. Sneezing or coughing?
I've been having some sort of allergy lately so I'm getting sick of sneezing.
44. Snowboarding or skateboarding?
Neither, but I do like watching skateboarding
45. Snowmen or sandcastles?
sand castles
46. Spicy or mild?
Spicy usually.
47. Street food or fine dining?
either one, depending on my mood and where I am
48. Subtitles or dubbed?
Subtitles. 100% 10000% 10000000%
49. Wine or beer?
either one, depending on my mood, where I am and what I'm eating
50. Zoo or aquarium?
zoo
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Apr. 18th, 2026 12:38 pmgreghousesgfHad a great swim this morning. I think later this afternoon I'll go down to Lakeshore and see if there's anything interesting going on over there before I go to Trader Joe and get tortillas and beans and other stuff to make burritos.
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Apr. 17th, 2026 01:34 pmgreghousesgfI miss Monkey King. I'm going to try to make the Vietnamese chicken wings again but I'm using a different recipe because the last time I tried to do this they didn't come out right. The only thing I need for this new recipe that I don't already have is southeast Asian fish sauce.