Because it's so good, and it always bears repeating: Yes, You Are.

Thank whatever powers that be for citation generators and percentage calculators.

So I just discovered that one of the papers I thought was due next Wednesday is in fact due TOMORROW, and it is not the paper I have been focusing on. Thus, sadly, no TiLT today unless by some miracle I manage to finish the thing before midnight. Wish me speedy work, friends! I shall need it.

The name of the game for me this cold season is experimenting with layers! Layer, layer, layer. I walk a lot outside and the house I'm living in runs cold, I need to be warm! Not to mention the visual interest that goes along with layering.

I seem to be rather enamored of shorter skirts and dresses with tights - I therefore require more warm legwear. To this end, I am in the midst of a Sock Dreams order.

I'm also interested in creative scarf use - and not just the fuzzy ones. I've been tying thin, colorful scarves previously only used in warmer weather to my bag, which adds a nice pop of brightness. Other points include bright lipsticks (like the screaming pink I'm sporting today), bangle bracelets, pins, buttons, experimenting with color combinations, long necklaces, metallic nail polish, and long cardigans. I wish to find a good umbrella to upgrade my current one. (It was a gift from when I was in my black phase several years ago.)

Are you wearing anything new or special this season, whatever that means for wherever you may be? Talk style desires to me.

-We got papers back in history, and our prof wrote on mine that I had the best analysis in the class. Oh, this warm and fuzzy satisfied feeling.

-The research paper due date for that class has been pushed back from Friday to next Wednesday, to my lasting relief.

-As Andrew and I talked while we crossed the courtyard outside the student center, he remarked that I look like Carmen Sandiego today, and he didn't know why. Ah, glee.

-We went to see my brother perform in Twelfth Night on Friday evening, where he totally stole the show in a spectacularly hilarious performance. He loves drama, and it shows.

-Yesterday I stabbed popcorn balls, by which I mean I put them together to make snowmen. They're very cute.

-There is a phantom cotton candy smell up here. If it is someone's perfume, I must say that they smell totally lickable.

It's that Thursday time again. Stuff I'm loving!

-The zoo! Gosh, I hadn't been to the zoo in ages. I love it. I should hit up the aquarium and the Point Defiance Zoo next.
-Texting people silly things. Ahaha, the power of the text message.
-The Big Ben Twitter. Best Twitter account or best Twitter account?
-Lady Gaga. What the fuck, self. A-awesome?
-Via gallo_de_pelea: Leigh Walton's Tintin sketchbook collects fan art from various comic artists.
-Ridiculous desserts. We got an ice cream volcano from the Rainforest Cafe, which was enormous and came with a sparkler in it.
-gallo_de_pelea's products that ought to exist.
-Teavana. Hnnnnng.
-These black and white 'guess the movie' illustrations. Such awesome black and white balance.
-Apes that use sign language. (Also apes that use symbol keypads.) I want to go the Chimposium.
-The strange things I write when half asleep. I was very tired in math the other day, and the scribbles in my notebook margins from the sleepiest point read: 'orange bread~ ♥, drawing on calculator, purple & pink diagonally striped dress, flat jelly pumpkins, flying Memphis.'
-Fruit bats, math history, Spock, this firebendy thing, bright sweaters, roomba pacman, drawing Utena things as warmups, this 8-bit wedding invitation, The One Semester of Spanish Spanish Love Song, whiteboards in art, littlekuriboh's Yuugioh manga reviews, lists of books to look into, the men who stare at goatse, sextants, bright tights, lol Angel Sanctuary, fun research, very loud ties, ALL GLORY, bonobos, Lipstick Queen, alchemical processes and equipment, get excited and make things, FFXIII chocobos, plums deify!, carthago delenda est, drawing chocobos, this infographic of the ancient Hebrew conception of the universe, the word 'obstreperous,' ganmen, real calculators modeled after desktop calculators, don't bother Wonder Woman during her smoke break, ideas for fun Larxene drawings, butterfly headpieces.

What about you?

Seriously, guys? You're pissed because [instructor] doesn't write exhaustive notes on the board? It's not his job to take notes for you. You are going to die in other classes.

Ugh, fucking running start students.

In cheerier news, I spent yesterday tromping around the zoo seeing the things I missed on Sunday and observing one of the gorillas for my anthro paper. (Calaya, for those interested; she's a juvenile female western lowland gorilla in one of the two groups at the Woodland Park Zoo.) It was a lovely day despite the place being swarmed with small children. Both of the tigers were out in the sun, both of the golden lion tamarins came down to say hi, the big hornbill was flying around its enclosure, both of the lions were out and one roared for us, the otters were playing, all of the penguins were in the water and kept swooping beside the glass (it was magical), the bears were out, the arctic fox was chillin' watching people, the snow leopard was out (though not her cubs), the jaguar was out, one of the wolves was visible, the colobus monkeys watched me go by, there was a peacock on one of the footpaths, it was all wonderful. I am thinking that maybe next year I should get a zoo membership, as I would be there all the time.

I've also had the thought that Kairi should learn magic from Lina in Adventures of Kairi, because holy crap awesome.

-Leonard Nimoy is going to be at Emerald City Comicon 2010!!

-So is Jhonen Vasquez!!

-LEONARD NIMOY

-Zoo trip part two tomorrow! I went on Sunday, but didn't have enough time for my primate observation. This time I'll also make better use of my camera and sketchbook.

-Man, the more I learn of higher math, the more the mathematical bits of xkcd start to make sense. I am also certain it is horrifically dorky of me to take an interest in the historical significance of things like logarithms for the singular purpose of how I could use it for Castlevania fic.

-SPOCK

AT

COMICON

-I really wanna do that thing wherein one redraws old pieces, updated with one's new stylistic changes and skill level. It always looks so fun.

-I am going to have such cool things to show you all. Chocobos continue to be massively fun to draw.

-SPOCK

S: And then Zelgadis said, I must fight the golem!
And Rezzo said, no, Zelgadis, you are the golem.
And then Xelloss was a cone.

A: And then Chell said, I must fight the machine!
And GLaDOS said, no, Chell, you are the machine.
And then the cake was a lie.

It's that time again. Stuff I am loving on this week:

-Halloween costumes! It is just like a con, only much bigger.
-hiimdaisy's P4 comic part two!!
-Working on the Adventures of Kairi. Oh man, you guys, I am going to have some fun things to show you.
-Animorphs online!! I, I can finish the series years and years after I stopped reading them!
-xkcd, never stop being awesome.
-Kotaku's dorky pumpkin patch - one, two, three, four.
-Sephora and new lip colors. (Oh addiction.) I finally picked up a pink to match that dress I bought in summer, and this in Joy, which is a gorgeous bloody red.
-Danny Choo's blog, particularly the figure porn.
-This figure. Want want want. Alternate.
-This elf policy poem, and the elf insurance in the comments.
-All of the V discussion sparked as a result of the remake. Hee hee hee. ♥
-Cab rides, bat buttons, Ariel, buttoned cuffs, Charleston Chews!!, The Darkside, Yoko, costume construction, red wire, Just Die Already, trick or treating, this amazing chip packaging, wakeboard IN SPACE, autumnal colors, a bus shelter made out of buses, Trogdor, rickrolling, fruit bats and oral sex (and researchers puzzled as to why they would do that - lol, dudes, lol), turkey salad, this pumpkin head dance, orangutans, gunslingers, zombie hunter Velma and Scooby, gummi bikes, Colored, having tea in math, watching a forklift driver demolish a vodka warehouse, the corn strapon pumpkin, this Guide to Aging Characters, the average color of the universe (ought to be octarine, of course), voting, this FABULOUS 8-bit makeup, every day's great at your Junes, the ALSO FABULOUS urban cursor that tracks its movements in Google Maps, dorking up my notes (a town's population grows at 5% due to all of the Heartless refugee immigration), Ek's TJA process work for NaNoManGo, I've Discovered Something Amazing! Again!, I'M HARPO, practicing facial expressions.

What about you?

Assorted sketches. More later.

( YGO, Princess Tutu, KH, bunch of original/real-people-doodle stuff )

Badmouthing your professor when he is not even there because he's a little slow in returning your papers to you is not okay. Consider, if you will, that he is a human being, he has a life, his child was sick, his basement flooded, the papers are five pages long each, and he was also grading pages and pages of exams.

Dislike me if you wish for calling you out on it, but you were having a conversation in a public space with people you don't know. This isn't highschool.

-me.

Stuff I'm digging this Thursday:

-New ideas for jewelry. I don't know why I didn't consider Utena until now.
-Steamcon. Oh man, you guys, it was awesome. I have pictorial evidence, so I shall save a bigger post until I have those ready, but eeeeeee.
-The fucking word of the day.
-Reading AIM logs and finding awesome things.
-This lesbian gamer wedding, which has been all over the place BECAUSE IT IS AMAZING.
-London Fog, which is a drink I had over the weekend from a Seattle coffee shop - earl grey, steamed milk, vanilla. It was delicious.
-Wearing jewelry that I've made but never worn.
-Shakesville.
-The fabulous brilliance of my friends. ♥
-Shoes, carnivals, bangles, tea in math class, working iPhone costumes, curious crows, dried papaya, pacman pumpkins, malachite, delicious granola, suspenders, oh shit clippy, bird feet, pixie hair, Utena, The Last Supper recreated with Rubik's cubes, pizza, waldorf salad, thumbnailing, vintage Russian posters from the 70s, zydrate octopus, ducks of justice, bag contents, Sony gadgets stripped down and photographed, Corteo, interesting pleats, feather fans, this machine (with leeches!), buying art, new buttons, one letter off video games, Mucha, Kairi, plotting stuff, lesbian fairies, the send a hug project, costume construction, interesting tea-sharing Turkish traditions.

How about you?

So, beautiful and talented KH-inclined people, a question.

What do you think Kairi would have in her school bag?

November is fast approaching, and while I shall not be doing NaNo, I have given some thought to doing some other sort of month-long project. Sketch a day projects have been brought up by other people, which I think would be fun. croaky mentioned potentially using November as a research month for personal works, which I also like. There are other permutations, easily found by a bit of poking around the internets.

As I was taking notes in class today, I kept distracting myself with thoughts on events that could potentially take place in the Adventures of Kairi, and a little while ago it occurred to me that huh. maybe I should use November to do research and sketch-a-day stuff for that. What are your thoughts, parties interested in gunner Kairi?

Yuppers, it's Thursday again. Let's have some love to counteract that bile.

-Birth By Sleep trailer!!
-My Xelloss dress. (I call it that primarily because of the color.) I wore it today, finally. Thank all the gods that be for dry cleaning.
-My new belt. I didn't wear belts for years, but I laid my hands on a large one with lacing up the front and bam, sudden addiction. Want.
-Tale of Tales' Salome. Neat! I think I might like The Path better, but still eee.
-Benny Hill with eeeeverything.
-On that note, laughing at Twilight. Something has to alleviate the pain.
-Luxirare's parfait. Holy crap this lady is so talented.
-42 essential 3rd act twists. XD
-Prep for Steamcon! This will be fun. :D
-New FFXIII screens, albeit poor quality ones. I am digging that lady with the staff/spear thing. (Hoping for spear. Hoping for spear. I may, of course, be slightly biased.)
-food_in_fiction. Eeeee.
-11 productivity tips that creative types already know. Heh.
-Circus aesthetic.
-Keys as necklaces, delicious pizza, pretzels, gloves with buttons, SHARK SHOES, baklava, deep berry colors, colorful dorm transformation, hat pins, Caricature Map of Europe, oracles, writing faux-Carey, this vest, underbust corsets, Princess Krahe, rhinestones, this alien cow abduction lamp, pinks and purples, mermaids with foot fetishes, Dead trees, red velvet cake, this skirt (especially in pink), swans, cashews, The Swan Princess, customized clocks, Imperiously Twisted, prehensile tails, Kairi Master Form, hunting cats, small paintings, vampire killing kits, gay lemurs, Arthurian dykishness, tights and sandals, this outfit, shorts and tights, this video of Saturn's moons disturbing its rings, crow feathers, decorative foods, combo/limit break forms (askjhfksjf;asld Kairi and Faris anyone), the combination of cardigans/short dresses/tights/boots, over the top showgirl costumes, the pretty ballerina stands at Forever 21, Ek's female characters in their skivvies, sentient plants, ladies with enormous guns, colorful false eyelashes, Mighty Leaf tea, Schwanensee.

How about you?

Warnings for this post being triggery. Do I even have to say this?

Did you know rape is a pre-existing condition? Now you do!

naamah_darling's post, rm's post. I recommend both of these. Don't miss the comments. There are lots of stories. (Domestic abuse is a pre-existing condition, too.) Here is an excerpt from rm's post.

Here's the deal about health insurance and being female: Being female is effectively considered a disease by insurers, despite the fact that women have much longer life expectancies than men. Women are also dealt with as children who are incapable of making informed decisions about their own bodies; whether it's birth control, abortion or pregnancy-related services, insurers will tell you over and over again that they know better than you or your doctor.

All of this is so closely tied to the poisonous rape culture that is so prevalent in our society (if anyone tries to tell you it isn't, they don't know what they're fucking talking about) that the implied message, aside from "enjoy maybe getting AIDS, and also if you take anything for it we'll never cover you ever because you're not a real human being" is that "good girls don't get raped, and since you did, you don't deserve healthcare."

Hey! You humpers of syphilitic mules!

My having tits and a cunt does not make me diseased.

Placing the onus on women not to get raped (instead of, y'know, men not to rape) is something we are conditioned into - if a woman is raped, she must have been asking for it, or have done something wrong, or really truly actually wanted it, look at what she's wearing, the slut. The insurance shit makes it even more difficult for women to come forward and get the legal and medical help needed after sexual assault. We are, essentially, being punished for being female again, and that is also something that we have been living with every single fucking day of our lives. Lip service payed to equality doesn't change this, insurers saying "but it's on a case by case basis! really!" doesn't change this.

What is or is not a human being should not be defined by insurance companies decreeing who is or isn't a "good girl." Health care should not be denied on what amounts to a whim. "We aren't denying treatment, just benefits!" they say. That is a steaming pile of rotten monkey shit, I say, since if someone needs that insurance to pay for treatment then they aren't going to get it without no matter what these simpering dumbfucks assert.

My invisibility as a queer and childfree individual in the eyes of these companies is compounded by my being a woman: I am automatically a liability and a child because I possess two x chromosomes. I would dearly love to shove these stinking shitmuffins into tar pits, even though it wouldn't end this explosive, toxic clusterfuck.

So, the new Birth By Sleep trailer. Basically I'm flipping out? And squeaking and flailing and coming dangerously near massive run-on sentences entirely in capslock?

At first I wasn't terribly excited about this game, BUT NOW MY EXCITEMENT IS MOUNTING. LET ME TELL YOU.

This weekend contained some excellence, some hilarity, and a great deal of Italian and pseudo-Italian food. Highlights:

-Ordering delicious pizza on Friday. omnomnom olive oil and entire cloves of garlic and mushrooms and feta
-Staying in and making fun of Twilight on Saturday. The Rifftrax version of the film is lolarious (even moreso than the original itself, and THAT is great unintentional comedy), particularly for Benny Hill and YOU CAN TELL THEY'RE VAMPIRES BECAUSE THEY DRIVE LIKE THAT and "You're gonna watch me eat a pizza roll right now!!" and ~~twinkling noises~~.
-Italian delivery on Saturday night~ Please to be saving my baklava for me, fraulein_karma. (The pasta as well if it will keep. And the pizza, aside from that.)
-Southcenter trip on Sunday! I love my new belt very, very much, yes I do.
-Cheesecake Factory! I had a cashew salad, which I ate very nearly the whole of. We split red velvet cheesecake (red velvet cake layered with cheesecake; curls of white chocolate crowning the frosting) for dessert.
-You guys, you guys, the sparklecock is even more hysterical in person.
-I got smacked with a nasty headache on Monday that put me out of commission for most of the day, unfortunately. I am still being cautious due to feeling the remaining vestiges of it. (I have as yet been unable to find my aspirin.)

Steamcon is next weekend, and Halloween the weekend after. I must construct some outfits and a Red Queen costume (as well as figure out the image simplification for a jack-o-lantern contest I wish to enter). I am rather looking forward to it.

This week seems to at once be progressing slowly and at breakneck speed. Let's have some love!

-Wearing new-to-me things. Hooray, thrifting!
-Finding bits of old projects that still have potential.
-The first chapter of the Koumyou backstory Saiyuki arc. AAAAAAAAAAAAH KOUMYOU ahem he is adorable forever
-Old sketchbooks. They are the best presents to myself, I swear.
-The Big Picture's artistic gymnastics set.
-MY THERMOS~ I finally found it. I uttered a true 'MWAHAHAHA.'
-Analysis, forever. Oh, analysing things. ♥
-This photoshoot. ♥ ♥ ♥
-Kundagi's Persona game logs. I have been laughing until nearly the point of tears
-Fancy paper, maple bars, highlighters, folding chairs, 99 PROBLEMS, hairpins, GOLDFISH, rhinestones, Alicia and Beth, clean laundry, cock pie, secret agent coats, Waterfall Doorway, belt pouches, chinese lady, monks with swords, Buffy and Spike colored, sparkly lip gloss, riful (I like that artist's Claymore art okay XD), ruining scifi, persona 4 dressup (AAAAAAAAAAAA, also swimsuit investigation team by that artist), titles for Dracula, grammar nerd corrective labels, National Coming Out Day, getting things cleaned up in my room (but not enough to destroy functional chaos), cool use of negative space in logo design, my new cardigan (I think I shall be living in it this coming winter), my new hairpin (so pretty! it reminds me of Phedre), the cool capelet I saw while I was out with mom (homg want), the word 'bombastic,' Vivid Ferret.

How about you, my sweets? What are you into this week?