Thanks for Letting Me Talk About Taps

I'm so tired.

Kiddo's school year has just been canceled; they're still sending out work but they've just given up hope of going back to actual school for now. Homeschooling is...going. I think we're finally getting into a groove. I want to start introducing art and music back in once we get a pattern of reading and math down. She's just a very bullheaded strong-willed child, and gets frustrated easily. It's going.

D is currently working in the basement, doing call center work. I'm super glad he can work from home, bc a. he's working 2. he's at home, which is also great bc iii. his anemia has come back with a vengeance. He's taking supplements and stuff but. It's not great. We know what's causing it but it requires actual medical intervention to stop it and well. [gestures at the world in general]

S has been cut down to basically 8 whole hours a week, and we're pretty sure her store is just gonna close soon. Luckily she's already in the unemployment system* but she hasn't heard back since she applied. With the number of applications surging in idk if or when she'll hear anything, and that stimulus check is a joke with how long it's gonna take to roll out.

(*she was briefly furloughed due to a cough that it took a week and a half to prove to them was allergies)

Kiddo's almost out of her long-lasting insulin and without her mom's work we have no chance of getting her on insurance. Unless S gets some real good unemployment we're fucked, financially. All I can do is put out feelers for commissions and I don't usually get much feedback on those, plus no one has money to spend on stuff like custom fanfiction right now.

But I jumped on the Animal Crossing bandwagon, so that's happening. Persona 5 Royal came out. I'm still doing icons bc goddammit, it's fun, I can listen to podcasts while I do it and I (usually) enjoy it.

I'm just real tired.

getting up at 2am to check Kiddo's blood sugar is murdering me. I have this writing commission I'm supposed to be working on, and it's from someone I really enjoy working with, and I'm enjoying what I'm writing, but I'm too fucking tired to commit words to paper properly. It sucks and I hate it. I've been procrastinating with icon challenges but also do the paying work, Nochi. at least the 2am checks only last the next couple of days (hopefully) (she's doing really well pls let both me and her sleep through the night again)

anyway this is just a spleen-vent post, I'm getting back to it, I'm just v tired and also hungry? I should address that.

I feel like I said at one point I was going to move away from using Tumblr as a hub but unfortunately it's still the best platform for gifs (at least until Pillowfort lets me in). So I've got a bunch of gifs from CLC's "No" MV going up there now. There'll be icons later, too. (Is there a good general-purpose kpop comm on here? I've only found RP and fic comms and neither of those are really my jam. I really do not have the time or focus to run one or I'd totally start one.)

( nattering about concepts and what words mean )

I'm also still doing Critical Role reaction posts, I just can't find a good way to get bullet points on here without having to go down each individual point and make a list in html. Rich text does weird things to my cut text. Might put them here just for a backlog, anyway.

Now back to gifs, and posting gifs, and taking caps, and maybe at some point actually working on that book I'm supposed to be writing.

First, administrivia:

• I've got some Dragalia Lost icons in the works; it's a very pretty game that has taken over my life, thanks Nintendo.
  
• There's a bunch of ShortOneGaming icons I need to add to this post, as well.
  
• I wrote a small thing introducing Mollymauk and Gilmore into what I'm calling my Modern Magic AU (modern au but D&D mechanics, races, etc are still a thing), that'll go up when I get a chance to post it to AO3.
  

Now, personal stuff:
( Polyamory, political arguments, and presents )

So that's me until I get these icons and fics done and posted. Hope you had a fantastic holiday!

If you're here from the_great_tumblr_purge, please be aware that I forgot about half the fandoms I actually participate in about the time I hit "post". Just browse my tags, they're pretty indicative of what I'm into, and feel free to follow.