September 14, 2024 · 8:21 pm

I wrote a thing!

OKAY so I haven’t posted in nearly three years. SO SUE ME.

Quick life update first!

I do Conqueror Challenges now because shiny things encourage me to take silly little walks to help my silly little brain.

I stopped working at the library because it was doing the opposite of helping my silly little brain.

I’ve done a lot of crafting, cross-stitching, gardening and baking.

My 18-year-old cat sadly died, but I adopted a feral gremlin called Poppy who lives in my house and chews up cardboard.

I’ve given up all social media bar Tumblr, which I will not share, because what I do at the devil’s sacrament is my own business.

I finally caught covid this year while helping a friend move, during which I also dropped a window blind on my face because that’s the sort of person I am.

And I joined a writing society in 2023 and have been doing a lot more writing thanks to them.

Which brings me to the reason that I’m posting today, which is that I HAVE WRITTEN A THING YOU CAN READ RIGHT NOW.

Yep, all caps, I’m that excited.

“The Poison Letter” is an interactive story about writer’s block and potential death and you can play it on itch.io RIGHT NOW.

(And if you really like it, you can drop me a little something-something as a thanks.)

Go play it now!

And that’s it – see you in another 32 months or whatever. Stay safe!

~ Penny

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December 18, 2021 · 1:11 pm

Decoupage Projects

And now for something completely different – my decoupage projects! All of these are made with Décopatch paper, Décopatch glues and mache bases, all bought from Hobbycraft.

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December 16, 2021 · 12:58 pm

Sewing Projects: Part Four

Last part of the sewing projects! Are you excited? I’m excited! Let’s go!

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December 14, 2021 · 12:58 pm

Sewing Projects: Part Three

Part Three of the sewing, let’s go!

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December 12, 2021 · 12:54 pm

Sewing Projects: Part Two

Part Two of Probably Four of the sewing projects I did in 2021 because I’d like to get the sewing projects plus the decoupage projects I did posted BEFORE 2022.

Also I won a Writers’ Forum Flash Fiction competition earlier this year with a story called “Mary, Mary”.

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August 15, 2021 · 5:24 pm

Photobucket Sucks

You’re not allowed to imbed Photobucket pictures any more unless you pay them. The problem with that is that I’m not willing to pay and I have a LOT of Photobucket pictures embedded in my early blog posts.

So sadly, the early days of this blog are probably going to look terrible soon as I’m deleting all those photos from the account before I get into trouble.

Still. All these pictures are at least 5 years old, so it’s not the end of the world.

~ Penny

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July 8, 2021 · 5:36 pm

Sewing Projects: Part One

Part One of how many? I have no idea. Have some sewing pictures.

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June 13, 2021 · 12:42 pm

Big Posts Are Overrated

I haven’t posted anything since February. I’ve wanted to. But I haven’t.

See, posting something to a blog may not seem like a big deal. But when you’re autistic with ADHD? Even small things can seem enormous if they have a lot of stages. Which blog posts do. You have to write the text, find images, upload them, write image descriptions, tag the post… There’s a lot.

But I want to share stuff I’ve made! I’ve done a lot of sewing since February and done some cool cross-stitches and made some cute felt animals with kits from Aldi. So what am I gonna do?

Simple. Whenever I feel up to it, I’m gonna make a post with a photo of one thing I’ve made. The post will be that single picture plus a description of the image, and that’s it.

After all. Big posts are overrated.

~ Penny

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February 12, 2021 · 2:42 pm

Do You Want to Build a Snowman?

No! I don’t! But I do want to build a snow cat!

A photograph of a cat sculpted from snow. It is lying on some grass with its tail stretched out behind it. Its eyes and nose are made of stones, its whiskers are made of broken twigs, and its ears are made of leaves.
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January 10, 2021 · 6:07 pm

“One Day, When the Tonguin’ is Done, We’ll Take Our Leave and Go”

I have read a book, and will be writing a little review of that… well, I won’t say soon, because it all depends on when I can corral my brain into working for me. It’s like a flock of particularly dopey sheep being herded by a poorly German Shepherd who’s easily distracted by shiny hunting in Pokémon Let’s Go Eevee.

… that analogy may have gotten away from me somewhere.

My point is that I’m not here to write about a book, but about a problem I and many other people currently have: Wellerman Addiction.

Now I’m not on TikTok, but I am on Tumblr because 2020 was terrible enough to send me fleeing back to the comfort zone of my early twenties. And it was on there that some beautiful, blessed soul shared “The Wellerman”.

So you have this guy called Nathan Evans who made a video on TikTok of him singing a sea shanty called “The Wellerman”, which you can find here. This song is pretty bad-ass, but not bad-ass enough for Luke Taylor. This guy – who is nineteen, by the way, and yes, his speaking voice is that deep as well – decided to add a bassline to the song and… well. It sounds incredible.

Even better? Not only has Taylor done extra videos with him adding other voice parts (including tenor, so he is clearly one of those lads like Avi Kaplan or Tim Foust who have enviable vocal ranges), other people have now taken Taylor’s original version and added their voices to it. For example, here is a user called beccaleighz adding a rather lovely soprano to it.

But my utter favourite is one that adds not one, not two, but three more voices to Evans’s and Taylor’s: first Aaron Sloan, then Bobby Waters, and finally Jonny Stewart.

Folks. I cannot stop listening to this. So in the spirit of making everybody as hopelessly enraptured as I am, here’s the video.

@jonnystewartbass

#duet with @the.bobbybass SHANTY TIME once again! Adding a lower middle harmony 🙂 @nthnevnss @_luke.the.voice_ @apsloan01 #shantytok #wellerman

♬ Wellerman – Sea Shanty – Nathan Evans

You’re welcome.

~ Penny

Related Post: So. I turn 30 this year.

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Edit: OKAY NO SOMEBODY MERGED TOGETHER A BUNCH OF AMAZING VERSIONS OF THIS SONG AND IT IS LITERALLY THE BEST THING EVER.

https://xonar-verse.tumblr.com/post/639956834467332096/

PEOPLE ARE AMAZING. SORRY I CAN’T LINK THE INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS THIS TIME, THERE’S TOO MANY, BUT OH MY LORD THIS IS BEAUTIFUL.

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