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fandomtrees reveals. The last three days, I've been shuttling back and forth to the hospital for epic Scrabble bouts. I have two fics back from beta that I still hope to finish and post as late treats (both need rewrites), but I haven't had the brain to word. I spent a lot of my spare moments over the last 24 hours icing my knee and trying to draw an art gift, with no success. (Why are faces?? ;-p) So my plan is to finish the fics, and then go back and finish the things I started for Yuletide. And then go back even further and finish the thing I started for guardian_wishlist. ;-p Also, to continue on with *Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain* in the hopes it will make me better at faces.fandomtrees gifts, yayayay!!
I received five deliciously wonderful gifts for fandomtrees!! FIVE!!
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accomplishedormolu [awr-muh-loo]
adjective:
1 Any of several copper and zinc or tin alloys resembling gold in appearance and used to ornament furniture, moldings, architectural details, and jewelry
2 an imitation of gold.
Clars had described the clocks in its auction catalog as 'a rare pair of Chinese ormolu bronze automaton clocks' manufactured in a workshop in the southern port city of Guangzhou. (Steven Lee Myers and Graham Bowley, They Look Like the Emperors' Clocks. But Are They Real?, The New York Times, December 2018)
No gilded ormolu appears, certainly, but pieces are not without decorative flourishes. (Antonia van der Meer, Hemingway’s Homey Cuban House, The Wall Street Journal, June 2016)
He claimed almost 100 items had been stolen, including a Persian rug worth £35,000, valuable antiques and clocks, and a 19th century red marble rococo fire surround, with ormolu inserts. (Nina Morgan, St Albans fraudster who staged burglary and committed £1m mortgage fraud jailed, Herts Advertiser, January 2019)
He was rather sorry he had come, till Lady Narborough, looking at the great ormolu gilt clock that sprawled in gaudy curves on the mauve-draped mantelshelf, exclaimed: "How horrid of Henry Wotton to be so late!" (Oscar Wilde, The Picture Of Dorian Gray)
Origin:
1765, 'an alloy of copper, zinc, and tin resembling gold,' from French or moulu, literally 'ground gold,' from or 'gold' (from Latin aurum, from PIE aus- 'gold;' see aureate) + moulu 'ground up,' past participle of moudre 'to grind,' from Latin molere 'to grind' (from PIE root mele- 'to crush, grind'). The sense of the word before it reached English began as 'gold leaf prepared for gilding bronze, brass, etc.,' then shifted to 'gilded bronze,' then to various prepared metallic substances resembling it. (Online Etymology Dictionary)
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artistichmm, i also got some stuff from ulta. i picked up a cosrx prepping skin care kit and i already want big bottles of everything. idk, it’s just nice having a nighttime skincare routine, yk. i already feel way more motivated to take better care of myself in general, like the rest of me should match how good my skin is starting to look.
sister got verb ghost shampoo and conditioner, and i think i’m gonna steal some when i shower in a bit. i don’t think i’ve talked abt it publicly, but i’ve really been struggling with hair issues, mainly thinning and loss. she keeps saying it’s for fine hair, so maybe it’ll help my hair not sit so flat on my head? idk. what i really need is minoxidil, i think, but my sister discourages me since she says it’s not that bad. i just don’t want to wait until i’m crying every single day looking at it before i treat it, yk. i’m also really hoping it’s stress-related hair loss from what happened last april, so maybe it’ll come back. but i’m still stressed every single day, so…
i talked abt this in a previous entry, but it’s been so hot lately and it’s really confusing my brain. i already have no real perception of time, and now i keep thinking it’s summer even though we literally just started the new year. it makes me want to go to a swimming pool and eat sandwiches and chips afterward.
i started yellowjackets last night and i’m really enjoying it. tbh, a year or two ago i watched reactions to the first couple of episodes since that’s usually how i “watch” shows i don’t have access to. i was worried i wouldn’t like it since i had technically already seen parts of it, but luckily my memory is basically non-existent, so everything still feels like a surprise. i think i’m on ep 5. i started late last night and got so sucked in that before i knew it, it was 5 in the morning and i was still watching. didn’t get much sleep, but i can only blame myself.
here's my vent of the week, i guess. i think i just stupidly realized that a discord friend blocked me. i thought they had just moved to a different acc or gone inactive, but i finally logged in after months and when i checked our messages there was that yellow exclamation mark disclaimer that i can't view their profile, badges, or about me. i even sent a friend request just to be sure, and it said it couldn't go through. i can't react to my messages or theirs either, it just disappears immediately. so yeah, all signs point to them blocking me.
they probably did it months ago, back when i assumed they just weren't active, which makes me feel a little embarrassed for only noticing now. i'm trying not to let it hurt my feelings, but it does, even though it was probably for the best for both of us. i don't think we were ever the same after they came into my dms with a policing attitude a couple years ago over something i had rtd.
idk, it's just really mortifying to be upfront that i think i'm so deprived of connections with anyone outside of my family( who regularly hurt me) that i keep embarrassing myself by pathetically hoping someone who was clearly done with me, and who hadn't really cherished our friendship even a year before this, would still have semi-good feelings toward me. or at least not block me. but that's their right, like my siblings would say.
but there are also two sides to every “argument,” and i’m sure i’m not blameless in their story. i know i can be too needy and talk too much about my own problems, and like they said, i gave them stress. and i probably wasn’t the best person to talk to when my dad’s health started declining in 2023. i can recognize that it changed me and made me harder to be around, so now that he’s gone, it’s probably for the better that they don’t talk to me anymore.
i think what really gets me is that it feels like the end of an era. we originally started talking when i ran a bts instagram acc, back when i was still in high school, back when i had my own home and my grandpa, dog, and dad were still alive. everything from that time in my life has come to an end. even internet friends.
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threesentenceficathon has started! The first post is here. artistic
Caleb’s flesh carries callus and scar and blemish, but Nahla had kissed over every single tarnish, had worshiped him whole; she’s trying to make her penance.
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