cybre!pamela 🌺 @pmosetc@cybre.space

New Instance, newly-edited #introductions post:

Hi, I'm Pamela! I live by a great lake (well, it's alright). I really love animals and have a pet turtle and cats. I like to learn new things and work with my hands. I like ecology, #STEM, #gameing, #openbsd, books and nature, and I enjoy painting but don't spend enough time doing it.

I have #agoraphobia and write about that pretty regularly, now, as well as my experiences with microwork.

no, self, I know you're out of business cards but you cannot put "hot mess" or "joykiller" or "history's greatest monster" on the new ones

... unless you illustrate them to match, because you're a fucking artist

I hate black and white photography. Utterly despite it.

There, I said it.

Although I quite like the nighttime photography which is mostly greys. 🤔 But when you actually remove the color entirely, it feels like I've lost a whole sense.

at home, chilling out, thinking "man I wish I were half as adorable as this smug little fucker" while taking pictures of my pet turtle 🐢 then greedily hoarding all the photos for myself

I'm not sure I've ever actually had a watercolor set that's properly transparent, actually. 36 half pans and only 5 even showed up on the black lines I drew. The other set, they *all* do. Every single shade. :P I mean, looking at this, I see why my CC-0 watercolor background project failed so utterly...

Anyway. So excite.

I am spoiled roooootten right now

My new Really Nice watercolor palette came in the mail today, a gift.

I have decent but stretched/chalky existing set, just a tiny kit. Not beginner, but ... starving artist-level professional. Cheap. And it's got some life left in it. I also had some unbelievably bad watercolor paper, and I was like "okay, you two can go down in flames together, let's make something big!" and ...

I couldn't. I didn't want to use the old. Not even to use it up. I will, ofc.. later. ♻️

Stability and ties to the outside world... consistent social contact, events which mark the passage of time, traditions, that sort of thing... these are immense luxuries we perhaps don't celebrate like we should.

just started freaking out because my face is peeling 😨

you know, two days after using something called a "peel" 🙄

my skin looks soooo much better tho
so
so much better

what fresh hell is this

Actually, it's weird fine art paintbrushes are all little spindly sticks? That seems like such a holdover from paints where stroke mattered much more. I do a lot more tracing a path and filling it in these days, dragging the paint where I want it. That could easily be done with something I could grip with my whole hand, or multiple fingers, or ... oh I just invented oil pastels again 🤔

Super in love with The Ordinary's super-affordable chemical peel. My skin is more irritated by the CosRx 7% glycolic acid I usually use than this full peel at 30%, thanks to the clever formula.

Plus, it's red and dries on your face looking like you're about to star in Attack on Titan. 👍

/me carefully nopes out of the news and *starts her tower*

I might be too cute to be out for ramen tonight. 🤔 I should be dancing.

Kurt just tried to tell me nice girls don't explode, and asked me whether I'd tried an honest debate with the explosives. 🤔

(now that I think about it, I also do think he should be attending anyone's baseball games, or any child-focused events)

(but the point remains that living in a fake world got him here, and maybe.... maybe someday living in the real one will bring him back)

It took me a year but I finally got one of the alt-right people I know kicked off twitter.

(It was not all the pictures of Jewish torture victims. Twitter had no problems leaving those up).

When you *know* someone it's like... that deplatforming matters. It's not just so they stop spreading the filth. It's the hope they'll stop seeing it. That they'll take up watching star trek reruns and get a hint. That they'll go to their kid's baseball games.

We needed soap and I wanted some makeup/skin things and it took me... like three days and ultimately the urging of *two* people to convince myself it was okay to buy things for myself with the order. 🙄

My head's just in a weird space about enjoying stuff. At least it'll be a pretty head, soon, look at those interesting colors! I've never tried anything like some of these.

we might need this; I want to know what "naval supremacy" smells like

🤔 the straights are ... kind of hilariously alright?

https://www.ulta.com/brand/duke-cannon-supply-co

This provided perhaps my most interesting menu-reading experience but did not help me determine whether Taco Bell offers root beer (it does)

https://www.tacobell.com/food/drinks/fountain-drink

I refuse to believe there are home cooks who make asparagus so often that an asparagus pot is a worthwhile investment.

That might be because I always roast mine, but I nonetheless refuse.

Maybe asparagus farmers.