Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

@aradinfinity i should probably find one of such sites someday to post my own art on

it was just such a fucking chore every time i'd get a notification of "soandso fav'd your piece and added it to their gallery!" and you go "oh wow how nice! i'll take a look!" and then you see your meant-to-not-be-horny piece sitting there in a pile that, when taken as a whole, is obviously wank bank. because that's what i get when i dare to draw a woman i suppose. cue indignant gargling

@InspectorCaracal YEP EXACTLY... pyrrhic victory is a fucking great term for that

though of course it's more broad than this specific feeling, but we can probably use that as the base blocks after translating it into german, then we just stick on more and more because german is half language, half lego, and we'll eventually get there

@aradinfinity there's a fucking deluge of it and honestly it's why i stopped using the site almost entirely

there's only so many times a girl can see Luigi's Feet Stamping On A Plate Of Spaghetti While Princess Peach Is Being Fed To Blimp Sizes before she knows what's up. and i would be totally fine if they just admitted it's a fetish thing, ykinmkatok and all that, but way too many people were busy playing the "let's see how many people i can get to believe this is innocent" game

honestly though the loan word we need - again, probably from german - is "the sensation at looking at someone's interest - say, in their DeviantArt favourites - and knowing instantly that, despite the pictures being safe for work in technicality, this is absolutely somebody's wank bank material"

i may say let's just call it DeviantArt because it seems the website is a good 80% people doing the "i'm not touching you, i'm not touching you" approach to following the "no outright porn" rule

we need a word - probably loaned from german - for "the exhausted, pale shade of might-as-well-laugh-to-keep-from-crying feeling when you notice callouts naming someone as doing really ugly shit, and you had clocked this person as suspect or even blocked/muted them weeks ago, so you have a moment of going 'whelp, still got it, i guess'... to give yourself pause from the unrelenting misery of it all"

@twistylittlepassages@weirder.earth adding on to the "sincere thank you for putting this together" pile, because sincerely, thank you for putting this together

but i am better at sourcing Cute Shit, so i'm gonna try to make sure the boys get a fair shake this year too. dinosaurs i think are the way to go.

of course gendering toys is bullshit to begin with but i don't think i can make all the first graders listen to that in a full half hour lecture on halloween, and besides, it's all in the same bowl so if a boy wants a cute thing or a girl wants a dinosaur it all works out

(i suppose i could be seen to be making some sort of elaborate political statement here with not handing out candy but instead opting for small toys and the like, but really, it's not a childhood obesity thing or a healthy eating thing

it's an "i think a toy you can use more than once is more interesting than yet another candy bar" thing)

(last year i did a bunch of those squishy stress toys to give out and the kids went BONKERS)

the next year apparently there was at least one group where they'd come back after hearing our house talked up at school

then this past halloween that has become multiple groups excitedly flocking to our neighborhood *mainly for our house*, and one of them had gotten terrified that we'd moved after getting the address one off and just getting candy from our neighbors

i suppose i should actually explain about accidentally becoming The Best House On Halloween

so about three years back i realized we didn't have anything for halloween, no candy, and it was the day of so i just sort of panicked and went through stuff i'd gotten from KawaiiBox monthly boxes but wasn't particularly interested in

we usually don't get too many trick-or-treaters, but the few that came by LOVED IT

"but harp," you may be saying, "it is AUGUST."

yes but i accidentally made my parents' house, where i live, the number one stop for trick-or-treaters, and so i should put in my orders of little toys pretty early. i like to give stuff from china a full month to get here, and even more time if it's mission-critical and i may have to decide if something is working or not

so today's thoughts (besides I Can't Get The Got Dam Dead Battery Oot Me Computer Mouse) is

i should start preparing for halloween

very petty whinge before i go off to shower etc.:

i thought i had been so clever, building two sheds in stardew valley, so i can put more casks in to age wine BUT NO. casks only work in YOUR BASEMENT. and it only let me know this until after i had made and placed a bunch and was all "nope sorry can't put anything in these here"

GRUMBLE GRUMBLE.

i wish there was a 'break down' option in stardew valley so i could recoup the materials a little but oh well, i'll just make them keg and jam houses

ok my 10 dollar elite gaming mouse from amazon may be on its last legs

not because it's broken

but because i can't get the fucking battery out to change it