tags I use:

"it's the holiday season" for christmas and winter holiday stuff

"church tag" for church stuff (i'm an episcopalian in practice, and in actual held belief It's Complicated)

"Jellybean" for my current cat, a surprisingly sociable stray we lured indoors mid 2025

"fiber art" for what it says on the tag. It's my lifelong obsession

"Gwenpost" for my late cat family member of 18 years. she was 21 when she died in late 2024. I still miss her deeply.

I might use other tags but those are the ones I will try to use consistently. I invite you to please blacklist any of them if they are not your thing. I have full sympathy for anyone who never wants to see anything to do with christianity ever again so please use the tag blocking feature if you still want to follow me.

Other stuff about me

i'm nonbinary. if you're a terf/gc and you follow or message me I will block you. Same goes for most brands of bigots or any blog that creeps me out. bye bye

I am experiencing some level of pain most of the time. My life is overmedicalized by necessity so I won't go into it because there's just so much that it's tiresome to speak of. But sometimes I'll complain about it on here.

I'm usually making stuff with string but I'm bad about posting it. Feel free to bother me to see the fiber crafts I'm working on.

i've had an aversion to yogurt for like 20 years now, but it shows up in food pantry distributions frequently. This time it was four cases of fat free greek yogurt, with three different berry flavors. I decided to try one because they seemed appetizing and was surprised when it didn't activate my aversion response. Got about halfway through the cup before reading the ingredients, it has sucralose in it. That's probably why I wasn't averse to it, the sucralose killed off the l.acidophilus. unfortunately this means I will be sick later (sucralose turns my guts into a waterslide) and I should not partake heartily of the giant cube of tasty sweet protein now stacked in the fridge even though it is tasty and free. So, blessings and curses are mixed in the experience of being human.

Sometimes going to a food pantry distribution restores my faith in humanity, sometimes it does that and also surprises me with six pounds of sea salt caramels

we've got a cat furniture thing in the bedroom which is a cube with carpet inside and a plush white bed on top. We originally bought it for Gwen and she only ever went inside it, not on top. Jellybean now only ever goes on top of it, for the most part. We call it her bathtub because she'll go over there and after a few minutes we'll hear her start to make gross schlorping noises while she cleans herself

Good church this morning, got to sing one of my favorite songs (tomorrow shall be my dancing day) with the choir. Sermon was great, got incense waved at us and got splashed with holy water, that's fun. And got to talk to people at coffee hour for the first time in a few weeks, that was nice. The new dean is using bread from different parts of the world for the eucharist this month and this week it was naan. which happened to be garlic flavored. Washed down with plum wine from Japan. I like the new dean he seems the type to rustle things up a bit, have fun with it.

If you told me I'd be finding church fun and interesting and engaging a year ago I might have laughed at you. I still might laugh at you it's pretty ridiculous but I've been doing it all the same.

As is tradition whenever I take a few days off scrolling the dash, I've pruned my firefox tabs down enough that it doesn't show the infinity symbol anymore.

Reading tolkien: why does everyone have like fifteen names

Talking to my cat: Jellybean. Bellyjean jelly baby, beany baby. sillybean smellybean Baby bean you're so beany. You're so baby

Gonna take another break from scrolling the dash for a few days I think. No specific reason it just feels healthier when I do that, and it has become an option again since my arm is healing enough to do other activities