5 things: my fashion, how online am I, sensory processing, bedroom ceiling painting, short stories

[sophia_sol]

one

one of the things I've been figuring out about how I want to dress these days is that it's valuable to look back on the kinds of clothes/outfits I admired when I was a kid but didn't know how to achieve at the time

so that includes things I'm achieving or attempting to various degrees like:

- layers
- lace up boots
- fun colours
- themed patterns à la ms frizzle
- fancy
- being matchy with colours to tie everything together
- hats
- things I make for myself

and implies I should also be seriously considering things like:

- lace embellishments
- suspenders
- bowties and other non-standard neckwear
- capes or cloaks
- sparkly
- drapey fabrics
- dramatic sleeves
- pocketwatch on a fancy chain


two

I was completing a survey recently and it asked what social media sites you spend time on. all the ones it listed are ones I don't go on, and there was no "other" option.

making me come across as a super offline person there, survey!! not accurately capturing the vibe!


three

sometimes I reflect on how amazing it is that it took me so many years of my life to learn I have sensory processing issues

but then I never had any experience of other ways to be, to compare to!


four

scrolling through my list of potential hobby things to work on* and omg I forgot I had that idea about painting my bedroom ceiling midnight blue with gold stars on it! that would look so rad. SOMEDAY.

* I have a written list bc otherwise I'd forget what my options even are. I have so many!


five

the other evening I read (or skimmed, or dnf'd) TWENTY-SIX professionally published short stories/novelettes in order to find one story that's good enough to rec publicly

WHEW

my service to the world....

and I have 62 more waiting for me rn in my rss queue. my work is ongoing!

Comments

[luzula]

Re one: I suppose in that case I would be wearing Cool Medieval-ish clothes. *g*

[sophia_sol]

I am running my "things I wanted to wear as a kid" through my "and also still like today" filter. Like I loooooved skirts and dresses but because of how that makes people perceive my gender today, I don't enjoy wearing them anymore. but if wearing cool medieval-ish clothes would still bring you joy then you should do it!

[silverflight8]

Short story for me is kind of profoundly unsatisfying - if it's good I wish it were novel length, if it's bad I just think why does this exist? And 90% fall into the second category. I have decided short stories are not for me.

With one exception - I do like fic. Which are mostly short story. I think it's because it's adding to, not being the bulk of, a work.

[sophia_sol]

ah very fair! For me personally, I admire and enjoy the different kinds of stories and ways of storytelling that work at a variety of different lengths...but I do admit that flashfiction almost never works for me. There needs to be more there to actually develop things for me to care about!

[geraineon]

I was completing a survey recently and it asked what social media sites you spend time on. all the ones it listed are ones I don't go on, and there was no "other" option.

as a person who works with surveys every day for work... I just wanna talk to these people who created the survey

(though tbh, maybe they only want to know how much time you spend on these sites, and not whether you spend any time on social media at all)

[sophia_sol]

given the context of the other things the survey was asking, I think it was a marketing survey...so my guess is that it only cared about what social media platforms it might be worthwhile for them to advertise on. mastodon wouldn't be relevant to them, lol

but there are many surveys out there where I want to talk to the creators, and I don't even work with surveys for my job! how are SO many people so bad at survey design?

[geraineon]

how are SO many people so bad at survey design?

The joke answer: so people like me can stay employed XD

Survey design is a whole thing! (not that I am great at it, but yeah, people can be very, very bad at thinking through their questions).

[chestnut_pod]

26? Wow, thank you for your service!

Your list of fashion traits is absolutely wonderful. Capes and cloaks!

[sophia_sol]

there are SO MANY bad stories in this world! that get professionally published and everything!!! it's amazing. but if I want to read the good short stories, someone has to do the work, and I clearly can't trust the editors and publishers :P

Your list of fashion traits is absolutely wonderful. Capes and cloaks!

why thank you!!!! it's an ongoing effort, to become more and more the Weird Fashion icon I have always longed to be! (if you're interested, I have a private mastodon account where I post regular outfit photos, and I'd be happy to add you to it if you're on mastodon at all!)

[chestnut_pod]

Alas, I am exactly as social media'd up as I am capable of being, but I am so glad your awesome outfit Mastodon exists!

[sophia_sol]

that's very fair! there's so much social media out there and it's exhausting..... mastodon has become my main social hub, plus dw of course, and I've mostly disengaged from everything else. I've still got a toe in tumblr, but I don't even go to twitter anymore to check up on anything.