-
Vaccinations also rising
https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations
Nice to see the vaccination graph still going upwards. If that's accurate the UK is 4.5% vaccinated, rising at about 5% per month. (?) I hope we can ramp up further (we ideally need to get to like 170% or something) but that's a good start!
I know it's not meaningful but it feels nice to have numbers of ( Read more... ) -
Infections falling, deaths still rising
First good news, it looks like number of infections in UK (and London) have JUST started to fall. If so (and it's very early to be sure), that's some evidence lockdown #3 is working. I was genuinely scared it wasn't enough.
And genuinely scared that if it wasn't enough, the government would continue to double down on blaming people for exercising ( Read more... ) -
Perseus Jackson vs Wolfy McWolface
I can't figure out why I'm more annoyed with the Percy Jackson characters not figuring out who "Perseus Jackson"'s father is, but not with the Harry Potter characters for not figuring out that the werewolf was "Wolfy McWolface"
( Read more... ) -
Birthday Party tomorrow (all online!)
Birthday party tomorrow (Sat) evening (c.f. https://jack.dreamwidth.org/1128589.html)
There are a variety of 'rooms' present as zoom breakout rooms, discord channels, and pages in a google sheet.
Zoom link: [see locked post] (online from this evening)
Discord link: [see locked post] (feel free to comment now)
Sheets link: [see locked post] (feel free ( Read more... ) -
Interests
I never filled out the interests section of my profile, but if you want to ask me what I think about three tags that I used, please do? :) https://jack.dreamwidth.org/tag/ You can also comment at https://jack.dreamwidth.org/1128883.html using OpenID.
( Read more... ) -
Birthday Party online Sat 9th Jan
It's my birthday next weekend, please come to my online party!
There will be a mix of different "rooms" in video chat, text chat, and possibly some sort of retro MMPORG designed for a mix of gentle chat, drinks, dressing up, games, as you feel like. I haven't tried this before so I hope it works well! I'll start about 7:30 and go for a few hours, ( Read more... ) -
10 things in 2020 (things 6-10)
6. I tried out digital drawing for Drawtober, mostly using Krita (open source paint program), and did one drawing a day during the month. You should be able to see them on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10103380935724870&type=3 but ask me for a better link if you'd like.
I also wrote fanfic for the yuletide fanfic exchange (see ( Read more... ) -
Ten things in 2020
What happened in 2020? Well, eliding a bunch of pandemic stuff I could swear about for tens of thousands of words:
1. We had dinner at Midsummer House for our anniversary. We'd never been sure if it was quite worth it for vegetarians, but when we did it was very very very nice.
Also we got ourselves a breadmaker, which has been extremely useful all ( Read more... ) -
Fanfic I wrote for Yuletide!
Time for author reveals!
I wrote: Interview with a University Snake Wrangler, expanding Snake Fight Portion of Your Thesis Defence into a student newspaper interview. The comments were very enthusiastic about it: https://archiveofourown.org/works/28297368
But that was just a treat, my main story was hase Wasps in the Library for Naomi Novik's ( Read more... ) -
Cherry Blossom and Leather Chair Art
Cherry Blossom portrait!
I really love how this one turned out, I'm proud of it. The layered leaf effects on the tree look amazing. I like the background too, although I wish I could get it as realistic as the tree with a similar amount of stylisation.
Leather chair
I like the style, I aimed for something I could use for a ( Read more... )