foxesinlove

Grandparents

Volunteering for house/yard work is a good way to get on someone's good side from the start.

Pizza tricks

Based on a true situation, though I didn't do that on purpose. I was just talking to the door next to him because besides being too tired to fix something to eat, I was probably too tired to be having a conversation.

Camping trials

We've yet to fully go out camping yet, but we've made two tries to put up a tent, and slept overnight in the one we're planning to use! Here's a picture of the first try - not the tent we slept in, but our first try. I did sleep on the downhill side in the overnight tent, and it did not get too hot to cuddle!

Happy tears

I don't know how to cry from being sad. I just don't, but I can cry tears of joy quite well. On our first date, I can't recall what we were talking about but I think I warned him that I do that sometimes. I brought up an example that had happened earlier that day - I had started thinking about statues of dogs. About how sweet that is that people will want to express love in the ways that they want to do it, it doesn't make a difference if the one being loved can't see it. And people love by t...

Laundry

For the longest time, I only bought 60 degree clothing so I'd never have to sort laundry.

Luxury Camping Gear

We've been watching a bunch of camping gear videos recently, just to bw fascinated by the strange gimmicky things some people bring along. Who packs raw meat to a camping trip, how would you refrigerate it? Who brings a mobile fridge when they go backpacking?

The wait room

Drawing baby foxes is fun. The one at our car inspection wasn't worn as a hat, though, but was in a carriage. Their car passed the inspection, our old van didn't.

The dinosaur

As I started drawing this, the sandbox dinosaur had been gone for a few days, but it had appeared again the next time we walked past the playground. I guess she lives there now.

Careers

Not a duck, but I did draw a drunken rhino throwing up on someone's toga. The lioness on the forefround - the heroine of A Friend of Caesar, Cornelia, is narrating. She hates the place she's at.

The houseplant

And there is our little trooper with the cool pattern, who's doing its best despite of our care!

Communication

The importance of communication is one of those things that gets repeated over and over again so much that it's almost annoying that it's actually true - you can't always tell the difference between a casual request and someone asking about something really important.

Temperature indicators

We are approaching "too hot to cuddle" weather :c

Beauty in the world

You gotta remember to look at the things around you sometimes. It won't do any good to live in a beautiful world if you don't sometimes pause to see it.

Working memory

My memory is like my hands: I can only hold so many things in my mind at the same time before I need to put something down. And once I put something down, no matter how visibly it is in my line of sight, there's no guarantee I'll see it or remember to pick it back up again.

Mother's day

I don't know how many countries celebrate it today, but it's mother's day!

Anglerfish Romance

I can and will romanticise weird animals' bizarre mating habits, and nobody can stop me.

Getting up in the morning

I genuinely don't know why else I do it. And I hoard both blankets on his side, so in the evening the 10 kg weighed blanket has to be pushed back to my own side.

Compliments

In hindsight, there's a 95% chance that thanks to my adult acne, I just have at least one of those at all times.

The hardest time of the year

I'm still not used to the concept that he'll really just sniffle because of the allergies and I don't need to go check that he isn't crying.

Cuddle melting

We are rapidly approaching "it's too hot to cuddle"-season.

The mechanics of figuring out mechanics

My partner is strongly a rule-follower who requires instructions, and I am an improviser who prefers to figure things out intuitively. A good, well-designed piece of user-friendly technology is one that caters to both types of users - intuitive to use for the intuitive users, and also comes with a comprehensive manual for the instruction-based users. Our managing styles are essentially a venn-diagram, where the things you need to know how to do and use are squarely in the middle. That covers ...

Happy May Day!

The first of may is a national holiday in Finland - people here celebrate on the day before, it's as close to a carnival as Finland gets. This is for pragmatic reasons: you can spend the day itself off work, nursing the hangover.

Decompression Box

I tried out a sensory deprivation tank for the first time this week! I'm trying to think of if I could make visiting one some kind of a regular monthly thing, nothing has helped so well to being stressed like it did. The finnish word for sensory stimulus is the same as the word for "irritant", so while the pun doesn't translate to english, I'm definitely glad to discover that there's a way to get a break from everything when all possible stimuli becomes irritating.

Doing something constructive

(the shelf is still not quite filled up)

Signs of spring

I know I make this joke every year, but it does happen every single year.

Fitness program

Just started one this week! Doing MilQuest 10 week program, so far so good!

Potato planting

It's springtime!

Behind the scenes: How I sketch comic panels!

Despite of working on it full time now, I don't usually update all that much about A Friend of Caesar here (album one should be getting under works this spring!), but today I managed to get a good example picture of how I sketch my panels:

Usually I first make a rough sketch of each panel digitally, as being able to re-size, zoom in, mirror, flip over and completely redo the whole composition is much easier as it would be on paper. I then use my laptop as a light table and gently trace ...

Single-cell Organisms

For the sake of clarity: my brain cells aren't similar to single-cell organisms due to having any semblance to an awareness of their surroundings (which they do not have). They're single-cell organisms in the sense that they all move around independently, are entirely unorganised, and occasionally eat each other when I'm not looking.

Public Displays of Affection

I know he doesn't like being kissed in public. Unfortunately I have a 30 second memory and I like kissing everywhere. It is an ongoing struggle.