and time yet for a hundred indecisions

plenilune:

hello, internet! here’s the deal: I live in a dreary little town with few opportunities and an overwhelming cultural air of apathy, and am currently climbing out of years of built-up clinical depression. my goal this summer is to save a great deal of money and finally move out on my own. (terrifying, amirite?) one of the things I am doing to earn this money is record music. (I have an album coming out at some point, featuring songs about various fandoms, subway faeries, and the joys of drinking alone, among other things, which I need a little more funds to be able to record and distribute. more on that later.) (another thing I am doing is running an eBay shop.) I play a few open mics in town and have a block party gig next month, which is pretty exciting, but at the moment I really need financial support, especially until my tax refund gets here. (for one thing, my eBay payments don’t clear for over two weeks after they’re paid. I made a bunch of money on eBay this week and won’t be able to access it until the end of the month.)

so: I could use a little money in my pocket, both right now and over the course of the summer. I don’t like asking for money straight up, though, which is why I prefer to create goods someone might want to purchase. I have written songs about Doctor Who, Dollhouse, Being Human, and Echo Bazaar, an entire album of traditional ballads about vampires, and have covered everything from Amanda Palmer to Bob Dylan to Anastasia to John Donne. I’m also offering myself up for performances — parties, weddings, geeky festivities, you name it — to anyone in the Pittsburgh region willing to pay and negotiate re. transportation. and, hey, I won’t rule out commissions! got a song you want to exist but you’re not a songwriter or musician? need a closing song for your student film? we can talk about it!

(I also make graphics! if you need a website header or a promotional poster or something of the like, I’m here. but I digress.)

anyway. help a geek girl out?

love and gratitude,
Jo

Go give her stuff a listen, kids. You won’t be disappointed.

plenilune:

xionthepuppet | healingxflower | nuclearcarrots:

anyone who says “just internet friends” is a fucking douche okay

my internet friends have wiped my tears dozens more times than my “real life friends”

Any friendship, on line or not, is still a bond, no? Whether you be a mile away, or a thousand miles away—it’s still a friendship. Something brings us all together; a string of fate, if you will? We’re friends. I love mine. No matter where they are on this planet. And I don’t see the difference than living ten minutes away or eighteen hours away. Friendship is friendship.

A number of reputable psychologists and sociologists seem to agree with the populace that claims internet friendships are just as strong and healthy as the face-to-face ones. Here are just a few quotes obtained from a scholastic library of essays written by said psychologists and sociologists. 

“Many friendships have been formed online. A national survey of adolescent Internet users in the United States reported that more than half of the sample conversed with people whom they did not know face-to-face through various online communication channels such as chat rooms and email. Twenty-five percent of the adolescents developed casual online friendships, and 14% of them had developed close online friendships.” 

“We propose that those who feel that they can better express their true selves
on the Internet than they can in their non-Internet areas of life will be more likely
to form close relationships with those they meet on-line.”

“…not only do UK housewives spend more of their downtime online than anyone else in the whole wide world, but also that – shock, horror – people are increasingly open to turning “online” friends into people they’d deign to call real life friends.”

“However, it may be hard to find others who share one’s interests in one’s local area, and when people get to know one another in the traditional manner, it generally takes time to establish whether they have commonalities and to what extent. But when someone joins a newsgroup devoted to, for example, aging ferrets, he or she already knows that there is a shared base of interest with the others there.”

 “Some researchers argue that people can develop close online relationships because the Internet enables individuals to pass through obstacles that may prevent potentially rewarding relationships from developing through face-to-face interaction.”

“Depending on the root of the friendship, on where the conversation started, the benefit is clear – you cut out the tedium of small talk. What could be better? There’s no trying to slowly work out whether you think similarly or have the same kinds of life experience, or whether you really do have enough in common to sustain the friendship – all that is done by the time you meet because you’ve read their comments or their emails or their blog. “

So, tl;dr?

Anyone who would dare talk down on close, internet relationships is ignorant. 

plenilune:

Kyra, this is for you.

:D :D :D BEST.

plenilune:

letter-box-wind:

In computer art we had to create an original logo, so I made one for the spur of the moment band name Sarah, Jo and me created to use while playing at the coffee shop together. 

OMG HANNAH YOU ARE THE BEST. THIS IS GORGEOUS. :D

THIS IS SO FANTASTIC. I DEMAND YOU GET BACK TOGETHER AND PRODUCE SOMETHING JUST SO YOU CAN USE THIS LOGO.

the-night-and-the-storm:

risk-of-being-free:

plenilune:

oh look it is me and some of my favourite people.

we are going to take california by storm this summer.

I notice that you chose to screencap a moment when you were smiling alluringly into the camera with your face tilted just so, whilst the rest of us are looking slightly askance. It’s as though you said something oddly outrageous (well, outrageous for us) and we all paused in confusion whilst you cackled.

Except me who is a microphone apparently. Guess my secret is out

I knew you were actually a cyborg!

teevil:

Diggory’s Favorite Shirt by spacemonkeydr on sale Sun 01/22/12 at teefury.com

WHERE MY HUFFLEPUFFS AT

Seriously, kids, you’re probably never going to see a cheaper House shirt. If you’re a Hufflepuff and proud of it (and you should be—Hufflepuffs are awesome, despite what some stupid people say), and you can pull off this color, BUY IT. Teefury is definitely one of the better shirt sites, especially since you can be fairly confident the sizing for women’s shirts is true to whatever you’re used to (I have to buy a medium at Woot and usually Threadless, and a medium or large at RIPT, but I still get small at Teefury).

plenilune:

Tracklisting for my vampire ballads EP, Black Is The Colour Of My True Love’s Heart. I wish I could do this all day.

HEY AND BY THE WAY IF ANY OF YOU DON’T HAVE THIS AND YOU HAVE ANY INTEREST WHATSOEVER IN VAMPIRES AND/OR FOLKLORE AND ALSO GOOD MUSIC, YOU NEED TO BUY IT. YESTERDAY. Also Jo really really really needs to post the lyrics to these on Bandcamp because they are really awesome reinterpretations of the original ballads and I want to read them. Badly.

#someone should make sarah this dress because she would be such a great yvaine

Yessssss. The first time I really saw Sarah—pictures from the wedding, because I didn’t really properly get to meet her when I was in Dubois—I was like “Wow, she looks really familiar, she’s really reminding me of—oh okay, she’s the spitting image of Yvaine. Like. Wow.” So yes, since then I have felt quite firmly that Sarah should cosplay Yvaine at some point, on account of perfect. (To be fair, your Starbuck was incredibly awesome and perfect too.)

(Source: in-the-middle-of-a-daydream)

The nice thing is that this is basically what I do when I hang out with my friends. >_<

(Source: matturday)