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The Midnight Baker Who Bakes at Midnight. She/her (they/m in a pinch), religion: cake. Baked devotionals and other offbeat stuff at feraltomatoes.com. No worries, my existence infuriates me too.
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Okay, this is my newest very very favorite meme.

submitted 13 hours ago • 125 comments

PSA: if you have any sort of surgery and later break out in a rash limited to the general area involved, do not simply figure "oh, contact dermatitis, nothing to panic over." Go to whatever medic you have to and get something for it if you can. You will really want to sleep eventually.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Masquerade 1.7: www.tumblr.com/alenxa/77850... Also at feraltomatoes.com/masquerade-1... (yes this not my best work, and the pic is sort of out of order to boot. with what I've been doing lately, it's a minor miracle I'm posting at all. in other news, some installments may be delayed soon.)

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Masquerade 1.6: www.tumblr.com/alenxa/77823... Also at feraltomatoes.com/masquerade-1... (I am inordinately proud of this illustration and really really hated putting words over it.)

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Dear brain: a dream about Garak, Bashir, and O'Brien in a holosuite is incompatible with the concept of "pelvic rest."

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Last ride out at Jo-Ann. Found Moiraine satin and Agatha(ish) suiting, some superwash merino that could work for any of us, and yarn in a neon green called "slime." And now I'm depressed.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Masquerade 1.5: www.tumblr.com/alenxa/77787... Also at: feraltomatoes.com/masquerade-1... (I'm aware this layout is slightly cruddy, but I really didn't want to recolor any of the text)

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

TIL* if you are middle aged+ and acquire a new large visual floater that can be seen with your eyes closed, with or without little movement-linked flashes of light, most likely it's the vitreous detaching and you should see an ophthalmologist, not go to the ER. (*actually Monday)

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Wait wait wait you mean my character's been around longer than this name-stealing dingleberry has been making my brain hurt? OH HELL YEAH IT IS ON.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

In other news, I will be unreachable from 30 Sep through approximately 2 Oct this year. As usual, I will announce my re-emergence into the world at large with my traditional scream of WHAT THE FUCK.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

The whole thread is worth it, but half the crux is here, and lines up with what I've been imparting to the dude since he developed reasoning skills. Hopefully it's stuck with him.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Masquerade 1.4: www.tumblr.com/alenxa/77759... Also at: feraltomatoes.com/masquerade-1... (I discovered I like the effect of colorizing these like old photos. I won't be doing it with all of them though.)

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Backed myself into a corner with the illustrations, had to draw my character and I DREW MY FREAKING SISTER

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Masquerade 1.3: www.tumblr.com/alenxa/77722... Also at feraltomatoes.com/masquerade-1... (the coloration of the background image is directly inspired by the color of the sky during wildfires. which is great for everything except readability.)

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

It is...really weird to be the parent of an 8th grader rn. "So *this* is a power constitutionally given to Congress, meaning the President can't do it. And *this* is specifically prohibited except in the cases named here, so watch politicians' language to see if they're gonna try it."

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Masquerade 1.2: www.tumblr.com/alenxa/77693... Also at: feraltomatoes.com/masquerade-1... (I really did forget how annoying crossposting is in this linear existence)

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

We've been watching TNG from the beginning (skipping Farpoint for reasons) at the dude's request. When we hit "Hide and Q," and people started quoting the Scottish play, I was reminded of this piece for about the millionth time in recent memory. So here you go, from almost a year ago.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Seeing a lot of reminders to pencil in and actually TAKE rest (many you-yes-YOU type phrasings) and I think a lot of the need to be reminded in the first place is that many folks have already been on diets of action that include rest and have failed.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

That thing I said I was doing? First page is UP! www.tumblr.com/alenxa/77666... Text also available at feraltomatoes.com/masquerade-1... in case the full alt text doesn't come through. I hope to post twice a week; maybe by the time I run out of text I'll know how to finish the whole thing!

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Just ugh that you have to turn on restrictions to access this. Wondering how much it got of the stuff I put on here before the update. Now I need to know if other profiles on the same device start needing to be neutered when the updated OS is first run, or when the profile is first loaded afterward.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

So far with Krita: - chunks from lower right corner of image disappear randomly but are actually still there - "sharpen" filter worked once and then not again on the rest of the same batch of similar images - clone tool is my hero - anxiously awaiting update of text features bc WTAF

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

We were literally just comparing them to this guy who managed to jump onto the stage at an Alanis Morissette concert we went to. He did a victory pose and then just sort of stood there while all the musicians ignored him, and then security hustled him offstage. ...Don't I wish.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

I was gonna say something snarky yesterday about the IEP I attended but honestly it was refreshing being in a shitshow I could do something about

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Missing from the latest "voting with dollars" discussion is the ability to see an impact, often faster than with a governing body. And with larger action driving larger impact, seeing that change is possible and may strongly favor true progress.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment