Sarah Aigei @shietka@mastodon.social

Hey. Sarah here. Figured since so many other people I like joined this, I guess I should as well. We'll see how much I actually use it. You can also find me on Twitter and Tumblr. My username is the same there. #introductions
Oh, I guess I should mention a few things about myself. Okay, um, I'm queer. I kinda dabble with various art things, mainly writing. I have way too many interests, but I'm mainly into video games and comics.

Maybe I should have made those private. Oh well.

...getting a little personal here.

So a few weeks ago my mom suggested I sign up for an art class. Today was the first one. It started out fine, but soon the instructor asked us to try drawing a bust. And I couldn't even start. I had no idea what to do. I was completely stuck. And I couldn't do anything about it and... well, it didn't work out. I left early. And now I'm kinda disappointed and frustrated and doubting whether even starting drawing again was worth it.

I regretted that, but I didn't do anything about it. But a couple years ago, some stuff happened that made me look at what I was doing with my life and what I wanted to change. And one thing I wanted was to get drawing again (and also do other kinds of art, but that's another story). So, with a little encouragement from a friend, I did. And despite being so out of practice, I found I was able to draw some decent stuff. Still, sometimes it was hard, and harder was keeping on it. >>

Ready for a story?
I loved to draw when I was a kid. Did it all the time. It was the thing people talked about me doing, "So-and-so draws." I was kinda good. Not great, but pretty good. But as I got older my ability to analyze art outpaced my ability to create. I didn't like that I wasn't better. And my perfectionism demanded way too much from me. Plus I was dealing with school becoming harder. Life got busy, I drew less and less. Eventually I stopped drawing at all.

Whew. Up and down and up and down. That's my life this month. Today started great, took a sharp turn towards miserable in the late afternoon, but now things seem okay? and I'm looking forward to tomorrow? hopefully?

Haven't posted here in over a week, but whatever. This is a pretty busy and exciting month for me. There's Pride and my birthday and going shopping and new activities and cool stuff happening at work. Lotta stuff, very exciting, kinda stressful at times, but mostly good.

hmmmmmm....
that one's kinda the best one to share. not sure what else to post. most of the other stuff is just ideas and stuff, not actual written passages. the few other written parts I have are either boring or require to much context to be interesting.
.....
I gotta have *something* I can post. I've got at least a dozen stories bouncing around in my head, there must be something!

#storyfragment
“Mr. 2/5 Kay, at your service.” He bowed.
“Two fifths? What the hell does that mean?”
“You are curious, eh? You find it strange? You wonder if it means something significant?” He leaned in close. He got so close I had to retreat a little. “Good. Curiosity will serve you well on your adventures.”
“You didn't answer my question.”
“And I don't intend to. It's not germane. You are here for other reasons.”

might post some story ideas or fragments. I'm still a long ways off from having anything complete to post, but I do have some interesting tidbits from stories I've been working on. it's something.

on Twitter, I was recently pondering strategies to get myself posting more often. some of that could also apply here.

hello
still not using this account enough.
though that has less to do with this being mastodon and more to do with me just being really inhibited and shy and hesitant and stuff in general.
but I'm gonna try.

Playing Kirby and the Rainbow Curse, and I love the descriptions for the monsters. These are priceless 😆

Steven Universe is just *such* a good show.

The first episode was interesting too, even if it doesn't have the huge ramifications of the second. Lapis is a fascinating character, her inner conflict is compelling. And the way Steven handled things—awkward, sometimes good, sometimes bad—was so real. There was a messiness to the whole thing that isn't common in fiction, but so true to real life.

The episode that really came to mind was the Bismuth one. Rose's actions with Bismuth make a lot more sense now. Of course she wouldn't want to shatter the other diamonds. And hell, she might have been worried how Bismuth might react to her secret.
Also, it's like, in view of this, "Hey Steven, your mom isn't a hypocrite, she's just a liar." :P

Wow. Watched the new episodes and... well, it's a lot. The reveal about Rose Quartz kinda put a lot of old episodes in new context. Like, no wonder Pearl was surprised that Rose kept secrets from her, considering she was privy to the biggest secret of all. And this kinda casts Pearl's relationship with Rose in general in new (and somewhat uncomfortable ways).

wishing I was writing

thinking about writing