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Melissa Wong

@favomancer.bsky.social

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Costume technician and tabletop gaming writer (Cyberpunk: Red, Curseborne). She/They, queer, American-Chinese. My opinions here are my own, and do not reflect those of any companies I have written for.

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Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · Sep 14

Hi, folks. I see Faine Greenwood reskeeted my cheese mite monk drabble. If you're new to this bluesky account note that I have a weirdass sense of humor and consider male pregnancy a valid way to solve demographic mathematical issues in grimdark settings where developers don't do maths properly.

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Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 3h

I'm going to use yarn leftover from the baby sets to make scarves, hats, and mitts for unhoused folks who need them, those will go to a local outreach ministry.

Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 3h

Obviously I'm not asking anyone to do the looking for me; I'll look it up myself. :p

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Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 3h

I'm gearing up to make soft receiving blankets and hats to donate to a hospital... and now I'm wondering if there's a local org with non-odious politics I can make layette sets for. Baby projects are great, they're small even for the biggest toddlers so I can knit'em fast for instant gratification.

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Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 6h

I adore trilobites. I like to imagine what they might have looked like moving around when they were alive. I admire their intricacy and their adorable strangeness and their compact forms.

(I am a bit of a strange one, yes.)

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Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 6h

Congratulations!

Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 7h

I haven't left the house except for work and medical stuff because I'm terrified of being grabbed by ICE (I'm a citizen, I'm just not white and I have severe anxiety) and recent blood tests indicate my Vitamin D is devastatingly low. they prescribed MASSIVE VitD pills once a week.

Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 7h

Well if you still have some in a month when I get paid from my new job I'll buy some!

Just the hospitals don't often get access to a me-level knitter/stitcher, they're already talking about using my costume skills for NICU halloween smocks for the littlest littles.

Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 8h

That marling on the orange yarn is absolutely GORGEOUS in contrast to the rest of it. Unfortunately my fall is going to be tied up in hospital donations so it's going to be acrylics for me for a bit.

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Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 17h

ASSASSIN CATS.

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Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 17h

Give your eyes a rest, please, those cobbles make me worry. And your drawing hand. Say hi to your many wonderful pets for me.

Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 17h

I like watching or re-watching things like Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat. Or Somebody Feed Phil.

Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 22h

What adorable little deep-sea creatures!

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René Campbell @renecampbellart.bsky.social · 1d

How the blue swimmer crab painting looks currently overlaid on top of the lineart from back in 2022

Have to remind myself to keep chipping away when this painting moves at a glacial pace 🦀

Acrylic on wooden panel

#sciart ##acrylicpainting #crab

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Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 1d

Go crabby go crabby go, go go!

Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 1d

The only race science I want to hear about is the kind that involves learning about how fast someone or something can run.

(Go turtles go!)

Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 1d

Ohhh, but it is SO hard to manage in some cases. Mine developed post-COVID and accelerated so rapidly that it was odd. Oddly resistant to insulin, too, in the end I had to get on Mounjaro to see any results.

Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 1d

I swear it's the damndest thing but I think my pet leopard gecko Poundcake likes watching me knit. She'll hang out and watch me click the needles, and when I stop she gives me a little head tilt like "come on, go on?"

Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 1d

Many happy returns of the day!

Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 1d

You can just also hold a few together in a bunch and pound them, it's to crush the cell walls and release the oils for fragrance.

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Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 1d

oh oh tip: dried up old lemongrass, keep it in a separate storage bag in the freezer.

When you're grilling something that would agree with the taste, take it out, cut the root end off, pound that end until it becomes brushy and use it to brush oil on. It'll perfume the oil.

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Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 2d

It really was not pleasant.

Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 2d

And I'm sure you can also have horf trample them if they try to show up in person. >.>

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’

Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...

www.volkskrant.nl

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Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 2d

That was a real moment for me. I got an A in that part of the exam, but I also learned to see and appreciate the beauty of crustaceans.

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Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 2d

I had an O-level in art and the damndest thing is I was taking the exam in Singapore and Cambridge decided the best subject for my O-level still life was raw crab. In a tropical classroom.

Multiple students asked the invigilator if they had to draw the stuff oozing out of the rapidly rotting crab.