LightGetsIn
LightGetsIn
@lightgetsin.bsky.social
fandom, disability, books, parenting
I have smashed the ritual chocolate orange. Happy holidays, motherfuckers.
December 13, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Keep seeing a lot of “this damage is permanent, I will never unthinkingly trust a CDC guideline again” and man, IDK. I really don’t think “I want to go back to uncritically swallowing information without a thought in my empty head, that was great” is the slam dunk take, you know?
December 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM
That moment in a reno when you hit go on a five-figure financial transaction and it's like oh shit yeah, we're for real doing this now.
December 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
The amount of executive function I am spending on getting kitchen reno phase 1 going is unbelievable. And I say that as someone with a lot of executive function to spare.
December 10, 2025 at 12:42 AM
trying to say this as fair warning rather than raining on the parade: I liked the Heated Rivalry book a lot and *really* did not like the sequel. Actively bad authorial decisionmaking IMHO.
December 6, 2025 at 2:20 AM
the problem with Adrian Tchaikovsky is that I feel like I'm finally catching up on his backlist, then I look away for three months and he's like "oh I have four books coming out next year." Like chill dude, I'm dying out here.
December 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The Westing Game still slaps.
December 5, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Experiencing major kitchen reno project creep. It started as needing to replace the built-in freezer and now we're at freezer, new mini pantry, new stove, minor cabinet surgery, and new countertops and sink. No estimates yet but I'm penciling it out as approx 2 years of my law school tuition.
December 3, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Six-year-old devastated that his terrible tyrant mothers will not get him the thing his heart truly desperately desires for Christmas*. Monsters.

*It's a hot glue gun, guys
December 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Baffled that my local food bank asks repeatedly for product donations but has made it impossible to figure out how to give them money. I mean come on! you can't tell me they don't want my $250 but do want an old can of bamboo shoots.
November 24, 2025 at 2:44 AM
How am I doing on day 13 of 14 wearing the medical device whose stickers I am allergic to?

Yesterday at work I said, "Yeah, agreed, the campaign's itchy strategy was good." (The word I wanted was digital)
November 14, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Just had a slow, hard convo with kid where he had many questions about extended family and alcoholism and why my mother is not in our lives, and eventually he started to sniffle and I said "what's on your mind, buddy?"

"I'm thinking about summer camp and how Jack was mean to me on the pirate ship."
November 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Anyway, I won all my races this cycle. That's not the interesting part.

Nor is a talented and charismatic democratic socialist with good campaign discipline and a lot of money winning in NYC. It's surprising that he broke through to start with; it's very not surprising that he won once he had.
November 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Ah, the day after election day. Also known as the day I can reboot my work laptop for the first time since early September without having to close 10,000 windows.
November 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I realized I never said here, but I posted the thing. All 227,000 words of it.

archiveofourown.org/works/68131406
Accessory To - lightgetsin - Critical Role (Web Series) [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
archiveofourown.org
November 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I've worn a heart monitor* for 1.5 days out of what is going to be 14. I preemptively got the sensitive skin stickers. And I already have a rash. uuuugh. This is going to suck.

*I'm fine
November 2, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I am in a hotel where the elevators play YMCA at high volume during every transit. What fresh hell is this.
August 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Summer dinner win: crusty sesame bread spread with pesto vinaigrette, layered with fresh mozzarella and peaches, drizzled with honey, finished with smoked flakey salt. Bliss. Would maybe add mint next time.
June 27, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Real parenting horror movie moment over here.

A tick latched on to Cb's scalp.

I found it.

By kissing their head.

Removal was easy, they're fine.

I....may not be.
June 21, 2025 at 1:23 AM
One of the great revelations of my 30’s was realizing that I’m not neurotypical, it’s just that my flavor* is not pathologized because it makes me really good at adulting tasks and at making money

*Way too much executive function (yeah that's a thing), + hyperfocus, + some other weird memory stuff
June 2, 2025 at 10:52 PM
We started harvesting the backyard rhubarb patch 2.5 weeks ago and have so far gotten over 7 pounds. I've made strawberry rhubarb bars, a giant crumble, and rhubarb custard. there is more in the fridge. I sent a bunch home with @treewishes.bsky.social

I can hear it growing out there. send help.
May 28, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Really want to know how much money is actually changing hands in the workplace betting pool on when our targeted EO is coming.*

*I'm thinking 2-3 weeks**
**fucking bring it is the general sentiment, don't worry about us, we were built for this
April 18, 2025 at 10:09 PM
The new bluesky web layout is doing something weird with my screenreader where it loses its place and jumps to the end of the page. which is the 'help' link.

So I'll be reading along, and then it pauses and just goes "help....help....help."

big mood.
March 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I think it is really indicative of my current mental state that I got yesterday's Wordle in 2, in under ten seconds.

The word was spite.
March 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Tfw you send a piece of the thing you've been writing for six months to a person you are not married to for the first time because, hey, this thing is pretty good, it should see the light of day.

And you hit send and five seconds later . . . oh no. what if it's secretly terrible?
February 28, 2025 at 12:50 AM