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Isabella Valentine @prismaticowl.bsky.social · 4h

Dark chocolate Reese's? Superior to classic. Less sweet, better contrast of flavors. Dark chocolate Rolos? Brings out the caramel flavor even stronger. With milk chocolate, it all just dissolves into generic 'sweet' flavor. Dark chocolate is just a superior product to milk & white chocolates!

Isabella Valentine @prismaticowl.bsky.social · 4h

Braved the rain 'cause I desired a York Peppermint Patty.

Got doused on the way back into the house, but it was worth it. These are so refreshing. We've never been huge on mint chocolate, but mint + dark chocolate... well now that's a different story. Dark choco makes any secondary flavor better.

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Isabella Valentine @prismaticowl.bsky.social · 6h

I haven't given up on that. I've got ideas. She needs to apologize to and not run from what's bothering her. Waking her up's going to be hard, but I'm determined that I can do this. She has a safety net now and she knows it. I think she just hates admitting to being wrong, honestly.

Isabella Valentine @prismaticowl.bsky.social · 6h

I'm not thinking too hard on build order, but we've had an old 1/100 Xabungle banging around for a long time. It needs some fairly vast color correcting, but that just means getting to work on painting skill improvement. Whatever I can should bleed back to Gwen if I can dredge her to the surface.

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Isabella Valentine @prismaticowl.bsky.social · 6h

I don't feel the need to photograph the process, but weather permitting, I'm 3 days out from a finalized model kit. The first I've done fully solo. I feel like some of Gwen's skill is finally bleeding through, but I still made a real dumb error on decal placement today. I'll get there eventually.

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Isabella Valentine @prismaticowl.bsky.social · 6h

Feeling a bit better, thankfully. A lot of times I'm just laid up for a few hours after waking, then my body normalizes. No idea what it is, but it's not worth seeing a doctor for. I just need to start taking precautions. Get a cough drop and blanket at my desk.

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Isabella Valentine @prismaticowl.bsky.social · 9h

Cough drop wasn't helping. Had to get up and go eat some saltines. The tickle's lessened but it's still there. Man... y'know, I was feeling okay for the first 5-10 minutes I was up? This just kinda fell on me after I'd had some cereal for some reason.

Isabella Valentine @prismaticowl.bsky.social · 9h

I crawled into bed around 6:30 last night and slept until 4.

And I woke up feeling worse than ever. My body had enough down time to get its act together, I guess. So now I'm finally well-rested and I have both a tickle in my throat that keeps making me cough and some nasty chills. Stoooop.

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Isabella Valentine @prismaticowl.bsky.social · 20h

Didn't that company also rip the Godzilla RX-78-2 design off of someone's random fanart and then didn't compensate the artist at all? I recall some kind of hubbub over it, anyway.

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Isabella Valentine @prismaticowl.bsky.social · 1d

I was hoping for a soft, sweet sugar cookie and instead it's like one of those hard icing sugar cookies that always taste stale no matter how fresh they are. You know, the ones that are too dang thick for no good reason?

Reese's ain't doing so well with tie-ins lately.

Isabella Valentine @prismaticowl.bsky.social · 1d

Hm. Not sure that lily is very gilded. The bag absolutely -reeks-, y'all. And the taste is like... well, as usual, the peanut butter's trying to overpower it, but you -can- taste the sugar cookie, it just takes hilariously stale. It's not a good, sweet sugar cookie.

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Isabella Valentine @prismaticowl.bsky.social · 1d

The Reese's people are like "Well we have all these lilies but gosh darn it we just want to keep trying to gild them"

Reese's cups are already good! You don't gotta keep trying to steal the throne from yourself, guys!

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Isabella Valentine @prismaticowl.bsky.social · 1d

Also, I've acquired Reese's Cups with sugar cookie bits in? I'm going to assume they taste of sweet. And that the sugar cookie bits will be wholly lost, since Reese's peanut butter is a dominant, strong flavor. But I guess I'm a sucker for seasonal variants...

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Isabella Valentine @prismaticowl.bsky.social · 1d

The real reason cranberry Sprite isn't sold year-round is they know no one would buy regular Sprite ever again. And listen, I love Sprite. But I would absolute never once buy the normal version again of the cranberry version became a permanent fixture.

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Isabella Valentine @prismaticowl.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, chat was being a bit overwhelming in their attempts to offer advice, sadly. Seeing someone have an emotional moment after breaking through a boss that's wedged them can be fun, but only if their tears aren't from relief of that pressure being off their shoulders. :/ Clean damn fight though.

Isabella Valentine @prismaticowl.bsky.social · 3d

He just looks so blasé about it. "Alright, so they cut my face off, big deal!"

The one of Luke in a Stormtrooper outfit isn't as weird, as the likeness isn't as good and the expression isn't as bizarre.

Isabella Valentine @prismaticowl.bsky.social · 3d

Watching through the Star Wars films and gaining a desire to build model kits of the ships and whatnot, I was looking at what all's been made and found the single most horrifying promotional image of all time. From the Han Solo Stormtrooper kit, this skinned Harrison Ford face runner!

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Isabella Valentine @prismaticowl.bsky.social · 3d

That was a lot. Episode I wasn't as bad as I'd heard, but the tone of it is just all over the place, huh? I wish the lightsaber duel at the end had been longer, but I'm happy to see duels are flashier now. I hope that continues forward. Lotta flips and acrobatics. A far cry from Episode IV!

Isabella Valentine @prismaticowl.bsky.social · 3d

Finally back to watching Episode I - taking a break to get something to eat - and I've been screaming at my TV.

Seems like we're heading towards Act 3, which is good because holy dang is this movie long. If you cut out all the unneeded wide shots, it would be 30 minutes shorter!

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Isabella Valentine @prismaticowl.bsky.social · 3d

I'm attributing all of this to the seasonal change. The temp drops like 40 degrees suddenly and now it's all rainy. I think a lot of people would be having issues with that. My body's just reacting weird, which honestly shouldn't surprise me at this point. The ship, she behaves strangely.

Isabella Valentine @prismaticowl.bsky.social · 3d

It's been a weird day. I went from my head positively buzzing to having the chills most of the morning, and now I'm back to having a massive headache. I almost wish something definitive would settle in. I'd appreciate the consistency, if nothing else. Well... whatever, ibuprofen then bed, I think.

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Isabella Valentine @prismaticowl.bsky.social · 4d

Mother Nature is behind on her rain and she's trying to make quota in one day. Good lord at the storm that's hitting us. It's dumping water on us. Searching our memory and it hasn't rained like this in a very long time...

No wonder I feel so ratty today. Pressure changes are awful.

Isabella Valentine @prismaticowl.bsky.social · 4d

Well the bees are gone but now the chills are back.

What the hell do I have that keeps causing this? I'll wake up feeling like a sinus attack is coming only for it to switch gears and just make me shake violently for a few hours...

Isabella Valentine @prismaticowl.bsky.social · 4d

Are you and Jeph trying to see who can cause the most heartbreak among your readers this week or somethin'? 😧

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Isabella Valentine @prismaticowl.bsky.social · 4d

I woke up to the sound of rain, which was nice.

Less nice is that my head feels like it's full of bees.

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