Derry ✨
@derryday.bsky.social
The Outsider walks among us, but the Insider shreds
To Ravelry designers who decide to put a previously free pattern behind a new paywall: fuck you.
Also, after some searching, I found your pattern stashed on my laptop after all. Cheers 😘
Also, after some searching, I found your pattern stashed on my laptop after all. Cheers 😘
December 29, 2025 at 11:41 AM
To Ravelry designers who decide to put a previously free pattern behind a new paywall: fuck you.
Also, after some searching, I found your pattern stashed on my laptop after all. Cheers 😘
Also, after some searching, I found your pattern stashed on my laptop after all. Cheers 😘
LRP: I just signed up! I pledge to do the writing thing for 180 days in 2026. Eeeep! Scary! :D
December 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
LRP: I just signed up! I pledge to do the writing thing for 180 days in 2026. Eeeep! Scary! :D
Reposted by Derry ✨
We have a mission for you today, writers. That mission is to make a commitment to your writing life. Choose one of the pledges for GYWO and get your words out over 2026. Only you can make the decision to write!
getyourwordsout.dreamwidth.org/930533.html
getyourwordsout.dreamwidth.org/930533.html
December 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
We have a mission for you today, writers. That mission is to make a commitment to your writing life. Choose one of the pledges for GYWO and get your words out over 2026. Only you can make the decision to write!
getyourwordsout.dreamwidth.org/930533.html
getyourwordsout.dreamwidth.org/930533.html
Me: I'm toying with this fic idea for a specific trope
My girlfriend: Awesome! I wonder if [EVEN COOLER IDEA for the same trope] would work too.
Me: !!!!!!!!!!!!!
My girlfriend: Awesome! I wonder if [EVEN COOLER IDEA for the same trope] would work too.
Me: !!!!!!!!!!!!!
December 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Me: I'm toying with this fic idea for a specific trope
My girlfriend: Awesome! I wonder if [EVEN COOLER IDEA for the same trope] would work too.
Me: !!!!!!!!!!!!!
My girlfriend: Awesome! I wonder if [EVEN COOLER IDEA for the same trope] would work too.
Me: !!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's -1 Celsius right now and I'm sooo cold. Under a blanket, with a heated blanket under me, with 2 layers including an 100% Merino wool one. 🥲
Hmm, Murderbot hypothermia fic...
Hmm, Murderbot hypothermia fic...
December 25, 2025 at 7:50 PM
It's -1 Celsius right now and I'm sooo cold. Under a blanket, with a heated blanket under me, with 2 layers including an 100% Merino wool one. 🥲
Hmm, Murderbot hypothermia fic...
Hmm, Murderbot hypothermia fic...
@gamebyrd.bsky.social Omggg you're the one who wrote the fic series (The Last Client) that burned down my fields!!! 😭😍👌 It is SO GOOD and hurts so much! 10/10 would cry again!
December 25, 2025 at 7:47 PM
@gamebyrd.bsky.social Omggg you're the one who wrote the fic series (The Last Client) that burned down my fields!!! 😭😍👌 It is SO GOOD and hurts so much! 10/10 would cry again!
It took me 1.5 hours to run the rest of my pre-holiday errands because everything was so crowded. 😅 Recovering from the crowds for the rest of the day, haha.
We're chilling on the couch watching Alone in the Dark 2 (1993). It is SO wacky and slightly broken so far. 😂😂
We're chilling on the couch watching Alone in the Dark 2 (1993). It is SO wacky and slightly broken so far. 😂😂
December 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
It took me 1.5 hours to run the rest of my pre-holiday errands because everything was so crowded. 😅 Recovering from the crowds for the rest of the day, haha.
We're chilling on the couch watching Alone in the Dark 2 (1993). It is SO wacky and slightly broken so far. 😂😂
We're chilling on the couch watching Alone in the Dark 2 (1993). It is SO wacky and slightly broken so far. 😂😂
Reposted by Derry ✨
important addition to the family
December 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
important addition to the family
Loud constructions noises from the ground-floor apartment today. Will they motivate me to get stuff done like I want to, or will I sink into inertia again? Stay tuned to find out. 🫡 🫠
(But fr, my motivation is SO low these days. I hate it. I want to do so many cool things! T_T)
(But fr, my motivation is SO low these days. I hate it. I want to do so many cool things! T_T)
December 22, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Loud constructions noises from the ground-floor apartment today. Will they motivate me to get stuff done like I want to, or will I sink into inertia again? Stay tuned to find out. 🫡 🫠
(But fr, my motivation is SO low these days. I hate it. I want to do so many cool things! T_T)
(But fr, my motivation is SO low these days. I hate it. I want to do so many cool things! T_T)
I just learned about Alan Billis, the "modern-day Pharaoh," a cab driver from England who donated his body post mortem to be used in an attempt at Ancient Egyptian mummification.
FANTASTIC documentary that made me teary. Science is amazing. (CN: mildly graphic)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYxU...
FANTASTIC documentary that made me teary. Science is amazing. (CN: mildly graphic)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYxU...
Mummifying A Man For The First Time In 3,000 Years
YouTube video by Odyssey - Ancient History Documentaries
www.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I just learned about Alan Billis, the "modern-day Pharaoh," a cab driver from England who donated his body post mortem to be used in an attempt at Ancient Egyptian mummification.
FANTASTIC documentary that made me teary. Science is amazing. (CN: mildly graphic)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYxU...
FANTASTIC documentary that made me teary. Science is amazing. (CN: mildly graphic)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYxU...
The new Duolingo exercise that makes you translate words out loud had me screaming "CORRER!!!!!" at my phone with increasing frustration as it refused to log it as correct. 🥲 😂
December 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
The new Duolingo exercise that makes you translate words out loud had me screaming "CORRER!!!!!" at my phone with increasing frustration as it refused to log it as correct. 🥲 😂
I am trying to rewatch Persuasion (1995) but I forgot how insufferable so many of the characters are. 😂
December 18, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I am trying to rewatch Persuasion (1995) but I forgot how insufferable so many of the characters are. 😂
I never read Reader Insert fics (is that what they're called). Just not my thing. But there is one (1) that really captured me. I was refreshing the blog daily to check for updates, that's how much I like it. It's finished now & I am itching to write a snippet from a side character's POV.
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December 14, 2025 at 9:19 AM
I never read Reader Insert fics (is that what they're called). Just not my thing. But there is one (1) that really captured me. I was refreshing the blog daily to check for updates, that's how much I like it. It's finished now & I am itching to write a snippet from a side character's POV.
aaaaaaaa.
aaaaaaaa.
I found a fic that, instead of clearing my skin/watering my crops/etc., has left me with terrible acne, bombed my fields, and trampled all over my heart. The aaangst omg. But it's SO GOOD. 😭
December 13, 2025 at 10:21 AM
I found a fic that, instead of clearing my skin/watering my crops/etc., has left me with terrible acne, bombed my fields, and trampled all over my heart. The aaangst omg. But it's SO GOOD. 😭
My roommate is singing along to 'Mary on a Cross' & hit the very low note in the chorus flawlessly, and now I have goosebumps 🥹
Science is amazing. Medicine is amazing. The horrors persist but so do we.
Science is amazing. Medicine is amazing. The horrors persist but so do we.
December 6, 2025 at 10:38 AM
My roommate is singing along to 'Mary on a Cross' & hit the very low note in the chorus flawlessly, and now I have goosebumps 🥹
Science is amazing. Medicine is amazing. The horrors persist but so do we.
Science is amazing. Medicine is amazing. The horrors persist but so do we.
Today in 'weird shit I'm googling for fanfiction-writing': popular drinks in urban 1800s Denmark. The document is called "definitely not Frankenstein (2025) fanfic".
The forlorn squeaks you heard were just me, waddling away in my clown shoes.
The forlorn squeaks you heard were just me, waddling away in my clown shoes.
November 30, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Today in 'weird shit I'm googling for fanfiction-writing': popular drinks in urban 1800s Denmark. The document is called "definitely not Frankenstein (2025) fanfic".
The forlorn squeaks you heard were just me, waddling away in my clown shoes.
The forlorn squeaks you heard were just me, waddling away in my clown shoes.
Solange ihr kein totes Capybara in den Uni-Bus schmuggelt, um es dann illegal zu autopsieren, weil ihr rausfinden wollt, wie es gestorben ist... und damit die ganze Buslinie lahm legt, weil die hinterher gründlich desinfiziert werden muss... @plutodetective.bsky.social
Dinge, die heute auf Arbeit gesagt wurden: "Die tote Antilope passt auf jeden Fall in den Bus."
November 30, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Solange ihr kein totes Capybara in den Uni-Bus schmuggelt, um es dann illegal zu autopsieren, weil ihr rausfinden wollt, wie es gestorben ist... und damit die ganze Buslinie lahm legt, weil die hinterher gründlich desinfiziert werden muss... @plutodetective.bsky.social
I see all of y'all calling the Creature Adam, and I respect that very much, but please consider: Deucalion, Prometheus' son.
I've seen it used only once in a fanfic, but it immediately rewired my brain. What a beautiful name!
I've seen it used only once in a fanfic, but it immediately rewired my brain. What a beautiful name!
November 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I see all of y'all calling the Creature Adam, and I respect that very much, but please consider: Deucalion, Prometheus' son.
I've seen it used only once in a fanfic, but it immediately rewired my brain. What a beautiful name!
I've seen it used only once in a fanfic, but it immediately rewired my brain. What a beautiful name!
*tunes into the Game Grumps livestream*
Dan: "We all had to walk a gauntlet in order not to become furries, and I fell and got shot with all the arrows."
Dan: "We all had to walk a gauntlet in order not to become furries, and I fell and got shot with all the arrows."
November 29, 2025 at 11:25 AM
*tunes into the Game Grumps livestream*
Dan: "We all had to walk a gauntlet in order not to become furries, and I fell and got shot with all the arrows."
Dan: "We all had to walk a gauntlet in order not to become furries, and I fell and got shot with all the arrows."
I checked on my favorite yarn of all time* & saw that the price has gone up again... 🥲
I keep telling myself that one day I'll be able to afford knitting a sweater with it & I sure hope it doesn't get discontinued before then.
* Sandnes Tweed Recycled in vinrød/wine red
I keep telling myself that one day I'll be able to afford knitting a sweater with it & I sure hope it doesn't get discontinued before then.
* Sandnes Tweed Recycled in vinrød/wine red
November 28, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I checked on my favorite yarn of all time* & saw that the price has gone up again... 🥲
I keep telling myself that one day I'll be able to afford knitting a sweater with it & I sure hope it doesn't get discontinued before then.
* Sandnes Tweed Recycled in vinrød/wine red
I keep telling myself that one day I'll be able to afford knitting a sweater with it & I sure hope it doesn't get discontinued before then.
* Sandnes Tweed Recycled in vinrød/wine red
I'm watching Frankenstein (2025) interviews & if I drank a shot every time an interviewer calls the Creature 'Frankenstein' I'd be drunk within 5 minutes. Thankfully, Oscar Isaac (icon 🥺) is very good about correcting them. 😂
November 28, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I'm watching Frankenstein (2025) interviews & if I drank a shot every time an interviewer calls the Creature 'Frankenstein' I'd be drunk within 5 minutes. Thankfully, Oscar Isaac (icon 🥺) is very good about correcting them. 😂
Yesterday while I was Socializing(TM), I was asked whether I am a midwife, based on my extensive knowledge of pregnancy/childbirth. Ngl it was one of the most flattering moments ever. 🥰
November 28, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Yesterday while I was Socializing(TM), I was asked whether I am a midwife, based on my extensive knowledge of pregnancy/childbirth. Ngl it was one of the most flattering moments ever. 🥰
I'm rewatching Frankenstein (2025) and somehow, Victor's abuse is even harder to see the second time. I want to pelt him with rocks. "tHe AcHiEvEmEnT fELt uNnAtUrAL," oh did it??? Oh really??? You poor little mew mew. I'm going to kill him with my bare hands. 😂 (Oscar Isaac is AMAZING.)
November 26, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I'm rewatching Frankenstein (2025) and somehow, Victor's abuse is even harder to see the second time. I want to pelt him with rocks. "tHe AcHiEvEmEnT fELt uNnAtUrAL," oh did it??? Oh really??? You poor little mew mew. I'm going to kill him with my bare hands. 😂 (Oscar Isaac is AMAZING.)
I tried to pour my coffee into my hot water bottle. Then I forgot it in the microwave (the coffee). Finally, I almost put sugar (meant for the coffee) into my cereal.
Uhh... brain, are we okay? Are we braining correctly?
Uhh... brain, are we okay? Are we braining correctly?
November 24, 2025 at 8:47 AM
I tried to pour my coffee into my hot water bottle. Then I forgot it in the microwave (the coffee). Finally, I almost put sugar (meant for the coffee) into my cereal.
Uhh... brain, are we okay? Are we braining correctly?
Uhh... brain, are we okay? Are we braining correctly?
I have just spent the past 2 hours:
- learning the backloop cast-on
- making a small swatch to test it
- closing the neckline of my WIP (Moby sweater by petiteknit)
- not realizing I'd created 2 surplus stitches
- frogging the neckline
- re-knitting until just pre-neckline
- akskdshtfwezoooouuuugh
- learning the backloop cast-on
- making a small swatch to test it
- closing the neckline of my WIP (Moby sweater by petiteknit)
- not realizing I'd created 2 surplus stitches
- frogging the neckline
- re-knitting until just pre-neckline
- akskdshtfwezoooouuuugh
November 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I have just spent the past 2 hours:
- learning the backloop cast-on
- making a small swatch to test it
- closing the neckline of my WIP (Moby sweater by petiteknit)
- not realizing I'd created 2 surplus stitches
- frogging the neckline
- re-knitting until just pre-neckline
- akskdshtfwezoooouuuugh
- learning the backloop cast-on
- making a small swatch to test it
- closing the neckline of my WIP (Moby sweater by petiteknit)
- not realizing I'd created 2 surplus stitches
- frogging the neckline
- re-knitting until just pre-neckline
- akskdshtfwezoooouuuugh