䷰ Boulder on Top @xinjinmeng@dragon.style

Yes, hello! I am Xin Jin Meng, the Novelty of the Golden Fantastic. Welcome to my social medium!

I am a furry, a dragon, an enby, a primadonna, a virago, a vorarephile, a sybarite, an aesthete, and if there's any time left over after all that, an artist.

I have come to Mastodon because I want to talk about things that matter to me on a personal level. I will endeavor to respect your feelings, with content warnings and elsewhere, but I am not safe for work.

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I don't post a lot of art to mastodon because this is where I go when I'm not "on." 🍷

My entire furry lifestyle has been justified by these two pictures.
https://twitter.com/thebluebear27/status/1332226338401370112

#BigMood

HIGH FIBER DOUGH
1 cup wheat flour
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup textured vegetable protein (TVP)
1 cup wheat bran
1 ½ cup warm water
1 Tbsp yeast
Basil and oregano to taste

Put water, flours, bran, and TVP in a bowl, and mix vigorously. Cover and let rise for 10 minutes, then mix, then re-cover and let rise for 10 more. If dough is still too sticky, add more flour or TVP. If dough is too crumbly, add more water. If dough is ready, roll out and ready to cook, otherwise mix and let rise.

2020’s LESS-THAN-IDEAL THANKSGIVING PIZZA
8 slices of turkey pastrami because the deli was out of turkey
8 oz. cross-cut green beans from the deli counter
8 oz. sweet potatoes from the deli counter
6 oz. of mozzarella cheese from the back of the fridge
2 tbsp instant-gravy powder
2/3 cup water
1 high-fiber dough

Grease a pan, roll out the dough, and bake for 10 minutes at 400 degrees. Mix instant-gravy powder and water in a bowl, microwave for 1 minute on high, stir, then microwave for 1 minute again, then stir. Remove from oven, add layer of sweet potatoes, then green beans, then gravy to taste. Spread the cheese around as much as possible because it’s all you have. Put back in oven and cook 15 minutes or al dente.

Serves one.

Happy US Thanksgiving, everyone.

Today I discovered cinnamon butter.

💙: "How are you doing?"
👤: "I'm back on the horse."
💙: "... You're doing heroin?"
👤: "The metaphorical productivity horse."
💙: "... Meth?"

"Backslash" comic page rough.

Well... this is new.

That thrill of victory when you scavenge your microSD card... and the agony of defeat when you discover that it's only 2Gb in size, and thus can't even hold one complete audiobook.

Ah, the 21st century, where "reservation" does NOT mean "an arrangement to secure accommodations" but "an appointment to make an arrangement, and this appointment isn't even guaranteed."

It's constantly on my mind that I've never been in a better position in my life to expatriate, yet I keep making plans to stay in the US.

So the other day I was outside, walking to a local pharmacy to get my meds. I noticed the sound in my headphones was getting choppy. That’s a Bluetooth thing; when the phone is too far away, the sound starts to clip. I searched my pockets and my bag, but I couldn’t find my phone. I must have dropped it. I’ve never dropped a phone before.
I did some backtracking, but I didn’t see the phone on the sidewalk. My fears were soon realized: the phone had fallen into the crosswalk, where the cars were going by.
So I sat there waiting for the light to change, as busy cars drove by. Fortunately the phone was far enough in the crosswalk that it was between wheels. I watched at least a dozen high speed cars zoom over it.
I thought about how I’d had that phone for a few years. It’s a legacy from a Canadian convention. I haven’t figured out how to change its localization, so all temperatures are in Celsius, the auto-correct is UK English. I remember conventions, people, places, times, events, a salad time before today.
I missed convention season this year, and I haven’t been able to keep up with commissions after losing my last place to live. Things were just about to stabilize, and there’s my precious phone.
Finally I picked it back up. The drop had popped the protective case off the device, but both case and phone were undamaged. I snapped it back up, then snapped the pieces back in place. Another few minutes in my life were done.
After collecting the meds, I supposed I should consider installing the pharmacy’s loyalty app on my phone, to make the checkouts faster. That was when I discovered that my iPhone 6s won’t upgrade to iOS 13, and the sand is now running out of the hourglass.

Goodness, I never thought I would get so sad that I couldn't make art, but here we are. 😶

I'm a piping hot mess so you'll need a mop and bucket.

"Yes, hello! I am Madame Wydion, and I'd like to tell you a story of wonderment and adventure, every Saturday morning here on BBC 4! Shall we begin?"

This joke has bothered me for over thirty years. Why do two guys in trench-coats appear? Why does the other guy have a black eye? Did they have a different joke and then remove it? Or is this just a bizarre over-reaction?
I can't believe I have brain-cells devoted to this.

#BigMood