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rattonic.bsky.social
@rattonic.bsky.social
Lex. Welcome to my LiveJournal
Tattoo update! Still quite a bit to go, but ✨the vision✨ is coming together
January 8, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Slept through the New Year’s party, but @samuelhblack.bsky.social and @free-bearz.bsky.social brought me in effigy and it looks like I had a great time
January 2, 2026 at 4:52 PM
A nice thing about going back to work is seeing everyone’s time skip character redesigns. One has new glasses that make her whole face look different, another has waist length blonde extensions, and I have the beginning of a tattoo that… I never posted pictures of??
December 31, 2025 at 10:33 PM
So.
A butterfly just landed on me.
A live butterfly.
It is December 24th in Wisconsin and there is snow on the ground.
December 25, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Usually when I say “there’s something magical about starting a walk in the dark and watching the sun come up” the magic in question is just a feeling
December 23, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Fortunate that I’m not plagued with doubt as to whether my friends actually like me. They do! Aw yeah!
December 18, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Common thought “I never know when it’s appropriate to ask for a ride to the medical clinic when technically I could take the bus or walk” actually FALSE.

On occasion it is very clear!
December 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I’m in a queer horror book club that meets every other month in the Corporate Dystopia Room of the local grocery store
December 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
In further orange-things-making-me-happy news, I recently started buying bags of habaneros in an effort to reduce the DPS (dollars per Scoville) of my weekly grocery bill. If you ask my mouth, this is going great!
December 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
You ever have an emotionally weighty secret that oozes all over your mental landscape, and the secret nature of the ooze keeps you from saying words because even the true ones feel false when you're not allowed to acknowledge the ooze on them?
December 3, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Wild that the etymology of “implied” isn’t “imp lied.” Like yes, implications ARE the way you can mislead without technical falsehood in a faerie or demon contract, this IS how imps can lie, but that’s a total coincidence and we’re actually basing this word on the Latin for “to enfold” or whatever
November 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
HAPPY HALLOWEEN
I wanna see your costumesssss 👁️
October 31, 2025 at 10:13 PM
October 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Well, that was art.
It was rich and gorgeous and also the straightest fucking version of Frankenstein I’ve ever seen
October 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
An old coworker visited the store for the first time in years yesterday

"Lex! I was hoping for a familiar face! Do you remember me?"

And in my head I was like "of course, Eye of the Tiddy!"
My mouth got as far as "of course," before I froze -- wait, what WAS his name? Oh no
October 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Showed up to a friend’s hobbit party as Smaug, surprising absolutely nobody
October 13, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Hhhhhhhh you know what? NO I’M NOT OVER IT and it’s my birthday so let me have another little post as a treat?
October 10, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Walking back to the cabin with the player of a character my zombie just killed at Hawkins LARP:

ME: “I wonder how long a skeleton takes to burn to ash”
THEM: “About 8 hours”

…of course they just Knew That. Gosh I love horror LARPers so much
October 6, 2025 at 2:38 PM
How many baristas does it take to operate a conventional home coffee machine?

(two)
(the answer is two)
October 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Something is afoot at the apple farm
September 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Hugely disappointing that despite traveling by boat to a mist-shrouded island covered in bats and then immediately entombing myself amongst the pale rocks, I was NOT offered the Kiss Of Night and made immortal
September 16, 2025 at 4:49 PM
So it turns out I’m the chosen one.

You may doubt this, but then how can you explain my encounter yesterday?
September 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Unseelie
August 18, 2025 at 1:17 PM
For a while I kept running into a problem where I’d become overwhelmed with nostalgia for summer camp. And. What? I’d never BEEN to summer camp. Nostalgia is specifically a feeling you need to earn through experience, and I’d done nothing to earn this!
August 11, 2025 at 12:46 PM
July 29, 2025 at 12:31 PM