Plague Doctor Cody is here to bring in the new year!! 🥳✨
we did a photoshoot since she never got to wear her Halloween costume and it would be a TRAGEDY for no one to see how great she looks in it!!
if you're a good patient, then MAYBE she won't have to amputate 😇
also I'll pass any tips on this post onto Cody if anyone wants to show her a lil love!
HAPPY LAST DAY OF DECEMBER 🎄
Sexy Plague Doctor Cody has come to kill off the last of your holiday spirit in case you still had any lingering hehehehe
Cody sadly had to work on Halloween this year and never got the chance to wear her costume so she put it on and joined me in this photoshoot!! LOOK HOW HOT SHE IS
some before & after edits from my recent holiday photoshoot for those interested in that kind of thing!
I wanted to make them warm, cheery and bright
mostly what I did was up the exposure, make the midtones and shadows warm, the highlights cool, up the saturation a bit (actually had to turn down the reds because they got too red when I upped the saturation overall), remove some shadow, brighten the eyes, then add sparklies!
I'm back home in New Orleans!! got to see Cody as soon as I landed because she picked me up from the airport (she a sweetie) and filled each other in on our respective holiday drama (although there wasn't really drama, we both had a peaceful Xmas with the exception of my dad actin up a lil but only a mild amount for him)
then first thing I did when I got home was a BIGG nap 😴😴😴 I was so tired because I woke up at 5am for my flight and irresponsibly hadn't gone to sleep till 1 or 2am, but it's okay because I made up for it now with a great snooze
anyways here's a photodump of some random Xmas pics!! hope you all had a great holiday with minimal drama 💛
can't wait to get back to streaming tomorrow!!!
finally in bed for the night and ready to get some reading in 💛 heart full from seeing everybody open gifts today and tummy full too from a big xmas eve dinner
merry christmas eve cutieeeeees !! I got my festive sweater on today, and helping my stepmom get everything ready for our xmas eve dinner/lunch
everything smells so good, I'm so freakin excited
xmas in Florida photodump!!
I flew in to see my family yesterday for the holidays and I'm staying here till the 26th!
it's been fun seeing my fam, esp my siblings, and we've had so much good food (including the bananas foster I included the pic of, which is my second favorite kind of dessert ever)
we went to a magic show today and I got called up to assist for one of the tricks (even though I was trying to avoid eye contact while he was looking for a "volunteer")
all I was asked to do was hold a jacket up while he escaped from some chains behind it (it was probably the least impressive trick out of all the ones he did tbh haha)
the show was really fun though, there were a lot of tricks where I was like HOWW, and they themed all their tricks for the holidays and made it snow at the end, super cute
the kids (Xander, my brother, and Lucas, my nephew) absolutely loved it
we also walked the pier, took Xander & Lucas to a big playground and watched them play, and went to a book store where my dad bought me a bunch of books for Christmas 🥹 I was originally only looking at the sci-fi books because that's usually my favorite, but then the owner of the bookstore came over and started recommending me some books from other genres and I'm an easy sell, I got convinced to get every book he recommended lmao he just made them all sound so good!!
I've been dying to get started on some of my new books but it's been nonstop family time till now, just got into bed finally and about to start on Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
my family loves drinking and staying out late, and I've been hangin with them a bit for that then going home early when things start to get a lil messy lmao, I like partying a little but not on their level
like when my dad disappears on us and we get a text in the group chat of him licking a stranger's boobs, and his wife seems like she's not having fun anymore, that's my cue to go
anyways I'm excited for xmas eve dinner and gift exchange tomorrow!
hope you all are having a good holiday se
pics from the holiday dinner I went to with friends last night!! our friends Alex and Brett ended up not being able to come because poor Alex was so sick, and Brett (her husband) came out to drinks with us before dinner but then left to go take Alex to the doctor and stay with her. It was so sad because Alex was the one who planned the whole thing and made the reservations 😠it ended up being just me, Cody & Justin and we missed them lots, but we ordered them some food to bring to them after
the food was SO good, but I fucked up and filled up on the amazing appetizers (cheese plate, pickle plate, brussel sprouts, and chicken "oysters") so I was barely able to eat my actual meal 💀 I had no foresight
did you know that "chicken oysters" are a thing that doesn't even involve oysters? apparently they're this little part of the chicken thigh that's considered the best part, and I could definitely see (or taste) why they're such a prized cut
ooh and the drinks we had at the bar beforehand were so good too!! me n Cody twinned by both getting the hot buttered rum (so good)
also Cody loved the winking Santa mugs so much that she bought one so now we have one at home, which I'm excited about haha
overall very fun night, just sad that Alex and Brett couldn't come!
MERRY X-MAS CUTIES 🎅🎄🌟
maybe if you were extra nice this year (and leave out a milk martini with a choco chip cookie garnish) this sexy lil santa will slip down your chimney
hope you all enjoy this set, have a holly jolly holiday & stay warm!!
p.s. see if you can spot the secret Ellie in this set
I GOT THIGH HIGH BOOTS and I'm obsessed (also I totally copied Cody because she recently got thigh high boots and she looks SO FREAKIN GOOD in them)
I'm channeling Ada tonight for a fancy holiday dinner I'm going to with friends! my outfit is totally inspired by her RE4 remake look
went to a holiday pajama party last night with friends!! (well mostly new friends, the only people I knew there were Cody & Justin and the hosts Joe & Rebecca who we went to the Renn Faire with, but it was really fun meeting everyone, everyone was so nice)
the food was amazing, I wish I got a pic of the rest of it because the pic I got was only one small portion of the massive spread
Justin made tempura and it was so fuckin GOOD, and Joe made Alton Brown's eggnog recipe which I wasn't sure if I was going to like because I hadn't had eggnog before, but it was so creamy and delicious
we played Codenames and Heads Up and Smash and we kept splitting into teams of girls vs guys
unfortunately the girls team lost at every game setting back feminism one thousand years 🙂
really fun night though 💛
I finally got my car back from the shop a few days ago after being without it for 3 months and it feels so good to have freedom again!! I didn't realize how much being stuck inside was affecting my mood, but just being able to do normal things like running errands as needed (even in the rain) is making me so happyy
I'm going to a holiday pajama party later tonight after stream (assuming my internet actually lets me stream today) and we're going to play board games!! I'm so excited
internet woes kept me from streaming today (but it's looking like I might be able to get my issue fixed on Monday when an electrician comes out to try to figure out why there's AC voltage coming through our internet line and interfering with our signal!)
I was sad I didn't get to stream today, but I got another emote done for that 5 emote commission I've been working on so I feel good about that! it was so much fun figuring out how to do the flame for the torch, I watched a bunch of different youtube tutorials on how to animate fire for ideas
spent the morning cuddled up on the couch with Cody while she read manga and I wrote holiday cards for friends 💛🎄 had a festive apple pie candle going and the Slay the Spire Yuletide Fireplace to get us in the holiday spirit, it was v cozy
finished all the cards, now I'm gonna try to sneak in a lil nap before stream 😴
I'm really sorry I haven't been putting out much content lately 😢 full disclosure, my depression has gotten worse lately and I'm realizing it might be related to the change of season. I've been having a hard time with a lot of things, including taking pictures of myself and motivation to do much of anything
I just wanted to say that if you want to unsub I completely understand, no bad feelings at all! your money is valuable and I haven't been providing much content at all here lately, if something else would bring you more joy for $5 a month like a fun drink or something I want you to do that instead!
if you want to stay though I do have a couple fun photoshoots planned, including a holiday themed shoot and a Caroline Walker (Tormented Souls) cosplay, and at some point I'm hoping to be able to go back to posting more uplifting/happy life blogging type content and art
I have a doctor's apt next week and I'm hoping to get back on my antidepressants so hopefully soon I'll be able to pull myself out of this funk and make better more consistent content for you all here 💛
anyways, love and appreciate all of you for supporting me here whether you decide to stop subbing or not! you're all da bestest 🥰
went to a place called Latitude 29 last night with Justin after Zen recommended it during stream, saying it was a famous tiki drink bar in NOLA that he wanted me to go to so he could live vicariously through me LOL
(if you didn't know, Zen is super into mixology and especially tiki drinks, so I take his recs v seriously)
on Zen's suggestion we tried their Mai Tai and Missionary's Downfall
Justin liked both drinks, but the mai tai was too strong for me
I loved the Missionary's Downfall sooo much though
it was so minty and fresh I could have easily had 10, definitely one of the best drinks I've ever had
the reason I never send WIPs or sketches to my clients when I'm making emotes is because they always look horrifying until they don't
I'm working on a beaver emote rn and I've finally gotten it from "I want to kill it with a hammer" to "I want to euthanize it ethically"
still working on getting it to "I want to love and cherish it"
got a lil mini Christmas tree yesterday while running errands with my friend, Justin, because we saw them at Home Depot and they looked so cute!! 🎄 who else has started decorating for the holidays? I've also started doing some xmas gift shopping and I've found gifts for a few people but still have lots of people on my list I haven't figured out what to get for yet
new phone wallpapers for December!!! hope they help you feel a little extra holiday cheer this season ♡
you can download them here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1--G7QQKTwDSSSA8RXLWEoweXYvkBpFzk?usp=drive_link
(to save on iPhone open the file, click the little 3 dots in the top right, choose "Send a copy" then "Save Image")
I present to you: THE BEE SAGA
I stitched together some clips from CapitalRay and Hey_Sage's streams of our Lethal Company game night to make this lil vid
I feel like I should post this somewhere but idk where.. it's too long to be a TikTok, too short to be a Youtube video, also it's not of my stream LOL
love having this fuzzy lil ball of fur snoozing peacefully next to me while I read (there are about a thousand other things I should be doing right now besides reading but I'm ignoring that at the moment because my to do list overwhelms me too much 🙂)
hope you all are having a good day so far 💛 can't wait to see you all at stream later for more Haunting Ground, then Lethal Company after in the Discord!
heading home today after such a fun weekend getting to see friends I never get to see 😢 hopefully I'll see Nick, Travis, Alison & Tim again real soon, they da best