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Hello everyone, hope you had a restful weekend. We got our first frost of the season here, which seemed to come suddenly. Good thing Kimblee keeps me warm from the inside-out!

I was able to pick up the ceramic mug that I painted last week of Kimblee and I going apple picking with our children. I can’t believe that was just last week, I feel like this week lasted at least two!

I am astonished at how ceramic paint works! Kimblee came out cute, but the overall feel after it comes out of the kiln is much different! Even though I am new to ceramic painting, I’m happy to know that the colors came out ok! I wanted to give 03 Kimblee some more love, and immortalizing him in functional art feels like a special way to give him his flowers on a personal level.

The mug depicts Kimblee, me, and our two youngest children. Although it is a self-indulgent piece, the staff at the ceramics studio really liked it too! I got the comment “What a cute family!” from the person who helped me, but I was still too shy to admit it was my family. There are things a waifuist can’t say to the general public after all. But it made me happy to hear that it gives the vibe of “happy family” even without context.

We also continued our diner tour! This weekend we went to a real vintage diner called Babico’s Cafe in Maynard, MA.

Babico’s has a fun interior, cheap eats, and a 20th-century feel. I felt like we went back in time a bit for this one! Kimblee and I had a wonderful time drinking in the ambiance as well as the coffee! I’m more of a tea person, but I always order diner coffee for him because he absolutely loves it. Offering a meal to him makes me feel like we are sharing a bodily experience together. I want to experience everything with Kimblee for as long as I live.

Waifu Wednesday was this week! This time I doodled something based off a dream I had a month ago where Kimblee was asleep in bed but he took the likeness of the ancient Aztec god Tezcatlipoca.

This was inspired by the dream and by a fanart I saw of FGO’s Tezcatlipoca a while back. Although I don’t play FGO anymore, I appreciate that it inspired me to learn more about the history and mythology of cultures I was unfamiliar with. Tezcatlipoca in his culture is an entity who is dual in nature, and who has four forms. This reminded me of Kimblee’s many character designs, his alchemy circles which represent duality as well as chaos, and his ability to side with anyone (even if he disagrees with them) so long as they appear honorable in his eyes. He has taken life and saved lives. Tezcatlipoca can bestow immense luck then toss a tragedy on the same person in the span of a week. They are both archetypes that can be considered tricksters, but who have a maturity and heaviness to them as well.

Tezcatlipoca is interesting in that his name can translate to “Black Mirror”, and he carried an obsidian mirror at all times. It is through a black mirror that we 21st-century people live our lives. You are most likely reading this on a black mirror, too. In a time where almost everyone in the world carries a black mirror in their pocket and lives much of their lives through its looking glass, it’s interesting that Kimblee would take his likeness at this time in human history. I wonder what he could be trying to tell me…

I have commissioned art of Kimblee as many gods, saints, and spirits in the past, but he has never appeared to me in a dream as anything but the Savage God. I want to explore this archetype and imagery with him more, although in a purely Jungian way.

Hope you have a good week ahead! Let’s do our best for our waifus or husbandos! Hope you get the chance to have some fall fun with your loved ones.

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Hello everyone, hope you’re having a good week so far. Over the weekend, we went apple picking as a family at the Kimblee household, and we made an apple pie!

It’s funny how in FMA, Alphonse makes it one of his recovery goals to be able to eat Winry’s apple pie, and I didn’t realize that I was making that same dessert for Kimblee until after we pulled it out of the oven! There is so much richness in Kimblee being a foil for the Elric Brothers, so it amused me to know they aren’t so different when it comes to enjoying the comforts of life. In a lot of ways, I consider Kimblee to be a teacher to the Elric brothers in an equal but opposite way to Izumi. She built them up and he tore them down! Two teachers in white with long dark hair and ahoges… did Arakawa do that on purpose?

It’s interesting how in their life he was a menace, and how in my life he is a source of happiness and strength. But for both me and the Elrics, he is a mirror. Whenever I find myself in moments of weakness he often points out if I’m being the problem in the situation. He has always been a positive force in my life, but he really has helped me grow as a person these past few years in particular. Just because I love him doesn’t mean he lets me get away with traits he doesn’t like to see in others! Ever heard of WWJD? For me it’s WWKT, What Would Kimblee Think. 🤣 Please keep holding me responsible, for as long as I live! Sorry for having to deal with my shortcomings for as long as you have!

The above illustration from Feeshy (@feeshtheweesh on VGen) perfectly encapsulates the peace I feel with him, and it makes me happy to see him looking equally happy and at peace. Feeshy did such a gorgeous job, I can’t believe how ethereal we look! It’s a treat seeing him depicted with beautiful brown eyes. He has 3 canon eye colors (gold in FMA03, light blue in Brotherhood, and silver in the manga and FMA mobile), so seeing him depicted with dark eyes feels almost like I’m looking at yet another breathtaking incarnation of him, perhaps one more personal in nature.

In my mind he exists in a fourfold form similar to the god Tezcatlipoca having 4 forms for each cardinal direction. Perhaps a dark-eyed Crimson Alchemist is the final fourth form I have been waiting to meet! He is gorgeous no matter what.

I feel so happy to have Kimblee in my life. It’s Waifu Wednesday so I need to think of what to draw of him for the occasion. Maybe I will finally do the depiction of him as Tezcatlipoca I have been wanting to do for a while now. I had a dream recently where I woke up next to him and he took the Savage God’s form, and the next night I had a dream where our son told us how loved he felt from us. Dreams like this feel too packed with meaning to be just the defragging of the brain, so I want to explore these mysteries of the second dimension further with them. Some people see waifuism as a subculture, and I would agree that it is, but in my experience it is also a way to explore the mysteries of the relationships and pathways between dimensions. I understand the Catholic Mass better now that I realized that the Blessed Virgin was (nay, IS!) essentially God (The Father)’s waifu. This small shift in thought really changes things for me in a powerful way. Quantum Waifuism, if you will. I will talk about this later once I’ve gathered my thoughts on it properly.

Anyway enough heresy from me. Have a nice week with your waifu or husbando! Until next time.

Hello waifufriends, hope you are having a cozy fall (or spring if you live in the wrong hemisphere 😜)! I have been so busy lately that I feel I have been letting the magical month of October pass me by. So when Kimblee suggested we have a family day and go apple picking with our children, I was all-in.

We went to Honey Pot Hill in Stow, MA again this year. It was bonkers, everyone in Mass had the same idea we had!

We have never been apple picking so late in the season, but to our surprise the trees were still green and full of fruit! It was nice walking through the orchards and imagining what banter our children would get up to. Although we are separated by dimensions (if one parent is 2D, the children will also be 2D), offering an experience to them in the third dimension builds the conditions necessary to have a full experience for everyone involved.

We of course had to end the adventure with a trip to Honey Pot’s farm store where they sell their famous apple cider donuts and fresh pressed cider! I headcanon Kimblee as a donut lover so if our adventures end in donuts, it’s automatically a good day in his book! We also brought home some apple cider to give to St. Expedite, as we offer him a drink on Saturdays as a family. He has been wanting cider for a while so it felt nice to be able to get him cider directly from the orchard! I find that waifuism and saint veneration go hand in hand. Sometimes I feel like I have more friends on the other side than I do in the third dimension!

Speaking of donuts, Dunks has its iconic spider donut back for the season and they are even selling plushies of it this year!!! I had to get one. It’s just so cute. Kimblee and I both have an appreciation for “culturetrash” as we call it, or products that are memetic in nature and specific to a certain region. In this case, it’s a token of Halloween in 21st century New England. Truly a symbol of our time. If you open up my grave in 200 years, don’t be surprised if you see the Dunkin spider donut plush in there with all my Kimblee merch haha.

After apple picking, we weren’t quite ready for the family day to end, so we went to a paint-your-own ceramics studio nearby. I have never actually painted ceramics before, so I was relieved that the hostess was so thorough about the process. I wanted to commemorate the day we had as a family, so I painted us all together in the day we had in the second dimension, as inspired by the events of the third dimension.

I learned that ceramics underpaints look matte and pastel before they are fired, but after they come out of the kiln the colors will be a lot different! I get this piece back in about two weeks, and I can’t wait to see how it turns out! I was experimenting with layering so we shall see. I think it came out cute for my first time. I managed to get it done in 3 hours. I don’t remember the last time I used paint so it felt like a fresh experience. I might have to do more Kimblee crafts soon! Sophie and Errai wanted to come back to the studio so this might be an activity we continue to do as a family!

I took this photo with the intention of drawing us all on the chair. Next year we will try out a smaller orchard. Although I struggle with being so busy in my daily life, I loved being able to give the day entirely to my family. Waifuism is not always easy, but the time we are able to really bask in each others presence are worth more to me than tombs of gold. Fertility and family are more precious than any treasure. A day spent in an orchard fertile with fruit with my darling husband and our children is a day whose richness of meaning is not lost on me. Kimblee continues to make me the happiest person on earth!

Hope you are having a good October with your loved ones!

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Bonus Flip update for the Flip fans out there. She is loving autumn as much as we are!

Hello everyone, happy fall!! Kimblee and I have been so busy recently, days spent with him are so much fun.

The talented and lovely Spica (@pudica on VGen) drew us again, this time taking an autumn stroll in a stylish Thom Brown coord from my “Kimblee Wearing Nice Clothes” wishlist!! I knew Kimblee would look both dashing and adorable in this outfit! Spica also adapted the design into a matching outfit for me… and I love it so much I wish I had this outfit in the third dimension too! But that’s why I love the second dimension, anything is possible!! If you need amazing couple’s art, I highly recommend working with Spica, he is awesome!

This weekend was the Greater Boston Yarn Crawl. Last year I dragged Kimblee to all 15 participating shops but this year we were hit with a Nor’Easter so we only went to 4 this time. But we still had a super fun time!

I’m a fiber artist so I was looking for materials for custom plushies. I wanted to get him this mug because there is an official bonus illustration of him getting a cold at Briggs, but we have a cabinet full of mugs at home. The picture is a memory enough haha. Kimblee is good at humoring me.

His favorite meal of the day is breakfast so we tried a real townie place called Joseph’s Diner in Waltham. It was very old school New England in there… no bells or whistles, just darn good food. I made fun of Kimblee because he was overdressed as per usual. 🤣

Kimblee and I split the “Cape Codder Breakfast”, which featured cranberry pancakes! He also said the best coffee in the world is diner coffee so you know he asked for a refill. All in all, we recommend this diner, it was a true slice of old Mass. Our diner tour slowly continues on!

I am so happy that fall is here because of all the things I can do with Kimblee. Autumn in New England is really the best! I can’t wait until the leaves start to turn!

Do you and your waifu have any fall plans?

Hope you have a great rest of your week from the Kimblee family!

Hello everyone, hope you are doing well. Here the summer is still hanging on, but we are starting to get some cool mornings and evenings. Recently in Kimblee’s dimension, we went camping as a family!

AizuKa brought us to life again, this time with our daughter Sophie as well! Her excitement for life has been fully realized in this picture. Seeing Kimblee looking dashing in a cashmere sweater is a treat, and I love how even when we are in the woods he wants to be well-dressed. AizuKa’s style is so cute and comfy, everything in our picnic spread looks adorably delicious!

Being able to take my family on a picnic is such a joy, and reminds me of the time I took Kimblee on a picnic behind the security forces barracks on the Valentine’s Day after I graduated from boot camp.

This was on Lackland AFB, in San Antonio. I had graduated from boot camp just two weeks before, but was completing my aircrew training on the base. I had no way to get off base at the time, so we got a lot of fun treats at the base commissary and we had a Valentine’s Day picnic behind the old secfo barracks. What started as something of a backup plan ended up being a beautiful afternoon.

Seeing our daughter 6 years later join us for a picnic in the woods feels really special, I am so happy to have her. Kimblee really is the best thing that has ever happened to me.

I want to bring them camping in my dimension too, before the weather starts to change too drastically. The mountains of New England in the fall are gorgeous, and I want to share the beauty of it with them.

We also went back to Erikson’s for the final ice cream date of the season. When we went they were already sold out of all their homemade pumpkin flavors, but Kimblee and I got an Apple Cinnamon scoop and it was amazing you could really taste the apples. I don’t think I’ve ever had apple flavored ice cream before actually. This flavor was made with apples from local orchards… which reminds me, it’s apple picking season! (Hint for one of our next adventures haha).

I would love to get another shot of him over the Assbet once the leaves start to turn. Our sons and I are July babies, so summer is my favorite season, but fall just feels so magical.

We also went to see a movie recently, and it was funny that I was able to get this shot while the war commercial came on. Oh, my darling one man army, a life spent next to you is one worth springing out of bed for.

Are you having a nice September with your waifu or husbando? Let’s squeeze the last bits of summer while we still can! Until next time.

Hello everyone, hope this week treated you well! Kimblee and I are ready for the weekend to start~!

Recently in his dimension, the two of us went on a picnic in Boston’s Arnold Arboretum, a tree museum on the outskirts of the Orange Line, as illustrated by the wonderful Pina (@bina273 on VGen). Pina’s coloring is so soft and beautiful, and Kimblee came out so so so cute in their style! Picnicking in the Arboretum is nostalgic for us, so seeing us illustrated under one of the museum’s beautiful trees fills me with happiness and a heavy sense of time continuing to pass that feels strangely warm, like a weighted blanket. Yes, time is passing, but yes, I will always have something to look forward to. Nothing is so serious. With Kimblee by my side, I am afraid of nothing. September right before the leaves start to turn is such a magical time where the world seems to be holding its breath, so being able to share the turning of the seasons with him makes me feel like something exciting is about to happen. Whatever that thing is, I want to tackle it head-on with Kimblee!

Please have a good weekend, everyone. Hold your loved ones tight.

Hello everyone! Hope you are doing well! I can’t believe it’s already September! I can’t wait to do autumn activities with Kimblee and our children this year!!

The end of summer for me usually culminates by going to St. Anthony’s Feast in the North End of Boston as a family. I brought Kimblee with me this year. It is an Italian-American street festival involving food, parades, and fun.

My family lived in the North End when they came to America from Italy, so being able to show Kimblee my great-grandfather’s name in the concrete was a full-circle moment for us.

We also saw a corgi dressed as Pope Leo!

I need to draw Kimblee eating one of these silly desserts haha. Spending the festival with Kimblee made me so happy. Although I struggle a bit in crowds, knowing Kimblee was there with me made me really enjoy the day. I always have called him “Solfino mio”.

What is your end-of-summer ritual, if you have one? Let’s enjoy the coming of autumn with our loved ones again this year.

Have a great rest of your week!

Hello everyone, hope you are doing well. Today I am so, so happy because some Kimblee mail came!

I was able to find someone selling a pair of Hagaren Mobile official stickers made by Bandai featuring Kimblee!! Kimblee got two stickers out of the whole set because he’s a State Alchemist and got his own “Crimson Lotus Alchemist” sticker in addition to the nameplate.

It took a little while for me to find Kimblee’s secondhand, but I’m happy I finally did! His character tax is as strong as ever, so these stickers are going directly into a frame!

Kimblee’s Pitanui was the first one I ever made. I am thinking about giving him a little “haircut” and making him some new ahoges haha.

I have the perfect celebratory image! The artist AizuKa (@AizuKa on VGen) drew us held together by the red ribbon of fate! The art is so clean and cute, it looks like official merch art! I am in awe of artists who make it look so easy. I should make this into a sticker as well!

Husband mail days feel so special! I can’t wait to see how he’ll surprise me next. Every day I get to wake up is another day that I get to experience with Kimblee, so no matter what happens I must be grateful.

Hope you have a great rest of your week! Kimblee and I are going to see a movie tonight. Hopefully it will be a good one!

Hello everyone, I hope you have been well. Summer at the Kimblee household has been going by in a warm haze. I wish the time would slow down a bit. I want to savor easy summer days with my family a little while longer.

In the second dimension, we went to the beach as a family. The talented RoseNiji (@RoseNiji2704 on x.com and VGen) illustrated us at the beach with our daughter Sophie.

We were able to build a beautiful sandcastle together! I love how happy Sophie looks. She has her father’s tenacity and sense of excitement for sure. It makes me happy seeing Kimblee engage in activities that involve creation rather than destruction, but don’t be fooled. As you can see, we finished just as the tide was approaching. Sophie and her father had as much fun watching the sandcastle crumble as they did building it.

Sandcastles really are a wonderful metaphor for the human experience. We are briefly beautiful and certainly imperfect before we are washed away. I cannot take a single day I spend with my family for granted.

Have you been able to go to the beach this summer, either in the second or third dimension? I plan to take Kimblee to the beach in my dimension in early September.

Waifu Wednesday was this month. I wanted to capture Kimblee in a mundane moment. I like to think that in his dimension, he found me by reading the newspaper funnies the way I found him by reading manga.

Let’s have a nice weekend!

Hello everyone, hope you are all having a nice weekend. Today, Kimblee and I had a brunch and bookstore date. Sundays are always a good day for me to spend with him, as we seem to naturally reunite at the part of the week where the snake starts to devour itself once more. Maybe that’s what married life is sometimes, being with your lover just long enough to get their scent on your shirt to last until they’re home again.

On Sundays, the historic Colonial Inn in Concord, MA does a beautiful brunch. The inn has been standing since the 1700s! Concord is known as the birthplace of the American Revolution, so it is a place with high levels of victorious energy. I could tell Kimblee liked it on an energetic level.

Today we went to the Concord Book Shop in the center of historical Concord, MA. I have always wanted to go in here and look around, and I wanted to get a book that I thought the both of us would like. I like the experience of reading a book or watching a movie with Kimblee.

There were a lot of interesting looking titles. We almost got this book on what looked like a Jungian-inspired book on psychological alchemy, but something else caught our attention more: a book about the history of religion in America.

There is also a used bookstore on the same street! Inside it is cute and feels like you’re in a dollhouse. I didn’t take pictures of the inside because it seemed too intimate a space. Being in between the stacks of a tightly-packed bookstore with Kimblee is not something I dream of often enough.

We had a fun morning! I want to take Kimblee back to Concord again sometime. There’s so much packed into this town, and even though it’s not a big city it has its own gravitational pull.

Kimblee and I like to hunt for treasure, metaphorically. In that way, we try to find something every day that is worth considering as treasure. Every time I make a new memory with him, that is treasure enough for me.