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Jay | wet bulb summer 🥵@eljay· 6d

Had such a lovely time meeting @ryanlasala.bsky.social today at Flame Con!! I can’t wait to dig into The Dead of Summer; ready for that aquatic era viiiibe! Let’s gooooo~~~ 🧜‍♂️🌊

Jay | wet bulb summer 🥵@eljay· 11d

evening sky 🌅

A photo of clouds in sunset, pink and grey colors across lingering blue sky. Power lines in foreground create harsh black lines against the colorful sky.

Jay | wet bulb summer 🥵@eljay· Jul 17

New phone, new Toast pics 😻

A photo of a Siamese cat curled into a sphere on the floor

A photo of a Siamese cat curled into a sphere on the floor, facing camera

Jay | wet bulb summer 🥵@eljay· Jul 14

Had an absolute blast seeing @chucktingle.bsky.social’s show in Decatur tonight! LOVE IS REAL, BUCKAROOS!! 💖🥰 Thanks, Chuck!

A photo of Eljay posing with Chuck Tingle, both wearing pink. A marker board in background proclaims “LOVE IS REAL.”

A close up of Eljay’s black sneakers, blue socks with a martini glass pattern, and pink pant kegs

A closeup selfie of Eljay wearing pink heart shaped glasses

Jay | wet bulb summer 🥵@eljay· Jul 11

Absolute masterpiece. Learn as little about it as you possibly can and just start reading. If you like brutally visceral stories with badass protagonists, you will not be disappointed.

Book cover for Chuck Tingle’s Fabulous Bodies. A blue green background with pink heart shaped glasses splattered with blood in the foreground. The lenses of the glasses are filled with the shimmering blue surface of a swimming pool.

Jay | wet bulb summer 🥵@eljay· Jun 5

I joined a gym a little over a week ago and I’ve gone to a class almost every day since. Today we ate chicken and rested. 👍

A photo of a Siamese cat lounging on a sofa

Jay | wet bulb summer 🥵@eljay· Dec 21

Today is the winter solstice. It also marks five years without my dad. My grief has been an odd and slowly emerging thing, in many ways, taking a while to fully settle in. I think losing someone at the height of COVID, before there were any vaccines even...

Text graphic reads: Today is the winter solstice. It also marks five years without my dad. My grief has been an odd and slowly emerging thing, in many ways, taking a while to fully settle in. I think losing someone at the height of COVID, before there were any vaccines even, is and will always be a uniquely strange experience. We almost didn't get to have a funeral for him, and the bare bones, short service we did have feels a bit like a dream in my memory. I barely know who was there, because we were sat at the front of the room and couldn't do a line to greet guests at the end because of social distancing restrictions. He was cremated, as he'd always said he wanted to be, so I never got to see him after his death. There was no viewing, no "saying goodbye." He was just gone. Today, five years later, he is still just gone, and I think a part of me is still waiting for him to come back.

We had a contentious relationship at times. I know he loved me, or at least he loved the person I was in his mind. I loved parts of him, but by the end of his life, we no longer really understood each other.

What hurts the most about his loss is what we could have had, and never quite did. He didn't really see me, and maybe I couldn't really see him, either. We are, in many ways, almost painfully alike. My grief in his loss is as much for the love that we had but never got enough of, as it is for the love we might have had, but never quite found.

I think I'll be mourning the loss of that potential, unrendered love for the rest of my life.

EV | 12/21/2025

Jay | wet bulb summer 🥵@eljay· Dec 20

I have a new hobby. Been making rosettes for a couple of months and I really need to stock up on findings and trims because I think I might be hooked and I want to make increasingly more elaborate designs.

A baby pink rosette made from velvet ribbon, pink gimp cord trim, and blue felting, with a gold heart cabochon frame at center

Jay | wet bulb summer 🥵@eljay· Aug 12

went outside to put my welcome mat back in place but I actually can’t because there’s a very cute snail enjoying it just now, so small joys

Jay | wet bulb summer 🥵@eljay· May 29

Love that college me just wrote “propaganda” in the margins 🥲

Handwritten note written in the margins of a book, that says, “propaganda”

Jay | wet bulb summer 🥵@eljay· May 29

“The effect of a cultural bomb is to annihilate a people’s belief in their names, in their languages, in their environment, in their heritage of struggle, in their unity, in their capacities and ultimately in themselves.” As relevant now as it was when I first read it 20 years ago.

A page from “Decolonizing the Mind” with highlighted sections

Jay | wet bulb summer 🥵@eljay· May 29

Oh no, this is really sad to hear. My copy of Decolonizing the Mind will remain in my home library forever. This book changed how I think about language. May his legacy never be forgotten.

A paperback copy of Decolonizing the Mind by Ngogi wa Thiong’o, white cover with a black man’s face from the eyes up, the bottom half of his face, including his mouth, cut off at the bottom of the page

Jay | wet bulb summer 🥵@eljay· May 23

So, I've been writing my novel in Obsidian for a little over two weeks and I'm kind of obsessed with this tool. Highly recommend it for writers searching for an affordable solution to take your writing projects to a mobile platform without paying for a bunch of unnecessary bloatware. #writing

Photo of a smart phone screen displaying the Obsidian app in the app store. App icon is a purple stone on a black background with text: "Obsidian - Connected Notes"

Jay | wet bulb summer 🥵@eljay· May 16

Man, I love writing fight scenes. #amwriting

A circle graph depicting a daily writing word count, showing 1,075 words written today, with a total goal of 20,896 words out of 110,000 for the manuscript, and the daily word count goal of 800 words being completed.

Jay | wet bulb summer 🥵@eljay· May 12

We saw a mama duck and TWELVE baby ducklings today at Mother’s Day lunch 🐥

Jay | wet bulb summer 🥵@eljay· May 6

The number of celebs at the MET gala tonight who interpreted #BlackDandyism as “wear black” was… well, it should have been more shocking than it actually was, but here we are and I’m not even surprised. There were some real bangers tho! This look on Janelle blew me away. Thom Browne.

Janelle Monae wearing an avante guarde red black and white cape in the style of a 20th century painting depicting a tailored suit

Janelle Monae wearing the actual red black and white tailored suit after the cape reveal

Jay | wet bulb summer 🥵@eljay· Apr 28

Some plants from my walks the last few days 🌿

Green foliage and flowers, wet from rain

Jay | wet bulb summer 🥵@eljay· Apr 23

Big blue sky day!

Eljay standing on a rock ledge with forested valley in background, mountains in the distance. Blue sky and white clouds.

Jay | wet bulb summer 🥵@eljay· Apr 21

Aloha! 🌺 Ichiban: @iamrenough.bsky.social #Yakuza #SakuraCon2025

Eljay and Ren in Nanba and Ichiban cosplay from Lije a Dragon: Infinite Wealth

Jay | wet bulb summer 🥵@eljay· Apr 20

Infinite Wealth party is out and about for the final day of Sakuracon! Say hi if you see us! 🌸 Kasuga Ichiban is @iamrenough.bsky.social Kiryu Kazuma is @majortomboy.bsky.social #Sakuracon2025 #Yakuza #Sakuracon

Nanba, Kiryu, and Ichiban cosplays from LaD: Infinite Wealth

Jay | wet bulb summer 🥵@eljay· Apr 19

Girls’ night! #yakuza #likeadragon #ryugagotoku #majima #ryuji #cosplay

Two people in cosplay, dressed as Majima Goro and Goda Ryuji from the like a dragon video games, drinking cocktails

Jay | wet bulb summer 🥵@eljay· Apr 19

“A real man ought to be a little stupid.” -Ryuji Goda #yakuza #likeadragon #cosplay

Eljay in Ryuji Goda cosplay, a tan striped suit and black shirt

Jay | wet bulb summer 🥵@eljay· Apr 19

First look at my Ryuji Goda cosplay at Sakuracon this weekend 🌸

Ryuji cosplay from Yakuza video game posing in front of a window

Jay | wet bulb summer 🥵@eljay· Apr 17

“Rainy” Seattle

A sunny day with blue skies, looking over the roofs of wooden residential buildings

Jay | wet bulb summer 🥵@eljay· Apr 14

PS I am attending a cosplay and animu enjoyers' convention this coming weekend so prepare for me to be a shitposting menace, hope that's okay with y'all also I just finished my Ryuji shoes

a pair of white and black men's leather dress shoes

Jay | wet bulb summer 🥵@eljay· Apr 13

My friend said this is giving “Legolas at Coachella” and I can’t stop laughing

Jay selfie wearing blue aviator sunglasses, long elf ears, and a brown pashmina scarf

Jay | wet bulb summer 🥵@eljay· Feb 7

"Abracadabra" is about chronic illness and pain. It's about using every resource available to you in order to push through the suffering to keep on living and creating your art, when the world would really just like to watch you give up and die. It's a protection spell. /thread continues below

A screenshot of Lady Gaga from the "Abracadabara" music vido, wearing a red latex dress and wide-brimmed hat covered in spikes

Jay | wet bulb summer 🥵@eljay· Jan 21

My weather app: ❄️❄️❄️ Me: 👀

Jay | wet bulb summer 🥵@eljay· Jan 19

I never used TikTok as a creator, but I’ve watched and enjoyed a lot of content there. This ban is extremely concerning and is a violation of every American’s first amendment rights. They didn’t even wait til midnight on the east coast. It’s already gone.

A screenshot of an official statement at TikTok.com explaining the app is no longer available in the US

Jay | wet bulb summer 🥵@eljay· Jan 8

Idk I do feel a bit like taking a PS3 as my personal carry-on item in the year of our lord 2025 should earn me some kind of big time gamer cred 🎮 The TSA guys were very interested and amused 😆