rory g. | COME BACK WRONG
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✶ zinester & medievalist ✶ prison abolition now ✶ ocd advocacy ✶ tin house ‘22 scholar ✶ lambda ‘25 fellow ✶ toward a literacy of the grotesque they/them agender | 🇪🇬🏴
making homemade pesto using the basil we grew in our garden
did u know we just recently passed the big halfway-through-the-year mark? 2026 is officially more than halfway over. here’s all the fiction i’ve read so far this year + rating stats: - one 1 star read - one 2 star read - five 3 star reads - three 4 star reads - two 5 star reads
taking the captive unicorn for another dip in the san marcos river today
friend (tragically californian) also fulfilled a lifelong dream of eating a hill country roadside peach so that was neat
really obsessed with this charcoal-colored cat who blended into the wood burning stove he was napping on so well it took me a whole 5 minutes of being in the room to notice him
today some friends and i visited a couple historical spots in the central texas hill country that are either mentioned in COME BACK WRONG or make up some kind of relevant background radiation for the story~
10 years ago i started reading the raven cycle, and although it had a not-insignificant impact on me, i was a busy student at the time and never picked up the 4th book when it came out. today, at the urging of my friends, i’m starting the series afresh with the intention of finishing it this time!
this plant is producing tomatoes at a rate that feels borderline impossible
i need more writing/reading communities online to start talking about this. i don’t wanna see a single corny ass “i read dangerously” pin at bookcon next year unless yall are prepared to talk about this case and its implications for literature and literacy in this country.
most of the way through innamorata now, and i’m honestly shocked that when this book came out there were chernobyl levels of pearl-clutching about the novel’s gothic elements and meanwhile not a single person mentioned the egregious fatphobia
central texas wildflower season still going strong w the highway sunflowers 🌻 these things are everywhere rn
just found out my scottish cousins are in boston rn??? apparently they’ve been in the states for DAYS and i’m just now finding out because they’ve been too busy partying to tell anyone. now every time i see one of these videos i’m prepared to get jumpscared by my cuz Slippery Kevin in the background
had a wee picnic w some friends in the theater parking lot before seeing the backrooms movie last week and bro i could get used to this
when the fantasy book introduces a “criminal” character and the audiobook narrator immediately hits you with that mr. lunt voice
at a wedding and this church has a whole ass BASKETBALL COURT?? protestants i’m sorry i said you have no swag, i take it back
if you wrote a character like Mr. Dark in 2026 they’d be calling him tumblr sexyman bait
some of my favorite lines from anne carson’s translation of antigone
one of the funniest insults i’ve ever heard and it’s from a 2,000 year old play
march-april this year was a uniquely difficult time for me but hey, at least i observed some cool mushrooms on my walks
ALSO! let it be known that it was a mere 60° last weekend! in the texas hill country! in MID APRIL! so clearly we’re god’s favorite