Felt like showing off an old cross stitch of mine today for no reason.

This comment is kind of blowing me away.

The good news is I got to use a belt sander. 🥰

This is a CATEGORY 5 BLORBO EVENT, everyone. NOT A DRILL!!!!

When you hit the one recipe from the cookie book you've actually used.

This is as good an opportunity as any to show off the dinosaur I finished on Saturday! Still needs to be ironed.

Ok so I (purple) was advised to my friend (gray) to watch The Amazing Digital Circus and accidentally did it in one sitting.

Everyone will be delighted to know exactly how professional the clowns' behind the scenes communications are. Everyone read "Rawdogging Wellness" by @joellekillian.bsky.social today!

Ok I put this on insta (trying to use that more for school reasons) but for those who aren't following me there, behold: the ikea chocolate bunny.

So uh my mom went to see @kaaauthor.bsky.social tonight. 🥹

I gave my email address at the hardware store today and whyyyyy is this so gender affirming?? 🤣

I love outlining!

Help omg I'm cackling. I love it.

Help I cannot stop giggling I decided it would be good for my gender if I got one of those super manly temporary tattoos for 50 cents at the laundromat and LOOK AT IT! I can't wait to get home and put it on. 🤣

Watching DS9 is like

With all this AI talk, has anyone tried drawing for fun? You don't actually have to be good at it for it to be fun. I drew this in like ~5 minutes the other day and I was giggling the entire time. Just like....you can make art for fun? Fuck AI, werewolf bakers forever.

I had to hunt through my camera roll for this but that pigeon in the center has some of the prettiest pigeon coloration I've ever seen.

Lol. Lmao even.

Last but not least, the final step in my Imperial Radch binge earlier this year. This was my favorite of the lot, though I loved them all. The characters, the world, the struggle. So much discovery, self and other. Typing this is making me want to read it again but my copy is in NJ aaaaah.

This book peeled my brain like an onion and I cried through like a third of it. If you love stories about memory, you'll love it. This was also my scariest audiobook experience to date, bar none. The audiobook is a work of art. It's going to hurt you cognitively and emotionally. Read it immediately.

I was feral for this book. The worldbuilding was rich and effortless. The characters were fascinating, and complemented each other in evolving ways no matter how they changed. Horrifying and hungry, desperate and divine. Such spectacular sensory detail that as I type this I taste honey on my tongue.

My first (absolutely not last) novel by Alix E. Harrow. The richness of the prose had my heart in its fist from the opening lines, and the characters swept me up seconds later. I was a blissful wreck reading this. If I close my eyes I can see Eden. If I listen close I can smell the smoke.

If you know me, you know I am a Rachel Harrison fanboy. But this book is something really special. Complexly told and SO scary, also carrying out the trend of all her books going right for my jugular in particular. Deep and untidy analysis of who gets to control the narrative when things go wrong.

I'm not sure there was anything that could have prepared me for this book. The writing was delicious, delirious, and every freak in its magnificent cast was linguistically adored. File under books I would chew on if I had a spare. File under books I would have a summer fling with if they'd have me.

I read this in one day and it hurt. It was so good. It hurt so bad. This is cosmic horror and sci fi and a love story and it has so much humanity and desperation and wonder and humor and love, and love, and love. I had to clutch it to my chest and pace the kitchen crying for a bit after I finished.

I had been anticipating this book for ages, and it did not disappoint. I have seldom been as stressed out by a book in my life. An absolute roller coaster of blood, sweat, gritted teeth, and knitting needles. A battle cry: love someone, make something, refuse to let the bastards get you down.

This book was horrifying, devastating, and necessary. It was a painful and riveting exploration of the surge of anti-Asian racism at the height of the COVID lockdown, as well as a stewpot of grief, personal and community wide. It also had the best on-page depiction of OCD I have ever seen.

This book is longer than I typically gravitate toward, but no words were wasted. The writing here is staggeringly gorgeous (I listened to it, and had to keep repeating lines back) and the story was one gut punch after another. This book feels important and I felt...well...basically everything.

Nonfiction first. I started reading this on a whim, briefly wondered if it was too intense for me to handle at this point in time, and then was so glad I stuck with it. A complex analysis of Predator (the film) as well as a poignant exploration of what it means to be a man, for better and worse.