i hadn’t listened to their last couple of albums yet but the girls are so good it didn’t even matter

SO well produced, absolutely loved the staging all the way through! felt like i had a great view even from the balcony and loved what the band and dancers added too

SHE IS TOO POWERFUL

also you can tell exactly when in the month my two book clubs are lmao

visual record of the hollanov fanfiction getting really, really good

screencap from the above link: I have found this problem fairly endemic to the romcomantasy (eh? eh?) subgenre to which McCallum’s debut belongs. Oh, I am so tired of reading book after book where nobody has ever done a single thing wrong, or, even if they have, it was all a terrible misunderstanding. I cannot bear these characters with personalities as smooth as Ken dolls, who run dear little retail shops in interchangeable Fantasylands and placeless middle Americas, unbothered by problems of inventory or human frailty. I am going to chew right through the bars of my enclosure, and go rampaging all around the countryside, if I am called upon to read one more book where a character’s big secret finally comes out, and the other character is like: “No problem, babe, I know your heart, and I understand that, while you initially had a scheme to sabotage my dreams, you changed your mind over the course of our courtship. Due to the trust we have built together, I understand this perfectly without your having to explain it.”

real footage of a critic being driven slowly out of her mind

visual record of my commitment to my book clubs even when i really
don’t want to

it’s working btw

never mind that everything makes me think about gay hockey. i am going to pretend the abbreviation is short for heated rivalry to survive the winter

in the fall i was like ‘we cannot be abbreviating this to HR! don’t make me think about work!’ but i have revised my position. i am so grateful that thinking about work now makes me think about gay hockey

do NOT give me any ideas!!!

newcomer at book club came up to me and my friend after and said whenever we talked it was like listening to a podcast

it’s time for january book club reading and i don’t know if i can do it yet. many thoughts brain full

december reading calendar storygraph graphic

visual record of my brain losing capacity for anything other than heated rivalry (tv series)

i’m so sorry 😔💓💓💓

conclusion of this story btw is i hyped ep 4 so much that she caught up came over for an ep 5 watch party on saturday

minor balm amidst five hours of train delays: episode five of heated rivalry is fully sfa (safe for amtrak)

SUCH a good experience for this one

lmaoooo

thank you so much!! i really really appreciate it :’)

my friend who has not read or watched heated rivalry is texting me about it at all hours of the day and i think that’s beautiful

screenshot of my “top five by kudos” on ao3 with the fifth one, figure out a window, highlighted

this is a small thing but i’m honestly really happy about it — the fic i spent more than half of this year on has already made it to my fifth most kudosed :’) i’m proud of it and it’s nice to see it passing years-old stories i didn’t put nearly as much into

it’s cuuuute! i love how it looks with this yarn!

🥳

oooh it’s going to be so nice!!

the sun sets and instantly my body believes it is one in the morning

thank you!!

all good! in general i am not doing any dedicated self-promo for the sake of my health lmao but i am very happy to be recced :)

thank you so much!! i gave those kinds of adjustments a lot of thought and i’m so pleased that they landed :’)

i let her know that i’m not going to show her but i am in fact on top of this very important task already

(she’s finished! epilogue and everything! 77k modern au captive prince office romance archiveofourown.org/works/63079201)