I am so good at having a good time in social situations and then immediately after assuming I was horrible and everyone hated me

It took me so long to make in canva 😵‍💫

but Martyr! is so good!! The writing so so good!! I have been thinking about it since I read it last year

A book about books The book rec: The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde. In an alternate 80s timeline (e.g., time travel is common), Jane Eyre has been kidnapped from the pages of Bronte’s book. Literary detective Thursday Next is on the case.

a book about books

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
In an alternate 80s timeline (e.g., time travel is common), Jane Eyre has been kidnapped from the pages of Bronte’s book. Literary detective Thursday Next is on the case.

Family drama that’s not your own The book rec: Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano. An homage to Little Women (which I haven’t read), this is a heartwrenching (and also maybe hopeful?) story about love, family, and the things that tear us apart.

family drama that’s not your own

Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
An homage to Little Women (which I haven’t read), this is a heartwrenching (and also maybe hopeful?) story about love, family, and the things that tear us apart.

To marvel at gorgeous writing The book rec: Martyr by Kaveh Akbar. A sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants longs to be a martyr/for his life to mean something. Poetic & haunting. Akbar strings sentences together so beautifully it hurts.

to marvel at gorgeous writing

Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
A sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants longs to be a martyr/for his life to mean something. Poetic. & haunting. Akbar strings sentences together so beautifully it hurts.

One last job The book rec: Hammajang Luck by Makana Yamamoto. Edie’s been released from prison early... by the person who put them in there. The catch: they’re needed for one last job. A space heist with an all-queer crew & a romance subplot.

one last job

Hammajang Luck by Makana Yamamoto
Edie’s been released from prison early... by the person who put them in there. The catch: they’re needed for one last job. A space heist with an all-queer crew & a romance subplot.

A flyer with pull of tabs. The flyer says “Take what you need and get a book rec” The tabs are: one last job, to marvel at gorgeous writing, family drama that’s not your own, and a book about books

take what you need!! and get a book rec

(book recs are in the replies)

#booksky

just finished Gideon the Ninth for the second time and damn that book is so good and also holy shit the audiobook was incredible

happy national library week!! I’m celebrating today by volunteer shelving at one of my local libraries today

someone commented on a tt video I made suggesting I’m lucky to have a partner despite being ill and uh what

I’m very lovable

(suggesting disabled folks are lucky to have people who love them is obnoxious)

A white femme with long hair and bangs kisses their Boston terrier in front of a tulip field. They are wearing matching hoodies

A white femme with long hair and bangs holds their Boston terrier in front of a tulip field. They are wearing matching hoodies and are cheesing at the camera

A white femme with long hair and bangs holds their Boston terrier in front of a tulip field. They are wearing matching hoodies

A tall white bearded man and a petite white femme sit next to each other on a bench in front of a tulip field and hot air balloon. They hold a very silly posed Boston terrier who is all tongue and teeth and cheese at the camera. They all have matching hoodies

a little late in the season but we made it to the tulip farm 🌷

I did it!!

It’s such a nice day and I feel like I should be outside but I think I’m going to go to the pottery studio and try to throw a donut

I really like it!!!

if generative ai was really as good as all the rich investors and tech oligarchy keep saying they wouldn’t have to say it as much

a person walking holding their hand in front of the camera showing short nails with a neon green polish

new nail color

had a migraine last night that my triptan didn’t abort bc I took it too late and so I also took excedrin migraine and that helped

BUT then I woke up at 2:30 from the caffeine and now I’m a tired wreck who might get another migraine from the lack of sleep 🫠

blue handmade dinner plates next to an ikea dinner plate on a wooden counter

they took forever because I babied the hell out of them but my dinner plates are finally done!!

which means we get to move the ikea plates (one shown here to show scale) to storage and just use the ones I made!

#pottery

A stage with chairs and a big sign that says Dropout Improv

tonight

very overwhelmed and overstimulated rn and I don’t have the heart to tell my senior pets (who seem to require to touch me today) that I need space

Same. I don’t like to spend more than 20 minutes on it because I find it tiresome after awhile

I definitely phoned it in this week

got it rescheduled!!

i woke up early this morning with big plans for my day, starting with going to the gym. then i went to the gym and came home and just fuckin crashed

so now i'm going to go play baldur's gate 3 and have a snack

need to reschedule a medical appt, used the phone number in mychart listed for the appt, waited on hold for a not insignificant amount of time, finally got someone to speak to, am now on hold again because i had to be transferred to another line because the number is somehow not the right one?

just booked flights for next month so now of course i'm googling whether my chiaogoo interchangeable knitting needles will be fine on the plane even though i *already know* tsa allows them

we’re having a slow weekend around here because I’m exhausted and my partner is in pain

I introduced him to baldur’s gate 3 this morning (he made a ranger dwarf character named havald and I made a drow bard named rinn)

then we took a 2-hour nap and watched dimension 20

started bg3 over *again* because new ps5 (and wow it plays so much better on the ps5 than steamdeck!!) and this time I’m playing my first durge run as a resist durge tiefling star druid/monk

I’m about 9-10 hours in

my partner has had a gouty foot for a few days and I am tired from doing all the house and pet things I do plus the ones he does

this is familiar to me!! but I can’t place it. if reminds me of some of the folktales talked about in Women Who Run With the Wolves