#Life Updates

[batfambrainrotbeloved]

Update two- bought food, sat down, removed a few acsessories. Life is good. Also checked my bank and ive done less damage then I thought I woupd (also becaise i couldnt find this one comoc book guy- might go back to look for him now invigorated lol)

ITS CONVENTION DAY >:DD

[epicfranb]

grian gets died

[wedarkacademia]

"Why me?"

"Who else, if not you?"

[bebx]

y’all look at my babies growing and thriving

also please ignore my other babies (my dogs) barking like they’re witnessing a murder in the background. they literally saw a strange looking leaf or something and collectively decided to go unhinged together

[idonthaveacleverquip]

Does anybody else think about how incredible it is that we can just... HAVE these things??? In our house??? Like they just live here with us????? How insane is that!??

Anyway, these are my cats! I love them so much!!!! 😭

[bones-of-a-rabbit]

ladis and gemmelmins. may i present to you,

my tiny new son, Black Jack <3

he's a miniature lop! and he is very tiny and a little bit dumb and very very soft and likes throwing things around at six in the morning. so far his favorite foods are snap peas, cardboard, and kale <3

[justcallme-ange]

Hello Hello! Long time no see, hope everyone’s been doing well!

Sorry for the unintentional hiatus - I moved to a new place beginning of the month and have been unpacking, setting up, and settling in.

<.<; Turns out doing so does take up a lot of time and energy, and art and AUs have been on the back burner (where they kind of stalled into a small art block OTL.) I still have ideas and plans for the future but have been working on getting back into the art groove. I have a bunch of almost finished stuff, that I just need a little kick to finally complete.

^^ I’m very happy to see that new AUs and fics have popped up recently as well as a few of my fav fics being updated - so stay tuned for some fanart of those coming in the future.

So yeah small life update - I promise I didn’t fall out of the fandom, just working around adulting and being in a new place. (QAQ I finally have free time)

[mycorrhizastar]

Been Blogging

I got some new blog posts up on my website for the month of September and I figured I would let y'all know.

I Want to be a Plant Daddy - I talk about the start of my journey to become the kind of person who keeps big leafy plants in their apartment.

They Tama-GOT-me! - I got into Tamagotchis over the summer and I am a bit obsessed with these little guys.

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[yournormalidiot]

I FINALLY GOT MY INTERNET BACK

[imagine-a-life-like-this]

✨Important Update✨

Due to unforeseen events, roomie and I might be being forced to move within the next 30 days. We're hoping our landlords will give us a little more time, but at this point in time, we are unsure of what our future looks like.

A lot has happened in a short amount of time and my brain is really scrambled. I have the rest of the friends to lovers texts completed so I'll be able to post those. But after that, I'm unsure of when I'll be able to post because I won't have much time to write.

I just want to apologize and let everyone know what is happening. Hopefully things will work out in our favour and I can come back quickly!

Happy Holidays. Stay healthy and be well.

[ninja-muse]

Somehow, for being the shortest month, February felt long. This is partly work chaos and partly … current events. (I've just spent a lot of time staring slack-jawed at the news.)

Astute followers will notice I didn't post a review this month. That's because the only book I really felt like saying anything about—The Prague Cemetery—was excellent in many ways but also something I cannot in good conscience recommend, at least in this current political climate, to a generalized audience. It's a brilliant take-down of antisemitic, authoritarian, conservative, cis-white-male thinking (yay) but narrated by someone who is all of those things and simply in it for the money (urf). Not the funnest thing to have read shortly after a certain inauguration but probably good for me in the long run.

And sure, I could've reviewed the third Emily Wilde book (but how to, without spoiling?) or Tokyo Ueno Station (sad, doing some smart things within its genre) or My Kind of Trouble (gender-swapped Music Man!) or any of the others but there wasn't much to say about any of those and/or I didn't have the energy.

In more personal news, I've been writing again, at least a little! I'm maybe a scene and a half from being done the chapter I've been on since November and for one of those scenes I can cannibalize something I cut months ago. Then it's a matter of wrapping things up, so I think five chapters left, maybe less. This could be my year! I've done better blocking out all the current events stuff, which usually stymies my writing, on an emotional level than I usually do. I hope that can continue.

I've also been trying my best to boycott US products and companies, though I'm not doing so great with, like, social media and email and also I probably shouldn't have bought Aftermarket Afterlife but in my defense, Seanan McGuire is a good egg and deserves royalties. For whatever that's worth. I've been helped in the not-buying-of-books by having no other books in need of buying, and also library holds! So many! I have been spoiled, which probably means I'll have to wait another month or more before anything else comes in for me. (Have I added, like, eight books to my holds queue though? Maybe.)

How have your Februaries and your readings been? Let me know if you've got recs for me!

And now, here's what I read this month in order of personal enjoyment…

The Tragedy of Heterosexuality - Jane Ward

The social and relationship problems caused by heterosexuality and ways they can be addressed.

8/10

🏳️‍🌈 author

warning: deals with misogyny in all its forms

library book

Tokyo Ueno Station - Yu Miri The ghost of a migrant labourer recalls his life story from an encampment of unhoused people.

7.5/10

Japanese cast, Korean-Japanese author

library ebook

Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales - Heather Fawcett

Emily and Wendell set off to take the throne of a faerie kingdom.

7.5/10

🏳️‍🌈 secondary characters (achillean), Afro-Irish secondary character, blind secondary character, 🇨🇦

reading copy

My Kind of Trouble - L.A. Schwartz Harmony has arrived in Brookville to promote a fake musical festival that will take down the mayor. But first she needs to win over the librarian she’ll “rent” the land from.

7/10

fat POV character, autistic POV character, autistic secondary character, 🏳️‍🌈 secondary characters (lesbian, sapphic), fat and autistic author

warning: homophobic antagonists

library book

Swordheart - T. Kingfisher

Halla has inherited an estate and a bunch of greedy relatives she needs to escape, fast. Fortunately, there’s a man—in a sword?—who’s happy to help her.

7/10

ADHD-coded main character, 🏳️‍🌈 secondary character (nonbinary)

warning: suicidal thoughts, suicide, violence

library ebook

The Last Sun - K.D. Edwards

Rune Saint John is hired to find a missing Atlantean scion and uncovers a conspiracy.

7/10

🏳️‍🌈 main character (achillean), 🏳️‍🌈 secondary characters (achillean)

library book

Rise - Mira Grant

Stories of the Rising and its aftermath that didn’t make it into the Newsflesh trilogy.

7/10

reasonably diverse cast (BIPOC, 🏳️‍🌈, differing abilities)

library ebook

The Prague Cemetery - Umberto Eco

A forger in 19th century Europe recounts the social upheavals he has witnessed and his hand in the conspiracies underpinning them. A polemic exposing the hypocrisy, contradictions, greed, and evil of antisemites and others determined to keep their place atop existing power structures.

8/10

warning: antisemitic protagonist and secondary characters, xenophobic and misogynist protagonist, homophobic characters, sexual assault and rape, murder

off my TBR

DNF

Love and Other Paradoxes - Catriona Spivey

Joe is dreaming of being a famous poet when he meets Esi, a time traveller on a mission. She agrees to help him meet his destined muse; he promises to help her save her mum.

Black British secondary character

reading copy

Currently reading

The Gilda Stories - Jewelle Gomez

A girl escaping slavery finds refuge in a bawdy house run by the elegant Gilda, and immortality in Gilda’s shared vampirism, allowing her to give witness to 200 years of history and Black American life.

Black protagonist, Black secondary characters, Lakota secondary character, 🏳️‍🌈 protagonist (sapphic), 🏳️‍🌈 secondary characters (sapphic, achillean), 🏳️‍🌈 author, Black author

library ebook

Spooky Lakes - Geo Rutherford

A sumptuously illustrated microtour of strange and scary lakes of the world.

library book

The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle

Victorian detective stories

disabled POV character (limb injury), occasional Indian secondary characters

warning: racism, colonialism

Monthly total: 8 Yearly total: 18 Queer books: 2 Authors of colour: 1 Books by women: 6 Authors outside the binary: 0 Canadian authors: 1 Classics: 0 Off the TBR shelves: 1 Books hauled: 1 ARCs acquired: 2 ARCs unhauled: 3 DNFs: 1

January

[epicfranb]

Made a few of these

[wedarkacademia]

"Is it true that in every relationship, one person loves more than the other? Why does it always feel like I’m the one who loves more?"

[bebx]

my little sleepyhead

[roninqueen]

I'm still alive. Haven't been doing much lately. But here's a Nightcrawler I drew. 💙

Some personal stuff under the cut.

I've been through a lot lately what with the cancer and my body finding new and interesting ways to break down. I'm still doing okay from a "the cancer isn't really spreading" perspective but the treatment I've had has caused a number of awful issues in the past six months or so.

I'm gonna be going to MAGFest in a little under two weeks, and when I get back I want to do more stuff. Definitely more art. Maybe some folks will see it and follow. I'd love to have actual followers instead of just bots.

Anyways. It's nearly 3 AM. My sleep schedule is a mess. But hopefully I'll be able to create some more post-worthy stuff soon. 💜