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[bookhobbit]

hypermobility-related pain will make you aware of ligaments you didn't even know you had. got me googling stuff like "elbow nerve map" or "foot anatomy" to figure out which is the problem child because i do not know what that guy is called

[sleepgarden]

Hello, I may be needing to close my shop (again lol) in April, so I’m having another small sale. Until April 1st, you can use the code FREESHIP for free shipping on orders over $60cad ($42usd), or you can use 10OFF for 10% off of any order! (they can’t be stacked, sorry ^^) I have mini prints for $5cad ($3.50usd) that can be sent by letter mail. There are also discount “misfit” prints, which are a random print with some small flaws. There’s also still two chokers available ^^ Thank you for the attention on my work recently, and hello to new followers! I’m sorry for the advertisement post. My shop has really taken a hit with the loss of Twitter and I’m honestly not sure how to peddle my stuff around anymore lmao.

💐 here’s a link to my shop! 💐

[mechazushi]

The thief better get this guard pregnant before I do.

[otaku553]

Me at 3 am the night before 8 am registration for next term’s classes begins

[flock-talk]

Anyone else’s bird just horribly unbalanced? Like you have to warn them that you’re about to move so that they actually brace themselves otherwise they’ll fall right off?

Bc yeah.

He cute but he does not know how to grip and exist at the same time

[i-dreamed-i-had-a-son]

Broke (2016): BBC Sherlock is a phenomenal piece of media and anything that seems like a flaw just hasn't been fully explored yet

Woke (2020): BBC Sherlock is an incredibly flawed series run by an egotistical writer, it never deserved the hype and is actively bad on so many fronts (especially representation)

Bespoke (2024): BBC Sherlock is flawed and bogged down by increasingly poor writing, which many fans refused to see while it was airing, leading to hugely misplaced expectations (particularly for the final series), AND it has the seeds of some compelling characterizations and portrayals, some genuinely solid performances, and touches--albeit imperfectly--on complexities that are still being discussed today (particularly as it relates to the relationship between Sherlock and John). The huge cultural impact of the show has created a massive pendulum effect in its public perception, leading to most people today remembering a caricature of the show (whether positive or negative) rather than appreciating its nuanced merits and failings...that being said Season 4 sucked

[badplacetohaveagoodtime]

Listen all of class 1-A should've gotten matching custom "I survived my trip to USJ" shirts with some ugly-ass version/angle of shiggy's face or something and you all know I'm Right.

[chewyhanniebug]

knew that skirt looked familiar

[the-worms-in-your-bones]

Wish burnout was something I could kill. Like with a hammer

[girlfriendsofthegalaxy]

2024 tuesdaypost retrospective

it's hard not to make this all about my nearly full 365 days of unemployment. i have cut a great deal from this wrapup. thank you all for your love and support (often financial!) this year :') it has never been scarier to have no familial safety net and i really, really appreciate all of you relative strangers (i have met very few of you in person!)

jobs applied to: my best estimate is 4500 given my daily target balanced with periods of more acute despair and physical illness

interviews: 2

calls to the massachusetts unemployment agency: 73

cats spayed and/or neutered: 3 (phil, orange boy, ruby)

eclipses seen: 1

hurricanes: 1

completely fallow weeks: 5

i have GOT to be more specific about writing out loud what worked and what didn't work instead of resorting to "vibes were off". i also have to remember to be better about saying where i found things and saying the premise/genre of the film. i try to draft these on sunday nights so i can kind of mull things over for a bit, but that rarely happened this year.

highlights of the year: a tomato plant in a five gallon bucket, hotvintagepoll, the eclipse, my new zebrawood desk, throwing my own birthday party (NOT passive aggressive it was very comforting to be in full control), ren faire, the modern zelda games, genshin impact, heist films, naomi novik's temeriare series, Navigational Entanglements by Aliette de Bodard, the Popping Tins newsletter about tinned fish products, new joywave and beyonce and charli xcx and kesha albums, and an actual play podcast focused on critical worldbuilding smart characterization and fun interaction between good friends.

questions? comments? concerns? something about the structure/critique of these posts or a work i talked about really click or really not work for you? i would love to know!

listening

all the tuesdaysongs are in one spotify playlist below. if i recced a whole album (only did that this year with The Offline’s La couleur de la mer and Toshiyuke Honda's SONGS OF THE MILKY WAY ) i put the song i thought most representative of the album.

special shoutouts to the Well There's Your Problem engineering disasters podcast, the Sangfielle season of Friends at the Table, The 404 Media Podcast news/tech/culture podcast, and the Whale Hunting podcast about financial crimes.

i would like to find music through other avenues than the spotify weekly recs playlists, especially since the platform has noticeably nosedived after their last round of firing people. unforch i have yet to find a music influencer/blog/tastemaker/podcast whose tastes jive with my own.

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reading

the sort of three broad categories of stuff i talk about in the reading section are articles, comics, and actual books. fairly pleased with my RSS feed, which is filling the twitter hole and also has a separate Real US News tab i can look at in a more controlled manner. people seem to have liked the article/book combo bc reading a book a week is usually kind of a heavy lift for people who are employed. as long as i do either an article or a book i feel like this category is checked off in my brain. i would like to do both more weeks and figure out how to do more concise book reports. i am pleased that people seem to like the couple weeks of giant DNF lists where i briefly state why i did not finish a specific older scifi paperback.

shoutout to @rae-being-naughty for introducing me to one of my favorite new authors, t kingfisher! what a delectable niche. those books go down SO easy. shoutouts also to the temeraire books, Trouble And Her Friends by Melissa Scott (what if neuromancer was good?), Dark Wire by Joseph Cox (nonfiction about the encrypted phone company the FBI shadow-ran) and Witch Hat Atelier.

the OPPOSITE of a shoutout to the most frustrating books i did not finish this year, a fragile enchantment by allison saft (the very weird fantasy meghan/harry fantasy au????) and jennifer dugan's the ride of her life, a cowgirl wlw romance that had some kid pop up in the second chapter and yell about how they shipped the leads and were making a tiktok about it. hello??????? huh????? i had that book on hold for SIX MONTHS. what the fuck did people see in that book???

reading and holding and interacting with a physical hard copy book is so much better for my shattered attention span, and i have giant bookcases full of physical books i desperately want to read, but i read ebooks so much faster. a dilemma that will for sure continue into the new year.

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watching

logged almost 169 things on letterboxd this year so far (almost nice). the giant spike is when i watched a a dozen individually loggable betty boop shorts. tasty tasty stats.

saw one entire film (howl's moving castle) in theaters and i do not think i will be doing that again bc (while fun) it was a very anxiety inducing experience.

more tv and shorts and tv comprised entirely of shorts than i expected to watch this year!

watching highlights of the year:

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playing

the gaming rig i bought in 2020 is really staring to show its age and only very light-resource pc games are feasible rn. very many thanks to both @sybilius and @pasta-pardner who both bought me games i will one day play!

spent most of the year with big open world exploration/puzzle/action games, as is traditional. barely touched a fallout this year, which is less traditional.

by hours, the ranking is probably

genshin impact

breath of the wild

tears of the kingdom

STUFF SORT on my phone

stardew valley

powerwash simulator

what are people interested in seeing in this section?

the trouble with this section is that has been a thorn in my side basically since i started this series, but games are such a part of my life it feels weird NOT talking about them? but talking about video games is difficult bc none of them are very good. i find myself Still a little burned out on them even after almost three years on from the video games job. finding something fun and free on itch or steam is very time-consuming. every time i talk about genshin i feel like i have to caveat it with one million Don't Play Gacha Games warning stickers like the ones that come on cigarettes. and i don't feel like a screenshot of whatever achievement i hunted on genshin in a specific week is very interesting to people.

maybe the solution is to cut this section for a while and have a special bonus add on section every once in a while??? i dunno. would love to know people's thoughts here on how to make talking about/telling stories about the games i play more interesting.

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making

the tuesdayposts as a whole have been both very good and very bad for my mental health, bc i really needed a project to work on to break up the soul crushing monotony of writing cover letters. however writing the tuesdaypost every week was often a very anxiety inducing expereince bc i felt like i didn't do much. or did stuff very unevenly. the "point" of the tuesdayposts is to remind myself every week that absorbing a lot of different things helps me stay on a more even keel. esp in times of great unrest. unfortunately, a year of unemployment.

i saw my siblings twice, managed to actually write and post christmas cards, framed a bunch of shit, discovered a new favorite soup, and did some indifferent gardening and cross stitch.

the making section this year tended to be more lifestyle blogging/what i cleaned. a lot of weeks i did not have Anything in the tank except basic vacuuming and halfhearted wiping counters down.

however??? i managed to post three fics??? two were previously written but at least they are no longer languishing on my harddrive??

this goofy little NFT genderswap blondeyes has the craziest hits to kudos ratio on anything ive ever written.

i really do intend on finishing this cait/fahrenheit 5+1. the stars have not been aligned.

this very brief crossover has gotten some of the loveliest comments!!! when i am done directing and choreographing the big prisoner/arcade argument in my brain i am excited to actually write that.

im genuinely for real afraid to ask or expect anything of 2025, but here it comes anyway!

[arctic-hands]

Tw wegovy talk

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The fuck do you mean Maryland doesn't cover wegovy and ozempic and makes you do bariatric surgery instead. Does this include diabetes? The fuck?

[rindomness]

My one controversial thought I will share in a half-awake insomniac haze is that you people are making life series Scar simply too kind in your fanworks. He delights in threatening people and causing harm and enacting cartoonish villainy. for all your talk of never leaving the desert you forget truly too fast about "when I go red, Ren, you're first on my list" and him shaking down Skizz first fucking thing. Have you all forgotten about Chaos Scar I think you've all forgotten about Chaos Scar

[mirananananan]

another day has come and gone…

and i am still seeing homophobe joel discourse on my feed here and on that godless app twitter.

everyone else has already said what needs to be said imho, so i won’t stir the pot, but i do think it’s indicative of the larger issue in our society:

more of us should really take time to step outside, breathe fresh air, understand that not all media will cater to your individual worldview. in fact, it is very healthy that is doesn’t! this is what makes media interesting and encourages us to empathize with other experiences and see ourselves in them and understand our favorite characters as multi-dimensional and complex human beings.

all of this said, i do not believe joel miller is a homophobe! he loves ellie very much and lashed out in frustration with a thoughtless comment!

[arcanehackist]

every year we get young people coming into fandom again and every year we get young people treating every adult concept like it is the devil. you can’t call all servers being 18+ and shit uninclusive then turn around and call someone a zoophile for having an interesting shaped sex toy. you can’t get mad you aren’t allowed in certain spaces then pretend people are the devil for liking a “problematic” relationship in a TV show and saying they must be abusive irl.

if y’all don’t gain some critical thinking skills I might actually decide that because I like Hannibal I might like eating people and just do it.

[pshiftcultureis]

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[magebastard]

love/hate being so invested in my da canon. this shit is so dumb I have to cry