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rambling reviews of my 2023 reads

What it says on the tin. In 2023 I bought myself a Kobo Clara 2E on a little bit of an impulse, because I had a Kindle and didn’t use it very much. However, the Kobo was absolutely the right call because you can connect it to Libby, which is what my local library uses for ebooks, and suddenly I had a wealth of books that I could access by lying in bed. As a result, I read more books in 2023…

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2023 in review

2024 is off to a rainy start, which has got me in an introspective mood. I don’t post much here nowadays (maybe I should change that), but in the spirit of welcoming the new year and reflecting on the one that has passed, here’s my 2023 in review, in point form for efficiency (and mostly due to laziness): I got engaged 💍💍💍 Ash and I marked our 10th anniversary this year, and he proposed in…

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That smile and bright eyes looks like something out of a Peanuts strip I love it I love you I would die for this possum

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2022 in review

Wow, I haven’t posted in a long, long time, but I guess there’s no time like the present. I last posted in 2020, while we were still in the midst of Covid-19 restrictions and lockdowns. Now, at the end of 2022, things are almost back to “normal”, whatever that means. A lot has happened over the last two years, but anyway, here’s a summary of how 2022 has been. Marked two years at my job – it’ll…

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when your trainer wont give you more poffins

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the old guard + the onion headlines (1/?)

         bonus: 

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Quiet please!! He’s having a vision!!!

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GUYS SO THIS JUST REALLY HAPPENED!!

OMFG?!?!?!

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i saw the words “ur not the first person in your lineage to be queer” and it’s rocking me to my core. how many generations down the line did one of my ancestors feel the way i did, feel differently than i did and so damn queerly it was a crime? how many of us were there? did they have hope? did they find peace? i don’t know. at the very least, maybe i am proof their identity was never wasted. reincarnated.

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In honor of Lord Byron’s birthday I would like to remind you all of the time that Shelley and Keats, having not heard from him for some time, became concerned for his safety and it was determined that Shelley would go looking for him. Keats received a letter some time later that Shelley had found him in Venice, where he’d been having so much sex that he’d nearly died from malnourishment and dehydration. Keats’ entire response amounted to essentially, “You should probably have let him.”

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I started as a bit with my friend but I turned it into a comic

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There is a writer, I love every work she has written so far and I comment or leave kudos every chapter/work that she had published. Is that too much? I'm feeling like a stalker.

Odds are you are now that author’s favourite reader and they have you specifically in mind when they write because they’re looking forward to your reaction to it :D

At least, that’s how it goes for me.

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ruminations i.

So much for posting every other week, ha ha ha. Life has just been crazy busy, really – work has honestly been hectic, and now that the Covid-19 situation in Singapore is mostly under control, I’ve also been trying to have some semblance of a social life. I don’t really have the time or energy for anything proper, so here are just some thoughts and feelings sketched out loosely in snippets, the…

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zuko and azula from avatar and sharpay and ryan from high school musical are EXACTLY the same character types (gay antagonistic brother-sister duo in which the sister is the more dominant and talented one and the brother is a better person who helps the heroes in the end) except zuko and azula are dialled as far to goth as possible and sharpay and ryan are dialled as far to prep as possible. miles and franziska from ace attorney are directly in the middle of this spectrum, as extremely edgy preps

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#GE2020 (or, pandemic diaries 13)

#GE2020 (or, pandemic diaries 13)

Note: if you’re not Singaporean/aren’t aware of how politics in Singapore works, this post is probably going to make zero sense because explaining everything would be too much of a hassle and I am, in my heart, lazy. Sorry about that!

As you can tell, I’ve given up on the roman numerals thing. I also missed a week, but anyway I figure that I’ll try to do a post every two weeks. Sometimes I have…