#monthly book overview

[wearethekat]

April Book Reviews Overview

A Tyranny of Queens (Foz Meadows)

Paladin's Strength (T Kingfisher)

Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries (Heather Fawcett)

The Last Heir to Blackwood Library (Hester Fox)

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (SA Chakraborty)

Path of Fate (Diana Francis)

The Daughters of Izdihar (Hadeer Elsbai)

A Thief in the Night (KJ Charles)

Feed Them Silence (Lee Mandelo)

Bitter Medicine (Mia Tsai)

Notorious Sorcerer (Davinia Evans)

The Circus Infinite (Khan Wong)

Untethered Sky (Fonda Lee)

Ninefox Gambit (Yoon Ha Lee)

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December Reads

- How to Solve Your Own Murder 🪶 ☆☆☆☆ - Murder of an Amish Bridegroom 🧊 ☆☆☆ - Yellowface 📙 ☆☆☆☆☆ - Andy Warhol biography 🎨 ☆☆☆ - The Dyatliv Pass Mystery 🏔️ ☆☆☆ - The Night Shift 🔪 ☆☆☆☆☆ - Snakehead 🐍 ☆☆☆☆☆

[femmefatalevibe]

Femme Fatale Guide: How To Master Your Money & Tips On Financial Literacy

Understanding and taking control of your finances improves your quality of life in many ways. Making strides toward better financial literacy can save you a lot of stress, unnecessary fees and helps you play a more active role in taking control over this aspect of adulthood. Once you understand the game of money, saving, and investing, it becomes infinitely simpler to devise a plan to set yourself up for a more financially-free future. Here are some practical tips to keep your finances streamlined, secure, and systemized to help you gain more financial literacy and win in this area of life.

Overview:

Track Your Income & Expenses

Set Financial Goals & Realistic Limitations

Invest Higher-Quality Items To Save Later

Educate Yourself On Different Types of Banking & Investment Accounts

Establish Credit, But Know Yourself

Create An Emergency Fund

Leverage Credit Card Benefits

Understand The Power of A Roth IRA (or Backdoor Roth IRA) & HSA

Automate Whenever Possible

Get Familiar With Taxes & Write-offs

Stay Informed About Employer Benefits

Purchase Seasonally & With Discount Codes (When Available)

Protect Yourself

Read Books

Seek Expert Advice

TIPS ON MASTERING FINANCIAL LITERACY:

Track Your Income & Expenses: Always have a record of all of the money going in and out of your accounts. Use the tool on your banking account app(s) to confirm your monthly income and expenses. Tools like Mint also are great to track your spending to see where every dollar is going all in one place. Aside from personal use, for small business owners, Quickbooks is my favorite invoicing and expense-tracking option. 

Set Financial Goals & Realistic Limitations: Once you know your exact monthly income, budget your essentials, savings, investments, and fun money accordingly. Make sure necessities like rent, food, health insurance, electricity, WiFi, toiletries, etc. are accounted for before anything else. Depending on your financial situation, experts (not me – I try to educate myself as best as I can, but am no expert!) recommend trying to save and invest between 15-30% of your pre-tax income. Give yourself the liberty to spend the rest (say 15-20%) of your income, so you don’t feel deprived and stay on track with your goals.  

Invest Higher-Quality Items To Save Later: Initially purchasing a higher-quality item often cuts your overall expenses in a certain area over the long run. (Ex: Well-made clothing, shoes, furniture, kitchen appliances, coffee maker, hair dryer, etc.). If you invest upfront on an item you regularly use, there’s a lower chance that it will deteriorate, rip, break, or otherwise become unusable for the next few years. When you opt for the cheaper option, this practice might save you a few bucks in the short term, but you will probably end up having to replace it a few times over time and spend more in the long run. This tip might seem counterintuitive to some, but it truly does save you a lot of money (and frustration). However, I will place a caveat here and say that this advice comes from a place of privilege. Never purchase something you can’t afford. If you have the means, spend a bit more upfront - it is better for your future wallet, allows you to indulge in a better quality of life, and helps you let go of any scarcity mindset/financial limiting beliefs. 

Educate Yourself On The Different Types of Banking & Investment Accounts: Know the differences between and the use purpose of different accounts: Checking, Savings, CDs, 401K, Roth IRA, HSA, etc. Always opt for a high-yield savings account option to help preserve your money’s value over time with rising living costs and inflation. 

Establish Credit, But Know Yourself: Your credit score is like your adult report card. It’s essential for so many aspects of life, like renting or buying a home, insurance, cell phone plans, etc., so it’s important to start building your credit as early as you can. However, if you know you’re the type of person to overspend with a credit card, look into secured credit card options (you deposit the money that acts as a credit limit, so it’s like a debit card with credit-building benefits). 

Create An Emergency Fund: Pay yourself first. Have between 3-12 months of expenses available in a high-yield savings account at all times. If you have a family or are self-employed, aim for 6-12 months of necessary savings to stay sane. Saving this amount of money takes time. Be patient, and cut back on frivolous expenses if needed for the short term. 

Leverage Credit Card Benefits: If you have enough self-control, always use a credit card instead of a debit card – but spend in the same way you would as though the money is coming directly out of your bank account. This gives you additional flight and other purchasing perks, such as cashback and exclusive discounts. Using a credit card provides additional security, too.

Understand The Power of A Roth IRA (or Backdoor Roth IRA, depending on your income) & HSA: Compound interest is your best friend financially. Depending on your income, invest as much as you can into a Roth IRA account or set up a backdoor Roth IRA through your brokerage firm (I use Vanguard!). HSA (Health Saving Accounts) accounts offer so many benefits – they can serve as a tax write-off, lower your overall healthcare costs, and be leveraged to use as an additional retirement investment account, too (I use Fidelity). 

Automate Whenever Possible: Automate a portion of your paycheck to savings and your investments, so you never see this money. Pay yourself first before spending (on anything but necessities). 

Get Familiar With Taxes & Write-offs: This mainly applies to anyone self-employed or a small business owner (been in the game for 5 years!). However, this point can also potentially be beneficial for students who can leverage an education credit for tax purposes. Explore all of your options to see what write-offs are available in your specific situation. Understand how your income and expenses influence your tax bracket. Investing in a CPA can save you a considerable amount of money and all of your sanity if you’re not a salaried employee. Look over the standardized section C document, and speak with a professional to help maximize your write-off potential (legally and honestly, of course). My CPA is my lifeline! 

Stay Informed About Employer Benefits: Always maximize your 401K match (whatever percentage that is at your company), any wellness perks (like a gym membership or massage credit), or any meals and car services credits for late nights/work trips. 

Purchase Seasonally & With Discount Codes (When Available): Try to purchase items off-season when you can (e.g. purchase classic winter closet staples in the summer when they’re on sale). Utilize plug-ins like Honey or Cently on your browser to have discount codes for any site readily available. 

Protect Yourself: Stay on top of fraud alerts. Freeze your credit bureau accounts if necessary. 

Read Books: Educate yourself on saving, investing, budgeting, building a business, etc. See the ‘Finance’ section of my Femme Fatale Booklist for some recommendations. I also love Graham Stephan’s Youtube channel – his videos are highly useful and practical for beginners in this life arena! 

Seek Expert Advice: Use licensed professionals (CPAs, brokerage firms, your bank, etc.) as a resource, too, for your personal goals. 

This is a lot to take in, so try to implement one action item (or a few) at a time, so you can work towards your goals without getting overwhelmed. Also, for reference, I’m in the United States, so all of these tips are focused on how the system works in my country - if you know of any international equivalents, feel free to drop them in the comments to guide others.

Hope this helps xx 

[the---hermit]

25|10|2023

Today focusing was a struggle. I don't know why my mind keeps jumping from one thought to another. I very much look forward to take a few days off studying before my new class starts in November. I do have a lot to get done, but I will prioritize at least two or three days of no work at all to recharge.

cozy hobbit autumn activities and productivity:

read first thing in the morning and finished the tenth volume of The Sandman

wrote a review for the book I just finished

finished a lecture of my power practices and men theories class and worked on another lecture as well

made a small overview of how my reading challenges are going, and I will soon be finally posting new updates here as well!

made a very quick monthly set up in my bullet jorunal

updated my reading journal

started reading the 11th volume of The Sandman

continued working on my crochet project while listening to padcasts

daily Irish practice on duolingo

📖: The Sandman vol.10 The Wake by Neil Gaiman, The Sandman vol.11 Endless Nights by Neil Gaiman (screaming crying I cannot believe the main body of the story is done, and this volume with a story for each one of the endless is so cool !!!), Hell Follower With Us by Andrew Joseph White

[thinkpink212]

Manifest with the New Moon 6/6/24

Hello lovelies, today we have a Gemini New Moon which is a great time to release the old and welcome in the new. This cycle around, I will be writing down a To-do list filled with 101 things I would like to manifest, achieve & receive. As a co-creator of my beautiful life, I think it is only fitting to make an overview so that the higher powers that be, my angels & I are all on the same page moving forward within this new energy.

For those who like examples, here are three.

My own apartment, 2 bedrooms, in x neighborhood, xx amount monthly fully furnished.

Savings account with a 60K balance available

Write the best-selling x-genre book, selling over 1 milion copies during the first month.

I suggest listening to your favorite songs, manifestation frequency music or write in silence. Once you get a nice flow going, it will roll out of you There are no deadlines or limitations. Remember to do your part, use the tasks list as a reminder of where you want to be in life and trust.

<3

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did i ever talk about the a4 planner notebooks i designed and had made on here? 👀 (they all have blank covers which i decorate with stickers each month)

blank inside cover (this is my may/june planner which i started decorating yesterday, so there's a thank you note from my raahatillustration order in there), all the printed pages are printed on square paper! next page is a 2024 and 2025 calendar (minimum print quantity was 10 books, so i designed each book to cover 2 months and had 12 printed, for 2 years supply!), followed by a blank grid for future log of the 2 months that come after the ones in the current notebook).

page for trackers! i use the left hand page to write the things i'm tracking (sideways in the top box, so a column of boxes is assigned to each activity/task), then colour in the boxes corresponding to the date and each activity/thing each day. also doubles as a migraine log (colour in the box containing the date when i have a migraine), and the blank column is so i can colour in a mood tracker. the right hand page is for making a record of what i'm reading and watching (genre, start date, end date, title and author if applicable). lots of extra space for decorating or notes if i want to.

monthly page! (2 per book). the left is for a monthly overview that is heavily decorated/all the things i'm doing are written in (no completed version to show bc i have too much personal info in my completed ones to redact. sad bc they turn out very cute!!!). the space underneath that is where i stick in a copy of the playlist i'm listening to that month/any decorations i want to add. the boxes at the bottom have 31 spaces, so on the left of that i write down 4 physical therapy things i track to fill in each day. on the right hand page is where i write a little brief list of things that will be nice the following day, then the grids at the bottom are for me to shade in 'the degree to which i went outside', and a 'big picture' idea of the weather.

weekly spread! (10 per book). how i keep on top of the day! for vertical planning, with a running list-ish style chores log on the top left corner, and a blank setup on the top left corner of the right page for things i want to achieve across the week but that i can't assign to a specific day yet (or take place over multiple days). lots of room for me to stick in photos, a column for notes, and a gap at the base of the page for me to track other things. i colour code each month so it's easier for me to keep track of where i am in time, so a strip of washi tape goes along the bottom 3 rows of squares, and then above that i'm left with 3 more rows of squares - in the 'notes' column i pick 3 things to track, and then draw a line across the column for each day of the week when i do that activity/task in the corresponding row. for example:

weekly horizontal spread (10 per book). this is for my daily reflections, i write down things like my step count for keeping track of health stuff/energy expenditure, when i got up/any time i had to lay down, a bullet point summary of all the activities i did that day, times i made a decision that was, like, good for me, things like that!

blank squared pages (7 per book) and inside back cover for miscellaneous uses. i've used them for far for garden planning diagrams and collages, sticking in notes and ephemera, and collecting odds and ends of stationery. i usually stick an envelope that i've made inside the back cover so i can stuff a bunch of papers in there as i accumulate them (receipts, tags from clothes, order delivery notes, etc), for example:

tada! really happy with how these turned out, very good investment of the money i would have put into buying a hobonichi each year for example, which is simply too small for my needs!

[adam-luvs-shostakovich]

biased interpretations, book #16.

featuring a monthly overview! I'm hoping to better organize my life in terms of events. I've never been good at keeping up a planner, but I think this is a good no-stress planner alternative. it's called an "everything book" for a reason

notebook is the Fabriano Inspira (A6) in black

[azure-cherie]

Paid services [closed]

Hi lovelies i would like to introduce you to my paid services section, I am an intuitive reader+ a tarot reader , i also have been learning vedic astrology+ persona charts and asteroids , my main aim to introduce this service is to save for my future , along with helping anyone who is in need . I will keep the service open for times when I'm available energetically and not caught up in my life.

Please note that I only use Google Pay :) for now

DM TO BOOK

If you aren't familiar with my work here check out my Masterlist

I hope you find what you're looking for :

Tarot + intuition

Each of the readings will be supplied to your email id through pdf format .

One card reading - INR 150 , $1.82

Two cards reading - INR 170 , $ 2.07

Free mood boards for lifestyle and essence for each reading below :

Frequency check :

A brief overview of your current energies, your frequency. INR 250 , $ 3.04 ( includes the colour of your aura, your current frequency waves in hz )

Amaranth :

•Your essence

•your effect on others

• what are your best qualities when it comes to endeavours of love and charming others .

INR 1300 , $15.61 , individual questions for INR 500 , $6.08

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•Messages from your ancestors

•advice on any topic you want from them

• How can you connect to them and honour them

INR 1300 , $15.61 , individual for INR 500 , $6.08

Snowflake rendition:

What is holding you back in love , what should you do about it

INR 900 , $ 10.94

Your calls :

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• what should you work on

• what can you make a career out of

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What do your dreams want to convey ? INR 500 , $6.08

Your months : for aug , sep , oct , nov , dec

Get a monthly subscription for readings in each month generally in the 1st , in case of inevitable delays , get it by the first week. Includes advice , events and lessons .

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starts from 1st of aug , can be asked anytime during the month , I will answer within a day

Astrology

Astrology readings will take time usually a week for smaller ones and 2 weeks for the detailed ones

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[archivesweats]

Ok I’m still agonizing about wanting to get a sterling ink planner or notebook so please enjoy (or not) this breakdown of my current system and the debate I’m having with myself re: what to purchase—under the cut

My current every day carry setup includes:

Paper republic A5 portfolio (note: too narrow to fit proper A5 comfortably, but perfect for moleskines)

Inside portfolio: blue moleskine for creative writing

Red moleskine for journal writing

Slipped into portfolio pocket: Log Book (where I keep track of what I did daily, monthly overview of events, monthly overview habit tracking, tracking when I water my plants, grocery and to-do lists) this is just made from maruman loose leaf paper I cut, stapled, and rounded the corners on

On top of the portfolio: A6 plain midori Mess Book (where I put anything and everything, doodles, stuff on the go, etc. it’s a mess)

Not in the everyday carry setup I have, at my desk:

A commonplace book

An ink notebook where I swatch, try mixes, do currently inked, keep track or purchases, and do transcription stuff.

Current issues with my system:

Main issue is that I got into fountain pens right after buying the portfolio and the moleskines.

The moleskines are not fountain pen friendly (the creative writing one is somewhat, but that’s the one I use the least frequently). This is partially why I bought the ink notebook, and entirely why I bought the midori mess book. Its main purpose is giving me a casual use book where I can use my fountain pens.

The portfolio doesn’t comfortably fit A5

I don’t want to abandon my moleskines 1/4 way through

I don’t want to abandon my portfolio at all

What I want, within the boundaries of not wanting to abandon any of my books, but feeling the itch to try out a sterling ink notebook or planner:

Something that can be my log book and my mess book at the same time. I make my log books every other month approximately and I’ll def be done my mess book by the new year, so I wouldn’t have to abandon them to replace them. They are similar in size, so I could easily combine them.

An A6 common planner would make most sense: log my days in the weekly pages, habit track in the quarterly sections, use the blank pages as mess book.

Issues that have me worried:

I want the horizontal weekly layout, but I like the two page spread like in the passport size. But passport is too small for the mess book and in A6 horizontal they cram all 7 days on one page, which is way too small.

Solution to this could be to get the vertical one and use it horizontally. This gives slightly more space. Still a bit worried because my current log book is just blank grid space, so I write as much or as little as I need and just draw a line between days

(Horizontal passport | horizontal A6 | vertical A6)

So the solution, if I decide that even the vertical version is potentially not enough space to log my days, is to just get the A6 notebook instead of the planner, and make my monthly overview spreads myself like I’m doing currently. Log my days from one end, do the mess book from the other.

I’m just a little lost and a little frustrated hat I wound up committing to journals that aren’t fountain pen friendly right before I got into fountain pens.

But even if I were to finish my moleskines and could replace them with a bigger planner, so I could log my day comfortably in the weekly section, and use the dailies for journaling I don’t know what I would do. This portfolio is just slightly too narrow for A5, and if I went with the B6, it would fit perfectly in width but have an awkward amount of empty space in length.

One thing I could do is get a compact B6 and keep the creative writing journal so at least one of the books would fill in the height of the portfolio. In this scenario, the B6 planner would be for log book and journal. And then I guess I could either get an A6 notebook from Sterling ink or another Midori for my mess book. But this scenario involves finishing my moleskine journal by the new year, or soon after I guess.

(Edit: the B6 horizontal only exists in full year. Don’t know if that would fit on top of the moleskine. So i would have to do B6 vertical 🥲)

asdfgghjkfkwfoemrnw what a mess

[sunset-peril]

Hyrule's Final Stand - Masterlist

Lore and Worldbuilding Overview (may have errors)

An Oversimplified View of ToZA's Royal Family

Hateno Village Social Makeup (TotK-era)

Wolfbred: The Affection Coded Beast Tribe

So Why Did Mipha Make the Zora Armor?

The Infected Dreamscape - Concepts and Lore from "Trial of the Zora Armor"

No Way to Forget - The Tragedy of Midna Marie Imperial

Testosterone Imbalance Disorder (Failed Mating Syndrome)

Wolfbred Social Titles

Hyrule's Caste System

Hyrule's Caste System - List of characters and their castes

Character Masterlists

*coming soon*

Book Covers

Trial of the Zora Armor

Saying Goodbye

Successors

Other Art

Link and Zelda Original Reference Sheets - Trial of the Zora Armor (disclaimer - Link is missing his facial scars due to them being added later on)

Link's Reference Sheet

The Wolfbred Chronicles - A Short Story Collection

The "Lost" Tribe - Part One - Moonlight, Markings and Musings

The "Lost" Tribe - Part Two - To Zora's Domain

Trial of the Zora Armor

TOZA Chapter One

TOZA Chapter Two

TOZA Chapter Three

TOZA Chapter Four

TOZA Chapter Five

TOZA Chapter Six 

TOZA Chapter Seven

TOZA Chapter Eight

TOZA Chapter Nine

TOZA Chapter Ten

TOZA Chapter Eleven

TOZA Chapter Twelve

TOZA Chapter Thirteen 

TOZA Chapter Fourteen

TOZA Chapter Fifteen

TOZA Epilogue

Saying Goodbye (readers recommend tissues...)

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Successors

Prologue

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Epilogue 

Link, Wolfbred King

Chapter One

Chapter Two

One-shots and Ficlets

Khosha, Wife of Revali

Kabre's Tale

Guilty as Ganon

Guilty as Ganon - Epilogue

To Heir is Champion - Urbosa

Monthly Events (-tobers, May events, etc)

2021 Shiptober - Day 1 - Enemies

Zora May 2024 - Sentimental/Tears

Other

Link actually had knight friends (based on AoC content)

This discussion about Wolfbred lore that I'm shoving here until I get less lazy and write it down neatly in another post

Iconic Queen Zelda quote that's going here for whatever reason

Link's Social Relationships - TotK era

TotK Era Headcanons/Trivia

"Perfection" aka "Failure" the "Perfect" Ancient Wolfbred

This TotK Sage Link Idea That I Got Struck With

King Rhoam's Contrition (courtesy of @aikoiya)

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Yes, you are permitted to make fanart/fanfiction of anything linked above.

[wearethekat]

March Book Review Overview

Even Though I Knew The End (CL Polk)

Unraveller (Frances Hardinge)

One Dark Window (Rachel Gillig)

Barbary Station (RE Stearns)

The Bruising of Qilwa (Naseem Jamnia)

The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen (KJ Charles)

The Dragon Round (Stephen Power)

The God Eaters (Jesse Hajicek)

The Pirate of Fathoms Deep (Megan Derr)

A Suitable Replacement (Megan Derr)

A Shadow in Summer (Daniel Abrahams)

Impractical (Megan Derr)

AITA?: A Modern Fairy Tale (Cassie Alexander)

The King's Peace (Jo Walton)

Lord of the Last Heartbeat (May Peterson)

The Shuddering City (Sharon Shinn)

The Icarus Hunt (Timothy Zahn)

The Immortal City (May Peterson)

A House With Good Bones (T Kingfisher)

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November Reads

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop 📚 ☆☆☆☆☆

Helle and Death ❄️ ☆☆☆☆

The Christmas Murder Game 🏰 ☆☆☆☆☆

[gettiregretti]

Kalluzeb AU Masterpost Kalluzeb Kofi: Shop and Monthly Club Here

Find all story ideas in one spot here. If you are inspired by anything or want to use any idea/design here, no problem! You don’t need to ask permission. I would appreciate a shoutout for it if possible, and I would LOVE a link to what you make!

My Love, My Enemy - Ezra discovers a romance holonovella written about a Lasat and an ISB agent stranded on a forgotten moon. Zeb becomes a sex symbol of the Rebellion overnight, but the book isn’t all that it seems…

Holonovel Cover and Mini Fic. Mini Fic complete on AO3

Two Steps Back - Kallus is faced once again with Oltok; the merc who brutally murdered his men. His psyche breaks and he loses all the progress he’s managed to make with Zeb, the Spectres, and the Rebellion. It takes being captured by the Partisans to make him realise he can’t let his own fear make him cruel like them. (The art in this one is old so apologies in advance)

Reunited Illustration Hold Onto Me Illustration Kallus is Angry that Zeb is Injured Comic 1 Comic 2 Don’t Say Goodbye Kallus and Oltok

The Hunt - Zeb and Kallus are bounty hunters who have become rivals. They compete to get the juiciest bounties first. They leave calling cards and taunts scrawled on walls. Eventually ‘all’s fair in love and war’ kicks in, and it becomes totally acceptable to seduce each other to score a mark first. Eventually they both take in a mark they shouldn’t, and make enemies of the Hutt. It’s only when the game is over that they realise the depth of what they feel for one another.

Kallus Captures Zeb Zeb Captures Kallus

Imperial Zeb AU - Lasan was never destroyed, just assimilated. The Honour Guard are taken in as elite fighters on behalf of the Emperor and at the behest of their own Empress. They don’t know that the royal family have already been killed, and that the Lasat are being used to Palpatine’s own ends. It’s as part of the Empire that Zeb and Kallus meet. It isn’t in Zeb’s nature to be cruel and back oppression, however, so he starts asking questions…and he takes the stick-in-the-mud ISB agent always partnered with him along for a ride to see the rebels.

Imperial Zeb Design

By Your Hand - Zeb and Kallus meet more than once after Bahryn. They keep meeting, in fact, like fate wills it so. Kallus can’t help the way he responds to Zeb; his thoughts and also his body betraying the Empire he has fought so hard to protect. His mind is opened by Zeb, and his life changed. But when he gets to the Rebellion, Zeb isn’t willing to face what they have become to each other.

First Illustration and Full Fic Part 1 - About 15k words

Fic Part 2 - Ongoing NEW

Lira San Life - Not an AU, just snapshots of their time together after they finally get the chance to stop, catch their breath, and BE. Together.

In Kallus’ Garden Kallus’ Lira San Clothing Lira San Wedding

Rebel Cell - ABO AU - as part of his torture, the Empire changes Kallus’ body. At first Kallus thinks he might be a bioweapon of some kind, but as the days pass he realises it is much more humiliating than deadly. The only person he can rely on to help him through this artificial heat is Garazeb Orrelios.

Fic on AO3 (Complete). Fic part 2 (Ongoing). Recharging artwork Sharp teeth/bite artwork

Bodyguard AU / Honourable Discharge AU - Kallus’ father pulls him from military service after the catastrophic injuries Kallus survived on Onderon. He wants Kallus to lead their wealthy business one day instead. Dismissive of his son’s PTSD, he hires a Lasat merc as a bodyguard when business rivals threaten Alex’s life. Zeb, struggling with finding any kind of work after the fall of Lasan, finds himself babysitting a prissy, self-important, veteran-princeling who is terrified of him and trying desperately not to show it.

Kallus Businesswear Kallus and Zeb on Coruscant Overview Ficlet

Death Match - Gladiator AU - Zeb never got out of the fighting pits, and has become a near legendary, celebrity fighter within them. The planet hosting his indentured matches kisses up to the Empire and offers their officers free viewings to brutal fights, sumptuous food, and sensuous dancers. Kallus’ colleague wants to take his number in the ISB, and he’s an underhanded snake about it. He traps Kallus in the underground chambers of the fighting ring, and leaves him to be murdered there. Instead, Kallus is taken in by Zeb and fights his way to the top, and his subsequent rescue via ISB interference. After he wins his freedom, he becomes Zeb’s patron. Everyone suspects Kallus uses his new fighter for pleasure. Which is a fantastic cover story, and also something Kallus finds himself horrified to be longing for in reality.

First Illustration

Galactic Courtesan - Kallus outfits Kallus and Zeb meeting to exchange information

Disneyfication - Rebels in the style of the Mouse

Kallus and Zeb Hera and Kanan Imperial Kallus Swan Princess Style

[the---hermit]

27|02|2023

Yesterday I spent most of my day reading and it was great. Today didn't start as planned tho. It has snowed from yesterday afternoon to today's late morning, and I was so afraid the bus would cause problems (because they do when the weather is fine, so snow for them is a big deal) I skipped class. I decided to avoid commuting for a two hour lecture and the risk of being stuck in the city. I still woke up at 4:45, because of course it was a last minute decision, so I didn't even get the real benefits of skipping class. I did get some studying done of course. As for how I am feeling, it's definitely slowly going better, I am still not at my best, but I want to be grateful of all small emprovements. At the end of the week I will have my monthly therapy session, and I am very much looking forward to that. On a completly different topic I have almost filled it the journal I am currently using for daily entries, which is making me really excited, because it means I will get to buy new notebook! I am doing my best to stay excited for small things, so here it is a small thing that I look forward to. I might go on the hunt for it tomorrow, I don't know yet, and I don't know yet what type of notebook I am looking for, I think I'll just get the one that calls to me the most.

Productivity:

Posted this updated of the 2023 genre bingo

Did a bit of planning of uni materials I have to study for the classes I am taking at the moment (I just wrote everything down on my bullet journal so I can see everything all at once and break it into smaller steps, this way I have an overview of what I have to do and what I have done already)

Started reading and annotating the second set of protohistory notes provided by the professor (for some reason I am working very slowly on them, I don't know if it's me still being quite tired or just the process of working on those specific notes)

Started reading and annotating the first book I have to study for my history of libraries and reading class

Practiced Irish on duolingo

Continued reading Harrow The Ninth (my brain is melted by this book, I am stuggling to put it down when I read it because I need to know more)

Self care:

Read in the morning

Drank lots of water, and probably even more tea

Journaled

Face scrub

📖: Harrow The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, How We Read Now by Naomi S. Baron

[honeytonedhottie]

Hi Honey,

[Long post incoming, skip to P.S, if you don't have time to read through]

I am trying to get myself more organised. I am used to living in messy bedrooms and cluttered closets (to be honest, I feel more productive that way, is it problematic, I don't know) but anyways I went through your Notion template and it resonated with me, only problem I am more of a book or binder girl and I did buy a new ruled notebook for this new year, one month went by and I didn't use it at all, Can you guide me through making a planner I have searched online and they have things like monthly, yearly and weekly planners and people plan their meals and all, I want it to be effective and your Notion templates makes sense to me and I have a feeling you would understand my way of working and I would love your help.

P.S: In short can you make a guide on making an effective planner.

Not trying to butter you or anything, just wanted to say genuinely grateful your blog exists, It has helped me a lot.

hi here-for-the-extravaganza 🫶🏽 so i hope this helps you out

MAKING AN EFFECTIVE PLANNER

buying the right planner ; for physical planners i prefer to buy planners that include lots of space for additional writing instead of just the date. yk those ones? make sure to get a binder/planner that u think is cute and has space for a to-do list, monthly overview kinda calendar etc.

if ur working from scratch with a binder you can buy a cute binder or decorate it with stickers and things of the sort. for the paper i recommend graph paper bcuz its neater in my opinion but whatever floats ur boat.

on that paper make space for the following ;

monthly calendar (with a little column for monthly goals)

weekly agenda (you can create a new agenda every week if u have the time/energy to do so) but if u dont then you can try...

writing the days of the week and beneath them were gonna try and replicate the concept of a toggle list. its basically like writing "monday" and there are little sub-tasks written below, like what u have to do on that day.

so how i'd do it, is i'd write the day of the week as a header/title. then beneath it i'd use little sticky notes (bonus points if u color coordinate) and then i'd write my tasks on the sticky notes. that way, when a new week comes i dont have to create a whole new agenda, i can simply remove the sticky notes but still keep the structured agenda if that makes sense.

reflection space (to reflect on the productivity of ur month/week/day and what u can improve on and what u can keep doing)

my thing is, if u wanna do a physical planner, whether its an already made planner or a binder, just make sure that u have SPACE for things like that.

i hope you found this helpful 🙈

[isfjmel-phleg]

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