Feels like the people in the writers room for Stranger Things had almost as much contempt for their audience as the writers for BBC Sherlock did. Which is honestly impressive.

Just realized what Vecna being suspended in his lair thing in s5 reminds me of:

Wanting to teach myself to get better at art just so I can draw my characters

The term “metrosexual” being resurrected in any form in the year 2026 is wild

Biting the bullet and watching Stranger Things s5. I didn’t love s4, but it’s only a few episodes so I may as well see it through and, if I don’t like it, examine why. That being said, I greatly enjoy the snake being named Jake. I choose to believe that’s a Jake the Snake Roberts reference.

Was clicking through the WoT wiki as you do, and as I open Lopin’s page I was greeted with a fuckin ai portrait. Gross. Guess I’ll be exclusively using Encyclopedia WoT now.

I just put $4k into my car this month. This bitch just keeps breaking in new ways which sucks because I love this car. I think I’m gonna have to get a new one this soon after sinking that much money into it and that’s beyond infuriating.

I think the universe decided to “reward” those of us (me) who’ve been lamenting over climate change stealing our snowy winters. One storm later and we went from considerably below the average to more than the season’s average of snowfall. So much shoveling.

There are WAY too many library books checked out on my card rn (the stack reaches my knee 😵‍💫), so while I would love to use today’s snow storm to catch up on wrestling or play SDV, I will be reading. Think I can finish off the first Bobiverse book and maybe a manga and some poetry.

TIL that The Mountain Goats have a Song for Sasha Banks and this is the description. “When Beat the Champ came out, a wrestler named Sasha Banks tweeted at me: ‘Where’s my song @mountain_goats?’” Mercedes being a goats fan makes me love her even more. #AEW

Okay I updated my iphone this week and I am 100% convinced there’s something fucking wrong with the keyboard now. I am making so many more typos than normal and they are simply not ones I typically make. I feel like I’m losing my fucking mind.

I’m still two weeks behind but holy crap are we finally getting the beginnings of a protoshita face turn (or at least exodus from the DCF)??? I am so here for this #AEW

Having to leave my house and go to work on the coldest day of the year is not particularly enjoyable. My hands are not looking forward to negative temperatures

Open discord to seeing a friend listening to AFYSCO and like damn so true

“The Adventures of Jester Jackalope” my debut album January 30th

First thought upon reading this was that I’d love to see a linguistics book/essay that examines grammatically gibberish memes. Could include the likes of “man door hand hook car door” and “why is it called oven when you of in the hot food and of out hot eat the food”

Was distracted last night when I started the bottom ribbing on my sweater so this morning I’m having to fix ~40 stitches that were knit and purled in the wrong order. Now that I’ve done half, I’m realizing it might’ve been quicker to frog the whole row. Oh well

I wish bluesky would allow us to mute only reposts from an account. There are some people I enjoy following but there is no reason for me to care about a person constantly reposting their own replies to their own posts. I’m sorry but it’s just fucking annoying to see the same post over and over.

That one verse from Up the Wolves just feels more and more pertinent with each passing week.

My take is that Heated Rivalry baits viewers in with either the promise of A) hockey show or B) gay erotica and before they know it, they’re invested in this shockingly kind depiction of intricately nuanced characters and situations and all the messy humanity they come with.

Reading a book by an author of Armenian descent has me attempting to correct for the fact that, until now, I never looked into that aspect of my own heritage.

If I’m lucky (aka if my hand doesn’t get sore), I think I’ll finish the body of my Flax sweater today. Five more rows of stockinette to go >:]

It was exactly one of these fuckers. You can tell I was overcompensating because I have never in my life earnestly wanted to express myself with pastels and yet I was walking around with this mf in my hand.

Listening to a 2016 retrospective as I knit and it just whacked me upside the head with a memory. As an extraordinarily closeted (repressed) trans teen, I had one of those clunky rubber phone cases that was pastels and shaped like a bottle that said “boy’s tears” 💀

Looking up a male actor/wrestler/whoever only to find out he’s my age or younger than me despite looking like he’s got at least 5 years on me… I wish testosterone would hurry up with making me look my age 😭

Whenever I crochet or knit for long stretches of time I end up straining my right wrist. In other words, I spent too many hours knitting on Sunday, so today I am wearing a brace in hopes that I can continue work on this sweater tonight.

I have now read 2 books since I finished R.F. Kuang’s Babel. Both of these wildly different books have mentioned Babel (the tower, not the book). I cannot recall any other book I’ve read in the last couple years that referenced it. 💙📚

The urge to rewatch The Summer Hikaru Died is so strong right now but it is already so late. Alas.

I was gifted a yarn bowl for christmas. Went to use it today only to find that the interior of the swirl and cutouts to thread yarn through aren’t sanded. Like I can’t pull yarn through it without it catching and pulling. Just ordered some sanding sticks to fix it

Bandido bullfighting with Beast Mortos is so good. That’s my kind of humor bro #AEW

Currently reading We are Legion (We are Bob) and I’m about a quarter of the way through it. I think I love the premise but am wary on the humor. Was hoping this would scratch the absurd sci-fi humor niche that DCC made me enjoy but we’re not quite there yet. Hoping it turns up tho

TIL that Louise Erdrich is Ojibwe. I haven’t read any of her books, but I’ve worked closely with many patrons who have. Looking at her work, I’m seeing it classified as Native American Renaissance literature, which is really heartening to see from such a popular author. I’ll have to give her a read

AEW sending subliminal messages in the accent colors of the wrestlers that this match would be Trouble

Buddy and I watched Mox’s World’s End matches this week and I’m now catching the rest of the card. Watching Takeshita vs Okada is like watching two primordial entities shake the world with their dance. They’re both just *so* good. #AEW

I would love for another show to fall into the current zeitgeist in the same way Heated Rivalry has but with a trans story being told. It’s shocking how well Heated Rivalry has done considering the recent conservative push, n I think it’d just be good to humanize trans folks right abt now in media

Is this the common denominator I’ve been searching for? The way to marry two seemingly disparate interests? 😂 Knitting Wrestling 🤝 Heel turn

Saw a clip of apparently a straight dude saying heated rivalry should’ve gone all in with gay nods by having the fictionalized teams be the Boston Bears and Ottawa Otters. Kinda love that take ngl

“What, you egg?” I quote as I stab myself with my weekly T shot.

So I’m now caught up to Christmas in terms of wrestling 😅 But I am absolutely living for this Takeshita/Dorada match. Whenever I remember that Máscara Dorada is younger than me, my brain kinda just breaks for a couple seconds. #AEW

Because of poor time management on my part this morning, I didn’t eat much before work. Meaning I had to wolf down a ton of food at 8:30pm 😅 But somehow my macros still almost perfectly matched my goals despite only choosing the easiest foods I had, so I’ll take that win.

Spending my morning before work writing on the use of speculative fiction as a mode to imagine (and potentially a tool to create) a healthy queer future. Happy Wednesday :]

Hangman calling out MJF for being a misogynistic asshole and the crowd later chanting “kiss, kiss” as Swerve gives Hanger an adversarial if weighty look while yelling at Max. Great shit right here.

I’m close to the end of the C2 (I think), and so far this Takeshita/Orange Cassidy match I just watched is my favorite. They both came out the gate swingin and the entire match just felt so good. #AEW

Don't think I can stomach contemplating the state of the world this afternoon, so instead I am going to read about the queerness of nature and perhaps watch some AEW or figure skating. But first, workout time so I can continue in my endeavor to get jacked. Hot boy summer is on the horizon after all

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Funny that they tout “trust” after shattering the trust that patrons, librarians, and authors had in their service. Fuck outta here with this bullshit. Sincerely, a librarian.

A really promising fantasy story read like it hadn’t been copyedited at all from a first draft, but my final straw was ~20pgs in when the mc was using standard arrows with a heavy crossbow (and that “heavy” crossbow was in no way a heavy crossbow)

Heated Rivalry’s been out there for a bit now, so I was curious what the hold situation for the books was looking like in my library network. Game Changer: 56 physical holds, 232 ebook holds Heated Rivalry: 121 physical holds, 330 ebook holds Wild to see gay erotica doing those numbers.

Anytime I see Hangman’s emo cowboy jacket with the black paisley pattern inside all I think of is the line from Paid in Cocaine, “dark paisley from retail slut” I’d like to think whenever @themountaingoats.bsky.social is associated with wrestling, an angel gets its wings

I am so unbelievably behind on AEW thanks to holidays and both beginning- and end-of-the-year stressors. That being said, I’m currently watching the holiday bash. Roddy vs Mox is a great match to come back to :)