Mia’s life is so hard. No one ever feeds her, so she is forced—forced!—to scavenge for dropped scraps of cheese on the kitchen floor. It is the only thing that sustains her. She is wasting away before our very eyes.

I think more pieces of fiction should be brave enough to shamelessly name their protagonist or moral centre character “hero.”

Posts for my newer followers: did you know I have my whole entire back tattooed.

It’s honestly kind of fascinating how the name Mórrígan has penetrated pop culture with no particular accompanying association of its origin or significance.

Today is fired in every respect. I am so full of forks running up against my limits over and over. I wanted to write today but all I feel capable of is curling up in a little ball and crying.

I feel very stupid for crying about stuff that objectively does not matter and will stop bothering me as soon as I get used to it but also I am experiencing far too many forks today and I just want it all to stop.

There are some updates to job’s guidelines for requesting image creation. I don’t mind at all Updating The Guidelines, that’s a regular part of my job, but I AM grumpy about the fact that the changes to image REQUESTS are going to necessitate me changing part of my process as a CREATOR of images.

The worst part is how completely fucking invisible it is to anyone who isn’t affected by it. I have this same problem with religious shit. STOP calling it the office Christmas party I swear to god, we are NOT a religious institution and there are employees here who are explicitly non-Christian!!

Being the first/only out nonbinary person in a corporate job is so fucking exhausting sometimes. Especially a job that also functions in your extremely gendered second language where none of the androgynous neologisms are considered acceptably formal language yet.

Some people are truly so weird about anyone shipping enemies to lovers. I’m so glad for you that you prefer ships that start out as rivals or friends or strangers but that doesn’t make you a better person actually.

here's xue yang's character song from the untamed ost 荒城渡 loosely translates to "time in the desolate city" i arranged this 4 years ago and only got around to recording it now p.s. the tinkling sounds are because this song is really about xingchen 星尘 (✨️stardust) #PianoCovers #TheUntamed #陈情令

Shrimp caesar wraps for dinner. 🍽️

I’m about to make a bold statement, y’all. Caesar wraps are better when they have croutons in them.

Day-after update: just under two hours tonight for nearly twenty-five hundred words.

One day I’m going to write a fic where every sex scene is relevant not just to building the relationship but also to the Plot.

Vaguely adjacent tangent my brain has now also led me down: I hate the idea that “autistic safe foods” is a concrete and definable category. Sorry but white North American cook-from-frozen packaged meals are not in fact what every autistic in the world considers “safe” on a bad sensory day actually.

Perhaps my most controversial opinion is that the office “rule” about not microwaving fish/curry/other strong-smelling foods is overblown and that if I, an autistic with a strong sense of smell and scent-related sensory sensitivities, can simply Deal With It, so can all the neurotypicals.

Poses seductively. Good evening friends. Were you aware that I know how to fold a fitted sheet.

Good evening friends. I have spent the last four and a half hours writing NEARLY SIX THOUSAND WORDS of my exchange fic.

a lot of people for some reason do not think it really cool how we are just animals participating in the ancient exchange of nutrients via slaughter, decay, and growth

Once again I do find myself, while abstractly aware of how it happens, deeply baffled by anyone who can eat meat without being acutely conscious of the fact that they’re eating part of an animal.

Baked trout, buttered carrots with raisins, and some of the whole wheat challah for dinner tonight. 🍽️

Had a commenter yesterday who left four (4) comments on fics in my kink AU series and one (1) comment on a short slice-of-life G-rated original story I also have on AO3. Delightful. No notes.

Hehehe VERY important.

Doing cultural anthropology again tonight (watching Gone With the Wind).

Genuinely so funny (derogatory) how I constantly get accused of being a “white knight” on facebook for [checks notes] telling men they’re being misogynists while having a name that reads as male. Sir some of us simply believe in gender equality regardless of gender, but also, I’m not a man, DUMBASS.

LRP: A Wangxian + Mianmian polyamory fic with Mianmian as a knight and Wei Wuxian as a dragon, inspired by the Enchanted Forest Chronicles? Oh I cannot WAIT to read this.

the trials and tribulations of knight luo, her prince, and her dragon @mdzsbigbang.bsky.social 🔗 archiveofourown.org/works/73928776 #MDZS #WangXian #WangXianMian

Today’s The Day.

So far nearly every exchange recipient I’ve written for has identified me by the time they got through the author’s note and also Zint keeps playing bingo with my work. So. Yes, apparently.

Made squash soup again today. 🍽️

Here's how they're looking after two weeks of squirrels and the first snow of the year

We went over to the nearby produce-focused independent grocery after Alex’s appointment because doctors are stressful and looking at objects helps him relax. We planned to get some guavas for him and maybe a vegetable. We came out with $58 of stuff because we cannot be trusted in grocery stores.

Cab driver saw we were both wearing masks and put one on too. :’)

Getting older is cool. I keep discovering foods I used to hate as a kid it turns out are actually pretty nice.

I know I’ve talked before about the ways pop culture tends to demand “authenticity” or assume autobiography from musicians in ways that aren’t necessarily applied to other artists who are more obviously playing a character or creating fiction, but I’m thinking about it again today.

Walked into the bathroom to unexpectedly find this absolute pancake.

The best possible interpretation of Mr. Green is that he actually is gay and is in a lavender marriage and is using “I’m gay and have to keep it secret or risk losing my job” as his “false” cover story for his FBI work.

Waxplay candles with a warning to keep them at least THREE FEET above the skin to allow the wax to cool before it falls. Motherfucker do you want me to get a STEPLADDER.

Arguing about what date it's acceptable to start playing Christmas music is a distraction. The actual answer is "religious music should not be being played in secular public spaces unless you're actively making an effort to play music for ALL religious holidays, not just the dominant religion's."

Sometimes you've got to accept that if you don't understand what people are talking about, the conversation isn't for you. Even if someone is kind enough to stop and educate you, you can't reasonably expect to have an opinion worth listening to about a topic you didn't know existed five minutes ago.

Number of times Ron Hawkins has referenced antifacism in his set so far: at least three.

Opener just introduced himself as “I’m Greg.” Fantastically nonspecific, no notes.

Once again at a show where we are the youngest people in the room, a frequent occurrence with both my husband and our friend Conor.

Sorry to anyone who follows me for non-Yi City-related reasons (not really, you knew what you were getting into) but it IS exchange season and I am rarely thinking about anything else for more than half an hour at a stretch.

I always feel so gently perplexed when someone really loves two of the ships within sxx but not the third one. I know that people can like all sorts of things for all kinds of reasons but on an emotional level I genuinely can’t grasp why anyone WOULDN’T want to close the triangle.

Hey did you know that if your body hurts and you do some stretches there’s a very good chance it will feel better? It’s frankly very rude.

Once again thinking about that collaboration between a Mongolian throat singer/horsehead fiddle player and a Latvian pipe and drum band.

My roommates are cool. I like hanging out with them a lot. 🥰

I do love when I start saying words about Yi City at exactly the right time and then come back to fifteen new notifications every five minutes whenever I check my timeline.