Loving taking @violintj.rockhardcauc.us into book stores and having him spot the books he's seen me reading. Also appreciate when he buys me books.

Thursdays are for movies thaf Charlie XCX is not in, but did the soundtrack for. Fridays are for movies she is in, but did not do the soundtrack for.

Talking about figure skating so passionately that people not directly in the conversation ask if you were at some point a figure skater.

Wuthering Heights, still a better love story than Twilight *scratch* actually no it really isn't and never was supposed to be.

Wuthering Heights Novel -> Bodice Ripper -> Weird Girl Lit -> Emeral Fennell movie

I keep seeing ads for tomato flavored things and I'm scared.

My email job keeps expecting me to be in person in different states. I have accidentally taken the wrong corporate route.

There are few things that bring me more joy than being able to log into youtube on a hotel tv

listen to my new episode of my podcast where we drink King of Duck Shit devo-teas.transistor.fm/episodes/mou...

Going back to the cottage.

RHC 235 is out. Listen to us talk about important endorsements, important college courses, and important legislative bills. Plus: Rob Sand got $250k from WHO?! Full episode on any podcast platform or right here: soundcloud.com/rockhardcauc...

White men's culture (superbowl) followed by white women's culture (tarot readings).

Yelling about Heated Rivalry at the football party, "Go to the cottage and then you can holler back at me!!!"

I've been real bad about promoting our next Naughty Nerds show. Come see us tomorrow night (Friday 2/6 – doors at 7, show at 8) at xBk Live in Des Moines! I'll be panty wrangling and picking up tips on the stage with my shiny new grabber thing. 🦖

Boss babe'd too close to the sun and now I have two drive two states away for work next week.

"...all that we have been spared from experiencing, but which we know has happened"

I spend about 5% of any given day attempting to convince my friends to watch Heated Rivalry.

Finally went to West Des Moines Library and got a library card. Already on the third book I got and it has a queer knitter as the main character.

While I am here I want to throw out some examples of worthwhile books. As I said in my thread all trans authors. Please see the alt text for the authors and titles. These books include extreme depictions of death and sexuality, but if you read the blurbs and feel up to it I highly recommend.

Mulling over extreme horror novels and why I oscillate between thinking they're important art and wanting to throw them all in a fire. Just read The Teratologist and it made my issues more clear to me. The novel is written well, but obviously dwells on either the sexual fetishes of the authors ..

Cyberpunk worlds with car like vehicles do not properly cover the hell of parking.

Never DNFed a book faster. Literally quit it on page two. Also keep hearing bad things about the author.

Since Dracula is releasing in the US reminder that Luc Besson literally married a child and also the movie is not good (like accidentally goofy, bad cgi, boring).

The only book I remember much from last month is Vanishing World. End hits some tough topics head on, but it's a book that I will be thinking about repeatedly going forward.

Not to slander the Des Moines Pride Center, but I am confused about how accessible a library is if it is by appointment only? It appears on the Pride Center website that how to donate or volunteer is easily accessible online information, but how to access materials is all "contact us" information.

We talked to @theswinerepublic.bsky.social yesterday! The full interview is available wherever you listen to podcasts, probably, or you can go straight to the source: soundcloud.com/rockhardcauc...

Rewatching Heated Rivalry and crying when Ilya wins the cup and shouts "I did it for you mom" in Russian.

Giving into Heated Rivalry and reading the books.

I think there are so many cool filmmakers doing cool shit (while not being scum) that I gotta start judging places that act like Eli Roth is a “master of horror”.

I love the public library

Update. I DNFed the China Mieville/ Keanu Reeves book (second person *shudder*). And three more I decided to get on audiobook. So I kinda got through 6 books???

Update it was pre period crying as well.

I wonder how pumped my bisexual ex who loved Letter Kenney is about Heated Rivalry. Is it more or less than how he felt about that Freddy Mercury biopic.

Am I crying about the crimes of ICE, my family, or Heated Rivalry? Constant toss up.

More than a year into mourning and it's still the most tiny random things that make me cry. Today it was a useless poorly made oven mitt.

I have too many library books right now. Forcing myself to finish or DNF one a day this week. Monday and Tuesday were these Audiobooks.

This library copy is a signed first edition???

I have never before seen an author put their height in their profile...

I no longer give any fucks about the back of my work.

Also remember to double check items in libby to make sure they're not AI. The author or narrator will be labeled when this is the case.

This book was like a Chuck Tingle Book meets Stephen Graham Jones or Grady Hendrix without reaching the levels of any of their work. It was fun, but didn't dig deep into the human condition or issues of our world. Felt surface level.

Finally finished this punch needle kit. Kit estimated 4 hours. I took at least 20 and I had taken a punch needle class and was pretty confident.

This gd hockey show keeps making me cry.

Had a twilight reading party (anniversary of Bella moving to Forks) with sparkly strawbs and ravioli.

The sharing 2016 pictures trend made me remember that I was in an abusive relationship in 2016 and literally have no pictures of myself that entire year.

People frequently bring up coersion and lack of consent that can happen when creating porn and it makes me wonder if people don't think that happens in the production of other art forms? I also have concerns on the above, but I think of it with every movie, tv show... etc

Thinking about this again. 😂

Finally finished this embroidery doll after about 80 hours!

I wish more leaders would consider how their use of AI may reflect poorly on them. Laughing about how bad a picture in their deck that AI generated is rather than considering that the people watching will blame them for the deck being bad.