The teacher I work with just casually mentioned that one of her cousins was a YouTuber. Turns out it's Joov. A YouTuber I've watched countless hours of. 😂😂😂

I think I found this week's belated blog post. 😂

I want to like solar punk, but I can't get past the "everything is ecologically perfect now, past people were just stupid" fantasy. I want more in-progress solar punk. "Yeah, we solved a lot of manufacturing issues, but we still have no fucking clue what to do with these old landfills." #booksky

When the character in an ocean horror ignores the warning and dives deeper. #booksky

I wish trad publishing had never learned that they can get people to buy a ton of literally any book if they just make it pretty. #booksky

Reasons the book version of Wizard of Oz is better: - Tin Woodsman and Lion killing several creepy motherfuckers - the flying monkeys being a sentient, but cursed race - FOUR witches - Dorothy speed walking across a desert to get home - Queen of the Field Mice #booksky

Brain is too fried to come up with a new blog post this week, so I re-edited an oldie and a goodie. Please peruse my weirdest reviewing notes. #booksky #bookblog

Oh my gods, is it Bi Visibility Day already? Well... look at me, I guess.

Subtle downgrade a band Concerning Situation Parade

Getting pregnant and wolfing down Tylenol so the family will have another TTRPG player.

If I started compiling a mega list of indie reviewers (to be shared with authors), how many do you think I could get to sign on? #booksky

As a former foster parent, I firmly believe that the number of children in need of adoption could be made much lower with more community safety nets. But the number will never be absolute zero. Some parents just genuinely don't give a shit.

Merry Rapture Eve to all who celebrate. ✌🏻

Someone just commented on my "reading for escapism made my life worse" video. I'd totally forgotten I'd made that. Still made some very good points, 2023 me was so smart. 😂 #booksky

My biggest stumbling block to going vegan/vegetarian is the fact that meat makes my wayward pancreas chill the fuck out. No joke, when I had *way* too many carbs at a barbecue place and started feeling the blood sugar spike, an extra order of wings solved it. 😂

The Romance Girlies are reading On Tyranny and the Disney adults are calling for boycotts. You love to see it.

Today's "use it up to prevent waste" smoothie recipe: banana, celery, apple, mandarin oranges, a LOT of strawberry greek yogurt (we've just not been eating it recently) and the usual almond milk

No one's gonna make me lose my mind, up in here, up in here, and that's sad

🗣️🗣️🗣️"NOTHING CAN BREAK US. NO ONE CAN MAKE US GIVE OUR RIGHTS AWAYYYYYYY" 🎶🎶🎶

People's music tastes aren't nearly as interesting. The Wild West nature of the mp3 era meant people were developing the most eclectic, random tastes based on (often mislabeled, admittedly) songs they stumbled across. Now it's all algorithms.

We canceled Hulu, Disney+ and Prime today. Saving money never felt so good. 🥰

Oooh ooh, I LOVE this song.

My favorite genre of internet drama is "people condescend to the fiber artist community and immediately find the fuck out." Yes, I'm still talking about the SciShow thing. #crochetsky #knitsky

It's here! The latest episode of the Backlog Tackle where I am absolutely CRUSHING IT. #underconsumption

Downloaded Hank Green's focus app about a little bean that knits. ☺️ Discovered how condescending and misogynistically he speaks about knitting. 😕 Well, back to Forest.

Casually struck up a conversation with someone visiting from the district. Ending with me giving him the title and dates of the upcoming Renaissance Faire. I am who I am.

A child tried to tell me I'm *not* weird this morning. They really looked at me in all my "eccentric aunt goes to the Ren faire" glory and called me not-weird. I am affronted. 😂😂😂

Soon.

Fans — and even authors — often forget that worldbuilding and its research is secondary to the story told. Everything "cool" about a setting serves or constrains the story so that it can be understood and enjoyed.

Had a full on enemies-to-lovers dark academia dream. Which is weird, because I dislike both enemies to lovers and school settings.

The new post is here! Let's discuss why reading slumps are periods of rest. #booksky #bookblog

My other big reading flex is that I have the library's automated "you have items being held for you" message memorized. 😂 #booksky

I present to you: my biggest reading flex. #booksky

Just discovered that two of the books I judged for the Indie Ink Awards won the top prize! You're welcome. 💅🏻😂 #booksky

And people wonder why I prioritize mlm books written by queer men over anyone else. #booksky

JK, I found a way to start that new project, we're back in business.

Brought a crochet project to the PD day to work on during the training videos. Then I realized I actually wanted to use that yarn for a different project. So I frogged it and now I'm stuck with nothing for my hands to do. 🫩 #crochetsky

That's it, I officially give up on romantasy. I can't even vibe reading the gay ones, THAT's how much my brain doesn't like it. #booksky

Love seeing an indie author I reviewed blow up online. Both because of all the warm fuzzies and because I WAS THERE FIRST SUCKERS. 💅😘 Shout out to @authordjmunden.bsky.social for becoming the internet's Unc. 😂 #booksky

Husband made a new meal from a coworker's recipe. I was excited to try it and absolutely starving, but my brain said "food not right." After half an hour trying to strong arm myself into eating it and failing, I gave up and made a sandwich. Brains are fun. 🙃

JK, we switched to Apple Music. All hail the transfer feature. But in the "why are you leaving Spotify" comment box, I wrote "the whole 'investing in AI weapons' thing."

Kinda wanna try tofu. Partly cuz I'm pretty sure American soybeans are only gonna get cheaper.

My younger sister had to deactivate her Facebook account and was temporarily suspended from coaching because a right wing politician shared her CK post. People are still calling her places of work to be fired. PLEASE stay cautious.

When you find out about Libro.fm, an alternative to Amazon-owned Audible that’s 100% employee owned, a Certified B Corporation, and shares profits with 4,000+ independent bookshops 😍

are you a lesbian? do you like making art? do you like making lesbian art? do you want to help build a lesbian art collective with the goal of helping getting more lesbian art out into the world? then tell me. I have a discord server I'm trying to get off the ground.

I've said since election night that any "attacks" on the US would be economic. Right now there's grass roots boycotts and travel advisories already causing hurt, but certain countries could royally fuck America up just by using trade, no weapons needed.

It's here! I did a taste test for Smashwords to see if it would be the Amazon alternative for me. And my results were... mixed. 😅 #booksky #booktube

Your girl's officially in a ✨reading slump.✨ Worst in a while, too. But I'm surprisingly unbothered by it. #booksky

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