january was pretty great. touched some old books, hung out with my fav @ellenfromnowon.co.uk, knitted a lot and my friends brought me pastries when I was feeling unwell

muppet who lives in my house

got this gorgeous yarn from my local shop that I’m going to knit up into my first jumper soon!! 🥰

Just a few snaps of a lovely week earlier this month with one of my favourite people in the world, @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social First photo is in 1°C, pissing rain and 30mph winds so I'm surprised we look alive at all

my phone fell out of my pocket almost immediately after taking this, thankfully I am blessed with an eagle eyed best friend who spotted it in the long grass

someone validate my purchase (clock)

everyone look at my baby pictures

back in this place for some goddamn reason

gig schedule this year: - Sarah Shook and the Disarmers (14 April, Glasgow) - Bria Salmena (12 May, Manchester) - St Vincent (7 July, Utrecht) - Lord Huron (23 September, Edinburgh) - clipping. (24 September, Glasgow) - Ethel Cain (4 October, Glasgow)

got my ticket and you should too - #CALC25 is one of the best conferences out there!

happy birthday Elden Ring, you most beautiful game of all time. reminder that I love you so much I got a tattoo of your most unhinged, depraved demigod and his tragic alter ego

springtime is coming. so springtime walks are also coming back. went on a long one today while processing some heavy feelings. then watched anime with my friend

doing vocal warmups for my choir performance like

There's something wrong with my sheep #eldenring #art

my darling sweet boy :)

for some reason my head has been playing Breathless by The Corrs on repeat

SEVERANCE ‼️‼️‼️‼️

at a time when I am full of weird body feelings and general discomfort with the concept of physical form I am taking a lot of comfort in my tattoos. the agency I have in deciding to have these on my body is exhilarating. I love tattoos (and I have more planned!)

everything is really hard right now but we are pushing on the best we can. here is cat

a rather wild sequence of events that I experienced over at instagram today

realised that Make Me Feel is a music video about Janelle Monáe effortlessly landing both Tessa Thompson and Nate Wonder whereas How Far Will We Take It is a music video about Francois Arnaud disastrously fumbling Noah Cyrus and Orville Peck

Once again, I am begging my fellow librarians to have even just the tiniest bit of critical thinking applied to genAI. An atom's worth. Please. FFS. Our whole job is privacy and accuracy! LLMs are the exact opposite of both!

this may sound odd but it didn’t even occur to me that Lynch could die

this feels like Christmas Day for neurodivergent queers (me)

made the mistake of reading the Neil Gaiman stuff over my lunch break. absolutely horrid

there is so many crossing points between Control and Severance. it’s the admin horror of it all. the purgatory of office work

next Friday I am about to be very intense about a TV show

this man is in your house and he’s staring at you wyd

other places to find me, if you so wish: - instagram at eight.syllable.delay - storygraph at eightsyllabledelay - the artist formerly known as twitter as ToniVbooks (library stuff)/8syllabledelay (nonsenseposting)

The Eaton fires destroyed a youth care facility my friend worked at. They had no time to pack, and everything is lost. Please help support them if you can. These children and teen were ALREADY vulnerable before the fires. www.gofundme.com/f/provide-ai...

remember the first/original Lords of the Fallen? hands down one of the worst games I’ve ever had the misfortune of playing

Very brave of them, not everyone has the courage of a publisher that made seven dogshit games that everyone hated in a row

I love you Ethel Cain. save me Ethel Cain

speedrunning books because they’re due back at the library soon is my way of making myself read more in 2025

we had a great 8 years of it being acceptable to be publicly queer but the right tapped into their hysteria and are trying to push us back decades. this is why the left warned of relying on rainbow capitalism because their support was about profit above all else. the solution is for us to not hide

Metadata matters Pages from Viral Justice by Ruha Benjamin #medlibs

he really said it’s time to stop posting

this song is so tragic because it perfectly encapsulates the feeling of being so acutely miserable for so long that you can actually feel the sadness making you a worse person

they should invent a rejection sensitive dysphoria that doesn’t interfere with your sleeping schedule

when Orville Peck goes yippie-ki-yay in Kalahari Down I start acting up

when you send a deeply stressful text and are still waiting on a response hours later

📝#Research Paper: What It Means for a #Disabled #Librarian to “Pass”: An Exploration of Inclusion, Identity, and Information Work www.jstor.org/stable/48644... #Library #Disability

I’m not necessarily a “this song saved my life” girlie but I sure am a “this song made me reevaluate my emotion and look at it from a different perspective and process it in a cathartic cry, while letting the hurt roam freely in my chest” guy

he hasn’t left my side all day 🧡

drop your favourite soup recipes friends

happy to report I’ve been really into soup lately

also fixed my own boiler. I’m a capable and knowledgeable homeowner

I have had about five hours of sleep in total over the last 48 hours. today I came back to Edinburgh at 8am. it is now 22:36 and I am heading home having spent almost all the time in between in the company of my sweet friends. I’m so grateful for this. this is my home and where I belong

the painter's tape trick has made decorating my walls soooo much simpler www.homeserve.com/en-us/blog/h...

my parents took me to a pretty wild NYE party with VERY loud VERY bad music but the highlight was a rather drunk woman asking if that’s my boyfriend on my lock screen. honey no that’s Orville Peck