At some point I should probably talk to my therapist about the discomfort it causes me to disappoint my Animal Crossing island residents. They are sad that I haven't visited them in three years and two months. I feel like history's greatest monster.

Me last year: I hope the top French team medals at the Olympics! ::Monkey's paw closes::

Big mood. #eurofigure

Hey Baltimore folks, be aware of lots of 🧊 activity* rn, particularly in Highlandtown *not the literal kind, but please be careful of snow/wet too

Catching up on skating, if you need me I'll be crying about Josefin Taljegård's performance. #eurofigure

All of the four year fans about to flip on figure skating in the next few weeks have no idea what world they're about to encounter.

OH MY GOD MY HUSBAND JUST SENT THIS TO ME I'M DYING

Incredible: The legendary Gourmet magazine is being revived as a worker-owned publication because the legal geniuses at Conde Nast forgot to renew their trademark and these good folks snapped it up: gourmetmagazine.net

In case anyone was wondering about how I feel about the men's results. #USNats #PrevagenUSChamps

Americans will use anything but the metric system #figureskating

Told my mom that Tenley Albright was involved in the women's medal ceremony, and that I was very taken with how taken she seemed with Amber. Her response was, "Wow. 45 years ago, Albright was coaching the daughter of my regular cab driver." Because of course. 😂 #USNats #PrevagenUSChamps

As a general rule I am not into Kill Bill programs, but I have to admit that KW's blood bedazzled costume is amazing. Jazzed to have two women murdering their skating partners programs back to back. #USNats #PrevagenUSChamps

Devastated to learn that in the last two days someone appears to have told Gabriella Papadakis that in English it's "skate to [music]" rather than "skate on [music]." As someone who has the opposite problem with French prepositions, I found that very endearing. #USNats #PrevagenUSChamps

Look, I know I am having problems with emotional regulation because ::gestures at the world:: but this broadcast of US Figure Skating Nationals is so bad that I want to launch everyone responsible into the sun. I cannot believe they switched not just mid competition but mid *group*.

Not the most ridiculous ever, but the most ridiculous recently: Yesterday I was overly enthusiastic about a piece of cheese I was eating, and I bit the tip of my ring finger so hard it bled.

The Longest Journey, in spite of the maddening inflatable duck puzzle. The Legend of Kyrandia: Hand of Fate is also up there.

My mutuals are roughly 2/5 current/former Baltimore residents and 2/5 current/former Pittsburgh residents, so backreading through last night's posts (having not watched the game) has been a real journey.

If you felt personally attacked by the game Unpacking and would like to feel similarly attacked again, I recommend playing The August Before.

Offered to set up a borrowing system for my mutual aid group's proposed tool library and was informed that a very basic sign out sheet will suffice. Good luck with that, friendos! I'll be over here chuckling in librarian when no one knows where the drill bits are. (I say this with love, truly)

A good thing about being a hermit is that I don't get oversaturated with Christmas songs anymore, and I rarely get sent to Whamhalla.

Heading into 2026 like Veronica at the end of Heathers

'Tis the season for my cephalopod arm warmers.

Maybe someday I will forgive the ex-coworkers who fucked up so badly that they caused our org to have less capacity than ever at the time we are most needed. But that day is not today. (But also that day is probably never, I still harbor grudges from when I was three years old)

hey, join me in making things a little more bearable for trans kids: www.transanta.com

Someone encouraged me to read Entertaining Ourselves to Death, and I want nothing more than to yeet it into the harbor.

Most years I assemble Lego Christmas ornaments while watching The Lion in Winter, but today I am altering the ritual slightly.

Okay, friends, looks like I'm officially a Sad Boat Book person.

Keeping me company all day is *exhausting.*

tfw you're married to the brother in the folgers ad. you know the one.

🎶'Cause everybody mens Take comfort in your friends Everybody mens sometimes🎶 #GPFigure #GPF ⛸️

The problem with women's figure skating is that I love Amber, Kaori, and Alyssa equally, and I want them all to win every event. I am truly not cut out to be a sports fan. #GPFigure #GPF

Just overheard my partner singing in the shower about how happy he is to be full of soup. Why is he so cute?

Reconciled to the fact that being a big fan of Amber and Adam has taken years off my life. #GPF #GPFigure ⛸️

My mother is sitting on the couch drinking her wine and casually commenting on a football play, and I feel like I am losing my mind. (This is not a complaint, it's just that she *hated* football until four or five years ago and now she watches it regularly and has opinions and often I forget that)

I contain multitudes Oh Oh shit My multitudes containment system is failing, everyone retreat to a safe distance

I am mostly not going to participate in the Current Discourse, but as a sometimes librarian I feel the need to point out some things:

I love quiche so much. 😭 That is all.

Mark's constant noises of dismay and exasperation are killing me. What an absolutely cursèd competition. #GPFigure #GPFinlandia ⛸️

Ah, Baltimore.

My internal voice as I scrolled my timeline this evening, knowing that everyone was referencing something but not yet knowing what.

Everything is terrible, but I have good leftovers, a bottle of red wine, and a day of skating to look forward to. Plus the surprise bonus of getting to listen to Gabriella Papadakis talk. 😍 #GPFigure #SkateAmerica

It's a shame for USFS that I learned about their transphobic policy today, because I am in a bad mood and ready to be a fucking pain in the ass. ⛸️

ICE is at the Waverly Giant, Baltimore friends. Beware.

I'm gonna miss Kaori so much. 😭 Who's going to herd the skaters for the group selfies next year? #gpfigure #nhk

Figure skating question: Could S Korea make it into the Olympic team event? It looks like they could theoretically get their hands on two additional athletes quota spots for the team event if some truly wacky shit happens with France or Japan. But do they have any pairs with the TES to qualify?

AND HE WAS LIKE, BUT NOT MY FACE, RIGHT? AND I WAS LIKE WELL IT'S A FACE, SO

Asked my mom whether her first passport had a gender marker and she couldn't remember, so she dug it up for me. Nope - 1976

I did a bad thing. My emotional support birb asked how Little Red Riding Hood and the grandmother stayed alive in the wolf's stomach, and I answered "Through the magic of vore." And this was the response:

the problem is that Joe and Eileen are each voting for a different candidate, and Chuck can't afford to alienate either of them or it'll break up the polycule

That feeling when you nope out of a freelance research gig because the person who hired you seems to not give a single shit about facts, and when their book comes out several years later it is promoted by some of the worst possible people. Feeling vindicated but also a little gross.