I’m having to search shit like “Xie Lian timeline” to read TGCF fics because it’s been six years since I read the book and my boy had 800 years of very busy life. I do remember the big events but not necessarily in which order they happened.

The power of Lawsan

I’ve been listening to the Kpop Demon Hunters soundtrack for days, and someone needs to come and save me because I don’t even like that genre of music.

The #OnePieceHeroines merch better come to my geek shop, I would love to wear a Perona shirt actually

久しぶりのaohrと思ってるけど多分そうでもない

Long kitty looking at the workers outside

Night 2 of not sleeping in my bed because I rather get fresh air from an open window than sleep on an actual mattress. This might last for a few weeks actually…

I live in a touristy city, and one of my small pleasures in life is to surprise our many East Asian tourists with a few words spoken in their languages. I really wish I could hold full conversations though, especially in Mandarin.

I made the mistake of washing my sheets today and now it’s late, my bed is unmade, and I’m feeling very lazy, so I’m gauging whether my lower back will forgive me for a night on the couch.

Reading TGCF fics after close to three years of One Piece is hurting my brain because you know who also wears a straw hat? XIE LIAN. So I keep being surprised for no reason.

They’re renovating our balconies, and while this was deeply needed (the wood was rotting), there’s a part of me that is deeply resentful of every second i have to keep my doors and windows closed during the few weeks of the year that it’s warm enough for me to open them.

This is a brilliant article by Emily Van Duyne about Sylvia Plath and the way we still mistreat her to this day by disbelieving her own words and adulating her abusive husband. lithub.com/why-are-we-s...

“I’m not obsessed with Sylvia Plath,” she says, while also spending $140 to read her correspondence.

My life would be so much simpler if I didn’t hate cooking so much.

“Everything gets done illegitimately amid great conflict.” — Sylvia Plath, 5 April 1953 She was REALLY good at predicting the 2020s.

Mangoes are a S tier fruit in terms of taste and mouthfeel, but unfortunately C tier for the prep work they require. And also they lose points for being the one food my sister-in-law is allergic to.

I’m actually mentally ready for my #LivingRoomOperation to be over, but the problem is that primers and varnishes are TOXIC SUBSTANCES that need to CURE and OFFGAS and therefore I’m stuck waiting with furniture on my balcony and multiple fans on 24/7 because I can’t magically skip those steps.

It’s a bit incredible how productive I’ve been in the past few weeks: painting walls; sanding, staining and varnishing wood; replacing hardware; priming furniture; gardening… But also my brain is categorically refusing to let me clean my fridge.

No, I’m not obsessed with Sylvia Plath, I just want to read everything she’s ever written and that includes her grocery lists.

Me before tonight, having only ever stained hardwood: Wood staining is so fun and easy, I don’t get what people complain about Pine wood:

My workplace: is renovating the building to eliminate individual offices and have everyone in big communal areas Also my workplace: deals with highly sensitive information, some of it spoken aloud ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

One nice thing about having ordered all 95 tracks of One Piece live action S2 soundtrack chronologically in my playlist is that I can play it and rewatch the whole season in my head while I’m at work. 😌

I just had a dream that was so fucked up on so many levels that my brain made the conscious decision to pull me out of it. So now I’m awake at 5 am.

I just found my first white hair.

I was walking with my mom, and we encountered someone she didn’t want to talk to, so she asked me to talk to her about something fast to make her look occupied. So obviously, I began to tell her about my opinions of each of the One Piece admirals. (Genuinely the first thing that came to mind 😂)

I love girldad Mihawk so much 🥲 #OnePieceHeroines

"So, if I use ChatGPT you think less of me?" Yep. Hope this helps.

My geek shop is selling several Law figurines (of which I own a couple), but they’re all in his post-Wano outfit. As someone who wasn’t in this fandom during the pre-time skip and Punk Hazard eras, I’d love for the classics to make a comeback.

You know you’re getting a bit lonely when you start checking the price for flights to where your friends live. (But also I don’t have vacation days this summer.)

A squirrel ate my pot this winter apparently.

Ok, so the #LivingRoomOperation is gonna take a bit longer than expected. I used an alkyd primer on a bookshelf and I want to let it off-gas as much as possible before painting over it. We're probably talking weeks here.

So today I learned that my cat is afraid of me when I wear a respirator.

Today’s walk We found a new spot we didn’t know about!

AAAAH This switch plate cost $5, and its impact? A+++

Basically my weekend. #LivingRoomOperation

The paint went on beautifully in two layers, but it bled past the tape practically everywhere, so I’m going to have to spend the weekend fixing all the lines. #LivingRoomOperation

I chose a great day to paint because it’s super windy so we have great air circulation. But I also chose a terrible day to paint because it’s 13 degrees out for some reason and now I’m cold and can’t close any windows. (I went with number 3 btw.)

It’s weird not being able to vote for One Piece characters anymore. I did it every day for months; it’s part of my routine now.

Hoarding physical media is becoming a moral obligation for me. The digital landscape is becoming more and more authoritarian. We need to get our hands on as much physical media as possible because there will be a point where no privacy whatsoever will be allowed with digital content.

You gotta love Québec pettiness sometimes. (Grocery store closed during the Fête nationale—Québec’s holiday—but open on Canada Day.)

It’s funny how coincidences happen: I’m currently reading two books (one novel, one poetry collection) that both criticize the Milgram experiment in the 60s.

My copy of Sylvia Plath’s journals is 700 pages. I’m only 157 pages in and I already have 54 tabs. This book is going to be more tabs than paper when I’m done with it.

“There is a certain clinical satisfaction in seeing just how bad things can get.” — Sylvia Plath, January 1953 She would have had a field day in 2026.

A wasp got inside. I trapped it between the screen and the glass of my window, and now I don’t know what to do.

Updated sample wall… I’m still very undecided. (4 & 5 are definitely out.) #LivingRoomOperation

“Nothing is more difficult than lashing a vagrant mind suddenly into long self-imposed stints of concentration.” — Sylvia Plath Did homegirl have ADHD?

Amateur woodworking is fun, because I don’t have an actual respirator, so I’m just there with my N95 trying not to inhale sawdust and toxic chemicals.

Actually I want to discuss the shit out of this panel, but because I’m years behind, there’s no one I can talk to who’s at the same point in the story as me 😔

My paint samples on the wall, near the art that already lives there. The colours are not exact in the picture, but I tried. I think I can safely disqualify 4 & 5. But right now I cannot decide between 1, 2 and 3.

My sander is being a bitch and I’m on the verge of saying screw it and buying a new one that won’t fight me every step of the way. That wasn’t in the budget I had in mind for this project, but I hate using this sander so much… #LivingRoomOperation