listening to Secretly Incredibly Fascinating’s Pumpkins episode which is confirming my suspicion (as someone who doesn’t live in NA) that the concepts of pumpkin and pumpkin spice are all about vibes 😂

the energy boost i got from looking out the window and seeing what seemed to be a crow on an electric wire… i literally sprung up to take photos. suddenly i was awake

MY BABY!

you are so much closer to needing disability benefits than you are to becoming a billionaire.

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“why is this is so underrated” about a het manhwa that is in fact quite well-rated, not to mention dry as dust. how did they make a hurt/comfort premise so boring. is it the art??? does this artist always pick underwhelming projects or are they just bad at expressing personalities and feelings????

this is my fav omiyu99 wallpaper so far 😭😭😭 the colors are PERFECT 🔗 x.com/omiyu99/stat...

having an out-of-body experience at the realization that i must have worked pretty hard this month, to not be stressed that other offices are closed starting wed/thurs

left some space in last week’s page bc i had visions of going out for brunch on sunday (romanticizing life, attempt# 4858393) and ended up just staying home to read comics 🤣

i was having a minor ant* problem in my bathroom but it seems to have resolved itself yesterday? and on the same night i dreamt that i had a spider problem in my bathroom? thank you spider spirits for taking care of my problem & not showing up IRL, i guess? *tiny and harmless ants, not aggro ones

my phone has made the discord notification sound twice this night but it doesn't seem like i have notifications...???? (admittedly i only get up and check my phone around 5 mins after the ping, so maybe it was a time-sensitive one...???)

i miss when i had the youth and energy to log my sh*rtbox reads on st*rygraph...

Wherever You Are no longer in the new setlists

yesterday, in attempt#37377339 to romanticize life, i tried to take a close-up photo of the tea i was having. unfortunately it ended up looking like the inside of a toilet bowl and i had to delete 😔

> feeling bad when i don’t journal > feeling bad when all i do is journal

non-shrtb0x comics i’ve read recently: - POSITIVELY YOURS: the most interesting thing about this is the FL’s family bg and the trauma of being raised by a well-intentioned but unforgivably neglectful mother. given her childhood, i wish the story (and the ML) had put divorce on the table.

🧵 SBCF reading thread that i expect i won’t actually be updating bsky.app/profile/half...

shoutout to the 2 mins when i considered explaining to a rando that when i’m salty here i’m just venting in the moment and then i move on? i’m not trying to start discourse or spread awareness which is why i limit interactions & censor keywords all the time 😭 anw i decided it wasn’t worth it haha

i was gonna say that Dead Horses was my comic of the year and then i remembered that i only read Goldiluck this year 😂

i would like everyone to know that today i experienced an emotion

not 🇵🇭 c*nephiles being dependent on a twitter user from the US to upload 🇵🇭 movies for them… apparently the user got DMCA’d twice for uploading G*tling and Some Nights 😭😭😭

because i want to live up to my new handle, here's a subbed video of mr. zhang xincheng doing a piano + vocal cover of 紅豆 Red Bean (youtube contentID wouldn't let me post the full clip 🥀)

the ronny yu bride with white hair movies, although what i think i really mean is 'brigitte lin and leslie cheung in the ronny yu bride with white hair movies'

been meaning to post about references / inspirations for hero in the serpent's skin... a really big one was Wu Guanzhong, i love how fun and playful his lines and colours are - his mountains feel alive! (in hindsight this might be why the artist in the comic turned out to be such a goofball...)

i dislike that the word “cinephile” is used for ppl who watch movies and log their thoughts on l*tterboxd bc i sometimes watch movies and write reviews but my opinions are mostly negative… where is the cinephobe representation

last weekend i overheard a little girl being adamant about getting these cute fruit-shaped ice creams in spite of her mom’s reminders that she’s tried them before and hated them 😂 apparently they taste like air freshener, which is good to know bc i’ve always been curious myself 😂

september journal pages

Into the final 10 days of the fair...

i love the specificity of cebu… da nang… and then europe

thinking about that one commenter who, in a discussion about the death of true fandom culture (creating fic, fanart, translations without expectation of compensation), complained that the same thing is happening in the amateur p*rn scene, since everyone puts their videos up on OF now.

hang this in the louvre (there's room now)

normalizing MTL is bad bc ppl harass and dunk on non-anglo artists without wondering if maybe the auto-translate wasn’t communicating the OP’s tone, words, and intention

not surprised that m*ria r*ssa is participating in a book event that the BDs movement has said to boycott

secured tickets with an impressively low queue number (2000) but idk if they're the right seats 🌚 i'm queueing again on my other device just so i can look at the seat plan again lol

do you think my cousin will kill me if i fail to secure tickets 😭 i offered to accompany you bc you had no one to watch with, not to be responsible for the tickets 😭😭😭

Baek Sehee, the author of I WANT TO DIE BUT I WANT TO EAT TTEOKBOKKI has passed away. She was 35. The Korean organ donation authority reports that Sehee saved five lives through her donation of her heart, lungs, liver, and both kidneys.

just realized that the pre-nup pic that i told my friend was the best one was the one where you can't see her SO's face.......... which i guess tracks bc i basically think of ppl's SOs are their accessories 😭

do you sometimes pause in the middle of translating a pop song and think to yourself that you should maybe read less poetry and listen to more t*ylor sw*ft

OP needs to go online bc they were right 😭😭😭

vlog of someone feeding and raising a yellow-vented bulbul. according to his replies in the comments section, they mature within a week www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y25Z...

I CAN SEE AND HEAR DIFFERENT GROUPS OF BIRDS FEASTING ON A COUPLE OF TREES BUT THEY ARE TOO FAR AWAY FOR ME TO GET A CLOSER LOOK

yesterday i was being delulu and googling “health benefits of dark chocolate” to justify my weekly dose of mental support chocolate bar (65% dark choco with green mango & salt). today i read this and get mad bc why is it my fault if anything that grows from the soil has heavy metals 😡😂

I don't know anything about Sailor Moon, but I feel like this is something like half of my friends need to squee over.

The world is on fire. Buy the treat.

not to mention ppl wringing their hands about “mysterious influenza” like this is a thing that just happens which. idk, maybe it is flu season and maybe we can at least mask in public again 😬 it does still suck that our 2 seasons are extreme heat & power/water shortage VS natural disasters 😭

“why isn’t the international community talking about our earthquakes???” –person who obviously does not watch the news (the bogo earthquake has been reported), read the local news OR science bulletins, and probably don’t know the meteorological and geological state of other countries

today i bought expensive chocolate out of anger (thankfully it was tasty AND aesthetically pleasing so i don’t exactly regret it)

recent DNFs: the manga where the MC is sold to the kingdom of panna cotta

someone gifted my dad a box of pineapple cakes bc 🇹🇼 10/10 and my tastebuds were not ready for how how tart and pineapple-y these ones were 😂