Oh no, I’m wearing a raincoat (prior to going out cause it’s pouring) and the cats are TERRIFIED of me.

Was wondering why I was coughing less but still sweating but then I realised I’d turned the heating on

The flu has moved to my lungs and I hate this

Truth, Justice, Freedom, Reasonably Priced Love, and a Hard-Boiled Egg!

I’m so sick

Comrades, what is it called when a jacket has... folded over panels at the centre front fastening like this? I'm trying to design a jacket and I'm looking for alternatives and I don't know what to search for because I don't know what it's called.

Mac’s is upstairs, yelling because he’s all alone. Baby, everyone else is downstairs. You can come and join us at any time!

Going to bed by 9pm like a champion

It’s so cold my feet are stinging on the tile floor

I think we could do with a little less "Don't worry, I'm allowed to make this art because I'm traumatized in these ways." and a lot more "Don't worry, I'm allowed to make this art because I'm allowed to make any art. And also, it's none of your fucking business whether or not I am traumatized."

I had a cleaner today. She did a great job, and I’m very happy but Daisy is Not Impressed. She keeps going around and sniffing the corners (probably planning on how to make cat hair drifts reoccur)

I have never laughed so much in my entire life.

Bendigo Woollen Mills has silk mohair available in some gorgeous shades but I'd need to feel it before buying it because mohair LOOKS cozy but is emphatically not. It's one of the itchiest fibres on earth.

Daisy, I shouldn’t have to remind you that you are an obligate carnivore and as such shouldn’t be eating my spinach and mushrooms. Weirdo cat.

BAH. The one good dish they do on ONE day of the week (Tandoori chicken on Thursdays) and they ran out before I could get any. This is why I keep snacks in my desk.

Guys, I want to read a specific kind of book and I'm not sure it exists. Specifically it is - A person, male or female, who is Not A Hero - Living in grimdark times - whose way of fighting is to Invent Stuff (Stuff invented may be hygiene, it may be war engines, it may be crop rotation. Don't care.)

God I love living in the future. I’d run out of the makings for negronis but didn’t want to get out of my pjs, so I had them delivered to me.

A lot of the discourse around (author) sounds like “I’m mad I wasn’t able to bully them” and I need people to actually stop and take a good hard look at themselves

I want my cat to love me just as much but stop licking me.

A heads up: I post more on Dreamwidth than I do on here due to ability to curate my audience. I'm the same name on DW--if you have an account and aren't following me, please consider it!

This year I’m going to be kinder, more positive, work harder, and put more faith in myself until the very first minor obstacle throws me off for the next 350+ days

Daisy decided to wake me up this morning by sitting on my chest and breathing into my mouth. It was incredibly creepy

if you see this, we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation

*sighs* For everyone complaining that the writing in xyz popular book is bad, please realise that the word you're missing is "subjectively". eg. it's not to your taste. You need to understand that not everything is FOR you but that doesn't mean other people shouldn't enjoy it.

My Dad asked me what I want for christmas, and the trouble is that I don't really want anything. I basically don't drink these days. I suppose I could ask for a bottle of liqueur or whisky for those rare occasions I do drink? I suppose I could ask for a kitchen knife. The handle on mine's parting.

Are they gonna pay creators this time?

I'm reading A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers and HOO BOY. If you like your horror lush and visceral and full-bodied, based so heavily in the physical that you want to roll around in it, this is the book for you. Summary: A food writer murders shitty men. There is cannibalism.

@rahaeli.bsky.social Apropos of nothing, every time I see your name, I have to read it twice to stop reading it as "rakali" which is an Australian type of otter (they call it a water rat but it's almost entirely carnivorous). They're very cute!

The new Frankenstein movie is the platonic ideal of a GdT gothic. Absolutely visually beautiful with the underlying theme of “we owe kindness to each other/our children”

OUCH

Holy shit you guys, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter is so good. What it does with shifting perception and humanising the monster, and contrasting his atrocities against the larger atrocities of genocide/colonialism and then gradually taking it away,and then the slow dawning realisation that it's revenge.

Having to keep myself nice on main when what I actually want to do is talk about how leftist spaces are all "oh inclusivity! BIPOC authors!" until one of them actually succeeds and then it's all "oh they're problematic!" and full erasure of their race.

godDAMMIT Lois McMaster Bujold, TELL ME (or the internet or something) when you release a new Penric novella. Get a newsletter, I beg of you!

So far on my list of things to read to Improve Myself: - Sontag by Benjamin Moser, prior to reading Sontag's works - The Years by Annie Ernaux (Sen's pick) - Octavia Butler's back catalogue - Whatever I've missed of Le Guin - Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Wolfe - Helen Garner and Germaine Greer's works

@tillywizard.bsky.social Hey, I'm looking to Improve Myself. I have a science degree and kind of... skipped over anything that wasn't personally interesting to me once I transferred out of my 2/3 of a drama degree. What would you recommend I pick up?

This time in adventures in public transport, a pair of eshays just got in the train and are punching/kicking one of the seats. Time to practice my survival skill of “appearing to be staring out the window obliviously while actually watching them through the reflection”

people conflate their politics with their fiction the same way they conflate morality with politics - not as a genuine indication of their beliefs, but as a way to permit themselves to condemn others for theirs.

I'm reading The Buffalo Hunter Hunter and it's like stepping onto something & then realising it's is the top of a column held up by stuff you don't know anything about. Obviously I'm not going to know about Blackfeet culture, but now I'm feeling like I'm behind and didn't do the required reading.

hear me out, THIS time "finding some fictional element from pop culture that mostly women like and deciding it should be destroyed because it's... making society immoral or something" is DEFINITELY going to get us back on the good timeline. we just need these chicks to see reason

*sighs* Pleased to see that being an anti continues to rot brain cells (and yet doesn't stop people from attempting to grift off the content they claim to abhor.)

Another book I would like to rec is The Graceview Patient by Caitlin Starling. It's a horror about chronic illness, medical systems, and disease. I actually had to sit with my feelings a bit because it made me feel the need to justify myself, which is my sign that this is A Good Book.

I don't even go here but I'm so happy to see my entire timeline united over Ben Solo outrage.

the pursuit of moralizing fiction is in fact a fascist movement and more importantly, it seeks to deny individual thought by replacing it with group adherence. if your morals are broken by a work of fiction, your morals were not real in the first place.

I would rather fund 100 "welfare cheats" for the one person who needs it and I think cuts to government welfare programs that catch the 1% as well as the 100 are fundamentally unethical. I think the government should have been prosecuted over Robodebt.

Breaking news: a book intended to make people feel uncomfortable has made them uncomfortable. Call the police.

Day whatever of reminding people that having their feelings hurt does not equal harm. It's shitty, it sucks, and I'm sorry you feel bad/that happened to you, but also it's not harm. You can expect your feelings to be hurt in life, and you should have the emotional resilience to cope with it.

I caved and bought a danish from the work cafe. Surprising no one, it was terrible. The triumph of optimism over experience is constantly disappointing.

Ginger Snaps Il Orfanto The Descent The Ring (Japanese version)

Knowing that I have rsd and having strategies to cope with it do not, in any way, stop me from feeling the mixture of embarassment, shame and hurt at minor social setbacks. While this is very much my problem and not anyone else's, I would just like my brain to fucken quit it.