Hey so I'm going back and reposting all my old newsletters to my website to create a little archive where they're all in one place. Nice, right? HOWEVER. According to wordpress, I have 2 website subscribers (somehow) who I think might be about to get flooded with old posts. If that's you, sorry 😅

Reading modern commercial genre fiction again after almost two years of primarily reading classics and literary fiction is making me feel insane. There's so much plot. It's so plotty. Things just keep HAPPENING it's RELENTLESS where is my BREATHING ROOM where is my INTROSPECTION

If you’re in the market for a low effort New Year’s resolution, can I suggest “removing ‘content’ and ‘content creator’ from your vocabulary”? The artists and entertainers you’re referring to deserve better, even and especially if you’re using it to refer to yourself and your work

I haven’t done grocery delivery in ages because I generally like getting out of the house and walking around the store and stuff, but what a godsend when you’re sick. Hail the deliverer of mucinex and frozen pizzas

I don't know how much it was intended as an insult, because it includes him, but Greg once told me that I almost certainly had never and would never have sex with anyone who had not played Magic the Gathering. Chilled me to the bone. 😱

Crazy that they put “do not use to make a child sleepy” right on the benedryl box now. Fortunately I am not a child

We’ve been leaving my bedroom door closed with the humidifier running to help with my cough but now @gdposta.bsky.social is calling it “the moist chamber” so I might just let myself desiccate into a mummy instead

I stand by this by the way

FIIIIIINE I’M DOING IT #NowReading A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin

I am listening to the director commentary on The Life Aquatic, which is quite interesting, except that it was recorded in a busy restaurant for reasons insufficient to make up for the terrible background noise (Wes and Noah recorded the commentary at the restaurant table where they wrote the script)

I think you'll find that chocolate covered oreos are a nutritious part of this balanced breakfast

merry christmas I added a bunch of community copies to my paid games on itch, there's like a TON available on the One Night Last Chance games especially now because they're a little older and I'm bad at promoting them but they're really fun itch.io/c/4718324/on...

Happy Little Women Day to all who celebrate

My pettiest pet peeve lately is people doing ASOIAF posts like “show vs book” but the “book” image is art from the fantasy flight board game. Like babe that’s not the book either! That’s also an adaptation into a different medium! The books mostly look like this

I am re-watching The Green Knight and I feel so crazy, this movie makes me so crazy, like I would love to watch this movie more than once every 1-2 years but it would make me TOO crazy to do so

My mom ordered some little English Christmas crackers with puzzles in them, I made a train 🚂

It's possible that this is already resulting in me drinking too much caffeine. There are non-caffeinated hot drinks, plenty of 'em. We have 'em in this house! AND YET

Hey I have a stupid question. Why are some towels seemingly very bad at being towels? Like, you think it’s the same cloth as other towels but then it seems to repel water rather than absorbing it and nothing ever gets dry. What gives

I did not need to become obsessed with Julien Sorel because Greg read this post and has referenced it basically weekly since

Considering only drinking warm drinks for the remainder of winter. Cold drinks are dead to me. It's warm beverages only until the outside is warm

I am watching Jay Kelly to catch up on the year's movies and so far it isn't making me feel any kind of way except that Louis Partridge playing the younger version of Billy Crudup's character is great casting

I have seen far too many of these and unbelievably the one that I wrote the most about was The Sword in the Stone lmao

wrote the next newsletter early because I wasn't sure how much time I'll have in the next week, and we're finally back to something resembling a reasonable length instead of a ludicrous text wall

my cat is drinking out of this dish now, because she doesn't want her nice fancy drinking fountain that gets refreshed every day and flows to simulate running water; she wants old bedroom floor water. normal animal.

gonna be so honest, I'm not sure I can deal with people glazing the 2004 Troy movie in response to this trailer. Troy??? the one from 2004???? the Brad Pitt Troy???? are you sure???? the blandest feature-length mp4 ever to disgrace Peter O'Toole's filmography???? that one????

boy I sure don’t like having a fallible human body sometimes

I'm going to make an RPG of The Nutcracker, and it's going to be two entirely disparate halves: the first part is a tactical maps and minis wargame about the battle of the mice and the tin soldiers, and the second part is a melodramatic romance game about the sugar plum fairy and the cavalier

I have WRAPPED PRESENTS, I have sorted COOKIES into FESTIVE LITTLE TINS, I have remembered the existence of DRUMMER BOY BY JUSTIN BIEBER AND BUSTA RHYMES, I am now feeling the holiday spirit youtu.be/k8IlIC7lasU

The amount of relish I put on the “MOST OF ‘81 PASSED ALONG THOSE LINES” in Christmas Wrapping is really something to be beheld

As a wee heartless child I used to make fun of my mom for crying at The Christmas Shoes, but basically since I reached adulthood, I have been reduced to a sobbing wreck by Happy Xmas (War is Over), so that’s my karmic comeuppance

In one of my favorite linguistics classes, a lot of what we did was interrogating language assumptions like this, and the professor would always give us little verbal experiments to try. Because of the timing, my friend and I would go right from that class to dinner with some of our other friends.

Being sick for a solid 10 days of December really threw off my timing this year and now all my shopping feels last minute and I haven't made nearly as many cookies as usual and my actual holiday plans all feel rushed and happening too soon, and I am grumpy about it!

I love when my cat comes out from under my bed and looks surprised to see me there, like girl, it's my room! I was here when you went under the bed!

I think the new trailer for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey looks sick as fuck

Going out in the cold and wind exacerbated the cough I already had, but you know what’s going to make it all better? Two hours crying

screaming cackling with laughter at 7 out of 12 songs from the new Taylor album making appearances either on the main list or in the honorable mentions. it truly is that bad. both because that album is excruciatingly bad and also that the charts are so fucked that they all count as hits.

Bookshelf rotation! Finished books go back down to the big shelves, unread ones come up!

#NowReading No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Today’s confession is that I still love really thick goopy sticky-sweet lipglosses despite no longer being a child, and I gotta say, colourpop fresh kiss in the “strawberry milk” flavor is really fitting the bill right now

Last night I was really acutely feeling the lack of a humidifier in my bedroom (I’ll get one, but it was the middle of the night) and the internet told me I could hang a wet towel from the blade of my ceiling fan, which looks pretty funny now that I am not desperately crazed for sleep

It has come to my attention that the hot new trend on booktok is… The Count of Monte Cristo, so I take back at least some of the bad things I said about it. And David Copperfield on booktwt, too. BIG CHUNKY CLASSICS 2026 BABY

JRRT has landed on the girliepop bookshelf. I don’t think he’d mind. “The girls, the gays, and JRRT”, if you will. “Jen who are the gays on this shelf?” Jo March, Gimli, and Legolas, obviously

Deciding on a whim to refer to "parlours" rather than "parlors" while writing for now lmao. I will probably cave in on this and standardize to American English spellings by the time all is said and done, but some words really and truly do look better with the U in them. "Glamour" is another.

I have been incredibly steadfast in not wanting kids since I was a small child myself, but I did just see a family of tiny redheaded children picking out books at Barnes and Noble and it’s the closest I’ve gotten to a real pang in the ovaries in a hot minute

I am bracing myself with all the fortitude available to me, all my reserves of strength dedicated to the trial ahead (going to the mall on the Saturday before Christmas)

so I read 100 books this year, and I listed them, and I put my favorites in pink. it took more than 4 screenshots of my notes app so I had to merge them into one big picture. the alt text is actually TOO long so the second half of the list is in the replies

my new objective, indisputable, and clearly perfect Wharton ranking, best to worst: Custom of the Country Twilight Sleep Age of Innocence Buccaneers Glimpses of the Moon House of Mirth Ethan Frome

I normally only remember my bad dreams so it’s a refreshing change of pace to wake up and remember having a very peaceful dream about walking around a big aquarium. Looking at fish, that was the whole dream

considering muting every possible keyword related to Chris Nolan's Odyssey because everyone is being deeply tiresome about it, but not before I tell everybody to read Homer's Daughter by Robert Graves okay byyyye

I still think one of the funniest things Bridgerton ever did was committing to a specific year when they absolutely did not have to, meaning that Colin was off on his grand tour in 1814-15. The only tour of the continent you're getting that year as an Englishman is of the battlefield at Waterloo