Very disappointed that a film called The Smashing Machine is about some boring wrestler and not about

my nickname for this small violent weirdo is "little wolf"* so i guess i have to like ghost of yotei don't i *(half of the time, the other two quarters she's "little kangaroo" or "lilù")

I'm left-handed and didn't even know left-handed controller settings could be a thing?? I'm a bit to scared to try it though, I've only ever played the default. Props to @SuckerPunchProd though, I love it when people who make stutf remember lefties exist.

In "ashamed to call myself a Japanologist" news, Ellie has informed me that not only is Mt Yotei a real mountain (that she has climbed twice), but also that I saw it many times when I visited her in her old town and have had my photo taken in front of it #GhostofYotei

when i named my farm "lila's farm", i did not anticipate this level of supervision and involvement

a very acceptable haul to arrive home to

friend is off to watch the paul thomas anderson movie (god i wish that were me etc etc)

I try to listen to the "banning kids from restaurants negatively affects parents particularly mothers" argument - even if I'm not v swayed by it - but the group of 8/9-year-old kids in this restaurant are screaming. Like literally Drew-Barrymore-in-Scream-level SCREAMING,

god ginny is such a grating character in the later harry potter books. like a scrubbing brush. (audiobook re-read progress: half-blood prince)

When the two assistants in the other dept (early/mid 20s) asked me and office bestie (early/mid 30s) our age during drinks last night:

in the office working late

This feels a little jarring to write after some silly TSwift tweets but I remember a year or so ago seeing people who were ostensibly "left wing"/self-proclaimed anti-racism activists here, who I had previously liked/respected, tweeting about British Jews crying "crocodile tears"

Reviews of the new Taylor Swift album are mixed but I'm enjoying it so far - it's chilled out and catchy 🤷‍♀️ I never finished TPD because the length felt exhausting. (For ref I'm a Folklore/Evermore/1989/Speak Now type~ mainly)

I wasn't really into Ghost of Tsushima (I fell off a few hours in) but Ghost of Yotei intrigued me (I like playing as a girl) and the Guardian review finally convinced me. Especially as Keza MacDonald said the combat is fun/interesting and she likes FromSoft. Have ordered!

I mainly have my phone in my bag when I'm in the office and so am only now on my lunchbreak hearing more about the horrific news from Manchester. Really awful.

Forcing everyone to get into the spirit every year (mainly just an excuse for me to try the various themed products all October long)

Has... has Alien: Earth season 2 not been confirmed yet?

The extremely half-arsed halloween decorations (?) have now been assembled. Happy holidays!

eurtugffggg the ending of Bring Her Back always makes me cry

I was working using a lap desk and Lila was snoozing on the back of the sofa and she kept using my shoulders to stretch her legs 🥹🥹🥹

oh to be a cat spending the day lounging on a giant pile of fluff

yes i thought someone would appreciate me bringing in the big fluffy bed blanket into the front room

Happy first day of October! Halloween is my favourite holiday. Some real life stuff has been getting me down, but looking forward to spooky season. Can't believe it's been almost a year since my trip to the US (the best country for Halloween). Some 2024 Illinois 🎃-stuff photos:

as part of this year's halloween decorations i bought a novelty toy bat who i have christened horace wayne (halloween decorations will be put up tomorrow)

When Ellie was pregnant last year she let me show her two (2) pregnancy horror movies for Halloween (Rosemary's Baby & Alien - she vetoed Titane). Now her baby is a gorgeous 10-month-old, I suggested evil child films for us to watch (The Omen, The Bad Seed) and she has refused 🥲

My 31 Days of Halloween! I decided to only do re-watches (so I can watch while chores etc) and pick random things I felt like revisiting rather than picking a theme etc. My all-time favourite horror film gets the 31st spot. Good luck to everyone else who is attempting!

I was looking for a book for my niece and nephew and I found a children's picture book about a cat named Stella 🥹 (so of course I bought it ........for me)

Day of the Dead *and* Halloween Pikmin in Pikmin Bloom next month?

People walking down the street vaping downwind of the people behind them (me)

After finding out Our Share of Night got a Japanese translation, I may have ordered a copy and also the Spanish (I don't speak Spanish). One of my most unlikeable extravagances is that for my fave books I always try to get the OG language ed (if not an Eng book), the Japanese ed and the German ed.

I used it a lot less than JP Books, but after JP Books (Japanese bookshop) was forced to move online only, I took some comfort that the European Bookshop was still around. Was trying to look up its opening hours and... Fucking Brexit.

It's almost been a year since I first met Lila at her fosterer's house and she showed me a worm she had found on the floor of her outdoor pen.

This is literally how my colleagues see my office desk

I love the film/play Amadeus, but before I watched it for the first time I had already seen the 30 Rock Amadeus parody episode approx 100 times and so in my stupid caveman brain it is the "original" (...yes as usual I am comfort re-watching 30 Rock in lieu of self-improvement)

i love it when facebook reminds me of the important memories

80% of London cyclists when they see a red light:

I'm reading a horror novel that - 3/4s of the way in - is increasingly enjoyable and delightfully unnerving. The rarest of occurrences. I feel like I haven't read some good non-manga horror since Mariana Enriquez's latest translated collection. (It's 夜行 by Morimi Tomihiko)

I'm glad the cat is enjoying her £300+ heated pillow.

The use of therapy speak to justify behaving like a piece of shit is uh...

Discussing the Wolverine gameplay trailer with E (who plays nice, non-violent games - unlike me)

The Wolverine game looks fun and it's an Insomniac Marvel game so it's a day-one purchase for me, but I'm still a bit sad it's a Wolverine game and not an X-Men game. X-Men is so stacked with fun characters and Marvel keeps going back to the Wolverine well.

weekly team meeting later today

do you think the game group chat can tell i'm very tired this morning

us: lila we put the guest bed out for a guest, do not go in the forbidden guest room lila: how bout i do anyway 🎶

My colleagues in my team are driving me mental this week and making my cortisol levels go through the roof but I have to go to an event with one of them tonight instead of being a hermit with the cat so off I go

I liked the Alien Earth finale* except I'm sad all the storylines basically ended on cliffhangers when we don't know when (if?) we will get S2. Felt more like a mid-season finale of a longer season. Glad they found a way for Arthur's actor to return. *with some small caveats.

I liked the Alien Earth finale* except I'm sad it all the storylines basically ended on cliffhangers when we don't know when (if?) we will get S2. Felt more like a mid-season finale of a longer season. Glad they found a way for Arthur's actor to return. *with some small caveats.

My favourite part of the Alien Earth finale was that little crab who was like "YEAH BRO YOU WANNA GO?? I WILL MESS YOU UP, BRO" to the xenomorph.

like an ominous grey loaf of bread

I feel like I've finally found the Ark of the Covenant (no I don't have a Pikmin Bloom addiction, I can stop any time I want to)