Feel like all you need to do to challenge the new guidance is have two cis friends pick an establishment together and have one accuse the other of being trans on purpose and try to force that establishment to enforce the rules, followed by a legal challenge of this incorrect enforcement.

I hope every person in the Labour Party that still supports them suffers nothing but torment for the rest of their pitiful lives and continues to get what they deserve in hell.

Remembering this poem today, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth. My introduction to studying the Romantic movement at university, and just two days ago did I visit the place where he lived for years and wrote this (and many other poems), Grasmere in the Lake District.

Feeling a certain homesickness #poetry

Finally saw Akira (1988 - we all know what Akira is) for the first time, screened at my local independent cinema. What the hell.

I’m going to a poetry event the week after next and it has an open mic and I am so tempted to sign up but I feel my poetry will just become guttural noises and heavy breathing in iambic pentameter.

Really hard to engage with the literary side of this app when the three sections of it are: - Authors doing obligate self promotion. - People who see being “into books” as the act of buying them. - People who see being “into reading” as being about the volume read. No actual discussion. Lmao.

Romanticism has been on my mind a lot lately, and so I’ve been reading a lot of the romanticist poets. Below the final stanza of Percy Shelley’s “The Cloud”, a personal favourite as he demonstrates absolute mastery of poetic form and structure, more so than “Ozymandias” and “The Masque of Anarchy”

Mentally I am in Martinaise

Had a 95% win rate on Champions getting to Ultra Ball R2 and then suddenly just started getting beaten up 24/7 by, presumably, telepathic children, who both read and see through me like the pages of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Feeling humbled.

Now Watching: They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969) 📽️

Now watching: Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995) Something I have intended to watch for a long long time; I wonder how I will relate to it as an adult, rather than a teenager like many do.

Watching ER between episodes of The Pitt now that it is more widely available: it is rather fascinating how it presents Chicago as this wild place constantly covered in snow and pelted with torrential rain - I don’t think I see even the North of the UK presented as this consistently inhospitable

Now Watching: Contact (1997) This has been on my watchlist for a long time and it feels like recently with the release of a film with some similar ideas in Project Hail Mary and the space romanticism evoked from Artemis II is the perfect confluence to finally get around to watching.

Now playing: Bravely Default I remember this game very fondly from my childhood on the 3DS, since then I have played both FFIII and FFV of which it is the undeniable spiritual successor. Would recommend for anyone that misses more classic turn-based JRPGs, though this one has a surprising depth.