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. . .one day #Suzume may not make me cry, but tonight is not that day. >.> (It's sooo good, but also aaa, my Daijin feelings. . .)

Rewatching Underworld/Underworld: Evolution and reminded that Michael is . . . mostly a cardboard cutout of a character. . . I don't find Selene terribly compelling as a character, myself, but at least she feels like one! (Among reasons I far more often just watch Rise of the Lycans than- >.>)

My #crochet practise continues (with occasional questions sent to pepper my very gracious friend, who has answered all of them); I started this on December 31st as lie-flat circle practise, and it's currently intended to be a rune reading/casting mat!

Everyone needs a hand to hold on to. Whether that hand is fleshy, furry, feathery, leathery, clawed, or tentacled and covered in ancient witch-fire is up to you.

One excellent thing about having an SSD is my anxiety while running updates (or just rebooting) (look two laptops went to toast in reboots, it's an anxiety unfortunately rooted in experience) goes wayyy faster. Feature update put me through anxiety for 28 minutes downloading; 5 minutes to restart.

I think this will be another great year to read and write about the same people falling in love in thousands of different little ways.

in times of war, a wise general will furnish their soldiers with chocolates and other little treats to maintain the morale sufficient to perform in combat. Do you imagine your own effectiveness is less dependent on such small luxuries? Go, get yourself a treat today, lest Stalingrad fall

I have continued reading a book I was in the middle of, but a friend gave me this one tonight (I cackled with delight) and I think it's going to be my first new read of the year. XD #booksky

I have just finished my annual Fandom(/AO3) Year in Review! Highlights include: ~86 new stories posted to AO3 ~158,158 words posted to AO3 ~26 fandoms (11 new!) ~5 new fandom tags started on AO3 ~37 romantic ships (17 new) kalira.dreamwidth.org/52817.html www.tumblr.com/kalira/77143...

Happy reading to all <3 🌈📚 hope you had as much fun with QLL this year as we did

wooden snakes for lunar new year 2025 and the patreon rewards for december. The first three snakes are stickers and the one with the background is a postcard print. Each snake is inspired by a pace I visited or want to visit. www.patreon.com/juliartworld

I have spent a chunk of today (with the help of a friend via DM) beginning to learn a new skill! I knit, but never managed to #crochet successfully - today I have! This was beginner practise; the wonkiness it developed lent itself to a stocking shape, so I improvised a small ornament. ^.^

i don't think millennials and gen xers "feel like sellouts" I think authors think the job of "writing the book" is an entire fucking job and marketing it is a second entire fucking job and doing the first means you shouldn't also be expected to do all of the second

#ArtAdventCalendar day 28 (Huevember 2022) #art

'The moors' - a moorland landscape I did all the way back in 2021 but remains a favourite of mine :) this aerial embroidery took so long to do with all the tiny knots for the heather bushes!! Heather is a favourite feature I like to add but they're the most time consuming thing I sew #fibrearts

Sitting around poking writing and watching a movie in this chilly morning, with some soft, purry company. #cats (Dora's beside me, obviously, as seen here; Tachi is draped over my lap and half under the edge of my worktable.)

The energy I’m taking into 2025

Logically I know it's not really healthier, but lack of sleep due to stress (which then makes it easier to stress more when awake, due to lack of sleep making emotions wobbly) does make me kind of miss the ability to depression-sleep for 12-15 hours the way I did when stressed when I was younger. 🙈

In addition to the usual irritation of subtitles that don't actually accurately represent the dialogue in movies, the last three movies I've watched on Disney+ have all had sections where the subtitles just . . . stop. They don't exist. At all. What the fuck? How did y'all consider this acceptable?

Made three new spreadsheets and reorganised some data in other ways for later me, which was (hopefully) helpful and also did a way better job of soothing the despair spiral than I've done all week. Cataloguing and data entry are such good things for me, though I often don't have enough of it to do.

Wishing you one moment today --even if it's short-- where you just feel quiet and content 💙

Watching a favourite uplifting/soothing movie this morning; truly #CaptainHarlock remains the most hopeful and uplifting movie despite its rather dark premise. . . (It's also very pretty.)

I haven't slept all night (again), am still recovering from sick (flu?), and I've been stress spiralling. What an excellent time this is to try and figure out a combinatorics problem. I don't think I was ever taught any form of combinatorics in school, even (which was Some Time Ago now). Thrilling!

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!

I was given a donated entry for @librarything.com's (18th!) SantaThing exchange this year, and these are the books my gifter (yet unrevealed) chose for me! #booksky The Last Unicorn Discovering the Folklore of Birds and Beasts The Invisible Man and His Soon-to-Be Wife (Vol 1)

Keep your friends close. Keep your enemies closer. Keep an enchanted dagger closest of all, preferably in a sequined scabbard, or one of those cool bandolier things.

Green Tea Wizard Microraptor!

Me, wondering . . . will I regret my Everything if I go to the grocery store today. . . (I should be no longer contagious, as an aside.) . . .maybe (esp. since I'd have to go after my therapy appointment), but also I haven't slept and I might be not-sick but I'm still fucking wiped out recovering.