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abysmal reading month for me, lads, but! on the plus side, i have gotten back into painting/drawing, which i hadnā€™t realised just how much iā€™d missed. here are some february creatures.

read that magazine piece about pennell & atkinson & iā€™m so pleased that i finally know who all the terra nova guys are. my blorbos-in-law that live rent-free in my polar exploration mutualsā€™ lovely heads. i think i love them, actually.

watched one (1) youtube video about a guy reflecting on how he escaped the alt-right pipeline & now i keep getting recommendations for ben shapiro & jordan peterson wannabes dunking on the woke left & sneering at immigrants & trans people. so youtube is BROKEN broken, huh.

shoutout to my aunt who, when i came out to her a couple of months ago, asked me when i was going to ā€˜transformā€™. english may not be her first language, but sheā€™s just made it a million times better. i canā€™t wait to see the fear in my friendsā€™ and familyā€™s eyes when i declare that iā€™m transforming.

being obsessed with your own OCs that youā€™ve told no-one about is low-key hilarious bc all day every day, iā€™m making imaginary textposts for an audience of me & me alone that are like ā€˜when [____] & [_____] šŸ˜ā€™ & [_____] was so valid for [____] tbhā€™

the pure petty satisfaction of bitching with a friend about a book that everyone else seems to love but you both think is trashā€¦ā€¦ electrifying tbh

one of my new yearā€™s resolutions was to keep track of what i read this year & have a little book wrap-up at the end of each month. so, without further ado, hereā€™s what i read in january 2025.

She Is Done

i could never figure out how to spell newt geiszlerā€™s name but now iā€™ve figured out the trick to remembering it: the s & the z are facing each other bc theyā€™re kissing, bc s & newt are both bouba & z & hermann are both kiki. simple, foolproof. & that, ladies & gentleman, is why i should be president

taking a break from writing fitzier being painfully oblivious on holiday to draw, of all things, fish. i have never drawn fish before & i never thought iā€™d ever be interested in drawing fish, but. turns out. theyā€™re actually rather fun

proudly continuing my mission of adopting every single sad dejected plushie in sight - US edition. this guy was sitting at the bottom of a claw machine in an asian supermarket & i spent 10 dollars getting him out. he was worth every cent.

practising gratitude by reminding myself & anyone else who needs to hear it that even if we have nothing else on this bitch of an earth, at least we can put fictional old men in situations & make them have gay sex. itā€™s the little things that save us, etc. etc.

offsetting my decline into middle-class mum (yoga) by channeling my inner grandpa (reading the driest, most mouldy-smelling, insufferably british books about stuart britain & wwi youā€™ve ever seen)

started doing yoga & iā€™m so annoyed that i now Understand why everyone raves about it. absolutely hateful that i actually do feel calmer, stronger & more limber after one (1) week. who is this well-rested man in the mirror & where has his lower back pain gone

this would probably give me two consecutive heart attacks & it would be worth every single bite

jfj: well, i mean, when you put it like thatā€¦

thought about beauty & the beast for 5 minutes, went a bit nuts & hashed out an outline for a fitzier beauty & the beast au. happy wednesday to me