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what can i say, nobody's perfect! working in retail over xmas is a fine way to suck your soul dry of any creative impulses, and then i immediately went from that into joining a new hobby so i've been all over the place. i could probably write a post abt some of the stuff i've been doing but i'll just do a report for now and see where the mood takes me another time
reading: the agatha christie obsession ploughs on - i've read a few dull ones recently so i fell off for a while, but as part of my birthday shopping i did treat myself to a modest two (2) new books. i finished the big four today and it was good, but not amazing. i think the obsession might be starting to wear off! i've been way more gripped by other books recently. i read butter by asako yuzuki in january and fuck me, what a book. i always hesitate to buy stuff when it's really being pushed by retailers, so i held off on buying it during waterstones' big push and by the time i got around to reading it, negative reviews had started cropping up from people really slagging it off. that made me more curious to read it lol so i gave it a try and MAN. i really think it's gonna be my book of the year. people who sought it out looking for something like hannibal or killing eve with grisly murder and constant confrontations between murderer and investigator were going to be disappointed right from the get go, because butter is way more of a study on misogyny in japan. reading it felt like i was eating one of the lavish meals in the novel; it was perfect, but i had to keep taking breathers and allowing myself time to savour the different arcs, and i ended up taking a lot longer than i normally would to read a book like this because i found myself relishing it so slowly. i've got two more "proper" books lined up from my birthday shopping, so hopefully my next report(tm) will be about interesting things and not about more murder mystery slop.
eating: i had a solo expedition to london last week (yet more birthday antics) and i spent a while wandering around chinatown trying to figure out what to buy for lunch. the city i moved to as an adult isn't much of a food hotspot, so i always feel this pressure to make sure i make my trips elsewhere "worth it" by getting great and interesting food. i ended up veering into good friend chicken. it's by no means new to me; i was a very dweeby teenager, and my friends and i spent a lot of time lingering in chinatown in terrible cosplay, but i remember feeling too awkward to go in and order anything because it was always so busy. last week, i finally got to try their fried squid and fuck me, it was so good. i can't believe i could have been eating this for years. it was hot and gelatinous and covered in sweet dried seaweed, and unlike almost every other meal in london, it cost me less than a tenner.
playing: lots of people have lots to say about slay the princess, an indie horror game that quickly got pulled into the same slop mill as other indie horror gems like sirenhead, doomed to be trapped in youtube kids videos for all eternity. i, however, have more to say about black tabby games' other game, a visual novel called scarlet hollow. i backed the kickstarter in 2020 and aside from returning to the game whenever a new episode is released, i periodically find myself drawn back to yet another playthrough of it. if you're a fan of appalachian folklore, creeping dread, and the chance to romance not one but TWO monsters, i cannot recommend this game enough.
obsessing: SEVERANCEEEEE oh my god im sick im unwell im PLAGUED with visions of severance, i can't stop thinking about it. it's so so so good. unspeakably good. ignore how bad the season 1 marketing was. please watch severance.
recommending: well i already recommended severance and scarlet hollow just now but lets pretend i haven't recommended anything yet. umm. i recommend self improvement and trying to learn new habits - or unlearn bad ones! i think january is a really shit time of year to try and do resolutions but now that spring is tentatively arriving, it feels a lot easier to try and better yourself. i'm making very slow progress in that direction, and i recommend it :^)
treating: greggs sausage bap for breakfast babyyyyy
OKAY that was a long report lol!!! maybe i'll vanish for another few months, maybe not, who knows!! i went to see a really good exhibition at the tate that i'd like to write about but it's hard to feel like it's worth doing it when i'm not going to have anything to say that's not been said by anyone else. oh well thats life!!! happy march guyz
reading: the agatha christie obsession ploughs on - i've read a few dull ones recently so i fell off for a while, but as part of my birthday shopping i did treat myself to a modest two (2) new books. i finished the big four today and it was good, but not amazing. i think the obsession might be starting to wear off! i've been way more gripped by other books recently. i read butter by asako yuzuki in january and fuck me, what a book. i always hesitate to buy stuff when it's really being pushed by retailers, so i held off on buying it during waterstones' big push and by the time i got around to reading it, negative reviews had started cropping up from people really slagging it off. that made me more curious to read it lol so i gave it a try and MAN. i really think it's gonna be my book of the year. people who sought it out looking for something like hannibal or killing eve with grisly murder and constant confrontations between murderer and investigator were going to be disappointed right from the get go, because butter is way more of a study on misogyny in japan. reading it felt like i was eating one of the lavish meals in the novel; it was perfect, but i had to keep taking breathers and allowing myself time to savour the different arcs, and i ended up taking a lot longer than i normally would to read a book like this because i found myself relishing it so slowly. i've got two more "proper" books lined up from my birthday shopping, so hopefully my next report(tm) will be about interesting things and not about more murder mystery slop.
eating: i had a solo expedition to london last week (yet more birthday antics) and i spent a while wandering around chinatown trying to figure out what to buy for lunch. the city i moved to as an adult isn't much of a food hotspot, so i always feel this pressure to make sure i make my trips elsewhere "worth it" by getting great and interesting food. i ended up veering into good friend chicken. it's by no means new to me; i was a very dweeby teenager, and my friends and i spent a lot of time lingering in chinatown in terrible cosplay, but i remember feeling too awkward to go in and order anything because it was always so busy. last week, i finally got to try their fried squid and fuck me, it was so good. i can't believe i could have been eating this for years. it was hot and gelatinous and covered in sweet dried seaweed, and unlike almost every other meal in london, it cost me less than a tenner.
playing: lots of people have lots to say about slay the princess, an indie horror game that quickly got pulled into the same slop mill as other indie horror gems like sirenhead, doomed to be trapped in youtube kids videos for all eternity. i, however, have more to say about black tabby games' other game, a visual novel called scarlet hollow. i backed the kickstarter in 2020 and aside from returning to the game whenever a new episode is released, i periodically find myself drawn back to yet another playthrough of it. if you're a fan of appalachian folklore, creeping dread, and the chance to romance not one but TWO monsters, i cannot recommend this game enough.
obsessing: SEVERANCEEEEE oh my god im sick im unwell im PLAGUED with visions of severance, i can't stop thinking about it. it's so so so good. unspeakably good. ignore how bad the season 1 marketing was. please watch severance.
recommending: well i already recommended severance and scarlet hollow just now but lets pretend i haven't recommended anything yet. umm. i recommend self improvement and trying to learn new habits - or unlearn bad ones! i think january is a really shit time of year to try and do resolutions but now that spring is tentatively arriving, it feels a lot easier to try and better yourself. i'm making very slow progress in that direction, and i recommend it :^)
treating: greggs sausage bap for breakfast babyyyyy
OKAY that was a long report lol!!! maybe i'll vanish for another few months, maybe not, who knows!! i went to see a really good exhibition at the tate that i'd like to write about but it's hard to feel like it's worth doing it when i'm not going to have anything to say that's not been said by anyone else. oh well thats life!!! happy march guyz
