We make our own myth, we don’t wait for the oracle

listening

this has been previously featured as a tuesdaysong but it's relevant again.

I'm just a brain with a pet body I'm just a feeling in the room I'm just a finger on the trigger On a Friday afternoon, ooh

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reading (article)

this is not Tremendously relevant to me since i will be a lifelong renter, but i was reading this like yeah yeah yeah of course some boston suburbs have banded together to bulk buy this...and also a little bit of houston??? i didn't think woke shit could happen in texas, but the texan is SO fond of feeling like they outsmarted someone else in order to get a good deal

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reading (book)

back to ripping through a fat pile of physical books i've accumulated during my travels, feat. carrot mousie. five books enter one book stays.

mirkheim by poul anderson: i cannot start a huge series in the middle and i don't think i would fall in love with this series based on the wiki overview. will go in my friend's recycling bc it's very brittle and the back cover is pretty mangled.

her majesty's wizard by christopher stasheff: time travel (not my favorite) and weirdly catholic. googled the author and he was a weird catholic. to the free bookstore with you.

tales of robin hood by clayton emery: sorceress described as a "woman in heat". no thank you. to the free bookstore with you.

cowboys are my weakness by pam houston: extremely heterosexual. girl stop trying to be serially monogamous. just have a roster. this one's signed but it will also go to the free bookstore bc someone will eat it the fuck up there.

and finally spindle's end by robin mckinley.

All the creatures of the forest and field and riverbank knew the infant was special. She was the princess Briar-Rose, spirited away from the evil fairy Pernicia on her name-day. But the curse was cast: Some unknown time in the future, Rosie would prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and fall into a poisoned sleep from which no one could rouse her. Katriona is the princess’s kidnapper—and savior. A young fairy, she is apprenticed to and lives with her aunt in the small village of Foggy Bottom. The two of them raise the princess as if she were their own in order to protect her. No other human, not even Rosie herself, knows her true identity. But Pernicia is looking for her, and Pernicia is formidably powerful and tirelessly intent on revenge for a defeat four hundred years old. Two village fairies and all the animals in the realm may not be able to save Rosie. . . .

published in the far-off year 2000, i feel this would be new adult if it existed back then. a book concerned with rose growing up, but mostly focused on markers and milestones of adulthood in your early twenties and thirties.

i grabbed this for a quarter at my favorite religious thrift with the worst fucking vibes, and read through half the first chapter standing there in the aisle before i really blinked. really fun intro to a magic system. very chatty, personable authorial voice. feels like catching up with the girls. not quite a horsegirl book but does have two Really Good Horses.

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watching

finished frieren, series that hit my bestie pretty hard (positive) and hit me a little less hard (depression). this is going to sound like damning with faint praise but it's been a minute since i watched an anime with things to say about its world and like. themes and shit. as opposed to "we need to solve a big problem or find something NOW". absolutely bananas fight scenes, what a good use of their budget. i am SO scared of fern.

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playing

i have finally lost interest in the library sorting simulator. got a good eighty hours out of it tho.

it's next fest! bc i have exclusively played powerwash simulator and library sorter on steam it is serving me one million job and sorting game demos.

i like the art and general layout of this, but the placement and overlap of items is a little finicky. i think it is a little Too permissive in letting you put anything anywhere. i want to see a complete level the way the designers intended that way i can get a better idea of spacing etc lol. it feels like those little sticker book scenes that come with tweezers? where you have Some creative freedom but there is very obviously an intended vision? cute! i think they'll get some good feedback and hopefully improve their snap-to-grid and iron out some of the finickiness.

two levels so far, a kitchen and a convenience store. very fun to open every drawer and cabinet and unpack every box. quite a bit of the real-life feel of having to sort of empty every cabinet and drawer, throw everything on the floor, and then go from there

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making

had a four-day weekend bc last wends i was Not able to have an procedure i still need (not due to malpractice this time, my body was simply not cooperative and there's nothing i can do to make it more cooperative :)))))))) and had a tiny bit of a meltdown about it and called out of work :)

the next two pieces have a lot of glow-in-the-dark thread but we have been under a flood advisory for most of this week and it has been overcast basically 24/7, so showing off the glow-in-the-dark-ness will have to come later.

finished this incredibly gaudy needle book i started in uhhhh. i couldn't find an appearance from any of the 2025 tuesdayposts. so it's been hanging around for a while. if you are true and pure of heart you can very carefully remove the wire from wired ribbon and use it as normal ribbon. random poly felt, poly ribbon, glow in the dark thread, a lot of backstitch and whipstitch, and the loopy bit is pekinese stitch (not from peking, possibly not even from china). as we can see i do NOT need to buy needles anytime soon.

finished this little project i started around my birthday last year. it did not come with quite enough orange thread to finish the pumpkin so i improvised a mackie to fill the space. glow in the dark thread for her eyes and locket as well bc why the fuck not. fringing the edges is my least favorite way to finish a piece but i think it fits the piece.

also, transcribed a thousand pages in the national archives transcription project. pretty underwhelming thousandth page but most of them are lol. don't mind my pip-boy anti-glare dark theme, really a limited number of things i can do to my extremely locked down work computer