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

listening

i am not loving the youtube mixes as much as spotify. the first five to eight songs are songs i have saved or am vaguely familiar with and then it always devolves wildly into stuff that does not match the stated vibe in the playlist title at ALL but is theoretically something people in the same age range might be listening to? there was a my chemical romance mix that gave me four nirvana songs in a row and then some reel big fish. not even any of the popular nirvana songs. i am not familiar enough with reel big fish to know if that was a popular song. anyway this has been EMBEDDED in my head bc youtube keeps starting the dance mixes with charli

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reading (article)

more clown corruption behavior from my corrupt clown mayor. this man is NOT getting reelected he has lost the mandate of heaven (too openly corrupt)

my mayor's financial integrity advisor is a personal friend of the mayor, makes $127k a year, and two and a half years into his job has physically come into work thirteen times. this county HATES working from home so this man is for SURE not working from home

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reading (book)

Nahri has never believed in magic. Certainly, she has power; on the streets of 18th century Cairo, she’s a con woman of unsurpassed talent. But she knows better than anyone that the trade she uses to get by—palm readings, zars, healings—are all tricks, sleights of hand, learned skills; a means to the delightful end of swindling Ottoman nobles. But when Nahri accidentally summons an equally sly, darkly mysterious djinn warrior to her side during one of her cons, she’s forced to accept that the magical world she thought only existed in childhood stories is real. For the warrior tells her a new tale: across hot, windswept sands teeming with creatures of fire, and rivers where the mythical marid sleep; past ruins of once-magnificent human metropolises, and mountains where the circling hawks are not what they seem, lies Daevabad, the legendary city of brass, a city to which Nahri is irrevocably bound. In that city, behind gilded brass walls laced with enchantments, behind the six gates of the six djinn tribes, old resentments are simmering. And when Nahri decides to enter this world, she learns that true power is fierce and brutal. That magic cannot shield her from the dangerous web of court politics. That even the cleverest of schemes can have deadly consequences. After all, there is a reason they say be careful what you wish for...

this is the front two-thirds of a completed trilogy. i read the first book when it came out in 2017, loved it, and slowly acquired the physical copies before i moved down here. have i picked them up again? no. i did, about a year ago, vaguely rec them to my bestie bc she loves a pair of protagonists that are fucking idiots and boy howdy are these a pair of fucking idiots. nahri does magic page fucking two but has convinced herself it's just bc she's so good at being a con artist. she's really honed her skills, yanno. i also love a woman who takes what she wants with both hands. the guy is fine. i love him bc nahri loves him so much.

anyway. the first book came off my bestie's libby holds as these books came onto kindle unlimited so we have sort of been binging them? very stressful to read. everything happens so much. a lot of modern western romantasy (this trilogy is straight up fantasy with a romantic element) my bestie reads is very... the last twenty or thirty years based? like it's dealing with someone's shitty king dad and the consequences of his actions. this is dealing with hundreds and thousands of years of policy and politics. chakraborty is so good at good intentions that worsen things for literally everyone.

OOOH i love political intrigue and whispers in the halls of the palace!!! this is a straight heterosexual romance happening in the b-plot when an active political crisis is not unfolding but i can't hold that against it. i have some libby holds about to expire i but am both very excited and very nervous to start the third book

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watching

fallow.

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playing

and now for a genshin update. hit hard pity on her but did not spend money aside from the $5 battle pass i buy approximately every other month so i am pleased.

one of the beefier updates we've had in a while, bc we went to the moon, the moon in the fucking sky. moon's pretty fun. moon's hiding a lot of lore we had to excavate. on the [DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT] at the top of the space elevator, there are what i'm choosing to interpret as glenn fireflies in this game that loves a glowing slightly moving dot. these were probably ice from the flash cooling loops, but some were also cosmic rays and minor debri.

from the friendship 7 mission:

John Glenn: "This is Friendship Seven. I’ll try to describe what I’m in here. I am in a big mass of some very small particles that are brilliantly lit up like they’re luminescent. I never saw anything like it. They round a little; they’re coming by the capsule, and they look like little stars. A whole shower of them coming by. They swirl around the capsule and go in front of the window and they’re all brilliantly lighted. They probably average maybe 7 or 8 feet apart, but I can see them all down below me, also." CAPCOM: "Roger, Friendship Seven. Can you hear any impact with the capsule? Over." John Glenn: "Negative, negative. They’re very slow; they’re not going away from me more than maybe 3 or 4 miles per hour. They’re going at the same speed I am approximately. They’re only very slightly under my speed. Over. They do, they do have a different motion, though, from me because they swirl around the capsule and then depart back the way I am looking."

^space elevator from moon to [DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT]. what's the big glowy thing? don't worry about that either

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making

there's this lady (well, several ladies, it seems to be a popular video topic) doing instagram reels about making her home one percent nicer every day, which seems more sustainable than getting my shit together september, where i get my shit together during the month of september. the following is making my house about a tenth of a percentage point better but i already had the iron out.

this is one of my favorite towels. this is an EXTREMELY good vintage linen teatowel. i didn't even buy it in cranberryland new england i found it down here for 79c. nearly half its usable width has been taken up by various wrinkles, bc it wants to be longitudinally wrinkled So Bad you can see the heavy color change along the edges. so i got it just under dripping wet and then really put my back and elbows into ironing it flat. we shall see if it recrumples next time i wash it.