Oct 17, 2025
I was ashamed of myself when I realised life was a costume party and I attended with my real face.
— Franz Kafka
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I was ashamed of myself when I realised life was a costume party and I attended with my real face.
— Franz Kafka
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“He wished that he could break out his knitting, but for some reason, people didn’t take you seriously as a warrior when you were knitting. He’d never figured out why. Making socks required four or five double-ended bone needles, and while they weren’t very large, you could probably jam one into someone’s eye if you really wanted to. Not that he would. He’d have to pull the needle out of the sock to do it, and then he’d be left with the grimly fiddly work of rethreading the stitches. Also, washing blood out of wool was possible, but a pain. Still, if he had to suddenly pull out his sword and fend off an attack, there was a chance he’d drop the yarn, and since he’d been feeling masochistic and was using two colors for this current set of socks, there was absolutely no chance the yarn wouldn’t get tangled and then he’d be trying to murder people while chasing the yarn around. And god forbid the tide rose and he went berserk. You never got the knitting untangled after that; you usually just had to throw it away completely.”
― T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Grace
Hot weather too early means the breeziest look I can think of 🥵🌿 Dress by Market of Stars, goblin oil painted cuff by me, earrings by Wolftea.
Every so often I like to read something that's completely outside my competence zone -- after all, it's the best way to learn something new. With this in mind, I'm reading The Education of a Gardener by Russell Page, originally published in 1962 and brought back into print in 2007 by NYRB Classics. Page (1906-1985) was a world-class garden designer with a career spanning nearly six decades, and in this book, he embarks on a sort of mental tour of the gardens that struck him as particularly lovely and/or well-adapted to their settings. It's beautifully written, with an astonishing eye for detail (Page originally trained as a painter), and above all, it's relaxed -- a word I mean as high praise. So much of life now revolves around a deluge of information, with sensory assaults ever increasing and attention spans ever shortening. To indulge in a book like this one, whose pace is set solely by the rhythms of the natural world, makes for an escape of the very best kind.
"The Rape of Animals, the Butchering of Women," The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegan Critical Theory by Carol J. Adams, 1990.
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update:
so it turned out my recent issues stemmed from a) important amino acid deficiencies and b) stupid high cortisol. After addressing this with supplements for literally just a week or so my sleep and overall-feeling is 100x better. It's crazy how things have improved. Thank you to everyone who prayed for me, I'm positive your prayers helped us find the solutions (and so unbelievably fast, honestly). <3
reading update:
Phantom of the Opera was a great re-read. There's some hurdles in the prose occasionally, because it's written in a more "sensationalist" style of the period. Still, it's undoubtedly cinematic (and very Christian!) in the best way. It's easy to see why it's been adapted so many times over the years. I need to finally watch the film adaptations lol . . .
Next on the roster is the Nausicaa: Of The Valley of the Wind manga. This beautiful, ginormous edition has sat on my shelf since 2022 (alas, the sands of time reveal my shame...), and I think it's high time for me to crack it open. I have my first viewing of the Nausicaa film planned asap too, so I can see the differences. I know Miyazaki expanded much more upon the manga version.