#groovy asks

14. toro by remi wolf

it's such a banger.....

62. love child by diana ross & the supremes

this is on my soul and funk playlist lol

90. she's fine by count 5

16. 😊😊😊😊

my fav part was def finally closing on it and realizing i have my own little place to call home but also realizing that i could actually buy it

i rented this place before i bought it and when the owner offered to sell it to me at first i was like there is no way i can and im gonna have to find a new job bc there's no where else to rent in my town but then i found out about the one loan and i was like oh i actually can buy a house 😵‍💫

one of the benefits though of living in a small town is that everyone who helped me with the process like my work friend's uncle inspected the place and helped me with a bunch of maintence and i've taught my mortgage lender's kids

it has a lot of character to it and it's super old my house was built in 1903!

doing maintenance on my own sucks though i had to install a pipe on my water heater and cried for a day about it

and this was just a hassle but bc i live in the southwest basically i don't have normal ac i have an evaporation cooler and winterizing it and draining it was super annoying and gross it was full of dead bugs

and this is kind of house related but my street has been under construction for like 9 months on and off and i only have street parking and it's been driving me nuts i have to park so far away

but in the long run it's super nice to be able to say i own something and being able to do whatever i want to the place without a landlord is so nice

i might not be the person to ask just bc i love sf a lot and i also do the thing where if i don't understand some made up term or word in sf i'm just kind of like okay i'll figure it out as a read and is dumb and never really figure out what it means if that makes sense 😭 like it takes me multiple reads to understand some things so i can't always articulate what i've read when it comes to sf

i do think the gender and sexuality of the gethenians can be confusing at first but also it reflects how the main character understands it too i think

i also think the way it's set up narratively can be confusing but that just have been me who had been used to how typical old classic sf usually goes which narratively is also pretty straight forward

personally i feel like if you feel intimidated by sf i think getting an anthology of sf short stories helps because it's more bite sized and manageable i got this one in college and it's full of amazing classic sf authors and authors in general and if i liked a short story in it i would look up the author and find other stuff by them to read like this anthology is what got me to discover octavia butler because i really liked speech sounds

also not pictured but it also has a table of contents split by thematic listing which is very clll so it lists like what stories in it are about say alien encounters or gender and sexuality for example

also if the left hand of darkness seems intimidating i really liked the word for world is forest which is a part of the hainish cycle which takes place in the same setting/universe but the books aren't set in the same worlds so they aren't really tied to one another in a sense