aldieb reblogged
i lost my progress on running bc i didn’t want to get out of bed in the morning for 2 months and i’m never going to be a regular gym attendee bc of the fucking coronavirus and there is no foreseeable near future where i live somewhere that has space for home workouts so basically um. idk where this sentence was going but i woke up raging and will ineffectively try to solve that by doing yoga in our crowded hot as hades living room
last week i was mostly cleaning stalls so i didn’t meet a ton of people but this week i was helping with the kids and i kept introducing myself to people and getting to watch their face journeys when they asked if i’d ever worked with horses before, i said i’d been riding for 17 years, and they rapidly started trying to recalculate my age. tale as old as time
sorry for the most tumblr post ever but s3 is going to be the first wot tv season i experience unmedicated rawdogging life etc and i don’t know if i’m going to live. looked at stills and experienced a level of wordless excitement so intense i felt like i was going to throw up
I WANT TO WRITE SOMETHING GOOD. SMASHING CROCKERY IN MY MIND
it’s this thing’s birthday today
all hail macintosh, one of the most complicated creatures invented recently
ok i’m legally female for the next 4+ years and it doesn’t matter 🧘🏼 glad to remove the suspense from that immediately i guess but fuck you to me for panicking and procrastinating and to nyc civil court for slowing everything down for people who were very likely in a rush for a reason
#text tag#i do not want to make posts because there is no point so i’m just gonna get everything out of the way in this one as a buy-one-get-one-free#deal. it’s actually so crazy that a significant proportion of people decided to hasten the destruction of the human race cuz groceries are#too expensive. like unfortunately it re-sank in
the first half of the siege of burning grass is a solid entry into my favorite genre-that-isn’t-a-genre, “two people who can’t understand each other go on a terrible road trip.” on one level, i think it’s an interesting twist to make the two dudes realize that they’re actually from the same cluster of small villages in the huge war machine country since it highlights the thematic question of whether geographic boundaries can make someone an enemy or an ally. but on another level, i think it’s a little bit of a cheap trick to make the characters very quickly connect over tiny familiar things like a word game that the people from round there play. because it feels so worked-for and rewarding when the exact opposite happens—the moment when one character in this dynamic is suddenly fascinated by something small but alien about the other, can’t resist trying to learn more about it, and thus opens the channel of communication a bit wider. idk, maybe this book is deliberately a total reversal of the encountering-the-other trope, though? the next half is a combination of a lesson in political organizing (this was good; fantasy about what The Resistance actually gets up to is lacking and the details felt real) and an action movie that you catch the final confusing 40 minutes of because you happen to flip to the tv channel it’s on (i… do not know how we got here). i just don’t get how a whole story about pacifism ended up hingeing on a bloody heist—i would say that it’s a refutation of pacifism, but that’s counter to the ideology expressed throughout the entire rest of the book. uhhh idk i feel like i say this a lot in the sff sphere lately but i’m glad that this type of book exists and also wish another of this type existed that was better executed. i want to know whether the author has read the dispossessed (also ends in a rather violent fashion as a result of revolutionary organizing but manages to square that with its purported themes). i liked the writing style a lot
#text tag#re road trip stories i want to reread ‘thick as thieves’ now. actually why is it called that tbh. like i guess it’s an outlier in the#series so its title can also be a tonal outlier but it’s so odd#wait back to ‘burning grass’ WHAT IS UP WITH THE WORLDBUILDING REVEAL. i said ‘NAH.’ aloud. this isn’t dragonriders of fucking pern in the#last 5 pages sit DOWN.
got 4 hours of sleep because i couldn’t stop thinking about the thing i decided to wake up at 6am and do barn work in the cold to stop thinking about. and since i spent all day yesterday finishing the cookbook job my mind was like… formatting the thoughts as a numbered list in the style of a recipe. the human brain is a fascinating organ that i want removed from my skull
i decided to try to volunteer at therapeutic riding again bc even though travel will be a huge time suck i’m depressed and want to see a horse and the dog shelter doesn’t seem to want volunteers. the last time i did this was 2021 but apparently i’m still allowed to just arrive and pick up shifts omg. everyone trust me with your vulnerable children and large animals no problem
#text tag#also could even do weekday shifts bc of work volunteer hours… ok not bad#when i was originally doing this i had a hard time with some of the work because (pause to accentuate the irony) i just wasn’t able to#process the instructions and it wasn’t getting better. but let’s give it one more go at a different location likely with different staff
@librarycards and @phthalology tagged me to post books i’m planning on reading in 2025 (ty guys). i think this sampler hits all the typical notes. i have seen like everyone doing this already and idk who hasn’t so i’m going to abjure my tagging duty, but if you want to, pls do it and say i tagged you
got food with the person who was probably my closest friend from my high school. she lives in the city but i haven’t talked to her in at least 6 years bc i haven’t talked to anyone from back then. idk why she was so persistent about trying to get a hold of me since i was honestly acting like a freak, but she was and it was a perfectly pleasant time. i feel like this is the part where i’d say that i should’ve just done it a long time ago and there was nothing to be scared of, but tbh until now i just wasn’t ready. she also coincidentally goes to the board game cafe so we’ll see each other there? idk dude
discovering that probably 1/3 of all papers in [journal] that include a certain common command-line prompt also include a syntax error in that prompt because of a mistake introduced by automated editing software behavior that no one is catching because we aren’t stemlords………………………………………
if you need a pearl for the dnd spell identify, your party has a circle of the moon druid who isn’t afraid of burning a wildshape, and your dm is nice, you can get that shit for free. lucja and our artificer are still not sure how this interlude has affected their relationship tho
#text tag#wolfgirl#she put a gold coin in her mouth before transforming into an oyster bc by lucja logic that would make it ok to remove the pearl but i still#got the description of her turning back as ‘you feel… shucked’#we can’t even play tonight but i keep encountering the word ‘shucked’ in this cookbook and having flashbacks
getting out of bed exhausted from ruminating on stupid decisions i’ve made ready for a day of making more stupid decisions bc i will never learn to simply sit down and shut up 👍
i think my voice is dropping and i came to this conclusion while singing “bad romance” at karaoke with j. as important stereotype representation