oh! the hero complex
a monster's work is never done
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My original plans for this weekend were simple but joyful: I would go on Saturday to a yarn/fiber-dyeing studio up in Vermont, to spend a possibly obscene amount of money (under the banner of The Twelve Days of Birthday, which is a concept I just discovered thanks to a coworker), and then on Sunday, I…
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I’m a little more on top of things than last month — I’m only three days late! What a resounding blogging success I am. Books Read: 1. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka: This had been on my to-read list for a while (possibly since it was published), and I’ve been keeping…
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Only a few days (uh, almost two weeks) late! Not too shabby. And! This is officially my third blog post of the year, so truly I am a roaring success. So let’s get into it! “It” being “how well did I do on any of my goals for February?” The answer is: not too badly!…
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Look at me, updating twice in the same year! Maybe 2025 is the year that blogging sticks. One can hope! In any case, January 2025 was something of a lackluster month, in terms of both reading and writing. Back in 2023, to ease some of the stress I was putting on myself regarding my writing…
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Yesterday, as I was wasting a few quiet moments at work, I was going through Twitter — rarely a good idea, despite all the lovely friends and fanworks I have there — and came across this article by Jess Bacon, about the juggernaut that is BookTok and how it may, in fact, be ruining reading.…
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I think it’s time to admit I am just…bad at blogging. Even back in the Heyday of Blogs (and the days of the dearly departed Google Reader; no, I have not recovered from that particular loss), when a solid third of my day was spent reading knitting blogs, I was still bad at it. There…
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After a few years of not reading as much as I used to — combined with some not-so-great record-keeping for the books I DID read — I think it’s safe to say that I’m back, baby. Growing up, I was very happy being known as The Weird Girl Who Reads All The Time, and 2022…
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After a few years of not hitting my reading goals (due to reading a ton of fanfic, too much choice, and forgetting to update Goodreads), I delighted myself by hitting my goal of 60 books read in 2022 back in August, with Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars. I’m at 71 books read now, since I…
oh! the hero complex 