recap | july 2022

beware of spoilers (umbrella academy)

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finished chewing on community. the last seasons were less strong than the beginning but i didn't mind them, even if really wasn't the same thing after troy left. umbrella academy s3 was a good time: the footlose dancing scene was the best thing ever, i enjoyed all the gender affirming bits for viktor (even if i'll never stop laughing about the fact that he didn't need to change name... his previous name was literally a russian nickname for ivan. it was already masculine! but anyway) and five as usual is an entire mood. i don't like whatever the fuck is going down with allison, she might have her reasons or whatever but it's just annoying. klaus' storyline with dear old fucking dad was darkly hilarious and im here for it. dad!diego got me good, im not gonna lie, so i was disappointed when it turned out that there was no kid after all, except the unborn one. that's too far down the line! i don't care enough about his relationship with lila. fei's aesthetic was immaculate even if my lamp had more personality, rest in power.

i was itching for more danny pudi so i finally started watching ducktales. i always read the ducks' stories in italian so im learning a lot of new names haha. i missed them; i always preferred donald duck over mickey mouse, when i read them as a kid (i never watched the original ducktales, it was comics only for me. grandma bought the weekly volumes for me every week... simpler times :'))

im still behind with my goodreads challenge but im catching up! i absolutely loved the long way to a small angry planet, and i absolutely need to get the sequels. it made my little xenofucker (and my robofucker) heart sing. the bear and the nightingale, our next pick for the bookclub, gave me a lot of feels: it's been a while since i read something that was set in the russia of folktales and i missed it quite a lot. and now, for something completely different: i put moscow noir on my trl bc i felt like it could've been a good example of what i wanted to do with an original novel i was working on. years later, im happy to say that i was fucking right. i don't read a lot of noir, despite wanting to write one, and i forgot how good and bad it feels to sink in that kind of darkness. i haven't finished it yet, but the short stories so far are very good (even if i could have done without the casual transphobia)

i finally finished assassin's creed II. i didn't expect to end it with a fistfight with the pope but i can't say i was disappointed. it was quite satisfying. i'm glad that there's still two more games with ezio bc i grew really attached to him.

Writing

writing keeps being the bane of my fucking existence, for the n month in a row but! beyond every expectation!

• ... i managed to finally unstick the damn commission. i finally managed to write the bit that i couldn't write. and now im just missing a couple more scenes and i can send the draft to beta.
• i want to write my own shit. there's this little thing ive been writing for years now that routinely got stuck at random points... but between a few conversations with the witcher discord friends and moscow noir and a little heaviness of mind, i find myself missing my stupid little blorbo. who knows.

art+craft

• thesunday flower sketch project keeps going strong: i liked how the poppies turned out, while the other three flowers are a bit disappointing, but the most important thing here is that im keeping going. slowly and surely. i hoped to do a little landscape painting or even gestures, but with my brain in the garbage it's a miracle i managed this at all so. no complaints.
• i made good progress on the poet shirt! i joined the back and front pieces, i attached the collar and i sewed the gussets to the sleeves. i still have to gather the sleeves at the wrists and at the shoulders, attach the wristcuffs, attach the sleeves to the body, join the sides, do the hems, and do something about the buttons. It's... a bit. But it's not too much! I'm very hopeful to finish it by the end of the next month and to start on something else, too.