Unhealthy Obsessions

recap | june 2022

2022-07-10T13:40:27Z

warning: might contain spoilers (namely: stranger things)

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finally watched venom 2! it was a lot of fun. i usually watch movies in their original audio, but this time the italian dub did an amazing work on the delivery of a certain line lmao. i also watched red notice one night when i was bored, and i didn't dislike it (i liked the twist at the end) but i feel like action movies lately have issues with the pacing of the action sequences. they're too long! the chase and the fight are supposed to give you adrenaline, not "ugh okay tell me when it's over" vibes!
i've been chewing through the first few seasons of community and im really liking it. a bit relieved i didn't watch it too soon bc i would've absorbed abed's personality wholesale and that would've been an issue. i also watched stranger things vol.2 and well. im gonna have to watch s5 just to be properly disappointed about will's storyline, i guess. im a bit shocked with their decisions for eddie's storyline and it just cemented my suspicions about him being another flavor of billy. questionable choices! i genuinely don't care enough about the rest to be disappointed about it haha but will. dammit.
im really behind with my goodreads challenge. we finished the simon snow trilogy with anyway the wind blows; my fave book is still the second installment, but it was a good ending and a satisfying read. next for the book club was small gods: i struggled a bit with tpratchett's writing this time for whatever reason, but the book itself was really good and full of little smart things that i enjoyed. a masterclass in reflections about heavy topic but done with good faith and in an entertaining way.
i finally played disco elysium and well. im heavily compromised. i expected to enjoy it but i didn't expect to find it so interesting! and i absolute would kill and die for kim kitsuragi (like most of the fandom anyway, i know im not special)(im not quite thinking about writing fic for it but, i have a few ideas...)

WRITING

the less is said the better. it was a complete failure. i did a little progress but not enough.

ART+CRAFT

im keeping up with my sunday flower sketches; im quite happy with how they're turning out but i wish i had more energy to dedicate to drawing... on the other hand, i finally finished the damn blanket!! i finally started officially on the next project, cutting the linen for the shirt. i hope to getting it done in july. i had quite a push to plan more things to sew...

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recap | may 2022

2022-06-07T21:35:06Z

warning: might contain spoilers (namely: stranger things, hollow knight)

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turns out that set it up is a romcom with rights. special mention to downtown abbey II: a new era because it's the first time i went to the movies in forever and it was good but strange.
eurovision was fun but i wasn't too hyped for it, despite it being in italy. i liked ukraine's entry, but i preferred france's fulenn and moldova's trenulețul. on the other hand, our diodato, måneskin and mika did some great live performances ♥
putting a dent in my to-read list: we read 2/3 books of simon snow and it was an amazing time, especially wayward son because vampires, obviously. dracula daily is still going strong. the southern book club's guide to slaying vampires was a surprisingly heavy read; well done, absolutely fucking terrifying because of the realistic element rather than the supernatural one. i made an attempt with camere separate but i couldn't; i'm sorry because it's queer and italian and god knows how rare that is, but i think i had my fill of sad gay stories.
finally watched ted lasso and tumblr didn't like: it was really a good time, even if i don't give a shit about soccer. stranger things is back; i like the new guy and im lowkey shipping him with steve ~~and billy, who is perfectly fine and alive in my dreams~~
finished hollow knight: i had to cheat in order to finish it but i don't regret it. i'll never be happy again after learning the whole story, and after the final battle against the hollow knight (i've been listening to the ost obsessively, too). ao3 has little, precious fic, and that's how im surviving.

WRITING

i haven't posted anything, but i did some impressive progress on the infamoous ace geralt fic. i finally finished part 1 and part 2, and im putting a dent in part 3. hopefully by the end of june it'll be done. (i know i said it was going to be done by the end of may but eh. that didn't happen clearly. im also glad i finally started working on the novelization of the dnd campaign, dunya. it's a little unnerving, because im writing an original character on top of characters that belong to friends, but i'm having a grand time so far.

ART+CRAFT

the craft part was pretty much a complete failure, because i didn't get shit done, but on the art side i'm keeping up with the weekly digital drawing. i finally found a way to keep it consistent. i don't know if it'll work with the next set of subjects (flowers) but im gonna keep experimenting. i also practiced watercolor a little, taking advantage of movie nights with friends. i'm pretty proud of it.

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recap | april 2022

2022-05-12T13:35:52Z

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lots of catching up, this month. this is us s5, which was long overdue lmao. as usual i enjoyed it very much, i think it's the only drama i can stand. dialogue and storytelling is always strong and it never fails to make you shit bricks on the finale. brooklyn nine-nine s8 was another thing that i kept putting off bc i didn't want it to be over. they picked a good time to end it, i think. you can't keep dragging a thing forever, and eight seasons is still a pretty long time. they stopped before it could turn bad and they did it well (winking a little at current times issues. good for them). our flag means death, obviously, bc everyone and their mothers has been talking and giffing and fanarting about it. i enjoyed it very much and it would be silly of me to deny how good it is, but my brain is still wholeheartedly devoted to my other blorbos so it hasn't clicked with me entirely. i thought i was going to be insane about jim but the magic wasn't entirely there (i do love vico ortiz though. call me). if i had to nominate a blorbo from this show (besides ed, who is basically default) i would pick lucius i think. yeah yeah i know. predictable.

in conclusion, bookclub time: we finished magnus chase, which ended on a strong, lovely note, and i finally dug my teeth in my first terry pratchett, pyramids. the general mood was 'what the fuck did i just read' but in the most positive way you could think of. the amount of layers of humour and commentary is astonishing.

WRITING

the goddamn ace geralt commission is finally going somewhere! i managed to get the first part to a somewhat final draft and im steadily chewing on part two. let's hope may will be the month it sees the light of day.

on the other hand, i posted a few fics that i wrote during february and march that just needed a bit of formatting:

a million stars away, a tiny reflective piece about my dnd blorbo and their half-orc boyfriend.
drought, an old-ass short piece about jaskier being (spoiler) angsty on the beach.
about those definitions, the royed where they're both suicidal and alcoholic that was missing the ending.
through the cracks, about jesper touching himself while he thinks of kaz. set in a nebulous canon between the tv show and the books, bc of course.

writing still feels like pulling teeth, and it doesn't help that i finally noticed how much i suck at endings. i knew that but hey. i also have no idea how one would go about at doing practice on that (other than writing, that is) (this sounds like a scam)

ART+CRAFT

i'm pretty satisfied of my progresses in this area. i finally attached the binding to the blanket; i have to fell three sides and then i'm done. i also bought the fabric for the shirt; it turned into a double project because i want a generic floofy shirt tm on top of the lambert shirt whose embroidery i still have to plan. i figured it might be a good idea to make a first, plainer attempt to familiarize myself with the process, before going for the complex one. (excuses, excuses. but no, really). also, i've been drawing digitally quite a lot, and i had a lot of practice with inks and watercolors; a friend got me a few inks and a fancy glass dip pen last year, but i didn't have time to try it until now. it's a lovely medium but my drawing skills are still too meh to really appreciate it. i need to practice more.

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recap | march 2022

2022-04-01T17:19:31Z

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finally listened to/watched heathers the musical, which is a good, ironic, dark time.

i finally finished reading bend sinister, which once again made me mad at nabokov because the guy is just too aware of language and of his own craft. (it pains me because he uses writing in such an expressive way and i would love to plagiarize the hell out of him for my own shit but it feels too pretentious for this century. i always feel like writing have to feel effortless, these days-- close to the way normal people talk and feel and thing, and a thing like literary nabokov doesnt sit well with that kind of aesthetic. my own writing strives to be quick and to the point, no excess.--not that im getting paid for it. not for the things that matter to me. but i digress).

also finally started magnus chase and yes, i fell in love with alex fierro. i was a fool. i waited too long. rick riordan once again demonstrates that he does the homework, thank you very much. im just missing the third book in the trilogy and i cannot wait.

watched doctor who s14 and as much as i love her, i don't think i got it. i don't enjoy it as much as i used to, i think, despite my fondness for the characters and for the universe. it's a pity.

it probably doesn't count as a fandom but since mr joey batey and miss madeleine hyland stuffed the thing with lore i might as well mention that i finally listened to ruin. i still need to chew on it i think.

WRITING

i wrote more than i expected but not as much as i wanted. im struggling a bit with getting words out and getting what i want, but i managed to write at least a fic per week for the challenge. better than nothing.

ART + CRAFT

i finally finished the embroidery on the dnd bag! i wanted to start binding the blanket too but i keep procrastinating. i didn't go back to watercolor either, but i followed the list on the plant project. it's going slowly but the important part is not giving up.

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recap | january + february 2022

2022-03-03T18:29:49Z

new project for 2022: one post a month with a quick update about fandom discoveries and art+craft projects. seems doable, right? except i’m already behind, but nevermind that.

warning: might contain spoilers

( january )

( february )

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memo to self

2021-01-10T12:06:20Z

reading the posts about goals made me want to re-make the one i did in a more structured way, so i guess i am officially behind with the challenge lmao. it's one of the drawbacks of dreamwidth--since it's longer posts, it takes me more time to write them and i always second guess myself and the content i post.

anyway, for day #5 the challenge is to gush about canon and i wonder if it's finally the moment for me to re-read the witcher (the short story) and shard of ice and break them down--but i don't have time today and my hands hurt and it's taking me forever to just type this so maybe somewhen during the week?

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a field of dandelions

2020-11-30T23:33:11Z

Today was a good day. Nothing happened, in particular, but I just felt content in general. I worked well, I ate well, I did my self-care routines without a hitch. Fixed an issue with my mom's phone, had a job call, watched a fun movie. Did my nails.

I missed doing my nails so much. I used to do a different mani every other week and then suddenly I stopped -- mostly because I had to cut my nails really short bc I couldn't stop scratching the dumb stress eczema that popped up with the rest of the apocalypse and my nails are too small to do anything fun with them, if there isn't at least a little bit of lenght. It was a bit depressing.

But now I'm back! This is definitely one of those things that are part of myself.

I can't seem to be able to embed the instagram post with my current mani, so check it out here.

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spiritual undercover agent

2019-06-16T17:20:07Z

[ polishing and expanding on this thread ]

Now let me be an annoying queer Catholic for five minutes.

Like every Sunday, I went to mass this morning. Like every Sunday, I sang in the choir and I followed the celebration and I prayed as best as I could, which is something that doesn't come easily to me for a number of reasons, but I still do because that's what I believe in. Then, during the sermon, the priest said something along the lines: "If people these days live as if God was unimportant, it's all society's fault".

In context, it sounded like 'the people in this church at this moment are the only people who care about God' and 'whatever are we gonna do about those sinners who don't go to church on Sundays?' and also 'we're not part of society because we're the Church of God'.

Try identifying as someone that your people famously consider a one-way ticket to Hell. You're sitting among them, listening to that same sermon, singing in the choir next to them, and they don't know about that part of you. Would they be as happy and welcoming as they are, if they knew?

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