kat, chronically offline

reading spl and yuwu one after the other was also super interesting in that they seem to share some questions but still have very different focus; it really highlighted how idealistic spl is as well

also loving how everyone in the murong family was made to personally appeal to my tastes

it's not that I didn't guess most plot twists, it's just that there was still more to guess and also damn the yue family drama was insane (affectionate)

went through most of yuwu in the last week and after the volume 6 reveals I'm so like I'm sorry for doubting you meatbun I wasn't familiar with your game

the changgu biting scene,,,,,, if nobody gets me then priest gets me

yes hi I'm finally reading spl can you tell

characters who are sooo detached from their bodies and desires and see this as a normal and admirable way of being >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

crop of a zine cover: a distorted 19th century etching of an ostensibly female figure, hair blowing wildly, kneeling on rocks by a stormy ocean with their arms outstretched to the sky. overtop, the text: "burial at sea: trans gothic and tian guan ci fu"

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but yay now I can look into summer scholarships? and finally tackling hskk next I suppose

I didn't feel very confident because I totally underestimated how little time you get for each question and also getting to only hear recordings once is brutal like friend without context I don't even understand what I hear in my first language

I passed hsk4! the good news of the week tbh

gotta be honest I can't wait to read spl (soon!) and yuwu this year so I can enjoy your fics again!! opening them in tabs on my phone so I don't forget 😌

I have not read the witcher books since I was like 15 and haven't played the games so ngl I'm a bit scared they'll disappoint me but also I feel like maybe it's time for an adult reread so I actually appreciate the themes and references?

I think I might read the new witcher book now because my dad got it for me and keeps asking if I'm done already 🥹

I highly recommend! I especially loved how many places and times the stories span, made it super engaging and helpful for my current attention deficit

I guess it's fine that I didn't finish my bg3 playthrough and didn't read too much and that I didn't write or revise any Chinese because I'm trying to teach myself that rest isn't about being productive but also. I always have so little time for myself 🥹

the thing that really frustrates me is how I took two weeks off for holidays and made all of these grand plans to what I'll be doing and then in the end I spent most of the days sleeping late and fighting anxiety

Post the cover of the first book you are reading in 2025.

I had this one on my pile for so long and now I regret not picking it earlier, the first two stores are so so good

ohh thank you for reminding me I wanted to read this one, maybe I can also get to it this year 🤞

yes I've been playing bg3 lately how can you tell

hmm maybe I should try to return to my roots (writing self-indulgent fics about my dnd npcs yearning for wrong people and trying to make doomed relationships work)

One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

it's really bad for my job also, like I'm trying to get more writing tasks in place of managing ones but I'm also so spent lately and then my team members keep finding time for personal projects I encouraged them to do while I have trouble keeping up with writing basic game quests ://

I'm telling myself it's normal and justified because I needed to finish a project to graduate and I wrote like thirty speculative poems for that which isn't much but ehhh finishing it and the complementary analysis was so exhausting for me but still. I wish I was able to write for fun again

haven't written a word in like three months and that's for academic and poetry, I think prose would be closer to half a year? is this burnout? idk I miss writing fanfic the most tbh

matched on a dating app with a hot girl with tgcf meme in her profile and she never answered my funny pickup line :/// giving up on trying to date I think

she just does this specific balance of violence and tenderness, of grief and companionship, of melancholy and hope that really speaks to my soul idk

it's been a week since I've finished modu and while it won't be my favourite danmei probably I keep randomly thinking about it like damn priest's writing just hits so well for me every time

ahh please do, it looks very promising!

ohh it looks so good!! btw is this a Chinese horror anthology I see? do you recommend it👀