ben 🥮🍵

Ben is sitting on a couch with the book "I'm thinking of ending things" resting on top of some blankets in front of him. There's a teacup full of a black tea called "Qing Xin Red" and a gaiwan beside it full of the tea leaves. It is moody and warm, and there's light from the christmas decorations nearby.

A cup full of black tea and a gaiwan beside it.

A gaiwan full of black tea leaves. The leaves are long and curled, and haven't fully opened yet.

Tea of the day: Qing Xin Red from Red Blossom Tea Company

Current Read: I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid

Oh what I would do to visit all the ancient and historical libraries in the world!

did i pick up sky cotl bc i heard there was a moomin event? maybe. did i immediately dump 10 hours into the game out of sheer rabid fixation over one of my favorite pieces of media? okay listen

i did both ! usually i prefer to play solo tho but i did a lot of duet/quartet stuff for classes :D

lesbian girlcock

i miss violin i should play again sometime i feel like my left hand has lost all its dexterity at this point

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unpacking my room (pt 2) and i'm starting to realize after the Third Box Of Turtles that perhaps i have too many turtles........

Illustrated image divided into four panels, each showing a head of a bat with a text label. Top left: little guy, a regular looking back with a dark face and light colored fur, top right: little guy deluxe, a bat with a mask and large ears alongside a bat with a leaf shaped nose, bottom left: what is even going on here, a visored bat with a large forehead next to a bat with a large, wrinkly nose, bottom right: o hi doggie, a fruit bat with its tongue sticking out.

Contrary to popular belief, there are only four kinds of bats.

Middle grade/YA writers, don’t stop. There are kids at the book fair waiting for you

English is just three Germanic languages in a French coat

ANDY: I clarified your butter.
ME: Ghee! Thanks!

i'm absolutely their trouble but frankly i think that everyone needs a bit of trouble in their lives so i am 100% happy to fill that void by getting pulled over bc of my robots

forever fond of the idea that i'm my friends' "trouble"

like "ah yes, ben's done something, why are you texting me about it like i'm capable of getting him to listen? oh, because he listed me as an emergency contact? fine, i'll be there in 30" this is what it means to be loved

i speak tagalog fluently so i always get thrown off with bisayan languages 😔 but i still can recognize romblomanon and remember some phrases despite the 12 years that have passed and that brings me so much joy

i love hearing my dad's language in passing because tell me why i clocked this was romblomanon in seconds. i can't understand it, but i still Know it and that brings me so much comfort

clocking in 🫡 happy to be a genderfluid dyke on main again

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
1/20
#booksky #bookchallenge

hi #booksky ! i'm ben :)
➵ 23, he/she
➵ tea nerd and book fiend !
➵ currently fixating on robots and viruses or smth science-y
➵ fav books: spillover by david quammen, stone butch blues by leslie feinberg, babel by rf kuang

honest to god i love academia + my job bc where else can i learn new skills on the clock. like i've just been slowly building a robot service dog and that is something that my students + coworkers just Know about and constantly ask about. like everyone loves arcis that's SO SWEET to me

i love tea culture bc one time i walked into a tea house and this girl with the most gorgeous name and i proceeded to get into a compliment + gifting tea war and we literally spent hours calling each other darling and love and honey it was fantastic

forever thinking about red water shuixian and how i can never get that shit for the next DECADE. god i hate tea as a hobby