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YouTube video by China Plus Professor Gao Du on dance and culture conveyance

He’s so joyful! youtu.be/6moyewuTNQo

Also I’m not even going to say “goals” cuz I’ve never been able to move like that in my life.

I'm so sorry for your loss.

At this point, I think the entire publishing industry needs to have a serious conversation about the degree to which the last 15 years have increasingly seen book promo become an online venture, and what that means now that entire social media and digital platforms are getting torched overnight. 🧵

Book checkpoint

Last: Kalpa Imperial by Angélica Gorodischer

Current: Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell; Dracula by Bram Stoker; The White Cat's Divine Scratching Post vol. 1 by Lv Ye Xian He

Last added to TBR: Tokyo Express by Seichō Matsumoto

Next: hmm

WTH

It hit me today on my morning walk: the light returns.

🤣🤣🤣

The book "The Wife Comes First vol. 1" by Lü Ye Qian He

Lü Ye Qian He: The Wife Comes First vol. 1

I wish I could read Chinese so I'd know whether the register is as badly off in the original as it is in the translation.

Still, entertaining enough, as long as you don't pay too much attention to the asininity of the court intrigue. #2026reads

The book "Rakkaudesta ja muista riivaajista" by Gabriel García Márquez

5) Gabriel García Márquez: Rakkaudesta ja muista riivaajista (Of Love and Other Demons)

I've got some very big holes in my literary history, and South American literature is one of those. But I can report that I have now doubled the number of books by South American authors I've ever read. Woohoo?

4) Ginn Hale: Price of a Thousand Blessings vol. 1

That typo in the 1st post bugs me every time I see it, but this time, I do think I encountered a reading challenger, whatever that might be.

Clumsy prose, draggy plot. Not even the cliffhanger makes me want to read the next part.

My family calls it barn tea (affectionate).

Tfw you're listening to music while you cook, so you need to peel the carrots in a rhythm that matches the music's.

Why did my new phone just wish me happy birthday?

I don't like living in the future.

Two books: "The Darkness Outside Us" and "The Brightness Between Us" by Eliot Schrefer

My new babies.

"You want to test it tomorrow?!?!?!?!" An actual reaction by yours truly last summer.

Great article. Also great thread, even though I don't entirely agree with Hamilton.

A light installation on a pitch-black river.

Now it's the Oulu.

Originally it was the Torne (the Finnish-Swedish version, not the English one). Photos: high noon in early winter and midnight in midsummer.

Also, what do you say about them when you have nothing to say at all? I read a book. It was a book. Next, please.

There's stiff competition, but the 1 tech enshittification emanation I dislike the most is, I think, the near-demise of paying once for something then owning it. Give me a piece of tech with onboard software, give me a game, give me an email client. Charge me once, give a couple of years of support.

The book "After the Disabled God of War Became My Concubine" by Liu Gou Hua

3) Liu Gou Hua: After the Disabled God of War Became My Concubine vol. 1

Nice to read some danmei for a change. This was surprisingly entertaining.

You know what's done wonders for my cooking? Accepting that it's okay to take shortcuts. I didn't need to chop a single thing for today's lunch, yet I've got a pretty mean risotto with flavourful toppings.

My Own Inner Elba Let me start by saying that the news is incredibly awful. I’m very aware of this, in the way you’re aware of, say, a ninety-seven degree day with one hundred...

i wrote about dissociation, reading as comfort, vice and self obliteration during times of horror, and also about reading exclusively about gay love for like. a year
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YouTube video by Mauvaise canadienne Heated Rivalry - 3 mins 20 secs of Ilya being a soft Dom and Shane being a good boy

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#HeatedRivalry vid rec

Tea tray with tea-making accoutrements.

Saturday morning tea: Shincha Haruno Yabukita 2025. Yet another advent calendar tea.

I don't usually drink shincha, so I expected to fuck up the brewing the first time, but actually it turned out really well.

-27°C is in no way fun. And yet, it's still 20 degrees warmer than the coldest weather I remember, so what am I even complaining about?

But fuck it's cold.

Oh hell.

The book Role Model by Rachel Reid

Rachel Reid: Role Model (Game Changers #5). Heated Rivalry distracted me enough that it took me ages to finish this. Now I can move on to The Long Game. #2026reads

Photo of the book "Venus ja minä" by Emi Yagi

1) Emi Yagi: Venus ja minä (When the Museum Is Closed). Magical realism, queer, novella length. Most memorable part: the yellow raincoat. #2026reads

What I have learned from listening to #Ember&Ice is that I'd listen to Connor Storrie reading the nutritional information of ground beef if that's what he felt like recording.