gay pride wednesday

[thegreatratsby]

i posted this on wednesday on neocities. so it counts.
home for a week to visit family, boyfriend, etc. yay :-)

listening

• shriekcast
• trueanon eps 551/552 'dead load' from their patreon. honestly banger episodes, centered around the idea of the israeli Nut Retreival Thing(tm) but focuses way more on the religious background behind it as a concept, some of the controversies, etc. the content warning at the beginning is for "discussions of cum and homunculi" which rules
• i don't know how i avoided listening to system of a down for so long but they fuck? they fuck hard? i think it's because i don't really care for chop suey as a song, it's Fine, but that's the one that always gets trotted out as The system of a down song. gateway back in was 'lonely day' and the rest is history, listened to albums 'toxicity' and 'hypnotize' on the plane today

reading

• finished wuthering those heights. it was fine! i liked it well enough, some banger lines in there.
• blood meridian is good. i'm in chapter 10 now.
• hand jumper, webcomic rec from b! dude this webcomic fucking rules. the main character, sayeon, was grown in a lab to be catnip for b specifically but i also really enjoy her. failgirl. She Is In Control Of The Situation. probably. what a nightmare <3
• Tom_Holland_Umbrella.mp4; snappy little piece about the gender of it all

watching

• friends play the new path of exile thing. my own beautiful bespoke streaming experience from my friends to have going while i do dishes etc
• the emerald fennel wuthering heights. Oh My God. Jesus Christ. it was excrutiating. never in my life have i watched a film trying so hard to be erotic and failing as profoundly. every time something happened the whole room (i did a group watch with my book club, which was the Only way to do this imho) collectively went AAUGH!!! EUGH!!! WHAT!!! so that was funny at least. if i ever have to see the underside of jacob elordi's tongue ever again i will end it all. it only happened once i think but that was one time too many. this review that i reblogged over the weekend summed up my thoughts pretty well.
• novie by the sea on interstitial journaling: guards! new journaling method has hit the notebooks! playing with this idea now of jotting down tasks as i finish them/transition to new task. even if i just write down "watched youtube". so far it has felt like a good way to avoid the scrolling hole.
• this mia's digital diary video: not finished but i like the cut of her jib so far
• started taskmaster s16

playing

• fallow

making

• painted some dahlias on this little bud vase boy for a friend. could fit one, perhaps two trimmed dahlias.
  
• experimenting with some new glazes! someone donated some of the amaco SH glazes to the studio and so far i loveeeee them. used these as an opportunity to experiment with some negative space. fern bowl was done in matcha gloss, fish in acai gloss; the latter was not nearly as glossy or blue as i thought, maybe did not put enough layers on? i thought i did 3 but maybe it needs 4. it has a nice sort of texture to it though so i'm not mad.
  
• friend birthday gift COMPLETE. i went to the studio at 8am wednesday to pick this up before my shuttle to the airport at 9. thought about posting under a spoiler tag again but i haven't taken a good photo of it yet soooo. next week
• scrapbooking!!!! will not be linking pictures due to the people in them but i got a bunch of photos printed at the great satan (walmart) for the month of january as an experiment and made a scrapbook spread. really enjoyed it, will definitely continue.

eating

• made these deviled eggs for the wuthering heights watch party. basically made as-is, doubled it though because there were like 10 people there and there was exactly one half egg left by the end so it was definitely the right choice. friend labelled them as 'heathcliffed eggs' which is quite funny.