Mute Cornett

Once upon a time, I watched the first five seasons of Dexter and then stopped for whatever reason. Recently I saw it was on Netflix and thought I should finally finish the series and I might as well start at the beginning so as to maximize the amount of time I could spend not having to think about anything else in the world except for what a selfish asshole Dexter is and how much I love Deb.

Previously on Dexter...

( Spoilers for the series )

Nothing to report re: media, as I'm in the middle of a book (Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid) and nothing else! (Aside from a lot of language stuff, many many many language stuff.)

But! Ghost was by! If you recall, I was very worried about her super swollen face last time I saw her (the 21st) and on the 7th she was by, finally. All healed up and everything!



LOL the haze is the petunias she's standing behind - fucked my white balance, but I thought it looked cool anyway:



It has been chaos around here lately, but HIIII

In paperback, this makes a thick graphic novel worthy of the name. The greyscale art is simple but expressive, and you quickly get a feel for Mags and her Abuela and their small desert town near Joshua Tree. Mag's childhood friend is back in town with her cowboy boots and pinhole camera and stirring up feelings that Mags can't let herself have because she's tied to her home and the secret in the basement that's bleeding her dry.

A tender story about learning to love yourself so you can accept the love others have for you. The art's limited use of color highlights childhood memories and photographs, but comes out in full force for the happy ending.

Contains: butch/transfem romance; death of a grandparent; and, separate from the romance: infidelity, stalking, emotional manipulation, threats of suicide, gun violence.

1. Brain raccoons in full force in the few days leading up to this trip. In part because I got my period and being in your 40s evidently means you just lose your mind for a few days every month. (This has been going in for like 6? months. Maybe more. I swear every god that knows my name I'm going mad. The internet says this is just what peri-menopause is and suck it up buttercup.)

1b. Brain raccoons are insisting that the new music player is inadequate because it only has a handful of albums and every mashup I could find on my various drives (600-ish). The raccoons say I need to bring my ipod that only holds charge for the length of a shower as well because my comfort playlists are on there.

My music collection is disorganized enough that I don't have the brain bandwidth to organize it and rebuild the comfort playlists on the new device before leaving. My brain bandwidth is taken up with other things

2. New fountain pen owner milestone: have completely taken apart and put back together two of my four TWSBI Ecos. One had the end cap come off during cleaning today and the other had water get in on the wrong side of the plunger. For personal future reference this is the video I used -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUPaXQpXOEY

2b. The TWSBI Eco is my current favorite fountain pen. Easy to fill, chunky enough for my hands, and the stub nib works nicely with my awful handwriting.

3. I am running into packing problems mostly because a third of my suitcase is taken up by the collapsible bag I'm bringing for souvenirs.

a dragonfly
unable to settle
on the grass
     -1690

Translation by Jane Reichhold.

( 俳句 )

Decided to just make the next batch of mixes a new post.

( southern gothic )

( more fandom mixes )

I need to write down my ipod playlists somewhere and this journal is likely to outlive whatever notebook I write them in. The ipod was last attached to a computer and new music put on in 2014, so it's a little bit of a time capsule.

( bucky and steve )

( misc )

( unpublished fanmixes )

saving here while I go eat.

fancake's theme for July is Working Together!

If you have any questions about this theme, or the comm, come talk to me!

One of those thrillers that splits the narrative between two women—both twenty years old, working at the same grubby motel and living in the same apartment, one in 1982 and the other in 2017 trying to solve the mystery of the first one's disappearance—and their stories run so parallel they're basically interchangeable and you start wondering if maybe the author should have only told the story once. It certainly would have cut down on the amount of clunky exposition and awkward dialogue.

The thrills were not thrilling, but the mystery might have been interesting if we weren't getting it from both ends. As it is, not worth the time.

Contains: References to rape, domestic abuse, and child death; descriptions of dead bodies; ghosts.

A very flux week, with much running around for the last of the garden centres lol. I think we went out every day aside from Canada Day, and Kelly had a five day weekend, so we did not do a lot.

TV/movies: we'd planned to watch Kpop Demon Hunters but didn't even get that done, lol. Also realised I never wrote my review of Tale of the Nine-Tailed, lol. Unsure if I want to dig that all up out of discord (my memory is like, what drama now? that was so long ago (two weeks))

Games: finished Game Dev Tycoon, it was a lot of fun but I didn't think it had a lot of replaybility (for me, idc about my score, i already won), so I deleted it immediately and sure enough, the day after I was like 🤔 and was glad I had deleted :P sims are so bad for both my physical and mental health, but they are so GOOOOD.

Inched a bit further into What Remains of Edith Finch & continue to enjoy it.

Books: the House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune - a sweet story, sweetly weird and sweetly optimistic. I liked it a lot and immediately ordered the sequel.

spoiler

I figured immediately that Arthur was probably magical, but I also figured that Linus definitely was a repressed case, and was wrong about that! Dang. Coulda been fun.

Writing and other wips: No writing! Not even a glimmer of hope on the horizon, lol. I have gathered supplies to embroider, inspired by the sunshine_revival challenge.

It rained for three hours straight - thunderstorm, hail and torrential rain - and didn't cool done one bit. That shouldn't be allowed. And now we have all the heat and all the humidity, and ugh.

(Hi! I'm still here. Things are just very busy and I can't seem to find the time or energy for posting, much less keeping up with anything other than the sid_guardian discussions ... I hope everyone's doing well, whether you're caught in this heat wave too or not.)

We have been to Many Shopping the last couple days since getting the car back, and the day before last we saw some ducklings :D there are 2 groups of babies in this photo, one regular duck. One group was obviously the outgoing extrovert children and the other group was anxious stragglers. They were really fun to watch.



A couple yard pics ( Under here )

Some not great Ghost news (warning: illness? injury?) ( nothing gory )

Oh, ETA: in unrelated news and tonal whiplash - does anyone else use focumon? It's a focus app with a pokemon knockoff theme. If you liked habitica, same kinda thing. We should be friends if you try it! I am only on day 1, so idk if I will stick to it. It seems very complicated at first, so I'm trying to streamline it for myself. I basically only need the "focus now" bit.

no good, very bad thing: for the first time ever, I carefully concealed my Star of David scrunchie to do an interview in case it became a distraction. I try hard not to self-censor, but ...