Профиль

/sporadic push for more storygraph friends so i can feed the ravenous tbr. it makes so many graphs for you. love a good graph

rumination born from a discussion with a friend about an indie that got a trad pub pickup with very little editorial support. as we were griping about this disservice to everyone, she made the point that it could have easily been restructured to have a traditional novel structure. and. yeah. but why

gonna start describing more stuff as "ept."

it is fascinating the way a 1 hour appointment can devour an entire day

most of culinary history is devising and synergizing brown stuff

expanding my cooking repertoire has turned out to be mainly increasing the number of bottles of brown stuff I find necessary

love when animals are described as "secretive" (instead of elusive, shy, etc). like yeah this bird. is up to. clandestine shit. shames. sins. it's not that you and your binoculars are scary he just takes his privacy seriously. my guy is into opsec

you ever think about how extremely new The Novel is?

am not much of a merch person, but having fallen ass-backwards into liking a popular thing for once, gotta hand it to @mistyfigs.bsky.social for cuteness and quality (and free stickers! the soul hungers for stickers). gonna go sew some stuff to my backpack now

oozing into a muggy sunday evening like

Following the summer of my mother's death from double-bonitis, I found myself unutterably fatigued by the pressures upon a busy notary public. On the word of my clerk's sister's badminton coach, I gathered about me a few friends from my days in competitive macrame and set out for the countryside.

sometimes I wish I'd been born in time to publish 400 pages of "some guy told me about the time he found a mysterious journal full of scary shit he saw." like i understand why this is no longer a viable genre but.

an important human impulse, as demonstrated by this modern incarnation who lives outside my library

it is not strictly *necessary* to good horror to make the reader dread a mundane conversation in broad daylight as deeply as what stirs unknown in the dark, but it sure doesn't hurt

what's your sign?

love when you search a movie and a streaming service pops up and when you click on the page it's just "fuck you we don't have this" why did you make a whole thing just to tell me that

see? meaning of life

accidentally bought a tshirt 3 sizes too big for me and it's the comfiest thing in the world. a soft, shapeless bag is really the ideal garment. various monks and hunter gatherers really had this figured out

his face when I explain that if he pulls out the hairs on my body and bites me I experience that as pain and he will have to go back in his house

we all love mr. this-is-my-hole-it-was-made-for-me but every junji ito short story is like that and I think we should appreciate it more. happens when every narrative is constructed to set up a single visual that's the scariest thing ever. and the characters always pretend it makes perfect sense