woolgathering

for the month of june, i tried my best to engage with as many pieces of queer media (either characters depicted are queer or the author/director are) as i could to celebrate pride month. i unfortunately didn't get to finish the goal i sort of set for myself as i spent much of my time cramming in some prep work for artfight1 this is also why my blog died for a bit shhh — but here's a list of what i did manage to read and watch. movies but i'm a cheerleader (1999) the children's hour (1961) ★ the…

i. on a remote islandthis island is a three hour drive from the nearest major city, and an additional twenty minutes by boat (thirty when the waves are being disagreeable). it's a wildlife sanctuary and marine reserve that i visited primarily to see the beach thick-knee that decided to make it its home. so no, i was not expecting to run into a single person i knew (unless they were one of my birdwatching friends). when you called my name on the boat we were taking back to the main land, i…

the thing about split diopters is people either love 'em or hate 'em, and i'm on the side of loving them. the enemy seems to find them hokey and visually jarring (why don't they just use deep focus1 or a focus pull2 blablabla) and i won't disagree in certain cases, but that doesn't stop me from thinking that those very disadvantages can be used in a way that makes narrative sense, thinking they're technically very cool, or having fun spotting them while watching movies. what is a split diopter?…

i visited my extended family on my mom's side last sunday to celebrate mother's day. most of my mom's siblings still live in the same house they grew up in, and i actually lived there for a few years too, although my family moved out in the early 2010s. we still don't live too far from one another. a ten minute car or tricycle ride (stoplights included) or a thirty-minute walk will put me right at their doorstep. that being said, i actually don't visit my grandparents, aunts, uncles, or baby…

a few years ago, i used to struggle a lot with talking about things i liked. i feared that my words wouldn't ever be able to properly articulate why i loved the things i did. it kind of felt like i was selling my feelings short and in a way, doing that thing i held so dear a disservice by failing to verbalize what exactly made it so great. i used to joke that writing a dissertation on why i disliked something was infinitely easier than writing a paragraph about why i liked something. it…

last month, pre-orders were going around for this t-shirt made by rob cham. i am vehemently opposed to generative ai (i don't think i've ever explicitly mentioned that on my blog before but now you know) so i thought i'd let the world know by buying a cute t-shirt and supporting a real artist. if you want to match with me, be my guest and order your own here <3 reply to this post

my now page is probably my favorite thing about my blog. it is the page i've spent the most time on; mainly because i was fiddling with a lot of the css to make each category uniform in appearance. i don't think i get enough traffic on my blog for people to regularly check my now page, so maybe it's a bit silly i update it so often, but i don't really care. i kinda love to just have it open on my desktop, staring at it like "yeah, that is what i'm up to right now!" i think it's the most me part…