A space for thoughts. Read away, fellow traveller!...
And no, I don't mean items or services. I'll happily buy books at a local bookshop, as I have done multiple times in the past few weeks. Recently, I even bought a used New Nintendo 3DS XL—and let me tell you, it wasn't cheap, but I was still very happy about it. I am very happy about it. These are not the purchases that I regret. I am, however, tired of paying for subscription services. I recently…
Content warning: tasteful illustrated nudity ahead! I’m trying to fight the doom and gloom by doing things that I like, or at the very least things that I can see myself enjoying. Life drawing (or figure drawing—I’m still not sure if there’s a difference between the two terms) is one of those things I’ve been meaning to try for quite some time, and when I found an event in my area, I thought,…
It seems that I have caught the book binding bug… Yesterday I had another day off, as a consequence of feeling perpetually tired and needing to rest. Originally, I wanted to stay at home and read, take it slow, spend a nice day properly relaxing, but I decided to go to the city centre and buy some art supplies for my book binding journey. I spent an absurd amount of money on some stuff that is not…
A friend and I attended a book binding workshop yesterday morning. I’d been meaning to do something like this for a long time; I love reading and writing, so naturally I was really hyped about the idea of learning how to make my own. During the workshop, we learned the saddle stitch method. I’ve never used needle and thread, so my first attempts felt and turned out a bit wonky. After the workshop,…
Against the doom and gloom, there are pockets of joy. Yesterday, my partner and I celebrated our third anniversary. We’ve been dating for three whole years (but have known each other a bit longer), and recently they even moved in with me. It seems like these milestones, which look tiny in the grand scheme of things, have the power to bring me back to myself. We decided to take the day off and be…
I think I've fallen into a pit of doom and gloom. Not because I went peeking into it, but because, nowadays, doomerism is everywhere. Every industry I once admired has turned out to be corrupt to the bone. Creativity, craftsmanship and charity are either overlooked or exploited. I do what I can to distract myself (go running, blog daily, play Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds ), but everywhere I look, the…
Yesterday I came home, ran for a bit, did some stretching and then an additional workout, and then spent some time reading, eating. I watched an episode of Hirayasumi , and after that, fully intending to read some more, I quickly fell asleep on the couch. I woke up at 0:40AM... all of this to say, I missed one day in my daily blogging challenge. But I actually wrote a post yesterday—I just forgot…
This post was originally written on April 17, but I forgot to post it before falling asleep in the evening, so I've decided to post it on April 18 anyway for the sake of my daily blogging experiment. You're free to read more about this mistake here . The more spend time in this world, the less I want to. I do not mean this in a harmful way, but more in the sense of: I know too much to have a happy…
From vocabulary.com: Bathetic describes something that's overly sentimental, gushy, and worse yet — insincere. Soap operas are known for their bathetic emotionalism, because the characters cry and wail and scheme over the silliest things. Bathetic (the noun is bathos) comes from the Greek word for "depth" but not as in the ocean floor but as in "anticlimax" — a descent from the sublime to the…
I've been blogging daily for 14 days. Almost half a month has already passed, and I have a few things to say about this little experiment. I don't know that this suits me. The daily part, I mean. For the first few days, the ideas kept coming and I almost felt the urge to blog constantly. This can be easily explained as a micro-hyperfixation; nothing too crazy, but surely something fleeting and…