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tentatively back

hello! it has been 3 years since I posted on this blog!

Since the last time we spoke, I have:

experienced a few different forms of heartbreak (some silly in retrospect despite how devastating it felt at the time, others are still an ache. my cat died, i miss him.)

got prescribed antidepressants. Turns out, medication can help one's anxiety! Who knew!

started a commonplace book. I plan to post at least one little essay/explanation singing the praises of commonplace books

started reading for fun again :)

starting writing fiction for fun again :)

starting bookbinding! I am making and binding my own notebooks & sketchbooks.

We'll see how much I stick around and utilize this blog, but as the dark inches closer during the day and the leaves start to turn, my power grows. October always makes me want to write, so I'm hoping to update this blog and make it useful for myself and any other writers who loves this season.

In the meantime, here's my Fall/Halloween TBR Goodreads shelf. Will I read all of these? Of course not. But I'm excited to try!

Iona has 26 books on her fall-halloween-2024-tbr shelf: Best Ghost Stories of J. S. LeFanu by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, The Spirit Bares Its Teet

#the envoy speaks #writing blog

i’m always trying to stir myself into writing with pre-writing creative outlining projects. summer of 2020 i tried to make a binder of old drafts to inspire revision but that didn’t go anywhere. now, i’m thinking of turning a blank sketchbook i bought into a drafting and outlining collage type art project for my current story idea. i am by no means a bullet journal person or a professional artist, so this won’t end up looking very polished, but i’m excited to work on this when i’m not studying for grad school.

#idk if i'm going to get any personal writing done this semester #i'm pretty burnt out already from the classes i'm taking and the one i'm teaching... and this is just week 4 of the semester yikes #the envoy speaks

twomountains

Die Wilde Jagd, Wild Hunt, Dziki Gon.

taken from Orchideengarten.

#the wild hunt #german folklore #image prompt

poleneloq

Artist. Adam Tan

#image prompt

victoriansunposed

Woman sleeping in a train wagon, 1895

#wish this was me!!!#image prompt

mbrainspaz

I really enjoy just existing in hotels. The long identical hallways. The soulless abstract art. The weird noises the air-conditioner makes. Strange city lights in the window. Six stories off the ground. Strangers chatting in the hall. Nothing in the dresser. No past, but an infinite present.

#having a strange and persistent longing for hotels and transitory spaces during this stay in place pandemic quarantine #setting inspiration

sosuperawesome

Faux Leather Book Clutches with Detachable Strap / Custom Orders

Elena Myloslavskaya on Etsy

#these are understandably way too expensive for me #but i'm still hearteyes over them #fashion #books #not writing

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setheverman

this man does the math and delivers your change

#image prompt

brun-the-disir

23.12.19 Manchester

“The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.” - Oscar Wilde

#image prompt

geekandmisandry

Also how can Arthur Conan Doyle write a character like Irene Adler 1891 and have her 1. Outsmart Sherlock Holmes and get away with it and 2. Be in no way a damsel or love interest to Sherlock.. But every modern retelling not only has her be a sexual /love interest character but she is posed as being very very smart… But never smart enough to just outwit him, get away with it and move on? Women can be smart, sure, but no one is allowed to be smarter than Sherlock.

It’s been over 120 years and Irene is, at her best, never as decently treated as the original.

fictionadventurer

Also, why does she have to be some criminal mastermind? The original Irene is just a woman trying to leave her shady past behind so she can live a quiet married life. Yet nearly every adaptation makes her into some sort of female Moriarity. She doesn’t need to be a criminal mastermind to justify Sherlock’s continued interest in her–I think it’s far more interesting that he admires a basically decent woman who just outsmarted him once.