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Art curse: sometimes a shitpost turns out good for no reason. and then you basically HAVE to post it, even knowing you'll look like a freak 😭 . so anyway, here's Empress Theresa in her Little Black Nothing Dress. Enjoy

#Empress Theresa your eternal glory deserves a niche in my nascent blog #THE HEATWAVE IS (ALLEGEDLY) OVER. Normal brain acitivity can (allegedly) resume.#This means – for all my five beloved followers – that I will actually be doing sincere-effort book posting now. ho hummmm!#no but really #shoutout to Empress Theresa in the same post-ironic sense as Lightlark #this sb would probably be styled after her if Oro wasn’t more appealing to my deviant (homosexual) tastes #mandatory shoutout to St. Balassar English Club on youtube btw. genuinely if you like very good-faith lit critique #yet also the humour that accompanies that #please go check them out #I owe them my fealty for I owe them my embering re-interest in allllllll of this – here meaning hopefully more serious literature #annnnnny second now…

You'll note that this isn't Piranesi, but my midnight margarita is divine. ('Midnight' here meaning 2AM, the time at which I descended upon my backup ice tray.) It isn't perfecto per se but it’s a fabulous effort. I get so gay off that tequila!

#sorry guys this is not meant to be a shot-based spamblog but it felt like 'important' continuity to mention lol #I was always going to be up all night anyway so hm hm #guy whose only reference for the word 'mixology' is ts4: wait this is kinda exactly like in the sims 4 #saschacant

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AFFRIM: I WILL SOON START ONE OF THE TEN BILLION BOOKS I HAVE BOUGHT TO SUPPORT MY CURRENT CHARACTER ARC.

A book that isn't poetry, that is. I love love love poetry but I must (re)learn that prose is not going to kill me. But what to put on the shortlist? Each time I begin, the list quickly beomces un-short...

I already have a couple of art/poetry non-fics part-read rn which is something of a surprise – not because of the content itself but because I have been finding it far easier to pick up academic non-fiction than (what one hopes will be) immersive prose. What's that about, exactly?

Anyway, hello! To all three plus of us. If anyone should see this, please help break my chains. Or prithee just interact with this post in some vaguely bookish way; I'm trying to feel the community, here. Whatever the state of this poll should be later/tomorrow (assuming it gets any votes at all lol) shall decide my fate...

TBR Shortlist:

Piranesi – Susanna Clarke

Paladin's Grace – T. Kingfisher

Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë

The Eye of the World – Robert Jordan

(finally finish) Crash – J.G. Ballard

Voting ended onJun 16

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We have a winner! Big thanks to everyone who interacted with the post.

"Tomorrow", I said, only to rise today at a most vampiric hour. Again. Oh, well. I'm out and about tomorrow so I'll start Piranesi on the train.

If not tonight! Although, having said so, that's a difference of a whole fifteen minutes at this point. I'll get back to you once I've read enough to pass fair comment. Maybe or maybe not after a midnight margarita…

#update: jk my ice mould has absorbed a vile freezer smell and must be expunged. so no mixing for me…#bookblr #booklr #literature #reading #piranesi #susanna clarke #litfic #saschacant