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hey i know it isn't immediately clear on this blog specifically because i try to curate my posts to all be 100% about the books i'm reading, but i stand with palestine. i'm saying this right now because i just noticed i got a follower that reblogs a bunch of posts about how "violent" the leftist pro-palestine movement is, that saying "death to israel" is antisemitic, and a bunch more mealy-mouthed nonsense that boiled down to "b-b-but won't someone think of the poor israelis while palestinians are being bombed and starved en masse!! 🥺"

to them and to anyone else who agrees with this bullshit: fuck off. you're not welcome here or in any space i make or occupy on the internet. any zionists who try to interact with me will get blocked.

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that time of the year again where i have to overhaul my manga library completely because a major aite went down

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"Never take another person’s side against yourself. I consider this nonnegotiable. It could be a friend or a relative challenging you about how much pain you’re really in—physically or mentally. Trust your own judgment. You are the expert on you, so never take sides against yourself."

- Toni Bernhard J.D., 6 Guidelines to Live by if You’re Chronically Ill or in Pain

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"One of the conditions of being alive is that I might get injured or sick and have to change the way I was living. There was no reason to blame myself or feel guilty."

- Toni Bernhard J.D., 6 Guidelines to Live By If You're Chronically Ill or In Pain

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"One error in perception is thinking it possible to have been a child without having received wounding experiences. Learning to live life hurts all children. Some amount of wounding is inevitable and in a certain sense necessary. It is the severity of the trauma, the context of the wound, and how it is handled that determines whether the mother wound leads to strength and wholeness or ongoing trauma."

- Phillip Moffitt, Healing Your Mother Wound (2002)

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also a "neat" lil pattern abt myself i've noticed: i usually get deep into a reading binge + posting here when i'm in the throes of a depression spiral. my good ol' coping mechanisms. i do wanna break out of that habit and read/post intensely when i'm Not feeling like shit but it's the fallback atm

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recently read fujisawa moyashi's burn the house down, and it was a nice compelling read!! lots of fun complex women that i loved to study under the microscope of the 8 volumes we got. i wish there was enough material for 10 but that's how it goes sometimes

it was also a fun reminder that complex traumas don't always need to come from death, especially in stories. there's just as much, if not more, to explore for people who survive traumatic incidents

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does anyone else experience Web Novel Fatigue or is it just me

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> be me

> updating digital comics library

> see a 2025 release for the runaways

> "oh hey i didn't know this got picked up again!"

> open the comic

> see white viktor

> close the comic

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Have you read pennydaniels fic we should stick together and the sequel? They are great liujiu fics. There is another called a cat beneath the wintersweet bush by redketchup.

I will also mention a butterfly dreaming by tiffindale (wip) and chrysalis by s_unfl0wer (wip) that are good!!

a cat beneath the wintersweet bush is one of my newest fave liujiu fics!!! i think i finished reading it a few weeks ago and it instantly shot up to the top. i also read a butterfly dreaming after you sent this and UGH. it's soooo good too but seeing it's been over a year since the last update...... im in shambles ← girl who only reads completed fics to avoid this heartache

i've read some of pennydaniels' stuff but it didn't really click with me sadly, and i'm pretty picky with different setting AUs so i doubt i'd vibe with chrysalis either. but maybe i'll give it a shot someday

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the way i've forgotten to post here as i read

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a year+ later and same shit lmao

i think i just have to make peace with the fact that i'm always gonna be a sporadic poster. social media consistency who????? genuine anathema to me

plus the goal of this blog was always for me to read more books + track them + be more conscious of what i read. yapping to an audience is just a bonus

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it's looking dire out here, lads

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this too is yaoi

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finally found an mp3 for one of the cleaning books i've been putting off, kc davis' how to keep house while drowning. three chapters in and it's already disparaging both konmari AND bullet journaling and the eye-rolling rage that induced in me woke me up from where i was nodding off while listening to davis

this is my like number 1 pet peeve, when cleaning/self-help/mental health or whatever books put down a different system to tout their own as better. it's the exact reason i've been putting off reading this book

it doubly pisses me off because davis not only boils konmari down to, "marie kondo says to tri-fold your underwear," as if the literal thesis of her method isn't already spelled out for you in her books' titles, but also adds bujo to the mix while tacking on shit about "self-help gurus undermining the physical, mental and economic privileges they hold" as if ryder carroll hasn't talked extensively about inventing thw bullet journal in order to manage his ADHD

like. hello??? what in the actual fuck are you talking about. can you maybe do a second of research instead of talking out of your ass

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Damn, I was just looking into this book for my bipolar and chronic pain/exhaustion and the overwhelming feelings of having to deal with piling up self care and house care, but I'm a devotee (with some modifications for my If I Don't See Something I Forget It Exists object impermanent ass) of KonMari AND found great use in organizing with the Bujo, and those sound like really cheap shots. Why must it be either-or, why can't we take what helps us from all systems and blend them together to suit our needs??

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I will say How to Keep House While Drowning is still worth the read if you were interested at all. I will also defend Marie Kondo and my bullet journal with my life so those part were annoying for me as well but I still got a lot out of the book as a whole. Not just ideas for ways to help me keep up with cleaning tasks but also shifts in how I view myself. Honestly I feel like her ideas are similar to Kondo in that they both center around building a home that works for you so that you aren't working for your home.

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fellow konmari and bujo enjoyers 🤝

i'm glad you still got some helpful stuff out of it, but that experience left such a bad taste in my mouth that i don't think i could force myself to sit through another listen of the audio book. tho if you've got any highlights or pointers from the book you'd like to share i'm all ears

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gotta say that this was Not Very Poggers as a recently-turned-25 year old

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NOT ME LITERALLY FINDING OUT ABOUT UNDEAD UNLUCK AND BINGE READING IT ALL IN ONE NIGHT RIGHT BEFORE THE LAST SIMULRELEASE CHAPTER DROPS!!!!! LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOO