things i felt like sharing

You can call me rhyme! - queer - mentally ill - prone to rambling - main @rhyme-draws-stuff

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General pinned post, from my main blog ⬇️

Greetings :D I'm rhyme and I draw stuff! And I do some other things also. I am Sapphic, Aromantic, and Aplatonic (probably??). I use she/t

Blog-specific pinned post is below the readmore ⬇️

(post last edited 2025, August 13)

This is a personal blog mostly dedicated to making short textposts posts about whatever's on my mind. Some fandom stuff, lots of posts about how I'm feeling, and a fair bit of vent posts. I also occasionally post WIP art (finished stuff goes on my main @rhyme-draws-stuff), craft / sewing projects, Minecraft builds, and stuff about gardening & plants.

Ask box is open for whatever!

some tags i use on this blog (I'm not very consistent about them though)

#rhyme rambles, - for general chatter. often with a positive tone (i tag most of my posts with this)

#rhyme feelings tag, #rhyme complains, #rhyme suffers, #vent - all tags I use so people can filter various kinds of venting, or other talking about how I'm feeling

#wip art, #my art, #rhyme draws, - tags for art i post on this blog. usually i post art on my main, any art i post here is going to be low effort or unfinished

#oc talk, for talking about my OCs (happens very rarely)

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there's a depressive episode interfering with my ability to enjoy yuri manga. i am going to put an end to something

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i love pulling grass out of the ground with my bare hands <3

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every day i dream of a dashing MMORPG with an incredible nonbinary-focused character creation system riding into my life and stealing my heart away

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my libraries need more active yuri enthusiasts so the titles i want actually get requested and picked up

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oh i would also like to play more warframe sometime. the game doesn't really fill what I'm looking for in an mmo, and the gameplay started to get pretty repetitive after about a week, i still adore the character designs and I've heard intriguing things about the story

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i really miss playing GW2 but the problem is I played it as a child and it's filled with ghosts of my past. by which i mainly mean embarrassing character creation choices that I'd need real money to change

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my last attempt at playing ffxiv i quit because i got frustrated with the UI / job system. however my sister has informed me that they're going to update both of those things in the nearish future and that does make me kind of want to pick it up again

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i also hear they're going to upgrade character creation in some kind of way. and while it's basically a pipe dream i am sort of hoping they'll resolve one of my other biggest consistent pet peeves with the game

(LET ME PLAY A FAT NONBINARY CHARACTER IN AN MMO PLEAAAASE)

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my last attempt at playing ffxiv i quit because i got frustrated with the UI / job system. however my sister has informed me that they're going to update both of those things in the nearish future and that does make me kind of want to pick it up again

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recently I've taken up scouring Libby's deep search catalogues for any yuri manga i could suggest my libraries pick up, but what I've discovered is the best looking titles are always exclusively available in German T-T

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all of my tomato seedlings are ill and dying 😞

possible mistakes made:

starting container didn't drain moisture enough

starting soil heavier than ideal

continual anxious overwatering

attempted to add fertilizer too early

didn't pick out mushrooms fast enough

took too long to move them to larger pots

moved them outside earlier than ideal

put them out in too much sunlight too early

Some of them are still hanging in there, and the bell peppers seem to be doing a bit better. But there's a lot of things I've got to do differently next time!

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doomscrolling tumblr is over i will be voraciously reading yuri manga on libby for the foreseeable future

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maybe one day i will unlearn shame. maybe one say I'll figure out how to balance living in a way that's true to my values without constantly hating myself for not being perfectly in line with my idea of moral purity. maybe one day I'll figure out a way to be self aware and constructively critical without obsessing over my every action and line of thought

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mushrooms in my seedling carton

this is my first time starting seedlings so I've never had anything like this happen before. it's kind of fascinating??? mushroom growth is really cool, one day i notice a bunch of tiny ones sprouting up and the next they were getting taller than the seedlings

from what I've found online about this, I don't think i have to worry about the mushrooms themselves harming the plants (though it could be a sign that the soil's a bit too moist, so maybe i should cut back the watering a bit?)

it's been pretty rainy lately, but once the sun comes out again I think the mushrooms should fade away naturally (I've already thinned out the larger mushrooms that were getting a bit too pushy)

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the amount i care about what other people think of me gets ridiculous a lot of the time. I can't think of much lower stakes than whether or not people think I'm cool or not on tumblr.com and yet

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the way people talk about homeschooling annoys me a lot of the time. and one day I'm probably going to write an essay length post about my complicated feelings about being homeschooled most of my life vs my few years in the public school system, but not today

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2026 Book Bingo, First Update

Now that we're a quarter into the year, I've decided to finally get around to making a post to track my progress trying to complete the @2026-book-bingo challenge.

For each update I'll be outlining the new arrivals in pink, to make them easier to pick out at a glance

Thus far I haven't been very strategic in my square choices, I'm just going for whatever suits my interest at the time... My hope is to complete the whole board by the end of the year, but I'm definitely going to have to pick up the pace a little in order to meet that goal!

Further details about the books I've read are going under the cut, in the order that I read them. I've also tried to include some of my thoughts, though I feel a little nervous sharing them

9. Literary Fiction The Call-Out, Cat Fitzpatrick - completed Jan 6, 2026 Read on Libby, took ~4 hours to read across 2 days

I don't think I've read a novel written in verse before, but after this one I really want to read some more!

The prose felt very nice to read. Good flow, really vivid descriptions, really stylish with a lot of witty lines.

I like how everyone in this book is a mess in some way, very much including the narrator. The characters feel really alive

16. Historical Fantasy  Even Though I Knew The End Completed Feb 9, 2026 Read a physical copy from my library, finished in 4 days

Supernatural Noir Mystery! I've never read a noir before, but I've always enjoyed the concept 

it's a “christianity is real” kind of supernatural, featuring angels and demons running around

Centers around a sapphic relationship, living in a 1941 typical homophobic society 

I really like the way the time period impacts the story, especially when it comes to the main relationship 

i also really like the MC’s tense relationship with her brother, it was neat

20. Gothic Fiction The Library Thief Completed March 16, 2026 Listened to the audiobook on Libby. 11 hours over ~2 weeks

I don't know the genre of gothic fiction well enough to be certain this counts, but the back cover describes is as a “gothic mystery” which is good enough for me (and from my knowledge, i think it fits most of the guidelines?)

It's certainly about fear, though not really a haunting supernatural sort. more the crushing weight of unjust social hierarchies, the tension of being stuck in a stifling and unsafe environment, and the complete lack of security many of the characters have. even when everything looks normal on the surface, something wrong could happen at any moment and upset the precarious balance our protagonist maintains

the way every character in the book has had their life shaped and ruined by the misogynistic, racist, queerphobic world they live in; and how the central tragedies illustrate this in harrowing detail

this is more spoilers: but i also like how ultimately, the characters are given chances to go on and create new lives for themselves after the hardships they've endured. meanwhile, the men who shaped their misfortunes are left alone and stripped of everything. it feels satisfying, poetic justice 

the kind of book where i have to keep reading to learn what will happen, and in hopes of seeing the protagonist make it through her dire circumstances 

11. Book About Music The Dad Rock That Made Me A Woman Completed March 28, 2026 Listened to as an audiobook, 6 hours spread out across a week or so

The audiobook is read by the author, which adds to the intimate reflective feeling of the book

The introspective tone is contagious. I often found myself thinking back on my own life, how it compares and differs to the experiences of the author. Overall our lives are more different than similar, but I could still see bits of myself in some of the thoughts and feelings she described. I also thought about my Dad a lot, unsurprisingly.

I like how the memories aren't quite in chronological order, how some are stringed together or entwined

For some squares on the bingo I had a hard time deciding which book to pick, but for this one I knew immediately and I don't think there could have been a better option. I'm really glad I chose to read it