Riddle Has Hobbies

This is where I explore what gives me joy and reclaim what art is to me

[riddlehashobbies]

I’m finally getting back into reading! That’s kinda crazy to me because it’s not like I’m just checking out audiobooks and playing games or crafting while listening like I normally do. I’m just sitting down and reading on my kobo (it would have been even crazier if I picked up my physical book). But this just feels wild to me because for the past couple weeks when I had time to myself that wasn’t something I could just willingly sit down and do. Normally it’s like I feel the need to maximize my break time.

[riddlehashobbies]

I just finished The Ressurectionist by Kathleen S. Allen

First off I have to think netgalley for sending me this book! It came as an extremely pleasant surprise when I needed one. This is a really interesting Frankenstein retelling? I’m not sure if that’s the right word for it but it’s definitely Frankenstein inspired if anything! I will admit I had a very slow start to this book but once the first resurrection happens it really started to pick up for me! The dynamic between the two sisters is fascinating and so is the relationship between Odile and her deceased father. I will admit I wish that the latter relationship was explored upon more because were given a sort of reason for the way he treats her but I don’t know I just wish there was more development there! Because there’s an obvious difference in how he treated the two while he lived and it could be argued that that difference may have set off the whole story. Then there was the whole twist at the end (I’m going to talk vaguely but the fact that I’m talking about it at all makes me feel like this is spoilers territory) but like I feel like it counters everything she feels about how resurrection affects their morality and like I get that it was hinted at with how they mention her actions as a kid but the fact that she’s even thinking about it proves she has SOME moral compass so like while I don’t think it’s a full plot hole I feel like it should have been explored a lot more?

Overall the book is a fun and interesting read. Once I got into it it went pretty quickly too but it’s definitely not a book I normally would have reached for

[dykecadence]

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[queerliblib]

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[riddlehashobbies]

I just finished reading The Poet Empress by Shen Tao

And I’m still sitting here reeling over so many things! How I guessed the ending in the beginning but some how Im still shocked by it! The fact that this is the saddest feminine rage book I ever read yet I somehow love that for it! How I even pity the monsters in this story for they were not born they were made. The fact that it inspired me to write something that sappy! Let’s just say Im impressed and I may have to get this for my personal collection after all this (I had checked it out from the library after I saw that a book club on fable was reading it)

[riddlehashobbies]

Wylde Flowers!

I finished the main story! It’s been a long time and it traveled from ipad to my steam deck (heck I think it was the sole reason I kept Apple Arcade for as long as I did). I love how this game chooses to do storytelling. The whole grandma’s still alive at the beginning thing and having to say goodbye to her hit hard! But like in the best way. I remember originally thinking that they’re shoe horning a lot of real life stuff into this game and thinking it kinda felt pretentious at the time but playing it now it feels refreshing? Like thats kind of hard to explain because it’s not like I disagreed with some of the concepts they put in but I guess I thought it was pandering? But now I’m kinda seeing it in a “oh you get it!” Way. Perhaps it’s just where I am in life? Or maybe thats just the state of things right now? I think thats more likely it. Living on an island where there’s a political crisis and you are just doing your part to make it better through working on your farm and casting spells on the side feels a little like wish fulfillment right now. I guess thats why it took me so long to give more attention to this game.

I honestly think this game has a lot of replay-ability because while I accidentally wooed Damon I was fully looking at a few other characters that would be fun to see how they romance. I also am fully aware that I didn’t unlock everything yet. Theres the bigger greenhouse and shed and I know there’s animals I haven’t unlocked yet. I think there’s also whole other characters who haven’t come to the island yet? I only know this because I saw this as an update like maybe months ago? Years? I’m not sure I just know I’m not done done yet! Which is fun to know I just know I have to put it to the side for now and absorb what I played through. But honestly I love how they use story telling and the witchy aspect in this farm sim! It definitely makes it stand out!

[riddlehashobbies]

So I’ve been planning on using this spot as a hobby tracker because I really want to talk about my hobbies! But I feel like I needed to have an introduction of some sort! So Hi I’m riddle and I have hobbies! I am a stay at home mom who I guess is rediscovering her self. Which that sounds dramatic and when I think about it …. But it kind of is! I used to reject a lot of things I wanted to do because I didn’t think they had a real benefit, mostly because I was looking at the physicality of it and the profitability of it. Which sounds so silly thinking back on it. I remember a little after having my daughter I was drawing and I was telling my husband what I was doing and I was kinda going off of a reason that created monetary profit and he again asked me “why?’” which created a lot of rambling on my end and fumbling for an answer and I eventually landed on “I wanted to” He then asked me why I didnt just start with that, which lead to a years long journey that then lead to this! And where ever this leads!

I struggle with things being done just for the joy of it but since having a kid I’m realizing it’s so freaking important!

So Hi I’m riddle and I have hobbies!

Some of those hobbies are

Reading

Cozy games

Crochet

Possibly writing?

And art!

I’m sure more will be added as this goes on

But ya! Ultimately I’m starting this because I want to share my hobbies and my experiences with them. I always have been on tumblr as a viewer and rarely as someone who actually posted (with the exception of when I had an art blog on here but that died Real Fast). I don’t know if intros are really a normal thing to post but I guess from back in my booktok days I felt like I should have one. I don’t know how often I’ll post I want this to be a because I want to thing and not a because I feel like I have to thing (which is also connected to my booktok days? Hmmm maybe I should explore that)

[itscyran]

REBLOG IF YOU USED TUMBLR IN 2011 - 2013

If so, you knew how turnt Tumblr use to be

[0fficelady]

Collection

[hollowedskin]

My whole life I've known that you must leave at least one mistake in your knitting or crochet or tapestry, because spirits/demons can get lost in the perfection of the stitches and be unable to find their way out.

If you don't want a haunted scarf, you have to leave a mistake as an exit point.

[syntax-forest]

This is beautiful but I can't help but think that at least one of these originated with like, someone who fucked up their knitting and managed to convince everyone else it was intentional.

[hollowedskin]

I'm almost certain this is what happened. Because whenever I am close to finishing a crochet project, especially something in the round where each row is more work than the last, and I find a mistake in the last row as I'm stitching into it

The closer I am to finishing and not wanting to undo 2h worth of work to change that one single into a double, the more likely I am to go "well. That's the demons stitch then isn't it", and leave it be.

The demon stitch absolutely gives my ocd toxic perfectionism a loophole to allow something to remain a mistake, which is why I choose to believe in it.

[ave-aria]

oh, haha. a loophole.