Slow & Steady Wins the Race

This is my meandering, inconsistent and occasionally slow blog. I like reading, anime, manga, music, travel, crochet & all things cute.

[turtlycute]

2026 Anime Watch List

May:

This post is part of my ongoing record for the new (to me) anime I watch in 2026. I'm excited to see what new shows and films I discover as this list grows through the year.

Junkers Come Here (1995) film watched: 5-3-26 rating: 9/10

The Apothecary Diaries (2023-2024) episodes: 24 started: 5-4-26 finished: 5-6-26 rating: 8.5/10

The Apothecary Diaries 2nd Season (2025) episodes: 24 started: 5-6-26 finished: 5-8-26 rating: 9/10

By the Grace of the Gods (2020) episodes: 12 started: 5-11-26 finished: 5-12-26 rating: 9/10

By the Grace of the Gods 2 (2023) episodes: 12 started: 5-13-26 finished: 5-14-26 rating: 9/10

Zenshu (2025) episodes: 12 started: 5-16-26 finished: 5-19-26 rating: 9/10

I'll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down In History (2024) episodes: 13 started: 5-21-26 finished: 5-24-26 rating: 8.5/10

Twisted Wonderland (2025) episodes: 8 started: 5-26-26 finished: 5-27-26 rating: 7/10

Sweet Reincarnation (2023) episodes: 12 started: 5-27-26 finished: 5-28-26 rating: 7.5/10

Previous Months:

January Watch List

February Watch List

March Watch List

April Watch List

[fluffysheeps]

Sea cows 🌊🐄

[cherryhatter-deactivated2015072]

KICK THE CAN!

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.

[visibun]

the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now

[drtanner]

And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!

[mayleeillustration]

One special letter from a big sparrow to a small cat.

[oldbutchdanielmolloy]

omg you people can do anything

[crab-justice]

[fullfrontalfish]

Watching this forever goodbye

[fullfrontalfish]

WHOS SEXY IM SEXY WHOS SEXY IM SEXY

[monochrome-merchant]

Thats a ShrimplyBeautiful video! And that's a critically endangered cardinal sulawesi shrimp!

The accounts are run by a person named Timothy Utterback, he's a conservationist who posts videos of his shrimp "dancing" (this is how they eat!) to rave music and uses the revenue to fund their maintenance. There's typically a couple of shrimp rave livestreams a week over on tiktok, so check it out!

[thefishfiend]

Damn, that's one sexy shrimp

[musiicpix3l]

Yes yes i know love is love. But they are still killing CHILDREN. over this.

[werewolfetone]

Speaking of books it's been a while since I've seen one of these posts going around & I'm curious so everyone could you tell me what you are reading rn in the tags please

[northwindow]

when i was reading the book entangled life which is about fungi and the author merlin sheldrake said that once he got his first author copies he was going to dampen the pages and use them to grow oyster mushrooms and yeast and then use the yeast to brew beer and then drink the beer with the mushrooms to complete the cycle of fungal knowledge. i was like really and truly this guy gets it

[im-not-trash-im-compost]

he ate his own words.

But really and truly. The cycle is not complete until he dies.

[junesqueer]

[life-on-the-spectrum]

I’m not sure how or why, but this is goth as FUCK. 

[busket]

his brother cosmo is a musician and made a theme song for it and god I wish it was longer because it slaps

[ospreyonthemoon]

His brother cosmo's music is cool as fuck tbh. The sounds in that song? Made by running electrodes through mushrooms. He has songs where every single sound comes from the ocean- the sound of coral reefs growing, of otters, of icebergs. He has songs about pelicans. He's a fun musician!

[prokopetz]

I know that you mean the "bloop" sounds in the backing track were made by running electricity through a mushroom, but I'm fascinated by the implication that he ran electricity through a mushroom and those vocals are what came out.

[what-a-great-day-to-be-a-dog]

man you know the sheldrake household must've been wild with these two growing up

[pusheen]

[brokendildo]

fuck this picture

[arkrite]

Whats your damage?

[arkrite]

Its just a bunch of old people and then-

[arkrite]

Nana Nana Nana Nana … Batman

[orteil42]

given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that

[preserving-tiktok]

[mybigfatgaylife]

To add to this: you can brown butter and then chill it and it will go back to its solid state. You can then use it like regular cold butter or (if you let it come to room temperature) soft butter.

There is a minor caveat: butter has some water in it, this is what boils off when you are browning it. If you are substituting browned butter in a recipe that would be sensitive to this you might need to take that into account. However I use solid browned butter in my chocolate chip cookies without any changes and it works great.

[pansyfemme]

it really is crazy how there are so many influencers with millions of followers i have never heard of in my life

[pansyfemme]

every day someone is like ‘have you heard about the situation with johnny youtube?’ and i go. pardon. who the hell is that

[j-k-i-ng]

“Night falls in Madagascar” by | Daniel Kordan

Avenue of the Baobabs - Madagascar, Africa

[medievaljournalist]

some elf bullshit happened

[revelware]

The Silmarillion Abridged

[hometoursandotherstuff]

I scurryfunge when something breaks in the apt. and the big mouth super is coming to fix it.

[elodieunderglass]

Thank you @eloso I love this!!