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Around this time last year I was falling in love with Octavia Butlers Fledgling. I read that book all summer.

*sighs longing as if remembering an old lover*

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Only the sound of rain is missing

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Learning how to use data analytics software is much more when you pretend that you are a warlock compiling a grimoire.

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Presently

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Do you still have time for penpals or has that ship sailed?

Pen pals are still very wanted!

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I have had bell hooks’ All About Love stuck in my spirit for a few months.

It is a powerful exhortation of Love as an ethic. I’m struggling with it not because I wish to be petty and vengeful but because loving is so painful.

In my younger years in my love for my people and love of justice, I set out to change the world. I read and studied and argued and organized. In my 30s I feel impotent as it seems that that the only thing that has changed is my understanding of precisely how cruel this world is.

I fear that I have studied myself into depression and anxiety.

Any yet hooks would have me love anyhow. She would have me reinforce my empathy so that I may learn to be resilient. To remind me of all the things worth saving.

She is right of course. But still it hurts

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I would like more pen pals.

Things I’m interested in:

Learning about hobbies/telling you about my love for tea, stationery

Sharing thoughts and feeling on current events

Sharing what we are reading about and how it makes us feel.

Sharing recipes

Comment or shoot something to my asks if ur down.

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Zhang Ping Shui Xian ‘Orchid’ Oolong and cream cheese bun

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Black Vampires!

Below the cut you’ll find a list of 10 pieces of vampire media centring black folks by black folks, happy black history month!

1. Fledgling by Octavia Butler (see more)

2.The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomèz

3.House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson

4.Darknesses by Lachelle Seville

5.My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due

6.Slay: the stories of the vampire noire by multiple authors

7.Horror Noire (documentary on AMC+)

8.Vampires in Brooklyn (movie)

9.The Dark World Series by @writingvampires

10.The Black Vampyre (1819) by Uriah Derick D'Arcy, problematic themes and handling of blackness, however our black protagonist vampire, a black bisexual (implied) vampire protagonist is very AMC-Louis-like and it’s important for understanding the others as groundbreaking and reclaiming their stories as they are.

Happy Black History month! I rarely make booklists like this, however, it recently came to my attention that some people aren’t aware of the brilliant subgenre that is gothic/horror written by people of global majority (colour), given it is black history month this list focuses on black people vampire stories written by black people, most of which are also queer (cause vampires are queer af). Allyship is the bare minimum, if we as a society are to grow at all from our forefathers we must understand that our ancestors were flawed, unlearn internalized biases (racism etc), and make intersectional spaces for everyone. I’ve kept it to 10 for my own ability to count everything, I can say with most certainty there’s more out there. These are just the ones I’ve read/watched and have influenced me the most.

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Marbled seals

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2021 Body and Soul a shou puer and black tea blend

Tasting notes will come later. For now I’m just going to relax

#tea addict #tea of the day #teapot #teaware #gong fu cha