#i have a lot of thoughts/art on this pocast

[i--antimony]

BIG tuesday

i skipped last tuesday because i was working on a take-home exam and simply did not have the time nor the inclination, so: beefy tuesdaypost today!

listening: my brother recommended 'dead magic' by anna von hausswolff and boy what an album. gothic, punchy, very vibey. the kind of album you let wash over you like an ocean wave.

pulled 'mostly kosher' from my to-listen list. fun, funky, very jewish, good vibes. ikh hob dikh tsufil lib

i've continued to mainline borodin symphonies 1 & 2. idk they're just hitting right.

and the new pieces for the orchestra i'm in - very french this time round: debussy's fêtes: kinda spooky and ominous and also fluid in a fun way! lots of buildup that seems to resolve into nothingness. horn parts for this are pretty good, not too difficult but are definitely Heard. chabrier's españa: really bumpin horn parts. fun bouncy motifs. what's not to like.

pocasting-wise, i'm up to partizan 38. 10 episodes left!!! the home stretch!!!!! it's so good but things are definitely amping up in the end-of-fatt-season way.

i've also listened to my friend b's gotham tv show podcast 'jim gordon must die'. very good and funny. i laughed out loud at some of the episode 3 descriptions.

reading: i was stuck in Bad Airport Times this past saturday (flight delayed 3 hours, then sat for an hour on the tarmac, arrived at 10pm when i was originally supposed to arrive at like 630) so i blasted through all ~150k words of 'freefall' by Kunoichi21 and xoTsundoku. bog-standard mafia au, but with a fun little circus arts twist; fun background fengqing; i do not like that they made beefleaf wholesome. give me my toxic beefleaf god damn it. but otherwise it was a fun read, sappy romcom-style. the fic itself isn't quite done but it's in endgame. the author notes have peak fanfic culture energy of "hey guys! sorry i didn't update, i started nursing school and my dad died" bro .... ;___; goddamn. please take care of urselves

watching: we are almost done with kill la kill! last two eps!!! so tonight we're doing that and also watching last week's dunmeshi together.

friend and i finished comrade detective. incredible. no notes. so funny. we started 'endeavour' which is a detective morse prequel thing and goddd the british-isms, and also started serial experiments lain. i don't know what i was expecting but god it was not this. i literally thought this was a cute fun hacker mystery show in the energy of cowboy bebop. it is Not That. not even close. it's good though i'm enjoying it. currently staggering through life going uhhhhh like lain does in the first few eps.

playing: fallow. i am re-installing disco elysium on my computer though. ive been wondering if i should try to keep going on the save file from last year or if i should just start over because i barely got in there at all.

making: many things. pottery!! some good some not as good.

so this design came out SO nice but the underglaze is so gd streaky! i hate it !!! i don't think it's really fixable either, i tried the hairspray trick to put new solid glaze over top the inside so at least that would look less like shit but i could not get it to work. maybe sanding it down? idk. it's ugly. it was supposed to be a bright teal but the woman who runs the studio mixed the batch up wrong so it's like. a really drab gray and not in a fun or intentional way. idk.

some new bisque:

teacups came out! still mismatched but cute nonetheless! gonna do them in a sort of celadon-type color with white flowers to match the teapot that my SO has :)

i don't feel like adding more photos for these lol they're very boring. the pot for my mom came out fine i think. gonna go in with normal white glaze over top to paint in some trees or other botanical designs. i sponged the underglaze on so hopefully the final result won't be streaky. sponged red on my seder plate to hopefully accomplish the same thing. mugs came through the bisque with no issues but i didn't do anything fun with underglaze on one of them so no new pics of that, but the other i did this tree thing again:

i KNOW it'll be streaky as hell. i just know. so i'm considering how i want to do it. perhaps putting some slightly transparent green over the top of it all to meld it together? unsure.

some new stuff: made a citrus juicer, this was attempt number 2 and just barely got it to work, attempt 1 was a total disaster. also made another mug type object, hopefully it'll still be wet enough this weekend to slap a handle on.

two mugs with red clay, i really loved the lascaux mugs that jessica bartram put up for sale last year but i didnt snag one in time so i was like. fuck it. i will make my own. gonna let them dry to leather hard before going in with black underglaze.

i've been trying to draw again but. idk. i just feel very uninspired. i start drawing and it's like :| :| :|

eating: i was on my own food-wise for much of the last week because my roommate was babysitting for the rabbi, so i did not eat nearly as extravagantly as i normally do, LOL. i made a lo mein recipe that was kinda just a stir fry. this could have been my fault because i added a bunch of extra shit like bok choy and mushrooms. i also didn't use the correct type of noodle, and i didnt have oyster sauce so i used worcestershire, etc. many substitutions so it's probably not fair for me to say it was Just Fine. will have to try again at some later date actually following the recipe. herb and radish salad with feta and walnuts: delicious. 10/10. i tossed in some extra arugula and that was also good. and i made the tofu brussel sprouts tahini/hoisin sauce thing again because it's easy and tasty.

misc: visiting my grandma right now ...... entrenched in the ennui .............. spring break ........................

#tuesdayposting #Spotify

[saxifactumterritum]

Friday recs!

I know it is Friday and I have some recs, so time for Friday Recs :)

Books

'Thirsty Mermaids' by Kat Leyh

(click here for a storygraph link)

This is a graphic novel. The art is beautiful, there are so many little details that add to the story lines and characters as they grow throughout the story. There's so much joy and love just seeps through everywhere, love in-universe but also a real love for queerness is community is so clear and wonderful. It's all very skilled, too, super well done.

Ooooh an image! exciting. Click here for Kat Leyh's website, all places you can follow are right there on the front page, including tumblr.

'A Different Sort of Normal' by Abigail Balfe

(click here for Storygraph page)

It's a book about autism for kids. Abigail Balfe writes it as an adult, it's biographical and factual talking about growing up autistic. There's pictures and it's easy to read, it's great. It is for kids, but I have been finding it restful to be able to understand it easily. I find a lot of information about autism either for parents of autistic children, or hard to understand. The book is aimed at children and young people, but it feels like it's for us as well, I think. It is nice to have on my shelf since I have a lot of autistic and neurodivergent kids in my orbit.

another picture! I am on a roll.

Shop

Gosh! comics, Berwick Street, London UK

(click here for their about page online)

that's right, we're shopping! in Soho of course cus I'm gay so must shop in Soho. Actually I had a lovely time trying to find this shop, got lost a bunch of times, nearly got run over by a bike. I often go to Gay's the Word when I'm in London (the gay bookshop - lovely place, click here for their website), but I was getting tired of never finding much there (I find it too hard to read fiction anymore and everything in the bookshop is, shockingly, books. Or most). I went to Gosh! comics to look around, it's in Soho so I thought maybe it'd have some queer stuff (they did!). They have so many small presses, including a whole load of zines! I found a bunch of things, and got a packet of small press zines for cheap, and found Thirsty Mermaids and nearly cried of joy. Loads of things there I can still read!

Podcast

'However Improbable Podcast' with and by Marisa Mercurio and Sarah Kolb

(click here for their website)

They are recording the Sherlock Holmes stories in chronological order, doing discussion episodes about the stories, and specials called 'case files' where they talk about other things like pastiches, TV shows, or Mycroft! which is how I found them I was looking for pocasts about Mycroft. I have been listening to the discussions and case files, the bits of recordings I've heard are fine but I know the stories and have a whole host of versions so I was less excited about those. They are well read and produced, I just haven't listened to many. They are about to come back after a break. Their website is also great, they have so much stuff on there! including reading lists! and transcripts! They've great.

Ok that's it for recs, because I am tired and wrote loads. I'm giving my money to refugee and asylum organisations this month, some local things near me, the JCWI (click here), Refugee Action (click here).

Hope you're all having a nice time out in the world or comfy at home, if you want to tell me things you love that is always nice :) See you next time I remember it's Friday on a day I have recs!

#friday recs #apparently I have been tagging these 'firday recs'. shoutout to those fir trees i guess #image descriptions are in the alt text