For potential art trade reasons, I took a photo of some of my quilts folded up on a chair and I love how it turned out!

I love the Top 5 ask game. I have so many ideas for questions 😼

Incidentally: Put top 5 "anything" in my ask and I will answer.

Read recently: Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree

What I was looking for: Because I enjoyed Legends & Lattes, I had not really planned on reading this book. I was sure it could not compare. But then I saw it at my library and could not resist.

What I liked: I enjoyed the friendships in this book a lot. Especially between Viv and Fern.

What I did not like: The love story felt underdeveloped to me. I would not have noticed or minded if it had been left out. Or explored more.

Conclusion: I think if I had read this one first, I would not have liked Legends & Lattes as much as I did. While not high stakes, there is some more plot and excitement in this novel. If you are looking for a more calm fantasy novel but still with a villain to defeat but also with a focus on reading good books and eating good food, then this is the book for you.

Gay's the word is my favorite bookstore now after visiting it in London last summer 🌷

Oreo

18.07.2019

The remake reboot prequel sequel industrial complex is killing me but the good thing is I don't have to watch any of that. I can just think "that sounds boring or otherwise doesn't interest me in any way" and do something other than watch it

“once you figure out what matters, you’ll figure out how to be brave” - Emily X.R. Pan, The Astonishing Color of After

Here is a special boi named poppy

incredible how much housework you can get done if you take a chance and believe in yourself and also have fifteen other much more pressing responsibilities

I fell in love with this FPP block, so I put my myriad other projects on hold and used my limited sewing time just to make it. No idea what I'll do with it now 😅 but I really like it.

Movie covers don’t get a lot of love, but young Ralph Fiennes in his desert khakis? I don’t mind at all.

if you're cringing at the genre conventions of the genre you are writing in then why the hell are you writing in it. either have something substantial to say about those conventions or shut the hell up! i will not cringe alongside you at superhero powers and spaceship battles and big eldritch worms and bone magic. i came to this story to SEE that shit and I don't appreciate it when an author tries to pretend they're above the very things they're selling themselves on

Flowers on my walk home

This may be controversial, but I NEED allo folks to realize that “this act of kindness or caring PROVES they’re attracted to each other, it has NO other explanation” is a microaggression vs aromantic people

Yes, that even includes when you’re talking about ships

Yes, that includes when you’re making fun of “gals being pals” nonsense

People keep phrasing it like it’s an attack on heteronormativity, but each and every time it’s much more loudly saying, “Aromantic people are not capable of this kind of caring. And because no one would do this gesture for ‘just a friend,’ no one would do it for you.”

It doesn’t matter if that’s what you mean when you say it! When you mock the idea of platonic intimacy and frame it like something only an ignorant bigot would see, that’s the message we’re told day after day after day.

It’s so easy to just…say you enjoy a ship? Instead of going all “there is no other explanation” over every tidbit of human connection? Don’t put it on *us* to have to pipe up and point out that aromantic people could have connections like that too—your “uh well I GUESS it could be platonic (if you’re boring about it..)” isn’t as reassuring as you think it is.

(Also if you’re arospec and talk this way: Please be sympathetic to the fact that even if this doesn’t hit that nerve for you, it is for a LOT of other aro people.)

For world book day, I want to highlight libraries. All the serotonine rush as book shopping but with hardly any money spent*!

(*in Germany, we usually have to pay yearly fees for the library if you are an adult, most often around 20 Euro)