Books bought in September and October 2023. This is from the last 5 or 6 times I bought used books. These came from a used book store, a library sale and thriftbooks.com.

I'm taking a Shakespeare class in school right now so that's why there's so much Shakespeare.

My friend and also my Russian teacher, her name is Irina, wished me a happy birthday on Telegram (I was born on 7 October but but she wished me a happy birthday on 8 October). I was very happy with that. I thought that she and I wouldn't chat anymore but apparently she still remembers me. She is my old friend, I met her on VKontakte in 2020. She lived in St. Petersburg, Russia. The last time I chatted with her was in February 2022 on VK but on my second account. It's a good fortune for me to be friends with her. This screenshot was taken on Monday, 10 October 2022 at 22:55 (pm) in Samsung Galaxy A10s. #chat #chats #chitchat #chitchattime #chitchats #oldfriends #oldfriend #onlinefriends #onlinefriend #onlinefriendship #onlinefriendships #friend #friends #friendship #friendships #telegram #telegramchat #vk #vkontakte #russianfriends #russianfriend #russian #sofiaflorina #mychat #mychatstory #chathistory #chatwithme #mychatt #goodfriends #goodfriend https://www.instagram.com/p/Cjisn3ZvlK7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

I'm alive!

Not that anybody really noticed. I think it's about time I used this blog for something. The drawing thing didn't really work out so I'm just writing now. Does Dark angst sound good? Thinking of having it posted tmrw or the day after. We shall see.

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I put in a short story for my school's writing contest today. I'm hoping this time they actually like my work.

I really do think they need to come up with a specific dating site specifically for people looking for thirds (threesomes). It's not for me but I find it dishonest when a woman is on a WLW dating site and just looking for a third for her and her boyfriend instead of a relationship for herself.

What if my booktok was just a front to get people to read Anne Bronte? :)

Because this is casually a bookblr too (sometimes?), I'll share the books I recently bought off of thrift books, which I highly suggest if you're looking for used books in good condition. :)

Flush by Virginia Woolf

Butch Geography: Poems by Stacey Waite

I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuinston

The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

Richard III (his biography) by Paul Murray Kendall

The Kingmaker's Daughter by Phillipa Gregory

As well as the DVD of Henry V (with Kenneth Branagh) and The White Queen period drama series 1 (even though they aren't books).

Wow. Sometimes I'm very lucky and my bipolar doesn't always affect me much. But no such luck lately. I'm worried that I might have to retake my modern lit course because I was so late with many of my assignments. I've been mentally messed up more or less with a mixed mood episode since last September. I'm currently on the line of passing and not passing the class (granted there are a few ungraded assignments, including my final so it's still possible that I'm overreacting). I'm usually a good student too so it's a point of pride for me. I went from the honor roll to this all due to me fighting with an illness... :/ (It is my fault for not managing things better so I'm not looking for pity here- just talking).

I cannot imagine how horrible this disorder is for people who didn't have the option of medication (I am medicated, believe it or not). I think about that about that a lot since I study history and look into many writer's and artist's biographies in my spare time. I feel very bad for them since they basically had to live with this disorder without the fixes I have simply because I was born late enough for treatments to exist.

Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath both haunt me. Other people too. Yes, Lord Byron was extremely shocking but consider- we don't actually know what he would have been like if he could have been treated. He wouldn't have died at 36, I'm almost certain of that. I am highly aware of what this disorder has done to people before me. It doesn't make it better. But I keep looking back any way, to see that many of them did incredible things, in spite of it all.

I just keep thinking that if they could do so much without any treatment- that I should be able to function with treatment??? I know: don't compare yourself to other people but I'm desperate to know that I can be successful even with this illness. That it's not going to force me to leave school (the one thing I have been historically good at) and waste my life toiling away for nothing.

So if it seems as if I have been hitting my head against something lately, you aren't wrong. The fall is not generally my friend, pretty as the leaves are. I have not been having a good time of it but we must go on any way because what other option is there? None, I tell you.

Art pages from my current journal. Feburary-March 2023.

The prints are from M. Alice Le Grow's Bizenghast art collection and they are surrounded by various scrapbooking, Pusheen or other assorted stickers.

On Wednesdays, We Read Pink. :)

Following the book cover one color per day posts. 

"And Dot! Dot! Dot!"

So ANY and Every sex scene in Radclyffe Hall's Well of Loneliness is marked with a "..."

That immediately made me think of the scene from Mama Mia where Sophie and her friends read Donna's diary.

"Dot Dot Dot that's how they wrote it back then."

If you can't take "no" for an answer, especially a polite no, that's a RED flag.

Quotes in my current journal (kept since early February 2023).

I found them on Pinterest and copied them into my journal.