Tea of the day: Qing Xin Red from Red Blossom Tea Company

Current Read: I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid

Oh what I would do to visit all the ancient and historical libraries in the world!

did i pick up sky cotl bc i heard there was a moomin event? maybe. did i immediately dump 10 hours into the game out of sheer rabid fixation over one of my favorite pieces of media? okay listen

lesbian girlcock

i miss violin i should play again sometime i feel like my left hand has lost all its dexterity at this point

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unpacking my room (pt 2) and i'm starting to realize after the Third Box Of Turtles that perhaps i have too many turtles........

Contrary to popular belief, there are only four kinds of bats.

Middle grade/YA writers, don’t stop. There are kids at the book fair waiting for you

English is just three Germanic languages in a French coat

ANDY: I clarified your butter.
ME: Ghee! Thanks!

forever fond of the idea that i'm my friends' "trouble"

like "ah yes, ben's done something, why are you texting me about it like i'm capable of getting him to listen? oh, because he listed me as an emergency contact? fine, i'll be there in 30" this is what it means to be loved

i love hearing my dad's language in passing because tell me why i clocked this was romblomanon in seconds. i can't understand it, but i still Know it and that brings me so much comfort

clocking in 🫡 happy to be a genderfluid dyke on main again

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
1/20
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hi #booksky ! i'm ben :)
➵ 23, he/she
➵ tea nerd and book fiend !
➵ currently fixating on robots and viruses or smth science-y
➵ fav books: spillover by david quammen, stone butch blues by leslie feinberg, babel by rf kuang

honest to god i love academia + my job bc where else can i learn new skills on the clock. like i've just been slowly building a robot service dog and that is something that my students + coworkers just Know about and constantly ask about. like everyone loves arcis that's SO SWEET to me

i love tea culture bc one time i walked into a tea house and this girl with the most gorgeous name and i proceeded to get into a compliment + gifting tea war and we literally spent hours calling each other darling and love and honey it was fantastic

forever thinking about red water shuixian and how i can never get that shit for the next DECADE. god i hate tea as a hobby