Has anything bad ever happened between me and a horse? no. Where does this hate vendetta come from you ask? The answer to that question is that I don't fucking know. They just suck.

the horse thing started as a bit but it isn't anymore. I hate horses so goddamned much. Stupidest fucking animal. If god is real he put horses and me in the same world to curse me.

My dog was ambivalent. She did wake up a bit, sneeze, and then fall back asleep.

be a good owner to them. A cheetah because like...that animal just *wants* to be domesticated. It's the cat equivalent of a greyhound; it wants one long run a day and then it wants to sleep and snuggle.

This is one of my favorite questions to ask people to *actually* get to know more about their personality! And I love hearing about their justification behind each pet. For me: domesticated rats, cuz I think they are silly and cute and very social and because I know enough about them to (+)

also fuck me I have to read That scene. Jesus christ.

update i have not read most of his stuff but hell yeah man slam that on the reading list

Anyway, I sold the paperbacks and got myself the hardbacks. And then I also bought myself A Monster Walks, and I cried the entire way through it. And then I cried my way through crane wife. And i'm fairly sure i've read most of @patricknessbooks.bsky.social works and enjoyed/cried my way thru em

She got me Knife in hardback and the rest in paperback, and I was so pissed because I *told* her what I wanted and she didn't *listen*

Which is like... a microcosm.

this specific edition of the chaos walking trilogy: all hardback. Since I like my books to all have the same style of cover art, I told my bio mom that if she couldn't get them all in the same cover art/hardback, *please* don't even buy them because i'll sell them.

I will be holding my dog tight and telling her that she is a good dog.

However I am currently in the part of book where like in 15-30 pages, my heart will be ripped out, shredded to teeeeeeeeeeeeny pieces, and then stomped on. For that scene...

Knife was the only one that ever got sent around and annotated which is kinda bonkers bc as good as knife is, ask and answer + monsters of men are BETTER.

I loved how people just interacted with each other in the margins of the pages. Now my coworker Paige is super interested in reading it and I told her I would only lend it to her if she would annotate it.

I also did one of my favorite creative projects with this book: I just sent it around to other folks and asked them to annotate it. And I EFFING (except I don't say effing) LOVED IT!

This was my FAVORITE trilogy when I was in high school, I think I wrote my college entrance essay about this series

Humor as a coping mechanism for depression is a lot better than like...self harm as a coping mechanism. Like, I just want to send the lestat meme "you not rockin w me? i'm going to fucking kill myself" to my friend. It's the equivalent of just saying "UUUUUUGHHH"

And for the record, joking about suicide isn't like, the BEST. But not being allowed to joke is pretty fucking bad.