interesting footnote in one of the essays in the critical edition of carmilla i'm reading, given that the most notable vampire this year (remmick) was irish!

now that it's time for moving prep, i've finally deconstructed my memento noticeboard for Death to the Mechanisms

wild to think that it was nearly six years ago. don't like that.

jumpscared by trans rights roxy lalonde on my way to work

last.fm, I have questions

also i've just started using last.fm and because it'll take a while before it gets a holistic vision of my listening patterns, it just served me this

like, i'm already there, don't worry

got around to finishing Stag Dance by Torrey Peters.

a great collection; i liked the latter two stories, Stag Dance and The Masker better, but it might just have taken me that long to get into the headspace for Peters' style. the only word i can come up with to describe her voice is "unflinching"

table to myself :)

my travel reading: The River Has Roots (Amal El-Mohtar).

a lovely fairytale in lovely language. also somehow the second book i've read this year loosely inspired by The Two Sisters ballad (and my favourite of the two) 📚💙

finished Everything is Tuberculosis (John Green) on this lovely spring morning! 🌼☀️

bizarrely nearly made me cry at several points. as sad as it is hopeful. short and sweet and very accessibly written! 📚💙

new social media = new place to talk about books i'm reading?

two books finished so far in April:
- Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender, by Kit Heyam, which i was reading for @trreadathon.bsky.social
- Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys, because of rereading Jane Eyre last month
#booksky