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steph (she/her)
@thenowofmylife.bsky.social
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🏹♠️ New ENGENE and LUNÉ 🥰 Re(re)reader 📚 Occasional poet ✍️ 한국어 배우기 📓
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For the first time since I started doing this (in 2021), ONEUS is not my top artist (nor in my top artists at all 😅). Very much an ENHYPEN and &TEAM year for me!! #SpotifyWrapped
My 2025 Spotify Wrapped. Top artists: 1) ENHYPEN, 2) &TEAM, 3) Arcane, 4) ONEWE, 5) Nicholas Britell. Top songs: 1) Helium by ENHYPEN, 2) Bad Desire by ENHYPEN, 3) Say My Name by Yoo Yeon Seok, 4) Go Big or Go Home by ENHYPEN, 5) Aoarashi by &TEAM. Minutes listened: 46,224
December 4, 2025 at 12:08 AM
thenowofmylife.bsky.social
Mail day today!! My signed #ONEWE album arrived 😍
Signed ONEWE MAZE : AD ASTRA album opened, with the inclusions laid out on a beige carpet
November 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
thenowofmylife.bsky.social
Watching my first ENniversary event with my ENGENE in crime @artsymusings.bsky.social 🫶
#ENHYPEN5thAnniversary #ENHYPEN
Screenshot of ENHYPEN on stage at their 5th anniversary event. The stage has a fairground theme.
November 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
thenowofmylife.bsky.social
Guess who just dusted her K-pop shelf with the intention of putting these away and FORGOT TO SHELVE THESE VERY ALBUMS AFTER PUTTING ALL THE DUSTED ITEMS BACK 🫩
My left hand holding up two &TEAM Back to Life albums in front of a white shelf full of K-pop albums and photos.
November 22, 2025 at 10:58 AM
thenowofmylife.bsky.social
The now (/always) of my life:
🎶 K-pop: ENHYPEN, &TEAM, ONEUS, ONEWE, KARD, PURPLE KISS, CORTIS
📚 Books: Realm of the Elderlings, Innkeeper Chronicles, Kate Daniels, Devoured Worlds, Locked Tomb, Phèdre Trilogy, Rockton, Fever
📓 Learning Korean (poorly)
✍️ Attempting to write poetry (also poorly!)
A stack of three versions of Robin Hobb's The Tawny Man trilogy, with wolf artwork by @riemea either side. The text '@thenowofmylife' is underneath the stack of books.
November 22, 2025 at 10:27 AM
thenowofmylife.bsky.social
New week, new month, new poetry collection. Happy Pride! 🌈

#PrideMonth #BookSky
A copy of the poetry collection Joy//Us held up in front of a bookshelf
June 2, 2025 at 6:41 AM
thenowofmylife.bsky.social
My haul from the @poetrysociety.bsky.social fair! 🤩

• Foyle Young Poets of the Year Anthology 2024
• Joy//Us: Poems of Queer Joy
• Are You There
• Whetstone
• He Said I was a Peach
• Staircase
• City Poems
• Trimming the Wick
• Hinge
• Rope Of Sand
• The Poetry Review vol 115

#Poetry #BookSky
Stack of books on a brown table, with a white bookshelf blurred in the background. The books are (top to bottom): • Foyle Young Poets of the Year Anthology 2024 • Joy//Us: Poems of Queer Joy • Are You There by Samantha Fain • Whetstone by Eira Murphy • He Said I was a Peach by Katie Byford • Staircase by Zein Sa'dedin • City Poems by Mia Kang • Trimming the Wick by Laboni Islam • Hinge by Alycia Pirmohamed • Rope Of Sand by Fiona Larkin • The Poetry Review vol 115
April 27, 2025 at 10:50 AM
thenowofmylife.bsky.social
A very happy Friday for me indeed with the @graphicaudio.bsky.social edition of Ilona Andrews' Burn For Me 🤩

#BookSky #HiddenLegacy
Screenshot of the GraphicAudio edition of Burn For Me on Libro.fm.
April 25, 2025 at 7:39 AM
thenowofmylife.bsky.social
After reading @katewakeling.bsky.social's incredible poem 'blood sugar', I of course had to get myself a copy of @stingingfly.bsky.social! And it's so CHUNKY!! I'm excited to dive in and read the rest of the pieces. 😍
My right hand holding up a copy of Issue 51, Volume 2, of The Stinging Fly in front of a bookshelf
April 7, 2025 at 12:43 PM
thenowofmylife.bsky.social
My journey with #GideonTheNinth:
• Oct 2019, ebook: DNF
• Jan 2025, audio: THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER WTFFF
• Feb–Apr 2025, paperback + audio: THIS TRULY IS THE BEST THING EVER 🙇‍♀️

#BookSky #TLT #TheLockedTomb
A paperback of Gideon the Ninth on a patterned table runner. Coloured tabs can be seen poking out from the pages.
April 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
thenowofmylife.bsky.social
Thrilled to have a poem in this anthology by @tinywrenlit.bsky.social 💞 (My first published poem!)

My thanks to the editors, and it's lovely to be among such talented poets! 🥹
My left hand holding a copy of the Earth anthology in front of a green bush with yellow flowers. The Earth anthology open to the page with my poem, titled 'Archipelago': Each week a new habitat forms; in our hands everything catastrophic is made small and removed, a future turned present. And so we continue to become islands of our own making.
April 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
thenowofmylife.bsky.social
QRP with your top 9 on repeat
Screenshot of Spotify on repeat songs: Orbit, Rise Again, Say My Name, DRUM GO DUM, A Bite of Summer, Dreamcatcher, Breakthrough Pt. 2, Horizon, Sucker
March 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
thenowofmylife.bsky.social
On this fine Saturday I'm rereading Gideon the Ninth (listening to Moira Quirk narrate again, of course) and tabbing my favourite scenes and dialogue (orange for Gideon and blue for Harrow 🤭)

#BookSky

P.S. Shout-out to @mackenziespocket.bsky.social for being my floppy-book tester 🥰
An open book resting on a teal cushion, with a sticky tab set lying on the pages.
March 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
thenowofmylife.bsky.social
I think I'm in my #TheLockedTomb era!! I've not even finished Harrow the Ninth and I don't understand anything that's going on and yET 🤌

#BookSky
Screenshot of my YouTube watch history showing various Locked Tomb–related videos
February 20, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Once again @ilonaandrews.bsky.social is my most-read author of the year, haha. All those re(re)reads will do that. 😂

I'm excited for more rereads next year, starting with the @graphicaudio.bsky.social version of Magic Shifts in January!

Thanks to @thestorygraph.com for the cool stats as always ✨
Screenshot of my 'Most Read Authors' graph from The StoryGraph. Ilona Andrews - 32 books Kelley Armstrong - 15 books Eiichiro Oda - 11 books Seanan McGuire - 9 books Megan E. O'Keefe - 9 books Karen Marie Moning - 7 books Denise Williams - 6 books Ana Huang - 5 books N. K. Jemisin - 3 books Andrea Stewart - 2 books
December 31, 2024 at 12:21 PM
thenowofmylife.bsky.social
I held off as long as I could but it's time. #WhenThePhoneRings rewatch time!! 😌
My TV paused on a scene from episode 1 of the K-drama When the Phone Rings, showing a man in a suit and a woman in a black dress walking up some stairs at an event.
December 10, 2024 at 7:21 PM
thenowofmylife.bsky.social
Pretty normal-looking for me, although (G)-IDLE is a bit of a surprise (being ahead of KARD, even!) #SpotifyWrapped
My 2024 Spotify Wrapped. Top artists: 1) ONEUS, 2) PURPLE KISS, 3) ONEWE, 4) (G)-IDLE, 5) KARD. Top songs: 1) Shoot It Out by ONEWE, 2) Starting Now by Ailee, 3) Better and better by Woodz, 4) Un diavolo scaccia l'altro by Lee Nyeom (from the Vincenzo OST), 5) Voyage by Kim Sejeong. Minutes listened: 39,100
December 4, 2024 at 8:49 PM
thenowofmylife.bsky.social
New username alert! Taken from a quote in Fool's Errand by Robin Hobb. ❤️ I'm going back to my bookish roots, but this name also lets me talk/post about whatever is the current 'now' in my life, so I think it works well for me!
A stack of three versions of Robin Hobb's The Tawny Man trilogy, with wolf artwork by @riemea either side. The text '@thenowofmylife' is underneath the stack of books.
June 5, 2024 at 5:16 PM
thenowofmylife.bsky.social
Commenting this on the latest Ilona Andrews blog post has reminded me that my Kate rererereread kinda derailed my Innkeeper one and I need to go back and rerereread book 4 🫡😂
Screenshot of my comment on Ilona Andrews' blog post, which reads: Good luck with all the edits! I’d say my comfort reread is Kate Daniels (actually currently rereading now!) but also Innkeeper Chronicles must surely be a contender – I first discovered it in the GraphicAudio format in January of this year and I’ve now read it four times 😂
November 27, 2023 at 6:58 PM
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Goodnight ✨
(I need to make sure I finish this book for book club on Thursday... 🌝)
My left hand holding a copy of Aliette de Bodard's 'In the Vanisher's Palace' open on a Hello Kitty blanket.
August 20, 2023 at 9:21 PM