Siren.
A siren echoes in the distance, an ambulance, rushing off to some unknown emergency, while closer-by birds are chirping happily from their perches in the...
Not a N.Z. Her@ld article!
Fuck capitalism. Here’s an article about poors in Aotearoa that the Her@ld doesn’t want poors to read. Election 2023: How much NZ’s 350,000 beneficiaries...
Taking a break
Kia ora, friends As I have said several times recently, I have been struggling a lot with my mental health. There’s ups and downs, and I am slowly but surely...
Need for Speed Unbound!
Kia ora, friends! This is gonna just be a short one this week due to ongoing mental and physical health issues, but on that front I have some news: I think...
The mental health struggle continues!
Kia ora, friends. I want to start by saying a big ‘thank you so much’ for all the love you’ve given my Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) post! It means a lot to...
Speak Now (Taylor's Version)!
Hey! So some of you will know this, others may not, but Taylor Swift recently re-recorded her 2010 album titled Speak Now, and it was released roughly 40...
Saul!
Kia ora, team! Welcome to July! We are officially half-way through 2023, which feels bonkers to say because it feels like it’s been so much longer than that...
[Rerun!] The Deadly Laptop
Hey everyone, Some of you may already know, but the past seven days or so I have been riddled with covid-like symptoms (multiple RATs returned negative...
Mrs Maisel Musings!
Kia ora, friends! Alright, here it is folks, the moment maybe some, maybe none of you have been waiting for: my thoughts on the The Marvellous Mrs Maisel...
[Rerun!] No more enemy dogs!
Hey folks, thanks for tuning in. You’ve most likely already noticed that this is another rerun of an older post and not the Mrs Maisel thoughts I’ve been...
Fortnite characters!
Kia ora, folks. I posted a note on Substack the other day and I have no idea if anyone saw it because I don’t understand how Substack notes work. So I...
Writing a story about myself!
Kia ora, friends! On Friday just gone, my anxiety was doing a big ol’ spike after I had an interview for a course I am hoping to get into (more on that in a...
Digging in the archives!
Kia ora folks! I am very tired. Being chronically ill is very tiring. Being mad about stuff on TV or on the news is super tiring. So today I thought I would...
Feelings!
Kia ora, folks! So I had planned to just keep this space here for pop culture things and my fiction writing, but you’ll have noticed by the semi-frequent...
[Rerun!] TVaMOTY list!
Hey folks, No big new post this week as all I have been able to think about all week is how much I really hate the new season of The Marvellous Mrs Maisel,...
Podcast recommendations!
Kia ora friends! Now, I know no one asked for this, but I wanted to talk to y’all this week about some of my favourite podcasts, because it occurrs to me...
37 and still growing up now
Folks, I don’t know what to tell you. As of writing, yesterday Taylor Swift announced the thing that I have been waiting for since November 2021 when we...
Atomic Heart review(-ish)
Kia ora, friends! Surprise extra post! So, you may be wondering why I am publishing this so late. The game has been out for a while now and everyone has...
Moar Fallout!
Howdy folks! Welcome to May! Or the final day of April if you’re in the other part of the world. You know, the one other part. My birthday is now 57 days...
Fallout 4!
Kia ora, friendos! So I finally finished the main storyline in Persona 3 Portable a few weeks ago, and I just wasn’t quite in the mood to jump right into...
[Rerun!] A Plague Tale: Requiem review
Kia ora, friends! I am sorry to say there is no new big update again this week, life is just generally kinda hard for me right now. But instead of being...
No big post today (sorry)!
Kia ora, friends. I have had… a lot going on this week. That has meant that I haven’t really had the chance to sit down and get a proper post together....
More queer characters!
Kia ora, friends! If you’ve been following along since last year, you might remember a little piece of something I shared in December called Underground. If...
Tabitha and Aria!
Kia ora, friendos! If you follow me on social media, you might have seen that I went to a trans rights rally this past weekend and it was so cool! It was the...
Bing!
Kia ora, friends! I think I may need to preface this for those not necessarily keeping up with tech news, so a few weeks ago at this point, Microsoft...
Lightfall!
Kia ora, folks! This is going to be another short one of these today, and once you read the next little bit I think you’ll understand - I just haven’t gotten...
Birds!
Kia ora, friends! First off, I want to apologise for not having anything for you last week - I had just had a hell of a few days and wasn’t in the right mind...
Drone!
Hi friends, kia ora! I have something new today! My work on the Tabitha story I talked about last week has kind of stagnated a bit at the moment, so it might...
Tabitha returns!
Kia ora, friendos! Some of you may remember this post from December last year in which I first introduced the character of Tabitha, and laid out a few...
Contact
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The Plot!
Kia ora everyone! This week I have really been dragging my ass trying to figure out what I can post about today, but that’s mostly because I have done some...
Persona!
Kia ora folks! So this weekend just gone, I started getting into the Persona series of games for the first time. I played a tiny little bit of Persona 5...
Olivia on sale!
Kia ora, friends! So if you live in Aotearoa New Zealand, you may have heard that the prime minister Jacinda Ardern is going to be resigning next month - and...
TVaMOTY list!
Kia ora, friends! So, you may have noticed that there was no Monday post this week. This is because this post took me a really long time to write, and I’m...
Maximum Package!
Kia ora, friends! Today I’m sharing a little thing that I will probably never finish because it’s just not really my sort of style I guess. I had fun writing...
Literally corporate vampires
Kia ora! Not gonna lie, this post is coming in hot. I forgot until pretty much just now (5:46pm on Sunday) that I didn’t have a post scheduled for tomorrow...
Olivia
Kia ora, friends. It’s story time! This is a thing I found in a document I’d titled ‘Vignettes’. It’s mostly a docx file full of single-line ideas and some...
No more enemy dogs!
Kia ora, friendos! Welcome to my first post for 2023! Whether you stayed up to ring in the new year at midnight, or went to bed at 8pm because you had things...
Tabitha
Kia ora, friends. I’m going to try something new. I’m going to try to write a serialised… something. I’ll work on getting a bunch of chapters done before it...
Underground
Kia ora! I hope you all had a nice (Christmas 😉🎄) time yesterday, and are getting in some well-deserved rest today. This post was prewritten so I didn’t have...
Chuck (Bartowski)
Kia ora, friends! I only started watching this show for the first time a few weeks ago, and honestly, I wasn’t expecting to like it at all. But the first...
Vegetables!
Since a couple of years ago, I have been really into gardening. Like, really really into gardening. I've successfully sprouted and grown a small avocado...
Homeland Sadfiction
I want to start by saying that this post mentions mental health problems, substance abuse and suicide. If those aren’t things you want to read about right...
Crisis Hotline list
If you or anyone you know are feeling unsafe, or need someone to talk to, particularly if said person is thinking about harming themselves, please find your...
A Plague Tale: Requiem review
A Plague Tale: Requiem is a survival horror game about hope and loss, released on October 18, 2022, and it earned the number two spot on my Game of the Year...
Spotify Wrapped 2022
As someone who is terminally online, I feel like I would be remiss if I didn’t post my Spotify Wrapped roundup in as many places as I possibly can. I’ve...
The Deadly Laptop
Kia ora, hello! Thank you for coming back, or if it’s your first time here, welcome! Today I wanted to share with you my very first completed (super short)...
Just vibing
Kia ora, friends! So, I don’t write as much as I want to, or as much as I should if I ever want to get anything finished, but that’s why I made a substack;...
Rebecca Swift: GOTY list 2022
This list is not a review so much as my personal feelings on the games I spent a ton of time playing this year. The year of our lord 2022 was the first year...
So I have a substack now...
Kia ora koutou! I sort of thought this site would be more of a blogging platform with a mailing list on the side, but that appears to not be the case! But oh...