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March 1, 2025
Beginning: Yes, I've been away for a long time. I've been known to do this every now and then. Honestly, I have been too busy and tired. I've always been...
for those of us that didn't get to enjoy being a teenager
November 9, 2024
Recently I sent an IG story I found to Pat and I think Kumaran and Jun Kit, of a "herding cats" scenario. I likened it to my brain when I try to write...
where's the gala?
June 29, 2024
Hello hello! It's been a really busy month, partly because I took almost a week off work, and then we had public holidays on top of that, and three separate...
destroy all humankind.
June 1, 2024
Hello! I am now realising that I am doing that thing again where I keep my drafts in my drafts for so long that a whole month has passed and I don't feel...
Step 1: Find Your Cousin
March 23, 2024
On the top of my desk calendar, there is a note written in pencil. I wrote this back in January, or maybe December, when I just got this calendar, and was...
model minority got people ignoring me, me
February 3, 2024
Oh hey, it's February. I have a fever right now so I don't know if I would hold on to anything in here (if I end up posting it) as something I would still...
pure nerd joy in 2023
January 13, 2024
Hello! So this is kind of long overdue - I meant to write something for the end of 2023, and life gets in the way (in the form of flight cancellations taking...
in which i suck at capitalism
December 9, 2023
Hello hello ~ This week I find myself all hollowed out and uninspired, so here's something from my October drafts: During all the time I haven't been posting...
if you want to we can sit outside / and talk about anything else
December 2, 2023
Hello hello ~ I was going to share another of the unfinished drafts in my folder, but I suddenly don't feel like it. I think it's partly because I'm in a...
you're always miles ahead
November 25, 2023
Hellohello, happy friendsgiving! (I know that people celebrate friendsgiving the week before thanksgiving, but since we don't celebrate thanksgiving here and...
in which i read some books... a few months ago
November 18, 2023
HelloHello! As I'm struggling to brain at work, I might as well schedule a newsletter. And this weekend, I bring you another unfinished post from around...
I'm not brooding, I'm just thinking.
November 11, 2023
Hellohello! Wahida reminded me of the existence of this newsletter, which I haven't been posting new things for since MAY despite having so many unfinished...
collecting and curating memories on my bookshelves
May 27, 2023
In her latest column on tordotcom, Molly Templeton quoted Leigh Bardugo: “I think any time you can remember where you were when you read a book for the first...
as my last chance to feel human begins to vaporize
May 21, 2023
I think it’s been a long time since my stars don’t seem to align with my life, but lately, with the exception of normal mercury retrograde shenanigans, that...
treatises on grief, part 1 (of 0)
April 22, 2023
Hello again! Eid Mubarak! So, I was going through my emails and found this draft, and it seems to be the last email I worked on before I completely went on...
by streams that never find the sea
March 25, 2023
Hey gang - (gotta try this greeting at least once right?) It’s been forever since the last newsletter, and might be awhile before the next one, I know. I...
my favourite reads in 2022
January 14, 2023
Answers in the Pages by David Levithan Censorship and book banning is getting worse here and in the US (and other parts of the world!) now, although many in...
dungeons and dragons... and me
December 31, 2022
Okay, so you may have noticed that I’ve been not writing for a long time. I have half a dozen half-written or somewhat-finished-but-I-dunno drafts in my...
a q&a thing
November 14, 2022
You’re getting this newsletter on a Monday instead of last Saturday because yet again, I completely forgot about it. Things are just insane right now, and...
october 2022 reading wrap-up
November 5, 2022
BOOKS READ IN OCTOBER 2023 Novels Tim Te Maro and the Subterranean Heartsick Blues by H.S. Valley The Lost Girl King by Catherine Doyle Chester and Gus by...
"i smash fourth walls, bad endings, and sometimes matt murdock."
October 29, 2022
“i smash fourth walls, bad endings, and sometimes matt murdock.” After every Disney+ MCU show ends, comicbook twitter like to rank their favourites all over...
but i'm good at being uncomfortable, so
October 15, 2022
The other day I was reading autism memes and saw a thread about how a lot of autistic people can easily fail the online tests (and honestly, I had to do a...
september 2022 reading wrap-up
October 8, 2022
As with the last couple of months, I didn’t read much in September, and most of what I did read were comics. BOOKS READ IN SEPTEMBER 2022 Fiction The...
in which I kind of write about mutants, again
October 1, 2022
I’ve talked about X-Men a lot before, in person and in this newsletter. I’ve written about finding that copy of Uncanny X-Men #210 in the early nineties as a...
do something pretty while you can
September 24, 2022
I don’t remember what my first John Green book was, or if I read it on the year it was published. It might have been Looking For Alaska, which if it was I...
august reading wrap-up
September 10, 2022
Hey, so as you can see last month’s reading wrap-up is a week late, because last week I was both sick (I’m still coughing a lot actually) and on vacation....
checking in
August 27, 2022
This is going to be a quick one because I've a busy week behind me and a busier day ahead - I skipped last week because I was on a trip to Kuching with...
little things that spark joy
August 13, 2022
Things that brought me joy recently: friendships being the true treasure all along The Sandman on Netflix Second season of Only Murders in the Building...
july 2022 reading wrap-up
August 6, 2022
BOOKS READ IN JULY 2022 Novels Different Kinds of Fruit by Kyle Lukoff Chaotic Good by Whitney Gardner (Re-Read) The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan...
june 2022 reading wrap-up
July 30, 2022
FINALLY, I am doing my June wrap-up! And mainly because I tested positive earlier this week, and am now under quarantine, and my brain still gets dizzy when...
on postcrossing
July 23, 2022
Postcrossing is a website that basically allows you to send and receive postcards from people all over the world. You don’t write to one another (unless you...
get in losers, we're getting shawarma
July 15, 2022
Okay, so Thor: Love and Thunder is “indefinitely postponed” (translation: probably banned but they’re not using the words banned cuz our LPF cowards who want...
tsutaya is a place to queue
July 9, 2022
My June reading wrap-up will be posted next week, or the week after that, or combined with July's, I don't know yet. Anyway. Kinokuniya is no longer the only...
six middle grade books i read this year (so far)
July 2, 2022
So, it hasn’t been a good week. Not really a good month, either, although at least I had Ms. Marvel episodes to get me through.** I wanted to read more,...
a short one
June 25, 2022
Hello hello, this will be a short one. I probably shouldn’t have hoped to have a bit more time to write today - besides being just as busy as all the other...
hey, so it's hellfire gala month again
June 18, 2022
So this is your (hopefully yearly) reminder that Cyclops still has sex with Wolverine on the moon. This is canon, y’all. Last year, Patricia and I started to...
the only thing that comes between me and the awful sting of a world that's so damn mean
June 11, 2022
Early this year, or maybe late last year, Daphne challenge me and Kit to do a mini zine every month of the year. I only really started in March, doing the...
may 2022 reading wrap-up
June 4, 2022
BOOKS BOUGHT IN MAY 2022 xxxHOLiC Vol. 1 by CLAMP (Special Ed.) xxxHOLiC Vol. 2 by CLAMP (Special Ed.) Sailor Moon Vol. 1 by Takeuchi Naoko (Omnibus) Nettle...
here's the thing about the mutant metaphor
May 28, 2022
Here’s the thing about being a mutant - no one really tells you how to be. If you’re lucky, you may grow up knowing about mutants. But even if you’re lucky,...
i love you in every universe
May 21, 2022
I am going to talk about Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness in this one. There will be spoilers. So, if you're not interested in the MCU, or if you...
april 2022 reading wrap-up
May 14, 2022
If you’ve noticed that I didn’t write any newsletters at all in April (besides the March wrap-up), well… that wasn’t on purpose. I completely forgot about...
march 2022 reading wrap-up
April 2, 2022
BOOKS READ IN MARCH 2022 Outside In by Deborah Underwood, illustrated by Cindy Derby Fireworks by Alice Lin The Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison...
the siren song of the other Big Two
March 26, 2022
"We are a MARVEL family, not a DC family. It's in your blood. You may disagree with Marvel sometimes, and occasionally you will question their story...
all hail the queen
March 19, 2022
Starting on Queen of the Tiles was similar to reading The Weight of Our Sky for me - I really had to resist sending messages to Hanna every few pages. I...
you have a lot of cats
March 12, 2022
kota kinabalu trip I went to KK with Daphne for a weekend trip. Really the purpose of the trip was to see Patricia and hang out with her, but it was still a...
february '22 reading wrap-up
March 5, 2022
BOOKS READ IN FEBRUARY 2022 Thor Vol. 3: The Accursed by Jason Aaron, et al Thor Vol. 4: The Last Days of Midgard by Jason Aaron, et al Phasers On Stun!: How...
update things
February 26, 2022
Hello! I’m sorry that not only is this newsletter late, but also that I completely forgot last week. Usually when I miss newsletters these days, it’s because...
part-time deltiologist
February 12, 2022
This is what’s written on my (very rarely updated) postcard blog: I’ve been collecting postcards on and off since I was a kid – exchanging them while trading...
january's books
February 5, 2022
BOOKS READ IN JANUARY 2022 Spin Me Right Round by David Valdes Kiss & Tell by Adib Khorram Superman: Son of Kal-El Vol. 1 by Tom Taylor & John Timms Miles...
he was heavy as a broken heart
January 29, 2022
CW: death, hate crime (mentioned), suicidal ideation. This morning I spent two hours squeezed between so many people I can't tell which of the dudes was...
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