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things that brought me nerd joy in 2025
January 3, 2026
I was supposed to post this last weekend, but... I forgot. Anyway, it IS (or was) that time of the year, the time for me to focus on the positive and think...
上手く行く事を想像すれば
December 20, 2025
It's been awhile! Six months? Maybe? A lot have happened since my last few missives, and honestly the idea of writing all the things I wanted to write now...
i'm so selfish, it's always about me
June 21, 2025
Some months just feel like bruises. I have more than a few of them, and Hellfire Gala month is one. I’ve been going through a period of growth, which one...
Untap, Upkeep, Draw
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...
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