I Tell The Truth More Often Than It Seems.

One day she walked in, and just never walked out. I'd like to say she changed my life, but it's much the same. I work at one of those old everything-stores, with the owner, who's like a hundred years old & made of steel. He owns my apartment too, so I live in it, pay=rent, and live mostly on coffee & de-shelved snacks. Occasionally I get some extra cash flipping things I find lying around & fix. It's amazing how much stuff you can carry out of parties, once you just get accepted as the guy who hauls junk around. She's the girl who makes mixtapes for her outfits. Or maybe it started the other way round, I'm not sure. What I do know is mr. Steel's place has never seen this many extravagant coats. He likes her, 'cause she wears sturdy shoes and an infectious smile. I like her, 'cause even tho nothing's changed, with her I don't feel like it needs to.

my hat's missing, this scarf used to be blue

but it matters not as I'm here with you <3

wha.. is alt-text not a feature again?

I have no idea how to keep it neat with so many wildly unrelated things going on.. I've decided to try something before it gets out of hand, so some of the tags in the pinned are pretty deserted to start with. I'm gon' do whatever for a year or so, see what sticks. getting a ware-overdo, so hopefully I'll at least be getting back into music & some edits soon :)

'Evolution's just a theory' So is gravity, but I don't see you floating off to space. Just because you don't fully understand how something works, or came to be, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

2023

<- 2022

January

finished: 2 books +kids' stuff | avg. rating: 3.5 stars favorite: a 1954 Toivo Pekkanen -collection

February

finished: 3 books | avg. rating: 3.33..3 stars favorite: Kaikki tiet vie koomaan 2021 by Riina Aho, tho these were all thinkers in that bad-good way

March

finished: 4 books | avg. rating: 3.5 stars favorite: The Wicked Hour 2020 by Alice Blanchard ?

April

finished: 2 books | avg. rating: 3.5 stars favorite: The Ballad of Black Tom 2016 by Victor LaValle

May

finished: Tuliaiset Moskovasta 2009 by Matti Rönkä | 3 stars

June

finished: 2 poetry collections & a play | avg. rating: 3.66..67 stars favorite: Midsummer Night's Dream 1595 by William Shakespeare, specifically the Matti Rossi translation (Finnish)

July ???

August

finished: 2 books | avg. rating: 3 stars favorite: Minä-nainen 1961 by Siv Holm

September

finished/re-read: 3 books | avg. rating: 3.33..3 stars favorite: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 1950 by C.S. Lewis

October

finished: Jääkaksoset 2015 by S.K. Tremayne | 4 stars this was recommended by one of my sisters, and I'm glad I had a story for the road, but damn

November

finished: 2 books | avg. rating: 3.5 stars favorite: Jane Eyre 1847 by Charlotte Brontë (but it's complicated)

December

finished: 2 books | avg. rating: 3 stars favorite: The Silver Chair 1953 by C.S. Lewis ?

~28/25 books finished. good year -lots of hits. let's see in 2024 I'll figure out more practical & satisfying ways to keep track

Goodreads

He pressed the knife against my shoulder plate. I hissed quietly, and focused on my breathing. The glowing blade ran across my back, but the man was hesitating. I shifted. A little flinch, a drop of black..  The knife clanged on the table.  I sighed and turned to sit up. Wrapping my arms around him I grabbed the blade, and ran it lightly from his pelvis to his ear, dipping through the skin ever so slightly. His eyes were closed.  I lowered the knife to my thigh. There we drew a wandering line, cutting deeper into my flesh than was good for me. I didn't care. I loved this, loved him. Loved his blood, dripping into mine & burning my veins like my fingers burnt his skin.

listening to rave music

home alone

cleaning