Girl AF Klara @klara@wandering.shop

"Little one, who bears up alone in such deep sorrow, never lose that strength or nobility, even when you grow up. I give you this to remember this day. We will meet again. This ring will lead you to me one day."

(I swear, if someone got her to read that line it would utterly destroy me.)

Source: https://nyxtastic.tumblr.com/post/664145560816795648/little-one-who-bears-up-alone-in-such-deep

It's been fun thinking about who might be cast as who if the Locked Tomb books were adapted for TV, but honestly I think if that happens it should be animated.

Not even for the over-the-top locations and special effects, just as a courtesy to whoever ends up as casting director.

I have now read Nona the Ninth, over a period of only four days, which is quite unusual for me. (I had a good weekend for reading, what can I say.)

So, um, anyone wanna talk spoilers, please do send me message.

I'm not gonna post spoilers myself (I know I could, here, but most of what I've got right now is just very short exclamations), but I liked it a lot, I like how the series is progressing, and I'm very excited for Alecto.

I just booked an Omicron-updated booster appointment for next week!

I don't know how much availability is region/provider-specific (I'm in Chicago, and I got the appointment at a Walgreens), but, seriously, this is a big deal. Check to see whether this is something you can get!

An old friend of my roommate's is in a tough spot, if any of y'all have money to share: https://gofund.me/2c8a2fdf

Today I realized that-- not in-world, thankfully (this has been confirmed by preview chapters), though knowing the author it could have been-- the name "Nona" works entirely analogously to "Bofa".

And I'm mad about it, but also, I don't know what I expected.

I love getting mail from old friends.

At last the Carmilla Weekly project has started: https://carmillaweekly.substack.com/

(Because I suspect some of you would also like a weekly excerpt of the original lesbian vampire story.)

I've often said, over the past 5 years, that I'm glad I don't work at Google anymore, but now I feel like I'm saying it in a different tone: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/26/google-employees-frustrated-after-office-covid-outbreaks.html

Just, of course this is all over Memegen but ignored by management. Of course there's a No Vaccine Mandates group. Fucking hell.

(I also used to be very reticent about saying publicly that I used to work for them, but it's been a long time now and also it wasn't even under this name, so screw it.)

I think, when I consider playing a new video game, I should check whether it has some sort of "dodge roll".

Not that I absolutely won't play it if it does. But I feel like I, a person who has never quite mastered even a normal "block" mechanic, should know what I'm getting into.

Went to the Art Institute today.

Getting my hair recolored, and I'd previously thought of the just-bleached phase as my shitty Draco Malfoy look.

But I've realized that this is kinda problematic internalized misgendering.

So I'm going to start trying to think of it as my shitty Ianthe Tridentarius look.

My brain is ever so slightly stuck on how Sandman cast, in the role of Death, the person who on The Good Place had played Simone, who I can only imagine would be one of the more frustrating sorts of people for a good-hearted psychopomp to deal with.