I’m planning to make 2025 a Year of Making, for reasons. (The reasons are that making stuff is good for my mental health.)
Finished reading: Bull Moon Rising by Ruby Dixon 📚
I really enjoyed this, mostly for the fantasy and emotional stuff. Love a nerdy heroine and a bull-headed hero (literally, in this case). The uniquely minotaurish monster romance bits were not the main source of its appeal for me. Definitely a very hot 🔥🔥🔥🔥. Not for the faint of heart.
📚 2024 has been a good year for queer sommelier romances.
🔖 Read The open social web is the future of the internet. Here’s why I’m excited. by Ben Werdmuller.
This is a great articulation of what’s good.
I am very behind on Lower Decks and I kinda need to just hide from the Internet until I catch up.
💬📚📝 “All you can give us is what life is about from your point of view. You are not going to be able to give us the plans to the submarine. Life is not a submarine. There are no plans.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
💬📚📝 “The development of relationship creates plot.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
📺📚📓 Read The Great Experiment: race and authorship in Shonda Rhimes’s Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story by Claudia Calhoun (Adaptation).
This is an eminently readable and beautifully argued journal article.