Friday Update

qikiqtarjuaq posted on Twitter about this woman's amazing make-up skills. Are. You. Kidding. Me. Watch at your own risk because ngl, the lip-lick and widened eye just about killed me.

This person recently followed me on Tumblr and I'm just... ? What? Why? He doesn't seem to be a bot, but I'm flummoxed what in the world he saw on my Tumblr that made him go "Oh, sure, I'll follow her, she posts lots of stuff relevant to my overt, overwhelming love of God and Jesus!" Maybe he thinks I need saved? IDK. Very weird.

Got more than 5k words on Ghost Story written this week. I'm wondering if I'll wind up calling it "Ghost Story" after all. I had planned to name it "Write What You Know," but when I came up with that (brilliant) title I'd planned for ZYL's creative writing project to take a much larger focus of the story. Not only did I wind up nixing the creative portion of his dissertation, I eliminated pretty much all of the on-campus and/or coursework-related plot points from the story. *emoji shrug*

On the reading front, I finally got to Bespoken For last night and it's just, ah... *chef's kiss* 10/10 definitely recommend.

Am listening to no_detective 's most recent Guardian playlist this morning while I work on Ghost Story. Had a bit of a laugh when I recognized a BTS song in the first three notes--it's such a FEELS SONG, so ofc it's one of my faves of theirs. And then right on the heels of it was Taylor Swift's "The Archer" off her new album which--oooof, so good. Angsty songs really are her wheelhouse and I wish she'd explore more varied avenues of those themes instead of going into the tough, angry, revenge stuff which just does not work for me (from her, anyway).

Speaking of music, The HU's album dropped early (!) and I got to pick it up at my local record store this morning. Looking forward to listening to that, but I definitely want to experience that on the big speakers first, so that'll have to wait until I'm alone in the house...

ETA: Writing today has been an exercise in painful tooth-pulling. Fuck it, I'm inserting a pointless jerk-off scene just to get something on the goddamn page.