I Finally Started My Full Read Of MDZS Yesterday! Thought It'd Be A Good Series To Start The New Year

I finally started my full read of MDZS yesterday! Thought it'd be a good series to start the new year with. I read all of volume 1 yesterday, and so it's onto volume 2 today... I'm not sure how I'm going to survive the heartbreak up ahead.

Xiao Xingchen...（ ; ; ）

Go read an old fic.

There’s such recency bias in fandom. As an author you post something, get a few reactions, and then it goes off into the bin. As a reader you check the tags, see what’s new, and move on. But a lot of old stuff is really good. It’s just sitting there, gathering dust, waiting for someone to take a peek.

So go on. Treat yourself.

Read an old fic.

Joke's on me I'm stuck on episode 7 of season 1 (~treasure hunt~) and keep noping out of finishing it because I can't deal with the secondhand embarrassment. And now half(?) of season 2 is out and I'm being sweetly tortured with all the beautiful gifsets I keep seeing and I want so badly to watch season 2 along with everyone and my love for Stede and Ed is strong but my inability to deal with secondhand embarrassment is stronger. T^T

This just in from yet again again rewatching the trailer for season 2 of Our Flag Means Death!

It's about a week until my birthday, which is less important than the fact that it's also the day season 2 of Our Flag Means Death starts airing (!!!), and I think I've picked the best and the worst time to start finally watching the show. Like, I can binge season 1 if I want! Season 2 is just around the corner! But I'll have to suffer through the wait for the next episodes like all the rest. ;-;

Currently doing a full reread of Scum Villain's Self-Saving System, which means I have now read the first volume five times. Despite this, it still holds up—I still laugh at the parts I've found funny before, I still get anxious as LBH is forced into the Endless Abyss, I am still in love with the gorgeous illustrations by Velinxi.

I think I can confidently say that this is one of my favorite novels, which is wild because I don't actually enjoy the transmigration subgenre all that much. I highly prefer just straight-up fantasy worlds. And yet SVSSS has managed to capture my heart and has not let it go. I freaking love it. ٩(๑`^´๑)۶

Now, onto volume 2~!

my friend's book comes out today!!

[ID: a lavender book cover with two white women in Victorian gowns giving each other side glances and holding hands. The title reads "Don't Want You Like a Best Friend" and the author is "Emma R. Alban." end ID]

A swoon-worthy debut queer Victorian romance in which two debutantes distract themselves from having to seek husbands by setting up their widowed parents, and instead find their perfect match in each other—the lesbian Bridgerton/Parent Trap you never knew you needed!

I'm so proud of Emma!! If you like queer historical romance like The Queer Principles of Kit Webb, you should pick up this book.