hungry-eyed and weather-stained
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twenty-something who likes reading, orange & oranges, & science fiction, among other things. often dreams of parallel universes, multiple timelines & the purpose of her existence; however she has yet to find a satisfactory answer to that last point.
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(in which i completely forgot about this space)
29 June 2016 | 0 COMMENTS
somewhere on the train in hokkaido, dated 8th march 2015
time flies. the title explains it all, really.
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i have quite a number of thoughts floating around in my head, but just when i'm about to put pen to paper / smash them out on my keyboard with two fingers, they vanish and i'm left feeling quite frustrated with myself... which leads to me avoiding avoiding certain activities, one of which includes updating this blog of sorts.
at the start of 2016, i had a list full of things that i wanted to complete, and it included reviving this dead corner of the internet. half the year has gone by, and somehow i've managed to cross out a few items on the list (good job, self), but now as i look back those were the ones that were relatively easy to accomplish — striking those off my list may have made me feel slightly better about my inability to see things through, but i really missed doing the more difficult things that made me happier. i was packing my room a couple of weeks back and i found my old lettering sketchbook and flipping through it reminded me of why i stopped in the first place (which was fucking ridiculous, come to think of it — i am going to start afresh in a new sketchbook). then i realised i had my bed surrounded by piles of books & comics that i loved (or enjoyed enough to not sell them away) and wanted so badly to talk about, but i had no one to talk to about them — except for this blog. i may have been shouting into the void when i used to post here on a more regular basis, but at least i was creating an exchange of sorts between my past & current / future self.
i have more books than i did before, and i still want to write about their plot lines and art. why did i stop?
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TL;DR: i wrote an incoherent mess above, but i'll be back. soon. maybe even by this sunday, we'll see.
...maybe i'll even throw in some pictures i took while i was in korea~
Labels: life
some pictures
7 June 2015 | 0 COMMENTS
I'm slowly trying to get back into blogging, but after work the last thing I want to do is to get back on an illuminated screen. Don't get me wrong — I love my job (is love too strong a word? I don't really know), but my eyes tire easily these days. On top of that I just haven't been in the mood to take pictures with my actual camera (my phone's camera annoys me to no end), and I guess this lack of motivation has been accumulating for a while...But today, I come with some pictures, yay!
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The stack of physical comics that I've accumulated since March. Not pictured above: Volume 1 of Alex + Ada (I lent my copy to a friend yesterday).
These are mostly trade paperbacks / collected editions, though recently I've started subscribing to individual issues at a comic book store (A-Force + Fight Club 2, if you were wondering). That hardcover edition of Sex Criminals at the bottom looks a little out of place — it's pink (and I hate pink ack), and isn't something I'd usually read, but it's pretty hilarious and tackles the (usually) taboo topic of sex (and mental health, although the mental health bit has nothing to do with the sex bits, ahaha) in a very well-written manner.
I have my eye on a bunch of other titles to add to this stack; they're mostly physical copies of whatever I've read on my computer screen but now that I have to pay for transportation and other things I guess I have to take tiny steps...
I bought these two weeks ago, and am still somewhere between the first few chapters of No Longer Human (because I got distracted by all the wonderful illustrations in comic books...).
+ I had been looking for the Kobo Abe books I haven't read (prior to this I'd only read + owned + enjoyed The Box Man and The Woman in the Dunes, and was feeling a bit iffy about ordering from the Book Depository because they take forever to arrive), so when I chanced upon the last copy of The Ark Sakura at the bookstore I had to buy it.
Also, I got a new pair of glasses!
I never really liked transparent frames before these, but I was itching for some sort of change at the optician. Then I stumbled upon this pair and fell in love with the arms, and the rest is history.
Labels: books, comics / graphic novels, fiction, life
back again
16 April 2015 | 0 COMMENTS
I've been away for quite a while because life threw me some horrible curveballs, but I'm back! I've got more time to read now, and still spend way too much money on books, so everything's good.
Some minor updates:
- I am finally graduating!
- ...and am currently unemployed, but that's about to change soon (which means more money for books! yay!)
- I started reading comics / graphic novels in January and
I think I might have gotten a bit too lazy to read books without some form of art in themI could just spend hours looking at all the art alone (let me know if you've any recommendations!)
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17 November 2014 | 0 COMMENTS
...well that was a really long absence. i should probably start working on those few entries in my drafts; maybe in a couple of weeks because everything has been so overwhelming. but i guess things have been going well — i am still reading whenever i can, especially while procrastinating!also, it's pretty surprising to see that there are actually people visiting this place.
EDIT: i just uploaded one of those drafts, hope you enjoyed it!
Labels: life
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