ahh that’s cool that he is a favourite! i did vaguely know he was buddies with lovecraft but that was the sum of my knowledge about him before this.

i have finished the collection now and very much enjoyed his descriptions of settings and objects, so while many of the stories were not quite my jam i did appreciate his prose and would like to explore more! alas i am not a words person (nor a brains one) myself so that is about all the detail i can give. though i may say it started some cogs turning, i would like to start a drawing based on a setting in one of the stories because it became so vivid in my mind.

yeah that’s fair! i don’t mind not finishing things but i have to be having a bad time and feel like i am getting nothing out of it. mostly i can find worthwhile elements in media that otherwise is not my jam, it is kind of a challenge i give myself, to find buried treasure in a way. if something isn’t even fun for me in that way then it is definitely time to hit the bricks tho.

ahh kobos look really nice too! and thankyou, it is definitely late but i will take the good wishes anyway :)

it is a Boox Go, i don’t think i needed the colour but i am not one to complain about such a nice birthday gift!

thankyou! i ought make a dent on my backlog, but once i figure out more about what i might be looking for i will certainly do just that!

very recently got an e-reader so that i can get back into reading, i am excited to be able to post something! hopefully i will find some contemporary fiction to read soonish, it’s a bit overwhelming right now so i am just reading stuff that has been sitting in my Calibre library. frankly it has been so long that i am not even sure what i like to read anymore.

anyway, last week i read Concrete Island by J.G. Ballard and now i am chewing through the Standard Ebooks collection of Clark Ashton Smith short fiction. i haven’t particularly loved either but that’s okay!

• Fake Dust - Decrepitizing Din Of The Cerebral Psyopticon
• Pilori - Sans Adieu
• DJ John - DJ John’s 1st Mixtape
• somaFM’s Vaporwaves station

manul

awesome to hear! it’s a very handy resource for sure :)

maybe take a gander through the list Blaze made of active communities which are not politics, news, memes or tech, there’s definitely more than that around but it is a good starting point

finally got around to watching Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) and it was very good, about as subtle as a brick to the face but i think it kind of needed to be.

there’s NeoDB in case you didn’t know, it is not solely for movies so maybe that’s not quite what you’re looking for but i switched to using that from Letterboxd a while ago and have been pretty happy with it for my purposes.

just got a budget handheld console and the first thing i have been playing is GameBoy Color game Hamtaro: Ham-Hams Unite! it is a simple collecting game with some puzzles, and very cute (i am terrible at the bowling & soccer mini-games though)

• the new Takkak Takkak album, Abu
• Eddie Dark
• more Trevor Something than is probably healthy

iirc in swedish it means both that and married lol

cheers, i joined the community! occasionally i will post on !artshare@lemmy.world or !shitty_art_share@piefed.social but it’s always good to have some other places to see others’ work & post too. i feel like a lot of what i do doesn’t really fit many places so weird probably works for me as an umbrella.

and good on your son for sticking with drawing, i think it takes a strong will to push through the initial awkward period & the frustrations it can bring, but it is so rewarding once things start coming out closer to how you wanted them.

ahh thanks! i have been drawing for a little over 2 years now, so i still have a lot to learn, but i am enjoying the journey very much!

thank you! it’s still a good while away from done and i am perpetually haphazard in my process but here is where i am at with it currently:

pretty chill for me, just working on a drawing that was supposed to be birthday present to myself (now belated but oh well) & watching a video game stream VOD for the illusion of company.

hope you enjoy Obsession, i haven’t seen yet but everyone i know who has seen it seems to have liked it!

unfortunately yes

https://quokk.au/c/fediverse@lemmy.world/p/986172/fyi-blahaj-zone-is-down-for-the-next-few-hours

Blahaj.zone experienced a security breach and is handling it to properly reduce the risk of harm to their users. the current eta for their reture is in about 7 hours.