Hello all,
Today’s news letter is sponsored by the feeling of “damn it feels like it’s been two years since I last sent a newsletter” AND “damn three years ago I was unaware of the difference between pandemic and epidemic.”
Poetry of the Week
Did I write these haikus for a challenge? Yes.
Did I enjoy writing them? Also yes.
Am I a desert rat? How did you know?
Rabbitholes
Things I’ve learned, laughed about, and/or obsessed over
- honestly, looking for more books
- Mormon Stories + LDS Discussions podcast on annotations to the gospel papers. Their investigation of Mormonism also lends many arguments to the investigation of Christianity. The flaws in Mormonism can highlight the flaws of Christianity.
- romantic vs. platonic vs. sexual love/attraction
- Nona the ninth fan art
- and a chart that makes sense in context
- I, personally, am in love with Megan Thee Stallion, her song “Her,” and the album cover of Traumazine. I literally want to base my next tattoo off of this cover.
- Amigurumi patterns
- Please enjoy these anti-capitalist memes
Book Búho
What I’ve been reading/listening to bc audiobooks let me do both. Yes, comics count.
- Nona The Ninth by Tasmyn Muir – [spoilers] Picture it: me, sobbing, screaming “I JUST WANT THEM TO BE HAPPY! I JUST WANT THEM TO KNOW THEY ARE ALL LOVED!!!!”
- Read “them” as: a family AND lesbian Jesus who’s mad about being resurrected and not knowing where her worst-enemy-and-simultaneous-love-of-her-life’s soul is.
- No context Nona The Ninth spoilers:
- In The Shadow Of The Moons by M.M. Kaye – wow. The pitfalls of being a messiah in the Moonies and not disciplining your children, and the simplicity of what children need.
- Full disclosure: I do not finish everything that I list here, bc I get distracted and/or have this weird thing about finishing stories, but whatever I read still changes me.
- Books on my digital shelf that I keep renewing and yet overwhelm myself with all of them so I don’t get to any of them:
- Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King
- Why We Love: The New Science Behind Our Closest Relationships by Dr. Anna Machin
- A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers
- The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
- We Ride Upon Sticks by Quran Barry
- Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories by Kelly Barnhill
- Finding Me by Viola Davis
- Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger
- Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel by Carl Safina
- Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace by Carl Safina
- When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill
- A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger
Playlist of the Quarter
“Apparently,” I listen to my short playlists for a “wildly long time,” “too long, in fact,” “damn bitch you listen to five to ten songs on repeat until you can find the next five to ten songs which might take months?”
Personal Chisme
chisme = gossip
- I change and grow with every minor experience and inconvenience I have
- I’ve been thinking about love vs. care, and how care is arguably more important than love. Does it matter if you’re loved if you don’t feel cared for?
- Once I take the patience and dedication to teach myself how to sew my own clothes and make Amigurumi, it’s over for you hoes.
- All Hail The Yayoi Kusama Pumpkin
The Void Shouts Back
If you would like to respond but don’t know what to say, answer the question below. If you don’t want to, just respond with keysmashing or send me a hug with your thoughts. If you don’t want to do that either, that’s okay too.
- what piece of media, especially fiction, unexpectedly changed you or taught you something you still think about, even in a small way?
Thanks for sticking by me still! If I haven’t messaged you back, could we blame my overwhelmedness please? If you want to keep reading about my shenanigans, please find them at Colochos de Flores. May I offer you stickers in these trying times?
Abrazos and/or high fives,
Ariana
Xismosa Xit 
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