are we a lost generation of our people;

i enjoy being a critical fan of my media but there's times where i find myself purposely looking for things to be upset about and it genuinely tires me out. it be way too much at times and can stop me from enjoying things for what they are.

everything's not a fight, i don't have to be defensive about things. i shouldn't be immediately defensive about things.

sometimes i just need to chill the fuck out.

I'm having a breakdown like an idiot over something so trash.

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i have been sick for a whole week and im ready to commit murder.

i haven't abandoned this journal i swear. i'm just still learning how to use this thing.

i'm stuck between feeling like i should write something kinda long here and just wanting to post willy-nilly like it's a twitter feed.

Finally, after suffering through these long past 12 months, we’ve made it. It’s a new year and it’s a new us. That’s the idea anyways, right? I went back through my tumblr blog to last year’s December to see if I had created any goals and the only thing I could find was my Beat The Backlist challenge - I failed all the goals I laid out for it. Sometimes you just aim too high…So I figure I would be more realistic in my goals, reflecting on what did and did not work during the year of 2018. So here they are:


1. I will no longer be using Goodreads’ update feature. I focused too much on the percentage of a book I was reading rather than just reading it. If I feel the need to document my feelings as I go, I will make posts on here as a way to ‘liveblog’ the experience.

2. I will set my Goodreads reading challenge number to 1. Again, focused too much on the amount of books I read rather than the content of said books.

3. Read at least 1 book on my backlist once a month. I’ve donated/sold nearly all the books I’ve accumulated from overspending over the past ~2 years and I want to keep my backlist short, especially with all the new releases coming up.

4. Read at least 1 library book once a month. This goal is more for the new releases. Sometimes I absolutely must have the new release coughthewickedkingcough but other times I can and should wait to read it for free.

5. Participate in and commit to at least one reading challenge/readathon crafted by someone within the book community. I usually start off good but then lose steam as I go. I want to finish what I start.

6. Write reviews for each book read. Not essay-length reviews, more like 5 sentences. Toughing on the topics: Characters, Plot, Writing, Pros, and Cons. I just have to write something for each book so that when I look back on my reading for the year, I’ll know what I liked/disliked about it.

7. No more star ratings. This ties in with the above goal. Star ratings are just an easy way to review something but doesn’t tell you anything. I can rate something 4/5 stars and still have issues with the book but on the surface, it just looks like I had no real thoughts about it beyond ‘liked it’.

questionoftheday asks: Do you sleep in silence, or do you have to have background noise? Is there a reason for this? How about light? Does it have to be pitch black, or do you need at least a sliver of light to sleep?

My answer: Depends on how tired I am. If I'm super tired, I can go to sleep without needing anything playing in the background. But typically, I usually go to sleep with background noise since I'll be tired enough to lay down but not enough to sleep. So I usually use the fan, a podcast (with long episodes), music or even a youtube video. I use Critical Role a lot for this.

Put "top 5" anything in the comments and I will answer ok go

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