I started this post in April and only finished it in June

Happy seasonal depression new years for April! I celebrated by being confused by daylight saving time and tidying up my living room like an adult.

Okay, so, haven't posted since January, because 2024 has been a wild ride already!

• My uncle died at the start of February. You don't need to condolences or anything, we weren't close, but my mum was upset and that was what we were all focusing on. ( Read more... )
  
  
• As part of visiting my mum for the funeral, I finally got to learn things about my grandparents! I'm thirty-four years old and didn't even know their names until this year, but now I know that my mum's dad was a boxer and a mechanic who worked on planes during WWII and swore he got torpedoed in Malta, and after the war he worked on a racecar and his boss took him and the car to Silverstone. My nan was a... I can't remember the word, but she was a computer operator in the ATS. My mum found a bag of photos of them stuffed under the sofa in my uncle's house, and now I know what my grandparents looked like!


• (I also looked up my dad's family on Ancestry because free trial gets you document access, and I legally don't have a grandfather on that side. The only name on my dad's birth certificate is his mum's. Like, I always knew I didn't have a granddad on that side because of the family lore, but it's weird to have that confirmation, I guess?
  
  The family lore is that his mum was having it away with an american serviceman after her husband died in WWII, which made it REALLY AWKWARD when her husband came back. But I know her name now too! Her name was Elsie. And I feel weird knowing that, like she's suddenly a real person who existed even though I never knew her. Ugh.)


• Lost a month mainlining the subs of Digimon, because it turns out they're on crunchyroll now! My impression is that the jokes are funnier in the subs, but the dub music is 1000% better. And the characterisation feels a bit more consistent across the series, but that could just be because they're not having to delete anything that could even hint at Japan so the script isn't getting gutted.
  
  • Random thing: Taichi's dragging Hikari out when she's sick is somehow more heartbreaking in the sub because he specifically goes out to play with her, when in the dub he's going to play with his friends and takes her with him so he can babysit.
  
  
  • THERE'S AN EPISODE WHERE PUPPETMON JUST CRACKS OUT A FUCKING GUN.
    
    I'M NOT JOKING. PUPPETMON'S LIKE "OH, WHAT SHOULD I USE TO KILL THE KIDS? I KNOW! A FUCKING .44 MAGNUM. WHAT SHOULD I GIVE THE SIX YEAR OLD TO MAKE THIS INTERESTING? AN SMG!"
  
  
  • WIZARDMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON! GATOMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON! ;_____; THEY LOVE EACH OTHER YOUR HONOUR.
  
  
  • Still not over how much less frustrating it is to watch as an adult because my brain goes "Ah yes, of course they're being idiots, they're ten."


• Accidentally got into cross stitch so my stims this year are apparently cross stitch and hidden cat games. Sure! Not gonna question it! Just gonna cross stitch psyducks and D20s to my heart's content!


• Work have basically cancelled all extra shifts for everyone, which is really awkward when we're chronically understaffed. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It means that most of the part-timers have lost about £300 a month, so understandably none of us are happy.
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• I am so tired all the time. Like full-on "there are days where the only thing keeping me concious is my ADHD meds." How did I swing so thoroughly from "insomnia" to "narcolepsy" without stopping to pass go or collect £200.


• Shout out to Meguru Hinohana because discovering that Therapy Game was a sequel to Secret XXX cured my reading slump. She was my favourite BL mangaka anyway, she didn't have to give me 7+ volumes of guys going "Yes I know my feelings are irrational why are they still happening" but she did it anyway!

So yeah, I'm okay! Just a bit frazzled and taking so many fucking accidental naps. Be safe my dudes.