a recluse's lockdown list

some things I'm missing/looking forward to

❁browsing the library

❁book sales at the library

❁second hand shops

❁craft/zine/art markets

❁getting the bus

❁train rides

❁the fact that this year I was planning to get really good at riding my bike and hunt out car boot sales

❁arcades

❁not having to put up with posh people tutting/glaring if you get "too close" (when you're not) but then getting right in the faces of shop workers

❁all of the tills allowing cash

❁sitting in cafes and drawing

❁going to the cinema

❁the feeling that you could just go do something (even if you end up not bothering anyway)

week 46 2020

feels so right to have my fringe back

cycling to little shop of vegans and getting doughnuts and sushi burritos was the best decision we ever made

("sushi burritos" makes me laugh, it's just a not cut up maki?)

(i don't laugh in a cruel way, just a "haha us humans and our words" way)

lazy bear

i could eat mochi every day, it's so fucking cute and it's a magic combination of stodgy but light

I made a zine this week and while I was looking for an old photo I wanted to use I had to look through old hard drives and my flickr account and I'm so glad I'm taking mundane photos regularly again and posting them here. I love to look back at this stuff even if at the time it doesn't seem worth it. I love seeing it from other people too, I need to find more blogs.

week 45 2020

a while ago I got volumes 4 and 5 of Tokyo Babylon in a library sale just because it was CLAMP and then when they announced the anime I thought it'd be a good time to seek them out on purpose and actually read it. I only need volume 6 now. if you know why all of these have a beautiful colour fold out at the front except for volume 4 please tell me, I'd love to know. I have two copies and neither have one so I'm pretty sure they're not just missing.

my parents asked me to design their christmas cards again and after such a crappy brain year it felt good to work on something so solidly and then be proud of how they turned out :)

I can't believe this little cauliflower. they all had so many eggs laid on them and so many caterpillars living on them and the leaves all look like lace from being eaten (by caterpillars and the pigeons) but I think three so far are actually growing little cauliflowers. nature is amazing. 

just a really fucking cute leaf.

woods! 05+071120

I never get bored of the woods, whatever the season but it's pretty good at the minute.

apparently this year is a mast year for the oak trees and the squirrels are going ham. they're everywhere digging and eating and chasing each other and just sitting there shouting really loud.

so many cute mush😭

we saw this log and all along it there was shells and nuts with nibble marks where squirrels I guess had sat there eating. so much to eat they only need a bite from each acorn. I filmed more of it.

moss + mush = happy place

week 44 2020

I can't get enough of mush hunting

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the wasps still haven't fully left (!) but they are very slow now, bless 'em <3

curry sauce and chips gives me power

a few of the failed attempts at photographing these 

also can't get enough of pumpkins/squashes/gourds I'll eat them all

samhain 2020

I'm an interested party rather than a practising witch but I enjoy recognising the sabbats, I'm very into us being a part of nature and how the wheel of the year let's me check in with the seasons in a positive way is a nice time. we're kind of told summer is good and winter is bad but it's just not true.

I had a good samhain, I worked in the morning, I made bread and danced to my halloween playlist, I rested and I surprised Will with my amazing costume. it's not often lately that i feel like i had a "good day" but this day I did

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photos of manga i've been reading #2

the first of these posts was on the 20th march, just as we were going into lockdown (the first time). i read most of my manga from the library so that put an end to that, i had a few books out when the libraries closed and then in august i was lucky enough to be given books for my birthday and since then i've ended up buying quite a lot of second hand manga on ebay so there was a bit of a drought but i am back on my bullshit.

Nausicaa by Hayao Miyazaki / Nana by Ai Yazawa

Nana by Ai Yazawa

Cardcaptor Sakura by CLAMP

Cardcaptor Sakura by CLAMP

Kero chan here is how i felt while i was re-reading this and found out it isn't in print anymore😭

i have volume 1 and 2 of the Dark Horse omnibuses and i did the typical idiot thing of "yeah, i'll buy the other two at some point, they're actually quite cheap" and now Kodansha have the license and are releasing each volume as a collectors hardback.

the second half of the story literally isn't in print at the minute and the second hand copies of the omnibuses i've seen are SO expensive and i'm SO mad at myself. and licensers, i'm mad at them too.

Cardcaptor Sakura by CLAMP

i don't want hard cover fancy versions i just want regular read it in bed versions

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Cardcaptor Sakura by CLAMP / Inuyasha by Rumiko Takahashi

Caterpillar Boy and Bad Texter Boy by Sanzo / Wish by CLAMP

i ended up with Wish by chance, someone Will follows posted on their stories that they were selling some old manga on ebay and i stalked those listings silly and got all of Wish and i think 5 volumes of Chobits. just as i was going to start reading Wish i was catching up on some blog posts and in this post saw this twitter thread about how the translation handled gender (or just didn't) and i'm glad these things lined up so i knew to insert all my own "theys" while i was reading.

Wish by CLAMP

look at how delicate that colouring is! i love it so much!

Wish by CLAMP

my god chibi Kohaku is so damn cute

Azumanga Daioh by Kiyohiko Azuma

i'm pretty sure Azumanga Daioh was the first manga i ever read. it clearly awakened something in me. i got the omnibus on ebay and re-read it for the first time and i still love it and i'm still very in love with Sakaki.

this post has fallen before a lockdown again but a big box of manga arrived from ebay this morning so i should be ok

do you take photos while you read manga? and can i see them please?

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