in the dragon's well

...of devouring good literature with only the agility/fortitude of my eyeballs as a limiting factor!

[unrelated but important: stay informed about what's happening in minnesota and donate to frontline orgs doing essential work to keep people safe, fed, and free] when i was in high school, my favorite english teacher had this franz kafka quote tacked on t…

every month, like clockwork, i wish i'd been born biologically male instead. gender is a weird, wonderful and malleable thing (i'm good w/ any pronouns!)

if you read my q3 reading wrap-up, you may already be aware that 2025 was not a good reading year for me. slogging my way through the ministry of time (only to be smacked square in the face with the secret history, a 2014 tumblr time capsule) did a number…

at a glance, it may have seemed like my blog was dead for the greater part of last year. however, it was not for lack of trying!

my first semester of law school didn't pan out the way i'd hoped. the time for introspection was probably three weeks ago, so now i'm just rocking myself through the aftershocks of failure and attempting to formulate some semblance of a gameplan for salva…

[i recently spent some time reading through my old google docs from high school and came across heaps of abandoned, half-formed poetry. it made me feel so much for the girl i used to be, everything jumbled up and all-consuming. i remember feeling like i j…

this is officially day #250 of reading for fun (again), and my dearest book review aggregator goodreads dot com and i are at odds (again). as you've probably already gathered from how infrequently i post here, i'm not exactly a social media power user. the

it seems i've made a nasty habit of going mia at the slightest whiff of real-life turmoil again, but i hope you've been well in the meantime. some updates from the past few months, in no particular order: i subjected myself to some of the worst fiction i'…

out of all the employees that fled buzzfeed in the mass exodus of the mid-2010s, only a few stuck around and became part of my regular youtube diet. just between us was founded by comedy duo allison raskin and gabe dunn in april 2014, shortly after they l…