bowl of misua

my dog of (nearly) sixteen years died last thursday, four days short of his sixteenth birthday. he never got to eat his lamb meatloaf or the australian beef burger that i was going to make him. it’s summer, too, so he wasn’t wearing his favourite jammies…

yotsuba&!

yotsuba&!

twelve expressions (1999), inday cadapan. pastel on watercolor ⊹ ࣪ ﹏𓊝﹏𓂁﹏⊹ ࣪ ˖ content warning: discussion of an eating disorder & body image issues ⊹ ࣪ ﹏𓊝﹏𓂁﹏⊹ ࣪ ˖ i have always lived by the fashion philosophy of “if it makes you happy and comfortable, wear

and so here she lies, another warrior who stands in your way to the peak of the bearblog trending mountain. you watch her fall, armour clattering to the ground as she lets go of her sword. you watch the life leave her eyes and in a flash of light, her body

after an anxious tuesday at the doctor’s, i safely turned 25 last friday. my ultrasound didn’t show anything alarming, aside from the “more than 20” little guys that come with my pcos. there’s still a part of me that’s worried the doctor may have misread…

mushishi, yuki urushibara tomorrow, i'm going to the hospital for a long-awaited, long-delayed ultrasound. seven years of annual check ups; annual observations to see if there’s another cyst growing in my reproductive system that hasn’t been quite like it…

ikoku nikki/diary of a strange land, tomoko yamashita or better yet, how do you leave your motherland?

a new year means a new holy week. this year again, my family made the pilgrimage to the farm of my godfather. this time, we brought maurice. i introduced her to my godparents as my best friend since fourth grade—my godfather smiled. you gained a new godfa…

cliff walk at pourville, claude monet it’s a thing on tiktok right now to write scenarios about meeting up with your younger self for coffee. i’m not gonna act high and mighty and say that i don’t normally do trends (i am easily influenced after all). aft…