twelfth night, yule style

[liminal_space]

~ meanderings, in no particular order ~

|| shakespeare was right: twelfth night is a dip into revelry and melancholy and should be nothing more and nothing less. even when you're not looking at it through an ecclesiastical lens. 

|| yesterday i went to get my nose stud replaced (i just can't do it myself yet) and had my ear piercings reopened. our lovely piercer and tattoo artist emma did — as always — a fine, fine job. she advised kid to wait until after wisdom teeth extraction to get her helix piercing, so yet again, kid had to watch while i got needles jammed in me. probrecita.  

|| it feels like almost spring right now and even though my head KNOWS that everyone is right and it's going to be cold for awhile longer and snow will happen again, my body and spirit are doing figurative spins of happiness, with faces turned up and arms outstretched, embracing all the POTENTIAL that can be felt just beneath the surface of the world. 

|| i have finally settled on what i'm going to focus my writing energy on and am actually excited about it. “times are bad. children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.” (probably not cicero, probably not c. sometime BC) oh, well, not cicero....it is what it is. i'm also going to take up the challenge from my friend to actually SHARE what i write some way, some where, which actually ties into the theme of the work of longer fiction i've settled on.

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i have been working on setting intentions prior to the 1st of january, and all of them are so utterly attainable and positive that i'm not feeling anxious or ambivalent about them. for the first time in FOREVER (or so it feels), "lose weight/get healthy" are not even a big deal — because i've already been moving in the direction of my perfect self (read: as good as i'm going to get) for a year +, it just feels right to say "keep on doing what you're doing, because you're doing great!"

i do want to read more, write more, and seek out peace far more than i have. i want to continue to strive to be a better mother and wife and friend. i want to create and think and ruminate on whatever i want to. and i want to become the kind of equestrian that others can turn to for advice and help when needed — that's a huge one for me. 

also, and this is going to be one of my driving forces this year, i want to find a way to give and connect with my community through the things i love and am passionate about. not sure what this will look like at all — especially since someone (me) loves and is passionate about things on a whim sometimes. 

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i just finished /the apparition phase/ and found it quite different from what i expected. i didn't love love it, but i feel like it will stick with me for awhile...and that's something. 

In the early 1970s, Tim and Abi, a pair of precocious twins obsessed with macabre subjects, fake a ghost photograph in order to scare a schoolmate, Janice Tupp. The prank succeeds beyond their expectations, and Janice faints in class at school, cutting her head. Terrified that they'll get into trouble, Tim and Abi invite Janice to their home and show her how the picture was faked. Janice, however, insists they have, in fact, taken a real photo of a ghost, "Or will have done, soon." The second half of the book follows the adolescent Tim, a few years later, as he joins a group of other teenagers in a psychic experiment at an old house in Suffolk.

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have a wonderful last day of 2024, lovelies. 

Comments

[stardust1161.livejournal.com]

I watched YouTube when it came to changing my piercings, such as my nose. My tragus has a hope in it now., which was advised not to do put in. Now I can’t figure out how to put a post in cuz my fingers are too big. 😏

[liminal-space.livejournal.com]

emma said she'd change things for me whenever i needed her to, so i always have that safety net. i think the next time i'm going to try on my own...after watching youtube video how-tos. lol

[man-of-snows.livejournal.com]

I hope we get some cold weather, I've seen 4 cherry trees in bloom here already!

[liminal-space.livejournal.com]

wha????? it's not sakura time yet! i have plenty of cold and i'd love to send you some. ;)

[kensmind.livejournal.com]

I hope you have a fantastic 2025 because you deserve nothing less!

[liminal-space.livejournal.com]

back at you, friend! <3

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

this story reminds me of the Cottingly Fairies Arthur Conan Doyle thing. Look it up if you don't know what I'm talking about.

[liminal-space.livejournal.com]

I do know and it's actually referenced in the book! I was glad the author gave that little nod. :)