so i was feeling a bit sad – as you do – and i started writing a list of things to look forward to this autumn to keep up morale, then i thought why not make it a little blog post? to make it a bit more real? so here’s the list, might add to it every once in a while. hope everyone has a nice and gentle autumn!
september came and went so quickly! it’s finally getting colder... here are some favorites:
honorable mentions: the stupidest scavenger hunt - tryhards (feat. tom scott); new season of taskmaster!!; the summer i turned pretty and its big timeless house (don’t plan on watching the show but this was interesting!).
happy hobonichi 2026 launch week to those who celebrate! hope everyone got the techo of their dreams... thought i’d share some notes on the planners i’ve used in the past and write down some journaling goals for the rest of the year/2026.
i’ve been using hobonichi for two years now (!), ever since moleskine stopped making snoopy themed agendas and i needed something both cute and functional to use as a daily journal. this coincided with me finding megan rhiannon’s channel, where i was introduced to the hobonichi brand (and her amazing journal spreads/illustrations). though i love seeing what people do with their A5s and cousins, i know i could never keep up with that much blank space (and the cost...), so i’ve been sticking to the weeks pretty happily.
in 2024 i got Tomitaro Makino: Shihai Sumire, i decorated some pages but mostly just wrote my daily entries and when i needed more space i used the right page.
in 2025 i’ve been using MOTHER: Smiles & Tears, which i love! though i must confess i’ve never finished the game because i’m a terrible gamer lol. same as last year, i’ve been journaling pretty consistently on this one, with some blank days when i was too tired to write.
for 2026 i ordered Colors: Sky Mist, none of the decorated ones really spoke to me this year except the moomin collaboration, which is of course the only one not sold on the italian shop, sigh... but! i have some moomin stickers i’ve been waiting to use so i’ll just make my own hehe.
felt like i mostly spent the month of august watering plants, crashing out under the unbearable loneliness of summer, playing cards with friends and working from home (trains’ fault). legume soup also had an important role. aand i finally started reading again yippee!! here’s some favorite august-things:
honorable mentions: rachel maksy video where she creates a life-size gollum for a cosplay; the mere mention of supernatural is enough to make me want to read destiel fics again, which is how i found this lovely outsider pov fic by sobsicles; also been really into my pretentious supernatural playlist.
july was weird... my mood was all over the place all month until one day (to my immense relief) i just woke up and was back to my ‘neutral’ state, which is being pretty chill and mundanity enjoying. i have many ideas on what the culprit could be for my bad mood but the fact that it just fixed itself with no work on my part is a mystery to me. but we take all the wins we can get. so my july favorites are mostly things i used to cope with the general weirdness, enjoy!
honorable mentions: playing this random ass car game on discord with friends (i’m really bad at it btw); this tumblr text post; wet leg’s tiny desk concert.
june felt like a blur honestly, don’t remember much, possibly because i’ve not been writing in my journal aagh, anyway, some favorites!
honorable mentions: new season of phineas and ferb!; afterlife by alex g; the movie josie and the pussycats (2001); katya’s criterion closet picks.
finally realized i have total freedom to write whatever on my blog because it’s mine ?? hello ?? so with this newfound freedom it’s obviously time to rank some silly spy movies! yay!! warning for major m:i spoilers + unreliable information bc i forgor.
btw if you’ve never watched a mission impossible movie, it’s fine, you’re fine! what’s great about them is that you can start whenever and if you get a little confused about ethan hunt’s romantic life, it’s ok! i think he is too! so just choose one based on vibes and you have a relaxing action movie night covered.
had some half-plan to write a blog post about something else before the end of the month but life got in the way as it does, so here’s some may favorites!
honorable mentions: the songs sulky baby by yeule and opr by gesaffelstein; this video where dan and phil recount their (not actual) near death experience on vacation; started using raindrop.io to organize my bookmarks and it’s great.
some things i loved this month!
honorable mentions: reuven evelyn’s february field notes (which inspired the title of this post); basement jaxx & 100 gecs - where’s my head at remix; heartsl0b’s pencil drawings; the destiel fic russian twist by briston.
haven’t updated the site in a while because i’ve been working on a huge project and it will take at least a month for it to be complete enough to have it up and running. it’s a sort of commonplace book/zettelkasten/personal wiki, a digital garden if you will, and it’s based on what i use on obsidian (which is also incomplete agh!) + my tumblr tag system, so i have a lot of information to go through and collect and read etc. etc., which to be fair are all activities i love doing, i’m just impatient.
i’ve been listening to i bet on losing dogs by mitski on loop and my mind right now is just a mix of my baby my baby you’re my baby, janky html/css code and daredevil (seriously thinking about making a matt murdock shrine btw)… so i cannot for the life of me think of anything else to write here, enjoy some mundane moments!
keep forgetting i have a blog now, i’m just not used to it! i’ve been journaling on and off since i was in elementary school but never on the internet because i’m shy on every plane of existence, so this is a sort of exercise to give myself backbone, which is actually one of my new years’ resolutions (the other one is to bake new recipes btw).
anyway, in webdev news i made an art depot page to collect my favorite art pieces! i love calling it a «depot» because it reminds me of one of the coolest places i’ve ever visited – the depot boijmans van beuningen in rotterdam – where you get to see how a museum collection is stored & some interesting exhibitions. all the pieces are organized by material (bc of humidy reasons), except the paintings which are all stored together in chronological order. there is also a floor where you can see art restorers at work!! (can you tell i’m an avid baumgartner restoration watcher lmao)
hello hello! first captain’s log! i’m still deciding what this blog will be like, but for now i’m just glad to a have a space to yap about the website instead of filling up my precious hobonichi weeks entries with html ramblings.
this mac os 8 inspired layout is based on what has been my tumblr theme for many years now, it feels nostalgic even
though i’ve never used it on an actual computer. i can’t help but feel like it’s missing some decorations though, so that’s on the to-do list!
also need to sort out the icons
situation (the tumblr theme works with a single image and i want to understand how to change the icons individually), will this actually
make me learn css instead of fumbling around like usual? probably not to be honest.
