aganiké @neeti@eldritch.cafe

Is it time for a #reintroduction #introduction?

- I'm a writer, ex-journalist, now at a branding agency.
- I'm bi. My family doesn't know this.
- I talk about gender stuff, mental health, films/tv, linguistics.
- I speak ok French but I understand it well. Also: Malayalam, Hindi, Arabic.
- I grew up in the Middle East, studied/worked in India, live in Toronto now. All these places are home but also not home.
- I like meeting/talking to people virtually! Say hi!
- I also like bullet points.

BOOK RECOS TIME!

in an ongoing argument with my mother, she has acknowledged she does not understand patriarchy and how it has affected her.

i'm trying to find books/guides i can send that is simple in language and isn't overly theoretic.

she's 50+ and hasn't read a book in a really long time, she's probably not going to relate to the Western (white) context of feminism, and she has to start right at the beginning.

any recommendations in this light welcome!

world-building for my story, i created an arc where the protagonist goes to a "school" to learn 9 essential things from ancient masters. only "payment" students have to offer, is teaching other students something else. information exchange, basically.

so now i've to categorize this whole book under "fantasy" for this wildly unrealistic idea, huh.

the worst outcome of this is a complete shut down just because i could not write ONE sentence smoothly with words flowing out organically.

i hate when this feeling just goes on to project itself onto *everything* else in life/my day.

because then it affects the plans i've made for whole day. what, now i've got to factor in my mood before finalizing plans? urgh

wow i'm in A MOOD or SEVERAL today;;;;;

ontario is into its newest extended lockdown, and so yesterday, just out of sheer frustration of EVERYthing, friends and i went out to the park to throw a ball around; kept away from joggers and walkers; and played out till our bodies wanted nothing more than sinking into a bed.

i'm going to do this every other day; i spent the last whole year thinking "ok just a few more months" and i've become SO unfit.

no more, no more.

This was a good break;

snow also is stressing me out

wind is stressing me out

I just got too lazy to think of shortcuts and said, "let's just do this the hard way."

This will be a wonderfully taxing month.

so anyway, I have now acquired a proper, functional laptop, which meanssss

Minecraft!

Blanking out on ideas and thingssssss

currently looking at cottages in places I can't go to and being overwhelmed, how's your first day of work 2021 going

I now have an IG alt where I post tarot stuff, shadow work and geek out about the moon or sunsets. These are things I wouldn't post about on my main because I feel like that's not who I am with the people from my past and I'd be judged pretty hard for what seems like a sudden u-turn.

So here's to moving off the main and making my alt the main in 2021!