5 things: lightning bugs, writing, birds, book clubs, fashion pants

[sophia_sol]

one.

we have lightning bugs in our backyard again this year! it feels so magical to me; I may have cried a few happy tears about it when I watched them the other night in the falling dusk

still feels weird to me though that everyone around here calls them fireflies - the last time they were a normal part of my life, I was a kid in a very different region than where I currently live, and lightning bugs is what everyone called them! it feels so much more cozy and homey to me; fireflies sounds very, like, the ten-dollar word you pull out for poetry


two.

sparkly brain: reading fic that makes you kick your feet in delight

exploding galaxy brain: writing fic that makes you kick your feet in delight


three.

I'm so glad that loving birds has unlocked within me the ability to find things cute

there are so many cute things in this world, it turns out!

(but birds are the cutest)


four.

me like how many different reading groups can one person be in 😅

- weekly orv/umineko book club

- weekly mdzs book club

- monthly chinese history paper club

- weekly tgcf read-along (yes I'm very behind)

- new addition, fortnightly yaoi studies reading group!

thinking back to the younger me who was desperate for a book club, but the only book clubs I could find were of people my parents' age reading Literary Fiction because reading is supposed to Improve Your Mind and that's how you do it

younger me would be so astonished that current me has so many fun groups to talk with about things we read, things that I WANT to read! current me is endlessly delighted.


five.

considering my fashion choices.....for any of my pants, do I want to add any decorative elements to them? to break up the vast swathe of unpatterned single colour, single texture. I'm thinking like how the edwardians used insertion lace, but just on top of the body fabric rather than actually splitting the fabric. and not quite as all-in as the edwardians were, lol! and it doesn't necessarily have to be lace, either

pants are just BORING, is the thing, at least until I can source pants-weight fabric in fun patterns and also learn how to sew pants. and adding decorative elements is much faster!

Comments

[china_shop]

sparkly brain: reading fic that makes you kick your feet in delight

exploding galaxy brain: writing fic that makes you kick your feet in delight

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[pauraque]

There were fireflies at the place where I was just petsitting! I opened the back door to call the dog because it was getting dark, and he was sitting out in the yard just staring, and then I saw them flashing out there. (I doubt that he was really watching them since it's not uncommon for this dog to stare at nothing, but it looked like he was watching them!) Then while I was holding the door open and looking, the cat ran out the door and wouldn't come back in. Fortunately it was the fourth of July and soon the fireworks started which convinced everyone to come inside.

Anyway! I didn't grow up with fireflies because they're rare on the west coast, and I lived in the city anyway. I'm sure I never saw them until I moved to Vermont. Everyone seems to call them fireflies here, though if I heard lightning bug I'd know what was meant.

[genarti]

I use fireflies and lightning bugs semi-interchangeably, but all the same I agree with you about the different connotations. I would write a sentence about fireflies lighting up the darkness, but a lightning bug is what I'd catch in my hands in the backyard. (At least, if we had a sufficiently non-urban and dimly lit backyard in which to get them, sigh. I miss them!)

[chestnut_pod]

I only ever see lightning bugs in the mountains and can't wait to go back and see them in August.