Welcome to Litsy!

Here‘s a little preview of the miniature gingerbread bakery I got in my local indie‘s post-holiday sale. I put in a lot of work on it today because I HAD to finish the tagged book, which was a goddamned delight. I love everybody in this murder family. More, please. #audiocrafting

#audiocrafting homemade candles for coworkers and neighbors. 🕯️

*not the tagged book- When Ivy Met Mr Holiday isn't in the database
This was as predictable as a fake-dating, holiday rom-com would be expected to be but I liked the characters and it was cute and sweet and Christmasy.
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Getting a jump on my December #MonthlyNonfiction2025 @julieclair

Tried this in text earlier but I've switched to audio since Gadsby herself is narrating

#audiocrafting : picked up my Poppy blanket again #litsycrafters

I recently updated my reading stats for the first time since May and confirmed I‘ve dropped the ball on nonfiction this year. To that end, I combed through Hoopla and found the tagged book, which is a fascinating look at the evolving face of queer nightlife, primarily in the UK. Ghaziani‘s an academic, with that audience in mind, but his prose is still accessible to laypeople. I‘m loving it.

Also, I painted some spooky stuff. #audiocrafting

Aliette de Bodard is one of those authors I really, really want to love, but I‘ve never clicked with her longer work. (I‘ve enjoyed some of her short fiction.) Going by this book‘s opening, I think maybe her prose is precise in a way that shuts me out of the story‘s emotional side. Hopefully the rest of the thing‘ll win me over and change my mind.

Also, you‘ll appreciate why I had to buy and immediately assemble this diorama kit. #audiocrafting

Audiobooking while making some artist trading cards. Love the cover of this book.

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Today I started RADIANCE, which feels like a book with which I could become totally obsessed, and I carved my first foam pumpkin. The hot knife tool didn‘t get hot enough to produce the smooth edges it advertised, but the pumpkin‘ll look okay from a distance once I get a better light, and it‘ll never rot. Good times. #audiocrafting

A friend recently gave me a bunch of his mom‘s costume jewelry. She had a huge, loud collection that I‘ve started to transform into suncatchers and wrist tethers for phones.

I‘m so, so close to the end of DUST OF DREAMS. While the series has featured rape from the get-go, this instalment feels ESPECIALLY rapey, with plenty of misogynistic overtones even when people aren‘t violating each other. That‘s soured me on the whole thing. #audiocrafting