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It's Christmas Eve Eve! You know what that means!! (Actually, you have no reason to know what that means in this context. I'm a little delirious.) It means I've got like, three working days until the deadline for Volume III! The mood here is . . . you know that part of Howl's Moving Castle when the castle starts to fall apart, slowly shedding parts of itself until it's just a wooden platform on top of two giant chicken legs? That's how it's going!

Despite how disturbingly down to the wire I am on this one, I've had a surprising amount of fun just working here alone these last few months. Most of that has come from simple creature comforts--making breakfast, making hot cocoa from a mix I got at a local harvest festival, getting hypnotized by the mechanized lantern-shaped snow globe I bought at the same harvest festival and which is currently holding my entire sanity together . . . but I've also been enjoying some media lately, including:

--The Netflix series Black Doves: Ben Whishaw plays a sad gay assassin helping his spy bestie find the people who killed her boyfriend. Also it's Christmastime in London so everything is vaguely festive?? I'm obsessed with this show. Is anyone else watching it?

--Lady Gaga released an entire album that appears to be re-recording all the songs from Joker 2, but good this time? I am extremely here for this career move of "I'm going to be in this terrible movie for the sole purpose of releasing a lot of vaguely Joker-themed tie-in media that absolutely slaps." Also, Disease is my entire personality right now.

--A while ago I reserved a bunch of old Artemis Fowl audiobooks on Libby and they ALL became available at the same time, so I am just LIVING in Artemisville right now. I don't remember if I've mentioned this before, but Artemis Fowl was my favorite book series as a kid, and it's been really fun revisiting them as an adult and seeing how my perspective has changed--i.e. the fairies' workplace politics are now a lot more relatable to me, and Artemis has gone from an aspirational character to my FLAWLESS SON who I must PROTECT and also project some gender/queerness feelings onto (he reads as super aroace to me, and please indulge my transmasc headcanon).