We’ll be right back
I have nothing much to say right now but I drew this thing that was supposed to be drawn much earlier except I didn’t feel like drawing it then, yet. And then I finished it and didn’t like it anymore, hated it, even, and eventually forgot about it. Yet, here I am sending it still. Because this was what this series of letters was supposed to be about. A cache. A dump. A place where I should not overthink things. Or at least try.
Timely, I guess, how another month has ended. January felt like a whole year of its own. And I would like to start again.
Been listening to a lot of Dept’s music, the Goodbye 2022 album included. Dream Store is a personal fave.
What I’m trying to say is I’m all over the place right now and everything feels too much and also too little. I know it’s a slump, a burnout, whatever else it’s called. And I acknowledge it. Mostly because I knew it was coming. And it shall pass. Just like it has before. In the meantime, I will be playing video games and revisiting my AO3 bookmarks.
Gimme (and you) a happy February,
Louise
P.S. Happy birthday to the loml, Doyoung! HAHA. Hibang pa rin for 2023.
P.P.S. Somebody sent me Ko-fi this morning, THANK YOU! You made me revisit this Substack in my supposedly ghosting season, hahaha. & you don’t know how much you’ve made my day. I am going to go out to buy good coffee as soon as I send this.
January things and quick links
start of the year photodump
This letter from Ask Polly on feeling like you’re going SO slow
Ten Things and Ten Things, Part Two from Lisa Olivera. There is this tenderness to her thoughts.
Sliced bread conspiracy theory by queen Toni
Cars 3! I watched it thrice the past month HAHAHA. My coping mechanisms are weird.
In my layas-na-layas nanaman phase, so I’m looking into Vietnam things (particularly these lists of places on where to eat and drink coffee) ‘Gusto ko lang talaga magkape sa malayo at maligaw’ is my constant mood the past weeks. And the chances of me doing so is really up there right now.
