Summer is over!

[halfcactus]

I feel like all I did this past month was go to the mall for the air-conditioning and do some reading or journaling in the public food courts. The heat had robbed me of my whimsy but at least my summer has been well documented. I finished a bunch of media I'd started months ago: Legend of Mana (game), Loving Strangers (cdrama), and Seraphina (novel). I'm now working my way through Convenience Store Woman (novel), a couple of historical games, and the last leg of The Fellowship of the Ring (plus the accompanying Shelved By Genre episodes).

I also got to see birds that I don't normally see: a dollar bird (I think!) flying overhead, and two unidentified birds, one green, one white with a bit of color on its belly. There was a nest of sparrows nearby. Their babies would sometimes fall out their nests and the adults would fuss and hover in the most conspicuous of ways. I have been spiraling a lot and it seemed that every time I was lost in the conviction that there was nothing in this world holding on to me, the world would promptly throw me a bird.

Music I've been into lately:
Olivia Rodrigo's new releases, drop dead and the cure (+ the BBC live lounge version that just came out last night), both great, cathartic songs with nostalgic touches that have cemented themselves in my 2026 rotation. There's a coziness to how familiar (and perhaps referential) the sound palettes are.

And now, today's AI (Avian Intervention) video:

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Comments

[eglantiere]

::hugs::

(small green bird or big green bird? maybe greenfinch, green woodpecker? they're so cool. any green birds are so cool.)

[halfcactus]

I only got the briefest glimpse but it looked like a wayward pet budgie that had flown off to explore the trees hahaha

[geraineon]

ugh it's been so hot here too. makes me feel tired all the time... a/c is expensive, so malls help.

those birds sound lovely!

/sends hugs

[halfcactus]

Is it still summer where you are? It's officially wet monsoon season for us so the temps have dropped. A/C is so expensive and our electricity prices have gotten crazy expensive in the last few months, IDK if it's the same for you.

[matcheslit]

I'm loving Rodrigo's new songs! Do you have a favorite between the two? I like I like drop dead more, but it's close

[halfcactus]

I'm partial to the cure because I gravitate towards angst :D Plus the length and build-up scratch an itch in my brain. It took me a few listens to really get into it though!