8 Dec 2024

Weeknotes 24

Table of Contents

    Twenty-four is a pleasing number, so I feel inclined to make these weeknotes a bit Better, but not by much.

    • dontfuckwithscroll.com by Adam Siekierski — what it says on the tin. I feel very old man yells at cloud whenever I encounter an annoying website that is avoidably so. You didn’t need to make a miserable experience! You could have left the scrolljacking at the door. And yet here we are—your website, infuriatingly slow and dizzying, the least delightful thing I have ever experienced in my life; and me, thinking unproductive, violent thoughts.
    • Game on! A look into the rise of design-led board games by Chappell Ellison in It’s Nice That
    • Godot Isn’t Making it by Edward Zitron in Where’s Your Ed At
    • Living in alignment by Mandy Brown in A Working Library

      It is useless work that darkens the heart. But good work? Work that serves the living, that brings us into alignment with ourselves and with each other and with the earth? Good work lights us right up.

    • The Off Set font pack by Off Type

    Sentiments

    I like this tweet from @jasonsbmoc about music:

    I spent this year paying more attention than ever and hunting for new releases and I have been blessed with so much amazing music as a result. I refuse to be poisoned by such jaded cynicism. great art is made every day if you care enough to look for it

    And relatedly, a post on tumblr by @annabelle–cane:

    niche indie art is great because most of it is very middling in a genuine and charming way. this song melody is kind of nothing but the lyrics are clever. this novella plot is flimsy but the prose has a lot of bounce. this video essay could have been a text essay and lost nothing but it’s still intellectually interesting. and then one day you take a gamble and click something that you don’t really know much about and you’re like. ah. they put some god in this one.

    Media

    Arcane season 2

    I finished watching Arcane season 2, which is the most beautiful show in the world. It’s so lovely to witness art like this. You know? What a gift.

    Ink sketch of Jinx with her arm outstretched, miming the gacha mechanism on Sevika’s arm.
    jinx, ep 2. you know, when she does the thing with the arm

    Batman

    I rewatched Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, because I’m apparently in my Batman era. There are so many iconic lines and moments that invite pointing at the screen, Leo-style. Die a hero. The pencil thing. The voice. Watch the world burn. do u even lift, master wayne?!?!

    Destiny

    I played a bit of Destiny—a two-hour stint in Iron Banner PVP, in pursuit of a Cool Reward. I suffered, gathered mostly L’s and then, finally, my reward, and absconded. Destiny is very backburner right now. I don’t feel like booting it up to collect More Loot, this specific reward excluded. I’m sure that fancy will strike me later, but right now I just—don’t want to.

    Spotify Wrapped

    My top five songs and artists, and my July music mood: ‘Pink pilates princess strut pop,’ from listening to artists like Chappell Roan, Taylor Swift, and Sabrina Carpenter.

    Top artists:

    1. Vaundy
    2. Chappell Roan
    3. Taylor Swift
    4. Polyphia
    5. YOASOBI

    Top songs:

    1. 恋風邪にのせて (Koikaze ni nosete) by Vaundy
    2. Good Luck, Babe! by Chappell Roan
    3. odoriko by Vaundy
    4. Silhouette by KANA-BOON
    5. Fortnight (feat. Post Malone) by Taylor Swift

    Gratuitous gratitude interlude

    • On Thursday, I got 8 hours of sleep, which is revolutionary. The usual is something like 4–6, which makes me feel dead inside.
    • It rained Saturday morning—not really cozily, because my apartment is kind of chilly—but then it cleared up by the afternoon and we went to eat noodles and walked down to the coffee shop and I drank a nice peppermint mocha, the superior winter drink.
    • I received my new notebook—technically a sketchbook, I suppose—which I ordered from Hemlock & Oak (they’re local!), by recommendation of Jedda.
    Two notebooks on a table. One is a deep forest green, with a metallic gold floral decoration on the front. The other is a washed out but supposedly mint green notebook, embossed with the word 'localghost'.
    new hemlock & oak jardin sketchbook in deep forest / current leuchtturm A5 notebook in mint green (excuse the horrible colour reproduction here)

    This website

    Say happy birthday to my current site design. I published this redesign—‘version 6’, with the cozy brown autumn palette and rounded corners—last December 11, 2023! It feels like it’s been much longer. I also shoved an unfinished blog post about it into my digital garden last month, because I accepted that I will never finish writing it but I made too much progress to leave it in my drafts forever.