What am I up to these days? (July 2025)
Recovering from a dip in mental and physical health
From March to June of 2025 I've been struggling with a resurgence of schizoaffective symptoms and pushing myself too far past the pain signals of my body (barely sleeping, barely eating, barely caring for myself and my physical environment in general.) I'm focusing on building a routine around meals, showers and not forgetting to take my medication so that I can use it as a foundation for more complex systems: getting back to my volunteer teaching and the job hunt, and nurturing my interpersonal relationships back to their baselines.
Rebuilding my Tumblr blog
I struggle keeping a Tumblr blog for periods longer than a year; part of it is my incapacity to look back at past versions of myself with any kind of compassion instead of shame, and there's also the fact that as time goes on, my tagging systems become more unwieldy and disorganized.
I'd like to make an effort to maintain my Tumblr space more mindfully, since it's a great place to find new media to dig into and it lets me browse without algorithmic sorting.
I'm building a boring but far more robust tagging system for frequent topics and thematic hauntings, and I'm slowly migrating posts from my old blogs to this new iteration as well as this personal site, for better archival.
Organizing and backing up my music library
I've been noticing that nowadays it's impossible to comfortably browse music without paying exorbitant prices for a subscription service or physical media. I'm tired of relying on an internet connection plus the continued service of a private company to access my music library, so I've been collecting files for the songs and organizing them, backing them up and finding ways to play them offline from both my phone and my stereo.
I'm also building a site and an archive for the Superconducting Supercolliders, a fan music project for Pacific Rim that I loved dearly back in 2015 and is slowly being lost to link rot, which I'd like to prevent.
Taking a swing at my pending reading and movies
My reading archive and my movie watch-list have grown completely unwieldy in the past year and they need a little trimming so that sitting down to read or choosing something to delight my eyeballs with on a weekday night are not insurmountably overwhelming choices.
I've been pruning the lists themselves, trying to give myself some room to simply not spend my leisure time on something that's not stimulating or enjoyable, and then sorting the remainder of the items by topic or mood to make the choice easier at any given point in time.
I also wanted to back up my fanfiction recommendations as EPUB files and make a document that's easily shareable with people who might have an interest in transformative works for the same media I do.