Zeph: the Hungry 📚🐿️ @zephasaurus_hex@booktoot.club

I got the audiobook of Wilder Girls for #YAMGBookClub and started that today.

It's shorter than my last audiobook by quite a bit, but I'm also having a bit more trouble paying attention and picking up on all the names, so that's gonna be a struggle.

Mostly I wish these things were searchable so if I have a "wait who did that" question I could find out easily. :-/

The Bad: a book I've been looking forward to all year and that I thought came out right near my birthday in September is actually set for *next* August. 😱 Not sure if it changed or if I just had the date wrong.

The Good: now I have room in my "books I'm allowed to buy this year" list if I want to get one of the book club books for this month since my library doesn't have either. Hmmmm.

I think that's part of why I hate dress codes so much and in particular ones that are so picky they'll pull you out of class for something like Malú's makeup. Like, it doesn't seem that makeup's not allowed, it was the way she did hers. Which still wasn't nearly as distracting as Selena's awful candy necklaces.

It's so much about punishing people who already feel lost and alone, to stop us from finding our support systems, stop us from finding our strength.

And it is "unique" in that it's not something automatic, doesn't look like everyone else. It's one of those things you change about your own appearance to express something.

Yes, as Sra. Oralia says, I look like the other people with colorful hair. That's kind of the point? It's not that you want to be THE ONLY one, but it helps you find your people.

Sooo often I spot other queer people, or they spot me, because of hair or pins or flags. Makes things less scary and lonely.

"Why do you do that to your hair?"

Not digging for the exact quote in the book, but I get asked variants of it a lot. I'm between dye jobs now, but tend to keep it purple or pink.

It just makes me happy. People liking bright colors isn't new. Seeing it in the mirror, knowing it's *part* of me, it just makes me feel good. And then the fact that I chose it and it's a part of my appearance in my control, that's nice too.

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That was so cute! And fun! And just overall good!

I love Malú so much and I would love to hear their band play.

I remember wanting to be in a cool punk band when I was a teenager but it never happened. (I was in marching band, though. Clarinet.)

I did start learning ukulele on recently, though. Now I want to be in a punk band w/a ukulele, an otamatone, maybe some other weird/cute instruments. Theremin? Glockenspiel? 😆

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Bleh day. Gonna listen to some records and try to finish reading First Rule of Punk.

Pulled out a bunch of bands that seem appropriate:

Bratmobile
Shot in the Dark
Heart
Bikini Kill
Sleater-Kinney
Ramones (ew)

Gonna try to make it a good night.

Also, thank you so much to everyone who responded yesterday. Made me feel a lot better. 💜

I finished season 3 of The Worst Witch yesterday and no spoilers but the ending actually made me cry and I'm impressed. I hope there's a next season. I also hope they finally give HB a girlfriend in it. Fingers crossed.

Oh nooooooo July's almost over and I suck at finding things to say about book club reads.

I'll think about it when work gets boring and try to do that when I come home.

Yesterday went ok. I was a little extra-sensitive to misgendering probably, but listened to my happy music on the commute and my break, which helps.

And this regular customer asked my name and then if it was short for something. It's not, but I shrugged and said "think like Zephaniah" and her eyes went big and she was like "OH. Got it. Sorry, I thought...got it!" XD So not bad.

Ooookay, so a former manager of mine shared a post from a "men for feminism" group and I was like "oh that's nice" and went to look at it. Sooooo much transphobia.

And now I'm sad and anxious and have to go into work and I don't want to.

Need hugs and support.

Inspired by the new season of "The Worst Witch" going up on Netflix. I've watched most of it this weekend.

I actually am a little interested in reading the books, I just didn't know about them when I was in the intended demographic and they haven't quite been at the top of my list since I discovered them...which wasn't until this series started a couple years ago.

Hoopla has some, though. So maybe I'll try one now.

#BookPrompts

Are there any book-based movies or TV shows you enjoy but that you have never read and probably aren't going to read? Which ones? Why not?

I got some pins in the mail today and showed them to my partner. He stared at the Quentin Quire one for a really long time.

He's not familiar with the character and thought maybe I got a custom pin of myself and wow what a good compliment. 💜

Woooo this thing I wrote for awhile back is finally available! I'm even listed on the cover! 💜

Fate Accessibility Toolkit - https://www.drivethrurpg.com/m/product/283738

Yay.