acquired: cute new notebook for practicing hanzi + pinyin on a grid, because trying to write characters on lined paper that was made for a romanized alphabet does not work 💀🙃

I'm using the Hanly app for learning the characters and the correct sequence for drawing them. as a bonus the app also gives the pinyin!!! 🎉

australia photo dump 🦘

1: waxing gibbous moon & one single star in the dark night of the southern hemisphere (the night air feels amazing)

2: IT'S ME in our motel room where Bee & I stayed for a few days in a wee adorable town after we arrived at our AU Base; I'm smiling and my tattoo is visible; behind me is the half-shaded window full of light with greenery outside

3: I converted to the church of nescafe instant cappuccino in Ireland and it's just. delicious. this photo is before I drank it all lol

4: a giant pastry filled with apples and REAL CREAM, in a lovely bakery in Bendigo; no I could not finish it, but I tried

5: some of the small town storefronts seen through the window while we waited for a bit of breakfast; very US wild west looking architecture here and there

6: breakfast! scrambled eggs in a ramekin with a spoon, toast with marmalade, and real actual bacon; not pictured is the toast I bravely spread with Vegemite and managed to eat most of

I keep forgetting to take more pictures, but that's partly because I'm still getting used to the heat and how it ebbs & flows through the day.

right now I am in my cozy tent (it's a canopy tent that's like a little square room all my own, with luggage and a real bed and various things arranged around) waiting to feel sleepy enough to go to bed. I'm listening to music and feeling the breeze, and seeing the moon on my way into the house to the bathroom made me want to stay up all night and just look at the stars.

I never thought I'd get to see the night sky in the southern hemisphere. this all by itself, just that photo of the moon, is a gift I will hold close to my heart as long as I live.

#australia #MaybeNextTimeSomeKangaroos

#caturday Merry, a tabby cat who is baby and has giant fluffy paws, looking out the door and doing biscuits on the door frame because he loves looking outside

cw: this poem contains references to war, genocide, and violence // poem text is in the alt text of each image // #poem by Phoenix Kelley // link to post that includes the poem & a music selection: https://www.nixkelley.com/2024/we-are-atlas/

I wrote this two days ago and forgot to post about it here. OOPS. || excerpt: I used to think that I was weak, and tried to make that untrue by becoming as strong as possible. I used to believe that I was nobody, and tried to make that untrue by becoming important to people around me. || post link: https://nixkelley.com/2024/on-being-fundamentally-changed/ || image credit: Johannes Plenio on Unsplash

Important Cat Update: fluffy tummy is fluffy

I don't wanna #coffee #journaling #nope

there is a hole in the sun and it is shaped like #Gaza

https://nixkelley.com/2023/a-hole-in-the-sun/

tiny bit of makeup + late afternoon light through my bedroom window. I think I'm okay with this one.

#selfie #genderqueer #piercings

I am a Loki's person.

He has a place on our household altar -- two of us work with him -- and this is my own shrine in my room.

I just cleaned the space and lit one candle and a stick of new incense and I wanted to share.

Hail, Lord Loki. Hail Flamehair. Hail the Waymaker, Worldbreaker, the fire in the darkness. 🔥 I bless the day I met you.

#pagan #paganism #Loki #shrine