I just realised why the song "Bad Cinderella" from ALW's Cinderella has always bothered me somehow. It reminds me of "In My Own Little Corner" from R&H's Cinderella...😬

If you need some cheer in your day, here's the Cheerful Little Snowman that was hanging out at my home in Life Makeover! ☺️

If a political party is a core part of my identity, I have to defend it and support it no matter what stupid things it does or what actions and policies it adopts. If I don't, I'm undermining a core part of myself. I prefer not to be trapped into that.

And that's not just political parties. It's fandoms and brands and numerous other things. I can engage or enjoy, and these things will reflect aspects of my identity, but I don't want to be locked into those categories as my identity.

I couldn't really say I identify with a political party. Unless it's your career/volunteer interest, I don't think it really makes sense to. I have values. I vote for whichever party has the best balance of policies near my values and no policies terribly far from my values, and are vaguely sincere/believable. Yes, that means I find some parties unpalatable and consistently lean towards the others, but I can't really feel the sense in making a political party a core part of my identity.

Happy Lunar New Year CoSo, hope it's a lucky one for you! 🎆🧧💜

Judging by my symptoms, if you cut my head open right now a goddess would jump out of it. 🫠

I very like that CoSo let's me write more than BlueSky. Brevity is not my strong suit...

I guess this just proves that my year was the best and nobody could top it! 😏 haha...

Once Good Riddance/Time of Your Life came on the radio and I commented nostalgically that this was the graduation song for my year. My decade-younger cousin gave me a disdainful look and replied that it's the graduation song for EVERY year.

Appalled! Get a hit song from your own graduating year! This is part of the soundtrack of my whole final year, not just a single farewell event at the end of it!

(Not really angry at people using it, just feels less of-my-era if it's used for EVERY era.)

Constantly reflecting how people like to force dichotomies on us. Remember the era of Mac vs PC or iPhone vs Android like they were some deep-seated personal philosophy and identifier? Rubbish. You just choose the product that suits your need, y'know, Apple for this, MS for that, replace either for something you like better when it comes along. Seriously, let's stop getting conned into thinking we have to permentantly choose between 2 things in life, be it products, people, opinions, whatever.

So often I feel things are forced to become "political" that shouldn't be. Learning to look at the past and recognise that something wasn't right isn't political, it's just growing up. If we learn that actions & systems that were considered normal are actually harmful, it's common sense to change them. This is why laws around smoking changed, and it's now illegal to ride without a helmet. Saddens me when harm persists because people have made problems about politics rather than basic humanity.

Had never heard of the "Streamys" (awards for streamers/vid creators) until yesterday so I looked up this year's list of winners. Already bothered by the awkward -ys choice, the list of nominees and winners has revealed paying attention to these has no value for me. Barring a few nominees, this is not the corner of YT/the net I'm interested in hanging out in. Challenging to account for popularity, entertainment, quality AND integrity in these formats, though. Just reflecting.

Merry Christmas CoSo. I hope whatever you are doing today, you are healthier and happier than yesterday and that tomorrow you are healthier and happier than today. 💜

Y'know, you can be a Doctor Who fan and sorta like Moffat's era and sorta like RTD's. You don't have to choose one or the other, and you don't have to fully hate or fully love either. Hell, I may not comprehend why you would , but you can even sorta like Chibnall's era. 😏💜

Is it Black Friday in the US yet? We have been having Black Friday sales since Sunday. And Australia doesn't celebrate Thanksgiving.

(Which is also why we've had Christmas items in the shops since before Hallowe'en. Australian shops have gone completely mad these days. Well, at least it gives me stuff to post about, eh heh heh.)

I need to go to bed. Why am I not going to bed?? Go to bed. It's so late it's tomorrow. Go to bed, Zai.

Guess I'll read another chapter of this manga first.

When you...
- are now middle-aged...
- have chronic headaches...
- are perpetually sleep-deprived...
- are a Millenial...
...then honestly your chances of being able to focus on anything for more than five minutes were doomed from the start. 😅

Sometimes music videos really don't live up to the vibe I had in my head while listening to the music alone...

#CoSoMusic

https://youtu.be/iPUmE-tne5U

Facebook thinking I'm in the market for a new house and constantly showing me ads for new home builders.
Me with my empty bank account scrolling my fb feed to get my daily dose of "dream home" floor plans to critique and mentally redesign for entertainment.

@ordenauta 🤣 Thanks! (I think...)
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