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Hopepunk Princess ([personal profile] adore) wrote2025-07-20 09:02 pm
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The Beauty Way

Ever since watching that one Yonghee & Hyunsuk performance that made me go feral for them, I have fallen for CIX. Technically I have been a fan since their most recent comeback with Thunder, one of my favourite k-pop songs ever, but now I also have a ship and a bias (Yonghee) and a biaswrecker (Hyunsuk).



And here is the point of no return: I am watching their vlogs and having Feelings.



When they all visit the sea and a dripping Yonghee revenges himself on Hyunsuk by catching hold of his legs to flip him into the water, Hyunsuk stands up drenched, and they hug. It's the sort of hug where you can't tell whether Yonghee initiated it or Hyunsuk, but their arms around each other enclose my heart, making it squeeze with affection, assuring me of much to daydream about these two. Later, at their hotel, Yonghee plays the flute while Hyunsuk reads aloud, bits of prose that sound like poetry, and the moment passes, but the feeling doesn't. The feeling persists, like a floating bubble, when Seunghun asks Hyunsuk to pass him the book he was reading from, only to place it under his head as a pillow. Yonghee jokingly tells Hyunsuk to keep the book ready as a coaster when they make ramyeon. I love this feeling, warm and fuzzy around the edges, floaty, big enough to burst.

They're already on their six-year anniversary, so their contracts will likely expire at seven. I'm melancholy.
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Hopepunk Princess ([personal profile] adore) wrote2025-07-17 10:21 pm
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Moontime

Moontime began in the early hours of today at around 3 a.m.

I tried a new pair of period underwear that miraculously didn't leak at the sides despite having regular seams, not bonded seams: Nushu's Hiphugger. It's bamboo underwear with a modal gusset. I wore it for around five to six hours even though my flow was heavy, and it held up. Blood got on the trims but didn't soak through them to the other side, which is a first. I like bonded period underwear (sometimes called seamless period underwear) but their gussets are quite stiff and they can feel like you're sitting on cardboard. Also, most of them are nylon/polyester even in the body fabric.

I'm happy I found a pair that has regular seams, is soft and comfy, and still doesn't leak. It's rare that I change period underwear just because it feels full and wet, not because it leaked at the seams or got stained at the trims. I wore another underwear after changing out of this one, and it leaked at the seams/side trims, confirming that somehow this one is special.

There aren't really any offers running at the moment (I checked Meta Ads Library and there are ads that just have a coupon code for 10% off your first purchase), but you get 400 rupees off on the purchase of three products. When I saw that the Hiphugger is sold out in all sizes except my size, I thought I'd better stock up.

I'm still wondering how it works, though. Did they extend the waterproof fabric into the seams, not just the gusset? Like, how's it different from my other seamed period underwear? What's the secret here?
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Hopepunk Princess ([personal profile] adore) wrote2025-07-15 10:07 pm
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A cozy fantasy book sale

There's a Cozy Up With Fantasy book blast happening today, with cozy fantasy ebooks on sale for 99 cents. I picked up a bunch!

Claws and Contrivances by Stephanie Burgis. I enjoyed Scales and Sensibility, the first book of the duology, so I'm excited to get to read the second one now.

Weaving Hope by Celia Lake. I've read many of her other books and I know this one will be soothing to read during Moontime (which is due any day now).

The Season of Dragons by Tansy Rayner Roberts. It's a Pride & Prejudice retelling with dragons, I hear. Sign me tf up.

A Rival Most Vial: Potioneering for Love and Profit by R. K. Ashwick. It's MM and been on my TBR for a good while.

Elemental Affections by Jaime Ryan. It's second chances twice over: the heroine is returning to magic school and rekindling an old flame. I love a story about fixing regrets or following wistfulness to a satisfying conclusion, so I'm hoping this one will hit that spot for me.

I'm a fan of buying directly from authors and sales like these have introduced me to some new-to-me authors. \o/
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Hopepunk Princess ([personal profile] adore) wrote2025-07-09 11:46 pm

You See

The day was bright, as though it was making an effort to be cheerful. When Sanne stepped out, she felt an unreasonable pressure to match its mood. She stepped in the centres of the cobblestones in the sidewalk, avoiding the edges and cracks, a spell she had been doing since she was a child. Sometimes it was a spell for calmness and focus. And sometimes it was a spell for avoiding fissures in time.

Now it was a spell for putting one foot in front of the other, because she hadn’t wanted to leave the house today. She'd wanted to stay in bed all day, which wasn’t good for magical hygiene, stagnating in your own energy.

There was a flower growing out of a crack in the sidewalk. Sanne paused and went around it because it seemed to rude to step over it. She rummaged in her bag, took out a vial, uncorked it, and brushed a tiny bit of pollen into it. She stoppered the vial and continued.

She’d embarked on this walk to make herself feel better, but she had a new destination now. She walked until the Materialry. The Keeper of Materials smiled at her as she came in, which made the walk worth it.
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Hopepunk Princess ([personal profile] adore) wrote2025-07-07 05:28 pm

Change

So turns out I'll be jobless mid-September, not August 😅 I did the math wrong. When they said three months notice I calculated it as June, July and August. But the three months are actually June to July, July to August, and August to September.

So I'll finish in mid-September (since I was given notice mid-June). I'll get half a month's pay, around $250, more than I would if I finished in August.

Speaking of August, my dad is going to leave his current job by the start of it. So we're both going to be liminal around the same time. He said his workplace is planning to do 'restructuring' and he'd rather quit than be laid off. He's financially stable and wants to take this chance to do something he's interested in (Haskell). I'm happy for us both. But when he told me this, that night I had a stress dream in which I was telling a nonexistent coworker that I'm losing this job while someone was trying to break the door down, and I was terrified seeing the door strain against the latch. When I woke from it, I hallucinated my brother standing in the dark doorway. He disappeared when I yelled "Hey!" at him, but I was so freaked out that I couldn't sleep for a while.

Since I'm losing my job I'm going to have to make self-publishing earn for me sooner, which has significantly changed my self-publishing plans.
How my self-publishing plans have changed )

I saw this YouTube short by Kris MF about how she was laid off from her corporate job the same week that she got her book deal, and how she's decided to take it as a sign. It comforted me. Maybe I can take this as a sign, too. I never would have opted to publish on KU unless I felt like I needed to and the only way that was going to happen was if I lost my job 🤷🏻‍♀️ I just need to give things spiritual significance to cope and fight off depression, so this is what we're going with ✨

I also got emotional over this threads post by Jordan Lynde: