!2025 Month by Month!
	Being a monthly recap of events and interesting items from the year 2025. The sidebar on the right are the best first-time reads and watches for each month! Full credit to humantooth for the format and for some of the code! Check her site out it's sick!!

January

January was really eventful!! This month was honestly defined by new things and new experiences (pretty fitting for the new year after all!).

• I got an opportunity to be a freelance researcher and script-writer for the Islamic history YouTube channel al Muqaddimah (the first script I wrote (which I didn't end up finishing until February) hasn't been made into a video yet but keep an eye out!)
• I started on a painting! This was my first time making a painting where I felt like I really "got it." Turns out doing basic shapes and letting the paint dry before putting more paint on is the recipe for success, at least for this style of painting!

progress on Mary Louise Williams, survived by her son Oscar
Jan. 5th	Jan. 6th	Feb. 1st

• On January 15th, a ceasefire was agreed to in Gaza, going into effect on January 19th! Writing now from March 5th, the ceasefire seems precarious, but my hope is always for the end of the genocide and for a free Palestine, from the river to the sea.
• On January 16th, David Lynch passed away. His films and visual art and his whole ethos are such a major influence on me, and on my feelings about art, so even though I obviously didn't know him personally, this really affected me. I've been meaning to make a Lynch/Twin Peaks shrine page for this site, I really need to get on that sooner rather than later. On the topic of Lynch, my roommate and I watched Eraserhead this month, and my girlfriend and I watched more Twin Peaks (we're working our way through the series!)
• A group of friends of mine started planning a collaborative art project themed around dreams and memories... keep an eye out, once it's ready I'll be linking it on the site.
• The other truly defining event for the month was attending the first in-person congress of the Marxist Unity Group (MUG), an orthodox marxist and democratic-republican (nothing to do with the two American parties) caucus in the Democratic Socialists of America! This was such a great, rewarding, politically energizing experience, and reinvigorated me to deepen my involvement in socialist organizing. TBH Lynch passing and MUGcon have been the two most defining events of the year for me, lots of reverberations out.

Click to visit MUG's site!

As an aside, I had a very strange experience in the airport on the way to MUGcon. I ended up missing a connecting flight, had to reschedule for a much later flight, had to fly through one more airport than I was originally supposed to, it was a whole thing. When I was in the airport on a layover, waiting for my next flight, I went to the bathroom, and after finishing up in there went to wash my hands. The custodian, who was in there at the time, gestured to me, and I stepped to the side thinking he wanted to walk past. Instead, he got on one knee and wordlessly started to tie my (admittedly untied) right shoe. We were blocking part of the bathroom, people were having to go around us. Afterwards I just thanked him and washed my hands and left, because what else was I supposed to do?

• And, finally, the washing machine in my apartment got fixed :p It was broken for like two whole months!!

lil lemon

February

February was mostly defined by me being horribly ill! I had the flu or a cold or something or other not once but twice in February (first during the weekend of Jan 31st-Feb 2nd, and then from Feb 15th-18th). Got to watch a lot of movies and got back to games I hadn't touched in a while, but it did mean I didn't really work on much this month (other than finishing the first script for al Muqaddimah). I thought a nice soothing moss background would counteract the sicky vibes.

The biggest thing this month (other than coming down with the sickness) was getting an exhibition of my art put together at the library I work at!

I really need to learn how to take better pictures lol. Keep an eye out for a future art gallery page with better pics of my art!

It started last year, but I'm currently enrolled in an online library science program! One of my classes this semester is Awful, the structure is so confusing, everything is group work and in the groups we almost never know what the actual work is, it's a whole thing. A month and a half in, you'd think I'd have more of a hang on it, but I just don't! My other class is better tho, its about games and literacies so I get to talk about my first love, tabletop roleplaying games, a lot ehehe

In addition to the first-time watches over on the right, my roommate and I watched (re-watched for me) Blue Velvet, and I realized that might be my most-watched movie ever (at least, not counting ones that were repeat viewing as a child). Now it's dark...

I also got back to writing for my old school DnD blog, Save vs. Worm, this month! Part 16 of my long-running series reviewing monsters from the Fiend Folio (Tabaxi to Tween!) The False Prophet, a monster for my late antique Iran inspired setting King of Kings, based on a passage from the Talmud

...and more Coming Soon