microdosing
Jun. 4th, 2025 05:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
isunshowerso, in late march/early april i started seeing this guy.
i've alluded to him before, i think, sometimes vaguely and once giving a whole rundown of the situation as it was in, like, january. it's been going really well! the more i talk to him, the more i like him and the more i think we work well together, and i know he's been enjoying spending time with me. but without going too much into it, we're stopping, at least for now, with the option of picking it back up in a few months if that's what we feel is the right thing.
one of the things that came out of that conversation was that i basically asked him to give me homework. "what are tv shows or movies that you like," i said. "it'll be like microdosing getting to know you," i said. i am now going to be embarking on the grand adventure of Watching Anime. (i have watched anime before but it was yuri on ice and fma brotherhood. i am not an Anime Watcher, habitually.) expect some posts about one piece.
all of this to say, the book i just finished - the starless sea by erin morgenstern of night circus fame - is one that i wonder if he'd enjoy. as far as i know, he leans very sci-fi fantasy, which this book is not NOT, it is solidly fantasy--okay, let me just explain the book and why i liked it. it's this nested mobius loop of a fairy tale about time falling in love with fate and the generations-long journey they have to take to reunite and a mysterious extradimensional library. i love stories about stories and metafiction and this certainly is that! it for sure has the same dreamlike quality that i loved about night circus too, and it's very gay and the character design is cool and the worldbuilding is like... not a lot actually gets Explained. there's a lot of Just Rolling With It. but i'm down for that. the reason why i think my guy would like it is because he's a gamer and there's this thread that gets dropped near the beginning of the book and picked up near the end about the storytelling potential of video games, and structured choices, and so on. and also just i liked it.
i didn't particularly give him any recommendations to microdose ME, mostly because he didn't ask and the point of the break is really more for him than it is for me - like, it is for me but also it's not and i think i have licence to go on dates with other people and get really into his favourite television shows but that is not really what i suspect he is going to be doing with his time. again i don't want to air the personal business of a guy who is not my boyfriend and who doesn't know i'm blogging about him and also nobody reads this but if you are reading this: just trust me, i'm not actually going to give him a reading list. i am gonna write one here, though.
because internet, by gretchen mcculloch
the starless sea by erin morgenstern, see above, lol
friends at the table's COUNTER/weight and Twilight Mirage seasons
Leverage
Infinity Train (which i rewatched recently at work because i found a working link and fuck, i forgot how good that show is)
i was gonna put some songs here but i feel like everything i listen to that's his taste he's already heard and a lot of the ones i'd want to put are songs that have lyrics that i have made About Him slightly and frankly he doesn't need to know what's on the spotify playlist because there Is One.
i've alluded to him before, i think, sometimes vaguely and once giving a whole rundown of the situation as it was in, like, january. it's been going really well! the more i talk to him, the more i like him and the more i think we work well together, and i know he's been enjoying spending time with me. but without going too much into it, we're stopping, at least for now, with the option of picking it back up in a few months if that's what we feel is the right thing.
one of the things that came out of that conversation was that i basically asked him to give me homework. "what are tv shows or movies that you like," i said. "it'll be like microdosing getting to know you," i said. i am now going to be embarking on the grand adventure of Watching Anime. (i have watched anime before but it was yuri on ice and fma brotherhood. i am not an Anime Watcher, habitually.) expect some posts about one piece.
all of this to say, the book i just finished - the starless sea by erin morgenstern of night circus fame - is one that i wonder if he'd enjoy. as far as i know, he leans very sci-fi fantasy, which this book is not NOT, it is solidly fantasy--okay, let me just explain the book and why i liked it. it's this nested mobius loop of a fairy tale about time falling in love with fate and the generations-long journey they have to take to reunite and a mysterious extradimensional library. i love stories about stories and metafiction and this certainly is that! it for sure has the same dreamlike quality that i loved about night circus too, and it's very gay and the character design is cool and the worldbuilding is like... not a lot actually gets Explained. there's a lot of Just Rolling With It. but i'm down for that. the reason why i think my guy would like it is because he's a gamer and there's this thread that gets dropped near the beginning of the book and picked up near the end about the storytelling potential of video games, and structured choices, and so on. and also just i liked it.
i didn't particularly give him any recommendations to microdose ME, mostly because he didn't ask and the point of the break is really more for him than it is for me - like, it is for me but also it's not and i think i have licence to go on dates with other people and get really into his favourite television shows but that is not really what i suspect he is going to be doing with his time. again i don't want to air the personal business of a guy who is not my boyfriend and who doesn't know i'm blogging about him and also nobody reads this but if you are reading this: just trust me, i'm not actually going to give him a reading list. i am gonna write one here, though.
because internet, by gretchen mcculloch
the starless sea by erin morgenstern, see above, lol
friends at the table's COUNTER/weight and Twilight Mirage seasons
Leverage
Infinity Train (which i rewatched recently at work because i found a working link and fuck, i forgot how good that show is)
i was gonna put some songs here but i feel like everything i listen to that's his taste he's already heard and a lot of the ones i'd want to put are songs that have lyrics that i have made About Him slightly and frankly he doesn't need to know what's on the spotify playlist because there Is One.
