Don't leave me in the dark

[sovay]

For International Women's Day, we celebrated my mother's birthday observed. I cooked a lot and ran errands and accompanied my niece on her scooter around the neighborhood. My father found the flame-test candles for her sponge-and-meringue cake and I sourced the white and dark chocolate sheep which formed a little flock atop it.



WERS has been playing all women, all day, which is how I dropped spatch at work to PJ Harvey's "This Is Love" (2000) and left my parents' house to Throwing Muses' "Summer of Love" (2025). Other songs which particularly struck me include Boygenius' "Not Strong Enough" (2023), Joseph's "Fighter" (2019), and especially King Princess' "1950" (2017) and Japanese Breakfast's "Orlando in Love" (2025). I keep forgetting how invaluable the car radio is to my finding new music. I do not look forward to tonight's spring forward.

Comments

[gwynnega]

Happy birthday to your mother!

[sovay]

Happy birthday to your mother!

I'll tell her!

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, the chocolate sheep looks great! I hope your mother enjoyed her birthday, and that you have survived the time changing.

[sovay]

Aw, the chocolate sheep looks great! I hope your mother enjoyed her birthday, and that you have survived the time changing.

Thank you! I definitely wanted that extra hour to sleep in.

[sabotabby]

Happy birthday to your mom! And happy IWD!

[sovay]

Happy birthday to your mom! And happy IWD!

Thank you! (That is an excellent icon.)

[asakiyume]

Tiny little sheep curled up like that. I bet they come alive after dark.

[sovay]

Tiny little sheep curled up like that. I bet they come alive after dark.

They have so many natural predators, being delicious.

[pameladean]

My belated best wishes to your mother.

The sheep just slays me. I am not sure I could eat one.

I had a much less eventful time, but the springing forward of the clocks has really done me in. And the cats are cranky as anything.

P.

[sovay]

My belated best wishes to your mother.

They are not at all belated. Her actual birthday is today. I'll pass them on.

The sheep just slays me. I am not sure I could eat one.

They were unfairly cute, but their numbers are much reduced.

I had a much less eventful time, but the springing forward of the clocks has really done me in. And the cats are cranky as anything.

Solidarity. I really wanted that hour, too.

[thawrecka]

Happy birthday to your mum, and that sounds like a lot of great music to have as the soundtrack to your day.

[sovay]

Happy birthday to your mum, and that sounds like a lot of great music to have as the soundtrack to your day.

I'll tell her! It was a particularly fortuitous block of programming.

[selkie]

You should stick your head in my Spotify while you're here! I have much Phoebe Bridgers/Julien Baker/Lucy Dacus, who all have careers in their own wee babyqueer right. Off the top, I recommend Bridgers/Baker's "I Know the End," though the video really goes... some places, and Dacus' singles "Ankles" and "Best Guess," which drives N off a pier with its acoustic lesbian vibe but I happen to like it. Also Lizzie McAlpine's "Doomsday" as a bookend for "I Know the End."

Those sheep really are just the cutest woolliest delicious two-bite prey. Many happy returns to di shviger!

[sovay]

You should stick your head in my Spotify while you're here! I have much Phoebe Bridgers/Julien Baker/Lucy Dacus, who all have careers in their own wee babyqueer right.

I have songs from all of them! They used to turn up on my now-deceased music blogs. I just missed the release of their supergroup LP on account of 2023 vanishing down a drain of medical-logistical nightmare.

Also Lizzie McAlpine's "Doomsday" as a bookend for "I Know the End."

Her, I hadn't heard. "I feel more free than I have in years, six feet underground."

Those sheep really are just the cutest woolliest delicious two-bite prey. Many happy returns to di shviger!

I have conveyed such to her! The sheep were exceedingly chompable.

[lokifan]

I love that King Princess song!

[sovay]

I love that King Princess song!

I'd never heard it before! I grabbed its source EP.