It's a booktastic megasode! Nearly 20 minutes of big book energy, opening with books that made me go "mmm" in 2024, and closing with what I'm excited to read in 2025. (Could this be the soft relaunch of the Asynchronous Book Club? Yeah, why not!)

As ever, check content warnings before you pick up anything we discuss here on the podcast; reading should be a refuge, not a trigger. And remember: reading is reading is reading, whether you're reading books with your eyes or your hands or your ears.✌️

Until next time, as always: take care, keep creating, and stay divine!

Resources

• S04:E01 | Retread: On Coming Back to Creativity + Five Fave Creepy Reads
• S04:E05 | Regift: On Booksgiving + Five Books for Your Fab Fam (and Favorite Freaks)
• S01:E02 | My Top Books of 2022 & Relational Reading
• S01:E16 | Little Reviews: Victoria Chang, Maggie Nelson, Heather Christle + May Book Club Picks

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Let's talk about mirror rot! And also how it inspired me to write this episode all about the agnosticism of inspiration, and how your idiosyncratic log of the year (whether it's in your phone's notes app, your watch history, your box of ticket stubs) can not only help you reflect on the year that's gone, but also take you into the new one with a cache of cool curios to fuel your creative practice.

Wishing you a wonderful New Year! Until next time, as always: take care, keep creating, and stay divine. <3

Resources

• Talkin' about burnout and the pressure of the vision board: S04:E06 | Rekindle: On Burning Out, Learning Grace, and Making Art for Yourself

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Let's burn your vision board! Not really! (But kind of?) In this episode, we're talking about taking space, practicing grace, and reminding ourselves of why we make what we make ... and for whom, and why it's not the best move to let your calendar control your creative work.

Heavily inspired by a great Bluesky thread about making art for yourself by game designers Sean and Navi Drake of A Couple of Drakes.

Resources

• The season-opening three-parter about coming back to creativity: S04:E01 | Retread: On Coming Back to Creativity + Five Fave Creepy Reads, S04:E02 | Reconnect: On Prompts, Cross-Pollination, and Creative Elasticity, S04:E04 | Reframe: On Commitment as Self-Care and How to Kick Inertia's Ass
• Get good at being lazy with me (and learn about the weird Christian history of Sloth!) | S01:E03 | Getting Good at Being Lazy: Creative Pressure, the Seven Deadly Sins, and an ABC Plot Twist
• Find every episode of the pod in the Little Oracles Archive

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