february 2026

hello!

i won't sugarcoat it, february was a month of a lot of fear and discomfort. i've been looking for new jobs, new places to live, and i think associating my background level of normal anxiety to probably pretty minor experiences around me. but! i also had of a lot of cool little experiences:

this month i:

climbed an outdoor lead wall for the first time in a year
met an alpaca while having a picnic at the beach
celebrated my 1 year anniversary with my partner
went to a rocky horror picture show screening
protested isaac herzog visiting australia
watched zootopia 2 and nirvana the band the show the movie

i've talked about organisation on site before, and i've mostly kept to this same system since all the way back then, but i've swapped to taking journals on obsidian instead of on paper. my main reason for paper notes was that it forced me to keep things short, and it attached those notes to something small that was always on me, but i was feeling more and more friction with this system, and avoiding friction is the whole point. writing these things up digitally has its downsides, but it does make skimming over them a bit easier, such as for that handy dandy summary i just wrote

three albums

guys i got my hands on a local album and i love it so fucking much and i want to share it here but it would totally dox me by association 😭 anyway heres the other cool albums i listened to this month

gendema - sassy things

i've been on a bit of an atmospheric dnb kick the last month - this is my slick new modern one. like most modern electronic music it's kinda hard to describe what you like about the instrumentation / sampling because a lot of them dont really have names that the general public (me) really know. i will say that it doesn't lean on the tropes of the genre, and that it has really fun beat sequences. it also stays pretty consistent in mood throughout, which makes it great for putting in the background while working or playing straftat

trans central connection

this one is much older, (in the same age bracket as me) and much more varied because it's actually a compilation album. it's a really awesome look into the adnb from 30 years ago but also pretty interesting because its honestly not that different to a lot of the stuff coming out these days. this one is not immune to the aforementioned tropes of the genre (2010 uses the think break and i find it really annoying) but thats to be expected

the meters - the meters

this is not really an amazingly unique or underground find, but i found it this month and i really like it. cissy strut in particular is extremely popular (and with good reason) and its maybe a shame that they put it as the first track on the album, but the rest of the track also super mellow and / or super groovy

2010 as an aesthetic

i found this blog while noodling around this month in the activity feed. first and foremost, this is not a dunk on this blog - i've explored it a bit and also looked at the source, and it seems to me that this was the brainchild of a very committed web artist who has made something very tailored to their needs from scratch (read: they didnt make it with wobble web, i'm pretty certain). i'm mainly pretty interesting to see someone who is this enamored with the aesthetic of the 2010s while also being too young to interact with them. this is hardly a new take but it makes me curious to see whether people will be just as faux-nostalgic for the flat/metro design style or hell, maybe even corporate memphis. anyway this site is really sweet and really cute and i'm honestly (genuinely) kind of curious how this persion got into so many 2000s / 2010s games when they were only born in 2007. it's probably a really interesting story!

current art inspiration

sorry these are slightly nsfw but! im currently inspired by the simple colouring of this:

and the body forms of this:

(i dont know who made either of these i tried so many reverse image searches and got nothing)

saboteri

i'm in desperate love with some of these saboteri pokemon card artworks