Screenshots from my Phone

A text exchange I had in August of last year.

A few days ago I saw this Instagram reel from bycrafticharli about her "screenshot journal". It's a journal... full of screenshots she's taken. Wow, I thought. Impeccable idea.

There's something deeply enticing about a physical journal filled with screenshots, flapping in the breeze as all screenshots should. I myself am guilty of taking a lot of screenshots of things that interest me, stuff to come back to later, and this is tragically responsible for a chunky percentage of my phone's storage. Alas, I am a mere mortal, and I too have screenshot disease.

Now, I'm not sure if the beautiful real-life screenshot journal is something I can reasonably commit to doing, mostly because the level of printing involved would be a bit of a nightmare in terms of ink use (which we must always diligently avoid), and the time costs involved in printing and sticking and annotating would also be, I think, a pain. I just don't have the TIME for all that. I need to play three hours straight of Donkey Kong Bananza, eat a bowl of pasta, and then crack open Sally Rooney's Intermezzo, after all. And that's before I dare to do any 'work'. 

What I can do right now, though, is share some of my screenshots directly with you, my loving blog audience. Behold, my curious interests:

#1: Senseless Optimism & Nuns of the Tundra

I try not to spend too much time on TikTok because it really can become endlessly addictive way too easily, but what I like about the platform is its ability to bring me perfect music from various small artists. 

Some favourites among my TikTok finds are MARiMARi, vi0let, Calvero, and Hemlocke Springs, but here are two I still need to seriously check out: Senseless Optimism, a wonderfully frenetic indie rock artist who makes these awesomely complex tracks and videos where... there are three of her. And then there's Nuns of the Tundra, a crunchy rock band in the vein of Queens of the Stone Age.

#2: I smoked every Chinese cigarette so you don't have to (DO NOT DO IT)

This is a video by Bodega Kat that showed up in my recommendations. It horrified me, yet it made me laugh, so I screenshotted it.

#3: Rumble Roses

PlayStation Park is one of a small selection of Tumblr accounts I follow who post gifs of various PlayStation games, and sometimes I'll be intrigued by a game and screenshot a post. This was one such incident, a gif from Rumble Roses, which is, as it turns out, a PlayStation 2 game centred on women's wrestling. It includes a mud wrestling mode, which seemed unique and interesting to me.

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And that's all for now, although as I'm sure you can imagine, there are many more screenshots lurking. This is merely a smattering.