about me
i'm Isobel (newly formed). i'm a few different things that i'm still trying to work together into a whole. or i suppose, i'm a whole thing that's seen from a lot of different angles. trapped by semiotics and the certainty of being misinterpreted (which can be easier or harder to reconcile), i'm trying to take control of my image more intentionally.
i suppose i've also just got a lot of interests and feel like most of them stay pretty underdeveloped because i bounce from one thing to the other. so this space is also to chuck all my mishmash of failed projects and random facts and interests, so they're easier to retrieve. tumblr's been good to me for this for 10 years, so i'll probably still use that as well.
writing a 'bio' is always really difficult, isn't it? i'm kind of making this site for myself, so in a way I don't really need one - though it feels like one of those things you ought to have. but what's the most important things to boil down? it's tempting to give like, a full biography in a kinda a/s/l format. but i think i'll do it a bit more scattered.i've pretty recently moved to london (about three months ago, at time of writing). in some ways i'd been thinking about moving here for years, ever since i graduated uni in 2021. but in other ways it just kinda happened. one job contract ran out, i was in sheffield with nothing really tying me down, and a job came up in london which i went for. god i love living in a big city. some people weren't convinced, and it has been hard, but there's not much in life you can say you've got absolutely 0 regrets about, and this is one of them. its a strange, spooky, place.
i guess i can talk about work? i work ~in social housing~, an appropriately vague thing to tell people you don't know. in theory I like it a lot - there's a lot of strategy stuff for homelessness, setting powers to go after rogue landlords, helping people who are vulnerable in social housing. in practice, the reality of working for local government is doing my fucking head in. i've been around between lobbying things and frontline things and now strategic things, i feel pretty jaded about the possibility of actually effecting change, and I'm only 26. plus i figured out i was transgender pretty soon after moving, so i've kinda had that going on.
terminally poor houseplant owner, bordering on sadistic. i keep them in a dark corner and barely water them. despite my abuse they're still reaching towards the light, as are we all.
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