Ivy's Blog: Ivy's Sunday Ramblings 10/26/25

Nothing spectacularly noteworthy from me this week, homies. Past the girls and my mom and dad, I'm generally trying to just keep to myself. A self-imposed exile from society at large doesn't exactly lend itself to sunshine and rainbows but at least I'm no longer in the midst of a mental breakdown, which is always a bonus.

Hung out with Mercedes yesterday, which is always fun and a cute, healthy dose of combined ADHD chaos. Gots coffee, yapped about music and whatnot, and I listened with loving envy to the exploits of Mercedes' scandalous adventures on the high seas of love. Past Mercedes Irishing up her coffee at 11am, we remained women of culture and thankfully, it worked out a relatively nice day for a couple of gals playing out in the sun but holy shitballs, these nights feel like they've gotten real cold, real quick. Madre mía, my Mexicana constitution es muy desconcertada at these inclement turn of events.

Band-wise, after a short post-album launch break we got back in the practice room this week. Was fun going through stuff and we're going to start working on the b-sides record. Just need to whittle down a selection out of our dazzling array of album leftovers and idiotic songs we made up for funsies. Think we're going to aim for early-ish next year with that one. We also *might* be getting something lined up for when 'tis the season... 🎄

I've been writing more Ivy-centric lyrics for whatever it is I'm writing them for (ie. not PEN-15). They're a full dive into BPD and as such quite discomfortingly fucked up, but also goofy and self-deprecating. Hey, if we can't laugh at ourselves, yeah? Needless to say, don't think I'll be showing them to my mom. I borrowed some of Suze's little synths and am gonna start fucking around anyways.

Chappel Roan launching the Midwest Princess Project to support trans and LGBTQ+ kids was something really nice to hear this week. Queen.

Delving into some sweet 90s anime, I've been working through Mobile Fighter G Gundam. Was a bit of a slog at first with it starting off a bit hokey (and, erm, with some splashes or borderline oldey timey racisms...?) but absolutely picks up and gets super dark. Rain piloting Shining Gundam was also awesome! Why oh why a tattooed lesbian with severe mental health issues and whose interests include Japanese giant robots cannot find love is just beyond me...

10/10 peak anime

Saw a lot popping up about it so gave the new Lily Allen album a listen. Regardless of any of her past actions certain circles seem to be judging her on, and how much of the lyrical subjects may or may not have been altered out of legal necessity, all I can say is holy shit... it is such a great album. Seriously. Even if say only *half* of it is true then Jesus, it is absolutely straight up there in the pantheon of raw and unapologetic breakup albums. Shocking and heartbreaking stuff.