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  <pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 09:04:02 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>March and April flew by in a haze of pollen and work</title>
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  <description>I finally have to admit that, as much as I want to, I can&apos;t fully catch up with what everyone on here has written since I last was caught up (aka October 2025...). Not if I want to have a chance to read what people currently are posting.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

Thus, if I leave a comment on one of your recent posts that feels out-of-touch with a huge life event you&apos;ve gone through, I apologize ahead of time for my ignorance. I&apos;m doing my best to skim-read what everyone&apos;s been up to, buuuut it&apos;s very possible I&apos;ll miss things. 🙃&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

My health has been in the trash all of March and April due to allergies, asthma and back-problems (old slipped discs that never fully healed right). I&apos;ve at last reached a balance of new meds that seem to be doing the trick, but I&apos;ve now got a huge backlog of...well, life 😅&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

What I&apos;ve neglected the most is my writing. I have this huge urge to write, but I have so many projects that I haven&apos;t touched in far too long, so I don&apos;t know where to start. And I definitely won&apos;t finish line-editing &lt;em&gt;A Werewolf in October&lt;/em&gt; this year, which sucks.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

On a more positive note, here are fun things that have happened or are happening:&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;D&amp;D tonight! The two D&amp;D campaigns I&apos;m running are still going strong (if with long breaks at times) and tonight the Dragonkeepers will (hopefully) be setting sail for the continent of Wildemount 🥳&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;I&apos;ve caught up with both &lt;em&gt;Critical Role&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Witch Hat Atelier&lt;/em&gt; (the manga version - I&apos;ll be watching the anime episodes available next weekend when my sister visits) and all I can say is &quot;AAAAAAAH!!!!&quot; (affectionate) 😆&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Tori Amos released a new album and it&apos;s making me feel very nostalgic 💜&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;I&apos;m back to running! Only 2km a run as of yet, but going from 0 to that with my asthma feels pretty great still.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Tomorrow a friend is taking me out to dinner and a movie 💖 We&apos;re going to see &lt;em&gt;Project Hail Mary&lt;/em&gt;, which I&apos;m really looking forward to!&lt;/li&gt;
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Hope the start of May has been treating everyone well 💙&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nonesensed&amp;ditemid=142585&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:01:02 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Still here</title>
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  <description>Just battling a number if (minor but annoying) health problems. I feel like an old car right now - every time I fix one thing, another part of me breaks.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

I&apos;ve been doing my absolute best to not push myself, and thus am still behind on a million of online things, as I&apos;m trying to prioritize writing and editing while I have computer time. I long for more time and energy to catch up on conversations and posts on here!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

&lt;u&gt;Current fandom shenanigans I&apos;m entertaining myself with in-between allergies, backaches and work:&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br&gt;
- &lt;em&gt;Critical Role&lt;/em&gt; campaign 4 is enchanting and I adore both the plot and all the characters still. And we&apos;re finally getting the Schemers table, wohoo!&lt;br&gt;
- While catching up with work I&apos;m watching different &lt;em&gt;Clair Obscur: Expedition 33&lt;/em&gt; let&apos;s plays that are blind playthroughs, to enjoy seeing other people work their way through all the plot twists and lore reveals.&lt;br&gt;
- The combined Clair Obscur revisits + my annoyance at being ill have birthed a Clea/Lune post-game enemies-to-lovers fic. We&apos;ll see if it ever sees the full light of day, but toying with the plot is fun enough.&lt;br&gt;
- Hyped for the upcoming &lt;em&gt;Witch Atelier&lt;/em&gt; anime adaptation!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nonesensed&amp;ditemid=142167&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <lj:music>Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Original Soundtrack) - World Map - In Lumières Name</lj:music>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 13:24:37 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>It&apos;s February???</title>
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  <description>Time sure keeps moving forward whether I keep track of it or not 😆 I&apos;m still playing catch-up on everything, but by doing one thing at the time, I&apos;m actually making progress - huzzah!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

One thing I&apos;m getting to today is going through what books I read last year.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

In 2025 I read 90 books, which I&apos;m fairly pleased with. Sadly had to give up on the Book Bingo I was doing because I didn&apos;t have the brainpower to think through my book choices - but there&apos;s always next/this year 😊&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

If you&apos;re curious about what those 90 books were, &lt;a href=&quot;https://app.thestorygraph.com/wrap-up/2025/nonesensed&quot;&gt;here&apos;s a link to a summary on Storygraph&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

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Those were my book thoughts from last year! And I&apos;ve already got started on my reading for this year 😁
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Any books/comics/manga people are really looking forward to read?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nonesensed&amp;ditemid=141964&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <lj:music>ICO OST - coffin</lj:music>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 21:39:24 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Let&apos;s try something new - without jinxing it!</title>
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  <description>Once more, I&apos;m doing the lists, and the goals, and trying to catch up everywhere (like here 😅), but I &lt;em&gt;finally&lt;/em&gt; think I have stumbled upon the right balance of Goals VS Stress for myself.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

As the title says, I don&apos;t want to jinx it by celebrating too early, but I feel like myself again 💖 Helps that I&apos;ve sworn to not work more than 8 hours a day, 5 days a week this year. Funny how much of a change that&apos;s already brought on, four weeks into the new year 😉&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

I&apos;m back to writing! The &quot;you have to do everything so you do nothing&quot;-stress of 2025 is gone at last, which means I can sit down and work more efficiently on line-edits of my closest-to-finished-WIP &lt;a href=&quot;https://booksabaking.dreamwidth.org/5971.html&quot;&gt;A Werewolf in October&lt;/a&gt;. I&apos;m hoping to print it (just, like, 10 copies, not publish) at the end of this year, but if it&apos;s not ready then, it&apos;s not ready. It&apos;ll never be as polished and error free as a professional work with actual beta-readers and editors etc but I&apos;m not aiming for professional - I&apos;m aiming for a fun thing to have made that I can share with a handful of my friends 😊&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

Doing my best to return to timed goals instead of accomplishment goals. That is, &quot;work on this story for 30 minutes tonight&quot; instead of &quot;you have to listen to 14 podcast episodes this week&quot;. My deadline heavy work life reaaaally infected my way of thinking of my hobbies - but no more, I say!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

Since I&apos;m going Slow And Steady Wins The Race, I&apos;m also trying not to fret over being so behind on comments and blog entries here on DW (I&apos;ll tell you if I succeed). It&apos;s why I&apos;ve skipped the Snowflake challenge this year - at least for now.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

So. In a hopeful mood, despite *gestures at the state of the world*&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nonesensed&amp;ditemid=141764&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <lj:music>Return of the Youtube fireplace</lj:music>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2026 16:10:41 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Plans for 2026 (Writing &amp; Self-Care 2: Electric Boogaloo)</title>
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  <description>It&apos;s time for my yearly tradition of Making A To-Do List 😁 My previous lists (from &lt;a href=&quot;https://nonesensed.dreamwidth.org/132919.html&quot;&gt;2025&lt;/a&gt;, from &lt;a href=&quot;https://nonesensed.dreamwidth.org/121382.html&quot;&gt;2024&lt;/a&gt; and from &lt;a href=&quot;https://nonesensed.dreamwidth.org/112709.html&quot;&gt;2023&lt;/a&gt;) have had varying levels of success.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; 

Last year, I meant to focus on writing and self-care, which didn&apos;t go too well 😅 So, new plan! This year I&apos;m not aiming for a list of things I want to finish this year - we&apos;re going for a list of reminders of everything I &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; to do at some point. I will &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; have time to do all this. Only a few things will have deadlines, the rest are merely aspirational, and I&apos;ll be updating the list throughout the year.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

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  <lj:music>David Santiago Vazquez - Rasputín x Bones | Boney M., Imagine Dragons (Mashup)</lj:music>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2025 00:26:19 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Yule Recovery Time!</title>
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  <description>I&apos;m finally truly slowing down here at the end of the year. We&apos;ve got seven days left of 2025 and I hope everyone is having a good end of the year. I certainly am! Vacation is here at last and I can recover from all the things I&apos;ve put myself through since January 😅&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

Yeah, this did &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; end up being the self-care year I had planned. At all. In fact, I&apos;ve not worked this much overtime since I had my old, shitty job that gave me actual burnout. Wheee. Everything that could go wrong at work definitely did, this year (in ways that no one could help).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

Will absolutely aim to take things slow for a long while and to NOT do this to myself again. My loudest wake-up call was now in December when two massages therapists, independent of each other, made the O_O-face when assessing me. Going to take a while to recover but it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; doable. I just need plenty of rest.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

BUT! I still managed to write 50k words on one of my book projects during November and I finished my Yuletide fic in time, so all is not terrible by any means of the word. And I have plenty of personal plans for next year, to prevent myself from taking on too much work or &quot;work&quot; (+ I&apos;ve had everyone who would be &quot;picking up my slack&quot; agree to not overwork themselves either, which is the biggest win of this year for me!)🩵🩵🩵&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

Speaking of Yuletide, &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/75841131&quot;&gt;I got this wonderful&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;Bioshock Infinite&lt;/em&gt; fic 💖Highly recommended!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nonesensed&amp;ditemid=141207&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <lj:music>Fake fireplace on Youtube</lj:music>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2025 21:24:50 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Final Week of October *ding ding ding*</title>
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  <description>Been yet another rough work week, but I finally have the energy to get hyped up about my November writing project! I&apos;m aiming to work on (and maybe even finish!) the first draft of &lt;a href=&quot;https://nonesensed.dreamwidth.org/122212.html&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Crawling Dark of Your Lover&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and hopefully finish it this time around. Might even commission &lt;a href=&quot;https://nonesensedwriting.tumblr.com/tagged/The%20Crawling%20Dark%20of%20Your%20Lover&quot;&gt;more art&lt;/a&gt; for the project once I see how it&apos;s going - either to reward or comfort myself 😆&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

In fandom news, campaign 4 of &lt;em&gt;Critical Role&lt;/em&gt; keeps being a blast! I don&apos;t have the energy to get into all the things I loved about episode 4 right now, but let&apos;s just say that Bolaire, Occtis &amp; Julien remain my favorites thus far and that I long to see where this is going (both re: character development and the plot). Especially how Bolaire&apos;s and Hal&apos;s friendships evolves/changes after The Revelation 🖤💖&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nonesensed&amp;ditemid=141004&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <lj:music>Lady Gaga - Abracadabra</lj:music>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2025 22:27:08 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Yuletide Letter 2025</title>
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  <description>&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;Huzzah for you, wonderful Yulegoats!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

I&apos;ll start by saying that this long letter very much is optional. I only intend to inspire - long Yuletide letters help me out in my writing, so I want to provide that for others, should it be helpful. If you want even &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; info, I have a very long list of favorite tropes and kinks &lt;a href=&quot;https://nonesensed.dreamwidth.org/14284.html&quot;&gt;over here&lt;/a&gt;. Most of it&apos;s about general tropes I enjoy. Near the end you&apos;ll also find things related to NSFW topics. If you want to take a look at what I usually write and read when it comes to fanfic,  I&apos;m &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://www.archiveofourown.org/users/Nonesensed/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://p2.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico&apos; alt=&apos;[archiveofourown.org profile] &apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://www.archiveofourown.org/users/Nonesensed/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Nonesensed&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; over on AO3, and I get up to quite a few fandom things on Tumblr, &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://nonesensed.tumblr.com&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico&apos; alt=&apos;[tumblr.com profile] &apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://nonesensed.tumblr.com&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;nonesensed&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;cut-wrapper&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;span-cuttag___1&quot; class=&quot;cuttag&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-open&quot;&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-text&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://nonesensed.dreamwidth.org/140627.html#cutid1&quot;&gt;General likes and dislikes I&apos;ve got&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-close&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;div-cuttag___1&quot; aria-live=&quot;assertive&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:larger;&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;Fandom specifics!&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Beware of possible spoilers for all fandoms listed below!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;span class=&quot;cut-wrapper&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;span-cuttag___2&quot; class=&quot;cuttag&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-open&quot;&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-text&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://nonesensed.dreamwidth.org/140627.html#cutid2&quot;&gt;BioShock Infinite&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-close&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;div-cuttag___2&quot; aria-live=&quot;assertive&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;span class=&quot;cut-wrapper&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;span-cuttag___3&quot; class=&quot;cuttag&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-open&quot;&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-text&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://nonesensed.dreamwidth.org/140627.html#cutid3&quot;&gt;Candela Obscura&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-close&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;div-cuttag___3&quot; aria-live=&quot;assertive&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;span class=&quot;cut-wrapper&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;span-cuttag___4&quot; class=&quot;cuttag&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-open&quot;&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-text&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://nonesensed.dreamwidth.org/140627.html#cutid4&quot;&gt;Clair Obscur: Expedition 33&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-close&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;div-cuttag___4&quot; aria-live=&quot;assertive&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;span class=&quot;cut-wrapper&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;span-cuttag___5&quot; class=&quot;cuttag&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-open&quot;&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-text&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://nonesensed.dreamwidth.org/140627.html#cutid5&quot;&gt;Critical Role: Aramán&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-close&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;div-cuttag___5&quot; aria-live=&quot;assertive&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;span class=&quot;cut-wrapper&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;span-cuttag___6&quot; class=&quot;cuttag&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-open&quot;&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-text&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://nonesensed.dreamwidth.org/140627.html#cutid6&quot;&gt;Killjoys (TV)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-close&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;div-cuttag___6&quot; aria-live=&quot;assertive&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;span class=&quot;cut-wrapper&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;span-cuttag___7&quot; class=&quot;cuttag&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-open&quot;&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-text&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://nonesensed.dreamwidth.org/140627.html#cutid7&quot;&gt;Monstress (Comics)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-close&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;div-cuttag___7&quot; aria-live=&quot;assertive&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;span class=&quot;cut-wrapper&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;span-cuttag___8&quot; class=&quot;cuttag&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-open&quot;&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-text&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://nonesensed.dreamwidth.org/140627.html#cutid8&quot;&gt;We Used to Live Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-close&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;div-cuttag___8&quot; aria-live=&quot;assertive&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nonesensed&amp;ditemid=140627&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <category>candela obscura</category>
  <category>bioshock infinite</category>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2025 20:41:52 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Critical Role campaign 4 love &amp;lt;3</title>
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  <description>&lt;iframe width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/jgK_qRwpygA?si=nxFHx9LC4aXi0jST&quot; title=&quot;YouTube video player&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;allowfullscreen&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

Only two episodes in and I&apos;m already head over heels for this season 💖💖💖 We have it all: political drama, a mysterious betrayal, characters with shared pasts, players who are having a blast and already shipping each other&apos;s characters left and right, thrilling cliffhangers and sooooo many dark secrets~!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mbynm0pGX0&amp;amp;list=PL1tiwbzkOjQxygnACZdKLhzTTB3CoM8gi&quot;&gt;Link to the show&apos;s playlist on Youtube.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

In other news, I&apos;m still working far too much. I&apos;m techincally not working (much) overtime this month, buuuut I now have students to mentor, and we don&apos;t get any extra compensation for the hours we put on mentoring students - other than the obvious benefit of having future coworkers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

So yeah. But come November things &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; have calmed down!!! I swear it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nonesensed&amp;ditemid=140350&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <lj:music>Critical Role ambiance</lj:music>
  <lj:mood>nerdy</lj:mood>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2025 21:07:46 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Quick update</title>
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  <description>Injured my shoulder, so my writing is going slowly right now. Have a good massage therapist though, so I&apos;ll be right as rain in no time. Just extra slow re: my sysiphean catch-up on posts and comments on here - thank you for your patience 💗 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

Btw, I&apos;ve been listening to &lt;em&gt;Florence + The Machine&lt;/em&gt;&apos;s new single on repeat since it came out about a month ago and I still enjoy it greatly:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;iframe width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/03iBgkXb1EE?si=KWvPep3wAoENHByn&quot; title=&quot;YouTube video player&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;allowfullscreen&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nonesensed&amp;ditemid=140076&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <lj:music>Florence + The Machine - Everybody Scream</lj:music>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2025 22:23:50 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Work has been defeated, time for Yuletide Noms!</title>
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  <description>I had to stay up and work until 2am on Friday (aka Saturday morning) &lt;em&gt;but&lt;/em&gt; I am finally fully caught up with work!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

I&apos;m still a little mushy-minded - just permanently lost 489 rosaries in &lt;em&gt;Hollow Knight: Silksong&lt;/em&gt; fighting regular enemies 😅 - but my stress is completely gone 💗&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 

Since my sister couldn&apos;t visit this weekend due to train issues, we and a few friends have been hanging out online this weekend. I also took the time to get my nominations in for &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png&apos; alt=&apos;[community profile] &apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;yuletide&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; / &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://yuletide-admin.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png&apos; alt=&apos;[community profile] &apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://yuletide-admin.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;yuletide_admin&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, which you can see over on the Nomination Coordination Station.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

I even managed to make promo posts for the fandoms I&apos;ve nominated:&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href=&quot;https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/349432.html?thread=5627896#cmt5627896&quot;&gt;BioShock Infinite&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href=&quot;https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/349432.html?thread=5628664#cmt5628664&quot;&gt;Candela Obscura&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href=&quot;https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/349432.html?thread=5628920#cmt5628920&quot;&gt;Killjoys (TV)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href=&quot;https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/349432.html?thread=5629944#cmt5629944&quot;&gt;Monstress (Comics)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href=&quot;https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/349432.html?thread=5630200#cmt5630200&quot;&gt;We Used to Live Here - Marcus Kliewer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

Hope everyone&apos;s had a good weekend (or that the upcoming week will be better)! I&apos;m still hard at work catching up with everyone here on DW, but I&apos;m looking forward to reading everyone&apos;s posts 💖&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nonesensed&amp;ditemid=139997&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <lj:music>Tenno - Memories</lj:music>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 19:18:25 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Work work work</title>
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  <description>Several of my coworkers are still on sick leave, so I&apos;m currently a little extra overworked 😅 And I&apos;m a little extra grumpy &apos;cause my sister was going to visit this weekend, but due to the ongoing storms her train has been canceled and a replacement route doesn&apos;t seem likely 😞&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  I&apos;m keeping moral up by borrowing an inadvisable amount of books from the library at once 😆 Other than reading books I&amp;nbsp;own, like the D&amp;amp;D&amp;nbsp;book&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;Bigby Presents Glory of the Giants&lt;/em&gt;, Terry Pratchett&apos;s&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;The Wee Free Men,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;Jeff VanderMeer&apos;s&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Absolution&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;and a Swedish book on&amp;nbsp;&lt;span&gt;cognitive behavioral therapy, I&apos;m currently reading:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;em&gt;Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;by Gabrielle Zevin,&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Last Days&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;by Adam L. G. Nevill,&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;The Reformatory&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;by Tananarive Due,&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Occultation and Other Stories&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;by Laird Barron,&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Tender Is the Flesh&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;by Agustina Bazterrica,&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;The Wasp Factory&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;by Iain Banks,&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;The Lottery and Other Stories&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;by Shirley Jackson,&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Hell House&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;by Richard Matheson and&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Heartsong&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;by T. J. Klune.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  As you probably can tell, I&amp;nbsp;am mainly in a spooky mood~ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  I&apos;ve also figured out one of my nominations for &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://yuletide-admin.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png&apos; alt=&apos;[community profile] &apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://yuletide-admin.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;yuletide_admin&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;- &apos;cause I&amp;nbsp;need some fix-it fic (and/or worldbuilding)&amp;nbsp;for Marcus Kliewer&apos;s&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;We Used to&amp;nbsp;Live Here.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nonesensed&amp;ditemid=139664&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <lj:music>Apocryphos - Night so Close to the Tongue</lj:music>
  <lj:mood>tired</lj:mood>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2025 23:03:18 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>D&amp;D is so much fun!!</title>
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  <description>I&amp;nbsp;don&apos;t want to accidentally spoil anything since some of my players follow me here, but I&amp;nbsp;had so much fun running tonight&apos;s session 💖💖💖💖 I&amp;nbsp;got to drop hints for both the main quest and a side-quest that&apos;s part of a player character&apos;s backstory. And I got to be creepy while doing it 😁&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We&apos;ve been playing this campaign (with some breaks)&amp;nbsp;since 2018 and now that they&apos;re level 15 Everything Is Happening Oh So Much 😆 As much as I&amp;nbsp;enjoy the early days of a campaign, it&apos;s so great to see everyone&apos;s reactions to the plot-threads starting to come together + all the backstory reveals we&apos;ve finally been able to get to. We&apos;ve freed a brother from prison and found out close friends might have bitten off more than they can chew re:&amp;nbsp;fighting devils. Delightful!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m so glad I have this regular group to play with, as well as my other group. TTRPGs are such a joy when playing with a good group 💙💙💙&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Still slowly catching up on everyone&apos;s posts here from all the way back in May - sorry for the impending or already experienced comment spam 😅)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nonesensed&amp;ditemid=139503&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <lj:music>Athena IV - Forgotten Gods</lj:music>
  <lj:mood>excited</lj:mood>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2025 19:48:09 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Quick note</title>
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  <description>I&amp;nbsp;live! And I&apos;ve been back at work for a whole week by now without dying!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mission:&amp;nbsp;Slow The Fuck Down is off to a great start 💙💜💛❤️🖤💚 I&apos;ve already managed to finish a few short fics, planned meet-ups with friends, and work has started at a pace I&amp;nbsp;can handle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Summer was great, the convention was super (pics will be shared once I&apos;ve checked in with everyone who&apos;re in the pics which I can share) and my health is much better already. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hope y&apos;all had as great a summer as I&apos;ve had!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nonesensed&amp;ditemid=139124&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <lj:music>Indila - Dernière danse</lj:music>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 08:58:50 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Prepping for convention~!</title>
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  <description>Going to be quite offline for one more week because it is now time for my and my sister&apos;s yearly bonding ritual: &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.narcon.se/&quot;&gt;N&amp;auml;rCon&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We&apos;ll be meeting up with D&amp;amp;D-friends, cosplaying, playing games and just having a fun, chill time 💖💖💖&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;u&gt;Cosplay schedule for the convention:&lt;/u&gt;&lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;Thursday we&apos;re &lt;strong&gt;Pok&amp;eacute;mon&lt;/strong&gt; themed! I&apos;m going as a pok&amp;eacute;mon linguist and my sister will be a pok&amp;eacute;mon photographer. I&apos;m super curious to see what the rest of the group has come up with for their cosplays.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Friday I&apos;m going as Persephone from the game &lt;strong&gt;Hades&lt;/strong&gt; in full queen regalia, while my sister teams up with a friend for some &lt;strong&gt;Minecraft&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;cosplay (she&apos;ll be BadBoyHalo and her friend will be going as Philza).&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Saturday we&apos;re doing &lt;strong&gt;Mononoke&lt;/strong&gt; (the series, not Princess Mononoke). I&apos;m going as Medicine Seller of Ri/Li and my sister is going as Noppera-bō/Man with the Fox Mask/Faceless Spirit. She&apos;s working on Medicine Seller of Kon/Kun but it won&apos;t be done until next year.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Sunday we&apos;ll be doing some light &lt;strong&gt;Clair Obscur&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;semi-closet-cosplaying, as NPCs making ready for our Gommage. My sister has made wonderful flower necklaces for us 😁🖤&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Will try to remember to take some pictures to share afterward (though will &amp;quot;friends lock&amp;quot; that post).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nonesensed&amp;ditemid=138889&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <lj:music>Our &quot;NärCon playlist&quot;</lj:music>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2025 15:36:50 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Burnout recovery take two (three?)</title>
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  <description>&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;Had to utterly disappear from the Internet and a number of events and hobbies to have the energy to complete my final work weeks, but now I&apos;ve had a week of vacation time and am starting to feel human again, huzzah!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

I&apos;ve been extra bad at keeping up with DW, so anything posted after the start of June I&apos;m still catching up on. But catch-up I shall 😊&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

My burnout got reeeeaaally bad (panic-attack-levels bad) but I&apos;m recovering now that I&apos;m off work and no longer in charge of hosting huge events. My plan for the rest of the year is to Chill The Fuck Out and take on 0 responsibilities outside of work, because I want to live past the age of 60...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

On that note, I already feel much better 💖 I&apos;ve had the energy to both finish playing &lt;em&gt;Clair Obscur: Expedition 33&lt;/em&gt; (beautiful game, highly recommend!) and MANAGE TO WRITE SOMETHING &lt;strong&gt;AND&lt;/strong&gt; POST IT!!!! I binged the TV adaptation of &lt;em&gt;The Muderbot Diaries&lt;/em&gt; together with my sister yesterday and she gave me a story idea that I&apos;ve now actually written 💜💜💜 (set in book canon; I&apos;m also working on a TV-canon fic~)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/67576391&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Travel Notes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (794 words) by &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/users/Nonesensed&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nonesensed&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chapters: 1/1&lt;br /&gt;Fandom: &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/tags/The%20Murderbot%20Diaries%20-%20Martha%20Wells&quot;&gt;The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rating: General Audiences&lt;br /&gt;Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply&lt;br /&gt;Characters: Original Characters&lt;br /&gt;Additional Tags: Humor, POV Outsider, Social Media, Chatlogs&lt;br /&gt;Summary: &lt;p&gt;The consequences of Murderbot sharing media with bot-pilots all across the galaxy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nonesensed&amp;ditemid=138729&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <lj:music>Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Original Soundtrack) - Monoco</lj:music>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2025 22:09:50 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Aiming to be social!</title>
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  <description>Back when I was a nerdy teenager, I was convinced I was an &quot;introvert&quot; (in quotation marks &apos;cause it&apos;s a vague term, but I think we&apos;re all familiar with it as a pop culture thing). Why? Because that&apos;s what media told me: you&apos;re nerdy = you&apos;re introverted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, as I grew into an even nerdier adult, I realized that&apos;s Very Much Not The Case. Can you believe that media lied to me??? 😱😱😱&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yeah, I really should have seen that coming, what with the Hymen Myth still being a thing and all 😅 But once I moved out to live on my own, it became pretty obvious I&apos;m more the kind of super chatty person who&apos;s the last to leave the party and who gets super grumpy and up in my own head if I don&apos;t hang out with people enough for non-work-related reasons. I just happen to really enjoy writing too, which is hard to do in a group setting (for me, &apos;cause I&apos;m so talkative 😆).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Due to overworking (both at work and otherwise), I&apos;ve now been in a sour mood for days on end. I&apos;ve gotten far too caught up in my own thoughts. Solution? I spent my breaks today scheduling future hangouts with all my local friends who have time to spare. My old roommate is coming over for lunch and/or dinner tomorrow (Sweden&apos;s national day, so no work), Saturday I&apos;m attending a birthday party + DMing D&amp;D, and Sunday I&apos;m having dinner with a friend at her place, and I have orders to take pictures of her kids and send to my parents. And that&apos;s just this weekend. I have more social plans for the rest of June, and I already feel my mood improving 😊&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will also be playing more &lt;em&gt;Clair Obscur: Expedition 33&lt;/em&gt;, &apos;cause it&apos;s a very cool game 💗💗💗&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyone else have a similar kind of major self-realization you&apos;d like to share? I&apos;m oh so curious to know what else media has tricked people into falsely believing about themselves 👀 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Btw, Sweden&apos;s national day has only been a holiday since 2005 and everyone I know is still pissed at that (&apos;cause now we have less free days during Easter), so unlike many other countries, few people here in Sweden have any actual plans or traditions related to the day. I even keep forgetting why this specific date is our National Day 😅😅😅&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nonesensed&amp;ditemid=138043&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2025 09:11:23 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 anyone?</title>
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  <description>My current stress relief is getting waaaaay too into a video game - a fairly popular one, so I&apos;m dodging spoilers like crazy 😅&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyone else playing &lt;em&gt;Clair Obscur: Expedition 33&lt;/em&gt; right now? I&apos;ve reached Act II and am suitably emotional about what&apos;s happened in-game thus far 😭💖 Don&apos;t think I&apos;m playing &quot;optimally&quot; &apos;cause I never was good at turn-based strategy games, BUT I am almost good at dodging and parrying, which is something at least 😆&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you have no idea what I&apos;m talking about, here&apos;s the trailer (and a song from the game&apos;s soundtrack, &apos;cause it&apos;s neat):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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  <lj:music>Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Original Soundtrack) - Lumière</lj:music>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2025 21:25:08 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>I wrote something!!!</title>
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  <description>And it&apos;s even posted online! Huzzah 🥳🥳🥳🥳&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know this is a lot of shouting and banner waving for a 1.3k story BUT it&apos;s been ages since I posted something new that wasn&apos;t a fanfic written for an exchange, so I can&apos;t help but celebrate 💖&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The story can be read over on my writing account &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://booksabaking.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png&apos; alt=&apos;[personal profile] &apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://booksabaking.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;booksabaking&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and is an entry in my &lt;a href=&quot;https://booksabaking.dreamwidth.org/9168.html&quot;&gt;Once a Bard and His Friends Took a Train&lt;/a&gt; short story collection. This is only the second story in said collection, but at least ten more are on the way (one day 😅 my WIPs might unionize against me). It&apos;s called &lt;a href=&quot;https://booksabaking.dreamwidth.org/10913.html&quot;&gt;By Firelight&lt;/a&gt; and I had such a good time writing it 💚💚💚&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;A summary of this short story setting:&lt;/em&gt; This is the story of a man who ends up immortal completely on accident. This immortality turns out to be contagious. How? Why? He has no idea. It seems to be one of life&apos;s little oddities. Sure makes it easier to be queer and do crime though~&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Heads up that &lt;em&gt;By Firelight&lt;/em&gt; turned out slightly more cosmic horror and less happy-go-lucky-heist-vibes than the rest of the stories I have planned. Then again, I could say the same about the first story &lt;a href=&quot;https://booksabaking.dreamwidth.org/9270.html&quot;&gt;Introductions Without Names&lt;/a&gt;. Guess I&apos;m working my way up toward the happy-found-family-heist-mood I actually had in mind for these characters 😆&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Btw, I wrote the story while listening to Sword Coast Soundscapes&apos; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KFoj-SOfHs&quot;&gt;D&amp;D Ambience - Night Camp in Woods&lt;/a&gt; and I think that might be an excellent soundtrack to reading the story as well, should anyone like to give it a try 😊&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hope everyone&apos;s had as great a Friday as I have! Wishing you all good creative vibes 💖💖💖&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nonesensed&amp;ditemid=137359&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 15:02:48 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Vacation and Snowflake Challenge #12~!</title>
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  <description>I worked past midnight yesterday BUT I AM NOW ON VACATION!!! I&apos;m having such a chill day today, it&apos;s wonderful 💗💗💗 I&apos;ve gotten some writing done and some cleaning as well. And I finally have the energy to get to another Snowflake Challenge~!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;cut-wrapper&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;span-cuttag___1&quot; class=&quot;cuttag&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-open&quot;&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-text&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://nonesensed.dreamwidth.org/137052.html#cutid1&quot;&gt;Snowflake Challenge #12&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-close&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;div-cuttag___1&quot; aria-live=&quot;assertive&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So hyped for writing right now! I&apos;m rereading a number of my WIPs and having fun outlining and tweaking them. Hoping to get something actually finished before Monday, but don&apos;t want to jinx things *knocks on wood*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nonesensed&amp;ditemid=137052&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2025 21:18:35 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>I survived! Time to gush about writing!</title>
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  <description>Three days working 7-23 (+ a 2 hour commute) are finally, &lt;em&gt;finally&lt;/em&gt; over! Never again 😖&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Had a wonderful, no-deadlines, no-stress day today where I just got the apartment cleaned up a bit and enjoyed reading back through all my gazillion writing projects 😊 My brain is too mushy for writing right now, but I&apos;m setting up writing plans for my luxurious four day weekend next week 💖&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I promised myself, I&apos;ll spend some time gushing joyfully about the things I&apos;m writing, because that&apos;s good for the soul.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Firstly, &lt;a href=&quot;https://nonesensedwriting.tumblr.com/post/781884989588553728/more-beautiful-art-by-arigate-this-time-its-high&quot;&gt;one of my art commissions has been completed&lt;/a&gt;! The wonderfully talented &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://arigate.carrd.co/&quot;&gt;arigate&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; drew the initial-antagonist/love interest of my story &lt;em&gt;Mages and Marriage&lt;/em&gt; along with a quote from my draft of the book, and it turned out stunning 🤩&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Secondly, I&apos;ve been rereading through &lt;a href=&quot;https://nonesensed.dreamwidth.org/122212.html&quot;&gt;all my original WIPs&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://nonesensed.dreamwidth.org/121867.html&quot;&gt;all my fanfic WIPs&lt;/a&gt; since I&apos;ve read and seen some very inspiring books and videos on writing and want to add &quot;upgrades&quot; to several of my projects 😁 Today, &lt;em&gt;Morning, Evening, Dawn&lt;/em&gt; is getting aliens, &lt;em&gt;Of Elves and Dwarrows&lt;/em&gt; is losing its prologue and gaining a funeral, and &lt;em&gt;Rån som Råder&lt;/em&gt; will be granted the Swedish &quot;dansbanekultur&quot; of my parents&apos; youth~&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hope everyone is having a good weekend (and if you aren&apos;t, that things get better for you real soon!) 💙&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nonesensed&amp;ditemid=136791&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2025 20:01:04 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>I will be creative, dammit!</title>
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  <description>Had a great vacation visiting the family up north! Good movies, great food and lovely nature walks 💖 I&apos;m full of inspiration and creative energy 🥰&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nightmare mode is still active at work until May, but I only work Wednesday to Friday this week and Monday to Wednesday next week, due to national holidays and extra vacation days (because of So Much Overtime). Going to try and still get not-work done in the next three days, for the sake of my mental health.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Here&apos;s a quick to-do list for myself this week, so I don&apos;t Just Work&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[/] Try out the new outlining technique on a new writing project, to see if it&apos;s the thing for me&lt;br /&gt;[X] Gush about writing projects, because that&apos;s fun 😁&lt;br /&gt;[X] Do a basic clean-up of the apartment &apos;cause it&apos;s rather chaos right now&lt;br /&gt;[X] Set up a food plan for the coming weeks so I can save some money on groceries &lt;br /&gt;[X] Set up a &quot;game plan&quot; about my literal video games 😆&lt;br /&gt;[X] Go to the LARP planning meeting on Sunday&lt;br /&gt;[/] Go through &quot;stuff&quot; both digitally and physically to see what I &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; put on my future to-do lists...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nonesensed&amp;ditemid=136643&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2025 05:16:42 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Inspired!!!</title>
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  <description>Making this post now during my morning commute to promise myself that I&apos;ll write today 💙&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Been watching and reading a lot of good writing advice that clicked with me and I&apos;ve got several projects I&apos;m super excited to write!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just hope to have some energy left after work, cause my April schedule is &lt;em&gt;rough&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nonesensed&amp;ditemid=136258&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2025 16:53:35 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Snowflake Challenge #7 and Recs!</title>
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  <description>&lt;strong&gt;Snowflake Challenge #7: Create a list of at least three things you&apos;d love to receive, something you&apos;ve wanted but were afraid to ask for - a wishlist of sorts.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While I wouldn&apos;t say I&apos;ve been afraid to ask for any of these, I still thought I&apos;d make myself a little wishlist, since tomorrow is my birthday and all 😆 This will also double as a rec list of cool things 💖&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1) Recommendations for AMVs, fanvids and animatics!&lt;/strong&gt; Fandom doesn&apos;t really matter, but if it&apos;s in a &lt;a href=&quot;https://nonesensed.dreamwidth.org/133366.html&quot;&gt;fandom I&apos;m familiar with&lt;/a&gt; that&apos;s a bonus 💖 I used to be really good at finding videos like this, but with how algorithm-broken the internet is, it&apos;s getting harder and harder to find new ones. Here&apos;s a link to &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkjG74H6VfqCGU5rm_O_nE-s3kDYntZ2e&amp;amp;si=vCpev2MP49lxCp3G&quot;&gt;awesome animations&lt;/a&gt; (fandom and non-fandom) I&apos;ve found and an &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkjG74H6VfqBh8OrzZwslcuxYrX2K_tjO&amp;amp;si=55IcOBicY2cXhWq6&quot;&gt;AMV/MEPs list&lt;/a&gt;, though my categorizing is a little wishy-washy and mixed 😅 Also, fandoms I&apos;m more active in get their own playlists, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkjG74H6VfqA874ZjgaYFk8UxRUPeBwN6&amp;amp;si=svQs6nR8ZeOxZyLs&quot;&gt;Critical Role&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkjG74H6VfqBrdDSt3k_rIvLqXY6WNoLM&amp;amp;si=U8D5egNqI2qdsThN&quot;&gt;The Magnus Archives&lt;/a&gt;, with a mess of both animatics, interviews and other things related to the fandom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2) Recommendations of &quot;fake&quot; video games!&lt;/strong&gt; Aka people who make fake screenshots, manuals and such things for games that don&apos;t actually exist and aren&apos;t planned to exist either. I&apos;ve been vaguely aware of and interested in such things for years, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/Q8GnM5xD1k4?si=f8jkI8gST3t68LmO&quot;&gt;this Supereyepatchwolf video&lt;/a&gt; on the subject really got me hooked. I&apos;m even making a few of my own together with my sister and a friend, and I&apos;m always happy to find more!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3) Recommend me artists you love!&lt;/strong&gt; The internet is so vast and the algorithms so broken that I have a harder and harder time finding new artists to follow. Here are links to some of my favorite artist, as examples:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.alexries.com/concept-art&quot;&gt;Alex Ries&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.artstation.com/beastofoblivion#_=_&quot;&gt;Allison Theus/BeastofOblivion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.etsy.com/shop/arcanegoldart&quot;&gt;ArcaneGold&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://caemidraws.tumblr.com/tagged/art&quot;&gt;Caemiel Lilium&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://doodlesfromthebird.tumblr.com/tagged/my%20art&quot;&gt;CanaryWitch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://cassandrajp.weebly.com/&quot;&gt;Cassandra Jean&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://dappermouth.storenvy.com/&quot;&gt;Dappermouth/Jenna Barton&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://elethart.tumblr.com/&quot;&gt;Eleth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://eliotbaum.tumblr.com/tagged/art&quot;&gt;Eliot B.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://jannaphia.tumblr.com/tagged/art&quot;&gt;Janna Sophia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://kiikiibee.tumblr.com/tagged/art&quot;&gt;Kiikiibee/rakugaki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://kingcholera.tumblr.com/&quot;&gt;King Cholera/Cheyenne&lt;/a&gt; (both some horror and NSFW here)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.km-illustration.com/&quot;&gt;KM Steere&lt;/a&gt; (have a lovely commissions of my late great cat from this artist)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.linnpuzzle.com/&quot;&gt;Linnpuzzle&lt;/a&gt; (who I extra recommend because she&apos;s not only a great artist but also a great friend and great to work with on commissions💖 &lt;a href=&quot;https://linnpuzzle.tumblr.com/tagged/my%20art&quot;&gt;Link to her tumblr&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://lucenorthstar.carrd.co/&quot;&gt;Luce Northstar&lt;/a&gt; (has both NSFW &amp; horror art - have commissioned art from them several times and they&apos;ve been brilliant to work with!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://morteraphan.tumblr.com/&quot;&gt;Morteraphan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://nkim-illustrates.tumblr.com/&quot;&gt;N*KIM&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://nataliadrawing.tumblr.com/&quot;&gt;Natalia Drawing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/owlyjules/&quot;&gt;Owlyjules/Julie W.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://phobso.tumblr.com/tagged/my%20art&quot;&gt;Phobs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://pocketss.tumblr.com/&quot;&gt;pocketss&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://ramlightly.tumblr.com/&quot;&gt;Ram Lightly&lt;/a&gt; (has NSFW content)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.artstation.com/melaamory&quot;&gt;Sasha Vinogradova&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://secondlina.tumblr.com/tagged/secondlina%20art&quot;&gt;Secondlina&lt;/a&gt; (creator of the glorious &quot;Crow Time&quot; comic!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.artstation.com/semma&quot;&gt;semochka&lt;/a&gt; (blood and body horror)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.artstation.com/veer&quot;&gt;Sergei Demidov&lt;/a&gt; (some body horror)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://shalizeh7.tumblr.com/&quot;&gt;Shalizeh7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://bottleshark.tumblr.com/&quot;&gt;Shark in a Bottle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://skelesor.com/tag/art/&quot;&gt;SJ Miller&lt;/a&gt; (body horror &amp; gore!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://wolfskulljack-art.tumblr.com/&quot;&gt;Wolfskulljack&lt;/a&gt; (horror elements)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://wratshit.tumblr.com/tagged/wrat%27s%20arts&quot;&gt;Wrat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.artstation.com/yuumei&quot;&gt;(Yuumei) Wenqing Yan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nonesensed&amp;ditemid=136017&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2025 20:42:49 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Recharging a little</title>
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  <description>Been a bit out of it for a while, but my sister visited this weekend, so I&apos;ve had some fun, nerdy recovery time 💖. Will try to keep that energy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;April is looking rough re: both my workload and LARP-prep, and I&apos;ve been to a number of medical visits because it turns out I&apos;ve had a couple of meds in need of updating.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To save some brainpower, I&apos;ll try to reduce my aimless-scrolling-in-apps-time this month. I want to spend what little free time I have on reading/watching/listening to long form media and creating things myself. Feeling a little information-overwhelmed right now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hope everyone has had as good a weekend as their circumstances allow 💗&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nonesensed&amp;ditemid=135771&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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