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Went through a bunch of old high school stuff today. I got rid of some of it! That's something! Find it difficult to get rid of actual creative writing stuff, even if I also can't fucking read it because cringe factor. Let's just say there were a LOT of exclamation points in some of the stuff I skimmed and leave it at that... >>;;;

Still, I was able to shove stuff into one folder instead of the two it was inexplicably in - maybe it'd be too thick for everything that was in there? But it's fine now, so. :3

Many, MANY more things need to be gone through, of course; I'm going to try and continue to do them while we don't have word about the goddamn windows. This waiting in suspense thing is really annoying! But also it's December, somehow, so I need to start thinking about Christmas stuff, and if I'm going to make any presents. Probably not? Maybe something for A, but I can't think of what. I also can't think of what for like. Anyone but Mama, who told me she'd like a calendar. (I have checked the cool shop's online page and none of the calendars currently there are suitable for Mama. Alas.)

Anyway, that's all stuff to worry about tomorrow, right now is for going to bed. If. You know. I can make myself disturb the cat on my lap... (Tortilla is VERY cuddly tonight!)

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: Birthplace

requiems

Whilst playing Hollow Knight I've been loosely following a guide about which area to go to next, because a good chunk of the start of this game is manoeuvring yourself around to get abilities so you can actually do stuff, and to get other abilities you need x ability first, etc. I'll also open up a map to figure out where map guy is to buy the map from because I hate not being able to see a minimap, it's a dealbreaker, but the internet solves that one decently.

None of the bugs in the Silksong lp I watched bothered me. There were a few in Hollow Knight that did, the most egregious being Deepnest's spiders. The problem is they run across the foreground by the camera in front of Ghost, in the player's plane of view, so it's an exercise of being spider jumpscared, and if you have a crippling spider phobia...

Yesterday I finished the area that gave me the Crystal Heart, which allows you to fly horizontally and cross large gaps until you hit an obstacle. Neat. Where next? Deepnest, the walkthrough said.

Hell no, said I.

Here's what I did today instead of going to Deepnest.

( I have discovered I can play this game for several hours if I use compression gloves which is how I played it for seven hours today. Woops )

Current Mood: sore

tyger

Today I didn't move anything, really, but I DID go through a lot of flat-storage stuff! Moved a lot of prints around so they're better organised/protected, got rid of some things (mostly old calendars), and while I don't have anything really FIXED for some of the problem stuff at least it's neater. It's a start!

That did eat a LOT of brain, though, so I'm glad I didn't have any furniture moving I had to get done today. We still haven't heard from the window people, so still in limbo about that. :/ Tomorrow will involve moving things no matter what, though, just not my stuff - I'll need to help Mama out with putting things on the nature strip for hard rubbish collection. Zero chance of my father doing it, as he has a colonoscopy in the morning. (I'm glad to be on the moving things side of this equation, ngl...)

Other than that, played some multiplayer Terraria again! :D Which was very fun. And I also played a bunch on my solo world; lots of hell landscaping. Should really do more fishing down there, I still need an endless lava bucket... It would be easier to just use a lava sponge to get rid of lava pools in the lower caverns, rather than drain it down into hell, after all, even if it is a useful mapping activity as well... Will have to think about it.

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: Birthplace

denise posting in

dw_news

Hello, friends! It's about to be December again, and you know what that means: the fact I am posting this actually before December 1 means

karzilla reminded me about the existence of linear time again. Wait, no -- well, yes, but also -- okay, look, let me back up and start again: it's almost December, and that means it's time for our annual December holiday points bonus.

The standard explanation: For the entire month of December, all orders made in the Shop of points and paid time, either for you or as a gift for a friend, will have 10% of your completed cart total sent to you in points when you finish the transaction. For instance, if you buy an order of 12 months of paid time for $35 (350 points), you'll get 35 points when the order is complete, to use on a future purchase.

( The fine print and much more behind this cut! )

Thank you, in short, for being the best possible users any social media site could possibly ever hope for. I'm probably in danger of crossing the Sappiness Line if I haven't already, but you all make everything worth it.

On behalf of Mark, Jen, Robby, and our team of awesome volunteers, and to each and every one of you, whether you've been with us on this wild ride since the beginning or just signed up last week, I'm wishing you all a very happy set of end-of-year holidays, whichever ones you celebrate, and hoping for all of you that your 2026 is full of kindness, determination, empathy, and a hell of a lot more luck than we've all had lately. Let's go.

tyger

Fairly quiet day today, too - didn't do any moving of stuff. DID go for a walk with Mama, and also fixed my domain problem, so all my homeserver things are working again, phew!

That's about all, though. Which was nice. Though Sushi DID do a dumb again... but is late so just have the chatlog, yes.

[01:37] Tyger: Want to hear today's Sushi Idiocy story?
[01:38] Azremodehar: oh no what did him do
[01:38] Tyger: He decided to walk along the curtain rail
[01:38] Tyger: Which went okay. Until he got to the end and realised the bookshelf he'd usually step onto is... not there right now.
[01:39] Tyger: So he had to go backwards
[01:39] Azremodehar: oh no
[01:39] Tyger: He managed like three quarters of the way until he lost his balance! And he didn't fall the whole way, he clung on with his front paws. So I was able to boost him up and he made if off just fine. [01:40] Tyger: But seriously, cat, REALLY??
[01:40] Azremodehar: him ver adventursome
[01:40] Tyger: His cone was scraping across the wall the entire time I do not know why that wasn't enough to make him realise Maybe Not Right Now
[01:40] Azremodehar: :facepalmtachi:

Current Mood: amused
Current Location: Birthplace

marycatelli posting in

books

My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero's Vol. 6 by Matsuri Akai

Spoilers ahead for the earlier volumes.

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books

The Perks of Being an S-Class Heroine, Vol. 6 by Grrr

Spoilers ahead for the earlier books.
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tyger

Yeah I uh. I slept a LOT of today. I really needed it, not gonna lie.

Sushi is doing much better! He's figured out how to eat AND sleep in his cone, phew!!! And hasn't got out of it again, double phew!

I mainly just read stuff and played some games, when I was awake. Chill day, yes. Required. (Tomorrow I'm going to have to figure out what the fuck is up with my webserver stuff, because it's still not back up, which is going to be. Annoying. Because shit always is. Siiiiigh.)

I did forget that I moved another chest of drawers yesterday! So that's a thing. We haven't heard from the window people though, so it won't be starting on Monday. Hopefully they'll give us SOME notice? And double hopefully it'll be soon? It's very inconvenient to live like this.

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: Birthplace

requiems

I am inching my way through Hollow Knight, very slowly. ( GARAMA! SHAW! - Hornet words of wisdom )

But yeah I think like, vessel made of void that carries an equivalent great sword around is the most Dark Knight Hours it could ever be so it's no wonder I've latched on. It's been nice to spend an hour just doing something else other than XIV or Stadium every day. Stadium I've reached the stage of being at, or almost at, the rank I was last season, so all reduced loss percentages are gone, which really sucks because it's now +80 for win and -80 for loss so it's like hitting your head into a wall at times. The advertised part of this system is it gives you loss reduction if you have leavers or win multiple rounds! Not so at this point. It makes me not want to grind out anymore because losses feel twice as frustrating and it's why I don't really play traditional comp. It's just asking to be tilted, especially when the game matches you with any rank. Am I not being punished enough with having to carry two rookies on my back the whole time!! Apparently not.

It's drives next week though, so perhaps I will simply play less games overall this week and put the hard effort into next week. And hope it doesn't match me with people who don't know what they're doing and penalise me for it...

Furniture stuff happened on Monday; bed is rotated. Dozens of cardboard boxes flattened, old appliances removed. Had some vertigo issues during that that reminded me why I can't physically do shit or leave the house (not yay). I am now going through the wardrobe which is a weird exercise, because there are gifts in here from six years ago to people who have nigh vanished from my life. I would like to get them to them, but this may have to be tackled in spring. I feel like Ikea shall be getting more of my custom for bookshelves for that room and also a tv stand with actual storage for my living room, lol. And then I'll probably be done in my blissfully dust free zone.

The deep well of sadness is on its way for me again. Passage of time isolation static constantly losing things it takes me so long to do anything can't leave the house ten years ten years ten years. I do not expect it to ease for a while.

Current Mood: mellow

marycatelli posting in

books

Kill the Villainess, Vol. 4 by Haegi

Spoilers ahead for the earlier books.

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tyger

Yeah, Sushi did have to get part of his tail amputated. :(

( Got a bit long. )

Other than that I did pmuch nothing today. Brain all gone. Barely even napped, despite having a terrible night's sleep due to worried. Bleh. Brain, getting all worked up like this doesn't! Actually! Stop me worrying! As well as, you know, not helping the situation at all to be overtired. SIGH.

Anyway, now is for sleeping again, so hopefully I'll sleep better today...

Current Mood: sad
Current Location: Birthplace

rocky41_7 posting in

books

Last night I finished The Once and Future King by T.H. White, because I felt like it was time I made a real foray into the Arthurian legends. The actual first Arthurian book I read was The Mists of Avalon, but that was years ago and before I had heard the full story about Marion Zimmer Bradley. This book takes a decidedly different tone. I’m sticking to the most common name spellings for all of the characters here, because spellings do vary across all versions of these legends.

The first thing that surprised me about The Once and Future King is that it’s funny, and frequently in an absurd, dorky kind of way. Knights failing tilts because their visors fell over their eyes wrong, Merlin accidentally zapping himself away in the middle of a lesson because he was in a temper, the Questing Beast “falling in love” with two men dressed in a beast costume, that sort of thing. This silliness is largely concentrated in the first quarter of the book, which is about Arthur’s childhood, but it’s never fully lost.

The second surprise was how long the book focuses on Arthur’s childhood, but then again, it is setting the scene for Arthur’s worldview and the lessons he internalized as a child which shape his approach to being king.

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I Picked Up This World's Strategy Guide, Vol. 2 by atchi ai

Spoiler ahead for volume 1.

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tyger

So APPARENTLY I let my domain registration lapse, whoops. Luckily, there's a grace period so I could still reregister it. Unluckily, it did mean it was more expensive. (Also I need to wait 24-48 hours for the DNS to re-propagate, uuuugh.) Very annoying, but not an unreasonable punishment for not having my shit together. :/

This is, honestly, a major problem with email in general for me, because I just did not check and see the reminders. Jobhunting makes it worse, because you get so goddamn many acknowledgement emails that mean absolutely nothing that having unread mail isn't even a vague concern. Which is bad. Need to find a way to manage it better, but haven't had the brain to do it thus far. If anyone has any advice I'd appreciate it.

Moved my drawers yesterday, and some more of the display cabinet stuff. Plus some random shit to fill up the box it was in. Only one more dragon to go, and the rest is stuffed eevees, so that's not too bad!

Sushi's xray is at Before Goddamn Breakfast Time tomorrow morning, so I'm uh. Super nervous about that and also I should have been in bed at least attempting to sleep a while ago. Gotta get up early enough that a few months ago it still woulda been dark out, uuuugh. Also fuuuuck, Sushiiii ;; He's still fine in himself but I am. A fret. Yes.

Current Mood: worried
Current Location: Birthplace

marycatelli posting in

books

I Picked Up This World's Strategy Guide, Vol. 1 by atchi ai

A frolic with a somewhat different approach. A girl works in her mother's item shop, and one day while gathering herbs, she finds a book. A strange book.

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tyger

Nothing huge today, which honestly was kind of nice.

Did some washing! Moved at least two thirds of the stuff in the display cabinet - need to find some more boxes for the last of it; most of the ones we have aren't quite tall enough to fit the bigger dragons. Still, most of them are done now, so that's something! The shells are also going to be annoying, but I already tipped over the bigger dish by accident when trying to get something else out, so I can just put them in a small box or something, will have to rearrange them all anyway.

Tomorrow will probably be my desk drawers, which are... very full. I REALLY need to rearrange the top two, and go through the bottom one looking for shit I can throw out. (Also file more things. It's my filing cabinet drawer, but it's unfortunately in a difficult position to get at most of the time, since the bin lives in front of it, as well as often the heater. I don't really have a lot of stuff I need to file, though, so it's really fine for my use case. I just get lazy, so I've got a small stack of medical receipts and tax stuff to file.)

Sushi is more or less fine in himself, though the wound is uh. Not looking any better. But his biggest complaint is that he is not allowed outside at all, not even into the run, and how! dare!!! Sigh. Anyway as it turns out it's good I couldn't make the appointment for tomorrow, because my father has one of his cancer check-up scans and that might've gotten awkward scheduling-wise. And, you know, Sushi isn't suffering, so...

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: Birthplace

tyger

So, Sushi's probably going to have to get half his tail amputated.

( Details )

I am upset about this! Also kicking myself, because maybe I should've called the vet as soon as I noticed the wound or something?? But I'll try and wait to hear what the root cause is before going down that spiral.

Part of my problem is also that I haven't fucking eaten properly today, like a moron. I mean, I'd be upset anyway of course, but the level of volatility in my upset is not usual for me, so yeah I'm pretty sure it's the food thing. (I accidentally about 14 hours without a meal. Which included all of the furniture moving I did, and also it was very humid.) Ate a bowl full of green beans when I realised at like. 1am. But that's still A Little Fucking Long, and I doubt it was enough. Didn't want to eat too much at that time of night either, though... (Or cook. Cooking also not a good idea after midnight.)

However, for good things about today... I survived driving to and from the vet! It wasn't as bad as I feared; turns out a lot of the parts of driving I've kept some muscle memory for. I mean. I'm still not a good driver, and I was definitely worse than I have been, but it wasn't too horrible.

I also got myself a bahn mi while I was out to reward myself for Doing A Scary Thing, and it was pretty good! Not the best bahn mi around, but the best I could get near the vet's!

And in moving news, I moved both of my under-desk chests of drawers. ( Ramble )

And now I go to bed. Hopefully tomorrow will be better! I should make egg-pea-mushroom-tuna noodles for lunch, that's a good solid meal...

Current Mood: worried
Current Location: Birthplace

marycatelli posting in

books

Orange by Ichigo Takano

This is available in five volumes, and also in two omnibus editions (the second included a backstory which I didn't get into), but it reads as one story.

It opens with Naho receiving a letter. It says it's from her future self, that a new boy will arrive in class and sit beside her, and she must not ask him to walk home, because he's no longer with them in the future.

Not knowing what to believe, she joins with her friends in asking

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chestnut_pod posting in

poetry

The Old Usher
Oliver Reynolds
2010, from Hodge

--

for Farès Moussa

I have
shouted Lights! in the foyer as the show begins

I have
opened and closed a million doors
Push and Pull stamping my palms

I have
woken with Good Evening on my lips

I have
ROH in moles over my left nipple

I have
Tchaikovsky as a heart-beat

I have
told ten thousand bladders
It’s down the slope and on the right

I have
stood at the bottom of Floral Hall stairs
with Peter Bramley at the top
tapping the metal hand-rail with his ring
to annoy me

I have
bent my head to complaints about the row in front
the big hair-do, the change-jingler, those who snore or smell

I have
turned a blind eye, a deaf ear, and a stopped nostril

I have
opened and closed a million doors
Push and Pull stamping my palms

I have
waited in the wings to present flowers
cygnets wafting past me in a crush of tutus
each back tight with the cordage of muscle

I have
sold ices with Susie Boyle

I have
passed the black-and-white monitor at Stage Door
and felt proud to see Haitink in the pit
a bottled homunculus preserved in music

I have
opened my locker on a vista of dirty shirts

I have
killed a moth for Monica Mason
It wants to settle on me!
she who once danced her death in the Rite
now frightened of millimetres of flutter

I have
Tchaikovsky as a heart-beat

I have
bassoons and strings planned for my last-act death
the weightless pas-de-chat
lifting me out of this ninth life
into the proscenium’s eternal gold

I have
perfected my farewell
a final turning-out of the pockets
as I rise and vanish into air
swirling with the confetti of ticket-stubs

I have
shouted Lights! as the show begins

I have

tyger

So vet again for Sushi tomorrow! This is fine. I am fine with that. I am not fine with the fact that my parents are away, and thus I need. To drive. The car. To get him there. :( :( :( I think I've successfully avoided driving at all since like. 2016? 2015 maybe? Maybe not an entire decade but A LONG ASS TIME, and even that last time was literally just driving the car back from the airport, which is. Not a lot of driving, comparatively.

So yeah, that's gonna. Be a thing. :| Also it's at 11am which is not THAT early really but I should uh. Really be in bed so I have a chance of being Alert for non-adrenaline reasons. Yes. >>;;

Other than that, have now moved most of the big stuff on my desk, other than the electronics. (There are. Um. Four computers on here. So there's still quite a bit of stuff. And a couple of piles of little things, which will take a while to sort through... which is why I haven't done it yet.) Also moved my little shelf, and started emptying out the desk cupboard! Mostly the stationary, but also some other random stuff. Still more in there, but it's a start!

Anyway now I am stopping procrastinating, going to bed, and hoping I don't have another nightmare, bleh. My brain was a BASTARD last night...

Current Mood: nervous
Current Location: Birthplace

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i will show you fear in a handful of dust.

Sorting!!!

The lengths to avoid spider hell

Sorting is very brain draining...

Look! I remembered to post before December started this year!

Saturday~

My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero's Vol. 6

The Perks of Being an S-Class Heroine, Vol. 6

Recharge day

I am still rotating the bug game

Kill the Villainess, Vol. 4

Sushi Half-Tail

Recent Reading: The Once and Future King

I Picked Up This World's Strategy Guide, Vol. 2

Well that was fucking stupid of me.

I Picked Up This World's Strategy Guide, Vol. 1

Tuesday.

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.

Orange

"The Old Usher," by Oliver Reynolds

Uuuuugh nerves are stupid

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