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Current Location: a warm and cozy bed when I should probably get back to work
Current Music: Caroline Polachek - Blood And Butter

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Closing some tabs.

+ Relooted has a demo up! Reclaim real African artifacts from Western museums in an Africanfuturist heist game! I won't be able until I get home, but I've been super excited since I saw the trailer.

+ Denmark close to wiping out leading cancer-causing HPV strains after vaccine roll-out.

+ Longer, heavier periods are long-term symptom of Covid, study finds.

+ These are the 1st images of humpbacks having sex, and they're both males.

+ Buffy the COVID Slayer: Sarah Michelle Gellar posts masked selfie on set of reboot. (SMG is a very small part of the article, but interesting nonetheless)

+ Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-fold.

+ In Defense of Despair.
We are also reading Aracelis Girmay’s “You Are Who I Love,” in which the speaker unfurls a list of people they love, people they want to see survive, people doing what those not committed to close and tender attention might call the daily tasks of living: a person stirring a pot of beans, a person selling roses out of a cart, a person crossing a border, a person carrying their brother home, a person singing Leonard Cohen to the snow. You, reader, do not personally know these people, but their motivations spark a familiar feeling—here is someone trying to survive in a world that can render a person unable to get out of bed. You, too, may love a person who cannot get out of bed, which is why you cherish the things that convey, I am trying to stitch together enough small moments to have a life for a little bit longer.

+ No Platonic Explanation.

RIP Robert Redford

I have to admit that when all the hubbub of him being cast in Winter Soldier happened, I was entirely out of the loop. He didn't have much presence in my life growing up, despite me devouring movies. But it's been nice to read about his life since yesterday. I never knew about all his activism.

Robert Redford, Environmentalism, and the Most Prescient Movie Ever Made by Dave Leviton is a good write-up.

I may look into a few of his movies when I get home. Meanwhile, here's a All The Predident's Men vid: Me and Bernstein down by the schoolyard by

findmeinthealps.

eta Sneakers is a movie that's being mentioned a lot, I may seek that one out. Here's a writeup at PC Mag (makes sense, as it's about cyber security, I believe?)

Current Music: Movin' on without you (Utada Hikaru) — ayaka

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2025 week 37

late post again because my hands have been killing me. it turns out playing too much videogames is bad for you. oops.

anyway, i've been taking it easy the past few days to let my hands rest. mostly i've been doing a lot of reading! i reread The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett, my favorite book from last year, so i could go into the sequel A Drop of Corruption fresh. both books were excellent; strong recommend.

then, in a desire to read something totally different, i picked up The Serpent and the Wings of Night and read it in like a day or two, lol. i'm halfway through the sequel now and honestly, it's a lot of fun. i love goofy romantasy.

i've been in a reading slump for most of the year — i kept picking up books and DNFing them for one reason or another, so it's nice to be on a little streak now. i'll probably stick with the crowns of nyaxia series for a little while since i'm having a good time with them, but after that, who knows. maybe sci fi.

in writing news, i have hit my getyourwordsout goal for the year of writing for 180 days! about 160 of them have been consecutive; i haven't missed a writing day since the start of april. it's been really nice to consistently write again, although i have been pretty lazy about what i've been writing. i'm hoping to switch gears and work on a new original project soon.

in gaming news, i've been doing roulettes for my new relic in ff14, a bit of crafting, and some leveling of yet another alt. i've made some progress doing work for my fic archive as well; the content is nearly finished, so soon it'll just be time to code. i've sort of been putting it off, but i'd like to get it done this month.

i think that's it for now. on to next week!

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games games games

+ No Man's Sky had an update adding customizable shared space ships, and now I'll have to jump back in. Anybody else here still play NMS from time to time? Farting around in a communal decorated base sounds like so much fun.

(I saw one ship shaped like Clippy lol)

+ Or if you'd rather base build and hang in a desert planet, Dune Awakening has a free demo weekend. I honestly didn't expect to like it as much as I did, but the environment is lovingly crafted, and the story surprisingly robust.

Sadly I don't have enough internet at sea to dl the update myself. I'm missing out on a stunning mural 😔

I'm on Europe Lynx / Sietch Yaracuwan, it's been fairly free from bothersome trolls. They've added a bunch more events and story characters as well, so I'm diving back in when I get home. In case somebody wants to buddy up for base building? I'll have to start almost from scratch because I suuure didn't put anything in the bank like I ought to have.

+ And Marvel Rivals is adding Angela!! I don't want to be interested in a hero shooter but HOT DAMN

Current Music: In Flames — Gackt

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weekly update

2025 week 36

decided to go to bed instead of writing this post last night. correct decision, i think.

tbh i've been sleeping pretty garbage lately. my sleep has always been bad, but i'm really sick of waking up at 4am and being unable to go back to sleep. let me rest, body!!

didn't get much productive done last week on account of there being new ff14 content for me to do... whoops. i did have a few busy days with IRL stuff, as well. i did manage a little fic writing, but i'm on the worst chapter of the whole thing so it's slow going. in theory i'd like to start posting the fic soon, but i'd like a buffer of chapters and my writing pace has been far too slow for that of late...

this week however my schedule is much more free, so i'm hoping to make progress on at least some of these fronts. i'd love to get webstuff done in particular... but we'll see.