December check-in
Dec. 31st, 2023 03:34 pmI got a 60s-era typewriter from my partner for Christmas—ultra-cool! I've been struggling to get it to type smoothly, but the carriage keeps stopping in several places and now the ribbon's all twisted, the brand-new ribbon he also got for me, the ink's all over my fingers I'm wasting so much of it aaaaaaaa
Holidays were okay, work's been okay, everything's just kind of okay. Questioning if I can still call myself a writer after not writing stories for several months. My creative process is fraught with personal gremlins—Distraction, Anxiety, Decision Paralysis, and Sloth, to name a few. I'm in the usual holding pattern of having a lot of ideas but only so much attention and energy to spare for them. Haven't felt particularly driven to work on something specific lately, and I hope some of that is just the season being gray and cold. The other half is, of course, being distracted by video games and the aforementioned typewriter project very recently.
I've been reading through some zines (paper uploaded to the innerned) and wishing I knew where to find some local ones. I actually have a couple copies of someone's TTRPG zine, which have mostly system-agnostic outlines for sessions (e.g., here's a haunted mansion based loosely on Rocky Horror Picture Show). Small press is rad; I want to go back to SPACE (Small Press & Alternative Comics Expo) in Columbus this April, haven't been for too long. (Their front page has an April 2024 date, but not their SPACE-specific page. It'll probably get updated maybe.)
Holidays were okay, work's been okay, everything's just kind of okay. Questioning if I can still call myself a writer after not writing stories for several months. My creative process is fraught with personal gremlins—Distraction, Anxiety, Decision Paralysis, and Sloth, to name a few. I'm in the usual holding pattern of having a lot of ideas but only so much attention and energy to spare for them. Haven't felt particularly driven to work on something specific lately, and I hope some of that is just the season being gray and cold. The other half is, of course, being distracted by video games and the aforementioned typewriter project very recently.
I've been reading through some zines (paper uploaded to the innerned) and wishing I knew where to find some local ones. I actually have a couple copies of someone's TTRPG zine, which have mostly system-agnostic outlines for sessions (e.g., here's a haunted mansion based loosely on Rocky Horror Picture Show). Small press is rad; I want to go back to SPACE (Small Press & Alternative Comics Expo) in Columbus this April, haven't been for too long. (Their front page has an April 2024 date, but not their SPACE-specific page. It'll probably get updated maybe.)
Saw the AP News headline creep into my Slashdot feed, and my first thought was the Harvey Danger song (YouTube link, CW brief mention of self-harm) that was, sadly, not mentioned. Come on, people, they had songs other than Flagpole Sitta! (That's the one that goes "I'm not sick but I'm not weeeeell". It's one of those songs whose title never caught on because it's not in the song verbatim.)
Games about bats, for bats
Nov. 26th, 2023 10:50 pmI stumbled on ECHOLOCAUTION (Steam link) when I was browsing Gaming Furever. I'm a few rounds in, and for a tiny little game about tiny little bats, it's positively meepy!
In short, you play as a bat hunting for food at night (bugs and fruit!) . You have the power of echolocation at your disposal, which helps you see bugs and enables you to chain together bug-chomps for combos. It also allows you to see the path danger will take, such as the mean old owl in the forest. It's a game featuring bats that's about being a bat! What's not to love? No need to answer, there's nothing not to love, it's frickin BATS!
It brought a big batty grin to my face tonight.
In short, you play as a bat hunting for food at night (bugs and fruit!) . You have the power of echolocation at your disposal, which helps you see bugs and enables you to chain together bug-chomps for combos. It also allows you to see the path danger will take, such as the mean old owl in the forest. It's a game featuring bats that's about being a bat! What's not to love? No need to answer, there's nothing not to love, it's frickin BATS!
It brought a big batty grin to my face tonight.
November check-in
Nov. 24th, 2023 12:44 pmNational Gift Shopping Day is here (aka Black Friday; the day after Thanksgiving; the time we run out of excuses not to play Christmas music on every other radio station), and my recon at Thanksgiving wasn't too informative. My guesses are usually fine if I don't wait until the last minute.
I haven't done much actively furry stuff lately. Retrocomputing and photography have been the latest shiny objects in my field of vision. The latter is something I can enjoy with my partner when we go out on walks together and go to conventions and such. Still hoping to improve my technique in time for a furry meet...wait, oh god, most of them have fursuit heads, right? I don't! Unlike my photos, apparently, I'll be EXPOSED. But that's probably fine. If I see a coworker there, then we're mutually aware of each other's weirdness. Whatever.
The winter holidays are an AFK time of year, but I want to stay active-ish in the meantime.
I haven't done much actively furry stuff lately. Retrocomputing and photography have been the latest shiny objects in my field of vision. The latter is something I can enjoy with my partner when we go out on walks together and go to conventions and such. Still hoping to improve my technique in time for a furry meet...wait, oh god, most of them have fursuit heads, right? I don't! Unlike my photos, apparently, I'll be EXPOSED. But that's probably fine. If I see a coworker there, then we're mutually aware of each other's weirdness. Whatever.
The winter holidays are an AFK time of year, but I want to stay active-ish in the meantime.
October check-in
Oct. 8th, 2023 11:02 amHad a conga line of unfortunate events hit me recently that included stomach illness and extra expenses. Nothing planet-shattering, just a run of bad luck that kept me indoors. Oh well, it wasn't really autumn here yet, anyway.
I just got a new character designed, Manuel (full name Emmanuel). Jesch always does some great art. The ref sheet's FA-only because it has naughty bits. I have a SFW version that might go up on my website (at a reduced size because I'm not hosting an 8mb+ image) in a place where I can put the other characters I'll inevitably acquire. My partner is trying his best to hold me back from dumping wads of cash into YCHs and buying up adoptables like they're Beanie Babies. Fine, I'll wait until my bills hit me.
Yes, I could be making a whole new page for the website, exciting! Unfortunately, the thought puts me in a guilt loop where I ask myself, "Sure, you could do that new thing, but what about writing stories—when were you gonna go back to that old thing? And writing more letters? And making zines? Also, shouldn't you be, like, cleaning something?" I always feel like I'm procrastinating on something by doing something else unless I can convince myself that what I'm doing right now is indeed important (e.g., my job) or find something to do that lets me sublimate and forget the world (e.g., video games). The latter is actually more inconsistent now because my adult gland is inflamed and keeps going on about "the future" and "your health" when I used to be able to game unburdened for hours. That's maturity, I guess.
Going to a furry meet is still a "one day" thing. Being sick took out some opportunities to go out, not that I was primed for those before. I was anxious before and I'm anxious now.
I just got a new character designed, Manuel (full name Emmanuel). Jesch always does some great art. The ref sheet's FA-only because it has naughty bits. I have a SFW version that might go up on my website (at a reduced size because I'm not hosting an 8mb+ image) in a place where I can put the other characters I'll inevitably acquire. My partner is trying his best to hold me back from dumping wads of cash into YCHs and buying up adoptables like they're Beanie Babies. Fine, I'll wait until my bills hit me.
Yes, I could be making a whole new page for the website, exciting! Unfortunately, the thought puts me in a guilt loop where I ask myself, "Sure, you could do that new thing, but what about writing stories—when were you gonna go back to that old thing? And writing more letters? And making zines? Also, shouldn't you be, like, cleaning something?" I always feel like I'm procrastinating on something by doing something else unless I can convince myself that what I'm doing right now is indeed important (e.g., my job) or find something to do that lets me sublimate and forget the world (e.g., video games). The latter is actually more inconsistent now because my adult gland is inflamed and keeps going on about "the future" and "your health" when I used to be able to game unburdened for hours. That's maturity, I guess.
Going to a furry meet is still a "one day" thing. Being sick took out some opportunities to go out, not that I was primed for those before. I was anxious before and I'm anxious now.
SoFurry—oh yeah, forgot about that
Sep. 1st, 2023 10:03 pmI more or less ignored SoFurry for like six months after the February downtime, and I've been behind on furry reading as a result (less the bound stuff, more the short stories). "Yeah, but my watchlist is probably huge, I'll look again when I have time," I've said to myself. It's often called the double-or-nothing fallacy, a usual suspect behind my procrastination fits. I wiped it on login. If anyone out there's SoFurry-exclusive and wondering where I've been, sorry for the wait. It's just hard to prioritize watching on multiple sites when my output isn't high enough to also post on those sites regularly. I really want a site with SoFurry's functionality and FA's popularity. (Is that what this Itaku thing's supposed to be?)
As if backlogs weren't already a problem, I also went through my FA watchlist and watched linked SoFurry accounts. That was productive, right?
As if backlogs weren't already a problem, I also went through my FA watchlist and watched linked SoFurry accounts. That was productive, right?
The cusp of a productive weekend
Aug. 25th, 2023 10:58 pmI have a good feeling I'll get more "fun work" done tomorrow than I have this entire past month (not a lot). The urge to write is growing stronger than the urge to game. It helps that I've been inspired by some furry work I've seen recently and that I've shaken some of the rust off with some light story sketching. Oh, and it's just a period where I haven't been entranced by some shiny thing recently. There was a lot of that.
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Aug. 18th, 2023 08:57 pmIn an episode of The X-Files, Mulder and Scully discover that some half-human, half-flukeworm monster has been attacking people in or near a sewer system in New Jersey. When they have it cornered for a moment, Assistant Director Skinner says that he wants to send the visibly inhuman creature away for psychiatric evaluation. (Not a real spoiler, this is about mid-way through the episode.)
Days after seeing this, the memory of this moment completes its slingshot maneuver around my cerebellum and provides me with the image of the humanoid fluke monster laying on one of those red therapy couches, mutated digits steepled over its lumpen midsection, speaking in a calm manner to a bearded man scribbling notes behind a clipboard.
"Well," the monster says, shifting with a squelch that came from inside it, "I think the trouble all started when I was a larva. The others teased me because my fangs grew unevenly. I didn't know who to turn to for help or a kind word, and, well, I suppose I started lashing out...Relationship with my mother? My host died when I emerged and swam away down the shower drain. I want to say I don't blame myself, but..."
Days after seeing this, the memory of this moment completes its slingshot maneuver around my cerebellum and provides me with the image of the humanoid fluke monster laying on one of those red therapy couches, mutated digits steepled over its lumpen midsection, speaking in a calm manner to a bearded man scribbling notes behind a clipboard.
"Well," the monster says, shifting with a squelch that came from inside it, "I think the trouble all started when I was a larva. The others teased me because my fangs grew unevenly. I didn't know who to turn to for help or a kind word, and, well, I suppose I started lashing out...Relationship with my mother? My host died when I emerged and swam away down the shower drain. I want to say I don't blame myself, but..."
On carrying a notepad
Jul. 29th, 2023 10:59 amOf every organizational habit I've tried that fell into my usual adopt-and-drop pattern, the only one that's stuck has been carrying a little notepad and pen with me everywhere for when I need paper, for remembering something for use within the next hour or so, for shopping lists, and for scribbling down writing ideas when I'm inspired or bored. It's helped keep my thoughts somewhat organized compared to going without it.
What's different about this is that it isn't a system. There are no rules or goals for how I use my notepad. If something's done a certain way on each page, it's because it feels right to do it that way; every page has a header because that makes sense to me, and series of pages don't have to be right next to each other. I didn't pick it up because I felt I'd be more productive or focused if I adhered to some kind of notepad-based routine, I use it because I have a number of use cases for a notepad.
(By contrast, my to-do items are everywhere—they could be in there, on a sticky note in some conspicuous place, in MS To-Do at work, or wherever I think I'll see it at the right time. It's an un-system that works better than nothing.)
What's different about this is that it isn't a system. There are no rules or goals for how I use my notepad. If something's done a certain way on each page, it's because it feels right to do it that way; every page has a header because that makes sense to me, and series of pages don't have to be right next to each other. I didn't pick it up because I felt I'd be more productive or focused if I adhered to some kind of notepad-based routine, I use it because I have a number of use cases for a notepad.
(By contrast, my to-do items are everywhere—they could be in there, on a sticky note in some conspicuous place, in MS To-Do at work, or wherever I think I'll see it at the right time. It's an un-system that works better than nothing.)
Don't stay home
Jul. 24th, 2023 07:10 pmI stopped at Walmart to pick up a new lunchbox (I'd ruined my old one in an incident involving frozen peas). Back when I worked at one over a few summers, there were a couple evenings where a tired bat in a mostly empty part of the store would endure a group of chattering, giggling teenagers. This was back when they were selling those cheap mascot-style animal heads, which itself was a real trip to see all gathered in an iron basket for $20 each. Some product designer, I assume, became vaguely aware of furries when one of their kids was looking at fursuiter pics on the social feed du jour, and they figured out a way to mass-produce animal heads so kids everywhere could beg their parents for one and get bored with it after a week. Chances were good that the teens would try them on for a lark.
They didn't have any intention of purchasing the things, nor were they shoplifters. They were just hanging out, making each other laugh, killing time. Walmart, whether the Subway by its customer service gland was open, was a hangout spot. Laboring under soul-blanching fluorescent bulbs all day, I didn't know why.
Back to today, driving out of the parking lot. Three girls, probably late-teens, were loitering next to a red car, Slurpees in hand, in no hurry to get anywhere. One sat cross-legged on the pavement with her cigarettes while they talked. I had the A/C cranked; why were they out here? They didn't seem to be waiting for anyone. I can't say this is an innovation from chilling inside the Walmart, there are at least benches in there. It seemed to be more incidental, a rest stop between places to go—but that's it, isn't it? Where, as someone living in the Midwest and not old enough to drink, do you go when you're not at home?
My personal answer is "a friend's house, the library, the game store, and nowhere." I didn't have local friends I could just bike to on nice afternoons, and my parents wouldn't haul me out there and back. The library, while nice and quiet, isn't conducive to social activity unless you convince them to host some kind of event. I could get to the game store on my bike, but without money, I didn't have much to do there, and I didn't get into Magic like all the regulars did. Wandering around town unsupervised was also a bad idea, according to natural conclusions drawn from the one Stranger Danger-type VHS we had.
The Polaris mall is the only one I knew of, and I don't think anyone at school ever hung out there. Still, there were several cartoons that insisted that malls were super-cool hangout spots, and I felt like the neighborhood was missing something because of that. What it was actually missing was somewhere to go and just be with your friends and peers, no need for money or bug spray (trails were also an option, as my boyfriend told me). Not that I would've availed myself of such a place, as I was (and am) quite the hermit. Maybe it would've helped to have those sorts of opportunities earlier in life. As it stands, I now have the ability to go anywhere, go to a bar, meet people, and the very idea tightens my jaw and makes me wish I could lock myself in a tower.
They didn't have any intention of purchasing the things, nor were they shoplifters. They were just hanging out, making each other laugh, killing time. Walmart, whether the Subway by its customer service gland was open, was a hangout spot. Laboring under soul-blanching fluorescent bulbs all day, I didn't know why.
Back to today, driving out of the parking lot. Three girls, probably late-teens, were loitering next to a red car, Slurpees in hand, in no hurry to get anywhere. One sat cross-legged on the pavement with her cigarettes while they talked. I had the A/C cranked; why were they out here? They didn't seem to be waiting for anyone. I can't say this is an innovation from chilling inside the Walmart, there are at least benches in there. It seemed to be more incidental, a rest stop between places to go—but that's it, isn't it? Where, as someone living in the Midwest and not old enough to drink, do you go when you're not at home?
My personal answer is "a friend's house, the library, the game store, and nowhere." I didn't have local friends I could just bike to on nice afternoons, and my parents wouldn't haul me out there and back. The library, while nice and quiet, isn't conducive to social activity unless you convince them to host some kind of event. I could get to the game store on my bike, but without money, I didn't have much to do there, and I didn't get into Magic like all the regulars did. Wandering around town unsupervised was also a bad idea, according to natural conclusions drawn from the one Stranger Danger-type VHS we had.
The Polaris mall is the only one I knew of, and I don't think anyone at school ever hung out there. Still, there were several cartoons that insisted that malls were super-cool hangout spots, and I felt like the neighborhood was missing something because of that. What it was actually missing was somewhere to go and just be with your friends and peers, no need for money or bug spray (trails were also an option, as my boyfriend told me). Not that I would've availed myself of such a place, as I was (and am) quite the hermit. Maybe it would've helped to have those sorts of opportunities earlier in life. As it stands, I now have the ability to go anywhere, go to a bar, meet people, and the very idea tightens my jaw and makes me wish I could lock myself in a tower.
July check-in
Jul. 17th, 2023 09:13 pmStill trying to get a handle on working outside of an office. The consequences of deadlines are right up in your face—that machine that needs attachments attached needs them now because it's shipping out tomorrow on a truck that'll be parked across the warehouse, and everyone on the floor knows my place and responsibility in the process. So much of the actual work process is right in front of me where it used to be something I had to piece together from offhand mentions in emails and dubious bits of data. We're going from lore gathering and interpretation á la Dark Souls to a Tetris-like sense of where we are on a scale of fine to FUBAR.
The constellation of the Responsible Adult has been in the ascendant. I'd have walked more this weekend if there wasn't choking smog amidst the ash trees.
The constellation of the Responsible Adult has been in the ascendant. I'd have walked more this weekend if there wasn't choking smog amidst the ash trees.
Memorial Day weekend check-in
May. 28th, 2023 03:46 pmThis has been one of those stretches where meatspace took precedence over The 'Net, partly from a full schedule and partly from retreating into video games to manage stress. The summer's looking better now, though.
I'm going to experiment with branching out on DW more. Knowing that my posts can be exported makes me feel safer networking on here than on most sites, not to mention the ability to have different access levels. It's still not exactly a hive of activity, but that's fine with me. Using it anyway is the only way around the chicken-and-egg problem that comes with running a network. There's also the fact that I'm just not good with platforms geared towards the short-and-now. I'm wired to be longform.
Got a new fountain pen, too. Itching to write more letters.
I'm going to experiment with branching out on DW more. Knowing that my posts can be exported makes me feel safer networking on here than on most sites, not to mention the ability to have different access levels. It's still not exactly a hive of activity, but that's fine with me. Using it anyway is the only way around the chicken-and-egg problem that comes with running a network. There's also the fact that I'm just not good with platforms geared towards the short-and-now. I'm wired to be longform.
Got a new fountain pen, too. Itching to write more letters.
This just in: furry enjoys fursonas
Apr. 20th, 2023 06:24 pmI wrote about how much I like fursonas, which is too much. I've had this one gestating on my laptop for a while, just adding to it until it has basically everything I wanted to mention.
You can comment on this post to respond to it, even without a DW account.
You can comment on this post to respond to it, even without a DW account.
Just push the button, Arlo
Apr. 2nd, 2023 10:59 pmMy story about a skunk street racer, Racing by Instinct, is up now (link to website). It was only after a couple real-life delays and a lot of hesitant editing that I decided to just package up what was there in a hurry and set it out. It's done, barring extremely glaring omissions or errors.
The huge amount of time I spent pecking away at it did not make it better. Writing quality does not increase proportionally with time, and it's possible to overcook a story until you end up wishing you wrote a different one. Mind you, this wasn't literal days of hemming and hawing over details, more like long periods of IRL taking precedence and invading my early evenings, the times when I'm not too sleepy to create. I'm writing this post right before bed more or less as a stream-of-consciousness postmortem of RbI.
On the new Stories page, I've also included links to my erotica, each of which lead either to FA or SoFurry, both of which are age-gated. The explanation for why they weren't there initially and why they are now will take a bit more explaining because it ties into the larger subject of erotic art and how my view of it has changed over time.
Shout-out to Slimy for helping me out with some webdev stuff! The navbar now runs on JS so I don't have to update the bar for every single .html file when I change something.
The huge amount of time I spent pecking away at it did not make it better. Writing quality does not increase proportionally with time, and it's possible to overcook a story until you end up wishing you wrote a different one. Mind you, this wasn't literal days of hemming and hawing over details, more like long periods of IRL taking precedence and invading my early evenings, the times when I'm not too sleepy to create. I'm writing this post right before bed more or less as a stream-of-consciousness postmortem of RbI.
On the new Stories page, I've also included links to my erotica, each of which lead either to FA or SoFurry, both of which are age-gated. The explanation for why they weren't there initially and why they are now will take a bit more explaining because it ties into the larger subject of erotic art and how my view of it has changed over time.
Shout-out to Slimy for helping me out with some webdev stuff! The navbar now runs on JS so I don't have to update the bar for every single .html file when I change something.
Imminent story and lazy HTML work
Mar. 15th, 2023 09:55 amThe story I've been working on for the past while is actually really almost done. It just needs some editing and polish unless my readers come back and say "this whole section could be taken out, you bat," which I would welcome because 9k words is rather long-winded for a short story.
Before it goes up elsewhere on the Internet, it'll go on my website in a new section specifically for stories. Unfortunately, Past Arlo decided iframes were for the birds and manually inserted a navbar on every page, thinking that because there would only be a handful of main pages, updating them would be annoying but doable. Note that I said "every page" and "main pages." There are navbars on article/story pages. Just like that, the work multiplies like rabbits.
So right now, I'm giving myself a crash course in iframes and absolutely not copying my homework from someone else's page. A quick DDG search recommended that I use PHP and/or JQuery for this. Look, Internet, I'm a worder. Markup languages are about as far as I want to go code-wise for creative pursuits. I'm burning enough time wondering how to get the navbar to render how I want. Although I don't write enough to justify ultra-streamlining my workflow for maximum ROI with WordPress (meaning I don't have a reason to risk upstream vulnerabilities), I don't want to spend an outsized proportion of time building pages for stuff instead of actually writing stuff. In theory, I could also use a static site generator to do this kind of thing automatically without needing to use iframes, but I like Geany's organization and autocomplete better.
In short, things are quiet because I've been busy. Aren't we all.
Before it goes up elsewhere on the Internet, it'll go on my website in a new section specifically for stories. Unfortunately, Past Arlo decided iframes were for the birds and manually inserted a navbar on every page, thinking that because there would only be a handful of main pages, updating them would be annoying but doable. Note that I said "every page" and "main pages." There are navbars on article/story pages. Just like that, the work multiplies like rabbits.
So right now, I'm giving myself a crash course in iframes and absolutely not copying my homework from someone else's page. A quick DDG search recommended that I use PHP and/or JQuery for this. Look, Internet, I'm a worder. Markup languages are about as far as I want to go code-wise for creative pursuits. I'm burning enough time wondering how to get the navbar to render how I want. Although I don't write enough to justify ultra-streamlining my workflow for maximum ROI with WordPress (meaning I don't have a reason to risk upstream vulnerabilities), I don't want to spend an outsized proportion of time building pages for stuff instead of actually writing stuff. In theory, I could also use a static site generator to do this kind of thing automatically without needing to use iframes, but I like Geany's organization and autocomplete better.
In short, things are quiet because I've been busy. Aren't we all.
The three furry books I need to read
Feb. 11th, 2023 10:39 amI just got the one book I was waiting for in the mail today, so I now have a pretty solid reading list for the next while:
Waterways by Kyell Gold
Dogs of War, anthology edited by Fred Patten
Scars of the Golden Dancer by NightEyes DaySpring
I also have a digital copy of anon-furry (edit) book by a furry: The Dogtrot Murder by Nick Sanders.
Physical copies of furry books and other small-print media are some of the coolest things, and I just wanted to enthuse about that a little. I'd love to have a bookshelf full of them one day!
In other news, my mate is sick and tired and his senses are dulled and he feels crappy and he's gotta close the blinds a bit because it's too bright in here and his head hurts and he needs a smoothie. I'm doing my best to avoid catching the same cold (not COVID, we checked).
Waterways by Kyell Gold
Dogs of War, anthology edited by Fred Patten
Scars of the Golden Dancer by NightEyes DaySpring
I also have a digital copy of a
Physical copies of furry books and other small-print media are some of the coolest things, and I just wanted to enthuse about that a little. I'd love to have a bookshelf full of them one day!
In other news, my mate is sick and tired and his senses are dulled and he feels crappy and he's gotta close the blinds a bit because it's too bright in here and his head hurts and he needs a smoothie. I'm doing my best to avoid catching the same cold (not COVID, we checked).
I recently finished reading the first book in the Where Dragons Rule series by Evan Drake, Dissent. It's a book about an adopted dragon, Aeris, who steps out of her sheltered life under her noble human owner, learns the outside world is full of strife and darkness, and comes to grips with the reality of her own life. One day I'll gather my thoughts into a more detailed review, but I'll give my first impressions here. It's engrossing and kept me reading, and I want to learn more about the world and how it came to be. However, the growth I was hoping for in the lead character didn't happen until much later in the book; anyone hoping for a more proactive, capable lead may be frustrated. The book gets fucking dark early on (like Content Warning dark, hover here for a brief description), and I'm not convinced it was necessary. I do want to read the second book when it comes out because, like I said, the world is interesting enough for me to be curious about it and what else will happen in it, and I think the issues I have with this first book will be resolved in the next.
Meanwhile, in the time it took me to read it, I acquired three more furry books because I guess I'm collecting them now. No, they're not the only ones on my reading list, and I'm not the type to eat dessert first. I'll get to them one day, really.
Meanwhile, in the time it took me to read it, I acquired three more furry books because I guess I'm collecting them now. No, they're not the only ones on my reading list, and I'm not the type to eat dessert first. I'll get to them one day, really.
Waiting for the sun to come back
Jan. 19th, 2023 09:21 amI wrote a self-reflective article about getting a flip phone.
Site updates this time around are just some small things, mostly. I’m approaching the other side of a vidya binge and haven’t paid much attention to Neocities or furry stuff. It’s kind of the winter mindset: hunker down, entertain yourself, and try to stay chipper even when it’s perpetually gray and cold outside. There’s a new schedule at home as well, which means recalculating my free time within the new routine.
I have one story that’s coming along nicely. Once the draft is done, I’ll give it some tough edits to polish it up (including taking a chainsaw to it because it’s already over 5k words) and then post it on my site. It’s a clean modern-day story, and that’s all I can say about it.
Site updates this time around are just some small things, mostly. I’m approaching the other side of a vidya binge and haven’t paid much attention to Neocities or furry stuff. It’s kind of the winter mindset: hunker down, entertain yourself, and try to stay chipper even when it’s perpetually gray and cold outside. There’s a new schedule at home as well, which means recalculating my free time within the new routine.
I have one story that’s coming along nicely. Once the draft is done, I’ll give it some tough edits to polish it up (including taking a chainsaw to it because it’s already over 5k words) and then post it on my site. It’s a clean modern-day story, and that’s all I can say about it.
The quiet holiday check-in
Dec. 24th, 2022 09:59 amBeing busy with life and family over the holiday season means less time to work on the site for a bit. I'll be back to plugging away at my hobbies and creative pursuits by early January. In the meantime, to prove I didn't vanish from the planet, I'm just posting a quick check-in.
Winter hit my state like a sack of bricks—another reason to be glad I didn't hardcore procrastinate on finding presents. If the holidays didn't fall on a weekend, I would be spending more of my frozen-in time writing. I said on my website that I had a Twine project, which is true, but it hasn't been my main focus for a bit. Instead, I've been banging out a story I've had in my head for a little while, and I hope to have it out by the end of January. It'll be the first one that goes up on my website.
After the holidays, the greatest obstacles to getting that done are Kenshi and Starbound, both of which are excellent games that I'm trying not to binge-play. My Starbound runs Frackin' Universe plus a number of other mods, mostly ones that add anthro races and extra cosmetic stuff. I've got a few characters in decent places, and I'm trying to stick to one long enough to get off the starting planet. I got the alt-itis bad, Doc.
Kenshi is a fantastic, grimy little sandbox. I've settled in the Spider Plains with a crew offive four (one got eaten alive by a spider) and am about to get my shit kicked in by Kral's Chosen, who knows what'll happen next? Well, I'll probably just run and try not to get eaten by wolves. The game is rather unforgiving; you start with basement stats, some of which can only be increased by getting into fights, and death is permanent. Getting enslaved by NPCs is actually one of the better outcomes of losing a fight, second only to having your food taken and being left to the wolves (crawl away fast when you wake up). It gives me the same feeling as Mount & Blade and I love it, jank and all.
Hope your holidays are/were happy. I can't wait to be done with 2022.
Winter hit my state like a sack of bricks—another reason to be glad I didn't hardcore procrastinate on finding presents. If the holidays didn't fall on a weekend, I would be spending more of my frozen-in time writing. I said on my website that I had a Twine project, which is true, but it hasn't been my main focus for a bit. Instead, I've been banging out a story I've had in my head for a little while, and I hope to have it out by the end of January. It'll be the first one that goes up on my website.
After the holidays, the greatest obstacles to getting that done are Kenshi and Starbound, both of which are excellent games that I'm trying not to binge-play. My Starbound runs Frackin' Universe plus a number of other mods, mostly ones that add anthro races and extra cosmetic stuff. I've got a few characters in decent places, and I'm trying to stick to one long enough to get off the starting planet. I got the alt-itis bad, Doc.
Kenshi is a fantastic, grimy little sandbox. I've settled in the Spider Plains with a crew of
Hope your holidays are/were happy. I can't wait to be done with 2022.