Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

Continuing the tradition of my weekly sleeping-in-on-Saturdays giving really cool dreams:

This one was heroic coming-of-age story. Most of the details were pulled from other identifiable sources, but the main protag is cool enough to write out.

They're a gender-ambiguous (female-leaning) person who discovered they could shapeshift by accidentally becoming their own (adorably small, anthro orca-dragon) OC. They quickly identified they could become anything else they wanted within the same approximate mass range, with a catch: they need to actively focus on it.

Their personality is distinct enough that I need to noodle on it a bit more to describe them well. The villain also had vague ideas on how they work and may point to other-than-human origins.

While the dream had them doing hero things, they're more into chilling out to chiptunes, signalwave/vaporwave, and playing variations on 80s and 90s videogames with friends.

They also chose a name for themselves, but it has a conflict with someone I know, so I'll need to find a good alternative for them. Still, very neat little fictionthing.

(Also meant to post this earlier, but lots of random other things happened in the meantime.)

This is a few days after a different stranger in a dream said this when I asked them why they do what they do:

"I am you. You have agency here. I'm just part of the script."

Then I woke up.

Either I have very coherent dream gremlins, or someone has a fun sense of humor.

A stranger in a dream posed a good question to me right before I woke up:

"Why do many cultures have specific names for gremlins and monsters, yet Florida has no (specific) terms for the time it takes for hurricanes to make landfall?"

... huh.

While this is already fairly elaborate, you can bet I will try to design a space dragon in this game.

I wanted to learn how ship design worked in Starbase, so I decided to build an Arwing. The WIP looks pretty neat so far:

I streamed a tiny art game for @Veladynee over the weekend that contains, among other things, cute carpet dragons that you can pet and one giant snake friend.

We were a bit surprised carpet dragon OCs aren't a thing yet: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aBGBQsaCabs

PS: weighted companion cube Prompto is literally the best thing, and I did not know how badly I needed it in my life.

Finally sitting down to replay the game. I'd had a large stack of mods I downloaded over the years, and I forgot I left them enabled during the opening cutscenes.

Apparently Lunafreya is being supported by Power Rangers Red and Blue. Prompto is now a highly animate weighted companion cube. And all of the cars are full of sapient cactuars.

Everyone continued to act as if the situation was deadly serious.

... I couldn't stop laughing for a good 5 minutes.

A friend wanted help farming Safi'jiiva from World while we wait for Rise to release more quests. This was one of my ending snapshots.

... relatedly, being able to play the game on high detail is pretty great now. 👀 💦

Been helping immediate family get their vaccine appointments, and just got my first (Pfizer) jab today, so I can vouch for the process.

While the floodgates open on April 15th here in WA, for folks that are having trouble getting vax that are eligible already, here are two resources that worked for us:

1. Kaiser Permanente Vaccination Hotline: 1-877-832-9915. Phone lines open at 7AM for vax bookings, though their information line is open all day.

We were able to book after a 25 minute wait and _ignoring_ the phone tree crashing once and telling us to call back later.

2. https://vaccinefinder.org/, which is a directory service for local vaccinations. My roommate's mother and father-in-law were able to schedule using it after most other resources dried up, 404ed, or crashed on them.

Other options should be opening up soon, but posting these just in case folks find them useful.